• (cs)

    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

  • ex-Pizza delivery man (unregistered)

    A file named like that will, once added to an overly long directory path, break my operating system.

    It cannot then be renamed.

  • Timwi (unregistered)

    Oh, I didn't realise that number must contain a number. Next time I'll certainly note this error message.

    Put text in here that says what the reader should expect - like whether the screenshots were amusing or not.

  • Not a Lawyer (unregistered)

    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

  • henk (unregistered) in reply to pglewis

    Even then, max cruising speed for an MD11 is about 950 km/h.

    Converting this to m/h comes down to 989... I suppose this means a combination of tailwind and a wrong unit conversion :)

  • Jeroen Brattinga (unregistered)

    Enough with the 2^31 errors! I get it, it's funny ... except for programmers. The other ones are OK, I guess.

  • Maarten Sneep (unregistered)

    From the map I think this is a flight over Finland, that is at high latitude. I've seen this before on a flight from Europe to San Fransico, and I think there is a bug in the speed calculation of airplanes (at least the calculation shown in the back). You'll probably go to warp speed if you fly right over the poles.

  • (cs) in reply to henk
    henk:
    Even then, max cruising speed for an MD11 is about 950 km/h.

    Converting this to m/h comes down to 989... I suppose this means a combination of tailwind and a wrong unit conversion :)

    I was still thinking it could be accurate within a couple hundred km/h.

    But on a second inspection, is the flight headed west? Now that WOULD be something.

  • Motti (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that Iain has such a wide monitor and I don't!

  • Crabs (unregistered) in reply to Not a Lawyer
    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

    Actually a posted price is only a legally binding contract when it's not an obvious error. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs. Obvious error is loosely defined, so most any error is not legally binding. Small errors are usually just given to the customer to preserve good PR.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to pglewis
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

    I'm sorry, but a 1,000 kph tail wind? really? If that happens regularly we should change the airline routes to take advantage of them. Imagine the fuel savings.

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  • (cs)

    The seccond one is a duplecate. I have seen that one before on TDWTF.

  • (cs) in reply to foo
    foo:
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed It very well could have been a brisk jet stream. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml
    I'm sorry, but a 1,000 kph tail wind? really? If that happens regularly we should change the airline routes to take advantage of them. Imagine the fuel savings.
    It was some months ago, but IIRC, it was about twice the actual speed. In fact, it occasionally switched to the real ground speed for a moment, before returning to the twice-normal display. I'm pretty sure it was a pure software glitch.

    Also yes, the flight's headed west, against the streams.

  • (cs) in reply to foo
    foo:
    I'm sorry, but a 1,000 kph tail wind? really? If that happens regularly we should change the airline routes to take advantage of them. Imagine the fuel savings.
    Shut up shut up shut up SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!

    Dammit, man, if the airline executive managers heard you, they'd route my trip New York -> Los Angeles to head east.

  • Metal Lord (unregistered)

    anyone else took note of "Kuusamo"? :P

    (almost completely similar to a common arabic curse which refers to one's mother's .. ehm .. private parts, in a somewhat degrading manner. a little like calling someone a motherf!cker)

  • Todd (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs.

    There is no such thing as a disgruntled Best Buy employee. The re-education I received at Best Buy Camp tells me so.

    Even typing the word "disgruntled" in the same sentence as "Best Buy" (all glory to The Yellow Tag) makes my head hurt...

  • Quimby (unregistered)

    Ummmmmm . . . the total still came out correct? Are you sure?

  • Crabs (unregistered) in reply to Quimby
    Quimby:
    Ummmmmm . . . the total still came out correct? Are you sure?

    Yes, we're missing $0.97. Maybe that combo only cost 97 cents?

  • (cs) in reply to Todd

    If they're disgruntled, then they need to be re-gruntled.

  • Crabs (unregistered)

    98 cents.

  • (cs) in reply to Jeroen Brattinga
    Jeroen Brattinga:
    Enough with the 2^31 errors! I get it, it's funny ... except for programmers. The other ones are OK, I guess.

    Enough with the bitching about content. I get it, you have no sense of humor. Like real people. Go somewhere else.

    It's funny because it's a public-facing system that obviously underwent too little testing. Yes, funny... even to programmers. You'd probably get it if you: a) had a sense of humor, and b) were an actual programmer.

  • WizardStan (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

    Actually a posted price is only a legally binding contract when it's not an obvious error. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs. Obvious error is loosely defined, so most any error is not legally binding. Small errors are usually just given to the customer to preserve good PR.

