• Bill P. Godfrey (unregistered)

    Sweet Home ??????????????????????????????????

  • Ocson (unregistered)

    You know what order to restart. THE Order. That's right. You thought no one knew about it, and you thought you had retired from that life for good. You were wrong.

  • AnOldRelic (unregistered)

    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

  • DoubleDouble (unregistered) in reply to AnOldRelic

    Maybe it costs twice as much because there are two of them?

  • Craig (unregistered)

    Need better comment.

  • @Deprecated (unregistered)

    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ|STUVWXYZ...

    I dunno, maybe one too many punches to the head?

  • SR (unregistered)

    I've been to Walthamstow. The ??????????????????????? is entirely warranted.

  • (cs)

    I'm seeing double here! Four rubik's cubes!

  • Jumble (unregistered)

    The Rubik's Touch cube was originally something like $150 and recently bombed in value because it is an unsellable piece of useless, pointless junk. It's possible that they updated the prices in the wrong order.

  • (cs)

    Clearly the Pervasive PSQL thing is so pervasive that you already have it on your computer, and there's no reason to run the installer.

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    Instance37003 is obviously the Borg designation for 'apple'. Clearly this kid is preparing for the inevitable. I'm kinda partial to Instance37048 myself.

  • (cs)

    Obviously instance37003 is a variety of apples that grow directly out of the ground.

  • (cs)

    It's April 30, 2010 - just in case you couldn't determine that.

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    You cannot install PSQL because it's protected by copyright law and international treaties. Didn't you read the warning? And if you find another way to install it, the FBI will find you. No matter where you are.

  • (cs)

    Red Screen of Death?

  • anon (unregistered)

    the psql installer one is not a WTF, just a well timed screen shot, and one you could get from just about any decent sized MSI installer. The GUI for the MSI loads while the CAB file is still being unpacked to a temp directory, you can't click next until the unpacking finishes.

  • @Deprecated (unregistered) in reply to vasiliys
    vasiliys:
    It's April 30, 2010 - just in case you couldn't determine that.

    I think it must be a new form of Captcha... for an application you are running locally?

  • vulputate (unregistered)

    Hmmm, the sum of all numbers in the last picture is 83. Maybe that was meant there.

  • (cs)

    "I found this at my local Best Buy," Austin K writes, "apparently they charge twice as much for the pre-owned version. Perhaps the extra $50 is because it's already been solved for you? Those Geek Squad are good at making everything go faster."

    A joke so nice, he told it twice.

  • (cs)

    FBI error?

    CLEARLY that stands for... Factory Business Intelligence

    ...when does the voting round begin?

  • Some guy (unregistered) in reply to AnOldRelic
    AnOldRelic:
    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

    I found this comment at my local Best Buy, apparently I'm going to comment twice as much for the pre-owned version.

  • ryan (unregistered)

    I've seen the pricing issue at Best Buy fairly regularly, actually. If they have an open box returned before the price drops, and sticker the open box price, they don't seem to care to update the open-box price. If you take it to the counter, though, they'll give you the price of what the open box should be (x% of current price).

    Or maybe my local store is just lazier than most others.

  • jdw (unregistered) in reply to ryan
    ryan:
    I've seen the pricing issue at Best Buy fairly regularly, actually. If they have an open box returned before the price drops, and sticker the open box price, they don't seem to care to update the open-box price. If you take it to the counter, though, they'll give you the price of what the open box should be (x% of current price).

    Or maybe my local store is just lazier than most others.

    I dunno about BBY, but at the Circuit City I worked at back in the day, this is often how we did things. We'd update open box prices on big items, like computers, TVs, and cameras, but stuff in lower-traffic areas of the store would just sit around until someone asked why the open box price was so high.

  • AnOldRelic (unregistered) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    ryan:
    I've seen the pricing issue at Best Buy fairly regularly, actually. If they have an open box returned before the price drops, and sticker the open box price, they don't seem to care to update the open-box price. If you take it to the counter, though, they'll give you the price of what the open box should be (x% of current price).

    Or maybe my local store is just lazier than most others.

    I dunno about BBY, but at the Circuit City I worked at back in the day, this is often how we did things. We'd update open box prices on big items, like computers, TVs, and cameras, but stuff in lower-traffic areas of the store would just sit around until someone asked why the open box price was so high.

    If you act now, we can take an additional 10% off this Geek Squad optimized device! Yes... yes, I'm aware the price is already very high compared to a standard item. No... you don't understand! This Rubik's Cube has been optimized by our Geek Squad technicians to be the ultimate Cube Experience.

  • EatenByAGrue (unregistered)

    Oh, yes, the good old CTO Error. It exists in many organizations, and is the mistake of promoting someone who knows nothing about development, system and network administration, or technical support to CTO.

  • (cs)
    • Installer could be working in the background before it will let you click Next but yeah it should tell you if so...
    • I love Rubik's Cubes
    • I love Rubik's Cubes
    • Mind Manager could simply want you to define the name of a subtopic, although they went a bit far in suggesting a default.
    • Considering how hard it is to keep up to date with all your apps, congratulations ARE in order!
    • The big Google Reader number is probably the user's user id. You can see it in the url if you go to Google Reader itself. In this context, it is saying the list of [id]... YOUR list... which makes sense.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Obviously instance37003 is a variety of apples that grow directly out of the ground.
    Well, what else would you do with a webfarm? (I did once consider applying for a agricultural/farming subsidy for our corporate webfarm on the grounds that it was very good at not growing any cattle or olives at all, but never got further than that on the grounds that I'd finished the beer.)
  • (cs)

    There's no WTF here .. If you've been to Walthamstow, ????????? would be your reaction too..

