• Todo: register username (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    Are you stupid or have you just never played?
    Sorry, but I have to say that I didn't know about that too, I don't know the rules. Thanks for such a kind answer.
  • Jeremy (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Singapore Airlines does not support Language 3!

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is that Texas Holdem game doesn't let you take a hit, double down, OR split! Of course, you should only split if the dealer is showing a 3-7, but STILL!

    That's because you're thinking of Blackjack and it is a POKER game, moron.

  • Confused (unregistered)

    Hey Mike R., how many phones do you carry to the doctors office? Or do you happen to carry a camera everywhere you go?

  • RCS (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is that Texas Holdem game doesn't let you take a hit, double down, OR split! Of course, you should only split if the dealer is showing a 3-7, but STILL!

    That's because you're thinking of Blackjack and it is a POKER game, moron.

    And you're being a pedant and he was making a joke, loser.

  • McKracken (unregistered)

    Congratulations, you successfully guessed the password for another user. Would you like to log in as the other user now?

    [Sure, why not?] [But isn't that unethical?] [Remind Me Later]

  • (cs) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Anonymous Coward:
    TRWTF is that Texas Holdem game doesn't let you take a hit, double down, OR split! Of course, you should only split if the dealer is showing a 3-7, but STILL!

    That's because you're thinking of Blackjack and it is a POKER game, moron.

    You totally just failed the Turing Test.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    The movie has a nasty error?

    Does that mean someone can't make it to the bathroom in time and has a case of the runs in their pants?

  • disl (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    I wonder what the score is for two identical cards. It would score higher than One Pair, wouldn't it?
    Two of a kind, obviously.

    captcha: ingenium - very ingenium

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    I wonder what the score is for two identical cards. It would score higher than One Pair, wouldn't it?

    One Bullet, to your own head, from another player who thinks you've cheated him of his money.

  • J (unregistered)

    That's not a bug in the poker program. That's just the result of trying to cheat, rather ineptly (an extra ace would be more useful) :).

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    It could be worse: "Joe is already using that password. Choose another?"

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is paying $7.49 for a crappy poker game on a cellphone.

  • ham (unregistered)

    Please choose a comment.

    Comment 1 Comment 2

  • James Schend (unregistered) in reply to Neilius
    Neilius:
    This comment hasd a nasty error.

    Does anybody ever find these type of comments funny? Ever?

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    Neilius:
    This comment hasd a nasty error.

    Does anybody ever find these type of comments funny? Ever?

    Often. The "I used to have to fix problems with a computer my sister gave to my parents" thread was made of epic and win.
  • (cs)

    Wow, the SafeGuard WTF is just a gift that keeps on giving... Amazing how you can make "Do Not Want" decisions just from reading TDWTF.

  • Kanazuchi (unregistered)

    You know, I'm looking at that poker error, and the only reason I can come up with for how that happened is that the code randomly generates two cards, and doesn't check for duplicates. If my combinatorics hasn't totally rusted over, there's a 1 in 52 chance of that happening (not 1 in 52^2, because once you draw the first card, the probability of matching it is 1 in 52.)

    So statistically speaking, this error should happen one hand out of every 52. I'm pretty certain you can play 52 hands of Texas Hold'em in under three hours. I think someone's QA department needs a lecture, and someone's developers should be feeling shame.

    Now, none of my math accounts for the community cards. Or for that matter, any opponent's hand. That's an exercise for the reader.

  • Jeremy (unregistered) in reply to Kanazuchi
    Kanazuchi:
    You know, I'm looking at that poker error, and the only reason I can come up with for how that happened is that the code randomly generates two cards, and doesn't check for duplicates. If my combinatorics hasn't totally rusted over, there's a 1 in 52 chance of that happening (not 1 in 52^2, because once you draw the first card, the probability of matching it is 1 in 52.)

    So statistically speaking, this error should happen one hand out of every 52. I'm pretty certain you can play 52 hands of Texas Hold'em in under three hours. I think someone's QA department needs a lecture, and someone's developers should be feeling shame.

    Now, none of my math accounts for the community cards. Or for that matter, any opponent's hand. That's an exercise for the reader.

    That is true, but the odds of that happening for those of us who don't want to spend >$7 on a mobile phone poker game are statistically insignificant... ;-)

  • monkeyPushButton (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    James Schend:
    Neilius:
    This comment hasd a nasty error.

    Does anybody ever find these type of comments funny? Ever?

    Often. The "I used to have to fix problems with a computer my sister gave to my parents" thread was made of epic and win.
    Seconded

    And, for completeness: captcha: dignissim

  • (cs) in reply to Kanazuchi
    Kanazuchi:
    You know, I'm looking at that poker error, and the only reason I can come up with for how that happened is that the code randomly generates two cards, and doesn't check for duplicates. If my combinatorics hasn't totally rusted over, there's a 1 in 52 chance of that happening (not 1 in 52^2, because once you draw the first card, the probability of matching it is 1 in 52.)

