• (cs)

    Ye find yeself in yon edited image. Ye see two buttons. Will thoust close it?

    Obvious exits are: OK and Cancel

  • (cs)

    Maybe the phone box was French, and selling bread. That wouldn't be a WTF at all.

  • Fenris (unregistered)

    How fast computer technology moves, A couple of years ago, 4GB was a lot for a pendrive, now Dane-Elect is selling pendrives in the 8TB range.

  • Banana Hammock (unregistered)

    I haven't seen any phone booths in a really long time. They removed all of the ones around here (New England, USA), with the exception of the occasional stand with just-wires coming out of it, and no phone.

    Also, I don't get the one about the image being edited. It's somewhat-poorly-translated, but understandable. It's confirming you want to close the app because you've made some changes, fairly standard prompt.

    CAPTCHA: veniam; Veitnam venison?

  • (cs)

    That DB2 image simply says, "Time flies when you're having... um... coffee."

  • (cs)

    What's eerie is that Janey's Got a Gun was playing on the radio just as I saw the first one.

  • Ant. Build (unregistered)

    WTF is Nick's favourite food, then?

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    Wow, all my life, my megabytes have been too small. I want the kind of megabytes that hold approximately 1 billion bytes.

    I must buy that product.

  • Mike D. (unregistered)

    Next time, for your password hint, enter "feces". It should get past the filter.

  • Ant. Build (unregistered) in reply to NSCoder
    NSCoder:
    Maybe the phone box was French, and selling bread. That wouldn't be a WTF at all.

    Apart from the entrepreneurial nature of phone boxes, all of sudden, naturally

  • Ant. Build (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    Wow, all my life, my megabytes have been too small. I want the kind of megabytes that hold approximately 1 billion bytes.

    I must buy that product.

    Duh! Obviously they're measuring it in imperial megabytes!

  • (cs) in reply to Ant. Build
    Ant. Build:
    Anonymous Coward:
    Wow, all my life, my megabytes have been too small. I want the kind of megabytes that hold approximately 1 billion bytes.

    I must buy that product.

    Duh! Obviously they're measuring it in imperial megabytes!

    Or using extremely large values of approximately. One of the two.

  • bored (unregistered)

    Duh the pictures literal translation was 'Time for honey in my coffee'

  • lolcat (unregistered)

    Ghostbusters!

  • Patrick (unregistered) in reply to Ant. Build
    Ant. Build:
    WTF is Nick's favourite food, then?
    maybe it was molbuttes?
  • pac man (unregistered)

    UGH element K books - i'm not surprised by this screw-up. I've had to use element K training materials in several training courses i've taken, and those books are always full of typos and errors. the best part is when the errors are in code samples, so the example you're trying to learn from DOESN'T WORK.

  • Gler (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
  • Measuredly Curious (unregistered) in reply to Fenris
    Fenris:
    How fast computer technology moves, A couple of years ago, 4GB was a lot for a pendrive, now Dane-Elect is selling pendrives in the 8TB range.
    Would that be 8TB, as in 8 million megabytes? Would that be where megabyte == 1 billion bytes, or something else (like 1 thousand bytes, or 1 quadrillion bytes, or a wooden table)?

    There's some doubt as to what you mean.

  • pants (unregistered) in reply to Gler
    Gler:
    Or am I missing something?

    The value of one billion

  • (cs) in reply to Gler
    Gler:

    The package is saying that a megabyte is about 1 billion bytes rather than about 1 million.

  • anon the mighty (unregistered) in reply to Gler

    Yup, that's a million (close enough), not a billion.

  • hikari being too lazy to login. (unregistered) in reply to Gler
    Gler:

    Other than not being able to tell the difference between a million and a billion?

  • Gler (unregistered) in reply to pants
    pants:
    The value of one billion

    I knew that, I was just testing.

    goes to make coffee

  • JT (unregistered)

    I'm not sure what the DB2 figure is supposed to represent, but I did notice that it has the universal symbol of the incompetent engineer. Three gears arranged in a configuration that won't turn.

  • Matt Jeffryes (unregistered)

    The reason that you aren't allowed profanity in your secret answer is that you will be asked your answer over the phone if you forget your password.

  • Michael (unregistered)

    Once upon a time some workers bees, fueled by coffee, built a database. They called it DB2.

  • Austin (unregistered)

    A million... A billion... What's 3 orders of magnitude between friends.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike D.
    Mike D.:
    Next time, for your password hint, enter "genitals". It should get past the filter.
    Fixed that QQTX^2+478564^2+745475^2 T

    (post attempt 3)

  • (cs)

    Mac 9? Who uses Mac 9? That's like using Win98. Who would do that?

  • (cs) in reply to Anguirel
    Anguirel:
    Ant. Build:
    Anonymous Coward:
    Wow, all my life, my megabytes have been too small. I want the kind of megabytes that hold approximately 1 billion bytes.

