• Simon (unregistered) in reply to SR
    SR:
    Neil:
    rudraigh:
    WhereTF is the WTF in the "Windows is exiting." one?

    I misread that as Windows is exciting, which would have been a WTF.

    It is, in a "may you live in exciting times" way.

    I misread as "Windows is exsisting, which is definitely NOT OK... I think the fact it's asking if it's OK and not asking if you wish to continue is the wtf.

  • AnOldRelic (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    And maybe the keyboard lead has come loose, or the keyboard's broken. Plug it in properly, or replace the keyboard, then press F1 to let the computer know you've done so. As you say, it works great.

    Except back in the days that the error message was originally created, it wouldn't detect the keyboard even if you plugged a new one in. You'd have to reboot before it would get the F1 keystroke anyway.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to AnOldRelic
    AnOldRelic:
    Peter:
    And maybe the keyboard lead has come loose, or the keyboard's broken. Plug it in properly, or replace the keyboard, then press F1 to let the computer know you've done so. As you say, it works great.

    Except back in the days that the error message was originally created, it wouldn't detect the keyboard even if you plugged a new one in. You'd have to reboot before it would get the F1 keystroke anyway.

    Also, hot-plugging a PS/2 or XT/AT keyboard was a really good way of letting the magic smoke out of your PC. It still is, too, though these days USB keyboards can be hotplugged.

    But back then, hot plugging wasn't a good idea for the damage it causes. And rarely the keyboard - the motherboard would be the one to suffer the damage.

  • joel garry (unregistered)

    Now we know, Dr. Who uses Oracle!

    word: paratus

  • Burpy (unregistered) in reply to joel garry
    joel garry:
    Now we know, Dr. Who uses Oracle!

    word: paratus

    "the Doctor's TARDIS is an obsolete Type 40 TT capsule" "The TARDIS was already old when the Doctor first took it"

    Seems obvious!

  • Kevin S (unregistered) in reply to Jorge
    Jorge:
    The real WTF is that you floored the Sidereal Year (365.256 363 051 days) with the calendar year (365 days) and didn't take into account the leap years!

    Indeed, if you had used the sidereal year, you would get 5.050355295558224 E16 of those. The difference to your result is only of 3.54719 E13 years, or approximately 2600 times the age of the Universe!

    Floor(), that most evil of functions...

    It's more complicated than that, because in the near-term (tens of millions of years) the day is getting longer and therefore there are fewer days per year. There were 500 days per year just 3 billion years ago, given enough time the length of an earth day and a lunar month will equalize. In the slightly longer term, however, radiation pressure from the sun as it increases to red giant status may increase Earth's orbit, resulting in more days per year. On the other hand, since Earth is unlikely to be habitable at that point (if it even survives) the Earth calendar will probably not be relevant after that point. We've still got several orders of magnitude to go, but it seems unlikely that the company will exist with enough free energy to collect damages once the software expires.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to MSCW
    MSCW:
    fjf:
    But I've seen worse: A survey using radio buttons and no "none" option, although "none" was a valid answer to some of the questions. Since my browser (correctly) preselected one radio button, I couldn't answer "none".

    That's how we elect our president in Russia. BTW you could select unpopular option, to emulate "none" (as I did)

    Select one of the following options:

    [ ] I vote to re-elect our glorious leader to another 20-year term [ ] I confess to treason, which is punishable by death

  • Jasper (unregistered)

    I don't find Windows very exiting, so I would have clicked "No".

  • me (unregistered)

    ... is that https://thedailywtf.com/images/201006/wtf.jpg is actually a png file.

  • me too (unregistered) in reply to me
    me:
    ... is that https://thedailywtf.com/images/201006/wtf.jpg is actually a png file.
    If that's your idea of a WTF then the things you'll see on this site will horrify you. A misnamed file is about as pedestrian as it gets round here. Shit's about to get real, kiddo.
  • Pyrexkidd (unregistered)

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  • Ptorq (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Incourced:
    Hmm. Enter text in text box mebbes? Not sure I got that one/

    It say if you have further comments put them in the text box. But what if you have no further comments? You'd assume you should leave the text box empty, but apparently that isn't allowed. It's pretty weak and I've seen it many times before.

    If I were taking a survey that did this, I'd have some comments after getting this error message, even if I didn't before.

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