• (cs) in reply to RandomGuy
    RandomGuy:
    Congratulations, lost to Godwin in just 8 rounds.

    FTFY

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Rick
    Rick:
    In the iTunes screenshot, I'm not sure what the "Numbers" app has to do with the WTF. It's just Apple's spreadsheet app. The WTF is step 7 of 6 (and the fact that she never syncs her device - 89 apps to sync!?!)

    That could happen during an OS update. Done from iTunes, it's a backup app data, backup unsynced apps, install fresh copy of OS, then resync all the data back.

    89 apps isn't that unusual - it's only 5 pages of apps on an iPad (20 per page), and 6 pages of apps on an iPhone or iPod (16 per page). Though on an iPhone 5, it'll be 5 pages as well since there's 20 per page on it.

    iOS users tend to use a lot of apps (and data - disproportionate to marketshare - iOS is something like 1:3-1:4 vs. Android, but iOS data usage is around 2:1 over Android. Most people probably buy an Android phone and not use its data capabilities, I guess - when you can get them as 2-phones-for-free sort of deals. I wish the data would break it down by flagship and non-flagship phones - I suspect the flagship phone users use just as much data as iOS, but the vast sea of crappier Androids pulls the average down)

  • urza9814 (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    eVil:
    Medinoc:
    The artefacts around the text are justification enough. Screenshots of text are better saved with lossless compression like GIF or PNG.

    TRWTF is Windows Vista's version of MSPaint, which defaults to JPEG.

    This is The Daily WTF. This is not a website devoted to high definition photography.

    I grant you, if you're using a website for a digital art community, and have uploaded an image purporting to be some piece of quality work but have saved it as a JPEG with a lot of compression, then that would be a wtf.

    However, these are screenshots of mistakes made on incredibly mundane websites, posted to a website devoted to mundane mistakes. There is no loss in the viewers appreciation of these mistakes due to JPEG artifacts.

    So, lossy compression is completely appropriate, and in fact encouraged, so that these mundane jokes take up less space.

    279 KB for JPEG, 369 KB for a PNG screenshot on my computer. In our era of GB for pennies, I don't think we need to save 90 KB that badly.

    Since JPEG is supported by pretty much EVERYTHING, whereas GIF is totally shite, and PNG is only supported by MOST things, it makes sense for it to default to JPEG.
    It isn't 2001. We don't have to support IE 6 anymore.

    So if we all have TB of storage available, and we don't use IE 6 anymore, then YOU are the one whose opinion is irrelevant.

    I dunno, we just got upgraded from IE6 to IE8 at my office about a month ago...and I'm a freakin software developer!

    Of course, I always just use portable Chrome, so...

  • (cs)

    Status vs. Quality ... remember this Dilbert strip? http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-06-02/

  • (cs) in reply to Craig
    Craig:
    I'm guessing the "throat" is the part of the machine that regurgitates cash?

    That's my thought, also. It's just reporting a paper jam.

  • Hannes (unregistered)

    I once had a nice error message:

    General Error!

    Allow?

    Yes No

    I ended up allowing it. Who knows what might have happened if I had responded "No". Maybe some specific errors would have followed!

  • Brian Bobley (unregistered) in reply to eVil

    [apologies for if someone in the 50 odd comments has already address this, but it is probably worth repeating]

    a) Screenshots have a small colour palette and are mostly flat colour and sharp edges making png a more efficient storage

    b) Have you not seen that Random button? It is great for when you are bored at work ;)

    c) Don't swear please. You aren't funny enough to justify it.

  • wenkesh (unregistered) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    I don't think most people know what part of an ATM is the throat, or even that is has one. It's not really a WTF, but probably should be clearer to the lay, since it might be an indication of an identity theft device.
    And for those who don't know, Googling for images of "ATM throat" should not be done at work.

    (It's the part where the card goes in.)

  • (cs) in reply to RichP
    RichP:
    Captcha:gravis:
    You are doing the same thing as when someone says "it's gonna take me light years to finish this!" and you tell them light years are a measure of distance, not time, and they reply "Who cares? You understood what I meant didn't you? It's not like I'm publishing a scientific article or something".
    The preferred response is to point out that they meant "it's gonna take me at least eight parsecs to finish this!"

    It's perfectly appropriate to measure time by a distance measure, and also vice versa. It just means there's an implicit velocity going on. "It took me from London to Manchester to finish my book" is a perfectly good and understandable statement given the information that the speaker is on a train. By the same coin, it's a common figure of speech, when a late attendee is chased up, for them to reply something like "I'm five minutes away".

    It did indeed take me eight parsecs to write this post. I'll drop you another email when I arrive at Rigel.

  • (cs) in reply to PiisAWheeL
    PiisAWheeL:
    IN-HOUSE-CHAMP:
    Chuck Norris can afford that jacket and also type in that password!
    Blasphemy! Chuck Norris doesn't need to type in a password. The software bends to his will.

    In Soviet Russia, password enters you!

  • (cs) in reply to Craig
    Craig:
    I'm guessing the "throat" is the part of the machine that regurgitates cash?

    No, that's its anus.

