• jon_k (unregistered)

    ... and that would be the only scenario I wouldn't complain about not qualifying for "FREE" Super Saver Shipping.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Why didn't he qualify for the free super saver shipping?

  • jbosss (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Why didn't he qualify for the free super saver shipping?

    Cos' bilionaires dont get that advantage!

  • NotanEnglishMajor (unregistered)

    I see that we are now using the new and improved Metric time.

    10 days per week. Somehow, though, we are still left with 4 weeks per month.

    Oh well...

    Smile.

  • (cs)

    I think it's the contrary. If you look closely, there's a minus sign. Amazon thinks he owes them a lot…

  • BestSnowman (unregistered) in reply to labria
    labria:
    I think it's the contrary. If you look closely, there's a minus sign. Amazon thinks he owes them a lot…

    What? The order total is negative, that means Amazon thinks they own him alot of money.

  • foo (unregistered)

    The dialog with "?" needs a Cancel button in addition to Ok. If they just want an Ok button, the dialog should read "!".

  • Joon (unregistered)

    OK, I'll be the explainer (party pooper?) this time around

    The .NET framework 1.1 throws exceptions with a question mark when it cannot load strong-named assemblys

    If this error recurs often (as used to happen on my old dev box), it is most likely a hard drive / HDD controller problem.

    Still is a stupid error message, though

    OK, the captcha fits: ewww

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    The dialog with "?" needs a Cancel button in addition to Ok. If they just want an Ok button, the dialog should read "!".

    Maybe the small x in the upper right corner is Cancel? :-)

    BestSnowman:
    Amazon thinks they own him alot of money.

    You'll note that there are subtle semantic differences between "to own sb" and "to owe sb"...

  • (cs)

    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...

  • Doug (unregistered) in reply to PSWorx

    Looks like somebody took a ride on the bitter train today.

  • (cs)

    May 40th is just another representation of Junetember 10st, 19107

  • (cs)

    That last one is an ICONIC representation of this site!

    Alex, a new icon perhaps?

  • Troy Mclure (unregistered) in reply to PSWorx
    PSWorx:
    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...

    Yet you come back on the 13th time? If you were disappointed the first 12 times, what does that say about you that you still come back?

  • (cs)

    Maybe Amazon was holding a special lottery!

  • Alcari (unregistered) in reply to PSWorx
    PSWorx:
    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...

    Go ahead, nobody's stopping you

  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    foo: The dialog with "?" needs a Cancel button in addition to Ok. If they just want an Ok button, the dialog should read "!".

    Maybe the small x in the upper right corner is Cancel? :-)

    BestSnowman: Amazon thinks they own him alot of money.

    You'll note that there are subtle semantic differences between "to own sb" and "to owe sb"...

    with all the money they owe him, danny may very well soon own Amazon.

  • (cs)

    I want to know what he did to get $20 billion in gift certificates! ;-)

  • (cs) in reply to Joon
    Joon:
    The .NET framework 1.1 throws exceptions with a question mark when it cannot load strong-named assemblys
    Such as the Strong Brothers (Bad, Mad, and Sad)?
  • D (unregistered) in reply to jon_k
    jon_k:
    ... and that would be the only scenario I wouldn't complain about not qualifying for "FREE" Super Saver Shipping.

    Does Amazon owe him 20 billion? Caz they should!

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Why didn't he qualify for the free super saver shipping?

    It looks like he was buying from vendors other than Amazon. I don't believe that super saver shipping covers 3rd party purchases.

  • Michael (unregistered) in reply to dspencer
    dspencer:
    I want to know what he did to get $20 billion in gift certificates! ;-)
    No, you don't. Unless you really really really like Jeff Bezos, in which case _I_ don't want to know.
  • CoyneT (unregistered)

    A while back, I proposed writing a letter to Microsoft complaining that their messages were not terse enough and that their ability to reuse messages was abysmal.

