• IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to mrprogguy
    mrprogguy:
    Who is responsible:
    The Queen is a special/separate entity in Canada.

    Yes we have a queen. Yes most of use like that fact.

    See, I'm thinking Scott Thompson.

    I tip my martini glass to you sir.

  • IV (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users. Anyway if it's uploading Infinity KB at Infinity KB/s, why would it take a few hours? It should only take one second.

    You need a little bit more calculus training. Infinite is not a number - it is a concept. In order to get the time required by inf/inf, you need to use l'hopital's rule. The answer could be 0, infinite, or any number in between.

  • (cs) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users. Anyway if it's uploading Infinity KB at Infinity KB/s, why would it take a few hours? It should only take one second.

    Some infinities are larger than others.

  • (cs) in reply to Kermos
    Kermos:
    TRWTF here of course is that $46.88 is not considered an unreasonable charge nowadays at a gas station.
    Yes, it should be considered an unreasonably small charge.
  • (cs) in reply to IV
    IV:
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users. Anyway if it's uploading Infinity KB at Infinity KB/s, why would it take a few hours? It should only take one second.

    You need a little bit more calculus training. Infinite is not a number - it is a concept. In order to get the time required by inf/inf, you need to use l'hopital's rule. The answer could be 0, infinite, or any number in between.

    So, what you're saying is, he could be right? It could be 1?

  • blueg3 (unregistered) in reply to IV

    Then you should remember that L'Hopital's rule applies only to derivatives.

    It's improper to use "infinity" as if it was a number. Not only is "infinity divided by infinity" not defined, it shouldn't have been asked in the first place. Supposing that it has an answer means you were already doing it wrong.

  • teh Queen! (unregistered)

    Dammit! No way to go incognito.

  • JohnFx (unregistered)

    I don't see the WTF.

    The steps are sorted correctly in alphabetical order.... One Three Two

    What could be more intuitive?

  • m0ffx (unregistered)

    "Her Majesty the Queen" is there to trap jokers. Trying to register a domain as such pretends to succeed, then a few days later you get your money back and an email saying it's actually already taken.

  • xeno (unregistered) in reply to Been there done that
    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.
    George W. Bush
  • (cs) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    This is great fun until the IRS comes to audit your business and wants to see the journal rolls from your point of sale system. If your state has a sales tax, and most do, then you have just created a really big sales tax liability for your employer as well. Well Done!

    Last time I checked, sales tax was paid on the SALE, not the QUANTITY TENDERED. The tax is the same whether you pay for a $1 sale with $1 or $100.
  • Dave's Not Here (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    I doubt it. The IRS doesn't really care how much the customers are giving you, they really only care about the difference between what the customers give you, and what you give them back in change. That's called revenue.
    No no no! Any cash transaction over $10,000 must be reported to the SS -- I mean, DHS! Anyone carrying around that much money MUST be a terrorist!

    Sigh. TRWTF is that my post probably makes sense to DHS.

  • (cs) in reply to xeno
    xeno:
    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.
    George W. Bush
    That's almost as funny as when you said "Richard Nixon" last week.
  • IV (unregistered) in reply to blueg3
    blueg3:
    Then you should remember that L'Hopital's rule applies only to derivatives.

    It's improper to use "infinity" as if it was a number.

    Downloads can be derivatives - change in size over change in time. Total size is a constant, but you can fiddle with the math and get the change in size over time there, too. That is my initial take, anyway. You may be right in not being able to apply it here.

    We agree that infinite isn't a number, but you can use it to do math WITH THE PROPER SETUP.

  • Catp. Obvious (unregistered) in reply to blueg3

    L'Hopital's rule applies only to limits... which is the only equation that should end in " equals Infinity" Hence, "Infinity divided by Infinity" can only really be interperted as "lim as x -> Inf of F(X)/G(X)".

    L'Hopital's rule uses derivatives. The above limit is determined to be the same as "lim as x -> Inf of F'(X)/G'(X)"

    So happy I remembered that!

