• McBain (unregistered) in reply to Machtyn

    If only there was some sort of helpful tooltip next to the input field indicating how the input should be formatted.

    Crap like this is probably why I keep seeing so many drop down interfaces these days.

  • (cs) in reply to jmucchiello
    jmucchiello:
    Bruce W:
    The heart attack question reminds me of a health assessment my wife took that asked whether she had a hysterectomy. The options were: Yes, No, Not Sure. Is Not Sure for women that don't know what the word "Hysterectomy" means?
    Well, she was presumably given anesthesia for the "hysterectomy" operation. So she can't really prove either way that it was performed without some form of external verification.
    Wouldn't that be "some form of internal verification"?
  • Carl (unregistered)

    Obviously, the message (Driver must be age 16 and over) got truncated by that puny dialog box. (Too-small pop-ups make me want to kill somebody.) It is supposed to say "Driver must be age 16 and overweight".

    So either you're not 16, or you're not overweight.

    Now, since we can easily see you're not 16, obviously you're overweight. I'd be upset too if a web site called me out on that, but I wouldn't disclose my flaws where the whole world could read them!

  • kktkkr (unregistered)

    According to xkcd, -459F translates to "not pregnant".

  • (cs)

    Obviously, 16 is only 2 significant digits so it's not precise enough. It really should be checking against 5,844 days. (or 5,840, if you ignore leap year.)

  • (cs)

    The math works once you remember that instant coffee's measured in dehydrated fluid ounces.

  • esse (unregistered) in reply to The RealWTF
    The RealWTF:
    I think the wrong portion of the image is circled in #5.

    The real WTF isn't that Acrobat can be installed in the future to avoid expiration, but rather that its nearly 2GB when installed. Last time I checked, it was a glorified document converter. What the f'ing hell did they jam in there to bloat that thing up to 100x the size it should be? (and that's giving it some liberty knowing that internationalization of Windows apps adds huge bloat)

    Distiller is the document converter. Acrobat Pro is a monstrosity of a page layout app bundled with a document converter.
  • (cs) in reply to Lorne Kates
    Lorne Kates:
    The math works once you remember that instant coffee's measured in dehydrated fluid ounces.
    Never herd of this before.
  • Buddy (unregistered) in reply to The MAZZTer
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    One looks like it might be from Mexico or environs, the other from the US or Canada. Countries can have different regulations for how accurate quantities must be. I see customized stickers for nutritional information and quantities a lot for imported products.

  • Rahjesh (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Does anyone else think that the Adobe Acrobat Pro one might be caused by a pirate/cracked installer that sets the date to the future just for the duration of the installation, just so the user gets decades of trial evaluation time?

    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!

  • some dude (unregistered) in reply to Rahjesh
    Rahjesh:
    Anonymous:
    Does anyone else think that the Adobe Acrobat Pro one might be caused by a pirate/cracked installer that sets the date to the future just for the duration of the installation, just so the user gets decades of trial evaluation time?

    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!

    From your friendly local dealer.

  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to Rahjesh
    Rahjesh:
    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!
    If your school makes you use Acrobat, you're going to the wrong school.

    Further, if your school is tax funded (govt. school at any level) then we have yet another example of tax dollars collected by force and used to promote the fortunes of a private company.

    Big government + big business = big trouble.

  • (cs)

    I don't see a problem with the last one. There is a clear business rule that requires that all drivers be age sixteen and over. If you're age is 34 then you have only satisfied one of those conditions.

    When you are also 16, then you will be able to drive.

  • (cs) in reply to Rahjesh
    Rahjesh:
    Anonymous:
    Does anyone else think that the Adobe Acrobat Pro one might be caused by a pirate/cracked installer that sets the date to the future just for the duration of the installation, just so the user gets decades of trial evaluation time?

    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!

    Lier.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    Rahjesh:
    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!
    If your school makes you use Acrobat, you're going to the wrong school.

    Further, if your school is tax funded (govt. school at any level) then we have yet another example of tax dollars collected by force and used to promote the fortunes of a private company.

    Big government + big business = big trouble.

    Nice out of the blue, right wing, moronic rant but: A. You're replying to an obvious troll B. The troll is pretending to be from India C. The student edition of Acrobat is only $115, ie less than most college textbooks D. When the government grants funding to a school, it does not dictate what software the school uses in it's curriculum, nor should you want it to E. Generally no schools require you to buy software, you have the option to buy it if you'd rather use your personal computer rather than a lab computer F. The software used in an educational institution needs to reflect what's used in the real world, or the education provided will be rather worthless

    Other than that, nice rant.

    Big Ralph + Internet = Moronic comments

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    Just goes to show: if it weren't for metric, we wouldn't have these problems.

