• The Grenger (unregistered)

    FIRST, really ... not spam!

  • NullPointerException (unregistered)

    For anyone too lazy to view source, here's the missing image: https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg

    This comment is really not spam (hint: links to this site are probably not spam).

  • Mr. S. (unregistered)

    "I caught this ad on late-nite television," wrote Alasdair, "I better call to claim my £000's!"

    is missing the image for me. Not that I don't already know what it's going to be...

  • Perfidius (unregistered)

    Yeah, that "Install program on D:, save space on C:" doesn't usually work with MS products is not actually news. I recall the same issue with Office.

    capio: I had capio for dinner.

  • R C (unregistered)

    I copy the image link for the 000s, and this is what I get:

    https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg%20/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%C2%A0%3C/p%3E%3C/blockquote%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20name=

    Seriously?

  • PC Load Letter (unregistered)

    I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.

  • Herby (unregistered)

    Maybe the cable for the "wireless install" is something newfangled. Perhaps the "wired wireless device". You never know these days.

  • Keef (unregistered)

    The lexmark printer one isn't quite a WTF. We've got the same printer at home and you use it to tell the printer (via a PC) which wireless router to connect to, WPA settings, etc. A cable's a lot cheaper than building the config stuff directly on the printer I guess.

  • Keef (unregistered)

    And then you unplug the cable once it's setup and (probably) lose it...

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    Great meta-WTF with the missing image - I'm sure you did that deliberately...

    The Visual C# Express one is annoying but understandable - Visual C# Express is installed on the D:\ drive as specified, but the obscene number of prerequisites get installed on your C:\ drive which is non-negotiable. Maybe TRWTF is the fact that the prerequisites are an order of magnitude bigger than the software itself.

  • (cs) in reply to PC Load Letter
    PC Load Letter:
    I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.

    Exactly what I came to say. Without a big screen and a keyboard on the printer, how else do you intend to get the printer on your network? I'm not one to come crying about TRWTF, but...

  • Derp (unregistered)

    Thew Visual C# installer needs to install common components, required to be present on the drive containing %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%, that's where the gross of the size comes from.

    TRWTF is that you're installing an Express product and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to NullPointerException
    NullPointerException:
    For anyone too lazy to view source, here's the missing image: https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg

    This comment is really not spam (hint: links to this site are probably not spam).

    If you spam link to some fake watch/handbag site Akismet will let that shit straight through, as proven by the spam links that now adorn the comment pages for every single article this month. But don't even think of linking to thedailywtf.com, that's so obviously spam you dirty spammer.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Derp
    Derp:
    TRWTF is that you're installing an Express product and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.
    I won't even bother getting into how retarded this statement is, I'd just like to know when exactly did the submitter ask you to take them seriously as a programmer? My point being, why do you think the submitter would have any interest in holding down a conversation with an insufferable prick like you?
  • Ryan (unregistered) in reply to Keef
    Keef:
    And then you unplug the cable once it's setup and (probably) lose it...

    It's a standard USB cable. You can always just buy another one. Or put it in your box o' cables in the basement (everyone has one of those, right? I mean, you never know when you're going to need that circa-1992 serial cable again)

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that they accidentally put a USB cable in the bag.

  • _sam (unregistered)

    £000's is common (on junk mail at least) and I find it easily understandable. Think of some pounds, add 000 and you get some thousands of pounds. No, it doesn't parse precisely. No, no-one cares.

    Target audience for the ad isn't the smartest bunch, after all. but they'll understand better than the submitter, apparently.... :-P

  • Bus Logic (unregistered)

    With the printer, notice that it is a wireless installation cable. It is used to install the printer, that is, to set up the wireless settings from a PC. It is pretty dumb that you need to plug your wireless printer into your PC before you can wirelessly print with it, since that rather suggests you could just be using a wired printer; but it's a rule of modern electronics that if a thing can be done, it will be done without anyone stopping to ask "is there actually any point to this"? It's the same reason we have solar powered keyboards (no, I'm not making this up - apparently Logitech believe that outdoor keyboard use is a perfectly common thing).

  • Brandon (unregistered)
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

  • (cs) in reply to Derp
    Derp:
    Thew Visual C# installer needs to install common components, required to be present on the drive containing %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%, that's where the gross of the size comes from.

    TRWTF is that you're installing an IDE and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.

    FTFY

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to _sam
    _sam:
    £000's is common (on junk mail at least) and I find it easily understandable. Think of some pounds, add 000 and you get some thousands of pounds. No, it doesn't parse precisely. No, no-one cares.