  • Garth (unregistered)

    I did some contract work for the Canadian military. The contract was officially between me and Her Majesty the Queen. Unfortunately some other guy signed on her behalf, so I don't have a memento.

    I'm guessing that it's true that a lot of government business is done on her behalf, including registering domain names.

  • (cs) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Last time I checked, sales tax was paid on the SALE, not the QUANTITY TENDERED. The tax is the same whether you pay for a $1 sale with $1 or $100.
    Don't give them any ideas.
  • Josh (unregistered)

    Does anyone know what that, "Free Public WiFi," thing actually is? I actually see it often when traveling. I've seen the same SSID in Atlanta, Nashville, and Chicago. Sometimes it fails to connect; other times, it connects, then immediately loses the signal as we see in this WTF. I've never been able to get an actual Internet connection from it.

    Can anyone explain it? Why does the same nonexistent network show up on a Windows computer in every major city?

  • (cs) in reply to blueg3
    blueg3:
    It's improper to use "infinity" as if it was a number. Not only is "infinity divided by infinity" not defined, it shouldn't have been asked in the first place. Supposing that it has an answer means you were already doing it wrong.
    Yes and no. Or, more accurately, no and yes. It's perfectly possible and often useful to use a number system containing infinity (we may or may not also have negative infinity; it depends what we're doing). But infinity divided by infinity is still not going to have a meaningful answer.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line for a quick introduction.

  • Fry-kun (unregistered)
    Surely, we all know that Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II registers all her TLD with 10dollars.ca.

    It was on the news a few weeks ago that the queen is not doing too well financially. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if she used a cheap registry :)

  • slebetman (unregistered) in reply to A Muffin
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users.

    People use RapidShare because of programs like FreeRapid (at least people I know anyway). Not annoying at all, much simpler and some of the time much faster than bittorrent.

  • (cs) in reply to Kermos
    Kermos:
    TRWTF here of course is that $46.88 is not considered an unreasonable charge nowadays at a gas station.
    Well, yesterday I fuelled up my car. Put in €40 (US$56.33), for which I got 35 litres (9.2 US gallons).

    I noticed that the price per litre had jumped from €0.99 to €1.14 - gulp! - but we probably still have some of the lowest prices in the European Union.

    Wages aren't particularly high here either, though, but this being an island I only have to fuel up every two to three weeks.

  • fnord (unregistered) in reply to Severity One
    Severity One:
    I noticed that the price per litre had jumped from €0.99 to €1.14 - gulp! - but we probably still have some of the lowest prices in the European Union.
    Oh, or gas prices just slumped. From €1,35/l to €1,25/l...
  • Tin (not logged in because internet too slow) (unregistered)

    The Australian Tax Office also make allowances for royal families. Their e-Tax software for submitting income tax returns has included "His/Her Royal Highness" as a title for many years. I'm tempted to pick it some years.

    If you want to take a look, www.ato.gov.au/etax

  • Invalid life (unregistered)

    TRWTF on Symantec is why the most common error in date/time setting is a wrong year. How often does this happen? Once every january 1st or does every client pretend it's 1985 forever?

  • genitus (unregistered)
    jugis:
    Ken B:
    Good thing he had his $5-million bill with him. He'll need that to pay this second's interest on the $23-quadrillion Visa card charge.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/15/quadrillion.dollar.glitch/index.html

    Tssk. I'll pay them in zimbzbwe dollars. http://media.nowpublic.net/images//fe/2/fe240953bb7d532feb6b432b8ec19ca6.jpg

    Damnit, got the wrong ling. >.< http://media.fccj.edu/blog/hopcroft_david_j/hook%202%20weird-007-zimbabwe-trillion-dollar.jpg

  • yagn (unregistered) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    This is great fun until the IRS comes to audit your business and wants to see the journal rolls from your point of sale system. If your state has a sales tax, and most do, then you have just created a really big sales tax liability for your employer as well. Well Done!

    It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye...

