• (cs)

    I just bought a Big Fat Donkey kdfjlkd on Sale!!

  • RGro (unregistered)

    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...

  • The Poop... of DOOM! (unregistered)

    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

  • techpaul (unregistered)

    But I cannot see what to do with we have Flopuary[1] people here.

    [1] A Dilbert reference to those who cannot work it out.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to The Poop... of DOOM!
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
  • QJo (unregistered)

    Could it be that the Uniden device has an internal list of various known phone scams? That would be very very far indeed from being a WTF if that were so.

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    While that is certainly so, I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
  • The Poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    It's not so bad, according to wackypeedear: "Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium (IV) oxide or titania, is the naturally occurring oxide of titanium, chemical formula TiO2. When used as a pigment, it is called titanium white, Pigment White 6, or CI 77891. It has a wide range of applications, from paint to sunscreen to food colouring. When used as a food colouring, it has E number E171."
    Yeah, just saw it too. That article also features this sentence:
    Titanium dioxide is incompatible with strong oxidizers and strong acids
    Nice to combine it with phosphoric acid then (then again, I'm not a chemist, so what do I know?)

    Also, if you google for titanium dioxide, the first result is the Wikipedia article. The next 3 results: "natural organic make-up - Titanium Dioxide: Toxic or Safe?" "Titanium dioxide in vitamins and supplements: Is it safe for human consumption?" "Titanium Dioxide Classified as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans"

    I'm not entirely at ease with the healthier living from that cookie...

  • Lucas (unregistered)

    "This is a very long description of a big fat donkey"

    Oh god. Can't stop the LOL.

  • techpaul (unregistered)

    At least you get an error box appear, how often tracking don mysterious windows errors I come across the event log that says

    "The specified module did not load"

    That is ALL it says not even a long GUID number to serch for.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to techpaul
    techpaul:
    But I cannot see what to do with we have Flopuary[1] people here.

    [1] A Dilbert reference to those who cannot work it out.

    Googling for Flopuary gives 8 hits. I gather from the context that it's a month.

  • Tuxie (unregistered) in reply to The Poop... of DOOM!
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to RGro
    RGro:
    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...

    I was going to remark on that myself. The error was probably caused by the ingredients database quitting in disgust at itself.

  • (cs) in reply to Rhywden
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"

    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.

  • techpaul (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    techpaul:
    But I cannot see what to do with we have Flopuary[1] people here.

    [1] A Dilbert reference to those who cannot work it out.

    Googling for Flopuary gives 8 hits. I gather from the context that it's a month.

    Look for the Dilbert strip on that, as it is a made up month to ensure schedules will fit a deadline vene if total months exceed real moths.

  • Seth (unregistered)

    Craig, didn't you realize that the first row is a joke?

  • techpaul (unregistered) in reply to techpaul
    techpaul:
    QJo:
    techpaul:
    But I cannot see what to do with we have Flopuary[1] people here.

    [1] A Dilbert reference to those who cannot work it out.

    Googling for Flopuary gives 8 hits. I gather from the context that it's a month.

    Look for the Dilbert strip on that, as it is a made up month to ensure schedules will fit a deadline vene if total months exceed real moths.

    Helps also if type correctly it is "Floopuary" see

    http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/0000/000/8/8.strip.zoom.gif

    Apparently my first attempt ws spam

  • Dank (unregistered)

    I know who they are.

    Kutta Srinivasan After getting a B.S. degree from Caltech, Kutta decided that making video games for a living was probably the next best thing to playing them all day in his dorm room. He joined Microsoft at age 19 and worked on Xbox and Xbox 360 games (Gears of War, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Crackdown, Fable 2). There was also a stint in there with the DirectX team working on DirectX 9 & 10 shader technologies. Now Kutta's a systems and game programmer at Valve, working on whatever happens to strike his fancy. When he's not coding, sleeping, or cooking, Kutta spends his time climbing rocks, riding bikes, and snowboarding off things that he really ought not to.

    Mike Morasky Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve.

    source: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html

  • (cs)

    Gotta love those errors that didn't go away since what? Late 80's?

    "Keyboard not found press <F1> to proceed or <F2> to setup"

    At least this time they compounded the WTF by exchanging the keys.

  • moz (unregistered)

    Jason, get to a hospital right now! Most of the other things are fairly harmless in moderation, but the methyl mercury in those cookies could kill you if don't get help immediately.

  • The Poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to moz
    moz:
    Jason, get to a hospital right now! Most of the other things are fairly harmless in moderation, but the methyl mercury in those cookies could kill you if don't get help immediately.
    Nah, that's supposed to be methylene blue. All it'll do, is freak him out due to it coloring his pee blue.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.
  • (cs)

    That's not irony...alanis morissette....sorry, too tired to come up with something original

  • cov (unregistered)

    Note another WTF in that cookies ingredient list, OIL is spelled as 011.

  • techpaul (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.

    All "Artificial Colouring" is to put the colours they want it to look not what processed/blended material comes out of the tube without it looks like. It does not mean it is synthetic as in a combination necessarily only made by man not normally found in nature.

  • Robb (unregistered)

    I didn't know Kutta was a developer. I wonder what he learned to program on...

  • Jellineck (unregistered)

    Now that I've switched to using cyanide for pest control on my crops, I can slap an "Organic" sticker on my produce and charge 75% more for it.

    Green leads to green.

  • normntaz (unregistered)

    Oct-49...Is that in the new Metric Calendar?

  • PokePoke (unregistered)

    TSL Uniden im sure

  • Ton (unregistered) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    RGro:
    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...

    I was going to remark on that myself. The error was probably caused by the ingredients database quitting in disgust at itself.

