• (cs) in reply to Chris
    Chris:
    nonny nonny:
    Ian:
    Or with more precision, Rachel Haney! First hit on google for Crump Swing Shake Alabama.

    So, basically, the blurring out of personal information did work, after all?

    rachel might disagree

    [email protected]

  • Vic Tim (unregistered)

    Aw, that's too bad. UEMATSU.DLL is one of the most natural-sounding SPC700 implementations out there.

  • Vic Tim (unregistered) in reply to Cidolfas
    Cidolfas:
    Wait... Nobuo Uematsu has a DLL named after him now? Freaking awesome. Anyone know what program that is?

    Super Jukebox. The pages appear to be gone but not from the Wayback Machine.

    OMFG a different captcha that isn't in my autocomplete

  • Vic Tim (unregistered) in reply to derula
    derula:
    Mr. DOS:
    Uematsu.dll is, it seems, an SPC emulation library

    Not quite... it is a DLL that uses the famous SNESAPU.dll from Alpha-II to play back SPCs. The latter is an SPC emulation library, but it only writes the audio data into a buffer, and doesn't play it.

    SNESAPU is mostly written in assembler, but the DLL interface is written in C. Both of which are open source.

    The author of Uematsu.dll should have just packaged the whole thing into a single dll, not a dll requiring another dll just to work...

    oh, my bad. it's not an implementation

    but I think the WTF is that it doesn't have a Show Mercy button...

    and I read some things on that site a long time ago about "thunking", from the Win98 days when this was new... he had a 16-bit dll to play with, I guess it was easier to wrap and so on.

    The Winamp plugin was especially fun to play with-- it showed the 4 SPC700 registers and you could type bytes into them and trigger sound effects which of course had to be loaded and played alongside the music. It was basically a sampler and Super Jukebox was basically a giant playlist manager for memory dumps from that chip.

  • James Wall (unregistered)

    I just wanted to add the Costco Error message is funnier to me when you know that the title for that page. Many times I end up with a row of tabs that say "Oh, Crikey!"

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to derula
    derula:
    Mr. DOS:
    Uematsu.dll is, it seems, an SPC emulation library

    Not quite... it is a DLL that uses the famous SNESAPU.dll from Alpha-II to play back SPCs. The latter is an SPC emulation library, but it only writes the audio data into a buffer, and doesn't play it.

    SNESAPU is mostly written in assembler, but the DLL interface is written in C. Both of which are open source.

    The author of Uematsu.dll should have just packaged the whole thing into a single dll, not a dll requiring another dll just to work...

    He hasn't been developing it for a while. But it's the program he'll return to someday. Probably release the extreme version or something.

  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to Charles400
    Charles400:
    Who counted all the electrons in the universe, and did you get a different number than my count?

    Our counts are off by two. You go ahead and start over, and I'll do the same. One...two...three...four...

  • No no no (unregistered)

    Is the Facebook invite the interface they used to try to make Amy Winehouse go to rehab?

  • Bruce (unregistered) in reply to halcyon1234
    halcyon1234:
    Clark:
    So, how many times are we going to see the Fred Meyers ad?

    Once for each cent you save.

    So, something like 4294967294 times? Seems a tad excessive.

  • Amy (unregistered)

    They tried to make attend to this event but I said 'no, no, no'.

  • (cs) in reply to Bruce
    Bruce:
    halcyon1234:
    Clark:
    So, how many times are we going to see the Fred Meyers ad?

    Once for each cent you save.

    So, something like 4294967294 times? Seems a tad excessive.

    That is a bit excessive. Must be an ATM error.

  • (cs)

    Prerak Sanghvi, maybe your computer's been zombied. 2.5E122GB would hold a fair few spam e-mails.

  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to Junkie
    Junkie:
    Charles400:
    Who counted all the electrons in the universe, and did you get a different number than my count?
    I only counted 10 electrons. Oh wait... 11 electrons!
    That's weird, I counted %M electrons.
  • (cs) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    Interestingly, what you describe here almost exactly matches the WTF websites for train tickets we use in the UK.