    -Lego

    Yes, loose eyes can be a real problem. You could lose one of them if you're not careful.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    rfsmit:
    At first, "Langstane Kirk" looked like a mainland European or Scandinavian language, but I've been away from Britain for enough years that spelling things funny isn't usually out of respect for history and culture.
    Kirk is Scottish for church. I don't see why "Langstane Kirk" couldn't be in the UK.

    I would assume that the cryptic "RD Y CO" underneath the display used to read abeRDeen citY COuncil, the look of the buses, phone boxes and litter bins and the destination all fit with that assumption

  • (cs) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    Bappi:
    Kirk is Scottish for church. I don't see why "Langstane Kirk" couldn't be in the UK.

    I would assume that the cryptic "RD Y CO" underneath the display used to read abeRDeen citY COuncil, the look of the buses, phone boxes and litter bins and the destination all fit with that assumption

    You'll be happy to know then that the image name is 'aberdeenbus.jpg'.

  • Uncivil Servant Bot (unregistered) in reply to Garth

    All contracts with the government of Canada is with "The Queen in Right of Canada". Actually Provinces are similar - "The Queen in Right of Ontario" for example.

    So technically, yeah, except you're not ever going to sign a contract with the Queen, it's going to be The Queen in Right of Canada.

    When I rent a car for work, it is technically rented to the government, which means the master agreement is above, but really, the contract is just going to reference my travel card, which just has my name and my ministry on it.

  • Mapping Pioneer (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    xeno:
    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.
    George W. Bush
    That's almost as funny as when you said "Richard Nixon" last week.

    We don't choose our Queen.

  • alister (unregistered) in reply to Bappi

    Actually I know exactly where this is

    Union Street, Aberdeen, UK (West End)

  • Mapping Pioneer (unregistered) in reply to Mapping Pioneer
    Mapping Pioneer:
    operagost:
    xeno:
    All Canadians must bow down before their inbred royal superiors.
    George W. Bush
    That's almost as funny as when you said "Richard Nixon" last week.

    We don't choose our Queen.

    Twice.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to slebetman
    slebetman:
    A Muffin:
    TRWTF is that people use Crapidshare, or any other site designed to annoy its users.

    People use RapidShare because of programs like FreeRapid (at least people I know anyway). Not annoying at all, much simpler and some of the time much faster than bittorrent.

    I find it slower. Sure Bittorrent can take longer to download, but it's a set-it-and-forget-it deal. With rapidshare, you have to click, wait 1 minute, click, wait for it to finish, wait 15 minutes, repeat process. (I have discovered that files < 1MB are usually "freebies".) But when I see something split across 6 or 7 rapidshare links, it's way beyond annoying, since it'll take about 2 hours to download if I was to sit there the entire time. And with the 15 minute wait, that could easily be a whole day to download files.

    But I guess freerapid takes care of that for you?

    Garth:
    I did some contract work for the Canadian military. The contract was officially between me and Her Majesty the Queen. Unfortunately some other guy signed on her behalf, so I don't have a memento.

    I'm guessing that it's true that a lot of government business is done on her behalf, including registering domain names.

    Well, either the Queen or the Queen's Representative (or someone granted the power to do so by one of them) can sign on Her behalf. The Queen's Representative is usually known as the Governor General. Our Prime Minister gets his powers to govern from the Governor General (the Queen's not normally around...), and power is transferred down the line in that fashion. Ah the powers of delegation.

  • Le Poete (unregistered) in reply to Who is responsible
    Who is responsible:
    The Queen is a special/separate entity in Canada.

    Yes we have a queen. Yes most of use like that fact.

    Outside Québec...

    Here in Québec, we couldn't care less. We're officially not in the constitution since 1982 when the constitution was brought back from England to Canada without Québec signature.

    Why am I still paying taxes to Ottawa?

  • (cs) in reply to Bappi
    Bappi:
    Kirk is Scottish for church.
    So it's actually captain Church?
  • WHATTHEHELL (unregistered) in reply to skawt
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    Now where I work you would be in trouble for screwing with the registers internal sales total and giving the manager who must count the drawer a hard time.

