• (cs) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub

    Why do you refer to it as "cheese"?

  • usitas (unregistered)

    I didn't have time to read the comments, but I'm pretty sure that "cheese" was photoshopped...

    BTW, the cake is a lie.

  • Max (unregistered) in reply to Anomynous Coward
    Anomynous Coward:
    The date is obviously in DD-MM-YYYY format and represents the first of dotridectober.
    Don't forget that the numbers in the names of the months are two off. That date is the first of Tridecember. If you try to redeem it between then and the first of Dotridectober, you'll be laughed out of the store.
  • (cs) in reply to Ziplodocus
    Ziplodocus:
    Homer:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

    But I get some cake? Right? RIGHT?

    Yes. That part is absolutely true.

  • Windoze (unregistered) in reply to Markp
    Markp:
    A Microsoft OS on an Apple kiosk? That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

    I thinks that's hilarious! finally proof that apple stuff is somewhat useless...

  • Windoze (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    "*Photo ID may be required"

    Is the issuing Subway in Arizona?

    Might be in Pennsylvania.

  • NutDriverLefty (unregistered) in reply to Anonymously Yours
    Anonymously Yours:
    First you will be baked... and then there will be cake.

    That's the way it worked in college, anyway.

  • Michael (no, not that Michael) (unregistered) in reply to Ziplodocus

    no. the cake is a lie.

  • Leonard (unregistered) in reply to Anon Ymous
    TROLL:
    What is so poorly worded about the smoking question? It is perfectly logical and grammatically correct.
    ... and morally wrong.
  • Oblig (unregistered)

    From this point forward, all comments must be in the form of a positive integer between and

  • (cs) in reply to usitas
    usitas:
    BTW, the cake is a lie.
    [image]

    The cake is a pie.

  • u4ia (unregistered)

    Make Sure That You Drink Your Ovaltine

  • Oblig (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    The cake is a pie.
    WOODEN_TABLE_NOT_FOUND
  • MG (unregistered)

    There is nothing unusual about the ordering of the "number of employees" question.

    It is sorted in ASCII ascending order with the first two items of the in row 1, the next two in row 2, etc. Pretty common way to order things, actually.

    Not that there isn't anything wrong with that in this case...

  • Homer (unregistered) in reply to Oblig
    Oblig:
    WhiskeyJack:
    The cake is a pie.
    WOODEN_TABLE_NOT_FOUND
    Is that chainmail? Pretty badass wooden table fail if you ask me.
  • SilverEyes (unregistered) in reply to badcaseofspace

    Yeah, showing real cheese would just be unappealing. The wide public demands slag piles of Plasto-Cheese!

    CAPTCHA: oppeto

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Windoze
    Windoze:
    Markp:
    A Microsoft OS on an Apple kiosk? That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

    I thinks that's hilarious! finally proof that apple stuff is somewhat useless...

    Or proof that kiosks that run Windows don't work.

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to Homer
    Homer:
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    All subjects intending to handle high-energy gamma-leaking portal technology must be informed that they may be informed of applicable regulatory compliance issues. No further compliance information is required or will be provided, and you are an excellent test subject.

    Do not destroy vital testing apparatus.

    Captcha: ingenium - the vitamin supplement taken by the writers of Portal.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Frank
    Frank:
    Number ordering reminds me on the usual country selection dialogs, that are sorted in English and presented in German, where you find Germany as "Deutschland" just below Gambia...
    The Gambia
  • Zapakh (unregistered) in reply to Anon Ymous
    Anon Ymous:
    What is so poorly worded about the smoking question? It is perfectly logical and grammatically correct.
    Most market-research survey questions are worse than this one, but it's a multi-headed question: "Is there a responsibility? Is it the state's?" so that if you were permitted to say "no", it would be unclear which part you were disagreeing with. Then there's the use of "the state" as a catch-all term for all levels of applicable government. If it weren't for the "consumer panel" part of the agency's identifier, I would suspect this of being a push-polling question.
  • BBT (unregistered)

    Well, Nickolas is really going to regret not getting the extended warranty when the item breaks down for the 2501st time.

