• misho (unregistered)

    I loved the OK/Cancel thing.

    By the way, according to Google:

    4 294 967 295 degrees Celsius = 7 730 941 163 degrees Fahrenheit, and not 2,386,092,923° F.

    And rather intuitively, for large numbers deg C < deg F.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to misho
    misho:
    By the way, according to Google:

    4 294 967 295 degrees Celsius = 7 730 941 163 degrees Fahrenheit, and not 2,386,092,923° F.

    The sound card is having a hard enough time trying to prevent its components from breaking up into their constituent baryons and leptons without going to the extra effort to get a conversion formula right.

  • mmv (unregistered)

    http://www.last.fm/music/Technical+Difficulties

  • Manic Mailman (unregistered) in reply to Brian
    Brian:
    The funniest thing in this post is the buddy icon.

    "Get A BRAIN morans!"

    Sure, but was it a real WTF or theater?

    http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/000472.html

    It works either way for me.

  • (cs) in reply to Jamie
    Jamie:
    The Real TRWTF...
    As opposed to the Fake TRWTF, I guess.
  • Aero (unregistered)

    TRWTF is when I'm using JavaScript to prompt the user if they really want to cancel, and I'm not allowed to customise the buttons (they're always 'OK' and 'Cancel'). Seriously, why hasn't ECMA fixed this yet? :(

  • Jeff Grigg (unregistered) in reply to Jamie

    RE: "Temperature on the outer layer of the sun: 6,000° C (11,000° F). Temperature of Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C (2,386,092,923° F). Yeah, I agree with this thing's diagnosis — replacing the fan might be a good start."

    That's impressive! Yes, a fan is certainly indicated. Further, a big heat sink is clearly needed -- maybe something like a black hole!!!

    According to Wikipedia, the CORE of the sun is something on the order of 15.7×10^6 Kelvin:

    Core of sun: 15,700,000 degree Celsius / Kelvin 28,250,000 degree Fahrenheit

    Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C

    That must have been one HOT Quake tournament!!! ;->

  • Kevin Kofler (unregistered)

    The OK/Cancel WTF can at least be figured out. The real WTF is when you combine it with the "always use action verbs instead of 'OK'" guideline and end up with what a particular GNOME application ended up with: a Cancel/Cancel dialog... (It has been fixed in a later version.) IIRC, it was featured in an earlier Error'd.

  • (cs)

    If I recall correctly, TCP/IP only narrowly edged out BBP/IP in the formative days of the internet.

  • Ville (unregistered) in reply to CW

    Did you give them alternatives. Like keeping the message but changing options to Yes/No ? Or was that not an option?

  • (cs) in reply to Ville
    Ville:
    Did you give them alternatives. Like keeping the message but changing options to Yes/No ? Or was that not an option?

    Is it too hard to read all the comments before you post? For example, CW previously said:

    CW:
    JimM:
    powerlord:
    CW:
    Sadly, I once had to write an app where the standard warning message for canceling out of a form was: "Are you sure you want to cancel? [OK/Cancel]" I tried to convince the business analysts that this was a bad idea, but they could never understand why...
    If this was a Windows application (not a web-app or for another OS), you should be dragged out and shot for using OK/Cancel instead of Yes/No. The Win32 API's MessageBox() and MessageBoxEx() have the uType argument to specify which type of message box you want... one of the options is the constant MB_YESNO.
    You should try reading comments before you reply to them; CW clearly said that the business analysts insisted on that message, and he advised them against it. So you're shooting the wrong person.

    On the other hand, wording ANY message box "Are you sure you want to..." is a shooting offence. Most people really aren't sure about anything when it comes to computers: why increase their existential doubt? And how do you "cancel out" of anything? Or do you mean "close" the form; in which case using the word "close" in your warnings would remove all that confusion... ;^)

    The Yes/No was my proposed solution, actually - but I was informed (repeatedly) that this was a "confirm dialog", and UI standards required that all confirm dialogs use the OK/Cancel format. Because, you know, UI standards are always more important than common sense.

    By the way, this message appeared when the user clicked a "Cancel" button to abort filling out a form and return to the main menu. If you really want to induce existential doubt, there's nothing like making "Cancel" mean one thing one moment, then the opposite the next moment.

    So in answer to your question: Yes, he gave them alternatives, and they said "no".

  • (cs)

    What's the WTF in displaying the name of your self-choosen Dail-In / Wireless connection?

  • anonymous (unregistered)

    The .NET type reminds me of the xorg.conf manpage:

    VIDEOADAPTOR SECTION
       Nobody wants to say how this works.  Maybe nobody knows ...
  • (cs)

    I can't believe others on this site missed this. The cell phone bill is the perfect situation! Obviously, 39 minutes is greater than -1 and yet the color indicates it's still inside the plan. Looks to me this is unlimited anytime minutes. Airtime to burn....

    Yes, we 'mericanos have lots of problems here....

  • Zerbs (unregistered) in reply to CW

    I once worked at a company where we the developers were told to change the prompt next to a checkbox whenever the user clicked on it... leaving the poor users uterly confused!

  • nibh (unregistered)

    Why doesn't windows have a MB_YESNOFILENOTFOUND definition???

    Are you sure you wish to cancel? [Yes] [No] [File Not Found]

  • John V (unregistered)
    Temperature of Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C (2,386,092,923° F).

    TRWTF here is that 2,386,092,924° C == 4,294,967,295° F

    (Did anyone else notice this?; Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks backwards like this.)

  • Lol man (unregistered)

    In Soviet Union you give the company phone minutes...

  • (cs) in reply to John V
    John V:
    Temperature of Nick's video card: 4,294,967,295° C (2,386,092,923° F).

    TRWTF here is that 2,386,092,924° C == 4,294,967,295° F

    (Did anyone else notice this?; Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks backwards like this.)

    Maybe if you read the comments before posting you would have noticed the half dozen other people who have made the complaint? My bet is that it is measured in F, then the conversion to C overflows the integer storage and so the final value appears less.

  • rob tha blob (unregistered) in reply to Oofy

    That's it, I'm gonna start a band called Error 504...

  • Colin Alston (unregistered)

    Interestingly 4,294,967,295 degrees Celsius is actually 7,730,941,163 degrees Fahrenheit...

  • Colin Alston (unregistered) in reply to Colin Alston

    Oh.. other people already pointed that out... My bad.

  • dmk (unregistered)

    There is (was) a filk band by the name "Technical Difficulties".

  • (cs)

    Am I the only one who figured out that the temperature on the card was 30 °F?

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