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Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:05 • by QJo (unregistered)
Frist
Yes [ ]
No [ ]

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:06 • by moz (unregistered)
The answer to Willy's question is, of course, "Yes".

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:10 • by Yanman (unregistered)
If you press "No" at Jim's question, does that mean you want to answer multiple questions?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:18 • by JohnB (unregistered)
I also suffer from %_SQL_TEXT disease, got it through an injection back at the server facility

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:35 • by bcs (unregistered)
Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:37 • by dave (unregistered)
372601 in reply to 372600
No Finish needed. Check out http://lipsum.com

This is some extra text to get around akismet.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:40 • by bruno (unregistered)
372602 in reply to 372601
What if the article is about lipsum?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:47 • by Christoph (unregistered)
372603 in reply to 372601
But more interesting stories are on this page:

http://slipsum.com

Your link is so 1960s!


Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:53 • by F (unregistered)
Nero Imhard needn't have worried - it wasn't a petabyte, only a petabit.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 10:57 • by Dangerous Beans (unregistered)
372605 in reply to 372600
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?

Easy: The text in the top green area looks like weird gibberish. No real language could possibly look that funny, so it's probably some kind of placeholder text. ;-)

Dangerous Beans

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:07 • by PiisAWheeL
1067 Petabytes... Is that what it takes to download the internet these days?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:10 • by PiisAWheeL
372610 in reply to 372597
moz:
The answer to Willy's question is, of course, "Yes".


Wrong! The answer is, of course, FILE_NOT_FOUND.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:24 • by E. Laite (unregistered)
About Turun Sanomat, it's a job add. For Respecta, respecta.fi also offers site In English for those who are intrested...

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:26 • by Mr Keith (unregistered)
"Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question. If you choose either yes or no, you may have helped (off the top of my head, by increasing hit count of the tracking widget, thus boosting advertising or other metrics; maybe there is some other thing that answering this question helps with), and it's internally consistent.

captcha nulla = Holla at my %SQL_TEXT family!

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:39 • by ceiswyn (unregistered)
Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:39 • by Ralph (unregistered)
your family?s medical history
There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:46 • by Carl (unregistered)
372617 in reply to 372615
ceiswyn:
Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...
Yup, you figured it out. Despite the inability to come up with daily WTFs, Alex is sitting on a lengthy backlog of submitted material. For example, I've submitted the following unseen gems:

* A screen shot of my laptop simultaneously showing 17 minutes and over 10 hours of battery life remaining, vaguely similar to today's time sync WTF.

* A picture of my cell phone displaying two different times, remarkably similar to today's time sync WTF.

* A scan of my receipt from a national restaurant chain in which the randomly generated "enter this on our website" code soundly curses me out.

But nooooooo...

I guess the world just has too much WTF for even Alex to stomach.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 11:47 • by Tasty (unregistered)
372618 in reply to 372600
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?


Latin is the WTF here. The Finnish test paragraphs should be in Old Uralic.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 12:19 • by Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)! (unregistered)
372621 in reply to 372616
Ralph:
your family?s medical history
There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
???

I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 12:32 • by Matt Westwood (unregistered)
372622 in reply to 372600
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?

FTFY. How fucking illiterate.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 12:32 • by Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)! (unregistered)
372623 in reply to 372621
Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)!:
Ralph:
your family?s medical history
There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
???

I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.
I recommend Johnson/No Johnson's adjustable on-the-fly Crouching Tranny, Hidden Dick line of trapwear undergarments. You don't have to be "in disguise" in them all day, but you just never know when they'll come in handy.

Sometimes I use it when I feel like approaching women, or just using the ladies' room. Or when trying to catch a muff diver. Only when they realize where it's going do you see a bigger look of shock!

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 12:36 • by Matt Westwood (unregistered)
372625 in reply to 372613
Mr Keith:
"Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question. If you choose either yes or no, you may have helped (off the top of my head, by increasing hit count of the tracking widget, thus boosting advertising or other metrics; maybe there is some other thing that answering this question helps with), and it's internally consistent.

captcha nulla = Holla at my %SQL_TEXT family!


Perfectly straightforward. If you press "Yes", it means you are prepared to help them improve their page by answering the question, which will follow on afterwards. If you press "No", they won't bother you with that question.

This is standard, although it is usually worded "Would you like to help us by participating in our survey? It will only take about five minutes." This is of course always a lie, it will take between twenty minutes and an hour, and you will probably have logged out in sheer frustration as yet another seething heap of steaming smelly "select-0-to-10" questions splatters across your screen.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 12:41 • by Matt Westwood (unregistered)
372626 in reply to 372623
Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)!:
Boog, I Am Your Father! (aka Behold The Return Of Zunesis!)!:
Ralph:
your family?s medical history
There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft trapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
???

