• Edward Royce (unregistered)

    Hmmm.

    $18 for 4 Miller lites??

  • aliud (unregistered) in reply to DaveAronson
    DaveAronson:
    ParkinT:
    sprintf("This %s is %s and has just %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 3, "minutes", "life")
    Segmentation fault
    Try PHP
  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to pitchingchris

    If I have a dual processor 1GHz machine, I need to buy two licenses, but if I have a single processor 2GHz machine, I only need 1? Rather bizarre. (Okay, just multiplying processors * clock speed isn't a rigorous method of comparing performance, but I'm sure you get the idea.) Will they next charge extra if I have a a newer version of the OS? What if I have a high-resolution monitor?

    Ah well, I guess it's all market differentiation. If you're rich enough to afford an 8-processor server, you probably don't mind paying a little more for the software. Like why do video games cost $50 when they first come out and six months later they cost $20? Surely because the people who insist on having the latest thing right now are willing to pay more, and the manufacturers don't mind taking their money.

  • bk (unregistered)

    Wait, chocolate milk is free?

  • (cs) in reply to Scurvy
    Scurvy:
    From what I understand, the consensus is that the owners of multiprocessor machines (up until dual/quad core became average consumer affordable) are businesses/institutes who are using it for-profit. The more procs, the beefier the machine, the (usually) more profit. Per-processor licenses are therefore used when the software company wants people who make a profit off their stuff to pay more. Because they can.
    Sweet, I have a new business plan: 1. Buy lots of processors. 2. ????? 3. Profit!
  • Pol (unregistered)

    why was 6 scared of 7...because 7 8 9...

    thank you...I'll be here all week...

  • (cs) in reply to mightybaldking
    mightybaldking:
    The RWTF is that you're drinking Miller lite.

    I 2nd that.

  • Scurvy (unregistered) in reply to elias
    elias:
    Scurvy:
    From what I understand, the consensus is that the owners of multiprocessor machines (up until dual/quad core became average consumer affordable) are businesses/institutes who are using it for-profit. The more procs, the beefier the machine, the (usually) more profit. Per-processor licenses are therefore used when the software company wants people who make a profit off their stuff to pay more. Because they can.
    Sweet, I have a new business plan: 1. Buy lots of processors. 2. ????? 3. Profit!

    I seem to remember some companies that tried that. They forgot step 2 though: Have great idea.

  • (cs) in reply to webrunner
    webrunner:
    Licensing per number of processors makes sense for a server, I guess, since it's a way of gauging how many people can use it at a given time, although at that point you might as well license based on number of gigs of ram.

    But for CAD? Sorry, your machine is too fast! You need better license! A single-user program that has a different license based on HOW POWERFUL THE MACHINE IS is just sparta.

    IBM mainframe software is licensed by the power (speed) of the computer. Computer models (IBM and competing hardware) are divided into groups, and a license for a "group 10" system costs less than a license for a "group 20" system.

    Makes perfect sense to me. CAD software can run on a slow single-processor system, or a single-processor system that is 10 times as fast (and has 16 times as much memory), and costs the same amount of money.

    Although, cable TV isn't charged by the size of your TV nor by the number of people sitting in the living room, but often by the number of TVs connected.

  • (cs) in reply to SuperousOxide
    SuperousOxide:
    Mike:
    I'm a little concerned for the children at that table. That is a lot of beer to be throwing around with 1 or 2 kids there. And all they got was chocolate milk? What a ripoff.

    Maybe the JD sampler was for them. Samplers are usually small glasses, and kids like small things.

    Yes, a Jack Daniels sampler.

  • gar (unregistered)

    Everyone should digg that story. Remember, every time you just gloss over, god kills a kitten.

    captcha: nimis - hm, that doesn't seem to be dictionary derived, what gives!

  • Ubertakter (unregistered) in reply to Your Name

    I feel bad he had to pay that much for miller lite. Too bad he couldn't or didn't choose to drink better beer.

  • (cs) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    SuperousOxide:
    Mike:
    I'm a little concerned for the children at that table. That is a lot of beer to be throwing around with 1 or 2 kids there. And all they got was chocolate milk? What a ripoff.

    Maybe the JD sampler was for them. Samplers are usually small glasses, and kids like small things.

    Yes, a Jack Daniels sampler.

    The J.D. sampler is an appetizer plate prepared with J.D.-based sauces. It's not whisky.

  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    The J.D. sampler is an appetizer plate prepared with J.D.-based sauces. It's not whisky.

    Well, that's disappointing. I'll take samples of all their Johnnie Walker insteaad.

