• (cs)

    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

  • nag-geoff (unregistered)

    Desperately trying to seek humour!

    Confused!

    Yours Truly NagGeoff.

    Akismet, the devil made me do it!

  • a highly-placed source (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    FRIST

    ftfy

  • Sockatume (unregistered)

    It's clear that that MS dialogue box should be "transfers only files" and not "only transfers files". One would assume MS could afford better technical writers.

  • (cs)

    That's not so odd. The first picture is a microwave which comes with a book that nobody will ever read.

  • (cs)

    A "Manual" microwave will be one with a non-electronic timer. Severely crap and definitely to be avoided, as old-style mechanical kitchen timers are notoriously hard to set for short intervals.

    The Easy Transfer one isn't a WTF either, or rather it is, but not the WTF you think it is. It is telling you that the source bundle of files and settings came from a machine or disk with a different language (e.g., for instance, it came from a machine running Windows in French and you have a machine running Windows in English), and therefore only the files will be transferred, but the settings will not. The wording is pretty poor, and it's a little unfortunate if the two systems really had the same language, but there you are.

  • Jimbob (unregistered)

    [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] Oh mama mia! [] Mama Mia let me go!

  • Qvazar (unregistered) in reply to Sockatume
    Sockatume:
    It's clear that that MS dialogue box should be "transfers only files" and not "only transfers files". One would assume MS could afford better technical writers.
    I submitted that. The dialog appeared when I wanted to transfer a windows user from a danish windows 7 pro to an english windows 7 ultimate with the danish language pack installed.

    The sense I could extract from it, was that it could not transfer user settings, such as desktop background, font settings, etc., only actual files. So TRWTF is, why is user settings not compatible across different languages of Windows 7?!

  • Simply Zunesis (unregistered)

    Hmmm... "Re: Yes, YES, Yes, YES, Yes"... what a funny name for an article.

  • (cs)
    [image] Gotdamn Petafiles!
  • (cs)

    That dialog sounds like Madeline Kahn from History of the World, Part I.

    No no no no no no yes, No no no no no no yes, No no no no no no no no no no no no yes, No no no no no no no no no no no no YES!

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.

  • benjymous (unregistered)

    Made me think of the Vicar of Dibley. Don't know if that's shown anywhere outside of the UK!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTAt2hI_kg

  • (cs)

    Error'd reaches new heights of dullness.

    Well done all.

  • Philipp (unregistered)

    Pfff, you clearly don't understand the many different connotations of the word "No". There are, for example:

    • The confiden "No", or "No!", like in "No, the chip hasn't got Fast Wake"
    • The negative inconfident "No", or "No...", like in "No, I don't think the chip has Fast Wake"
    • The positive inconfident "No", or "No?", like in "It had NanoWatt Fast Wake, no?"
    • The indifferent "No", or "Naaaah...", like in "No, I don't think Fast Wake matters that much". Note that this is different from the "No Preference" option in that "No Preference" implies a conscious, well thought out choice to ignore this factor, while the indifferent "No" implies a more spontaneous and impulsive statement hinting that the speakers opinion in this regard isn't set in stone yet.
    • The offended "No", or "NO!!!", like in "No, I won't answer such a ridiculous question!"
    • The pleading "No", or "Nooooo", like in "No! please! Make it stop! No more questions!"

    Knowing the difference between these different forms of "No" allows them to deliver much more relevant search results.

  • (cs) in reply to Philipp
    Philipp:
    Pfff, you clearly don't understand the many different connotations of the word "No". There are, for example:
    • The confiden "No", or "No!", like in "No, the chip hasn't got Fast Wake"
    • The negative inconfident "No", or "No...", like in "No, I don't think the chip has Fast Wake"
    • The positive inconfident "No", or "No?", like in "It had NanoWatt Fast Wake, no?"
    • The indifferent "No", or "Naaaah...", like in "No, I don't think Fast Wake matters that much". Note that this is different from the "No Preference" option in that "No Preference" implies a conscious, well thought out choice to ignore this factor, while the indifferent "No" implies a more spontaneous and impulsive statement hinting that the speakers opinion in this regard isn't set in stone yet.
    • The offended "No", or "NO!!!", like in "No, I won't answer such a ridiculous question!"
    • The pleading "No", or "Nooooo", like in "No! please! Make it stop! No more questions!"

