• Isaac Eiland-Hall (unregistered)

    So Intel is trying to build a Next Generation Star Chip?

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Buddy

    unfortunately, a byte can only count to 128, as the byte addressable numbers include 2^0 to 2^7 so unfortunately, that app is impossible

  • (cs) in reply to Gary Hall
    Gary Hall:
    Anon:
    So if an application was < 1 byte you can download it out of thin air?

    Yes, it just guesses the required bits, asking you if it's right each time...

    Is it 0000001? Is it 0000010? Is it 0000011? etc...

    They thought guessing >1 byte's worth of bits would be annoying.

    Isn't that how quantum cryptography works ?

  • (cs) in reply to Buddy
    Buddy:
    Anon:
    BTW, if anybody want's my one byte app it's 157. There, I've saved you from having to download it.

    Is it freeware? If not, do you have a trial version? We're kind of strict here about running applications without appropriate licenses.

    Don't use it there is much better 1-Byte software around.

    I have been very successfulyl using NaDa the last years. Have a look:

    http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/index.php

  • DWalker (unregistered) in reply to Ray
    Ray:
    That Telstra one was completely out of context.

    Telstra did not set the price, the special price was from BigW when they were having a sale on Telstra Pre-paid wireless NextG broadband.

    The thing the post didn't say was that you paid 148.99 for the NextG broadband dongle and 0.01cents for the 59.00 Telstra NextG pre-paid mobile phone that came with it.

    I know this because i bought one of these when it was on sale at my local BigW.

    0.01 cents? Or 0.01 dollars? 0.01 cents is a hundredth of a cent.

    A local coffeeshop advertises greeting cards for .49 cents. Someday I'm going to buy two for a penny and tell them to keep the change.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    unfortunately, a byte can only count to 128, as the byte addressable numbers include 2^0 to 2^7 so unfortunately, that app is impossible
    I didn't understand this, so I asked a friend of mine to explain it to me. [image]
  • pmv (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    I'm guessing somebody already answered this for you, but I got sick of looking through the comments.

    It's wi-fi/iTunes as opposed to 3G. The non-buggy restriction is applications over 10megs have to be downloaded via wi-fi because 3G is too slow.

  • Vitaburst (unregistered)

    For the last one, i think it may have been photoshopped. Some applications require you to connect to wi-fi if they are over 10 megabytes, so i see how someone could photoshop some out.

  • (cs) in reply to Vitaburst
    Vitaburst:
    For the last one, i think it may have been photoshopped. Some applications require you to connect to wi-fi if they are over 10 megabytes, so i see how someone could photoshop some out.

    How about the Occam's razor explanation: Re-read the caption. That's NOT an iPhone, it's an iPod Touch.

    The amount of bytes you can download over a GPRS/EDGE connection with an iPod Touch is 0.

    The message is stupid and should be special-cased better, but at least it works.

  • AndyCR (unregistered)

    Just wanted to answer a few questions and theories people had about the nVidia image.

    No, my Windows folder was just at C:\Windows as usual.

    No, it wasn't Windows 7. This happened in September of last year, but wasn't posted until now.

    To the best of my memory, I had no modifications to Windows. It was pretty much a stock HP restore disk reinstall minus the crapware.

    I'm still not sure why it did that. The person who noticed the space after Windows has a good point - I hadn't noticed that, but it would make sense if it thought it was running on the wrong version of Windows.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Spectre:
    Anonymous:
    Captcha: [image]

    TRWTF is that CaptchaImage.aspx returns img/jpeg as the media type.

    So, that's why I get a "Download/Open/Save" dialog when I try to open it directly in a new tab. Also, FTFY:

    Spectre:
    TRWTF is CS, as always
    Captcha:[image]

    Actually, the front page of TDWTF is not community server. It's a custom hack by Alex - including the commenting system we're using.

  • tharpa (unregistered) in reply to Voodoo Coder

    Not to mention that in many jobs, you're not allowed to think. It may not be the front-line employee who's a moron, but the supervisor. The employee may have gotten the message loud and clear that (s)he's not allowed to reveal his/her intelligence.

  • Caspian (unregistered) in reply to AndyL

    What's funnier is the comment blames the telco who provide the service - but the sticker looks suspiciously like a BigW one to me. I'm not sure how the telco is responsible for the shelf price an unassociated retailer charges.

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to Anone
    Anone:
    Smyle:
    TRWTF on the first one: WTF is a "T/STRA P/PAY B/BND"?

    Telstra Prepaid Broadband

    Yeah - what's wrong with ya - don't ya read Strayan?

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to Share the pain
    Share the pain:
    Looks like the 0.007% discount is all that poor telecoms can offer these hard times. Don't they stick the "up to 0.007% off" labels there in Australia yet?

    Yes - but the WTF is rounding. In Austalia you cant spend left that multiples of 5c so you would not even get your 1c off!

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