• anon (unregistered)

    The mouse battery one could make sense. If the mouse uses rechargeable batteries, they could be full, but need replacing because they're not holding enough charge.

    Probably not the explanation in this case, but that is one way the message would make sense.

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    Team is an anagram of meat
    Tame.

    Addendum (2009-09-11 14:55): Of course, there's also "eat m"... but it leaves something to be desired.

    Speaking of desire: "mate"

  • Jeff G (unregistered)

    I don't know about anyone else, but I honestly have trouble reading this type of article, simply because some of the items that are shown have only text, and it's difficult to figure out where one error ends and the next begins. It would make it a lot easier to read if you added some sort of demarcation line or something in between each item in the article. It would certainly help improve readability!

    CAPTCHA: saluto - The kind of half-assed salute soldiers give when they think they recognize a superior officer, but aren't sure of their rank.

  • (cs) in reply to Paul

    How do we know they didn't mean "baboons"?

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    So, you can hire her to come around dressed like that, to wire up all that networking hardware? Sounds like a bargain if you ask me!

  • daft (unregistered)

    I work for the same company as Peter Kempert, but haven't seen that WTF yet. :)

  • v.dog (unregistered) in reply to Trevel
    Trevel:
    TRWTF:

    "Ties at the neck and back, or both."

    Wait, what?

    Indeed. Their use of boolean operators is appalling.

    'ties at (neck AND back) XOR back'.

  • (cs)

    Funny, I thought they weren't advertising XP anymore.

    The mouse info is just missing some emphasis. The mouse's batteries are fine - it's yours that need changing.

    The TV is just telling you it can't answer your questions because it's not support. You need to ask support.

    I came to see errors, not misinterpreted messages! Though the rack equipment is a nice touch.

    Hehe... I used "rack equipment" and "touch" in the same sentence. Hehehe.

  • Captain Beanie (unregistered) in reply to Monkios
    Monkios:
    It is a bikini ...

    http://salestores.com/ujenam23.html

    The M234T either has a 1U cable minder or that's a dang fine camel toe.

  • (cs)

    TRTF is the cable organizer thing for a rack mount being so damn expensive.

    Go to Office Max and buy a couple 3-ring binders (1.5"). Cut the covers off, but leave about 3.5" of the front and back. Wrap this around a piece of 2x4 and screw screw it together with drywall screws (or use construction adhesive). Mount that in your rack. Now you have approximately the same thing for about $5.

    This also has the advantage that you can use wire staples (the kind with a curved top used when running coax) to secure the cables to the 2x4.

  • (cs)

    I've seen the McDonalds one before... Not the photo, but the error.

    I've also seen the less descriptive "BIOS ERROR" message on them.

  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    Not Comment! *
    • Somebody's gonna do it, and since I'm here, it might as well be me. Let's get it overwith.

    Me no steal candle!

    Yeah, someone had to get that one over with too.

  • David the Astronomer (unregistered)

    I hate to spoil a good joke, but the photo of the item whose price was dropped from £19.99 to £19.56 makes perfect sense if you know that the British government reduced the rate of VAT (Valued Added Tax, a kind of sales tax) from 17.5% to 15% last December in an attempt to boost retail sales.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to David the Astronomer

    I hate to spoil a good pedantic comment, but that still doesn't equate to either £20 savings OR more than 50% off...

  • (cs) in reply to zeptimius

    I had work on that billboard on June 8th this past summer of 2009, it's the SpectaColorHD. Pretty cool stuff, hi-def vid, WiFi and Bluetooth integration for ad-integrated downloads. Unfortunately there's really nothing special about that photo -- Sunday is a regular test and maintenance day.

  • snip (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that Logitech's crapware had the nerve not to uninstall itself automatically in fear of what any sensible human being would do to it were it to grace his or her eyes. Worst AI ever.

  • (cs) in reply to David the Astronomer
    David the Astronomer:
    I hate to spoil a good joke, but the photo of the item whose price was dropped from £19.99 to £19.56 makes perfect sense if you know that the British government reduced the rate of VAT (Valued Added Tax, a kind of sales tax) from 17.5% to 15% last December in an attempt to boost retail sales.

    So that somehow makes up for the sale ad that mentions saving £20 but it only dropped from £24.99 to £19.99 (presumably before the tax cut)?