    Knowing the difference between these different forms of "No" allows them to deliver much more relevant search results.

    The incredulous/disbelieving "No", or "Nooooo!", as in "Noooo! It hasn't got Fast Wake, it can't have!"

  • (cs) in reply to Philipp
    Philipp:
    Pfff, you clearly don't understand the many different connotations of the word "No". There are, for example:
    • The confiden "No", or "No!", like in "No, the chip hasn't got Fast Wake"
    • The negative inconfident "No", or "No...", like in "No, I don't think the chip has Fast Wake"
    • The positive inconfident "No", or "No?", like in "It had NanoWatt Fast Wake, no?"
    • The indifferent "No", or "Naaaah...", like in "No, I don't think Fast Wake matters that much". Note that this is different from the "No Preference" option in that "No Preference" implies a conscious, well thought out choice to ignore this factor, while the indifferent "No" implies a more spontaneous and impulsive statement hinting that the speakers opinion in this regard isn't set in stone yet.
    • The offended "No", or "NO!!!", like in "No, I won't answer such a ridiculous question!"
    • The pleading "No", or "Nooooo", like in "No! please! Make it stop! No more questions!"

    Knowing the difference between these different forms of "No" allows them to deliver much more relevant search results.

    The smug, institutional denial of service "No", or "Nope": "Nope, can't offer a chip with Fast Wake because it's not available after 08:30, have a nice day now, y'hear?"

  • (cs) in reply to Jimbob
    Jimbob:
    [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] Oh mama mia! [] Mama Mia let me go!

    [] No [] No [] no [] no [] No [] no [] no [] No- [] no- [] no- [] no- [] No [] Joan Crawford has risen [] From the grave

  • bohemian cod3r (unregistered) in reply to Jimbob

    []Beelzebub has a devil []put aside []for me []For Me []FOR MEEEEEEEEEE!

  • some guy (unregistered) in reply to Jimbob
    Jimbob:
    [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] NO [] No [] Oh mama mia! [] Mama Mia let me go!

    Akismet has no preference on a comment for me, for me, for meeeeeeeee!!!

    </lame>
  • u4ia (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Windows Easy Transfer.

  • McSteve (unregistered) in reply to frits

    You win today's internets.

  • Virgil (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    The only girlfriend I ever had (briefly) told me she prefers to vibrate meat at a slightly longer wavelength. Well that's not how she said it but I eventually figured out that's what she meant.

    Anyway I guess that explains why I have time for stuff like TDWTF... and the reserve of anger necessary to compose pithy comments here every day...

  • (cs)

    There is not enough space on server. You need an additional 734 PB to write your full comment.

  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Philipp
    Philipp:
    Pfff, you clearly don't understand the many different connotations of the word "No". There are, for example:
    • The confiden "No", or "No!", like in "No, the chip hasn't got Fast Wake"
    • The negative inconfident "No", or "No...", like in "No, I don't think the chip has Fast Wake"
    • The positive inconfident "No", or "No?", like in "It had NanoWatt Fast Wake, no?"
    • The indifferent "No", or "Naaaah...", like in "No, I don't think Fast Wake matters that much". Note that this is different from the "No Preference" option in that "No Preference" implies a conscious, well thought out choice to ignore this factor, while the indifferent "No" implies a more spontaneous and impulsive statement hinting that the speakers opinion in this regard isn't set in stone yet.
    • The offended "No", or "NO!!!", like in "No, I won't answer such a ridiculous question!"
    • The pleading "No", or "Nooooo", like in "No! please! Make it stop! No more questions!"

    Knowing the difference between these different forms of "No" allows them to deliver much more relevant search results.