I thought trapware was something that made it easy to conceal a penis.
I recommend Johnson/No Johnson's adjustable on-the-fly Crouching Tranny, Hidden Dick line of trapwear undergarments. You don't have to be "in disguise" in them all day, but you just never know when they'll come in handy.

Sometimes I use it when I feel like approaching women, or just using the ladies' room. Or when trying to catch a muff diver. Only when they realize where it's going do you see a bigger look of shock!

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Won't work on me, you can't hide an adam's apple. And wearing a concealing scarf is such an obvious give-away. And if you *must* wear 15 denier, remember to shave your legs. Sheesh, that's *gross*.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:03 • by Jay (unregistered)
RE license server appears to be down.

If you answer "no", does it then go ahead and connect to it?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:08 • by That's our directory (unregistered)
"Hey cool, I think that's our directory. Oh crap, that is our directory". Looks like we haven't been fast enough fixing that hard drive failure.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:11 • by Pim
372629 in reply to 372611
E. Laite:
About Turun Sanomat, it's a job add. For Respecta, respecta.fi also offers site In English for those who are intrested...
Yes, but does it also offer the site in L... no wait, too easy.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:12 • by vyznev
372630 in reply to 372600
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
OK, let me translate that for you (quality of translation not guaranteed).

Respecta is Finland's largest provider of products and services to support human productivity and mobility. Respecta provides services at its own offices at 8 locations, as well as by appointment in rehabilitation centers, health centers and hospitals at over 30 locations. Respecta has around 200 employees, and its revenue in year 2010 was over 30 million euros. Respecta is owned by the Invalid Foundation and the Health Fund. www.respecta.fi

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

LOREM IPSUM DOLOR

Your tasks will include at vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

TL;DR: It's a job ad, for a position apparently named "LOREM IPSUM DOLOR". I didn't translate the job description from Latin, but apparently it involves some "denouncing with righteous indignation". Sounds fun!

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:19 • by Gary (unregistered)
Clearly the Thunderbolt is not as fast as the network, since time for the network appears to be moving slower than time for the device.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 13:30 • by lesle (unregistered)
Roughly translated and condensed, it says, "A drunk squirrel don't tree."

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 14:30 • by ekolis
My friend Bobby has a bad case of %_SQL_TEXT...

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 14:44 • by GP (unregistered)
Obviously it's 10:45 (and mostly sunny) in New York but 10:08 at your current location. Do you happen to work in a high energy physics lab?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 15:12 • by obsa (unregistered)
To be fair, the IKEA download is only 127.29 TB. Paltry, really.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 15:39 • by shadowman
372644 in reply to 372617
Carl:
ceiswyn:
Of course, Andrew's real issue was the time travel. Either that or that screenshot has been sitting in TDWTF's inbox since last February...
Yup, you figured it out. Despite the inability to come up with daily WTFs, Alex is sitting on a lengthy backlog of submitted material. For example, I've submitted the following unseen gems:

* A screen shot of my laptop simultaneously showing 17 minutes and over 10 hours of battery life remaining, vaguely similar to today's time sync WTF.

* A picture of my cell phone displaying two different times, remarkably similar to today's time sync WTF.

* A scan of my receipt from a national restaurant chain in which the randomly generated "enter this on our website" code soundly curses me out.

But nooooooo...

I guess the world just has too much WTF for even Alex to stomach.


Or maybe Alex and the others already devote quite a bit of their spare time sifting through & editing a shit-ton of submissions and updating the website nearly daily during their spare time for free, and they haven't gotten to your hilarious battery life story yet.

Clock Sync Android

2012-01-20 17:01 • by Jeff (unregistered)
The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.

Re: Clock Sync Android

2012-01-20 17:23 • by da Doctah
372651 in reply to 372650
Jeff:
My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.


Meh. It's just the Etruscan word for "lettuce".

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 18:05 • by Silverhill
372652 in reply to 372622
Matt Westwood:
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
FTFY. How fucking illiterate.
Yes, the Internet would surely have ground to a halt if you hadn't fixed that negligible typo. We bow at your feet, O Perspicacious One. ["We're not worthy!"]


-1 Intarwebz to you.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 18:06 • by Silverhill
372653 in reply to 372616
Ralph:
your family?s medical history
There?s your RWTF. They?re using Micro?oft crapware to create text that needs to be platform agnostic.
FTFY.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 18:07 • by Silverhill
372654 in reply to 372639
ekolis:
My friend Bobby has a bad case of %_SQL_TEXT...
So bad, in fact, that the entire student body missed school today. (Or vice-versa?)