    At least in Canada, prices advertised outside the store (ie, in a flyer or on TV) must be honored on the basis that they're a hook to get you into the store, and your decision on where to go may have been swayed by that advertisement. Otherwise, there is no such requirement. However, if the cashier tells you your total, and you say "ok", or make an otherwise accepting motion, THEN it becomes a legally binding contract. If the cash rings up an LCD for $1, and the cashier says "huh, guess it's right. $1 please" then the store must sell it to you for $1. The cashier, acting on behalf of the store, can choose not to sell at that price. Small errors usually slip through simply because it's easier than risking dealing with disgruntled customers. This doesn't apply to web based ads and sales, however, which are classified as 3rd party sales and fall under a different set of rules. Keep in mind this is also on the total. Upon acceptance, you agree to buy the listed items for the final price, regardless of what each item is actually listed at. The 21 million refund doesn't apply, since it wasn't part of the total.

  • tag (unregistered)

    Please note that in that long rename message is more than one "to" mentioned. Probably this is meant when asking for help: To figure out which "to" actually is the delimiter between the two filenames.

  • (cs) in reply to Gnonthgol
    Gnonthgol:
    The seccond one is a duplecate. I have seen that one before on TDWTF.
    1. It's duplicate.
    2. Who cares?
    3. Says you. URL please.
  • (cs) in reply to Todd
    Todd:
    There is no such thing as a disgruntled Best Buy employee. The re-education I received at Best Buy Camp tells me so.

    Even typing the word "disgruntled" in the same sentence as "Best Buy" (all glory to The Yellow Tag) makes my head hurt...

    Funny... I picked up on the underpaid. Since Best Buy employees get paid for what they know, and they all seem to know little or nothing, I think they're mostly overpaid.

  • Ken (unregistered)

    Mmmmmmm.....Baconator...

  • (cs)

    Iain has a huge monitor.

  • (cs)

    Everybody knows that that ground speed is too high for any plane. It is evident then that it is the speed of the Earth running through space

  • Marketing Error (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs :
    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

    Actually a posted price is only a legally binding contract when it's not an obvious error. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs. Obvious error is loosely defined, so most any error is not legally binding. Small errors are usually just given to the customer to preserve good PR.

    That is not entirely true. This all depends on where you are.

    For example, my first job was in a Best Buy warehouse in Oregon. One day someone in the company put out an add for a Plasma TV that was more than 64% off the actual COST of the TV (this was when Plasmas were relatively new to the retail market).

    In Oregon because it was advertised the store was forced to sell all of our ridiculously low priced plasmas PLUS sell the next X number of these TVs that we got. (Oregon rain-check laws).

    Best Buy lost more than $3,000 for each of the 3-4 TV's we had in stock. To avoid selling the rain-checked TV's, they simply stopped having any more of that TV delivered to that store.

  • (cs)

    It's been about 2 years since I did any VB work (so let's call this pseudocode), but IIRC, you can generate popup error messages like this:

    msgbox Error.number Error.Description

    which would give you 25OMGWTF

    to space it out, you'd type

    msgbox Error.number & " " & Error.Description

    to get 25 OMGWTF

    so if they did something whacky like this:

    msgbox "number" & " " & Error.Description

    they would get: number OMGWTF

    It's possible that they had barely been able to get the code to compile, and when it did, they were reluctant to change anything.

    Or worse:

    msgbox "number " & Error.number & " " & Error.Description

  • Morasique (unregistered)

    The real WTF is the 0 piece nugget combo

  • pmv (unregistered)

    That airplane picture looks suspiciously like a camera phone picture, I hope it was in airplane mode.

  • null (unregistered) in reply to henk
    henk:
    Even then, max cruising speed for an MD11 is about 950 km/h.

    Converting this to m/h comes down to 989... I suppose this means a combination of tailwind and a wrong unit conversion :)

    Now we know where the NASA engineers who designed the Mars Express ended up.

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to pglewis
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

    Ground speed stated: 1592km/h MD-11 max. cruise speed according to Wikipedia: 945km/h Required minimum speed of tailwind: 1592km/h - 945km/h = 647km/h = 180m/s = 36 on the Beaufort scale, which traditionally ends at 12

  • James O'Boston (unregistered)

    the real WTF is the BCNATOR CBO

  • car912 (unregistered)

    Let's expand that third one a little bit.

    [image]

    magically becomes

    [image]

    Amazing, isn't it?

  • (cs)

    I still say the Baconator is nothing compared to the Monster Burger.

  • (cs)

    I'm feeling supersonic.

    Give me gin and tonic.

  • Crabs (unregistered) in reply to WizardStan
    WizardStan:
    Crabs:
    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

    Actually a posted price is only a legally binding contract when it's not an obvious error. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs. Obvious error is loosely defined, so most any error is not legally binding. Small errors are usually just given to the customer to preserve good PR.

    At least in Canada, prices advertised outside the store (ie, in a flyer or on TV) must be honored on the basis that they're a hook to get you into the store, and your decision on where to go may have been swayed by that advertisement. Otherwise, there is no such requirement. However, if the cashier tells you your total, and you say "ok", or make an otherwise accepting motion, THEN it becomes a legally binding contract. If the cash rings up an LCD for $1, and the cashier says "huh, guess it's right. $1 please" then the store must sell it to you for $1. The cashier, acting on behalf of the store, can choose not to sell at that price. Small errors usually slip through simply because it's easier than risking dealing with disgruntled customers. This doesn't apply to web based ads and sales, however, which are classified as 3rd party sales and fall under a different set of rules. Keep in mind this is also on the total. Upon acceptance, you agree to buy the listed items for the final price, regardless of what each item is actually listed at. The 21 million refund doesn't apply, since it wasn't part of the total.

