• Rodnas (unregistered)

    Ik bought this frist comment for only 99,999,999 USD and saved a cool 100,000 USD.

  • Le Forgeron (unregistered)

    The map seems correct for Bergerac, it's just that the coordinates are 0 for latitude and longitude.

    Yet another handling of optional data ending with default value in the valid range.

  • (cs)

    It’s nice that the lat/long (0, 0) point is over water.

  • Pista (unregistered) in reply to Le Forgeron
    Le Forgeron:
    The map seems correct for Bergerac, it's just that the coordinates are 0 for latitude and longitude.

    Yet another handling of optional data ending with default value in the valid range.

    Or maybe France wants to (re)conquer the countries appearing on the map and they're proceeding in small steps - first they move a city from France to a strategic position in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Warren (unregistered)

    With the iPhone 6 announced, it's clear that some manufacturers think we've got lots of money to spend on tech.

    So for a phone with so many features they have to overlay them all on each other, $3995 is a snip.

    The Garmin battery on Best Buy is a little more expensive, true, but that does show a financing link.

  • (cs)

    What's that strange markup format used for the Adobe error? It looks vaguely like JSON but isn't.

  • Sockatume (unregistered) in reply to VinDuv

    Yes, but we can do better. Anyone navigating to a land location receives a prompt warning of the inaccuracy of the message, but an ocean navigator or pilot does not. We have a moral duty to future generations to erect an enormous, anchored, floating sign at (0,0) which reads:

    "COORDINATE ERROR, DISREGARD MAP"

  • lucidfox (unregistered) in reply to lucidfox
    lucidfox:
    What's that strange markup format used for the Adobe error? It looks vaguely like JSON but isn't.
    I'm guessing that's an Erlang stack trace.
  • (cs)

    The Hertz one isn't a WTF: the company is just doing this to encourage you to use BitCoin rather than that shaky, unreliable US$ currency.

  • Drak (unregistered)

    The phone offer one seems to be a stylesheet thing that is not supported on the browser used. the 95s are obviously mean to be superscript. But seeing as the left side of the image is a mess too, it could also be a totally borked stylesheet ;)

  • Dan (unregistered)

    Can haz video?

    "Could not use file [file]. Does not has video"

    Aw ;[

  • golddog (unregistered)

    To be fair, Martin's thing said under 10117 USD.

    It might have been just a few bucks...

  • (cs) in reply to VinDuv
    VinDuv:
    It’s nice that the lat/long (0, 0) point is over water.
    It happens to also be the busiest place on earth, with the greatest biodiversity (at least according to our geolocated species reference database). Where else would you find elephants, grizzly bears, tasmanian devils and mangrove trees in one spot?
  • Moss (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Jeremy K. isn't using ClearType.

  • Vlad Patryshev (unregistered)

    The coordinates at "voiture location" are (0, 0) - a typical error in navigation software.

  • zeros FTW (unregistered)

    That map pointer appears to be pointing at 0N 0W (equator, Greenwich meridian) - passsing real data is way overrated...

  • (cs)

    Why is PagePlus Cellular displaying Canadian prices?

  • (cs)

    Has anyone figured out the latitude and longitude of the map yet?

  • foxyshadis (unregistered) in reply to Drak
    Drak:
    The phone offer one seems to be a stylesheet thing that is not supported on the browser used. the 95s are obviously mean to be superscript. But seeing as the left side of the image is a mess too, it could also be a totally borked stylesheet ;)
    AKA, someone never tested on anything but (IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari). Probably used browser-specific extensions.
  • JC (unregistered) in reply to Vlad Patryshev
    Vlad Patryshev:
    The coordinates at "voiture location" are (0, 0) - a typical error in navigation software.

    ("Location" means "rental," roughly.)

    TRWTF is that the map is in English.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to lucidfox

    Yup. The code style and the .erl files are the tipoff!

    Of course, many would say using Erlang is the real WTF

  • Namorik (unregistered) in reply to Moss
    Moss:
    TRWTF is that Jeremy K. isn't using ClearType.
    TRWTF is "Clear"Type.
  • YellowOnline (unregistered)

    Concerning products with insane prices like the Garmin battery here: I once contacted a shop because of a product I needed that was priced at €999 999 and still claimed to have sold 100s. The reply I got was that the product was temporarily set to maximum because it was out of stock and the only alternative was removing it from their website until delivered from the supplier. I can imagine more webshops do this. There's bad software everywhere >.<

    Captcha: Ich 'esse' jetzt Käsestäbchen.

  • F (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Has anyone figured out the latitude and longitude of the map yet?

    Yes, I have. It's 0deg0m1.2sN, 0deg0m0.3sE. The previous commenters were all nearly 0.002 of a pixel out.

  • Panopticrat (unregistered)

    The Bergerac map is accurate - flown there loads, and the airport is in the middle of nowhere, and often doesn't exist, particularly if there's fog, somewhere, anywhere.

    Pretty certain the coach journey from Limoges to Bergerac after they rerouted went via the South Atlantic and West Africa, it took long enough.

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