    My "Message Elegance Standard" proposal was that Microsoft could handle every possible case by using the following messages:

    • Sure?
    • Certain?
    • Ok.
    • Failed.
    • Futile.
    • Likely.
    • Possible.
    • Hopeless.
    • Hey...
    • Urgent!
    • Critical!
    • Must.
    • Imperative.
    • Cease.
    • Should.
    • Unwise.
    • Insane.
    • Inept.
    • Bungler.
    • Idiot.
    • .kO (for undo)
    • Banned.
    • Forbidden.
    • Full.
    • Died.
    • Reboot.

    Clearly, my proposal was far too verbose; I am shamed to find that Microsoft already was developing such a Standard that is far better than what I proposed.

    I mean, talk about elegance:

    • .
    • !
    • ?

    Those say it all.

  • (cs)

    That last message was apparently coded when the programmer became enlightened by ed.

  • (cs) in reply to foo
    foo:
    The dialog with "?" needs a Cancel button in addition to Ok. If they just want an Ok button, the dialog should read "!".

    No way!!! That should be a yes/no dialog. Ok/Cancel on that circunstance would lead to quite a messy dialog.

    And, Spectre, what do you have against ed? Yesterday, for example I had to use sed (ok, not plain ed) to configure a system... It is quite usefull when you have no emacs, or vi, or nano, or pico, or...

  • (cs) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    And, Spectre, what do you have against ed? Yesterday, for example I had to use sed (ok, not plain ed) to configure a system... It is quite usefull when you have no emacs, or vi, or nano, or pico, or...

    Nothing at all. It's just a bit "enlightening", especially when you see it for the first time. 8=]

  • (cs) in reply to Spectre
    Spectre:
    Mcoder:
    And, Spectre, what do you have against ed? Yesterday, for example I had to use sed (ok, not plain ed) to configure a system... It is quite usefull when you have no emacs, or vi, or nano, or pico, or...

    Nothing at all. It's just a bit "enlightening", especially when you see it for the first time. 8=]

    Any sufficiently advanced regular expression is indistinguishable from line noise. ='D

  • (cs) in reply to Spectre
    Spectre:
    That last message was apparently coded when the programmer became enlightened by ed.
    Who doesn't understand ed? As it says in its own man page:

    The ed utility is the standard text editor.

  • CoyneT (unregistered) in reply to Spectre
    Spectre:
    That last message was apparently coded when the programmer became enlightened by ed.

    No, I was enlightened (more properly, annoyed) by some of Microsoft Outlook's messages, such as:

    The action failed to complete. The action failed to complete.
    Archive skips store due to error. Failed to open a source store.
    The Operation Failed.

    Outlook, especially, specializes in "informative" messages that don't tell you anything. The best of the ones I quoted above doesn't tell you what failed to open which store and the other two are...hopeless.

    Originally, I had intended a tongue-in-cheek complaint to Microsoft that the above messages were too verbose and redundant, not to mention lacking in capacity for reuse (though the last one wasn't bad). It recommended that they adopt my highly reusable, one-word (terse) Standard responses rather than the above.

    Of course what my message would really have meant is, "Get a life and put something useful in your messages."

  • James Schend (unregistered)

    My favorite is Cisco's VPN software, which frequently fails with "reason 442."

    What is "reason 442?" I dunno, Google it. You'll get a dozen different answers, none of which fix the issue. You just have to uninstall and re-install the VPN software.

    I'm always amazed at companies like Cisco who are pulling in billions, and yet ship really crummy software. It only takes a few hundred thousand to make a program not suck...

  • Herohtar (unregistered)

    I like how April 28 - May 40 is only 7 days...

  • Saccarissa (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    May 40th is just another representation of Junetember 10st, 19107

    ...lousy Smarch weather...

  • adsf (unregistered)

    Maybe Amazon is using Excel 2007 to calculate gift certificates...