    Target audience for the ad isn't the smartest bunch, after all. but they'll understand better than the submitter, apparently.... :-P

    Let me get this straight - you freely admit that the target audience for this sort of thing is a pretty unintelligent demographic yet you highlight with a rather backwards pride that you find it "easily understandable". In other words, you're openly admitting you're an idiot. Well, you may be an idiot but you're honest and that counts for a lot in my book, good work.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

  • (cs)

    "...and what's even worse, wrote Daniel, my 'wireless' printer has to be plugged into the wall or it won't turn on at all."

  • Spivonious (unregistered) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    He never said Best Buy owned them. He put that there so that we U.S.ers would know what kind of store it was.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.

  • Cyp (unregistered)

    You of course need to use scissors to make the printer completely wireless. The ends are probably joined together just so you don't accidentally lose one end of the cable.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.

    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?

  • Dazed (unregistered) in reply to NullPointerException
    NullPointerException:
    For anyone too lazy to view source, here's the missing image: https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg
    Nice try, Alex.

    Well caught, NullPointerException.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.

    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?

  • Scott G. Lewis (unregistered) in reply to Bus Logic
    It is pretty dumb that you need to plug your wireless printer into your PC before you can wirelessly print with it, since that rather suggests you could just be using a wired printer

    Really? It's pretty dumb that you might put your printer somewhere, take your laptop, plug it in, configure the printer, and then have wireless printing from that laptop anywhere in the house? You're right, I could just tether my laptop to the printer and make it a real crappy desktop, but I think that's probably NOT why people buy wireless capable printers.

  • DeeJay (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.

    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?

    I'm so confused... [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Scott G. Lewis
    Scott G. Lewis:
    It is pretty dumb that you need to plug your wireless printer into your PC before you can wirelessly print with it, since that rather suggests you could just be using a wired printer

    Really? It's pretty dumb that you might put your printer somewhere, take your laptop, plug it in, configure the printer, and then have wireless printing from that laptop anywhere in the house? You're right, I could just tether my laptop to the printer and make it a real crappy desktop, but I think that's probably NOT why people buy wireless capable printers.

    Truly, TRWTF is not that the printer intended for wireless printing comes with a cable for configuration; it's that the cable package has the word "wireless" in it. If the package had been labeled "Installation Cable" or "Printer Installation Cable" we wouldn't be having this discussion.

  • Leedo (unregistered)

    Regarding the wireless printer coming with a cable. What folks seem to be missing is that, yes, it seems a bit silly to send a cable with a printer that is wireless. But the real WTF (and is part of the joke in the text) is that up until now regular wired printers never came with a cable. So now I buy a printer that doesn't need the cable and I get one??

  • airdrik (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy

    BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.

    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).

    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.

    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?
    Just think of yourself as the most popular user name here.

    Everybody, sing with me: I am frits the eighth I am. Frits the eighth I am, I am. ...

  • (cs)
    Brandon M:
    I came across this error at FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)

    Funny, I always felt Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy.

    For me it's actually a hard choice:

    -Best Buy: No commission, and have to verbally tell a cluster of uninterested, chatting employees to get the hell out of my way so I can physically get to the 100 dollars worth of product I want to buy.

    -Future Shop: Commission, have a cluster of employees surround me with "advice" until they find out I know more than they do and I'm not "low hanging fruit", at which point they are nowhere to be found when I actually do have a question.

    Last time I went to Future Shop I asked about the specs for a notebook, and the employee directed me towards a Kiosk that had internet access so I could look it up myself. Then another distrustful employee walks by and says with a condescending fake-wink: "staying out of trouble?"

  • NeonNero (unregistered) in reply to jonnyq
    jonnyq:
    PC Load Letter:
    I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.

    Exactly what I came to say. Without a big screen and a keyboard on the printer, how else do you intend to get the printer on your network? I'm not one to come crying about TRWTF, but...

    I guess people are just lazy, then. I had no trouble configuring our own wireless printer/scanner/copier device (Canon Pixma MP620) BY HAND, and our wireless network's access key is 26 characters, all in uppercase and using hex letters.

  • F (unregistered) in reply to Derp
    Derp:
    Thew Visual C# installer needs to install common components, required to be present on the drive containing %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%, that's where the gross of the size comes from.

    TRWTF is that you're installing an Express product and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.