    Actually, if it wasn't for the american resistance against metric, we wouldn't have this problem. If 7oz varies from 198g to 200g, it's not precise enough to regulate industry.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Ralph:
    Rahjesh:
    were i get crack? i need arcobat reely fast for school!
    If your school makes you use Acrobat, you're going to the wrong school.

    Further, if your school is tax funded (govt. school at any level) then we have yet another example of tax dollars collected by force and used to promote the fortunes of a private company.

    Big government + big business = big trouble.

    Nice out of the blue, right wing, moronic rant but: A. You're replying to an obvious troll B. The troll is pretending to be from India C. The student edition of Acrobat is only $115, ie less than most college textbooks D. When the government grants funding to a school, it does not dictate what software the school uses in it's curriculum, nor should you want it to E. Generally no schools require you to buy software, you have the option to buy it if you'd rather use your personal computer rather than a lab computer F. The software used in an educational institution needs to reflect what's used in the real world, or the education provided will be rather worthless

    Other than that, nice rant.

    Big Ralph + Internet = Moronic comments

    Take it easy guys, he's new...

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to Sir Twist
    Sir Twist:
    Technically, as "7 oz." is only one significant figure, "200 grams" is the correct answer.
    Technically, the '7 oz' is accurate to whatever degree the relevant authority requires. For something as easily controlled as the weight of instant coffee, allowing a company to write 7% more than the actual weight on the label really would be a WTF. 1% less isn't going to worry anyone, though.
  • KA0F1 (unregistered) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    Meep:
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    Just goes to show: if it weren't for metric, we wouldn't have these problems.

    Actually, if it wasn't for the american resistance against metric, we wouldn't have this problem. If 7oz varies from 198g to 200g, it's not precise enough to regulate industry.

    You're among the irritating idiots that forced a packaging plant to have to make a machine to cut up fractions of things in order to hit the weight exactly.

    Ever wonder why there's some fraction of a pickle in a pickle jar, or a tiny nub of a carrot in package of otherwise long carrots? Geniuses like you that insist on using such irritatingly fine units of measure.

    And most everyone ends up tossing out some portion of whatever product because it spoiled or it is simply inconvenient to try and get it out. Making the whole practice a pointless exercise in pedantry.

  • (cs) in reply to KA0F1
    KA0F1:
    cappeca:
    Meep:
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    Just goes to show: if it weren't for metric, we wouldn't have these problems.

    Actually, if it wasn't for the american resistance against metric, we wouldn't have this problem. If 7oz varies from 198g to 200g, it's not precise enough to regulate industry.

    You're among the irritating idiots that forced a packaging plant to have to make a machine to cut up fractions of things in order to hit the weight exactly.

    Ever wonder why there's some fraction of a pickle in a pickle jar, or a tiny nub of a carrot in package of otherwise long carrots? Geniuses like you that insist on using such irritatingly fine units of measure.

    And most everyone ends up tossing out some portion of whatever product because it spoiled or it is simply inconvenient to try and get it out. Making the whole practice a pointless exercise in pedantry.

    Obvious troll is obvious... Or a moron.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to anon

    Right wingers dislike Big Business and telling people what to do?

    Which word looks more like LIBERtarian? LIBERal or conservative?

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to KA0F1
    KA0F1:
    cappeca:
    Meep:
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    Just goes to show: if it weren't for metric, we wouldn't have these problems.

    Actually, if it wasn't for the american resistance against metric, we wouldn't have this problem. If 7oz varies from 198g to 200g, it's not precise enough to regulate industry.

    You're among the irritating idiots that forced a packaging plant to have to make a machine to cut up fractions of things in order to hit the weight exactly.

    Ever wonder why there's some fraction of a pickle in a pickle jar, or a tiny nub of a carrot in package of otherwise long carrots? Geniuses like you that insist on using such irritatingly fine units of measure.

    And most everyone ends up tossing out some portion of whatever product because it spoiled or it is simply inconvenient to try and get it out. Making the whole practice a pointless exercise in pedantry.

    Well, feel free to pay the same for less product. Think of me next time you fill your tank.

  • Rob (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that there's nothing remotely wrong with the Nescafe packages.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Right wingers dislike Big Business and telling people what to do?

    Which word looks more like LIBERtarian? LIBERal or conservative?

    Wow. Just wow. I mean, it's hard to believe, but the world actually does get dumber every day.

    captcha: plaga - the recent plaga of stupidity has gotten so bad that people can't even spell plague anymore.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Funny Troll:
    Right wingers dislike Big Business and telling people what to do?

    Which word looks more like LIBERtarian? LIBERal or conservative?

    Haha, oh wow. I actually laughed out loud at this. Please feature it - I'm sure people will appreciate the spontaneous laughter.