    I use Deutsch Bahn for getting train times in the UK and booking my UK rail tickets, too. Brilliant!

    Having used all three, the UK site is better than SNCF, though that really isn't much of a fight. The DB site is much nicer, so good it's almost... OK...

  • (cs)

    Someone will have to explain the "voices of hate" part. I've read through it several times, and I can't find anything wrong with any of the legible text:

    SEND A MESSAGE TO YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS Raise Your Voice to Overcome the Voices of Hate

    YES, JOE! I want to help HRC go on the offensive to secure equality under the law for all LGBT Americans. So I have signed the attached petition to my Member of Congress and am sending a generous donation of:

    $50 $75 $100 Other $__

    Please add/update my email address. Email: __________

    Please do not detach - HRC will deliver your petition.

    The only issues that caught my eye were: 1) who the heck is Joe, and 2) I would have used a comma, not a period, after "Americans".

  • MrApophis (unregistered) in reply to DES

    Yeah, it's hilarious that they used a period instead, don't you think?

    Look down. Lower.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    LGBT Americans? That's the WTF.

  • Flygon (unregistered)

    Obviously the party is horrible.

  • Kevin Wilson (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    In the cover sheet, the small text doesn't flow back in 3D space with the paper. I just can't imagine why anyone would fake something so bland, when there are choices like photoshopped billboards and such.
    Exactly. Ergo, it probably isn't a fake. The original is posted here: http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2892/genericpackage.jpg
  • Lamah (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    In the cover sheet, the small text doesn't flow back in 3D space with the paper. I just can't imagine why anyone would fake something so bland, when there are choices like photoshopped billboards and such.
    [image]
  • Fab (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    Mark V Shaney:
    Was about time to have a fwt for sncf web site.

    It is the most fucked up big-name reservation website you'll ever find. For instance:

    • Making two similar query will sometimes find the same train at different prices
    • Sometimes, a query will not find a train that exists. Trying later will find it.
    • Some destinations are impossible to buy due to bugs
    • The software will happily propose you choices like a) take direct train from A to B, or b) pay more, leave earlier, and wait 2 hours in some random station, so you can catch the train you could have taken from the start.
    • The software asks you for an nonexistent "frequent mover" number, complains if you fill with garbage, and put a warning that "it is not going to use it" if you leave it blank. Unfortunately, the warning page is displayed as an error page and cancel your transaction.
    • It mixes up seat numbers, and delivers family ticked that are in reality placed far apart.
    • They randomly update it, so features and bugs appear and disappear randomly. When something doesn't work, your best bet is to try again the next day.

    In addition to that, the pricing model used by the sncf is impossible to understand. As far as I can tell, ticket prices are now mostly random.

    Also, specially embarassing is that more and more people in france are using deutsch bahn web site to buy french railway tickets, because there is a commercial accord between the two, and the german website is actually usable.

    Truly, one of the biggest wtf of the web.

    Interestingly, what you describe here almost exactly matches the WTF websites for train tickets we use in the UK.

    I use Deutsch Bahn for getting train times in the UK and booking my UK rail tickets, too. Brilliant!

    I'm the author of the pic and I totally agree with Mark. I often use DB for getting times, but it is impossible to buy tickets anywhere else on the Internet than on their site.

    And after, they write on the website "Favorite website for trip reservation" ...

  • Laere (unregistered)

    But it's not the real WTF about http://www.voyages-sncf.com/

    To know the real one, try: https://www.voyages-sncf.com/

  • TadGhostal (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward

    Yes, but the Aaron is correct. This type of thing violates good UI design. Dialog boxes always disrupt the flow of work, and should only ever appear when the flow of work cannot continue without a response.

    Since the flow of work could easily have continued without the dialog box, it should have not appeared.

