• (cs)

    • I don't like print!

    • You could try close, open, print, save, open and print. That's not got much print in it.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to powerlord
    powerlord:
    In case you're curious, it was a can of Bush's Baked Beans, whose UPC codes start with 039400...

    Strangly, once the item was voided, scanning it again came up with its normal price.

    Still, to this day, I remember the thirty-nine thousand dollar can of baked beans.

    I think you pinned it down here: "Bush's". He spends so crazily, is it any wonder that his baked beans go for $39k? <G>

    Captcha: Stinky--what eating beans will make you!

  • (cs) in reply to Usher
    Usher:
    The Word thing is not a WTF. YOu can easily add as many Print icons (or anything else) as you like from the Customize dialog.
    Actually, I have seen this exact thing happen... I don't know HOW it happened; but I'll SWEAR the user it happened to wasn't capable of figuring out how to customize the toolbar. ;)
  • anti-whatever (unregistered) in reply to Adam
    Adam:

    Perhaps if Microsoft focused more on building robust applications, rather than feeding users' want (not need) for flexibility and features, they might have a chance of turning out software containing a few less defects.

    So in your own job you ignore users requests for functionality and instead give them upgrades to fix bugs they don't care about? Last I checked robust doesn't bring in money. But giving users what they want sure does.

    Real people don't care about the religion of bug-free, ideal software. They just want to get their work done, and they want their features to be implemented, especially if they are a company paying millions of $$ for software.

  • Rod Horny (unregistered) in reply to WNivek
    WNivek:
    FredSaw:
    Mrs. Bun: I don't like Print! Mr. Bun: Don't make a fuss, dear. I'll have your Print. I love it. I'm having Print, Print, Print, Print, Print... Vikings: (singing) Print, Print, Print, Print... Mr. Bun: ...baked beans, Print, Print, and Print.

    Waitress: Baked beans are off. Mr. Bun: Well, can I have Print instead? Waitress: You mean Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, and Print? Mr. Bun: Yes. Waitress: Arrggh! Vikings: (still singing) ...lovely Print, wonderful Print...

    I'd like to see every TDWTF discussed in this manner. Thanks.

    CAPTCHA = waffles (waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, spam, sausages and waffles)

  • (cs) in reply to powerlord
    powerlord:
    Still, to this day, I remember the thirty-nine thousand dollar can of baked beans.
    Those would be Mil Spec baked beans. Still edible after being dropped from a C-130, run over by a tank, shot at with an RPG, and left to rot in the jungle for 86 years. And producing a gastro-intestinal emission truly nuclear in proportions. --Rank
  • Stiggy (unregistered) in reply to Caine
    Caine:
    Ok, what some guys need to realize is, WTF not only stands for 'what the fuck' but also 'why the fuck' which perfectly sums up the printer WTF =)

    catpcha: RIAA, hmmm...

    You obviously didn't get the memo. WTF can only stand for 'Worse Than Failure'.

    Apparantly.

  • Franz Kafka (unregistered) in reply to Rank Amateur
    Rank Amateur:
    powerlord:
    Still, to this day, I remember the thirty-nine thousand dollar can of baked beans.
    Those would be Mil Spec baked beans. Still edible after being dropped from a C-130, run over by a tank, shot at with an RPG, and left to rot in the jungle for 86 years. And producing a gastro-intestinal emission truly nuclear in proportions. --Rank

    So what, do you feed them to the enemy, or is that a violation of the Geneva convention?

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    CAPTCHA: pinball

  • (cs) in reply to Adam
    Adam:
    Can we please change the CAPTCHA test thingy to use random letters?

    Please?

    You mean like the one over on shark bait? Doesn't stop them from posting it over there.
  • JT (unregistered)

    Question: Is Cisco's 100,000 dollar stock price in any way related to that 2.25 quadrillion dollar invoice?

  • (cs) in reply to Rod Horny
    Rod Horny:
    WNivek:
    FredSaw:
    Mrs. Bun: I don't like Print! Mr. Bun: Don't make a fuss, dear. I'll have your Print. I love it. I'm having Print, Print, Print, Print, Print... Vikings: (singing) Print, Print, Print, Print... Mr. Bun: ...baked beans, Print, Print, and Print.