  • Friedrice The Great (unregistered) in reply to RichP
    RichP:
    Captcha:gravis:
    You are doing the same thing as when someone says "it's gonna take me light years to finish this!" and you tell them light years are a measure of distance, not time, and they reply "Who cares? You understood what I meant didn't you? It's not like I'm publishing a scientific article or something".
    The preferred response is to point out that they meant "it's gonna take me at least eight parsecs to finish this!"
    "Captain, we're traveling at 99.99999999999999999999999% of light speed. It'll take us at least eight parsecs just to turn around!"
  • Friedrice The Great (unregistered) in reply to PiisAWheeL
    PiisAWheeL:
    IN-HOUSE-CHAMP:
    Chuck Norris can afford that jacket and also type in that password!
    Blasphemy! Chuck Norris doesn't need to type in a password. The software bends to his will.
    Chuck Norris is the password for every piece of software.
  • Friedrice The Great (unregistered) in reply to urza9814
    urza9814:
    operagost:
    eVil:
    Medinoc:
    The artefacts around the text are justification enough. Screenshots of text are better saved with lossless compression like GIF or PNG.

    TRWTF is Windows Vista's version of MSPaint, which defaults to JPEG.

    This is The Daily WTF. This is not a website devoted to high definition photography.

    I grant you, if you're using a website for a digital art community, and have uploaded an image purporting to be some piece of quality work but have saved it as a JPEG with a lot of compression, then that would be a wtf.

    However, these are screenshots of mistakes made on incredibly mundane websites, posted to a website devoted to mundane mistakes. There is no loss in the viewers appreciation of these mistakes due to JPEG artifacts.

    So, lossy compression is completely appropriate, and in fact encouraged, so that these mundane jokes take up less space.

    279 KB for JPEG, 369 KB for a PNG screenshot on my computer. In our era of GB for pennies, I don't think we need to save 90 KB that badly.

    Since JPEG is supported by pretty much EVERYTHING, whereas GIF is totally shite, and PNG is only supported by MOST things, it makes sense for it to default to JPEG.
    It isn't 2001. We don't have to support IE 6 anymore.

    So if we all have TB of storage available, and we don't use IE 6 anymore, then YOU are the one whose opinion is irrelevant.

    I dunno, we just got upgraded from IE6 to IE8 at my office about a month ago...and I'm a freakin software developer!

    Of course, I always just use portable Chrome, so...

    Well, our recent browser upgrade replaced IE6 with IE7, so enjoy your hot cutting-edge browser experience!

  • Bill C. (unregistered)

    The error in throat was in DC, but what does a bank have to do with it?

  • (cs) in reply to Bill C.
    Bill C.:
    The error in throat was in DC, but what does a bank have to do with it?
    It's obviously been a few years since you watched the movie, so I'll just repeat the salient quote: Follow the money.
  • Bill C. (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Bill C.:
    The error in throat was in DC, but what does a bank have to do with it?
    It's obviously been a few years since you watched the movie, so I'll just repeat the salient quote: Follow the money.
    You kidding me? That guy got a pardon. It was a later error in throat that got me impeached.
  • Thorsten (unregistered)
    I'd have helped, but I don't know how to give an ATM the Heimlich.
    Well, that's why this error will eventually become terminal.
  • the future (unregistered) in reply to moving through space

    your measure is in the imperial direction.

  • JimTheJam (unregistered)

    I google translated Lorem ipsum dolor

    and the English translation is .....

       Lorem ipsum dolor

    WTF?!?

  • defaultex (unregistered) in reply to JimTheJam

    Nice catch, google translate thinks it's Italian. However after changing it to Latin, I'm not sure whether to be amused or scared.

  • (cs)

    Maybe by 2035, we'll have stuff like Brainetics that actually works.

  • jim steichen (unregistered)

    Everyone knows that error 339 is caused by a blocked tube in the intrawebz, usually a large chunk o' beef from meatspace!

  • Adrian Wood (unregistered)

    It's a common misconception that simply having a crash within a crash is crashception. In fact, crashception occurs when you use a crash to place data in the system which, when the crash is resolved, the system will think it created itself.

  • (cs)

    Be careful calling it the "Heimlich manoeuvre". It's a trademark. The first aid wonks call it "abdominal thrusts" these days.

  • Marc (unregistered)

    Okay. We must crash deeper.

  • Boris (unregistered) in reply to Marc

    They must have improved the table editor when they XMLified Epic; all I ever got was a lousy crash within a crash. And the ever-popular "uncaught galaxy exception."

  • (cs) in reply to eVil
    eVil:
    Valued Service:
    eVil:
    operagost:
    So if we all have TB of storage available, and we don't use IE 6 anymore, then YOU are the one whose opinion is irrelevant.

    No,

    "YOU ... ran out of intelligible points to debate."

    FTFY

    It is not obvious who you're addressing that to.

    Either way, the point I was making here is that if you simply state that the other persons opinion is not relevant, you have basically lost the argument, and the only response you deserve is a quote from a slightly retarded film.

    I assure you that I have not lost the argument merely because you declare it so.

  • Captain Bland (unregistered)

    More like exception? Anybody? No? Okay.

  • eric bloedow (unregistered)

    i think i mentioned thin on another story, but it bears repeating: one of my old computers developed a fault in the part of Windows that handles improper shutdowns...so any time a program failed to shut down properly, Windows would go into an infinite loop, trying to shutdown the shutdown the shutdown...

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