Comment On Gosh Darn Computer

I guess the 3rd time is not the charm in this case...

Nice of them to supply the cursing so the user doesn't have to make up his own.

The reqirements one is gosh darn funny. Looks like they have more requirements than they list on the screen.

It's probably not like that, but could they be using the checkmarks as bullets?

Nice, as if it's not hard enough being taken seriously as a professional in this field as it is, we have that sort of offensive language presented to the public.

(appropriate) captcha: doom

What's sad in the first shot is the poor C++ programmer is probably only receiving an integer as the exception from a module which is obviously not written by him, hence the cursing.

Gotta love your predecessor when you have to write code like:

catch(int exception)
{
}

or worse yet:

catch(bool exception)
{
}

LiquidFire:

It's probably not like that, but could they be using the checkmarks as bullets?

heh yeah, whenever i write a todo list i always use checks instead of bullets. it gives me that false sense of accomplishment.

Wow! An error dialog that can READ MY MIND!!

The requirements error is probably choking on a version number. I remember some installation programs from years gone by which thought I didn't have IE installed because it was IE6 and they were checking for version 5.

In more up-to-date WTFery, MusicMatch Jukebox sold out to Yahoo, which replaced MMJB with the Yahoo player. For about six weeks every time I started MMJB it would ask if I was ready to update to Yahoo. If I said yes, it would abort the install, telling me that I needed Windows XP. Apparently Windows Server 2003 is too much OS for Yahoo Player.

Vechni:

LiquidFire:

It's probably not like that, but could they be using the checkmarks as bullets?

heh yeah, whenever i write a todo list i always use checks instead of bullets. it gives me that false sense of accomplishment.

If you did the opposite, I would think you were one of our programmers.... (bah, image hosting blocked from work, here is a text version of the dialog)

-----------------------
... other options...

Display grid
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( ) Reset
( ) Save

( ) Default
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[Close]
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A transparency setting on a find tool!?!?

Pretty sure that's Notepad++, and yes, it has transparency settings for the find tool.

It's a feature of Notepad++ . A very important one.

iMalc:

A transparency setting on a find tool!?!?

That control sets the transparency of the search tool window, to allow one to see the material that is being searched, which is nice when the highlighted match is *under* the search tool window.

This looks just like the find dialog in NotePad++.

Transparency is actually a reasonable idea - you don't have to move the dialog away from the text you're reading as you go through the document.

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

after seeing that exception and reading the comments to find out it's Notepad++, I have immediately downloaded it. Time to spend the rest of my day trying to get that message.

It's Notepad++ alright, see file winmain.cpp.svn-base line #296 for the gory details...

1337:

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

That parses fine for me. "Hey, at least there are birds." What am I missing? It says they have bird watching, so I presume that they do in fact have birds from time to time.

1337:

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

I had trouble with that as well. Of course they intended it to be the contraction of "there are" but this isn't one.

CAPTCHA: "tastey" and yes they spelled that incorrectly also...

FredSaw:

The requirements error is probably choking on a version number. I remember some installation programs from years gone by which thought I didn't have IE installed because it was IE6 and they were checking for version 5.

In more up-to-date WTFery, MusicMatch Jukebox sold out to Yahoo, which replaced MMJB with the Yahoo player. For about six weeks every time I started MMJB it would ask if I was ready to update to Yahoo. If I said yes, it would abort the install, telling me that I needed Windows XP. Apparently Windows Server 2003 is too much OS for Yahoo Player.

Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's. Due to the laws governing show distribution, the online player only allows IP addresses from the UK and Ireland, so it errors out with the helpful message that your computer meets all requirements for play the file, but forgets to tell you that the reason why is that you are not in UK or Ireland.

The WTF on the BBC one is that it requires Windows and IE.

Gaim has a "static int goddamnicq" in there source code.

poochner:

1337:

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

That parses fine for me. "Hey, at least there are birds." What am I missing? It says they have bird watching, so I presume that they do in fact have birds from time to time.

The notes.

I deal with the god-damned exceptions so the users don't have to!

mr_ed:

The WTF on the BBC one is that it requires Windows and IE.

Mac/Linux support is almost certainly going to be in the full version, after the Beeb got flamed to a crisp for their XP-only approach. I'll be interested to see how they do it though, seeing as their current system relies heavily on PlaysForSureIfYouRunWindows DRM, and proprietary windows based P2P software (Kontiki).

Brandon:

Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's.

The State's what?

Lol, that first one sounds like something my Data Structures professor would say...

Zylon:

Brandon:

Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's.

The State's what?

LOL. Not what state, but which state.

CAPTCHA: darwin

akatherder:

I deal with the god-damned exceptions so the users don't have to!

My users deal with their own god damned exceptions!

"He who generates the exception should handle it"

Zylon:

Brandon:

Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's.

The State's what?

I assume the apostrophe was an error, and he mean "in the States", that is, "in the United States of America".

i've been writing an n++ plugin (for a university project and at one point I managed to cause that exception to be raised. Actually, I found the source code for that exception.