  • (cs)

    FBI error? Dang that NSA_KEY!

  • DesGrieux (unregistered)

    I really like the Best Buy one.

    I really like the Best Buy one.

  • SeySayux (unregistered)

    Prefer naturally grown Instances over synthetic ones!

    PS. To Askimet: this isn't spam. Really.

  • (cs) in reply to SeySayux
    SeySayux:
    Prefer naturally grown Instances over synthetic ones!

    PS. To Askimet: this isn't spam. Really.

    Maybe, but I'm pretty sure I've received spam with that exact wording.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from the Playhouse Disney website,"

    Did anyone else have to do a double take after reading that as "Playboy Disney"?

  • I can't let you do that, Dave. (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from the Playhouse Disney website,"

    Did anyone else have to do a double take after reading that as "Playboy Disney"?

    Sorta. But "Penthouse Disney" instead.

  • (cs) in reply to I can't let you do that, Dave.
    I can't let you do that:
    Dave:
    "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from the Playhouse Disney website,"

    Did anyone else have to do a double take after reading that as "Playboy Disney"?

    Sorta. But "Penthouse Disney" instead.

    "When the day is over, I go to sleep and dream of a world where the sky is blue... ... clouds look like this... ... and the women wear nothing but PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Obviously instance37003 is a variety of giant apples that grow directly out of the ground.

    FTFY (unless it's just a tiny tractor)

  • methinks (unregistered) in reply to I can't let you do that, Dave.
    I can't let you do that:
    Dave:
    "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from the Playhouse Disney website,"

    Did anyone else have to do a double take after reading that as "Playboy Disney"?

    Sorta. But "Penthouse Disney" instead.

    Apparently, with the economy still playing tough, Playboy and Penthouse merged into Playhouse - only to be bought out by Disney soon after that...

    ;o)

  • (cs) in reply to I can't let you do that, Dave.
    I can't let you do that:
    Dave:
    "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from the Playhouse Disney website,"

    Did anyone else have to do a double take after reading that as "Playboy Disney"?

    Sorta. But "Penthouse Disney" instead.

    I actually thought it said "My 3-year old son printed this out for me from 'The Hun'"

  • usitas (unregistered) in reply to drchops
    drchops:
    I'm seeing double here! Four rubik's cubes!

    You see five rubik's cubes

  • PITA (unregistered)
    <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> var d=new Date(); document.write(d); </script> </body> </html>
  • Vestigial (unregistered)

    If you read the article you will see that the Pervasive PSQL wasn't on Lennart's workstation - it was on a network share but it got removed when he ran the installer.

  • Fred (unregistered)

    "Walthamstow" means "WTF" in British.

  • Harrow (unregistered)

    ...Because it is almost impossible for Disney Inc. to get any of its software to say "Apple".

    -Harrow.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    What's wrong with the "open item"? They charge you extra because they've already opened it for you, so of course you have to pay for the labor. If it was in one of those plastic packages that are welded together and require power tools and a flame-thrower to open, I might well be welling to pay double to have someone else open it for me.

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    the psql installer one is not a WTF... The GUI for the MSI loads while the CAB file is still being unpacked to a temp directory, you can't click next until the unpacking finishes.
    Are you really going to stand there and argue that this is good user interface design, i.e. not a WTF?

    My computer can do 3 billion things per second. I can average about one. Why should I ever ever have to wait for my computer once I have decided what I want to do? I want to click Next dammit, fucking let me click Next and if you can't keep up well at least give me the next screen to read so I can make another decision.

    GUI programmers and their holy "usability" suck donkey balls.

    And in case you still can't imagine any form of computing beyond what you learned while you were wearing diapers, the correct way is to provide a simple language that allows the user to succinctly express what they want to do, and store those instructions in a script. For example: "install psql". Now was that so bloody hard to understand?

    Then the script can run in the background and take a week if necessary to do its thing, but meanwhile I can go on with my other work.

    You're trying to program for Grandma and guess what, she's still too clueless no matter how colorful the cartoons you throw at her, so let's get back to letting smart people do real work and stop fighting the user who knows what they want done.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    the psql installer one is not a WTF, just a well timed screen shot, and one you could get from just about any decent sized MSI installer. The GUI for the MSI loads while the CAB file is still being unpacked to a temp directory, you can't click next until the unpacking finishes.
    Usability fail. Because it would have costed someone *soo much* to have some progress indicator there somewhere...
  • (cs) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    anon:
    the psql installer one is not a WTF... The GUI for the MSI loads while the CAB file is still being unpacked to a temp directory, you can't click next until the unpacking finishes.
    Are you really going to stand there and argue that this is good user interface design, i.e. not a WTF?

    My computer can do 3 billion things per second. I can average about one. Why should I ever ever have to wait for my computer once I have decided what I want to do? I want to click Next dammit, fucking let me click Next and if you can't keep up well at least give me the next screen to read so I can make another decision.

    GUI programmers and their holy "usability" suck donkey balls.

    I agree. Heck, I didn't think of having a sort of "lazy evaluation" type of a UI. I like your idea. If I understand correctly, you propose to go as far as possible without the previous operations having yet finished.

    So, when a certain screen needs results from the previous operation, only then you do something that interferes with regular workflow. It may be a minor thing -- say that part of the screen shows grayed-out defaults, and if you agree with them you can still go to the next screen. Below the grayed-out part there's then a little message with a progress bar in it, that lets you know whazzup.

  • (cs)

    This is a funny error'd:

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  • Jason (unregistered)

    "It's people. Instance37003 is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!"

  • (cs)

    The FBI has no jurisdiction in Europe.... yet.

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