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Also, shouldn't three comments be cheaper than three times the cost of one?
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"Save up to 15%" means "there's no way in hell you're going to save more than 15%, no matter how high your score". And "save up to 10%" means "you're not even going to save more than 10%". So they're probably both true. You're going to save 2% at best. Maybe nothing.
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At least you get 20 bonus points if you spend the extra 3 cents. It probably earns you a free ham or something.
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In fact it will cost you 3 cents more.
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Can you then save up to 31% if you click in all three places?
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In the finnish/swedish text ("Default text") is another untranslated word, the german "ursprungsland" ("country of origin").
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I've a question, please... In the one with the DefaultText, is the expiration date format d.m.y or m.d.y ?
Thanks, Tom
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I hate to interrupt the always hilarious article-parodying comments, but I want to point out the lameness of the last one. It's a widget. It fetches its data via XML. If there is a problem fetching the XML data, it has to tell the user about that somehow.
Maybe it's lazy, because they could have changed the background to make it more obviously an error condition, but as an "Error'd" it's pretty weak. I mean, what's next?
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It is translated: it says Alkuperämaa/ursprungsland, with Finnish on the left and Swedish on the right.
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I'd say 'ursprungsland' is the correct swedish word to use. If it was in german it would be 'Ursprungsland' I guess.
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In Finland it is d.m.y.
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I don't see how the last one is a WTF at all. If it can't retrieve data becasue say, it isn't connected to the internet, what else is it supposed to output?
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The "error displaying this error" looks fake to me.
While it is possible that by some wicked logic, somebody would want to reentrantly show a dialog while the first is painting/creating (as it seems to be the case here), the one thing that would not make sense at all it the "half-painted, without an exclamation mark" icon in the background dialog. An icon's a bitmap, so it would either have painted, or not. The exclamation mark is part of the bitmap data, so as the yellow background part pixels would be transferred on screen, so would the exclamation mark.
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If it was just some website then no it wouldn't be funny, but I think the humour lies in it being the "Word of the Day."
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They did finish the translation but not the replacements.
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Very very lame article today.
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TRWTF is that it took 5~ months for that first screenshot to get posted (Check the date)
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Points are redeamable for cash past a certain amount. There are items (appliances and such) you can redeem for too. 20 points are worth more than 3 cents, though.
Still... Sobeys is known for their awesome sales around here. Such as the great ketchup sale for $1.99 down from $1.99.
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The Word of the Day is: Whoosh!
The sound of a joke (or bad pun) going straight over your head.
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Villirucola - sounds like some kind of horrible food poisoning to me.
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TRWTF is not having any new emails, billy-no-mates ;-)
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The error handler must have repainted the first error dialog, just so it would be clear to the user that the first error couldn't display properly.
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Those are some of the best comments we get for these types of articles. Why would you want them to stop?
Wait, are you the guy that was doing the lolspeak? cause that was WAY better :\
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Over here in the civilized world we all moved on to d.m.y. back in the early 1900's.. about time y'all caught up!
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Total Win.
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It'll help pay for the extra meeces
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I knew I saw that before - it's from Uncyclopedia.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Previouserror.gif
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Speaking of pet peeves... why did you put the six last in one thousand one hundred ninety six? Because it is the least significant digit. Why do we write times with the hours on the left and the seconds on the right? hours are more significant than minutes, which are more significant than seconds....
So WhyTF do you think d/m/y is the way to go?
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The only sensible format is YYYY-MM-DD.
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I'll be back to post another comment in about 75 years.
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The numeric date formatting wars amuse me, because all the "right" solutions people get so invested in are suboptimal. The way to do it correctly is unambiguously, which rules out any pure-numeric format (because there's no way to tell by inspection whether 06-05-2009 is June 5 or May 6).
The only unambiguous way to do it is either YYYY-Mmm-DD or DD-Mmm-YYYY. So I would write 05 Jun 2009 and even non-English-speakers know that Jun represents the month (even if they don't know what month).
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ISO 8601
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OHHH... so it's a backwater country if it uses MM/DD/YY. I see... moron.
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Actually, it makes more sense to start from the big and work your way down. YYYY-MM-DD ensures that dates sort properly irrespective of the data type used to store the date. Lexical sorts work just as well as numerical sorts in this case.
The military follows this standard.
-Lego
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Actually mm.dd.yyyy makes perfect sense. When someone asks me the date I say its May 2nd, 2009(optional). We do not say, "Well good fellow it happens to be the 2nd day of May in the year of our lord 2009". So it does appear that 5/2/2009 makes perfect sense when you live in a less pretentious society. Thank you!