• Mrs. Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to NaN
    NaN:
    "Actual Effort is required"

    Spiratest. Yes - lots of effort (with one of the most tedious default workflows known...)

    Yep. Recognise this. What you have to do is to find the drop-down which IIRC leads to a selector which has been set up to be mandatory. It's not so bad once you get used to it, but the real WTF is software that requires you ask a colleague how to get past puzzling screens. If it's not completely intuitive it's shit. Not all of us wasted our teenage years playing stupid fucking adventure games.

  • Mrs. Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    Got a password with at least millions of possible combinations? Why not add a 'security' question with hundreds to get around that pesky security hole!

    How about a question like: "How many times have you been divorced?" That would work. Or: "How many times have you had open-heart surgery? Or (if the first name of the applicant is "Bob"): "How many retarded sons have you had?" Those should push the number of possible true answers way up into the stratosphere.

  • (cs) in reply to Carl T
    Carl T:
    How can Mark's age be a dimensionless number? And why, then does it have to be an integer?

    As a physicist and occasional teacher, I would have failed him for not stating the units of that quantity.

    +1

  • Someone Else (unregistered) in reply to Someone
    Someone:
    Alex Papa, you are a real what the fuck. I sent you something different but you wouldn't publish it, and yet you will publish similar errors over and over again.
    He didn't publish mine either, the bastard!

    So what if I didn't send it to him yet - he's supposed to read my bloody mind!

  • Physics killed my father (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Carl T:
    How can Mark's age be a dimensionless number? And why, then does it have to be an integer?

    As a physicist and occasional teacher, I would have failed him for not stating the units of that quantity.

    Good to know you make mention of word "occasional" for teacher. How come you not make mention of it before "physicist"?

    All mass is interaction.

    It's impossible to be a part-time physicist.

    Everything is physics. Everything, everywhere and everywhen is physics!

    You cannot ever escape, even time travel cannot save you! You're doomed, I tell you! DOOOOOOOMEDD!!!!!!!!!

  • Seriously Surprised (unregistered) in reply to Someone
    Someone:
    C-Octothorpe:
    Also, we're not worried that he'll ban us, we're worried that he'll find us and kill our families in front of us while making us watch him fucking our dog. Alex is evil! EVIL I TELLS YA!
    Not sure about my submission, but your nonsense imagination does suck. Alex Papa can do none of it, because he is the real what the fuck on this site.
    Woah, I really never, ever want to meet Someone.

    He thinks that finding some random person on the Internet, killing their family and raping their dog is not a Real WTF!??

    (And seriously, akismet, come up with some new words for the CAPTCHA. I've seen all of these before!)

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to Anketam
    Anketam:
    frits:
    So if any number divided by zero is undefined, and zero divided by any number is zero, and any number divide by itself is one, what is 0/0?
    Personally I say undefined since it is equal to everything. However, according to C# 0/0 = NaN (Yes C# does not throw a divide by 0 exception when it hits this) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.double.nan(v=vs.71).aspx

    Makes some sense, 0/0 = {Universe} = Not an Number. But 0/0 is also nothing. Its a paradox. But nothing is not an number also.

  • Planar (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    So if any number divided by zero is undefined, and zero divided by any number is zero, and any number divide by itself is one, what is 0/0?

    It's undefined and it's zero and it's one. Since it cannot be all these at the same time, we can deduce that your assumptions are inconsistent.

  • Russell (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Undefined wins, but it may depend on how you get there. What is sin(x)/x with x=0? That is still undefined, but it looks like the answer is 1 as you plot the function before and after x=0. So, you could suspend the "undefined" label for this special case, and define sin(0)/0 = 1. No one would suffer for it.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh

    13 == 015

    (And this is not spam!)

  • Dre (unregistered) in reply to OctalGuy
    OctalGuy:
    Yes, but 013 == 11. Maybe 0xD would have been better.

    0d13, maybe? ( I am not sure if that's actually valid notation anywhere, but it should be with 0x0 for hex and 0b0 for binary )

  • Billy Goat (unregistered) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    Jan:
    I don't get it, the picture says "-1.999"°C

    -> C is Celsius, not Kelvin, so what's wrong about that?

    That translates to -1,999°C which is far below absolute zero.

    Yep. Just took the troll bait.

    squint a little and you can see the decimal point after the 1. There is no WTF here...

  • Juan (unregistered) in reply to Rnd(
    Rnd(:
    Even if there was , or . the amount of decimals is ridiculous. -19.999 or -1.9999 What sort of thermometer they use to reach those levels?
    They calulayte in Fairyheight then convert to Centipedes.

    In converting, they fail to round properly.

