• Kristian Z. (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that people competent enough to locate their Print Screen key still use MS Internet Explorer instead of Opera.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    You know what would have been the icing on the cake?:

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  • (cs) in reply to Alexis
    Alexis:
    Jake:
    Offbeat tips of the day have been kicking around commercial products since at least the early versions of MS Word. I distinctly recall Word, on startup, advising me to never run with scissors.

    Didn't know that about the angel's-food cake, though.

    I remember the scissors thing too! It freaked me out.

    The sad thing is that it would be far more helpful if every pair of scissors in the world came with a label saying "Warning: Do not use Word."

    Oh, and the patisserie zionism seems to have stopped now. Good.

  • matzebrei (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    No, it just runs up a large credit card bill with the mechanic.

  • matzebrei (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    sinistral:
    Paul:
    What's a Dodge Charger? Is it like a phone charger but for a wireless dodgem or something???

    Or is it some weird American thingummybob?

    It's an automobile, made by Dodge[...]
    So it's an electric car that needs charging every night? Cool! Makes me want to get one right now...

    No, it just runs up a large....never mind, should have tried quoting in the first place.

  • (cs)

    Obviously Claus was running off mains and had a brown-out. Vista is clearly clever enough to detect this condition, and report exactly what percentage of the correct voltage is present. Though I do wonder what it would say briefly if you plug your 110V adapter into a 240V powerpoint...

  • fdfdhdfhdg (unregistered) in reply to mattwho
    mattwho:
    [image] Here's another Jdeveloper one. Saved my life once.

    The real WTF is you used BMP on the interweb.

  • (cs) in reply to fdfdhdfhdg
    fdfdhdfhdg:
    The real WTF is you used BMP on the interweb.
    The interweb? WTF is the interweb? Somebody help me please!
  • (cs) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Though I do wonder what it would say briefly if you plug your 110V adapter into a 240V powerpoint...
    "Bang!"
  • (cs) in reply to Faxmachinen
    Faxmachinen:
    tin:
    Though I do wonder what it would say briefly if you plug your 110V adapter into a 240V powerpoint...
    "Bang!"
    You know those pc power supplies that had/have a switch on the back for 110V vs 230V? Those are a bad idea, as the school I used to go to found out.
  • La Bamba (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    Faxmachinen:
    tin:
    Though I do wonder what it would say briefly if you plug your 110V adapter into a 240V powerpoint...
    "Bang!"
    You know those pc power supplies that had/have a switch on the back for 110V vs 230V? Those are a bad idea, as the school I used to go to found out.

    My first ATARI console found out that too. And we got 220V here.

    Interweb is one of those generational stuff the youngsters always do, like yo-yo or rock n' roll. Just ignore it: it has no future.

  • Andy Goth (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    "Never pet a burning dog."

    Now let's see who can identify which program offered that particular tip. For a hint, check out these WAV files.

    (captcha: burned!)

  • (cs) in reply to PerdidoPunk
    PerdidoPunk:
    <humor style="facetious"> Obviously Claus Nielsen's brand new Windows Vista laptop comes with a high-efficiency mobile processor. In the absence of a primary battery, the computer runs on the button battery that preserves the CMOS BIOS data and system clock. </humor>
    No, that computer doesn't need a battery. It's Windows-powered.
  • Koenma (unregistered)

    Hahahaha...

    I have a friend that she got owned by a battery message from a Ubuntu Linux.

    The message was something like this : "Attention, Low battery! You have 3 hours and 42 minutes left to save all... bla bla bla"

    I'm still asking myself how many time is the battery duration...

  • 008 (unregistered)

    When I develop software with JCreator, it shows a startup tip that it pulls out of a text file. Maybe the submitter of JDeveloper's screenshot messed with the file to display that tip?

  • immibis (unregistered) in reply to some guy
    some guy:
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    So, what exactly is the WTF? You type your reply between the opening and closing tags.

    But it says, in the message, that it's an automated message and you shouldn't reply.
  • (cs) in reply to TheRider
    TheRider:
    fdfdhdfhdg:
    The real WTF is you used BMP on the interweb.
    The interweb? WTF is the interweb? Somebody help me please!
    Also known as "the interhighway" and less commonly "the internets", originally "arpanet".

    And yes, the 110/220V switches are really bad. Just ask my first computer. Or don't, he died :(

  • (cs) in reply to Faxmachinen
    tin:
    Though I do wonder what it would say briefly if you plug your 110V adapter into a 240V powerpoint...
    You've never seen this IRC quotation before?
  • Kerin (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    You guys are right, this is totally a WTF. I mean, it's not like there are methods of browsing the web such as cell phones and PDAs that aren't strictly computers in the common-use meaning of the word.

    Hurr.

  • (cs) in reply to Kerin
    Kerin:
    You guys are right, this is totally a WTF. I mean, it's not like there are methods of browsing the web such as cell phones and PDAs that aren't strictly computers in the common-use meaning of the word.

    Hurr.

    I think my PDA would take offense to that! ;) It's a 32-bit microkernel OS with protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. It's not a desktop computer but it's capable of running Opera.

    The Palm Pilot view of the PDA is rather tragic, as IMO those things suck monkey balls. I read once that the kernel they bought to run on the Palm Pilot was fully capable of multitasking but contractually they were banned from making use of that facility so they turned it into a pocket System 6 Mac. Nifty.

    My Revo Plus is EPOC (now Symbian OS), but there's also mobile Windows (whatever it's being called these days), mobile Linux and now pocket Mac OS X. These aren't desktop computers, but it would be absurd not to call them a computer, especially when technologically most of them are far more advanced than some real desktop systems such as Mac OS 9! (Which would likely manage just fine to open that site.)

    It's quite cute seeing a (16 MB) Psion 5mx running regular desktop Linux =)

  • BillyBob (unregistered) in reply to purge
    purge:
    I think it's broadband recommended vs non-broadband recommended looking at the font, but an odd way to word it.

    Either someone mistyped something and the "Computer Requirements/Recommendation" wasn't rendered or it was just left until last and forgotten..... hilarity ensues...

  • täheke (unregistered) in reply to some guy
    some guy:
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    So, what exactly is the WTF? You type your reply between the opening and closing tags.
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  • skip (unregistered)

    obviously, they are recommending a slice of angel food cake to go with your tasty java.

  • (cs)

    That Report Builder Matrix one? Been on my site for at least five years, nearer ten (given that I haven't updated it for about five). I wonder if that's where Tony got it.

  • Te(hn0b0y (unregistered)

    I think developers should be a little more sensitive to people who do not have the money to keep up with the latest technology. As a homeless person, i surf the web using an internet connectotron that i assembled from spare toaster oven parts that i scavenged from the junkyard. It doesn't have any CPU or RAM of its own, so it works by asking other computers if they can spare any of theirs. On the other hand, it doesn't run Windows, so it's pretty fast and reliable overall. And now Dodge comes along and has the audacity to tell me that i need a COMPUTER?? Unbelievable! How am i supposed to buy my new caravan now?

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