  • (cs) in reply to 50% Opacity
    50% Opacity:
    Bus Logic:
    I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.

    The bigger question is, if it's never going to be shown anyway, WHY IN GODS NAME DOES IT EXIST?

    To increase the chance of it being reported. Just because the user shouldn't see it doesn't mean they won't. You have to admit, a dialog like this makes the user feel special and not at all guilty for reporting it. There's no chance they'll think their own lack of comprehension is causing the error.

  • Contra (unregistered)

    The first one reminds me of Ocean's Eleven.

    Rusty: You look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memorable, be funny but don't make him laugh. He's got to like you then forget you the moment you've left his side. And for God's sake, whatever you do, don't, under any circumstances... Livingston: Rus? Rusty: Yeah? Livingston: Come look at this? Rusty: Sure.

  • (cs) in reply to Veritass
    Veritass:
    The true WTF is that they want to charge me over $8,000 sales tax on the $100,000 warranty. I thought that was a service, not a product, and should not be taxable.
    Oh for crying out loud! $8,000.00 is *obviously* the sales tax on the $400.00 grill.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to 50% Opacity
    50% Opacity:
    Bus Logic:
    Hey, I remember the "should not see me" dialog. That thing scared the crap out of me back in the day but it was just some dumb message in a poorly coded bit of XP. I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.

    The bigger question is, if it's never going to be shown anyway, WHY IN GODS NAME DOES IT EXIST?

    Because 

    assert(false)
    looks crappy to the end user ("Where'd the app go?") by comparison (if it works at all), and 
    //can't happen
    doesn't account for the possibility of the programmer being wrong.

  • loo potatum (unregistered)

    Oh, come on. That emergency thing is easy. Any one can clearly see that it reads "[...] Do not hang up until the operator has told you to do so, and make sure that you return this portion with payment to: [...]"

    Is that pasta superimposed on the image of the sub?

  • Tim! (unregistered) in reply to Quicksilver
    Quicksilver:
    Evo:
    The number of employees one is sorted just fine. In ASCII string order, though, not integer order, and it's read as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...

    And not 1 x 2 x+1 3 x+2 ...

    Where I am from we call this "Lexicographical ordering"

    I prefer "ASCIIbetical"

  • steven collins (unregistered)

    What the hell is going on with that sandwich??

  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered)

    The error box is not complete. Here is the missing bit:

    YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE THIS STRING. Sit back relaxed until our sniper will take care of you.

  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered) in reply to steven collins
    steven collins:
    What the hell is going on with that sandwich??

    OH MY GOD, THE CHEESE HAS REACHED A CRITCAL MASS! Core meltdown in 20 seconds. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!1!11!

  • Your_Name (unregistered)

    It's like people who were born on Feb 29 are 1/4 the age of people born on Feb 28, or Subway was anticipating a surprise addition of another leap day, and on January instead of the obvious choice February.

    I really lol'd at the Apple display using Windows. Someone was having an identity crisis.

  • Your_Name (unregistered) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    Windoze:
    Markp:
    A Microsoft OS on an Apple kiosk? That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

    I thinks that's hilarious! finally proof that apple stuff is somewhat useless...

    Or proof that kiosks that run Windows don't work.

    If they did, then Apple would sell more and be the premiere OS worldwide, but then what would that do to the Windows kiosks? Will they go out of business, force Apple to use Apple kiosks, and start a nosedive in Apple sales? What would that imply for Linux?

  • Justin (unregistered) in reply to ContraCorners
    ContraCorners:
    Veritass:
    The true WTF is that they want to charge me over $8,000 sales tax on the $100,000 warranty. I thought that was a service, not a product, and should not be taxable.
    Oh for crying out loud! $8,000.00 is *obviously* the sales tax on the $400.00 grill.

    Hmm, I guess Obama started the VAT?

