• Douglas Adams (unregistered)

    inb4 second!

  • (cs)

    What's so vague about the XP EULA? You can use it, as long as you report your test findings.

  • (cs) in reply to steenbergh

    I thought XP was a bit beyond the test stage

  • (cs)

    Does that mean that XP Pro is now free? The EULA shipped with your cd states that the latest is available on that link and supersedes your copy. I think this has to be their best decision ever.

  • Stef Murky (unregistered)

    I see the problem with the Mortage one... He doesn't have any payments over due... this is not normal in the US.

  • (cs)

    It's all yesterday news.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Bad luck Magnus, I hope you're prepared for the deep-seated hatred that you will soon start to feel towards your new ISP. Their traffic management is a riot, you'll love it!

  • Zapakh (unregistered) in reply to spxza
    spxza:
    Does that mean that XP Pro is now free? The EULA shipped with your cd states that the latest is available on that link and supersedes your copy. I think this has to be their best decision ever.

    The new EULA is a command. The end-user is directed to "test" the software. While this has always been the case, I find Microsoft's newfound honesty refreshing.

  • (cs)

    ATTDF... Adenine Timine Timine Damnine F*ckine...

  • (cs)

    Mark Christian complains about a non-localizable beta warning for a can't happen? Why?

  • Steve H (unregistered)

    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

  • Ed (unregistered)

    Looks like a WTF here by The Daily WTF. Jeremy took the effort to remove his last name from the scan of the mortgage statement, then you guys put it right above the image.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Ed

    I went to that URL, and it looks like the latest version of the EULA is:

    Server Error in '/windows' Application.

    Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

    Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

    <!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web> </configuration>

    Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.

    <!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/> </system.web> </configuration>
  • Cri (unregistered)

    This comment was posted -5 minutes ago !

  • Tookie Monster (unregistered)

    "T" is for "Tookie", that's good enough for me, "T" is for "Tookie", that's good enough for me, "T" is for "Tookie", that's good enough for me, Oh, Tookie, Tookie, Tookie starts with "T"

  • Microsoft QC (unregistered)

    I understand now where we went wrong with Vista. The developers forgot to check the "Suppress homicidal rage" option before building.

  • (cs)
    "Weird," Matt write...
    Matt write. Write is to the Daily WTF. Matt put fool. Grunt. Fool in what? Motley. No quack.
  • (cs)

    I actually find that EULA rather clear and concise compared with most!

  • (cs)

    AutoCAD also has a muttering option. Looks like it suppresses message display. http://books.google.com/books?id=C9aZ23zRWHQC&lpg=PA1222&ots=yO-HMfDdMe&dq=muttering%20cad&pg=PA1222

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that Danny V's future self is called Tara Dorothy.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that Danny V's future self is called Tara Dorothy.

    EDIT: and the fact that I posted this twice.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    This post was be posteded next last Thursday

  • Americium (unregistered) in reply to Steve H
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    No, the real WTF is that Jeremy's mortgage payment is less than $640! Where does he live, Flint, MI?

  • (cs)

    WTF, no random Irish touch this time?

    [image][image]

  • mr_smith (unregistered) in reply to Americium
    Americium:
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    No, the real WTF is that Jeremy's mortgage payment is less than $640! Where does he live, Flint, MI?

    Maybe he only owes a small part of what his house is worth... It's not like everybody borrows 100%. Most of us are capable of saving our money rather than buying a bunch of crap.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I assume the ATTDFDFTA... is supposed to be a barcode, but they forgot to load the correct font?

  • (cs)

    No, TRWTF is opening that link in IE (hey, do you trust Microsoft not to fuck with Firefox anymore?) to verify the EULA (and to show my friends, cos that's awesome[-ly FAIL]) and deciding to install the latest silverlight (in case they are doing funky things with the EULA) and having the silverlight install fail only to open a new tab in FX telling me that it succeeded.

    http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/help.aspx?errorID=3010

    And no, I won't keep the side-comments to myself in the future, I'll continue to post them just to keep my sentences long.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    The Gmail one is not a WTF, it just means your computer's clock is running fast. It's JavaScript based -- it subtracts the timestamp from the email from your computer's clock. I've seen it dozens of times before.

  • David C. (unregistered)

    There's no WTF in the Gmail shot. It uses the date header in the mail message. If the sender's clock is fast, this can easily happen.