    That's not really fair. Plenty of us have had to install crap for lusers.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)
    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.
    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).
    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.
    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?
    Is your name not frits? That's going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call you "frits" to keep it clear?
  • airdrik (unregistered) in reply to Derp
    Derp:
    Thew Visual C# installer needs to install common components, required to be present on the drive containing %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%, that's where the gross of the size comes from.
    So TRWTF is that installing the *Express* version of an IDE requires 3.7 GB of disk space with all of its dependencies that don't come installed with the OS.
    Derp:
    TRWTF is that you're installing Visual Studio and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.
    Though I have to appreciate frits' other modification. Real programmers use vi/emacs/nano (encode the machine instructions directly into executables)
  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)
    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.
    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).
    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.
    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?
    Is your name not frits? That's going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call you "frits" to keep it clear?
    Well, your all obviously just idiots and not the real fake frits at all. TRFF is easy to spot.
  • boog (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    frits:
    Brandon:
    FutureShop.ca (Canada's Best Buy)
    Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.
    Way to split hairs Brandon, I bet you're a barrel of laughs at parties (those are the things you never get invited to BTW).
    What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.
    Oh my God, three fake frits? When is it ever going to end?
    Who hasn't done something like this before?
    Is your name not frits? That's going to cause a little confusion. Mind if we call you "frits" to keep it clear?
    Well, your all obviously just idiots and not the real fake frits at all. TRFF is easy to spot.
    Congratulations, frits. You've achieved memehood. Without really even trying to boot.
  • PoPSiCLe (unregistered) in reply to Bus Logic
    Bus Logic:
    With the printer, notice that it is a wireless installation cable. It is used to install the printer, that is, to set up the wireless settings from a PC. It is pretty dumb that you need to plug your wireless printer into your PC before you can wirelessly print with it, since that rather suggests you could just be using a wired printer;
    Well, you can actually use it as a wired printer, if you want. For instance if you don't want it available on the entire open wireless network, or if you share network with someone who's not supposed to have access to the printer.

    And yes, most printers still need a cable to set up specific things for the wireless config, especially if you have non-standard wifi-settings. At least most Canon and HP printers I've seen needs this, or is at least much easier to set up using the cable than the onscreen-menus on the printer.

    Bus Logic:
    but it's a rule of modern electronics that if a thing can be done, it will be done without anyone stopping to ask "is there actually any point to this"? It's the same reason we have solar powered keyboards (no, I'm not making this up - apparently Logitech believe that outdoor keyboard use is a perfectly common thing).
    Well... the "solar powered" keyboard you're talking about works just the same way "solar powered" calculators do - ie, it works just fine with normal indoor lighting - and having a keyboard that never needs a change of batteries, or being hooked up or placed in a cradle for charging might appeal to some.
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    alt boog:
    Congratulations, frits. You've achieved memehood. Without really even trying to boot.

    Actually, "fake frits" is a meme. Although "frits is a meme" may become a meme. Dang kids.

  • Bus Logic (unregistered) in reply to NeonNero
    NeonNero:
    jonnyq:
    PC Load Letter:
    I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.

    Exactly what I came to say. Without a big screen and a keyboard on the printer, how else do you intend to get the printer on your network? I'm not one to come crying about TRWTF, but...

    I guess people are just lazy, then. I had no trouble configuring our own wireless printer/scanner/copier device (Canon Pixma MP620) BY HAND, and our wireless network's access key is 26 characters, all in uppercase and using hex letters.

    Lazy? That's not fair at all, your Canon has a full colour high definition 2.5 inch LCD screen. That's slightly easier to use than the Lexmark's crappy little two-line monochrome OLED display. There is no valid comparison between these printers, just because you can configure your Pixma by hand doesn't mean you could configure the Lexmark in a similar fashion.

  • (cs) in reply to PC Load Letter
    PC Load Letter:
    I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.
    There is that, and also the fact that just because the printer is capable of working as a wireless one, that doesn't mean that everybody buying the printer is using it as such. Some people don't have a wireless network at home. I know, stone age...
  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    phony boog:
    Congratulations, frits. You've achieved memehood. Without really even trying to boot.

    Actually, "fake frits" is a meme. Although "frits is a meme" may become a meme. Dang kids.

    If it gets Featured Comment status, absolutely. Yeah, I'm guessing they let school out early today.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    alt boog:
    Congratulations, frits. You've achieved memehood. Without really even trying to boot.

    Actually, "fake frits" is a meme. Although "frits is a meme" may become a meme. Dang kids.

    All I can say is: you're welcome.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    frits:
    alt boog:
    Congratulations, frits. You've achieved memehood. Without really even trying to boot.

    Actually, "fake frits" is a meme. Although "frits is a meme" may become a meme. Dang kids.

    All I can say is: your welcome.
    FTFY

  • Some guy who may know how to read (unregistered) in reply to Bus Logic
    Bus Logic:
    It's the same reason we have solar powered keyboards (no, I'm not making this up - apparently Logitech believe that outdoor keyboard use is a perfectly common thing).

    ... and if you'd actually read the product description, Logitech says it can charge up perfectly fine from regular office lighting. This makes it a wireless keyboard which never needs replacement batteries or be connected to a charger.

  • not frits (unregistered) in reply to Bus Logic
    Bus Logic:
    Lazy? That's not fair at all... just because you can configure your Pixma by hand doesn't mean you could configure the Lexmark in a similar fashion.

    I think someone has printer-envy... sad really; it's not like size matters.

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