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to CoyneT
    CoyneT:
    My "Message Elegance Standard" proposal was that Microsoft could handle every possible case by using the following messages:
    I think you forgot "DO NOT WANT!"
  • (cs) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    I like how April 28 - May 40 is only 7 days...
    It's a typo, April 28 - May 4. Which is 7 days inclusive.

    Why they enter the dates as text, and enter the number of days separately is another wtf of course.

  • iogy (unregistered) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    I'm always amazed at companies like Cisco who are pulling in billions, and yet ship really crummy software. It only takes good testing, good understanding of the customer, good programmers and sane management to make a program not suck...

    There, fixed that for you.

    Also, did you consider the extra profits you can get out of Official Certifications? People are still awestruck by most IT voodoo, which means bigger budgets and no manager wants to hear they screwed up because they didn't pick the cream of the crop.

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    I'm always amazed at companies like Cisco who are pulling in billions, and yet ship really crummy software. It only takes a few hundred thousand to make a program not suck...

    The amount of money you make selling extremely pervasive hardware is probably entirely independent of how good your software is.

  • Nelle (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    Herohtar:
    I like how April 28 - May 40 is only 7 days...
    It's a typo, April 28 - May 4. Which is 7 days inclusive.

    Why they enter the dates as text, and enter the number of days separately is another wtf of course.

    probably 4 + 0 in a weak typed language

  • (cs) in reply to PSWorx
    PSWorx:
    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...

    Let's hope you keep suffocating. It'll shut you up.

  • Nobody (all that) important (unregistered) in reply to foo

    Better yet ... it should have: "Ignore / Retry / Cancel" ... that's even more informative ... right? :\

  • wiregoat (unregistered)

    The real wtf is people who SUFFOCATE from laughing.

  • (cs) in reply to Troy Mclure
    Troy Mclure:
    PSWorx:
    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...
    Yet you come back on the 13th time? If you were disappointed the first 12 times, what does that say about you that you still come back?
    It's probably a baker's dozen...
  • (cs) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    when you have no emacs, or vi, or nano, or pico, or...

    In other words, under no real-world circumstances whatsoever. (I'm actually a fan of ed - though, using sed for that is just evil.)

  • (cs) in reply to Troy Mclure
    Troy Mclure:
    PSWorx:
    Whoa! Database inconsistencies! Two of them! And ... and ... and ... a missing entry in the string table! We totally didn't have ANY of those like maybe a dozen times before! I'm literally SUFFOCATING from laughter right here...

    Yet you come back on the 13th time? If you were disappointed the first 12 times, what does that say about you that you still come back?

    That he's an optimist.

  • (cs) in reply to CoyneT
    CoyneT:
    Spectre:
    That last message was apparently coded when the programmer became enlightened by ed.

    No, I was enlightened (more properly, annoyed) by some of Microsoft Outlook's messages, such as:

    The action failed to complete. The action failed to complete.
    Archive skips store due to error. Failed to open a source store.
    The Operation Failed.
    <Lots of text>

    Um, actually I meant the last screenshot from the article, not your comment. A funny coincidence, anyway 8=].

  • Jeffrey L. Whitledge (unregistered)

    There is absolutely nothing wrong on any of these screen shots. Nothing at all.

    How do you like that aardvark?

  • CoyneT (unregistered) in reply to Thief^
    Thief^:
    Herohtar:
    I like how April 28 - May 40 is only 7 days...
    It's a typo, April 28 - May 4. Which is 7 days inclusive.

    Why they enter the dates as text, and enter the number of days separately is another wtf of course.

    Actually, my guess was a programming error. If you overlay "30" (from April 30) with "4" (from May 4), without initializing the field first, you get "40".

  • Synonymous Awkward (unregistered)

    "How are gift certificates, gift cards, and promotional claim codes applied?"

    Badly, apparently.

  • Flim McBoobie (unregistered) in reply to Doug
    Doug:
    Looks like somebody took a ride on the bitter train today.

    No, somebody got left behind at Dumb Ass Junction though.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to labria

    WTF?

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