  • Right Wing-Nut (unregistered) in reply to Americium

    You might not have noticed, but the amount of your mortgage payment depends on the amount borrowed, not the cost of the house.

  • Don (unregistered)

    Ah ah ee ee tookie tookie!

  • Radoslaw Majewski (unregistered)

    Guys, what's the browser in the second to last screenshot?

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Bad luck Magnus, I hope you're prepared for the deep-seated hatred that you will soon start to feel towards your new ISP. Their traffic management is a riot, you'll love it!
    Are they still that bad? I'd heard they use to be but I thought they'd cleaned up their act.

    I have a reason for asking - I'm moving soon, and I'll have a choice between Virgin Cable and poor-quality ADSL (2Mbps - long way from the exchange).

  • Mogri (unregistered) in reply to Radoslaw Majewski
    Radoslaw Majewski:
    Guys, what's the browser in the second to last screenshot?
    Firefox.

    CAPTCHA: dolor. Ay, qué dolor!

  • (cs) in reply to Americium
    Americium:
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    No, the real WTF is that Jeremy's mortgage payment is less than $640! Where does he live, Flint, MI?

    When I close on my house in a while, my payments will be $600. and that's way higher than I actually need to pay; I just want the mortgage gone in five years... This housing market is AWESOME, I tell you.

  • (cs)

    For a second I thought that Jeremy Fry's one was a DNA base sequence. I was sort of disappointed that it wasn't... would have been oddly (and scarily) fitting.

  • (cs) in reply to Stef Murky

    The mortgage company refers to their clients using their genetic code instead of their name. Pretty obvious development when you think about it, once you have two clients with the same name.

  • jeff (unregistered)

    good thing jeremy fry blocked out his last name

  • jeff (unregistered)

    gmail must have just fixed the negative time bug since they're no longer beta

  • Zerbs (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    This post was be posteded next last Thursday

    Reminds me of when I used to work for a company that used Lotus Notes for their e-mail, and when I would send a message to our Austrailia office with a read receipt, Lotus Notes would tell me "your message was read tomorrow"

  • Jeremy Fry Smith (unregistered) in reply to Steve H

    Fry is my middle name.

  • Jeremy Fry Smith (unregistered) in reply to Adriano
    Bob:
    Adriano

    Fry is my middle name.

  • Jeremy Fry Smith (unregistered) in reply to Steve H
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    My middle name is Fry.

    Quote buttons are awesome, no?

  • Vino (unregistered)

    I've seen that indices error before. It's from the Source engine, the engine that powers HL2. I work with it a lot. It spouts that error if you create too many of a certain type of sprite in DX8, or sometimes if your model has too many triangles. I'll bet you didn't care!

  • (cs) in reply to Jeremy Fry Smith
    Jeremy Fry Smith:
    Quote buttons are awesome, no?
    The very existence of separate reply and quote buttons is the biggest WTF on thedailyWTF.
  • (cs) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    "Weird," Matt write...
    Matt write. Write is to the Daily WTF. Matt put fool. Grunt. Fool in what? Motley. No quack.

    Blue. Color. Now.

  • (cs) in reply to jeff

    Regarding GMail, I'm sorry to disappoint you, Danny, but Google is already way ahead of you... er, has been... I mean, will have had been... ah, whatever...

  • iToad (unregistered) in reply to Americium
    Americium:
    Steve H:
    The real WTF is blacking out Jeremy Fry's surname, then telling us all what it is in the commentary.

    No, the real WTF is that Jeremy's mortgage payment is less than $640! Where does he live, Flint, MI?

    He probably has a $460,000 Pay Option ARM mortgage that he got in 2007. When it resets in a couple of months, his payment goes from $639.92 to $6399.20.

  • Dr. Evil (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    "Weird," Matt write...
    Matt write. Write is to the Daily WTF. Matt put fool. Grunt. Fool in what? Motley. No quack.

    Denilson Figueiredo de Sá write, too!

    Denilson Figueiredo de Sá angry. The readers leave. The Daily WTF produce. Produce is improper tense and phrasing. With wing bark.

    No Quack.

  • Procedural (unregistered)

    ATDFDTADFATFD...

    Nothing wrong with that; it's just his financial DNA

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