• krupa (unregistered)

    Lot you know: cheese puff casserole is AWESOME!

  • DOS coder (unregistered)

    Back in the day of DOS 8.3 filenames when you had to interface with the hardware directly to read a joystick, I always made damn sure to add "anal_joy.c" to the project.

    Perfectly descriptive name I think.

  • (cs)

    quavers - the epitome of crisp wine

  • pete (unregistered)

    Yes, there are a lot of buttons on that dialog box, but if you study it closely you will notice all of them have words on them. Naturally, in most cases we would ignore the words and just look at the colors. The correct answer has already been highlighted for you. Just follow your intuition and click on the shiny. It's so easy, it almost could have been fully automated. But then what would there be left for you to do?

    GUIs are lovely, GUIs are good, after 25 years GUIs will finally bestow clue on the lusers any day now.

  • (cs)

    Comment is Vacant

  • Unregistered Coward (unregistered) in reply to pete
    pete:
    Yes, there are a lot of buttons on that dialog box, but if you study it closely you will notice all of them have words on them. Naturally, in most cases we would ignore the words and just look at the colors. The correct answer has already been highlighted for you. Just follow your intuition and click on the shiny. It's so easy, it almost could have been fully automated. But then what would there be left for you to do?

    GUIs are lovely, GUIs are good, after 25 years GUIs will finally bestow clue on the lusers any day now.

    Too much irony; cannot parse.

  • Rowan Lewis (unregistered) in reply to pete

    I didn't want to save, I wanted to run away and hide under a desk!

  • Paul (unregistered)
    <flame>

    The problem (and others) with Aquamacs can be solved with this upgrade:

    http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

    </flame>
  • psycho (unregistered)

    Reminds me that I like to make my classes' names short. The only exception being analyzers.

  • Rob Aney (unregistered)

    Hi, Corey?

    Yeah, we're calling today to apologize for the multiple letters you got recently.

    Oh, you're the same Corey I spoke to 30 seconds ago?

    Sorry.

  • drymacs (unregistered)

    Aquamacs--a version of emacs that's all wet?

    At one time, a university that goes by the abbreviation CUA used that as the equivalent of "Mr. Staff." One of the departments did employ a Dr. Cua, which baffled at least one newcomer for a while.

    captcha: capio. But not before my coffee.

  • Lee K-T (unregistered) in reply to DOS coder
    DOS coder:
    Back in the day of DOS 8.3 filenames when you had to interface with the hardware directly to read a joystick, I always made damn sure to add "anal_joy.c" to the project.

    Perfectly descriptive name I think.

    Reminds me of the consultant we had were I work. He used to email project analysis word documents to our customers. I don't know why but our customers were usually not very keen on opening the attached files... "AnalProject.doc"...

  • (user) (is) (unregistered)

    Really, Corey, there's no reason to get so upset. I'll make sure it never happens again. I'll just put a note in your database record to stop calling you.

    Hmmm... there's two Corey A. Spitzers in here... which one are you?

  • Marc Gravell (unregistered)

    At uni I did the numerical analysis course... you can guess how it was abbreviated...

  • Me (unregistered)

    RE: The letters in the first entry

    At least they got one thing right. It's always most user friendly to include clickable links in your notices so that customers can easily contact you without having start their e-mail program and type your e-mail address in order to send you a question or comment.

  • Me (unregistered)

    At our place we have a feature called Analytical to Preparative scaling, which regularly gets shortened to Anal-Prep.

    Many times I've said, or heard someone say "I'm doing some Anal-Prep" with a completely straight face.

  • MRAB (unregistered)

    XVIIth!

    But why with Roman numerals?

  • (cs)

    "What are the chances of failing to to fill the enclosed parts of the glyphs?", the real wtf fool wondered, "but on three different lines? Maybe they should learn to use a computer or something."

  • Anon (unregistered)

    More envelopes with blocked out addresses but fully visible bar codes. That's the real WTF.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    More envelopes with blocked out addresses but fully visible bar codes. That's the real WTF.