  • will (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    Cross The Streams

  • ARMed but harmless (unregistered) in reply to will
    will:
    Cross The Streams

    But Egon told us not not cross them!!

  • sota (unregistered) in reply to MG
    MG:
    There is nothing unusual about the ordering of the "number of employees" question.

    It is sorted in ASCII ascending order with the first two items of the in row 1, the next two in row 2, etc. Pretty common way to order things, actually.

    Not that there isn't anything wrong with that in this case...

    What?

  • (cs) in reply to A Gould
    A Gould:
    First problem is - why are you building a window/dialog that you *don't* want to be seen?
    So that it can receive events.
    WFL:
    Colin Alston should probably consider changing his security question answer if he went with the valid "Kentucky Fried Chicken" answer (since odds are, the form requires answers to be a minimum of 4-5 characters in length), now that he's published that for the world to see.

    WTF indeed.

    Or used it anywhere else, for that matter...

  • StychoKiller (unregistered) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    Robert:
    TRWTF is how fake the cheese looks on that sub

    Why do you refer to it as "cheese"?

    Yeah, cause it's clearly a fossilized trilobite! (Or maybe an orange Rorschacht test...)

    Mmmm, Trilobites...

  • Just Disserter (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    50% Opacity:
    Bus Logic:
    Hey, I remember the "should not see me" dialog. That thing scared the crap out of me back in the day but it was just some dumb message in a poorly coded bit of XP. I hate it when software developers assume a window/dialog isn't going to be seen because they're usually wrong.
    The bigger question is, if it's never going to be shown anyway, WHY IN GODS NAME DOES IT EXIST?
    Because 
    assert(false)
    looks crappy to the end user ("Where'd the app go?")
    "Where'd the app go?" would not be the result because assert() is a no-op in release builds. Fortunately "should not see me" looks crappy to the end user. If it weren't for that, Windows would likely proceed to crap even more heavily on the end user.
  • Ian (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin
    jspenguin:
    Do not touch the operational end of the device. Do not look directly at the operational end of the device. Do not submerge the device in liquid, even partially. Most importantly, under no circumstances should you

    Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

    Captcha: inhibeo (a superhero who is unable to express himself)

  • Shinji (unregistered)

    Aww... I had one too. Registering on docs.com I got a popup where all it said was Error and had an OK button to click on. The button didn't work...

    There was no indication to the error state or anything. They fixed it since then but kinda funny none the less.

  • Jonathan Wilson (unregistered)

    I went to see Iron Man 2 at the cinema the other day and during the pre-movie ads, I saw a Windows XP screensaver appear over the top of the ads. Went away pretty quickly though thankfully.

  • Clear The Air (unregistered)

    That question is fair enough. Anyone who thinks the answer should be "No" doesn't deserve to breathe anyway.

    Go to hell you smoking bastards!

  • Aufgehaben (unregistered)

    Clearly, a sniper got the writer

  • Jeff Grigg (unregistered)

    I do like messages of the form "<Name of superior> insists that this case can never happen."

    ;->

  • Kanda Hari (unregistered) in reply to jspenguin

    Portal quote ftw.

  • (cs)

    This comment expires 6/31/2010.

    But seriously, I "know of" a company which still uses a 250 year old mainframe program with approximately zero front-end validation code (I refer to it as a "Notepad Data Entry System". It routinely passes dates like 6/31/2010 to other systems. I bet at some point it HAS passed "the 32nd of the month" to some poor unsuspecting interface.

  • Joe (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    I couldn't tell if the woman was smoking or holding a pen. (Or perhaps smoking a pen?) Even funnier is that she's looking at the "Winners" word.

    Unfortunately neither guess is correct. Those are her reading glasses, which for some reason she is pushing into her chin.

  • Tom Noddy (unregistered)

    Ordering the ranges that way makes perfect sense. I always order my numerical ranges lexicographically.

  • R (unregistered)

    The odd ordering in the dialog is really not much of a WTF. It looks like it's just a naive sorting of the strings by their ASCII values.

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