  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to mightybaldking
    mightybaldking:
    The RWTF is that you're drinking Miller lite.

    I don't actually DRINK it! I just like to have one on the table to sneer at.

  • BlueCollarAstronaut (unregistered) in reply to DaveAronson
    DaveAronson:
    ParkinT:
    sprintf("This %s is %s and has just %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 3, "minutes", "life")
    Segmentation fault

    sprintf("This %s is %s and has already %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 5, "minutes", "life")

    I think I fixed it for him. Does that look better?

  • (cs) in reply to Your Name
    Your Name:
    I sure hope no-one cooked the 4 Miller Lites from the bottom of the receit
    Why would it matter? Ain't nothing you can do to a Miller Lite, including cooking it, that can make it any worse.
  • lantastik (unregistered) in reply to pitchingchris
    pitchingchris:
    Isuwen:
    The license based on the NUMBER OF PROCESSORS?

    Is this a wtf of programming, marketing, or corporate idiocy?

    I don't think that the app should not run. SQL server is licensed the same way.

    I'd like to know what is the logic behind regulating that, though... Do they have stuff in there that will dynamically allocate threads and only as many threads as processors you have ? What if I only want to buy one license and let it use one processor on a quad processor machine. Especially in this day and age when multi-core computers are now common. Why should we pay more to run the same software on a dual core machine ?

    This is ONE of the ways SQL Server is licensed. You would license SQL Server this way if you wanted to have a LARGE number of connection to the server at one time and didn't want to have to pay per connection.

    The other sometimes much less inexpensive option is to license it per CAL. I can have a million processors and it'll run, but at that point I am paying for the number of connections. There is also Select licensing, developer licensing (which is next to nothing, like $50 for a dev license), et al.

  • (cs) in reply to bk
    bk:
    Wait, chocolate milk is free?

    Kid's drinks are included with their meal at a lot of places. Speaking of which, I don't know if the ch in "ch milk" would be chocolate of children's.

  • Wolfgang T. Frusengladje (unregistered) in reply to JimM
    JimM:
    Also, there was a news story over here a few weeks ago (can't find an online link atm) about a restuarant where the waiters had put some very abusive remarks on a customers bill and they were printed out on the receipt. The restaurant got sued, IIRC...
    SUCK MY D*** F*** FACE - at least there was no charge for it.
  • dude (unregistered)

    Actually, the "Don't Cook" thing makes sense. Generally when you order something at a restaurant the waiter will punch your order into a computer and it will print out a ticket in the kitchen or at the bar for all of your food or drinks, respectively. The cook/bartender will then cook/pour the food/drinks, and the waiter picks them up and brings them to your table. If you have a special request for your food, the computer has a "Don't Cook" (more commonly "No Make") button that essentially tells the kitchen "don't cook this order until I come back there and tell you what the special request is". Sometimes when the waiter is in a hurry and you just need another beer, he'll drop by the bartender and just ask for the beer in person, then ring it into the computer after the fact, using the "Don't Cook" button as a makeshift way of telling the bartender he doesn't need to pour that beer again.

    The only thing error'd about this is that this internal communication mechanism got printed onto the customer's receipt.

  • (cs) in reply to pitchingchris
    pitchingchris:
    I don't think that the app should not run. SQL server is licensed the same way.

    I'd like to know what is the logic behind regulating that, though... Do they have stuff in there that will dynamically allocate threads and only as many threads as processors you have ? What if I only want to buy one license and let it use one processor on a quad processor machine. Especially in this day and age when multi-core computers are now common. Why should we pay more to run the same software on a dual core machine ?

    You can allocate SQL Server to whatever processor(s) you want. One, all, even, odd. And it's licensed per physical CPU not per core. Ex, I have a dual quad-core box, 8 processor cores. I only need 2 CPU licenses because I only have 2 CPUs.

  • Darren Meyer (unregistered)

    "Don't cook" is a preset button that means "don't make this, it already went out, and I'm only ringing it in because I need to charge the guest". It's used, for example, when someone changes their order and the server tells the cooks to rush the new order.

    Without "don't cook", the kitchen would make 2 of the entree, since all kitchen orders are printed in the kitchen.

    At places like TGI Friday's, bar orders also get sent to printers in the bar. Instead of the server taking the time to type in "don't make", they just used the pre-made "don't cook" key, assuming the bartenders would understand what they meant.

    It's perfectly reasonable, once you understand what happened.

  • (cs)

    The number of processors on that computer is... OVER NINE THOUSAAND!

