• Royale Noir FTW! (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    G H:
    Is that an XP theme in the XACT screenshot, or is that vista? Anybody know?
    Looks like the Zune theme for XP.

    Incorrect it is "Royale Noir" because the Zune theme has crappy looking orange buttons, where "Royale Noir" has the red and green buttons similar to the standard blue "Royale" theme.

    I use "Royale Noir" it's the best, though it was left unfinished by Microsoft as some parts are still "Royale" Blue where they didn't update them yet.

    "Royale Noir" was later turned into the Vista taskbar theme.

  • Xythar (unregistered)

    That pricetag error is one reason nobody goes to CVS pharmacies anymore. It's all about SVN pharmacies now.

  • (cs) in reply to Stephen
    Stephen:
    technically those frappachinos are worth $1000.
    I realize that a lot of people thing pennies are worthless. But they still have some value.
  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to Kermos
    Kermos:
    Why would that make the customer an idiot? Hell I'd do it if I had the opportunity. If I'm in a store and the store incorrectly prices a product then it isn't *MY* fault they did so. Businesses in this world have absolutely no issues taking advantage of me as a customer any way they can, I see zero problem in turning that around against them once in a while.
    Hmmm...
    Kermos:
    TRWTF, is that someone stuck that tag on the rack without giving it a look to see whether they maybe were putting the wrong tag on an item.
    ...maybe it was done on purpose? Let's see how many folks will be curious enough to play risk. With no risk, actually, except that of a probably slightly elevated price which they would be paying anyway because it would be soooo much lower than $999.99.

    captcha: gravis - oh man... the memories!

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to Jack
    Jack:
    Kermos:
    ...
    Kermos:
    Sorry, it should have been
    Me:
    .
    captcha: transverbero - zif it knew!
  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to chrismcb
    Stephen:
    technically those frappachinos are worth $1000.
    No, they are not. And even if the price was $1000 they still wouldn't be. They would COST $1000. And cost is quite distinct from worth for which you mistook it. Back to maths - if the price was $999.99 the frachios... coffee would still TECHNICALLY cost $999.99 and not even THEORETICALLY $1000, because this is not $999.(9).

    captcha: sagaciter - WTF is this machine doing?

  • Confused (unregistered)

    I don't get it. Why are there three pictures of this guy Malcolm Eleby in the sports heading?

  • CoyneT (unregistered) in reply to Kuli
    Kuli:
    "Click "I" icon to see the list of special characters"

    -- Hmmh, maybe I'm dumb, but I can't imagine why anybody might want to see a list of special characters when the password can't contain them anyway.

    Actually, I've encountered a situation where certain special characters are unacceptable--can't be handled. Someone generated a random password for me (on Linux or Windows--not sure). The password was something like this:

        A9@sd5^U87*
    The problem was, I needed to use the password on an IBM system using EBCDIC...which doesn't have a "^" character in the character set. (It doesn't have "[" or "]" either. Of course, we IBMers could all demand that you allow "¢", "¦" as well as "|", and "¬"; in passwords. Go UniCode!)

    And then, of course, there are sensitvities such as the HTML sensitivity to "&", "<" and ">". (I realize failure to handle those properly is lame, but then that's why we have TheDailyWTF.)

    Perhaps HP is filtering for some situation(s) like that.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone you wish you were
    Someone you wish you were:
    Someone You Know:
    The Real WTF is a school that refers to its athletes as "Bonnies".

    No, TRWTF is that you don't know that "Bonnie" is Caribbean Creole slang derived from the French "bon ballerz" which loosely translates as good basketball player.

    So the fact that dem bonnies have themselves some mad skillz at passing the duchy pan di left and side is no TRWTF if jah get my meaning man.

    Jules: English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!

  • klogd (unregistered) in reply to Xythar

    haha :D

  • SumOnky (unregistered) in reply to Confused
    Confused:
    I don't get it. Why are there three pictures of this guy Malcolm Eleby in the sports heading?

    THE GOGGLES! THEY'RE ALL THE SAME GUY!!!

  • DVCS fan (unregistered) in reply to Xythar

    GIT phamarcies you mean?

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Oh, they care alright, they care very much that your money can get filched. And because it can get filched, that's why they've implemented this big complex scheme to blame you for it when it happens and not have to pay you back.

    That's Chip And PIN as well. If someone buys something using a clone of your credit card and enters your PIN (because they used a l33t hacking technique, such as, for instance, using their eyes) then you will have a nightmare of a job getting the money back, as the card companies will claim you are lying. This has happened in the UK (and possibly elsewhere) with the cardholder being charged with fraud.

    (There are lots of quite easy ways of making PINs harder to 'hack' (A.K.A. 'see'), but banks don't want to use them).

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to NCBloodhound
    NCBloodhound:
    Kuba:
    TRWTF perhaps is that a lot of retail systems "defaults" to $999.99 or somesuch if no data is available... I hope it's just someone missing their morning coffee.

    What else should it default to $0.00? If it did that then people would demand it at that price. $999.99 at least clues you in that something is wrong and I doubt customers would demand it at that price.

    The Real WTF is that anyone is paying any price for that stuff. Ugh!

  • Todo: register username (unregistered)

    ign stuff seems to happen very freq

  • P. Ash (unregistered) in reply to Old Student
    Old Student:
    Someone You Know:
    The Real WTF is a school that refers to its athletes as "Bonnies".

    I wholeheartedly agree. (The school in question is St. Bonaventure University, located in Western New York.) The former moniker was the 'Brown Indians,' but the Seneca Nation objected to the portrayal of Native Americans, so the name was changed.

    More trivia: The Newspaper shown in the image is the Olean Times Herald (not exactly a paragon of journalism, but not bad for a small town daily newspaper).

    I lived in that area for more than 25 years... brings back memories...

    Glad somebody picked up on the Newspaper origin.

    The St. Bonaventure Bonnies, or "Brown Indians", are currently 10-5 and 1-1 in Atlantic-10 play and feature one of the top freshmen players in the country (not Malcolm Eleby). They play St. Joseph's tonight at 7 o'clock and can be seen on channelsurfing.net.

  • Baptiste (unregistered)

    Couldn't it be that Malcolm Eleby is the photographer's name?

  • wjrob (unregistered) in reply to Xythar

    HAHAH svn ftw

  • (cs)

    Here is Malcolm Eleby. HERE is Malcolm Eleby. Here is Malcolm Eleby.

    Two of the people will tell lies, while the real person has sworn "to tell the truth."

    ...

    Will the real Malcolm Eleby please stand up...

  • .NetRolller 3D (unregistered) in reply to Xythar

    I prefer [url=http://bazaar-vcs.org/]bazaars[/b].

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