  • Piotr (unregistered) in reply to Rfoxmich
    Rfoxmich:
    Maybe then, however it would think he was 11 (Octal).
    Harry S.:
    "In the end," Mark wrote, "I just ended up spelling out 'thirteen'." --- Didn't he see? Answers must be three characters long - they just wanted the leading zero. ;-)
    I don't see the WTF. "Answers must be at least three charcters long" Of course - the shortest numbers are spelt with 3 characters. So Mark ended up doing what the site wanted, and somehow the site is a WTF?
  • Viktor (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Someone:
    frits:
    Post it in the sidebar if you feel so strongly about it.

    Why should I post it in the sidebar? There seems to be enough room in the main articles for posting the same BSOD nonsense over and over again, but not for my submission?

    If you want to make sure something is done, do it yourself. As far as to where it's posted: who cares? What are you, some kind of attention seeking whore?
    Someone:
    PS: You don't need to patronize Alex Papa just because he owns this site.
    If I don't kiss Alex's ass once in a while, I'm afraid he'll never feature another one of my comments.

    ...and that, sir, is serious business.

    Other than the SOPA protest, I haven't seen many featured comments in the last 6 months or so....
  • lexeii (unregistered) in reply to Someone Else
    Someone Else:
    Someone:
    Alex Papa, you are a real what the fuck. I sent you something different but you wouldn't publish it, and yet you will publish similar errors over and over again.
    He didn't publish mine either, the bastard!

    So what if I didn't send it to him yet - he's supposed to read my bloody mind!

    Hey fella's, since I'm in a similar boat I have set up notthedailywtf.com. I promise I'll post all your crap there, even if you don't send it to me.

    Regards,

    Papa Lex.

  • Me (unregistered) in reply to lexeii

    Crap. I clicked on the link, which makes me a dork.

    Still, being a dork is better than being Soneone.

  • (cs)

    Wow!! colder than 0 Kelvin.

    Hell must have frozen over, possibly after some poor Analyst / Developer tried to understand the Sketcher code logic from the previous article.

  • Spelling Police (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Someone:
    Alex Papa, you are a real what the fuck. I sent you something different but you wouldn't publish it, and yet you will publish similar errors over and over again.
    [image]

    Here's a thought...Maybe your submission sucked and that's why it didn't get posted? Or maybe Alex gets more than one submission and it takes some time to trawl through them.

    This poster is a WTF! There are not enough letter "A" in the poster title to properly represent what is on the side of the truck.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    [image] So if any number divided by zero is undefined, and zero divided by any number is zero, and any number divide by itself is one, what is 0/0?
    What? WTF are you all on about? Why do you think this is about dividing 0 by 0?

    The picture QUITE CLEARLY says it's about dividing 14 by 15.

    Geez.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to nerf herder
    nerf herder:
    This reminds me of some code we had that compared two numbers, and could display the temperatures and the delta in Celsius or Fahrenheit. We thought the safe thing is to keep it all in Celsius, and then convert if needed at the end.

    That appeared to be fine until we tested it with zeros. T1 was 0, T2 was 0, dT was 0. Converted to F, that's T1=32, T2=32, dT=32. Not what we expected.

    Just in case you don't realize what the problem was. Sorry if I'm interfering with the general fun of this site by being momentarily serious:

    The formula to convert celcius to farenheit for DELTA temperature is not the same as the formula for a temperature.

    For temperature: F=9/5 C + 32

    But for delta T, we are taking some T1 - T2, so the +32 cancels out. The resulting formula is simply: dF=9/5 dC.

    So T1C=0, T2C=0, TDC=0-0=0

    T1F=9/5 * 0 + 32 = 32 T2F=9/5 * 0 + 32 = 32 TDF=9/5 * 0 = 0

  • (cs) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Sorry if I'm interfering with the general fun of this site by being momentarily serious:
    Yes, yes you are.
  • TrogL (unregistered) in reply to whiskeylover

    I got that one last week. My USB-connected monitor and Windows XP hate each other.

  • (cs) in reply to Russell
    Russell:
    What is sin(x)/x with x=0? That is still undefined, but it looks like the answer is 1 as you plot the function before and after x=0. So, you could suspend the "undefined" label for this special case, and define sin(0)/0 = 1. No one would suffer for it.
    Except, of course, that as x tends to 0, sin(x^2) / x tends to 0, sin (5x) / x tends to 5, and sin (x) / x^2 tends to negative infinity on one side and positive infinity on the other. So just saying sin (0) / 0 = 1 won't work.
  • Barney Bolger (unregistered)

    Gigabyte means 2^30 bytes so what they have there is correct. Any measurement of bytes is always done in binary not in decimal.

  • Garrett (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Brendan:
    Where does the "How old were you when you frist travelled by airplane?" question ask for years?

    Shirley, it's asking for seconds.

    Nosir! Not until it cleans its plate first!

    And don't call me Shirley

    CAPTCHA: Ratis - Multiple latin rats

  • notme (unregistered)
    Well, apparently it actually is possible to get colder than 0 Kelvin,

    Actually, yes, it is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature and be prepared to let an audible "WTF".

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