• Dave (unregistered)
    <quote> What's the sound of one hand clapping? If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Can Word edit the unknown? </quote>

    No, it can't. Read the fucking exception message, dumbass.

  • Stuart Longland (unregistered)

    Is the weather in Cambridge MA always this capacitive?

  • (cs) in reply to Stuart Longland
    Stuart Longland:
    Is the weather in Cambridge MA always this capacitive?

    MIT is in Cambridge, so I'd imagine that's very likely.

  • (cs) in reply to Stuart Longland

    Can the immovable coding flaw stop the unstoppable email spam?

    (Signs point to No)

  • WooWoo (unregistered)
    • I am not going to write a very long comment. However I can still

    0 My comment will automatically be updated on the frequency I specif

    (On the frequency???)

  • Polar (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that Irish Girl has disappeared.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    But aren't microfarads really, really small?

  • (cs) in reply to WooWoo
    WooWoo:
    * I am not going to write a very long comment. However I can still

    0 My comment will automatically be updated on the frequency I specif

    (On the frequency???)

    How many Gigahertz? ...or is it Microhertz?

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?
    Yes, a capacity of one microfarad is a millionth of a farad. What this means in terms of temperature is another matter, though...
  • Carl (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Roy doesn't know that you can press <Alt>+<Print Screen> to just copy the active window.

  • (cs)

    The unsubscription message should probably read:

    Error: You have been successfully unsubscribed.

  • Vincent (unregistered)

    Even better is the "Share The Unknown" button below the article. It seems our beloved website has become highly metaphysical these days.

  • Muhself (unregistered)

    Leaving PHP errors on on a production web server...well done.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?

    Yes, but it is common for electronics usage. If you had a 1 F capacitor, it would hold a monster charge, and be fun to tase people with.

  • John (unregistered)

    Hey the Irish chick's gone :-(

  • Polar (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Hey the Irish chick's gone :-(

    Irish she was still here.

  • (cs)
    If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
    If a man speaks, and there is no woman there to hear, is he still wrong?
  • han solito (unregistered) in reply to Polar

    I'm from Argentina, and I still see her.

  • s. (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    Actually, I'm curious how does negative capacity feel like.

  • (cs) in reply to TheRider
    TheRider:
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?
    Yes, a capacity of one microfarad is a millionth of a farad. What this means in terms of temperature is another matter, though...

    Even google calculator doesn't know.

  • s. (unregistered) in reply to TheRider
    TheRider:
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?
    Yes, a capacity of one microfarad is a millionth of a farad. What this means in terms of temperature is another matter, though...

    Well, a farad is LOTS. 17 microfarads at 230V can give a nasty shock already.

  • (cs) in reply to Polar
    Polar:
    John:
    Hey the Irish chick's gone :-(

    Irish she was still here.

    Irish she was...

    Irish she was.

  • I walked the dinosaur (unregistered)

    Why is she gone? Was she removed because she kept encouraging off-topic comments? We demand her back!

  • Teh Irish Gril Riot (unregistered)

    oh noes!!!

  • Walleye (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?

    Not really, it's just that farads are really, really big.

    I remember seeing a cartoon a long time ago where the caption was "I have the 6-farad capacitor you ordered". The picture showed a truck driver at the front door of the house and the tractor-trailer parked on the street towing a capacitor that was bigger than the house.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    I like the fact that even in XP SP2 many, many Windows dialog boxes don't let you resize, so it's impossible to determine where a mapped drive letter point...

  • Mutant (unregistered) in reply to Walleye
    Walleye:
    I remember seeing a cartoon a long time ago where the caption was "I have the 6-farad capacitor you ordered". The picture showed a truck driver at the front door of the house and the tractor-trailer parked on the street towing a capacitor that was bigger than the house.

    Golly, electronics humour sure is funny!

  • gerg (unregistered) in reply to Walleye

    Welcome to the brave new world... 3kF capacitors are now about 1L:

    http://www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors/products/large-cell/bcap3000.asp

  • gumby (unregistered)

    16 microfarads seems a bit low. I think in a thunderstorm the earth-cloud gap has about 2 farads.

    (sorry for the non-humorous nerd comment)

  • (cs) in reply to gerg
    gerg:
    Welcome to the brave new world... 3kF capacitors are now about 1L:

    http://www.maxwell.com/ultracapacitors/products/large-cell/bcap3000.asp

    website:
    * Please note: This new cell offers a technological breakthrough of 2.7 volts operating temperature combined with Maxwell's standard high reliability. To enable this higher voltage, the BCAP3000 cell is designed in such a way that it requires that the user observe polarity.
    2.7 volts operating temperature?
  • Ubersoldat (unregistered)

    What Irish girl?!? What are you talking about?!? Stupid NoScript!

  • Prosthetic Lips (unregistered) in reply to Polar
    Polar:
    The real WTF is that Irish Girl has disappeared.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!11one11eleven!1!!eleventy-first!!

    PS: At least we get to "Comment on The Unknown" now!

  • Donald Rumsfeld (unregistered)

    Word cannot edit the unknown Unknown, but the known Unknown is probably OK.

  • reflux (unregistered)
    "... If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? ..."

    The real question is, if an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?

  • reflux (unregistered)
    "... If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? ..."

    The real question is, if an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?

  • (cs) in reply to CRNewsom
    CRNewsom:
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?

    Yes, but it is common for electronics usage. If you had a 1 F capacitor, it would hold a monster charge, and be fun to tase people with.

    And, of course, would also be useful for car audio bragging rights.

  • JonC (unregistered)

    Don't forget your sunscreen, it's going to be 16 microfarads today.

    But it will only feel like -5 microfarads so won't be unbearable.

  • (cs)

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  • (cs) in reply to han solito
    han solito:
    I'm from Argentina, and I still see her.
    I'm glad to know where you're from, han. But where are you now?
  • morry (unregistered)

    Very zen like. me likey.

  • (cs)

    The Irish girl obviously didn't read the weather forecast. If she did, she'd have known that it was 16 microfarads today, significantly increasing her chance of being struck by lightning.

  • (cs)

    The Irish Girl can still be found here.

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that InstallShield's "Intelligent" updater will continue to pop up every now and then to remind you that you've instructed it not to update anything... :|

  • JD (unregistered) in reply to Chemisor
    Chemisor:
    The Irish Girl can still be found here.

    Wow, I didn't realize her rack was so big. Nice.

  • (cs) in reply to CRNewsom
    CRNewsom:
    Anon:
    But aren't microfarads really, really small?

    Yes, but it is common for electronics usage. If you had a 1 F capacitor, it would hold a monster charge, and be fun to tase people with.

    Or make your bass hit really hard.

  • (cs)

    I found Irish guy for the ladies

    http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/irish/male

  • (cs) in reply to JD
    JD:
    Chemisor:
    The Irish Girl can still be found here.

    Wow, I didn't realize her rack was so big. Nice.

    4 or 5u?

  • Dave C. (unregistered)

    Weather.com has been pushing to standardize on reporting temperature in micro-farads for some time now, but they've encountered some resistance.

  • Yep (unregistered) in reply to Dave C.
    Dave C.:
    Weather.com has been pushing to standardize on reporting temperature in micro-farads for some time now, but they've encountered some resistance.

    You, sir, win.

  • han solito (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    han solito:
    I'm from Argentina, and I still see her.
    I'm glad to know where you're from, han. But where are you now?

    I meant, I'm writing from Argentina and the irish girl is still on the same place, just in case it has to do with regional targetting ads or something.

    I was heading to the bathroom for my daily irish ritual.

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