  • (cs) in reply to Your Name

    Maybe they wouldn't taste so bad if they did

  • Me (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    Wrong. Only 20 seconds.

  • (cs)

    You're right, TGIF does have a problem, it should read:

    1 SC Miller Lite DON'T SERVE

  • (cs) in reply to JimM
    JimM:
    pitchingchris:
    Why should we pay more to run the same software on a dual core machine ?
    AFAIK most applications that use per-processor licensing have the entry level at up to 2 processors. So you wouldn't have to pay more to use dual core.

    Quad core, on the other hand...

    Actually, it's possible for software to determine how many physical processors exist (not cores). Microsoft products will count physical processors, and happily use as many cores as you want (and have) - a quad core processor is considered 1 processor for licensing, not 4.

  • Bhelyer (unregistered) in reply to BlueCollarAstronaut
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    DaveAronson:
    ParkinT:
    sprintf("This %s is %s and has just %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 3, "minutes", "life")
    Segmentation fault

    sprintf("This %s is %s and has already %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 5, "minutes", "life")

    I think I fixed it for him. Does that look better?

    Nope. It's a sprintf call - you have to specify a string to write to.

  • Bhelyer (unregistered) in reply to Bhelyer
    Bhelyer:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    DaveAronson:
    ParkinT:
    sprintf("This %s is %s and has just %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 3, "minutes", "life")
    Segmentation fault

    sprintf("This %s is %s and has already %s %d %s of your %s", "comment", "valueless", "stolen", 5, "minutes", "life")

    I think I fixed it for him. Does that look better?

    Nope. It's a sprintf call - you have to specify a string to write to.

    D'oh. I get it. Nevermind, make it 6 now. </stupid>

  • Dao (unregistered) in reply to Your Name

    No one intelligent reads the Herald Sun. You get it for the pictures its a very low brow paper.

  • yay (unregistered)

    hey guys, "don't cook" is not a WTF because

    (blah blah blah something 20 people have already said in comments that i was too lazy to read)

    hope that was helpful.

  • sqrt(-WTF) (unregistered) in reply to Your Name
    Your Name:
    I sure hope no-one cooked the 4 Miller Lites from the bottom of the receit

    Of course not! Everyone knows that lite beers are served raw.

  • jaxad0127 (unregistered) in reply to Your Name

    Or the milk near the top. That can get quite nasty if it isn't done properly.

  • Infoaddicted (unregistered)

    This is the way TGIF prevents the bartender from pouring a beer when the server made a mistake, a mgr has to void it, on the server has to add the right item back on.

  • Foos (unregistered)

    Sorry if this takes the fun out of the TGI Friday's receipt but having worked there for several years I can tell you the back story. The server (most likely in a hurry) asked the bartender for the beers without ringing them in yet. When they got back to a computer to ring them in they add the Don't Cook to let the bartender know the order has already been made.

  • James (unregistered)

    Two full pages and nobody pointed out how the receipt submitter failed to take his picture on a wooden table?

    For shame, DailWTF readers! For shame!

  • mateo (unregistered)

    the TGIFridays receipt probably means for the bartender not to make those drinks because the waitress/waiter already got them before ringing them in

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to carnivore
    carnivore:
    JimM:
    gabba:
    $4.59 for a Miller Lite? There's the real WTF.
    American beer. 'Nuff Sed.
    belgariontheking:
    Usually, those comments don't appear on the customer's receipt, though, and therein lies the WTF.
    I went to a nice restaurant a couple of weeks ago. They'd just brought in a new vegan menu - I was quite impressed. So, my wife and I ordered from the vegan menu, and our waiter diligiently went to the till and input the new codes for the vegan versions of our dishes. The food arrived covered in cheese and crab. The poor lad was so embarrased - in the end it turned out that although he was putting in the vegan versions on his till, the one up in the kitchen wasn't set up to print out the vegan menu so it was telling the chefs to cook the normal version.

    Compared to that, the comments on the customer's receipt here are as nothing. Also, there was a news story over here a few weeks ago (can't find an online link atm) about a restuarant where the waiters had put some very abusive remarks on a customers bill and they were printed out on the receipt. The restaurant got sued, IIRC...

    Vegan opinions do not count. Anyone too f'ed up to eat real food cannot is too much of a wtf to comment.

    Yes sir, there IS a vegetarian option - you can f*ck off home...

  • silma (unregistered) in reply to bob ardkor

    Priceless!!

  • (cs)

    Poor, Poor Number Death. (It joke in Chinese-you no understand. 5 Dollar, yes?)

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