    FTW!

  • (cs)

    Oct'49 must have been a good time to be alive; No worries about polluting or making the Earth uninhabitable; Didn't know that smoking would kill you, and you could walk onto airplanes without a TSA checkpoint smurf getting all up in your pants.

  • (cs)

    Am I to believe a site full of geeks gives a crap about whether a pack of cookies is healthy or not? What's next? Debates on whether Wii can actually be used to get fit?

  • (cs) in reply to techpaul
    techpaul:
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    frits:
    Rhywden:
    ... I'm not exaxctly thrilled about such a long list of artificial ingredients in a product labelled "For a healthier you!"
    Artificial vs. natural is a false choice. Everything is part of nature.
    Yes, but we have thousands of years of experience with what are called "natural" ingredients, as opposed to only about a hundred with "artificial" ingredients. The testing that's done on the "artificial" ingredients is basically just enough to establish that they won't kill you right away.
    All "Artificial Colouring" is to put the colours they want it to look not what processed/blended material comes out of the tube without it looks like. It does not mean it is synthetic as in a combination necessarily only made by man not normally found in nature.
    Ah yes, the Law of the Internet in action...

    Anyway, just because something's normally found in nature doesn't mean we normally eat it.

  • Merus (unregistered)

    I'm going to guess, based on Gabe Newell's email, that he quotes during Valve's dev commentaries, you'd want to email KuttaS at valvesoftware dot com and MikeM at valvesoftware dot com.

  • (cs)

    Yummy. It tastes like 'BakeryMenu$'.Ingredients #2 but it spreads like 'BakeryMenu$'.Ingredients #1.

  • (cs) in reply to Tuxie
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    I had to look that one up. Bravo.

  • Eponymous Howard (unregistered)

    TRWTF is American food.

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to The Great Lobachevsky
    The Great Lobachevsky:
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.
    I had to look that one up. Bravo.
    For full details on that dangerous stuff (aka "Dihydrogen Monoxide"), check out the site http://dhmo.org.
  • (cs) in reply to RGro
    RGro:
    The real WTF here is the cookie. 'for a healthier living'? Anybody seen the ingredients? Sugar, fat, and artificial colouring as the main ingredients...
    Not so much that's it's fat, but hydrogenated palm kernel oil. Let's have both saturated AND trans fats for a "healthy you"!
  • boog (unregistered) in reply to Dank
    Dank:
    I know who they are.

    Kutta Srinivasan After getting a B.S. degree from Caltech, Kutta decided that making video games for a living was probably the next best thing to playing them all day in his dorm room. He joined Microsoft at age 19 and worked on Xbox and Xbox 360 games (Gears of War, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, Crackdown, Fable 2). There was also a stint in there with the DirectX team working on DirectX 9 & 10 shader technologies. Now Kutta's a systems and game programmer at Valve, working on whatever happens to strike his fancy. When he's not coding, sleeping, or cooking, Kutta spends his time climbing rocks, riding bikes, and snowboarding off things that he really ought not to.

    Mike Morasky Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve.

    source: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html

    Who cares?

  • OneMist8k (unregistered)

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  • (cs) in reply to Tuxie
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    From wiktionary.org

    hydroxylic acid (uncountable)

    (inorganic chemistry) One of several systematic acid names for water, H2O.

  • kjordan (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    My guess was going to be that the phone company had a list of scammers.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    The Great Lobachevsky:
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...
    Neither does hydroxylic acid.
    I had to look that one up. Bravo.
    For full details on that dangerous stuff (aka "Dihydrogen Monoxide"), check out the site http://dhmo.org.

    TRWTF is people who think it's smart to use chemestry terms instead of standard stuff people may know about ;)

    Hydroxylic acid still sounds waaaayy better though.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to galgorah
    galgorah:
    Tuxie:
    The Poop... of DOOM!:
    Now I'm not big on chemistry and such, but titanium dioxide doesn't sound edible...

    Neither does hydroxylic acid.

    From wiktionary.org

    hydroxylic acid (uncountable)

    (inorganic chemistry) One of several systematic acid names for water, H2O.

    TRWTF is you for ruining the fun ... think that everyone as uneducated as you would've been frantically googling in order to not not understand .. and you destroyed that .. evil you are !

  • klc (unregistered) in reply to QJo

    That is an actual caller ID. I've gotten it myself and google confirms others have too. I don't know who managed to set that (I doubt it was the "owner" of the number who did), but it is certainly one of the most helpful I've seen. If you answer, it should offer to lower your interest rate on your credit card (they don't ever mention which card of course, but they'll be happy to phish for one if you try to take them up on it.)

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Could it be that the Uniden device has an internal list of various known phone scams? That would be very very far indeed from being a WTF if that were so.

    My thought was that someone had entered it into the phone book as a scam caller. Still not a WTF, though.

  • (cs)

    Where to begin, where to begin?

    I'm glad to see that the cookies are missing "Ingredients #2". I don't like #2 in my cookies.

    The "phone scam" caller id is apparently well documented.

    Would like a better description of the item on the price scanner. Was it in actual fact some sort of "big fat donkey" (stuffed toy, perhaps)?

  • Bluesman (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Am I to believe a site full of geeks gives a crap about whether a pack of cookies is healthy or not? What's next? Debates on whether Wii can actually be used to get fit?

    I agree, every geek knows you can just disable cookies, so no harm done.

  • (cs) in reply to L.
    L.:

    TRWTF is you for ruining the fun ... think that everyone as uneducated as you would've been frantically googling in order to not not understand .. and you destroyed that .. evil you are !

    Its all part of my plan for world domination

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