    I must buy that product.

    Duh! Obviously they're measuring it in imperial megabytes!

    Or using extremely large values of approximately. One of the two.

    No, think edit distance. 1 million is approximately 1 billion.

  • Jetfire (unregistered) in reply to hikari being too lazy to login.
    hikari being too lazy to login.:
    Gler:

    Other than not being able to tell the difference between a million and a billion?

    Don't worry, the Central banks can't seem to tell the difference either.

  • (cs)

    Ah yes! The old Waggle dance to clock tower DB2 interface hack.

    You wouldn't believe how many drone-hours that saved.

    The human that designed that earned that honey in his coffee.

  • Verloc (unregistered)

    Ah yes, DB2's ill fated "Honeydown" release. It was an innovative, if ultimately doomed proof of concept. And by innovative I mean 'it didn't have anything to do with databases, but was a good excuse for IBM's R&D team to get drunk and let loose a bunch of highly caffeinated bees in a train station'.

  • Green (unregistered)
    Ilya Ehrenburg:
    No, think edit distance. 1 million is approximately 1 billion.
    We've always been at war with Eurasia !
  • Anon Coward for this one (unregistered)

    Nick, that's my favorite "food" to eat too. Especially when shaven...

  • Brendan (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    Wow, all my life, my megabytes have been too small. I want the kind of megabytes that hold approximately 1 billion bytes.

    I'd read the fine print if I was you - sometimes 1 byte only holds 7.8125 millibits.

    Post attempt #2..

  • Image is edited, do you close it? (unregistered)

    I'm pretty sure they need a "Button not found" option.

  • Ken (unregistered)

    The phone is a direct line to Mr. T. It's letting you know what will result if you don't have a good reason for using the phone.

  • @Deprecated (unregistered) in reply to JT
    JT:
    I'm not sure what the DB2 figure is supposed to represent, but I did notice that it has the universal symbol of the incompetent engineer. Three gears arranged in a configuration that won't turn.

    Oh they'll turn alright, you just need a greater driving force.

  • jimbobmcgee (unregistered)

    Who has 3.1MB JPEG files lying around on a pen drive?

  • bored (unregistered) in reply to Verloc
    Verloc:
    Ah yes, DB2's ill fated "Honeydown" release. It was an innovative, if ultimately doomed proof of concept. And by innovative I mean 'it didn't have anything to do with databases, but was a good excuse for IBM's R&D team to get drunk and let loose a bunch of highly caffeinated bees in a train station'.

    Lol, profit!

    captcha: valetudo - A Haitian valet?

  • Berislav Lopac (unregistered)

    You know what is the difference between a novice programmer and an expert programmer? The novice thinks that 1 megabyte has 1000 bytes; the expert thinks that 1 kilometer has 1024 meters.

  • Neurosion (unregistered)

    The DB2 diagram obviously shows the time-traveling bees in their quest to find the best coffee. They needed a way to track the best sources of coffee, so they created DB2.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to jimbobmcgee
    jimbobmcgee:
    Who has 3.1MB JPEG files lying around on a pen drive?
    Cartographers?

    [Post attempt #5 - new record]

  • Anon non non (unregistered)

    Am I the only one that thinks the USB one the typo is that MB should be GB?

    • 1MB = approximately 1 billion bytes
    • 1GB = approximately 1 billion bytes

    Instead of

    • 1MB = approximately 1 billion bytes
    • 1MB = approximately 1 million bytes

    ** third attempt

  • k (unregistered) in reply to Patrick

    or spotted dick?

  • Brendan (unregistered) in reply to Berislav Lopac
    Berislav Lopac:
    You know what is the difference between a novice programmer and an expert programmer? The novice thinks that 1 megabyte has 1000 bytes; the expert thinks that 1 kilometer has 1024 meters.

    I'd hope an expert programmer understands the difference between MB, Mb, MiB and Mib, and knows that none of them have anything to do with movies about aliens and special agents in dark suits...

  • Walleye (unregistered)

    If 1 MB is a billion bytes, I'm going to start ordering my memory from Britain. Their billions are a lot larger.

  • (cs)

    You fell into their trap! One of the embedded developers of the Sunoco Gas pumps made it so that occasionally the credit card number is encoded and dumped out using that error message. He knew that someone would take a picture and post it on the daily WTF. Now he has your credit card number. Fool...

  • Cononymous Award (unregistered)

    "DB2 is slow and full of bugs. You'll need this coffee to get your project done before your deadline."

    ...or...

    "DB2 is buggy and slow. Here, have a yellow mug, which is yellow to hide the fact that the warm liquid inside it is not water."

Leave a comment on “Phone Pain”

Log In or post as a guest

Replying to comment #:

Log Out

« Return to Article