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I am glad to learn that Kevin Rudd (Australia's prime minister) is a reader of thedailywtf and even submits content.

"Is there anything else you would like to comment on or suggest? Please enter a whole number."

Obviously they mean "please enter a whole number of things you'd like to comment on or suggest" because that text box is pretty large.

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Paolo G:

"Is there anything else you would like to comment on or suggest? Please enter a whole number."

Obviously they mean "please enter a whole number of things you'd like to comment on or suggest" because that text box is pretty large.

But I want to comment on / suggest half a thing!

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

Why is the Lenovo one a WTF? It's telling you estimated total battery lifetime.

And why is the Windows one a WTF? Because it has a "Somewhat" option? Maybe I'm still tired.

snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

You either forgot all your infant school maths or are trying to make a joke. If the latter, it's not a very funny one.

I fail to see the WTF in the Windows Update one... :-/ I mean, Windows is itself a WTF, but that's nothing new...

Crabs:

Why is the Lenovo one a WTF? It's telling you estimated total battery lifetime.

Arithmetic is your friend. If there really is a battery which can last 39950 hours --- four and a half *years* --- I'd certainly buy it. Although the price will probably be high, and it might weigh thirty pounds.

Hell, even the "weak" battery they want you to replace is supposedly good for just under fifty days. I think I could get by with that.

Schmitter:

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I concur.

m0ffx:

snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

You either forgot all your infant school maths or are trying to make a joke. If the latter, it's not a very funny one.

"maths"?

dpm:

Crabs:

Why is the Lenovo one a WTF? It's telling you estimated total battery lifetime.

Arithmetic is your friend. If there really is a battery which can last 39950 hours --- four and a half *years* --- I'd certainly buy it. Although the price will probably be high, and it might weigh thirty pounds.

Hell, even the "weak" battery they want you to replace is supposedly good for just under fifty days. I think I could get by with that.

No WTF there. Four and a half years is about how long your notebook battery will last before needing to be replaced.

snoofle:

m0ffx:

snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

You either forgot all your infant school maths or are trying to make a joke. If the latter, it's not a very funny one.

"maths"?

Depends on whether you think "Mathematics" is plural, or singular (like "Semantics").

The Windows one is a WTF because it was probably from an app written by developers who were completely clueless about memory management, and blamed Windows for the symptoms of their plain old-fashioned memory corruption.

SCB:

dpm:

Crabs:

Why is the Lenovo one a WTF? It's telling you estimated total battery lifetime.

Arithmetic is your friend. If there really is a battery which can last 39950 hours --- four and a half *years* --- I'd certainly buy it. Although the price will probably be high, and it might weigh thirty pounds.

Hell, even the "weak" battery they want you to replace is supposedly good for just under fifty days. I think I could get by with that.

No WTF there. Four and a half years is about how long your notebook battery will last before needing to be replaced.

Between charges.

SCB:

dpm:

Hell, even the "weak" battery they want you to replace is supposedly good for just under fifty days. I think I could get by with that.

No WTF there. Four and a half years is about how long your notebook battery will last before needing to be replaced.

It clearly states "provide N hours of use". If you choose to interpret this other than "between charges", I have nothing to discuss with you.

snoofle:

m0ffx:

snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

You either forgot all your infant school maths or are trying to make a joke. If the latter, it's not a very funny one.

"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

"battery can provide approximately 1198.5 hours of use."
usage, not life expectancy.

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

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"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

Easy. Use XML. It's the solution to everything!

A battery with ~40,000 hours (~4.5 years) of battery life will certainly put those MacBooks to shame.

7.5

Oh, wait.

Schmitter:

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It should have been pi to 425 places. Whole numbers are just not fair.

Thief^:

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

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"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

I'll probably feel stupid when someone points it out, but I've no idea what's supposed to be odd about Windows identifying that an (unsolved) error seemed to be caused by a windows component and suggesting that they patch it up to see if it helps. Is it that we're not expecting Microsoft to admit to problems with Windows? Is it that they're asking whether the information they provided was helpful? I'm lost here.

Also, this is Microsoft's error reporting tool, not a third-party one -- so I kinda doubt they'd be part of a conspiracy to accuse themselves erroneously for the crash.

Code Dependent:

Thief^:

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

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"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

And neither of them affected your Mathematicses skills.

The real WTF is that you jokers think that headlines and photo slugs are in some way generated by computer. All those show is that some copy editor wasn't paying any damn attention.

Code Dependent:

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

C'mon, if you're going to mock the illiterates by pretending to be one, at least get your getting it wrong right:

Thi's morning I had marmalade's on my bread's for breakfast's.

Code Dependent:

Thief^:

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

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"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

Hmm... I believe hobbits tend to have multiple breakfasts.

