• oh no a wtf wtf (unregistered)

    Maybe the translators should have put the right picture with the right caption.

  • Hairy Melons (unregistered)

    Oh, I get the first one. The WTF is that there's no CARD_NOT_FOUND option to choose from.

  • brillo (unregistered)

    TRWTF is the mismatched captions in this article.

  • (cs)

    So, moral of the story is: stay away from Samsung SDS.

  • Warren (unregistered)

    Moral of the "energy display": if you try to look clever by overlaying simple text on an image you will be found out.

    My TV doesn't have a meter with spinning numbers for hours of use anyway, is this the latest idea for getting kids active?

  • just some guy (unregistered) in reply to oh no a wtf wtf
    oh no a wtf wtf:
    Maybe the translators should have put the right picture with the right caption.

    Meta-errord.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    Does anybody else find it ironic that they compare the electricity generated from solar to a number of hours of television and then decide to relay that information using....a television.

  • Stephen E. Baker (unregistered)

    "Does anybody else find it ironic that they compare the electricity generated from solar to a number of hours of television and then decide to relay that information using....a television."

    Well, at least if the experiment fails the display will turn off and no one will know.

  • AndyL (unregistered)

    "Yes, I would like some gasoline please."

  • (cs)

    The last one looks pretty mashed up. But then, what would you expect from a business mashup application?

  • electrichead (unregistered)

    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?

  • AndyL (unregistered) in reply to electrichead
    electrichead:
    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?
    So, based on the prices, which would be a better deal? The single issue? Or the subscription?
  • Arantor (unregistered) in reply to electrichead
    electrichead:
    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?

    The WTF is that the monthly cost is $99.99 a month, but is only $9.99 per year. I'll have the yearly one please.

  • Jamie (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Does anybody else find it ironic that they compare the electricity generated from solar to a number of hours of television and then decide to relay that information using....a television.

    That's not a television, it's a printed backlit sign!

  • (cs) in reply to oh no a wtf wtf
    oh no a wtf wtf:
    Maybe the translators should have put the right picture with the right caption.

    TRWTF is... :)

  • (cs)

    How can these people not come up with a decent UI?
    "Enter PIN or press CANCEL for credit"

  • h (unregistered)
    "Debit? Yes? Cashier? I don't get it."
    It's obviously an error. What they meant is to pay kosher.
  • CAR912 (unregistered)

    Well, obviously they only send out one issue every ten years.

  • CAR912 (unregistered) in reply to CAR912
    CAR912:
    Well, obviously they only send out one issue every ten years.

    Gah, misremembered that as "single issue" or "annually" somehow.

  • (cs) in reply to Arantor

    It's a financial market research company. You really want to subscribe when they can't keep their own prices straight?

  • (cs) in reply to h
    h:
    "Debit? Yes? Cashier? I don't get it."
    It's obviously an error. What they meant is to pay kosher.

    Does that mean that politicians can't use the ATM for pork spending?

  • (cs) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    The last one looks pretty mashed up. But then, what would you expect from a business mashup application?
    Good thing that's a simple workflow or we'd be seeing it here as a Featured Article...
  • (cs) in reply to vt_mruhlin
    vt_mruhlin:
    How can these people not come up with a decent UI? "Enter PIN or press CANCEL for credit"

    I'd settle for consistent across multiple brands even if decent is asking too much. All the keypads (at supermarkets, gas stations, etc) seem to have credit / debit / cancel / OK buttons physically on them. But when you actually use the things, you get

    Swipe, and then:

    1. Press 'credit' for credit; 'cancel' cancels the whole thing
    2. Press 'cancel' for credit; 'credit' does nothing
    3. Press 'OK' for credit; who knows what anything else does
    4. Press 'cancel', then press 'credit' for credit

    So I have to remember, "OK, at Pete's I press cancel, at Wegmans I press credit, at the Mobil it's..."

    Aaagh!

  • Quintius (unregistered) in reply to rpresser
    rpresser:
    It's a financial market research company. You really want to subscribe when they can't keep their own prices straight?

    I was going to subscribe to a newsletter from a financial market research company. They claimed to protect transactions using SSL. They displayed the subscription form using SSL. When you clicked the submit button, they transmitted your information back to them without using SSL!

    I changed my mind about subscribing.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    So a lifetime subscription should be 99 cents, right?

  • (cs)

    undefined and NaN at the same time can only mean one thing! Someone who clearly has the VB mentality managed to clobber together something in Flash. They should leave Flash to the professionals.

  • anon (unregistered)

    Like a cactus? Oh... "spinny" thing - got it.

  • Buffled (unregistered) in reply to vt_mruhlin
    vt_mruhlin:
    How can these people not come up with a decent UI? "Enter PIN or press CANCEL for credit"
    Erm, that's you're idea of a decent UI? What about: "Select Credit, Debit or Cash: -> Credit -> Debit -> Cash"

    Assuming that you can't figure it out from a card swipe to being with.

  • slapout (unregistered)

    This comment could not be translated. Please verify the translation workflow below.

    Debit

    Yes

    CAPTCHA

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    electrichead:
    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?

    The WTF is that the monthly cost is $99.99 a month, but is only $9.99 per year. I'll have the yearly one please.

    How is that a WTF? It's extremely common for consumers to be charged less for longer terms of locked-in service.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Steve
    Steve:
    Arantor:
    electrichead:
    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?

    The WTF is that the monthly cost is $99.99 a month, but is only $9.99 per year. I'll have the yearly one please.

    How is that a WTF? It's extremely common for consumers to be charged less for longer terms of locked-in service.

    It's not common for a year to cost less than one month. If it was $9.99 / month or $99.99 a year, it would make sense.

  • Lea Verou (unregistered)

    TRWTF with #2 is that he's using Internet Explorer 6.