    Not exactly the same in the US. I know of one case where Best Buy printed an add with some sort of typo on the price of PS3's (Maybe 59.99 instead of 599.99, don't remember exactly). They were not forced to honor this, as it was an obvious typo.

  • iMalc (unregistered) in reply to Your Name
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  • Adam (unregistered)

    THEY'RE using that software, too? Haven't we nailed down the source of this yet????

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/-TODO-fix-before-production.aspx

    :D

  • (cs) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    Not exactly the same in the US. I know of one case where Best Buy printed an add with some sort of typo on the price of PS3's (Maybe 59.99 instead of 599.99, don't remember exactly). They were not forced to honor this, as it was an obvious typo.

    Besides which, doesn't everyone have a little disclaimer in the fine print that says "not responsible for typographical errors, prices subject to change without notice" anyway?

  • (cs) in reply to foo
    foo:
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

    I'm sorry, but a 1,000 kph tail wind? really? If that happens regularly we should change the airline routes to take advantage of them. Imagine the fuel savings.

    No, a 650 kph tail wind. It's still excessive, but the point was that the ground speed given still could have been closer than you might think... if the flight had been heading the opposite direction.

  • ergegs (unregistered) in reply to WizardStan
    WizardStan:
    Crabs:
    Chris, I think when a seller posts a price it is a legally binding contract. You're due a $21 million refund. I'll take 10%, thank you.

    Actually a posted price is only a legally binding contract when it's not an obvious error. Otherwise it'd be pretty easy for a disgruntled, underpaid best buy employee to change the price tags around and give us all $1.00 72" LCDs. Obvious error is loosely defined, so most any error is not legally binding. Small errors are usually just given to the customer to preserve good PR.

    At least in Canada, prices advertised outside the store (ie, in a flyer or on TV) must be honored on the basis that they're a hook to get you into the store, and your decision on where to go may have been swayed by that advertisement. Otherwise, there is no such requirement. However, if the cashier tells you your total, and you say "ok", or make an otherwise accepting motion, THEN it becomes a legally binding contract. If the cash rings up an LCD for $1, and the cashier says "huh, guess it's right. $1 please" then the store must sell it to you for $1. The cashier, acting on behalf of the store, can choose not to sell at that price. Small errors usually slip through simply because it's easier than risking dealing with disgruntled customers. This doesn't apply to web based ads and sales, however, which are classified as 3rd party sales and fall under a different set of rules. Keep in mind this is also on the total. Upon acceptance, you agree to buy the listed items for the final price, regardless of what each item is actually listed at. The 21 million refund doesn't apply, since it wasn't part of the total.
    In Alberta, this is certainly not the case.

  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

    Ground speed stated: 1592km/h MD-11 max. cruise speed according to Wikipedia: 945km/h Required minimum speed of tailwind: 1592km/h - 945km/h = 647km/h = 180m/s = 36 on the Beaufort scale, which traditionally ends at 12

    Beaufort wasn't sailing at 25,000 ft.

  • (cs) in reply to Metal Lord
    Metal Lord:
    anyone else took note of "Kuusamo"? :P

    (almost completely similar to a common arabic curse which refers to one's mother's .. ehm .. private parts, in a somewhat degrading manner. a little like calling someone a motherf!cker)

    ... and so the chief of Tonto's tribe says to the Lone Ranger, "Sure! You can wander anywhere you like round the village - but I have to warn you, we let the cattle roam loose around here, so you have to take care not to step in the Kemo Sabe!"

    Oh, hang on, I just wandered into the wrong joke. Sorry 'bout that!

  • HexHead (unregistered)

    Did that price on the Wendy's menu looked familiar to anyone else? It's 0x80000000 (hex) divided by 100 (base 10)

  • St. Mary's Hospital for the True Image of Respiratory Diseases (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    pglewis:
    ground speed != air speed

    It very well could have been a brisk jet stream.

    http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml

    Ground speed stated: 1592km/h MD-11 max. cruise speed according to Wikipedia: 945km/h Required minimum speed of tailwind: 1592km/h - 945km/h = 647km/h = 180m/s = 36 on the Beaufort scale, which traditionally ends at 12

    Wikipedia:

    The wind speeds vary according to the temperature gradient, exceeding 92 kilometres per hour (50 kn), although speeds of over 398 kilometres per hour (215 kn) have been measured.

    Hmm. Perhaps the Jetstream will reach 647 km/h during some further global warming.

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to car912

    If they didn't want to rewrite the whole form, it would've been useful if they'd said "Error(s) found / Please correct the error below".

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