    You forgot "the No that sounds like Yes" as in, when you ask a girl if she'll go out with you, and she says Yes, but she knows full well she never will.

    Then of course, there is the opposite, when she says No but she means Yes.

    This fundamental, congenital inability to communicate is why girls are TRWTF.

  • Manuel Labor (unregistered)

    Actually they printed up a bunch of manuals, but the PHBs realized no one ever reads them so they came out with a lower priced line of microwaves without manuals to save costs. No one told the production folks, as usual, so thousands of manuals were printed up anyway. Now they have to move them out, so they're having a sale. If you buy a manual, you get a free microwave to go with it.

    It makes perfect sense once you consider the real-world lifecycle of a manual.

  • Peter Gordon (unregistered) in reply to benjymous
    benjymous:
    Made me think of the Vicar of Dibley. Don't know if that's shown anywhere outside of the UK!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTAt2hI_kg

    +1

  • Ralph (unregistered)

    734 PB to copy a file is par for the course bloatware for MS.

    The new "object oriented" "fully integrated" "auto OLE enabled" copy command automatically opens up the source document, prints it to a virtual printer to get pixel-accurate layout, has your graphics card render the virtual printout in an invisible window, positions the invisible window on top of a photograph of a wooden table, takes a screen shot, pastes the screen shot into paint, saves it as a Bloatmap file (BMP), loads that into Word which turns every 1K of input into 15M of metadata and useless markup, converts the Word document into FrontPage formatted HTML, renders it in IE (in a virtual machine in case it crashes) and finally transfers that result to your destination.

    This is all done in a virtual desktop running as SYSTEM so you don't see your screen flickering (too much) while it goes on. But isn't it great that this is all handled automatically for you, whether you want it or not?

    Naturally, the OpenOffice / LibreOffice / Ubuntu people will not get any sleep until they can replicate this functionality in their platforms, because we must be bug-for-bug compatible with everything MS does no matter how ridiculous or useless.

  • AlD (unregistered)

    So, someone converted their Astron Belt to a MAME machine and just booted to Windows to take a picture? I fail to see the fail.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    That's quite brave of you to share that with us.

    Also, sorry...

  • Carl (unregistered)
    Ryan writes, "I don't remember buying a 'null null null'...
    ... followed by a screen shot where his name is blurred out...

    Let me guess... could it be... Ryan???!!!!!

  • Simply Zunesis (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    That's quite brave of you to share that with us.

    Also, sorry...

    Yeah, that baby must have been big. There's always Plan A, right?!

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    That's quite brave of you to share that with us.

    Also, sorry...

    Thanks for the constructive criticism of my dick. Takes one to know one, right?

  • (cs) in reply to Virgil
    Virgil:
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    The only girlfriend I ever had (briefly) told me she prefers to vibrate meat at a slightly longer wavelength. Well that's not how she said it but I eventually figured out that's what she meant.
    I've always been told that wavelength doesn't matter. But the above Wikipedia article disagrees:

    Penetration depth of microwaves is dependent on ... frequency, with lower microwave frequencies (longer wavelengths) penetrating further.
    :(
  • Maurizio (unregistered) in reply to Jimbob

    Mamma mia, not mama mia> Two m.

    Maurizio

  • Le Forgeron (unregistered)

    I'm afraid the large number of No are just a try at javascript automatically handling choice on the list at the left of the line.

    Someone fails to find how to hide an option in a radio group dynamically, all they can do is changing the label when the selected entry from the list is updated.

    Is that web 2.0-0.1 ? or was it 1.0-0.5 ?

  • onitake (unregistered) in reply to AlD
    AlD:
    So, someone converted their Astron Belt to a MAME machine and just booted to Windows to take a picture? I fail to see the fail.
    The fail is called "Windows". A Gnome desktop would be less of a fail but still a fail. If the guys really has to stick MAME on his cabinet, he should at least do it without an ugly desktop environment.
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    C-Octothorpe:
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.
    That's quite brave of you to share that with us.