    Waitress: Baked beans are off. Mr. Bun: Well, can I have Print instead? Waitress: You mean Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, Print, and Print? Mr. Bun: Yes. Waitress: Arrggh! Vikings: (still singing) ...lovely Print, wonderful Print...

    I'd like to see every TDWTF discussed in this manner. Thanks.

    CAPTCHA = waffles (waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, waffles, spam, sausages and waffles)

    badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, mushroom, snake and badgers.

  • Adam (unregistered) in reply to anti-whatever
    anti-whatever:
    Adam:

    Perhaps if Microsoft focused more on building robust applications, rather than feeding users' want (not need) for flexibility and features, they might have a chance of turning out software containing a few less defects.

    So in your own job you ignore users requests for functionality and instead give them upgrades to fix bugs they don't care about? Last I checked robust doesn't bring in money. But giving users what they want sure does.

    Real people don't care about the religion of bug-free, ideal software. They just want to get their work done, and they want their features to be implemented, especially if they are a company paying millions of $$ for software.

    I'm sorry, you obviously misunderstood my post.

    I didn't mention bug-free software; I was talking about robustness and less defects in favour of unnecessary features. By unnecessary, I mean features the users didn't ask for but they got anyway. In the case of the WTF, I was referring to the ability to have more than one print icon. Or do you think someone asked for that?

    Surprisingly, no I don't ignore users' requests for functionality. Of course not. But I do fix bugs they may or may not know about, because here's the rub: "Real people" do, in fact, care about bugs in their software.

  • T (unregistered) in reply to Answer8879
    Answer8879:
    Did you notice that there're two CTRL keys, with the same function and the same caption, on a 105 key keyboard?

    Isn't that was for the left and right flipper in pinball games?

  • Nelle (unregistered) in reply to T
    T:
    Answer8879:
    Did you notice that there're two CTRL keys, with the same function and the same caption, on a 105 key keyboard?

    Isn't that was for the left and right flipper in pinball games?

    Shifts were better for flippers (bigger) until they squeezed the >< button between left shift and y ...

    We used CTRL keys for tilting the pinball machine where I used to work ...

  • Travis (unregistered) in reply to Nelle
    Nelle:
    Arlen Cuss:
    I absolutely love every day being able to know that every time I click "read comments" I can expect about a dozen or more "This isn't a WTF because lah lah lah I'm so brilliant". fjsofklfkgfdjgkx.

    you misspelled brillant

    WTF is brillant? I think you misspelled it!

  • nano (unregistered)
    the Billing Department CAPTCHA: lzf7ww - hehe, yeah, erm... Oh...
    Ahh, the Lempel-Ziv-fortran7-web-Welch algorithm. Those were the days...

    Oh and Brillant is

    a) French for Brilliant b) one of the most mind blowing WTFs ever http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx

  • (cs)

    The spike in the stock quote is something that happens once in a while. I maintain software that works with data we get directly from the markets, and once in a while there's a spike in there. Usually it's a number where the decimal sign was not transmitted, leading to the feed to interpret it as being 100 to 10.000 (depending on the accuracy of the information, 2 or 4 digits) times its actual value.

    The volume is such that it's not feasible for humans to watch every bit of information that comes in in realtime to correct it. If and when problems are detected they're corrected, but the existence of such spikes is the reason you get no warranty on the data's accuracy ;)

    There's some talk of introducing an automated system to remove or correct spikes, but this can cause problems of its own with low value instruments (penny stocks and the like) which can have huge changes in value in normal trading.

  • doggy (unregistered)

    I don't want to pay the 2.25 quadrillion dollars...

  • Kerio (unregistered) in reply to yard
    yard:
    Matthew:
    You don't think it's a bit of a WTF if someone has chosen to do that?

    I just created a shortcut to my desktop and placed it on my desktop. I titled it "Shortcut to Desktop". I will take a screenshot of it and post it to this site because it's totally a wtf!

    YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE SHORTCUTS ON YO DESKTOP SO WE PUT A SHORTCUT TO YO DESKTOP ON YO DESKTOP SO YOU CAN GO TO YO DESKTOP FROM YO DESKTOP

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