Comment On Schrödinger's Submenu

"I wonder if it's possible to change the text of the sensibility of the message," pondered Adam, "if the message having sensibility cannot have text... or something like that." [expand full text]
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Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:08 • by ClaudeSuck.de (unregistered)
Well, how can one try to translate "uber" when it actually should be "über". Capitalisation error? Lost two points?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:15 • by snoofle
194868 in reply to 194866
What happens if you try to translate "more über"?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:18 • by anon (unregistered)
194869 in reply to 194866
Well, how can one try to translate "uber" when it actually should be "über". Capitalisation error? Lost two points?

Pointless.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:20 • by yuumei
194870 in reply to 194868
snoofle:
What happens if you try to translate "more über"?

FILE NOT FOUND!

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:22 • by teh teh teh (unregistered)
TRWTF is 'starry sleighride'

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:24 • by Joseph (unregistered)
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:28 • by NaN
194874 in reply to 194872
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:29 • by topspin
I like the window theme on the first one.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:30 • by JimM
194877 in reply to 194866
ClaudeSuck.de:
Well, how can one try to translate "uber" when it actually should be "über". Capitalisation error? Lost two points?
Well, following the logic of yesterday's article if you translated über you would get _BER.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:52 • by KNY
The real WTF is that the last one currently has style="display:none" on the <img/>

http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/200805/errord/broken_ad.gif

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 08:54 • by Joseph (unregistered)
194886 in reply to 194874
NaN:
Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.
I called and the operator answered. She asked me a few of questions and then transfered me. It took forever. At first she didn't know what I was talking about. I think they need to hire someone else to answer the phones.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:13 • by Babelfish (unregistered)
Babelfish also translates as "more uber"

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:15 • by teh_n1gz (unregistered)
194891 in reply to 194868
überererer? or the server screaming wall h4x!

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:15 • by jieuryli
194892 in reply to 194868
"more über" gets you "more over".

"more uber" gets you "more more uber".

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:17 • by robbak
194893 in reply to 194886
If I called that number in this country, I would get a nice lady asking me "Which service do you require?" (Or is it now "Fire Police or Ambulance?" now?)

I think they would be unimpressed If I said, "Uh, the 'Starry sleighride', thanks." I would probably get a visit from my neighborhood police man.

(Required knowledge: The emergency services number here is "000")

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:35 • by WTF me (unregistered)
194897 in reply to 194893
Where is "here"? Zeroland?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:36 • by FredSaw
TRWTF™ (I thought I'd never say that) is that there's no wooden table under Edible Arrangements.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:38 • by me (unregistered)
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the tips file is stored under c:\windows\system ?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:47 • by RandomWTF (unregistered)
Cannot open "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Desktop\comment.txt"

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 09:47 • by akatherder
194901 in reply to 194899
me:
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the tips file is stored under c:\windows\system ?


No it isn't.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:02 • by OzPeter
194905 in reply to 194897
WTF me:
Where is "here"? Zeroland?


well given that 000 is an emergency number used in some countries outside of the US I wouldn't be surprised if some people considered them to be worthless countries.

But the propensity of US media in other countries also causes confusion with some people who think that 911 is the number you need to call, instead of the correct {INSERT LOCAL NUMBER} emergency number

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:03 • by shadowman
194906 in reply to 194874
NaN:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.


TRWTF is that they actually answered when I called. And I saved 10 roman dollars with that coupon.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:07 • by SuperousOxide
194908 in reply to 194872
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


The phone number and address are a little empty. I'm not sure what that has to do with the comment, though.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:12 • by Anonymuos (unregistered)
194910 in reply to 194885
Consider disabling Adblock and trying again.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:28 • by Xeron
One thing that saddens me about the demise of Commodore in the early nineties and the subsequent loss of the Amiga as a viable mass-market platform is that i will almost certainly never see a Guru-Meditation screen on a jumbotron or information display anywhere.. so much cooler than a windows crash.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 10:57 • by Trondster (unregistered)
194930 in reply to 194874
NaN:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?
Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.
Well - it could be that Joseph actually got the joke, as he parsed "$X" to "$10" and the date 00/00/00 to "expired 8 years ago".

Whooosh. ;)

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:14 • by nolly (unregistered)
194938 in reply to 194892
"more uber" translaated English to German gets "mehr uber." "über", German to English, yields "over", as it should.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:16 • by corey (unregistered)
TRWTF is they're storing the tips file in C:\Windows\system

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:17 • by Carl (unregistered)
194941 in reply to 194900
RandomWTF:
Cannot open "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Desktop\comment.txt"

Why would you have a folder named "Desktop" in your My Documents folder?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:17 • by Nerf Herder (unregistered)
194942 in reply to 194930
Trondster:
NaN:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?
Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.
Well - it could be that Joseph actually got the joke, as he parsed "$X" to "$10" and the date 00/00/00 to "expired 8 years ago".