Actually, the code for producing this error is:

if (!_hSelf)
{
throw int(666);
}

Addendum (2007-10-01 19:01):
BTW, this code appears in staticdialog.cpp which defines the class StaticDialog which is the base class for DockingDlgInterface (which is a class) which is the base class for (naturally) all the docking dialogs in n++ (including mine, of course).

lol

if(user.isIdiot()&&satan==666){
throw new GodDamnException("God damn exception!");
}

Hmm, that's 3 God Damn Exceptions, how many non-God Damn Exceptions would there be?

CAPTCHA: burned. Oooh, how appropriate.

FredSaw:

The requirements error is probably choking on a version number. I remember some installation programs from years gone by which thought I didn't have IE installed because it was IE6 and they were checking for version 5.

Then why the green checkmarks?

Ah..Nice to see that my screenshot got in!.

Anyway, the exception only happens if you search alot of files through network drives using the "find all" function. And there's no sure way of replicating it.

Have fun looking for the exception in NotePad++ though :)

Pirate Programmer:

Zylon:

Brandon:

Actually I got this error before with BBC's online player. I found out it is due to my being in the State's.

The State's what?

I assume the apostrophe was an error, and he mean "in the States", that is, "in the United States of America".

And I assume that he realised that, and was asking the question to point out the error... :-)

Ben Olive:

Gaim has a "static int goddamnicq" in there source code.

It's been Pidgin for a while now, but yeah, I can imagine why they might write something like that ;-)

Is 'God Damn' seriously so offensive in the US that you have to make it 'Gosh Darn'? Considering 'Fuck' and 'Shit' are so common one of them was once part of the name of the site I find it totally bizarre..

(from the UK - where 'damn' is considered innocuous, and Randy isn't something you want to hear your daughter called)

Whitey:

1337:

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

I had trouble with that as well. Of course they intended it to be the contraction of "there are" but this isn't one.

What isn't what? "There're" is certainly a contraction of "there are", and it's even being used halfway correctly ("At least there are birds") which I suppose is above average. If you could dereference that sentence into something readable then maybe we could clear up any remaining problems for you.

Whitey:

CAPTCHA: "tastey" and yes they spelled that incorrectly also...

FACT: none of the captcha texts are ever cultural references.
BONUS FACT: everyone is interested in your captcha

misha:

mr_ed:

The WTF on the BBC one is that it requires Windows and IE.

Mac/Linux support is almost certainly going to be in the full version, after the Beeb got flamed to a crisp for their XP-only approach.

In fact it has become a requirement of their licence following a petition on the Downing St. (UK equivalent of the White House) website, though no commitment on the timescale.

http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13090.asp

Incidentally, whilst I did sign the petition, I had noted that the BBC had always committed to supporting other OS's "in the future"

see http://xkcd.com/75/

Whitey:

1337:

There're??? really?? now thats the real wtf...

I had trouble with that as well. Of course they intended it to be the contraction of "there are" but this isn't one.

Not sure what language you're speaking, but this is perfectly valid English.

I HATE exception 3.

The often misstated expletive is "God Damned".
This falls into a category including:
"I could care less", "irregardless", "Supposively", "Safety Deposit Box".
All illustrated here

mr_ed:

The WTF on the BBC one is that it requires Windows and IE.

I suppose THAT is the reason why they are apologizing!

http://google.com/codesearch?q="God Damn Exception"

CJ:

Is 'God Damn' seriously so offensive in the US that you have to make it 'Gosh Darn'? Considering 'Fuck' and 'Shit' are so common one of them was once part of the name of the site I find it totally bizarre..

(from the UK - where 'damn' is considered innocuous, and Randy isn't something you want to hear your daughter called)

The US is funny like that, like the uproar about Grand Theft Auto, go gun down all the ho's and n**gaz you want in stunning graphic detail, while peds shout "f**k you" and "Motherf**ker" while driving, and it hardly merits mention. But god forbid there's even a hint of sex in it and the company is nearly torpedoed. (Oh, and to actually use the N-word in conversation would make one an instant pariah...unless of course one is African-American, then there's no problems, mate.)

I love you. I wish we could always use that as a rule for user's generating an exception :( Specially those ones that are assholes and go digging...

CJ:

Is 'God Damn' seriously so offensive in the US that you have to make it 'Gosh Darn'? Considering 'Fuck' and 'Shit' are so common one of them was once part of the name of the site I find it totally bizarre..

(from the UK - where 'damn' is considered innocuous, and Randy isn't something you want to hear your daughter called)

The "damn" is not the offensive part. The expression as a whole is considered by Christian conservative types (of which we have a surplus) to be a transgression of Deuteronomy 5:11, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."

The fact that biblically speaking, this is part of the law given to the nation of Israel which passed away with the arrival of the messiah's "new covenant" and now has no application other than as history, seems to escape them.