• Rich (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack

    In the UK, the phrase to look for is "E&OE", which is a disclaimer for "Errors and omissions excepted", which means "We're not bound by any of the prices, descriptions or photographs in this flyer". However, when a price is agreed upon and the seller offers goods or services for that price, they can't change their minds after you've paid. Notice however, that the total is the number that matters: the itemised list is just a convenience to the client.

  • (cs) in reply to St. Mary's Hospital for the True Image of Respiratory Diseases
    AdT:
    Ground speed stated: 1592km/h
    Just a thought: 1592 = 10000 * (1 / 2 pi) (rounded to nearest integer). Could it be a bug in a polar-to-cartesian conversion ?
  • Moot (unregistered)

    DLink routers are notorious for unfinished text, mine has plenty of stuff missing. (WBR-1310)

  • anon (unregistered)

    I've always thought the Baconator was a ridiculous name, but you can't fully appreciate it until you stand behind somebody who orders one. When you hear the word "Baconator" come out of someone's mouth, a little piece of your humanity dies.

  • J (unregistered) in reply to Marketing Error
    Marketing Error:
    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.

    There are two different scenarios - in one, you have an advertised price, in the other you have a shelf price (or a price tag on the item itself).

    Advertised prices tend to have little wiggle room for the retailer - if they advertise something, they generally have to provide it at that price, in reasonable number (unless it's specified as limited) to prevent the old bait 'n' switch.

    If a shelf price is wrong - almost anywhere in the world - then too bad... the retailer is under no legal obligation to sell at that price until the cashier asks for it at the register and the customer agrees.

    Generally stores will honour shelf prices that are wrong as a code of conduct or whatever. But there is NO legal requirement to do so.

    Consumers are usually grossly ignorant of their rights and cry legally foul in cases where they haven't a leg to stand on, but meekly roll over in cases where they're taken advantage of. Back when I used to work retail, it was one of the things that killed me inside.

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

    Yeh, because the phone will totally interfere with the navigational equipment, right? Right?

    You're one of those people who turn off their mobile phone at the petrol station, aren't you?

    Relax, people - a mobile phone isn't a magical bomb fuse/EM jammer. It's - honest - just a phone.

  • Médinoc (unregistered)

    Why are there several "to" in the rename message box?

  • 737Pilot (unregistered)

    Okay, the groundspeed readout could well be correct. The systems used for the in-seat displays in aircraft typically get their data from a completely separate GPS unit to the main aircraft navigational systems. (Hence these systems may appear in say an old 747-300 which unless modified has no GPS)

    anyway... getting back to the maths.

    The TRUE airspeed of the aircraft (TAS) is usually much higher than the indicated (including maximum) airspeed (IAS) of the aircraft during cruising flight.

    Pulling a few rough figures, MD-11 running late, cruising at close to Vne (max speed 520kts IAS) close to the tropoppause for maximum TAS, would have a TAS around 859 kts.

    [35000 feet, 29.92in Hg, -51c, 480kts values entered]

    1 knot = 1.852 km/hr, so now the groundspeed with 0 wind component is already 1,590km/hr

    Many jetstreams jetstreams are capable of around 150kts, so adding that to your converted TAS allows for some serious ground speeds.

    Even in a 737 which cruises at around M0.74 (compared to the MD-11's 0.82), with a decent jetstream, we can see "supersonic" groundspeeds...

  • fink (unregistered) in reply to Todd

    I note, Todd, you didn't say anything about being "underpaid" ... so it's back to reeducation camp for you!

  • WizardStan (unregistered) in reply to ergegs
    ergegs:
    In Alberta, this is certainly not the case.
    Which is not the case? That a paper/radio/television ad is not a fixed price; that web ads are, in fact, also held in the same regard; that the seller is under no obligation to sell, even after both parties have agreed; or that the agreed prices do refer to the itemized list and not the total? Because I've been through the Fair Trade act of Alberta and confirmed that it works the exact same way in Alberta as it does in Ontario. Except possibly the web ads, which I can't find referenced anywhere. Check it out yourself. Part 2, section 6 is probably the best place to start. It's a good read, if you're into self enlightenment. You'd be surprised at how many people think they have rights they don't, and forget about rights they do.
  • CoyneT (unregistered)

    Error: Integer overflow setting dialog width.

  • Chris McKenzie (unregistered)

    Awesome! My first WTF! Imagine my shock when I saw the image of the Order Confirmation Board (OCB) for which I wrote the communication drivers!

    Each of these fast food places has its own POS system. Each POS has slightly different output for the Order Confirmation Board devices. This requires that a new driver be written to communicate with each POS system. I'd like to fix this error, so if the poster could tell me exactly which Wendy's this error was spotted at, I could identify the problem driver.

    Thanks!

  • (cs) in reply to Morasique

    It's the "Nugget Combo Lite." For the people who are on a diet, but still want to eat fast food.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    I've always thought the Baconator was a ridiculous name, but you can't fully appreciate it until you stand behind somebody who orders one. When you hear the word "Baconator" come out of someone's mouth, a little piece of your humanity dies.

    Which is why fast food restaurants typically number their combos. People can bring themselves to whisper "number 6" much sooner than "Baconator combo".

  • Keegan (unregistered)

    What? You didn't demand your 21 million dollars you were clearly due?

  • T (unregistered) in reply to null
    null:
    Now we know where the NASA engineers who designed the Mars Express ended up.

    Mars Express was made by ESA, not NASA. The spacecraft is still working fine, though the attached Beagle 2 lander failed for unknown reasons. The spacecraft that failed because of wrong units was the Mars Climate Orbiter.

  • Morten (unregistered) in reply to Motti
    Motti:
    The real WTF is that Iain has such a wide monitor and I don't!

    You don't need a large monitor to get a large message box. I happen to have a screen shot laying around of an error I got. The error is 2690 pixels wide. My monitor has a 1920x1200 pixels resolution, which means the message is too wide to fit. But you can drag it back and forth to read it all, and you can make a perfectly fine screen shot of it.

  • ShadowLord (unregistered) in reply to 737Pilot

    @737Pilot:

    Your reasoning is pretty sound. It is easily possible for airplanes to fly very fast when considering ground speed, because of the jetstream.

    However, from the photo it is VERY clear the plane if flying from east to west. And the jetstream is always going from west to east. This means the plane in the picture is flying in the opposite direction of the jetstream. So instead of speeding up this plane, the jetstream is slowing it down.

    The posted speed in this particular picture is clearly wrong (most likely due to hardware failure).

    But this doesn't mean that seeing this speed in a different plane (flying west to east) will be incorrect as well.

  • nmezib (unregistered)

    Wendy's: "here are your nuggets... and $21 million in change"

  • default (unregistered) in reply to car912
    car912:
    Let's expand that third one a little bit. [image]

    magically becomes

    [image]

    Amazing, isn't it?

    This comment should be featured.

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