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 18:20 • by Matt Westwood (unregistered)
372655 in reply to 372652
Silverhill:
Matt Westwood:
bcs:
Will someone who speaks Finnish explain Erkki Laite's submission?
FTFY. How fucking illiterate.
Yes, the Internet would surely have ground to a halt if you hadn't fixed that negligible typo. We bow at your feet, O Perspicacious One. ["We're not worthy!"]


-1 Intarwebz to you.


Plfsht. Another stupid cunt.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 19:12 • by DaveK
372656 in reply to 372613
Mr Keith:
"Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question.
So that's not "answering one question" then, is it?

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-20 21:09 • by Watson
372659 in reply to 372656
DaveK:
Mr Keith:
"Please help us improve this page by answering one question"

There's no WTF, unless upon clicking "yes", you get a second question.
So that's not "answering one question" then, is it?

Except "Please help us improve this page by answering one question" is not a question.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-21 04:53 • by Wody (unregistered)
I heard you get %_SQL_TEXT from watching too much TDWTF. I guess todays TDWTF shows it!

Captcha: sucipit. I suscipit you have %_SQL_TEXT

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-21 08:54 • by Major DoucheBag (unregistered)
372666 in reply to 372642
obsa:
To be fair, the IKEA download is only 127.29 TB. Paltry, really.


+1

Is this a geek site or not?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1067779576Mb+in+TB

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1067779576Mib+in+TiB

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-21 16:17 • by geek (unregistered)
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/file-size/result/?size=1067779576&unit=megabytes

gives what I also calculate, just over 1 pb

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-21 16:18 • by geek (unregistered)
Sorry, I mean just under 1 pb.

Re: Clock Sync Android

2012-01-21 18:52 • by Luiz Felipe (unregistered)
372678 in reply to 372650
Jeff:
The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.


Except when you are driving and need to know the time. Then the giant clock is much better and faster.

Re: Clock Sync Android

2012-01-21 19:19 • by Matt Westwood (unregistered)
372681 in reply to 372678
Luiz Felipe:
Jeff:
The clock sync issue on Android happens sometimes. The clock in the notification bar is part of the android system, but the clock on the desktop is a widget. If RAM is running low, applications get kicked out of RAM, and that can include widgets. Usually, in that case, they just won't update, and time will "freeze" for the widget.

What's weird in that case is that the widget seems to be AHEAD of the system clock. Or it's almost a full day behind - which might actually be the more likely occurance.

The real WTF is that people need a giant clock widget on their desktop when the time is already prominantly displayed on the top bar ALL THE TIME.

My captcha is "Letatio". I'm not sure what that is, but I think I will enjoy it.


Except when you are driving and need to know the time. Then the giant clock is much better and faster.


So who hasn't got a clock on the dashboard of their car?

In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit. Certain other supposedly civilised nations, of course, contain significant more-or-less influential sections of the population who consider such traffic regulations to be an interference in their personal freedom to be complete arseholes. As a consequence the percentage of people who die in traffic accidents is higher in such nations (excellent, say I, less of those fucking arseholes in the world) than those whose populations are (in general) saner and more mature.

Re: Clock Sync Android

2012-01-21 21:07 • by da Doctah
372683 in reply to 372681
Matt Westwood:
In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit. Certain other supposedly civilised nations, of course, contain significant more-or-less influential sections of the population who consider such traffic regulations to be an interference in their personal freedom to be complete arseholes. As a consequence the percentage of people who die in traffic accidents is higher in such nations (excellent, say I, less of those fucking arseholes in the world) than those whose populations are (in general) saner and more mature.


The flaw in this logic is that it's not always the arseholes who die in those accidents.

Re: Clock Sync Android

2012-01-22 01:50 • by tin
372685 in reply to 372681
Matt Westwood:
So who hasn't got a clock on the dashboard of their car?


People with older cars.
People who have replaced the OEM stereo that had a clock with a new one that doesn't.
People driving other random cars where the clock's accuracy is unknown (although technically they would have a clock then).


Matt Westwood:
In most civilised nations it's illegal to use a mobile phone while driving for the same blindingly obvious reasons that it's illegal to drive while under the influence of alcohol, or to exceed the speed limit.


So you are OK with looking at the clock embedded in the car, but then go on to rant about how dangerous operating a mobile phone while driving is purely because someone wants a large clock to be visible. Fail.

Re: Sponsor Appreciation, SQL Scourge, and More Error'd

2012-01-22 06:27 • by Major DoucheBag (unregistered)
372686 in reply to 372670
geek:
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/file-size/result/?size=1067779576&unit=megabytes

gives what I also calculate, just over 1 pb


That's because you're not a geek, but an imposter!

Mb != MB
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