    Also, the dealer website (http://www.odanielhonda.com) is a WTF. Yeah, everybody loves sound effects on their websites.

  • bbz (unregistered)

    are those letters lying on the floor?

    if it's not a wooden table than that's TRWTF

  • (user) (is) (unregistered) in reply to bbz
    bbz:
    are those letters lying on the floor?

    if it's not a wooden table than that's TRWTF

    It's a granite countertop. We upgraded to Vista.

  • D C Ross (unregistered)

    At A Previous Employer I handled a lot of demographic analysis so it wasn't at all unusual to be handling Oribble databases with names like "anal_teen", "anal_19-22"... all the way up to "anal_65_plus".

    Just in case, I made a point of not looking inside any of them to cut down on unnecessary brain bleach expenses.

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to D C Ross
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

  • far9999 (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

    My employer has the SAP equivalent. It isn't any better. You would think they'd look around before spending that kind of money. There must be better software out there!

  • Milligan (unregistered) in reply to MRAB
    MRAB:
    XVIIth!

    But why with Roman numerals?

    I'll never understand these new decimal numbers if I live to be C

  • Old fart (unregistered)

    I kept receiving offers of a pre-approved credit card from a well-known bank, so I replied to accept the card. I later received another pre-approved offer, which I accepted. After getting four of their offers and accepting their cards, I received a fifth offer of a card. When I accepted this offer, got a return letter that I already had one of their cards, and it was their policy not to allow a customer to have more than one card.

    This is one of the banks that later got in trouble for their loose lending practices.

  • (cs) in reply to Milligan
    Milligan:
    MRAB:
    XVIIth!

    But why with Roman numerals?

    I'll never understand these new decimal numbers if I live to be C
    Or even older: C++

  • AdT (unregistered)

    Confuse reader?

    [No for all] [Confuse all readers] [Confuse this but no more] [View confusion in this comment] [View this comment] [No] [Yes] [42] [File not found]

  • notme (unregistered)

    People who use emacs and then complain about it being too complex are clearly using the wrong editor.

  • Rowan Lewis (unregistered) in reply to notme
    notme:
    People who use emacs and then complain about it being too complex are clearly using the wrong editor.

    I fixed it for you.

  • Herby (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

    No, it CAN get worse. A job site I go to has an option for entering a cover letter. I don't know WHAT they do, but the text box they open up accepts letters at about one second intervals. The only way I can keep sane is using type ahead. I then watch with agony as it plunks in the characters at a very S-L-O-W rate. I have no idea how they do this other than attempting to spell check every letter to make sure it is in the current alphabet by looking it up on some database via teletype transactions (on an old PC/XT!). A genuine WTF is there ever was one!

  • (cs)

    What, no Ms Court is Vacant?

  • Sean (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    What, no Ms Court is Vacant?

    No, she works down at the local tennis center.

  • rob (unregistered)

    I once had a very expensive package shipped to me with a signature required. It arrived at my home while I was at work, and according to the tracking website, it was signed for by "F. Rontdoor". I think that's the fastest I ever made it home.

  • Lego (unregistered)

    A warning about the mental condition of this judge. Apparently Judge Court sits on the bench of 3 different courts, not just vacant but overworked too!

    -Lego

  • (cs) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    amischiefr:
    What, no Ms Court is Vacant?
    No, she works down at the local tennis center.
    Blonde ?
  • (cs) in reply to (user) (is)
    (user) (is):
    bbz:
    are those letters lying on the floor?

    if it's not a wooden table than that's TRWTF

    It's a granite countertop. We upgraded to Vista.
    ...so you need something more robust to bang your head against ?

  • (cs)
    "I recently received two identical letters apologizing for multiple communications," wrote Corey A. Spitzer, "and I didn't even receive any of the voicemails the letters referred to. "

    I read about a guy who got an email invitation to a conference on massively parallel computing.