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I used to work at the company that provided the EFTPOS terminals for Maccas in Australia - presumably including Swan Hill.

    That wasn't my project though - mine's the taxis.

  • Proogs (unregistered)

    For the first one - I don't get the 'save £20' thing but the £19.99 - £19.56 bit is almost certainly down to the temporary change in VAT from 17.5% to 15% here in the UK. If £19.99 is with tax at 17.5% then the maths works that £19.56 is with VAT at 15%...

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    Maybe it's actually a mouse-shaped battery charger. That's one situation when you'd want to replace the batteries as soon as they were full.

  • Nooo (unregistered)

    Support? No! Not support! Anything but support! Please!

  • Anone (unregistered)

    Don't really see what the problem is with the EFTPOS picture. Exactly how much more descriptive could the error be?

  • Swa (unregistered)

    The battery one doesn't have to be a WTF.

    While the batteries are currently full, they might have reached their EOL. This means they charge & drain extremely quickly, eventhough they can be reported as 'full'.

    Though I guess that in this case that's not very likely.

  • (cs) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    Eye of the Beholder:
    Verloc:
    Sometimes you just need to feel pretty while you're stringing cat5, ok?

    Yes, but losing that extra 150 pounds before putting on the bikini would go a long way toward that. So would having two X chromosomes and zero Y chromosomes .. but we digress.

    How does the presence of a Y chromosome have anything to do with feeling pretty?

    Well two things,

    First of all a person with an Y chromosome, is mostly called handsome instead of pretty.

    Secondly while there are those with a Y chromosome who wear bikinis this is not the norm, nor would many of them be called pretty.

    Also people with 150 pounds overweight would not be called pretty in a bikini very often.

    -- I do not need PGP my dyslexia encrypts all my mail.

  • nunca mas **const char (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that the network equipment for $42.35 has a camel toe.

  • secundum (unregistered) in reply to nunca mas **const char

    Marketing calculus as calculated by team Slow Cooker.

  • aliquam (unregistered) in reply to Maxx Delusional
    Maxx Delusional:
    The Paypal one says "Shipping and Handling". The shipping is free, you still have to pay the handling.
    Not free as in beer but free as in speech.
  • blitz tiger (unregistered)

    A bafoon is a cross between a buffoon and a baboon.

  • bob (unregistered)

    You would know the payment terminal error isn't that much of a WTF if you have programmed one before =/

  • (cs)

    It may or may not be relevant, but I remember "bafoon" being common usage on at least one USENET group (alt.folklore.urban) with a high percentage of technical folk. It's one of many USENET misspellings that began as a real mistake, were then repeated in mocking fashion, and eventually just became accepted standard usage. It's not impossible that the programmer who wrote that one is an old AFU'er.

  • Anonymous Guy (unregistered) in reply to Antiquercus
    Antiquercus:
    The screen saver is a nice change from blue screens.

    I wonder if they will employ somebody to wiggle the mouse every 5 minutes?

    Alternative: Windows stays up long enough for screen saver to come on?

  • jma (unregistered)

    The mouse is actually a battery charger -- put in dead batteries, slide your mouse around all day to generate electricity, remove batteries when full!

  • Meredith (unregistered)

    Polaroid is complete and total fail. Don't buy any new Polaroid products. They've licensed their name to every crappy manufacturing company out there.

  • Chuckie (unregistered)

    Quote: "I thought my father had a lot to do with providing my last name, but apparently the mailman was really the source!"

    Same thing

  • (cs)

    So, is the price for the model or the bikini? And what's shipping gonna cost me? Hey, if can I get the model without the bikini, shouldn't that make for less shipping? Yeah, I like that plan: just send me the model--no bikini, please.

  • (cs) in reply to yeah whateva
    yeah whateva:
    The "Not Support" reminds me of the PHB periodically coming around saying to "just use the web" to translate a technical manual and error messages into Hungarian.

    I keep pointing out how terrible Chinese pigeon engrish looks. But since he doesn't understand technical terms anyway, he keeps insisting it be done: without allotted time nor funding for a translator.

    I have enough pride to avoid making my country look bad for the sake of capitalism.

    Dirty Hungarian Online Phrasebook! (Bottom right item, please--hold the bikini.)

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