Now, the other Rambo films weren’t exactly works of art, but the teaser trailer for the newest installment has got to be a joke:
This just makes the film look like a big SNL skit, or the “Rambo” from UHF.
Archive for the ‘wtf?!’ Category
Driving to work today, I was cut off by some idiot driving a Ford Excursion. Now, before I go too far, many of you know that I have a Ford Bronco that I love, and am constantly repairing. However, I’m also a big believer in driving my little Civic or Focus 95% of the time because of their great gas mileage and lower emissions. The Bronco is for going camping, or the occasional trips to the lumber yard. (To be completely honest, it hasn’t left the side of my house since October, and I drove it for the first time again over the weekend.)
What really ticked me off about the idiot mentioned above is that while I was cruising down the road (admittedly speeding along at 80mph), this guy comes flying up from behind in the car pool lane, crosses the double-white line (illegal), cutting me off, then cuts off the guy he was passing in the car pool lane to get back in, crossing the double-white again.
All this, with only a total of two people in the Excursion, and Utah Wildlife plates.
So, this person is:
- “Saving” the environment by carpooling - 2 people in an 9 person vehicle (the other passenger appeared to be 12)
- “Protecting” wildlife by paying extra for the license plate
All while driving a vehicle that gets approximately 12 mpg (on a good day) at easily 90 mph, most likely lowering their mileage to somewhere around 8 mpg.
Bravo.
I’ve never felt that asking a person’s age in order to allow access to a website was a very good way to protect our innocent children. Because honestly, if I wanted to visit a site and happened to be “underage”, I would just keep rolling back my birthday until I was “old” enough to enter the site. I just don’t think it’s very effective.
I’m not sure what the best method would be, as I’ve seen sites that have asked for a credit card number - assuming that I only have one of those if I’m over 18. And the last thing I’m going to do is give someone my Visa number, just to view their site. I realize that there ought to be something, I’m just not sure what.
I would make one suggestion though: If you’re going to ‘verify’ a user’s age before granting access to the site, at least make sure that the date actually exists, and is realistic. I’ve seen systems that won’t allow you to visit if you’re over 100 years old, which at least hopes that you’re not typing random numbers, and now I’ve seen this setup at SaintsRow.com. Which doesn’t care that I was born on the 45th day of the 73rd month. The only thing checked here is that I have some kind of value in the date and month fields, and that the year makes me old enough. I figure that if you’re going to bother with one of these systems to start with, at least make it look like you care.
Seriously, who thought that could be a good name for a console? Besides the obvious jokes involving bodily functions or anatomy, it doesn’t even sound like a product. PlayStation: A station you could play games at. GameCube: A box that plays games. Wii: “We… what?“
A Revolution isn’t exactly a “thing” that you can hold, but at least it had a little more power behind it’s name. And after Nintendo has spent so much time discussing this thing as the “Revolution”, it’s going to be hard for them to get people to call it something else.
I will admit to liking the idea and reasoning behind the name, but it’s still a bad choice for a name. I also liked the animation used to introduce the logo. It’s well done, and fun to watch. But still, one of the first things I thought of when hearing the name was this:
Here’s hoping that this is just an April Fools Joke that took too long to get out the door. And, as much as I dislike the name, I’ll still probably be picking one up as soon as they’re available. Just don’t ask if you can come play with my “Wii”.
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Not much that I can add to this.
This is apparently a japanese commercial for a Legend of Zelda game. Thing is, I don’t remember any of the Zelda games that included a Thriller-like set of dancing monsters. And honestly, if a giant pig-man thing appeared to possibly eat me, the last thing I’d think about would be challenging him to a dance-off.
The school I attend, UVSC (Utah Valley State College) recently installed a new management system for students to login to and register for classes, pay tuition, check email, etc. It sucks. Now, the last one wasn’t great to start with, but I’ve had nothing but problems with the new one. While the last one wasn’t great, it at least worked.
But that’s not the point of this wtf?!. It’s actually the help request form used if you run into issues with the system - in my case, it won’t log me in because it decided my account should be disabled “for inactivity”. Sorry guys, but I don’t care about checking my tuition balance on a weekly basis.
First, the form warns you that “This form will only work if you have an Email client installed on the computer you are submitting this request from.” That was the first clue that I had a potential wtf?! on my hands.
But the true wtf?! shines through when you click “Submit”, and your mail client opens with all details of the form pasted into a new message for you to send. Viewing the source of the page, you can see that the extent of the ‘programming’ that went into this form was setting the action to be a mailto: link. Doesn’t it defeat the purpose of using a contact form if you just redirect the info back into a mail client? What if I don’t have one installed? Am I SOL?
What scares me about this is this: Are the geniuses behind this form the ones I’m supposed to rely on for keeping my information secure and making sure my tuition payments get made?
If you want to view this beast in the wild: https://uvlinx.uvsc.edu/lumlogin/helprequest.htm
Ever seen “What If They Mated?” on the Conan O’Brian show? Imagine if OS X and Windows XP mated. Then you might get something similar to the screenshot here. Click it to view the full size version.
Jac installed a few of the utilities from www.osx-e.com in an attempt to make his ThinkPad more like a PowerBook. The laptop booted displaying the grey OS X startup screen, followed by the OS X login, then to this weird mutant hybrid of OS X and Win XP. Jac only kept this setup for a few minutes before he decided to revert back to standard XP.
I guess if you’re a Windows user thinking about switching to the Mac, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge, this could be for you. Or, if you’re a Mac user forced to work on a Windows machine at the office, then you could use this to make you feel better.
Me however, I’ll just stick with a real Mac.
Last night I was working on a side project some of us at mediaRAIN have been working on, and I came across the snippet of code below. It’s from the NuSoap php libraries, in nusoap.php, around line 4423.
Looks like Donny & Marie have found a new line of work.
Now, I’m guilty of using iterators & other throwaway variables like bob and randy, so I can’t really point any fingers. I guess next time I’ll just have to start using more famous pairs though: $batman & $robin, $starsky & $hutch, etc. I mean, everyone uses bob, or foo.
I really found this more amusing than anything, so it’s not a complete wtf?!. Just something to wake you up and make you laugh when you’re just about to fall asleep at the keyboard again.
The form below is from the Xbox.com website. I was entering a contest to win an Xbox 360 when it launches, and was given this form to register:
Right away, you’ll probably see some of the issues it has. I’ve seen text fields used to get date info before, but usually with some instruction on how to enter the data. Something like (mm/dd/yyyy) for example. Or, if the developer wanted to guarantee the date format, they just used some combo-boxes to select the month and date. So, not knowing how to enter the format, I took a guess:
Apparently, that’s not what they wanted. Looks like they forgot one important thing - if you want info a certain way - SAY SO! Sure, as a developer, I was thinking that entering ‘12′ should work, but I figured if they’re going to let me type ‘december’, let’s see what happens.
Also, how am I supposed to read these Terms of Use? Oh wait, maybe I’m not supposed to.
I don’t claim to be any sort of usability expert, but at least I know enough not to build a form like this.