The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

Poor keyboard!

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

Ftirs!

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

TRWTF is trying to buy such an appallingly naff monkey suit in the first place.

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

Hi FTIRSNAME Oh no, such bloody beginners! It is: Hi FRISTNAME

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

A car from 2006 obviously isn't new enough to be added as a new car!

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

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2016-08-12 Reply Admin

It probably was the Dell XPS model from 2006.

YellowOnline · 2016-08-12 Reply Admin

The keyboard is one of the bigger WTFs this year. It's not even a machine job: somewhere, someone really didn't care about doing a good job. It's really a way of saying "fuck you" to society.

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

Maybe the real WTF here is the concept of a global company which services markets on multiple continents, and designs its components to be subtly different in size between those markets, necessitating the manufacture of a completely incompatible set of parts which cannot be interchanged -- although they look similar enough at a distance.

The concept of deliberately incompatible parts was exemplified in the transport system in my location. Some bright spark decided it would be a good idea to colour code the buses (it having been ascertained that the usual technique of route numbers on the front was clearly too difficult for the general public to cope with) -- so now we have a light blue line, a pink line, a purple line and goodness-knows what-all other colour lines (I have metaphorically battened down the figurative hatches, and rarely emerge from by bunker to see what goes on around me). All well and good until one of the buses on, say, the purple line conks out. Easy enough, the old system would have said: redirect one of the spare buses to cover. But if they run out of spare purple buses, they're stuffed, because they can't use one of the spare pink buses in its place because it's the wrong colour.

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

It's not Dell's fault that UK and (what I assume to be) Indian keyboards are physically different. People would not like it if you were to ignore the standard for their country and just make something up.

Regarding buses, my town also does this, but they also have some generic buses that can run on any route.

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

The keyboard proves the fact that anyone who designs a keyboard with a key between the 'Z' key and the shift key next to it should be immediately guilty of a gigantic WFT.

That wonderful company Digital Equipment Corporation (aka DEC) did that with a VT220 terminal putting a key with the '<' and '>' ON THE SAME KEY in that REALLY BAD spot.

While I can forgive IBM for putting the ~~shift~~ caps lock key where the control key deserves to be that is an error I can live with (and if I choose to get around by some clever programming).

Keyboards aren't things to be taken lightly!!

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

The retarded cutout you see is (laptop nav keys etc aside) the standard UK layout with [LShift] [] [Z]. As a bonus, RShift is pointlessly long on their desktop keyboards. What a poor use of space. Quite awkward to type on if you ever get the misfortune.

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

TRWTF is "VIN Number"

2016-08-12 Reply Admin

It's a Vehicle IdentificatioN Number

2016-08-13 Reply Admin

Nope it's Vehicle Identification Number Number

2016-08-13 Reply Admin

Well yes okay, so keyboards are different between different locales, and everybody is throwing their teddies out of their stupid prams because they take offence that their own personal favourite way isn't the way everybody else in the world is forced to do it, that's just standard short-sighted selfish fascist brainless subhuman partisanship, about standard for the sort of intellects that infest this stupid forum like vermin.

But the issue here is that Dell could not stretch their boundless intellects to make it so that the physical architecture of the chassis for their appallingly poor products is standard across their entire range. Making it so that an American keyboard is a veeeeery slightly different size from a proper keyboard should be a firing offence.

Watson · 2016-08-13 Reply Admin

"Well, we pay peanuts so I shouldn't be surprised we—" "—DON'T SAY IT!" "...Got monkeys?"

"Ook!"

Daniel_Beardsmore · 2016-08-13 Reply Admin

"Making it so that an American keyboard is a veeeeery slightly different size from a proper keyboard should be a firing offence."

You've got it backwards. It's the fact that the keyboard does fit that's allowed this mistake to occur. You could of course key the parts to prevent this error, but I don't know whether it occurs often enough to be worth it.

The keyboard fits, but the size, shape and number of keys is different between US/India/Netherlands (and likely many others), the rest of Europe, and Japan. The standard desktop keyboard is 104 keys in the US/India/Netherlands, 105 keys in the rest of Europe, and 108 keys in Japan.

The keys in the oh-so-subtle blue-green tint highlight some of the differences found in common physical layouts (regardless of national layout, i.e. key size/shape/position, not what's written on them):

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Physical_keyboard_layout

2016-08-13 Reply Admin

Keyboards are different all over the world. The German language, for example, hat four additional characters in the alphabet that want their front row space, while programmers still want access to curly and square braces. Some countries add layers, some add keys, and as a result, there are very different size of return keys and shift keys. The swiss keyboard is a great example of an endlessly layered keyboard, having to support German, French and Italien. And then there is all the Asian languages...

http://codeflow.org/entries/2013/jan/30/keyboard-events-in-javascript-are-broken/swiss-german.png

2016-08-13 Reply Admin

What's more disturbing to me is that facebook and twitter have a separate data cap... where's the special treatment laws again now?

2016-08-13 Reply Admin

OFFS your'e even stupider than the knuckle-draggers on Facebook and NAR. There is NO REASON for the chassis of two different keyboards made by the same company to be different sizes. It is VERY far from challenging to design a basic chassis shape and size and arrange for there to be one or two more keys on one language version than on the other. There's just a little bit more empty space on the keyboard on the one with 104 keys than the one with 108 keys.

Seriously, I hope you're not employed doing anything more important than making sandwiches, because otherwise you are one of the prime reasons that the world is in such a fucking shit state it's in. Jesus H Christ, I've never encountered anyone so utterly brainlessly moronically subhumanly stupid as you. EEugh.

2016-08-14 Reply Admin

TRWTF is the fact that Facebook has a different bundle than 'regular surfing'. Net neutrality in Europe much?

Scarlet_Manuka · 2016-08-15 Reply Admin

Isn't TRWTF the fact that you don't seem to get very much internet for half a million Euros? I'm pretty sure I could get a better plan than that for, like, $100/month. Of course, given that it's orange.be, we shouldn't be surprised that it's all Belgiumed.

As for that laptop... I feel sorry for the enter and left shift keys. And for Cynthia.

I presume 2006 is under Earlier Dates?

PWolff · 2016-08-15 Reply Admin

Maybe the keyboard problem is because Dell measure everything in points companywide? - Nobody ever thought there might be slightly different definitions of a point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29

Or they forgot there was a redefinition of the different inches in 1959: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch

urkerab · 2016-08-16 Reply Admin

So, is there a way of funnelling the Internet through Facebook and Twitter to make use of that 10GB?

2016-08-18 Reply Admin

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2021-07-09 Reply Admin

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