Brady Kelly:

And neither of them affected your Mathematicses skills.

Gollum spotted?

Satanicpuppy:

The real WTF is that you jokers think that headlines and photo slugs are in some way generated by computer. All those show is that some copy editor wasn't paying any damn attention.

One could also say that all of the WTFs on this site are created by people that weren't paying attention. One could also say that it is the point of the website.

No go away, and hang your head in shame.

Actually, American English is the one that should be used. British English has merely evolved from the "original English" and sounds very gay, too. I read about this somewhere (not the gay part, though).

Please note that English isn't my first language.

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Thief^:

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

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"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

This is actually a grammatically sound sentence, if you had multiple breakfasts, multiple breads (which I think would mean different kinds of bread rather than multiple loaves) and multiple types of marmalade.
Actually, I think it should be "my breakfasts".

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MisterCheese:

Brady Kelly:

And neither of them affected your Mathematicses skills.

Gollum spotted?

Nasty hobbitses.

Why are people saying the Lenovo one is ok, it says at the start with your current system settings and a full charge.

Surely full charge means it is referring to use between charges and the word "use" rather than something like "life" also indicates this.

Trevel:

I'll probably feel stupid when someone points it out, but I've no idea what's supposed to be odd about Windows identifying that an (unsolved) error seemed to be caused by a windows component and suggesting that they patch it up to see if it helps. Is it that we're not expecting Microsoft to admit to problems with Windows? Is it that they're asking whether the information they provided was helpful? I'm lost here.

Also, this is Microsoft's error reporting tool, not a third-party one -- so I kinda doubt they'd be part of a conspiracy to accuse themselves erroneously for the crash.

Which component? Blaming "Windows" isn't very helpful. Like a doctor telling their patient there's something wrong with their insides.

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snoofle:

So how does one write a parser to differentiate betwteen a whole number, such as 12345, and a partial number such as 1234?

easy
function isWholeNumber(field) {
if number==12345
return true;
else if number==1234
return false;
else
return null;
}

Code Dependent:

Thief^:

me:

snoofle:

m0ffx:

...

"maths"?

I think that's how they say it in England.

Yes, and is therefore correct English.
"Math" is American.

This morning I had marmalades on my breads for breakfasts.

And you are a tard

King of Kings:

Actually, American English is the one that should be used. British English has merely evolved from the "original English". I read about this somewhere.

Please note that English isn't my first language.

All forms of English evolved from the original. American was deliberately reformed at some point, as was British English, but in different ways. "English" should either refer to every variation, or to just the version(s) of English spoken in England. Using it to refer solely to American English is wrong however you look at it.

I just wish Americans would stop trying to "correct" the spelling of other variants of English. They seem to keep living up to the stereotype of the American who thinks that America is the best country and every other should be like it, and anything different is wrong.

Schmitter:

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FTFY

FRIST

Paolo G:

"Is there anything else you would like to comment on or suggest? Please enter a whole number."

Obviously they mean "please enter a whole number of things you'd like to comment on or suggest" because that text box is pretty large.

I would have entered...

"a whole number"

gomma bolstrod:

function isWholeNumber(field) {

  if number==12345

     return true;

  else if number==1234

     return false;

  else

     return null;

}

1. The argument 'field' should be 'number'
2. But much more important, in the 'else' case, you should return FileNotFound.

SCB:

dpm:

Crabs:

Why is the Lenovo one a WTF? It's telling you estimated total battery lifetime.

Arithmetic is your friend. If there really is a battery which can last 39950 hours --- four and a half *years* --- I'd certainly buy it. Although the price will probably be high, and it might weigh thirty pounds.

Hell, even the "weak" battery they want you to replace is supposedly good for just under fifty days. I think I could get by with that.

No WTF there. Four and a half years is about how long your notebook battery will last before needing to be replaced.

That actually would be very nice. My battery is about 2 years old, and it's now able to hold a charge for a whopping 20 minutes. In Prior experience, I've had batteries have last for just about a year before getting that poor. Again, no WTF here, just a "heh, that could potentially be interpreted wrong."


Captcha:Vulputate!? I'VE ALREADY GOTTEN THAT ONE! What kind of a tiny friggin' dictionary is this!?

TRWTF is that the Levono message-thing seems to be an Internet Explorer embedding...

Developers, these days!

I would like to propose a moratorium on "placeholder text" WTFs.

They're perfectly funny, of course, but they have the aggravating side-effect of making people think it's funny to add a comment that just says "Comment Goes Here".

Research indicates that this attempt at humor was not funny at any point in known history. It is unknown why so many commenters continue to make the attempt.

In conclusion, I submit that the moderate amount of comedy gained through "Placeholder Text" WTFs is completely offset by the collateral damage they do to the comment section.