  • augue sounds good enough (unregistered) in reply to Jasper

    Jeez, bitter much? What's wrong, you couldn't work out how to use it? It actually made you think? Scared of RTFM'ing? Maybe stick to bloated <insert shitty burning package here> with big shiny buttons that don't make you think. In the meantime, the rest of us will keep using this most excellent piece of work.

    rich was right

    Jasper:
    Actually, the whole program ImgBurn is itself a big WTF. The interface is ugly and very user-unfriendly - a small, non-resizable window crammed with buttons without clear descriptions.

    It's written by a programming nerd who thinks he's funny and who has no talent for designing user interfaces.

  • Matt.C (unregistered)

    You can individually decline the Crumping, the Swinging and the Shaking.

  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    derula:
    Mr. DOS:
    Uematsu.dll is, it seems, an SPC emulation library

    Not quite... it is a DLL that uses the famous SNESAPU.dll from Alpha-II to play back SPCs. The latter is an SPC emulation library, but it only writes the audio data into a buffer, and doesn't play it.

    SNESAPU is mostly written in assembler, but the DLL interface is written in C. Both of which are open source.

    The author of Uematsu.dll should have just packaged the whole thing into a single dll, not a dll requiring another dll just to work...

    He hasn't been developing it for a while. But it's the program he'll return to someday. Probably release the extreme version or something.

    Haha, subtle.

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to Aaron
    Aaron:
    The ImgBurn one makes me mad. "I understood your request, but because you didn't frame it exactly the way I wanted you to, I'm going to pop up an annoying dialog box before letting you continue."

    If you understood the user's intent, then DO IT! Your software is a tool, not a conversation.

    ImgBurn is meant for more advanced users that want to know these things, I like that it has these types of messages, it helps to explain the requirements of the particular format. eg. When you make a DVD by dragging in the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, it it will tell you that the disc must be ISO and UDF, I never knew that, and now I do.

    If you want "easy to use", try Nero or Roxio.

  • (cs) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Junkie:
    Charles400:
    Who counted all the electrons in the universe, and did you get a different number than my count?
    I only counted 10 electrons. Oh wait... 11 electrons!
    That's weird, I counted %M electrons.
    Aw damnit! I left my fly down!
  • Centricity (unregistered) in reply to augue sounds good enough
    augue sounds good enough:
    Jeez, bitter much? What's wrong, you couldn't work out how to use it? It actually made you think? Scared of RTFM'ing? Maybe stick to bloated <insert shitty burning package here> with big shiny buttons that don't make you think. In the meantime, the rest of us will keep using this most excellent piece of work.

    rich was right

    Jasper:
    Actually, the whole program ImgBurn is itself a big WTF. The interface is ugly and very user-unfriendly - a small, non-resizable window crammed with buttons without clear descriptions.

    It's written by a programming nerd who thinks he's funny and who has no talent for designing user interfaces.

    Aww, did someone insult your favorite toy on the Internet? It's okay, just insult him right back, and your self esteem will be all better

  • M (unregistered) in reply to Mark V Shaney
    Mark V Shaney:
    Was about time to have a fwt for sncf web site.

    It is the most fucked up big-name reservation website you'll ever find.

    And it's been like this for years, definitely the crappiest reservation web site ever made...

  • david (unregistered) in reply to bonarez
    bonarez:
    actually Lightning UK, the author of imgburn is a very good programmer. He was also the author of dvd decrypter for those who remember..

    Extremely good in my opinion, to be across the extraordinary variety of CD and DVD specs.

    Nero 6 was fine but when Nero 8 went to 185MB (IIRC) I abandoned it and found ImgBurn. The latest version allows you a full range of folder and file design in the layout of the disk (for example, renaming files within the UI). That was the only thing I missed about Nero.

  • Adrian (unregistered)

    It is easy to see the name blurred out on the facebook page: "Rachel Maney".

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