  • empire (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Libertarianism borrows the most extreme aspects of both conservatism and liberalism. They're extreme social liberals and extreme fiscal conservatives.

  • Sigh (unregistered) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    Well, feel free to pay the same for less product. Think of me next time you fill your tank.

    The level of difference you're talking about there is like worrying about the petrol/gas that evaporates when filling the car. Or the amount of fuel that merely starting the engine would take. Or worrying about the air pressure in the tires and how that affects it.

    In other words, it's below my personal margin of error - it's, simply, not enough for me to even consider caring about.

    Anyway, you forget that nobody will care if the error is in the favor of the purchaser. I'm guessing on one production line, Nescafe just make sure (for the 200g version) there's a bit more than 200g in every jar, and for silly americans that can't handle that, they slap a 7 oz sign on as well. You're getting a touch more than 7 oz, but that's an error in your favour, so who the heck cares?

    The 198 g version could have been a different graphic designer doing a different conversion in google; or coming off a USA production line that was set to 7 oz instead; but I bet both of them have at least 7 oz in them.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to empire
    empire:
    Libertarianism borrows the most extreme aspects of both conservatism and liberalism. They're extreme social liberals and extreme fiscal conservatives.
    The root word of LIBERTarian is LIBERTY, as in, the freedom to do what you want as long as you don't harm someone else. From that comes social liberty (you can be gay if you want; none of the government's business) and financial liberty (people shouldn't threaten to harm you if you don't pay protection money AKA taxes).
  • lolwtf (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Continue button looks just like the Nintendo logo. Same font, same border... Just needs to be red.

  • (cs) in reply to Sigh
    Sigh:
    cappeca:
    Well, feel free to pay the same for less product. Think of me next time you fill your tank.
    The level of difference you're talking about there is like worrying about the petrol/gas that evaporates when filling the car. Or the amount of fuel that merely starting the engine would take. Or worrying about the air pressure in the tires and how that affects it.

    In other words, it's below my personal margin of error - it's, simply, not enough for me to even consider caring about.

    This is an interesting debate, but I'm going to have to side with cappeca here. Sure, the variance when compared to the whole may seem small, but this does not mean the variance itself is insignificant.

    For example, my wife and I argue over when is appropriate to throw away a jar of peanut butter. Her opinion is that when there is only about an inch (height-wise) of peanut butter left in the jar, it's not worth the effort - the knife/spoon only gets a little bit on each dip into the jar and you usually end up with peanut butter on your knuckles from the rim of the jar.

    I say that while it's only a small percentage of the whole jar, on its own it really is a few good servings. Those servings may last us another week or two, meaning I get to put off dragging my lazy ass to the store to buy more peanut butter. Ergo, the last bit of peanut butter in the jar is totally worth the effort.

    It's clear which of us has thought about this more.

  • lolwtf (unregistered)

    According to my phone, that barcode reads as a UPC code, 9751 (with several zeros in front), which corresponds to "USB Duck Flash Drive-Yellow-8GB $28.00". Yet the receipt shows a total of $0.28. Someone got quite a deal there!

  • Pr0gramm3r (unregistered) in reply to boog

    If you were truly lazy you would throw the peanut butter jar on the ground and eat it from there. Just saying...

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Sigh

    Anyway TRWTF is drining instant coffee.

  • alnite (unregistered)
    Article:
    Driver must be age 16 and over
    Obviously the message was just following standard walkie-talkie protocol.

    Over.

  • (cs) in reply to KA0F1
    KA0F1:
    Ever wonder why there's some fraction of a pickle in a pickle jar, or a tiny nub of a carrot in package of otherwise long carrots? Geniuses like you that insist on using such irritatingly fine units of measure.

    I don't get it. How can you be sure the carrots or pickles won't cross the ounce boundary (i.e. n pickles are 6.9 oz, n+1 pickles are 7.2 oz)?

  • The Typinator (unregistered)

    The "16 and over" check worked perfectly. Perhaps the user thought it meant "16 or over"?

  • (cs) in reply to imgx64
    imgx64:
    KA0F1:
    Ever wonder why there's some fraction of a pickle in a pickle jar, or a tiny nub of a carrot in package of otherwise long carrots? Geniuses like you that insist on using such irritatingly fine units of measure.

    I don't get it. How can you be sure the carrots or pickles won't cross the ounce boundary (i.e. n pickles are 6.9 oz, n+1 pickles are 7.2 oz)?

    You don't want to freely give away that 0.2oz do you? Why should the customers get something for free even if it means more work for the producer?

  • stylez (unregistered) in reply to powerlord

    I agree with this.