Whooosh. ;)


TRWTF is that he could actually see the expiration date. Either my eyes are really bad or you zoomed in a BUNCH to see that

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:18 • by Joseph (unregistered)
194943 in reply to 194930
Trondster:
Well - it could be that Joseph actually got the joke, as he parsed "$X" to "$10" and the date 00/00/00 to "expired 8 years ago".

Whooosh. ;)

You win! Have a cookie.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:26 • by pelle (unregistered)
194951 in reply to 194908
SuperousOxide:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


The phone number and address are a little empty. I'm not sure what that has to do with the comment, though.


Me neither. Can anyone explain the comment?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:27 • by mook (unregistered)
194952 in reply to 194874
Check the address and phone number.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:48 • by Kinglink (unregistered)
194964 in reply to 194908
SuperousOxide:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


The phone number and address are a little empty. I'm not sure what that has to do with the comment, though.


Apparently they must have changed numbers. I called them, and got this nice lady who was extra helpful, but called herself operator all the time, but she helped me out with my other phone issues so I recommend her.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 11:52 • by codeman38
194965 in reply to 194916
Xeron:
One thing that saddens me about the demise of Commodore in the early nineties and the subsequent loss of the Amiga as a viable mass-market platform is that i will almost certainly never see a Guru-Meditation screen on a jumbotron or information display anywhere.. so much cooler than a windows crash.

That reminds me... back in the mid-'90s, I recall seeing Guru Meditation errors quite frequently on the TV guide channel on my local cable system. Wish I'd managed to get a screenshot at some point...

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:01 • by G (unregistered)
Schrödinger has nothing to do with this error message

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:05 • by FredSaw
194970 in reply to 194967
G:
Schrödinger has nothing to do with this error message
The menu simultaneously does and doesn't have a submenu.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:14 • by Enrique (unregistered)
194973 in reply to 194874
You killed the metajoke... The ad says "Save $X", X is roman for 10, expiration date says 00/00/00 and it's 2008 so it expired 8 years ago...

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:14 • by K-roc (unregistered)
194974 in reply to 194874
Look at the phone number and zip code...

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:23 • by Zock (unregistered)
194979 in reply to 194974
I don't get the people who don't get that the people who seem not to get it actually get it but just pretend they don't get it unless the people who don't get the people who get... Ow! My head hurts. :(

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:46 • by S (unregistered)
Uh... perhaps the phone number?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 12:49 • by Raoul (unregistered)
194989 in reply to 194874
Joseph, look at the address and phone number on that ad. :-)

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 13:16 • by FredSaw
There needs to be some way to disable the Comment link until the would-be poster has read every post in the thread.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 13:28 • by xix (unregistered)
there really needs to be a way to disable comment posting until the poster has read all the replies to the thread

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 13:41 • by Bob N Freely (unregistered)
195007 in reply to 194899
me:
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that the tips file is stored under c:\windows\system ?


The obvious observation is that it isn't.

The less obvious observation is that TextPad is a commonly used replacement for Notepad. The user probably put the executable in Windows\System and renamed it Notepad.exe instead of modifying the associations. TextPad probably tries to load the tips file from the working directory.

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 13:45 • by FredSaw
195008 in reply to 195007
Bob N Freely:
TextPad probably tries to load the tips file from the working directory.
It's in a subfolder named "system":

C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\system\TXPADENG.TIP

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 13:55 • by BrokenBokken (unregistered)
How do you solve for X to determine your savings?

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 14:01 • by LEGO (unregistered)
195014 in reply to 194973
Enrique:
You killed the metajoke... The ad says "Save $X", X is roman for 10, expiration date says 00/00/00 and it's 2008 so it expired 8 years ago...


That's what you get for looking inside the box...

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 14:07 • by Anon (unregistered)
string uber = "uber";
while (true)
uber = translate_from_german_to_english(uber);

Re: Schrödinger's Submenu

2008-05-15 14:27 • by ping floyd (unregistered)
195019 in reply to 194874
NaN:
Joseph:
I don't get the last one. Is the problem that you can only save $10 or that it expired 8 years ago?


Call them or visit them and find out, the number/address is right there.


I may call them too - $X off is just too good to resist!
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