  • (cs)

    Serena TeamTrack strikes again!

  • Brian White (unregistered) in reply to henke37
    henke37:
    undefined and NaN at the same time can only mean one thing! Someone who clearly has the VB mentality managed to clobber together something in Flash. They should leave Flash to the professionals.

    Why do you say that? Seems more like Javascript error messages.

  • (cs)

    The garbage display of the workflow in the "business mashup" bug tracking software is a sure sign that the helpdesk is skipping past the "verify workflow" step without looking at it.

  • Carl (unregistered)

    I know spelling/grammar corrections are probably growing tiresome, but it took me some time to figure out what "spiny thing" was being referred to on the Solar Energy screen.

  • FP (unregistered) in reply to henke37
    henke37:
    undefined and NaN at the same time can only mean one thing! Someone who clearly has the VB mentality managed to clobber together something in Flash. They should leave Flash to the professionals.

    Strictly it means that their floating-point implementation works correctly and errors propagate to NaN

  • Dale (unregistered) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    I know spelling/grammar corrections are probably growing tiresome, but it took me some time to figure out what "spiny thing" was being referred to on the Solar Energy screen.

    Well don't you feel stupid.

  • Milton (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Steve:
    Arantor:
    electrichead:
    I don't see the WTF in the subscription one. The account is cancelled, and they are asking you if you want to cancel your cancellation ... non?

    The WTF is that the monthly cost is $99.99 a month, but is only $9.99 per year. I'll have the yearly one please.

    How is that a WTF? It's extremely common for consumers to be charged less for longer terms of locked-in service.

    It's not common for a year to cost less than one month. If it was $9.99 / month or $99.99 a year, it would make sense.

    Not always. Perhaps they are really trying ot discourage monthlys because they feel it's not worth the effort.

    There are country towns in Australia where a six-pack of beer costs more than a carton (24). The reason is that the pubs struggle to sell the rest of the carton if they split it up. Basically, they would rather sell a carton than bother with smaller quantities, but hey, if you're prepared to pay $60 for a sixpack....

  • (cs) in reply to vt_mruhlin
    vt_mruhlin:
    How can these people not come up with a decent UI? "Enter PIN or press CANCEL for credit"
    Saw one this morning:

    Type ZIP and Enter then press Enter

  • csm (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Does anybody else find it ironic that they compare the electricity generated from solar to a number of hours of television and then decide to relay that information using....a television.

    Not ironic at all, I'm afraid. The intention of the message is to communicate the benefits of solar energy, which isn't contradicted by the fact that they're using a television to display the message. They could have used any other type of comparison: solar energy harnessed vs power consumed by a refrigerator or a computer. It wouldn't have made a difference.

  • (cs)

    Clearly the monthly subscription means deliver one per month, and the yearly one is one per year.

  • wesley0042 (unregistered) in reply to PeriSoft
    1. Press Credit.
    2. Swipe card.
    3. "Is this a debit or credit?" (Sigh)
    4. Press Credit.
    5. Wait 5 seconds.
    6. "Enter ZIP code."
    7. Enter ZIP code.
    8. Wait for 5 seconds.
    9. "Do you want a carwash?"
    10. Press No.
    11. Wait 5 seconds.
    12. "Do you want a receipt?"
    13. Press No.
    14. Wait 5 seconds. (Aaarggh!)
    15. "Select grade and lift handle." FINALLY.

    (Stupid Valero)

  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to Dale
    Dale:
    Carl:
    I know spelling/grammar corrections are probably growing tiresome, but it took me some time to figure out what "spiny thing" was being referred to on the Solar Energy screen.

    Well don't you feel stupid.

    No, I don't, because I understand what the word "spiny" means, and nothing in the accompanying image fits that description.

  • Squire (unregistered) in reply to Arantor

    It is for a financial market research site. If they can't get their own pricing model right, why would you trust them to get anything else related to money correct? That is why Shea canceled the subscription (I can't someone had to explain that).

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to Dale
    Dale:
    Carl:
    I know spelling/grammar corrections are probably growing tiresome, but it took me some time to figure out what "spiny thing" was being referred to on the Solar Energy screen.
    Well don't you feel stupid.
    What a spiny thing to say.
  • hey persto! (unregistered)

    The completely, 100% Real WTF is that people think something delivered once a year should cost more than something delivered once a month.

    That is not a wtf. You are.

  • eyrieowl (unregistered) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    Dale:
    Carl:
    I know spelling/grammar corrections are probably growing tiresome, but it took me some time to figure out what "spiny thing" was being referred to on the Solar Energy screen.

    Well don't you feel stupid.

    No, I don't, because I understand what the word "spiny" means, and nothing in the accompanying image fits that description.

    now that's just being picky. clearly spiny means spiky (aka spiny) thing that rolls around, derived from sonic the hedgehog. :) (i had exactly the same difficulty, you'd think "spinning" would occur to someone older than 7 before "spin-y")

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    Luckily, here in the Netherlands all pay-with-your-card machines work the same. Swipe, enter PIN, push the green button (labelled JA or OK). The red button (usually STOP or ANNULEER) cancels the transaction. Of course, some expect the magnetic strip on the left, some on the right, some expect you to swipe towards the clerk, some towards you, and of course some have a slot where you insert the card, like the ATM's.

  • JRH (unregistered) in reply to hey persto!
    hey persto!:
    The completely, 100% Real WTF is that people think something delivered once a year should cost more than something delivered once a month.

    That is not a wtf. You are.

    Yes! I was looking at this for the longest time, wondering what the WTF was... then it hit me. "Oh, they think "Annually" means "once a month for a year" rather than "once a year"... wow."

    I guess programmers can't also be English majors, eh?

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