  • stylez (unregistered) in reply to powerlord
    powerlord:
    Syl Bou wonders, "if I chose No, what is it going to do again?"
    "Disable HTML in this post" is a checkbox.

    'Always uncheck the "Disable HTML in this post" box' unchecks said box for you automatically.

    It's not really that hard to understand if you can parse sentences, particularly since they already put the checkbox name in quotes.

    If it makes it any easier for you, think of it like this: "Always uncheck the $checkboxName box" (since this is likely some PHP bulletin board we're referring to)

    Whoops, hit reply instead of quote. :|

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to empire
    empire:
    Libertarianism borrows the most extreme aspects of both conservatism and liberalism. They're extreme social liberals and extreme fiscal conservatives.

    Actually, Libertarians don't borrow from anything. The original founders of the United States were the original Libertarians of the nation.

  • (cs) in reply to Juan
    Juan:
    Carlos S. really needs to retake math and learn about significant digits.

    Yes, both of these are correct: 198g = 7oz 200g = 7oz

    It would perhaps be correct in the US, but not in Europe (or at least the EU). In Europe, you usually find a big 'e' behind the weight, which means that it's accurate within a certain margin, which means that, to get at least 200g on average, you would actually have to put in a little bit more than 200g.

    On certain products here you'll find imperial measurements, but I presume that this is for companies who don't bother making different packaging for the US, or print it because it doesn't make a difference anyway.

  • (cs) in reply to empire
    empire:
    Libertarianism borrows the most extreme aspects of both conservatism and liberalism. They're extreme social liberals and extreme fiscal conservatives.
    I've never understood why they use the word 'liberal' in the US for what would be called a social-democrat or socialist in Europe. It would probably cause a bit of confusion on the other side of the Big Pond that the senior party in the current (minority) government in the Netherlands is a conservative liberal party.
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog:
    For example, my wife and I argue over when is appropriate to throw away a jar of peanut butter. Her opinion is that when there is only about an inch (height-wise) of peanut butter left in the jar, it's not worth the effort - the knife/spoon only gets a little bit on each dip into the jar and you usually end up with peanut butter on your knuckles from the rim of the jar.

    I say that while it's only a small percentage of the whole jar, on its own it really is a few good servings. Those servings may last us another week or two, meaning I get to put off dragging my lazy ass to the store to buy more peanut butter. Ergo, the last bit of peanut butter in the jar is totally worth the effort.

    It's clear which of us has thought about this more.

    It's also clear which of you is responsible for the bottle of shampoo in the shower being stored upside down.

  • Mic hael (unregistered) in reply to The MAZZTer
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Came here to say the exact same thing

  • JosaH (unregistered) in reply to Micah
    Micah:
    Forget the fancy unblurring software, I think I can read that policy number without it.

    It makes it look all the more realistic....

    Fancy waiting 20 years to make it look like a WTF....

  • Dr Fred (unregistered) in reply to Sir Twist
    Sir Twist:
    Technically, as "7 oz." is only one significant figure, "200 grams" is the correct answer.

    I didn't know scientists drink coffee (and presumably neither did Nescafe')

  • Sick of Captcha (unregistered) in reply to Dotan Cohen
    Dotan Cohen:
    C-Octothorpe:
    And you can imagine skiing on ice is hard, and painful.

    Skiing on ice is easy. Stopping and steering is rather difficult, though!

    Captcha: appellatio. Going down on a fruit.

    Did you know no-one has ever come up with that before??????

  • Billy (unregistered) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    I know you're trolling at least a little, but in most countries I'm pretty sure companies try to overfill anyway, to make sure they don't get in trouble for going under.

    I know in a dip factory where I worked once, they aimed to have an almost 10% (8-9% for the pedants) overfill in 200gm dips. Anything below 200 or above about 230 was rejected, but they considered around 217gms to be the safest fill...

    You would most likely find that both those jars have a touch over 7oz in them...

  • ge (unregistered) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    cappeca:
    The MAZZTer:
    What's wrong with the Nescafe? You're assuming both are EXACTLY 7oz, but if the first is 198g and the second is 200g, both can be rounded to 7oz when converted. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

    Problem is that you've been stolen of 2g of coffee if you buy the lighter one. 200g should be standard. In a production of 10.000 coffee jars, Nestle has saved 20kg of coffee, another 100 jars to sell.

    Small, but profitable, all because you don't care about 2g of coffee and the industry standard.

    Just goes to show: if it weren't for metric, we wouldn't have these problems.

    Spot on!! If we didn't have metric, we would be blissfully unaware of those couple of grams that we were missing out on in 7oz jars

  • DASH (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Right wingers dislike Big Business and telling people what to do?

    Which word looks more like LIBERtarian? LIBERal or conservative?

    Conservative?

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