  • was lurking, but frenchie annoys me (unregistered) in reply to Le Poete

    I don't respect, or live by the queen, but Québec, you lost the war in 1759, just shut up and move back to france already. your taxes don't cover half of what we give you. just try it on your own, i double dare you.

    oh yes, the article... give HRM 10% off domains, seems reasonable.

  • Me? (unregistered)

    The real WTF: "Click Apply, then click OK"

  • TGGibbs (unregistered)

    The free public wifi thing is a viral leftover from some unknown place. http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html You find this connection in a lot of metropolitan areas and there is never an actual connection because it's a computer-computer connection.

    Strange and annoying, but harmless.

  • Magickid (unregistered)

    Her Majesty the Queen IS actually considered a legal entity in Canada. Canada is not a Democracy, it's a Constitutional Monarchy. We are still very much under the queen. If you buy crown property in Canada, you have to make the cheque out to "Her Majesty the Queen". And, if a company has the word "Royal" in its name, they have to pay the Queen a salary every month!

  • Liquid_Fire (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    Bappi:
    rfsmit:
    At first, "Langstane Kirk" looked like a mainland European or Scandinavian language, but I've been away from Britain for enough years that spelling things funny isn't usually out of respect for history and culture.
    Kirk is Scottish for church. I don't see why "Langstane Kirk" couldn't be in the UK.

    I would assume that the cryptic "RD Y CO" underneath the display used to read abeRDeen citY COuncil, the look of the buses, phone boxes and litter bins and the destination all fit with that assumption

    Not to mention the filename - aberdeenbus.jpg

  • (cs) in reply to Addison

    I'm pretty sure Canada's head of state is called the Queen of Canada, not the Queen of England, even though it resolves to the same person.

  • HM (unregistered)

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A-Numbers-Game.aspx dtd. 2008-04-21

    Look-A-Here. Now that's what I call a quick correction of a buggy Userform ... providing that AT&T are reading the WTF - Files, of course.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to y0da
    y0da:
    Anonymous:
    I don't count the domain registration one as a WTF really. They're just being thorough. Can't knock them for that, can we?

    I, for one, miss the "Evil Overlord" option.

    I have used a similar list for a previous website. In it, I'd added items like Jedi (of course), Pedant, etc. Don't think I added "Evil Overlord", but I've a feeling SPECTRE Agent could have been present. It's never harm to add a bit of humour to a web form, though it pays prevent the humourous items from being used.

    CAPTCHA: appellatio This is the RWTF: a CAPTCHA system with a small enough pool of words that they get repeated regularly.

  • Timoti (unregistered)

    Already seen that same AT&T error before:

    http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A-Numbers-Game.aspx

  • verto (unregistered) in reply to Easy There Pardner

    What is a Whale Fail and why would you want to listen to it?

  • Carlos B. (unregistered)

    Gotta love the AT&T Client, "repairing database"... good times.

  • (cs) in reply to WHATTHEHELL
    WHATTHEHELL:
    skawt:
    When I worked at a food place, I would routinely type really large numbers in the cash register for what people paid when I knew I didn't need the machine to tell me how much change they would need back. Granted our cash registers wouldn't display that information to the guest, I just liked seeing the large numbers on the receipts.

    Now where I work you would be in trouble for screwing with the registers internal sales total and giving the manager who must count the drawer a hard time.

    Going over this again...

    If he's reporting sales that didn't happen (someone paid $20 for $15 worth of food and $5 cash, but he's recording $200 for $195 worth of food and $5 cash) then that's fraud, plain and simple... his company and his government have all kinds of checks and balances that will hopefully catch it and get him removed from the position whose trust he is violating.

    On the other hand if he's just misreporting the tender that was used (someone paid $20 for $15 worth of food and $5 cash but he's recording $200 for $15 worth of food and $185 cash) then the company and the government won't care -- SO LONG AS THIS IS A CASH TRANSACTION. The person who paid may have some explaining to do to their spouse or employer though, assuming someone looks at their receipts.

  • (cs)

    I love how the " { and } " has curlybraces on it. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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