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The first one's not a WTF because it's on a MAC and MACs are awesome.
You'll rue the day you didn't take out that extra 2 years warranty when it breaks in 1000 years. Mark my words!
The last one is obviously user error as it was submitted by a girl.
/sarcasm
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Hooray for the Star Trek reference.
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The real wtf is the name "WingDings".
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The real WTF is ppl using macs. Eyecandy is all it is
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"If you use a mac, you don't have to be a douche bag, but you probably are."
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The mystery file to be replaced is "thermallogic.gif".
Carry on.
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I was driving in a suburban area I'd never been to before, trying to find a friend's house. I passed a big sign for a new development along "WINDING ROAD". No joke, I thought to myself, "Who the hell names a road Win-Ding road???"
... then I figured it out, and I felt like an idiot.
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Is that a razor blade next to the audio signal in the first picture...?
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The best part is calling it "WingDing Encryption Method". First laugh I had today. Great!
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wingding encryption method windows 95 aol new to concept of computers lawlz!
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Haha, it is indeed, I missed that the first time around. Interesting choice for a warning icon.
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Hmmm.
The day!!
"Hello my good man. May I perchance purchase some WingDings please?"
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That would be the icon of the app in question, presumably a sound editor. The standard warning icon has been badged with the app's icon.
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That would be the icon of the app in question, presumably a sound editor. The standard warning icon has been badged with the app's icon.
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And the first is - obviously! - the result of mistakingly using an uppercase dot in the extension.
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As Mac Pedant pointed out, they've superimposed the application icon on the warning dialog, so you know which app caused the warning.
The CD+waveform+razor icon looks a lot like the one half-way down this page: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index5.html, for a product called Peak Pro
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Ah the good old days of splicing tape...
-notan
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I am eagerly waiting for the first story about some company requiring all hard copies to use WingDings in order to prevent company secrets leaving the premises.
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ahhh see that's where they get you, if it breaks after 83.25 years, then you're in trouble, and it's designed to break in exactly 84 years, what will you do then? (nevermind that by that point you won't care anymore I'm sure, be dead, or have 300 newer models out.
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Very Cute
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For clarification that's 17.6% of notebook sales for this quarter in the U.S. only. Macs represent 5.9% of overall (Desktops and notebooks) in the U.S. for this quarter.
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Idea.
wchat_t textW[]=".mp3"; char textS[] = ".mp3";
bytes on textW: \0 . \0 m \0 p \0 3 \0 \0 bytes on textS: . m p 3 \0
len(textW) => 10 len(textS) => 5
So maybe ".mp3" <> ".mp3" on different type of text.
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"The Best of Both Worlds" is an episode of Star Trek TNG, I believe....
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......or a tune by "Van Hagar"...
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......or one of the most commonly used phrases in the english language...
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I'd love to hear some Apple fan explain the choice in button positions. That is one brain-dead dialog box, even ignoring the whole "can't be .MP3, must be .MP3" part. I'd expect the dialog to be something like:
[Use both] [Use .MP3] [Cancel]
The dumping of the Cancel button in the middle makes absolutely no sense. Is that a Mac thing, and they added the "Use both" button? If it is, I've got a rant about placing Cancel on the left...
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Am I the only one a touch frightened by the use of a razor blade in a warning dialog?
"Change your file name or I'm gonna cut you!"
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That's not MacOS itself; it's a third-party application of some sort. It's not even a standard OS response; MacOS will never force you to give a file a particular extension, though it may confirm if you change one.
(Disclaimer: Is a Mac user.)
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Or an old Mac. The Mac Duo, a microsubnotebook that was stripped of all peripherals (like floppy, CD) to get size down and needed a Duo doc to be useful on your desk was codenamed BoBW, Best of Both Worlds. Picture it as a very large and functional Palm Pilot, but still needs a computer (or docking bay) for real I/O.
captcha:tesla, they rocked man...
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Did someone say 'emo'? I heard there were some great cam girls at emocamgirls.com.
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Most. Tenuous. Reference. Ever.
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On Mac (and Linux with GNOME), affirmative choice is on far right and negative its left side, so the OK button is on always on the edge of the dialog. (I think it's a bit more logical because you don't need to hunt the OKs as much that way.) Also on Mac, additional options (like "Don't save" or whatever) are on the very left.
The point isn't that the cancel is on middle, the point is that the Cancel button isn't right where most people have easiest time mashing their mouse pointer at. =)
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Better to just mashing "OK" to something then? In most situations, if you press Cancel, you can get the dialog again by doing what you did before (trying to close the program, format your hard drive, save a file with a name that already exists) - blindly pressing OK would destroy data in 2/3 of those, cancel would be harmless.
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And I still can't get there from work. They denied my access for "research purposes."
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We've had this discussion here many times before.
Putting the negative where it's most accessible definitely shows more forethought about stupid users (or just dumb luck).
But seriously... When you think about it, since 90% of computer users are as dumb as they are, why would you want them clicking the affirmative response to any old dialog that comes up? Most of the time, dialogs are confirmations that you want to do something potentially destructive.
TRWTF is multi-"extension" file handling. Because you know a period couldn't possibly mean anything other than an extension, in a file name...
Also, if that dialog is the result of a unicode vs ascii error, then that likely means case sensitivity will also be a problem. Would somefile.mp3.Mp3.MP3.mP3.mp3.Mp3.MP3.mP3 play like all 8 of those obviously unique formats, thanks to capital letters and unicode?
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What do they do? Read you depressing poety and threaten to jab themselves with broken pencils?
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If only games were still SNES quality. Then we might get more games like Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Yoshi's Island.
Oh, you meant graphics quality.
(captcha: Doom, which received an N64 port IIRC)
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Does that mean emocamgirls.gov is taken?
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While it is possible to have the second error, to say "most likely" is pretty much wrong since the two cases are almost completely unrelated.
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Better to not try to second-guess your users - assume they took an action deliberately and don't need a second "yes, I really did mean that". If they screwed up, provide a good undo method instead.