    It was noteworthy because he actually got 600 copies of the email invitation.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    What, no Ms Court is Vacant?

    Would you court Ms Court is Vacant if she was vacant?

  • Tyler (unregistered)

    Aquamacs? Really? That's the best WTF you could come up with? That's just called having options... which most people who actually use Aquamacs would not have a problem with. I've sent in SUCH better submissions for this and mine never get posted!

    WTF Alex?

  • MRAB (unregistered) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Larry:
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

    No, it CAN get worse. A job site I go to has an option for entering a cover letter. I don't know WHAT they do, but the text box they open up accepts letters at about one second intervals. The only way I can keep sane is using type ahead. I then watch with agony as it plunks in the characters at a very S-L-O-W rate. I have no idea how they do this other than attempting to spell check every letter to make sure it is in the current alphabet by looking it up on some database via teletype transactions (on an old PC/XT!). A genuine WTF is there ever was one!

    Have you tried typing into an editor and then using copy & paste?

  • (cs)

    This is your judge: Mr. Court

    This is your judge on drugs: Mr. Court is Vacant

    Any questions?

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Larry:
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

    No, it CAN get worse. A job site I go to has an option for entering a cover letter. I don't know WHAT they do, but the text box they open up accepts letters at about one second intervals. The only way I can keep sane is using type ahead. I then watch with agony as it plunks in the characters at a very S-L-O-W rate. I have no idea how they do this other than attempting to spell check every letter to make sure it is in the current alphabet by looking it up on some database via teletype transactions (on an old PC/XT!). A genuine WTF is there ever was one!

    I've come across forms like this before. It's usually because it's checking you're not over some character limit, on every letter you type, using very bad javascript.

  • DMala (unregistered)

    TRWTF is referring to judges as "Mr." and "Mrs." In the US, at least, a judge would normally be referred to as "The Honorable" or "The Hon." Although judging by the names, I'm guessing this is not in the US.

    CAPTCHA: conventio - what they call it when the last day gets cancelled.

  • Jason White (unregistered)

    ROTFL you have to admit that is pretty funny dude!

    RT www.privacy-center.de.tc

  • (cs) 
    Sir,

    I could not help wondering if any of your readers may have noticed the astonishing resemblance between these two WTFs:

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/No-More-Paper!.aspx [image]

    http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Multiple-Message-Messages.aspx [image]

    Could they by any chance be related?

    yours faithfully, ENA B. DAVEK.

  • (cs) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    Larry:
    D C Ross:
    ...Oribble databases...
    Haha! We just survived (sorta) a crash upgrade to PeopleShaft. I will absolutely have to add this technical term to my vocabulary!

    I mean web pages that do a 6-second reload after every field on a form! Could you make it any worse if you tried?

    No, it CAN get worse. A job site I go to has an option for entering a cover letter. I don't know WHAT they do, but the text box they open up accepts letters at about one second intervals. The only way I can keep sane is using type ahead. I then watch with agony as it plunks in the characters at a very S-L-O-W rate. I have no idea how they do this other than attempting to spell check every letter to make sure it is in the current alphabet by looking it up on some database via teletype transactions (on an old PC/XT!). A genuine WTF is there ever was one!

    FireFox 2.x does this to me when trying to reply to various things on Facebook. I think it's the gobs and gobs of javascript they cram into everything to AJAXify it sufficiently.

  • mendel (unregistered)

    OneCommand is looking for new customers - sending out apologies like that is a legal way to spam you.

  • (cs) in reply to DOS coder

    I get the same issue with Facebook. As a bonus, the textbox tries to enlarge itself to fit the number of lines you've typed, but is always almost a full line behind, so I can't see what I'm typing. Solution: compose in a sane editor, copy and paste.

    DOS coder:
    Back in the day of DOS 8.3 filenames when you had to interface with the hardware directly to read a joystick, I always made damn sure to add "anal_joy.c" to the project.

    Perfectly descriptive name I think.

    So it analyzes the joysticks?

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