World's worst pop-up dialogs

[zridling]

via The Daily WTF, a humorous tech site:

     (1) http://thedailywtf.c...ms/thread/72607.aspx
and
     (2) http://thedailywtf.c.../67541/ShowPost.aspx

(Some read like George Bush wrote them, ha!)

       

[mouser]

hahahahahaha some of those on that page are just brilliant!   

my favorites:

[Carol Haynes]

I really like



and

[jgpaiva]

This one actually happened to me:
World's worst pop-up dialogs
If you notice carefully, opera displays a negative transfeer rate

[Edvard]

from K9 after I tried to copy and paste from a message that was deleted, but cached in K9. Apparently, it doesn't like you to do that:

[app103]

My 3 favorites from my collection.
These are real...didn't doctor these in any way.

From Windows ME while trying to move a file:

World's worst pop-up dialogs

an error I got while trying to play a CD (you need to be psychic to understand this one):

World's worst pop-up dialogs

and my very favorite of all...from AOL 5.0 back in 1999:

World's worst pop-up dialogs

[zridling]

Ah, this crap sure gives you a chance to laugh out loud. Who says tech ain't hilarious?

[Cavalcader]

World's worst pop-up dialogs

-app103 (May 18, 2006, 11:39 AM)

Heh! That's great.   And then they renamed it AOHELL?

[IrmaIsfot]

Here's a few:

When I inserted a (fried, as it turned out) USB memory stick.  Probably made in China, eh?

World's worst pop-up dialogs

I started to move a file a couple of years ago.  I suppose it's still on the move: almost 3 million minutes is more than 5 years, isn't it?

World's worst pop-up dialogs

Don't remember what file I wanted to play, but it couldn't have been a good one...

World's worst pop-up dialogs

And finally, the new and all-improved Paint Shop Pro X as a new Corel product:

World's worst pop-up dialogs

I really appreciate the option to not have them asking this anymore! 

/IrmaIsfot

[mouser]

 
i love the first usb one - i think it's trying to tell you that your usb stick has been infested with space invaders.

[Carol Haynes]

IrmaIsfot, ROFLOL I love the last two there !!

[mouser]

I really appreciate the option to not have them asking this anymore!

[mouser]

we need to add some of these to dr windows.

[jgpaiva]

That "catastrofic faliure" error is just hilarious!

[Cavalcader]

That "catastrofic faliure" error is just hilarious!

-jgpaiva (May 20, 2006, 06:44 PM)

Definitely! I wonder if it's describing the program itself or just the error?

What's really "fun" about Media Player is that the dialog just repeats the status message. The "details" button also has always repeated the error message whenever I've seen one, without anything else added.

[jgpaiva]

[offtopic]btw.. how can you post the thumb to an external image?[/offtopic]

[Cavalcader]

[offtopic]btw.. how can you post the thumb to an external image?[/offtopic]

-jgpaiva (May 21, 2006, 05:58 AM)

ImageShack does it automatically over a certain size.

[Deozaan]

My friend sent me this one a few years back:



Prodroduct.

And I just got this one yesterday:

[app103]

And finally, the new and all-improved Paint Shop Pro X as a new Corel product:

World's worst pop-up dialogs

I really appreciate the option to not have them asking this anymore! 

/IrmaIsfot

-IrmaIsfot (May 20, 2006, 05:31 PM)

eww...that's what Corel did to my beloved PSP? I guess PSP 7 will be the last version I ever use.