    Also, sorry...

    Thanks for the constructive criticism of my dick. Takes one to know one, right?
    I resent that! There was nothing constructive about my criticism.

  • Shinobu (unregistered) in reply to onitake
    onitake:
    The fail is called "Windows".
    This fail in particular, is called Windows Me.
  • (cs)

    ASDA used to do their own brand electronics as "Pacific". They used to put short names on the shelf edge tickets.

    This caused the hilarious "Pac Man Microwave"

  • Herohtar (unregistered)

    I wouldn't want to release my graphics driver to the failure of Microsoft Windows either.

  • BentFranklin (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    ParkinT:
    The Manual Microwave requires you to generate the radiation yourself; by vibrating the food at an extremely short wavelength.

    {According to Wikipedia: A microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz)—a wavelength of 122 millimetres (4.80 in)—through the food.}

    Piece of cake. I vibrate meat at a wavelength close to 4.8 inches on the regular.

    But if you do it at 2.45 GHz I bet it Hertz.

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    You forgot "the No that sounds like Yes" as in, when you ask a girl if she'll go out with you, and she says Yes, but she knows full well she never will.
    She says:

    Sure, I would love to go out with you sometime.

    You hear:

    Sure, I would love to go out with you sometime.

    Because that's what you want to hear. But she's thinking:

    Sure, I would love to go out with you sometime.

    And "sometime" means "sometime when we can go ice skating... in hell!"

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to Fred

    I read that no no no no no no like Shia LaBeowulf whining in Transformers.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The No No No dialog was obviously written by one of the Zathras from Epsilon III.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Virgil
    Virgil:
    The only girlfriend I ever had (briefly) told me she prefers to vibrate meat at a slightly longer wavelength. Well that's not how she said it but I eventually figured out that's what she meant.
    Your name isn't really Virgil is it?
  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Maurizio
    Maurizio:
    Mamma mia, not mama mia> Two m.

    Maurizio

    Hmm - I'm seeing four of them in "Mamma mia".

  • Some damn Yank (unregistered) in reply to Qvazar
    Qvazar:
    Sockatume:
    It's clear that that MS dialogue box should be "transfers only files" and not "only transfers files". One would assume MS could afford better technical writers.
    I submitted that. The dialog appeared when I wanted to transfer a windows user from a danish windows 7 pro to an english windows 7 ultimate with the danish language pack installed.

    The sense I could extract from it, was that it could not transfer user settings, such as desktop background, font settings, etc., only actual files. So TRWTF is, why is user settings not compatible across different languages of Windows 7?!

    No, the real WTF is that you expected a TRANSLATION of your documents from danish to english. At least, that's what the story says: "so can I only translate between the same languages?" To answer that question: Sorry, Windows Easy Transfer cannot translate your files, it can only transfer them.

    As for your settings, if you want them transferred as well then you should transfer them to a PC running danish Windows with an english language pack, since the settings are coming from a PC running danish Windows. Whoever sold you the english Windows with a danish language pack didn't understand your real needs, or didn't understand Windows Easy Transfer.

    You are now left with the less-desirable option of Windows Difficult Transfer, which involves you manually setting all those settings to your liking. Much better than the Windows Impossible Transfer, which is what we used to have. You know, the one where you had to transfer everything manually, like when migrating from Windows 95 to Windows 2000.

  • (cs) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Maurizio:
    Mamma mia, not mama mia> Two m.

    Maurizio

    Hmm - I'm seeing four of them in "Mamma mia".

    You filthy illiterates all of you - I'm also seeing two of "Mamma mia", which everyone has missed. In fact, three. Mamma mia mamma mia, mamma mia let me go.

    Who says it's not mama mia, anyway?

    http://www.elyrics.net/read/q/queen-lyrics/bohemian-rhapsody-lyrics.html

    You'd getting confused with Abba, you stupid cunt.

  • n_slash_a (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    [image] Gotdamn Petafiles!
    +1000000000000 FTW!

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