    So statistically speaking, this error should happen one hand out of every 52. I'm pretty certain you can play 52 hands of Texas Hold'em in under three hours. I think someone's QA department needs a lecture, and someone's developers should be feeling shame.

    Now, none of my math accounts for the community cards. Or for that matter, any opponent's hand. That's an exercise for the reader.

    So the fact the game is on sale still should tell you that this probably isn't the case.

    What's probably happened is that the programmers thought of this already, and decided that, rather than use a random card generator for each newly drawn card, with all the multiple checks against cards in play, instead, they would implement a virtual deck, where every slot is a card. Some state create a situation where the same card can exist twice.

    See, what they should have done is create a simple database, where instead of each location (hands, deck, etc) storing an array of cards, each card would be assigned a location. The database could then be sorted by location, or by suit.

    It's just a case of unimaginative development. Again.

  • (cs)

    That's a lot of sem pron

  • Jesse (unregistered)

    Second WTF: What does that call button do in the poker game?

  • Gaspar (unregistered) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr :
    Inhibeo:
    I'm not getting the cell phone game's bug. Is it simply that he has a pair of two of diamonds? Don't most casinos use a multi-deck shoe?
    Multi-deck for poker??? Are you stupid or have you just never played? Or are you saying that 5 aces is normal in casino poker? They use the Multi-decks for games like Blackjack so it makes it harder for people to count cards. It's hard to count cards in Texas Hold'em since you only ever see a total of 5, then the deck is shuffled every hand.

    I don't know how YOU play Texas Hold'em but normally you only see SEVEN cards every hand. The five community cards plus your two hole cards...

    How about you and I get together for some hi stakes heads up game, you can see your five, and I'll use my 7...

  • (cs) in reply to James Schend
    James Schend:
    Neilius:
    This comment hasd a nasty error.

    Does anybody ever find these type of comments funny? Ever?

    What do you mean? They're hilarious! I've drawn blood from laughing so much at those type of comments. True story.

  • Richard (unregistered)

    I was worried when I was flying internationally and my seat-arm controls controlled the lights of the guy in front and to the left of me, his controlled someone else's, and theirs controlled mine....made me wonder what else wasn't wired up correctly

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    Inhibeo:
    I'm not getting the cell phone game's bug. Is it simply that he has a pair of two of diamonds? Don't most casinos use a multi-deck shoe?
    Multi-deck for poker??? Are you stupid or have you just never played? Or are you saying that 5 aces is normal in casino poker? They use the Multi-decks for games like Blackjack so it makes it harder for people to count cards. It's hard to count cards in Texas Hold'em since you only ever see a total of 5, then the deck is shuffled every hand.
    It's actually very easy to count cards in poker. It's what ever poker player who is beyond a complete newcomer does when valuing hands.

    How else do you determine your pot odds or how many outs you have?

  • (cs)
    Kero Hazel:
    Kanazuchi:
    You know, I'm looking at that poker error, and the only reason I can come up with for how that happened is that the code randomly generates two cards, and doesn't check for duplicates. If my combinatorics hasn't totally rusted over, there's a 1 in 52 chance of that happening (not 1 in 52^2, because once you draw the first card, the probability of matching it is 1 in 52.)

    So statistically speaking, this error should happen one hand out of every 52. I'm pretty certain you can play 52 hands of Texas Hold'em in under three hours. I think someone's QA department needs a lecture, and someone's developers should be feeling shame.

    Now, none of my math accounts for the community cards. Or for that matter, any opponent's hand. That's an exercise for the reader.

    It's actually much more likely than 1/52 due to the birthday problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

    Ummmm....what?
  • Casey (unregistered)

    I still WTF over the popularity of Texas Hold'em. Being dealt only two cards is lame.

  • chl (unregistered)
    Kero Hazel:
    It's actually much more likely than 1/52 due to the birthday problem:

    No, it is not: Cards do not have birthdays, so people's misguided intuition about the probability of events does not apply.

  • (cs)

    Well, since any playing card has a certain day on which it is being manufactured, technically you could call that its birthday.

    But the chance that when there are two people in a room, they share the same birthday, is still 1/365. Wikipedia notwithstanding.

  • lucky100 (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse

    Guys, this is an admin-only screen after having defined a 2nd user and his password. For me as admin it's helpful to know that I have given this password to another user on the machine already (e.g. because I exchanged user/pw by error). A user will never see it.

  • (cs) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    ...But the chance that when there are two people in a room, they share the same birthday, is still 1/365. Wikipedia notwithstanding.

    It may be worthwhile to mention that this is because there are (neglecting 29 February) 365^2 possible combinations, and 365 of them are doubles, giving a probability of 365/(365^2) == 1/365.

    Of course this assumes that every birthday is equally likely, which is definitely not true, but whatever.

  • Mo Dean (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse

    Taken completely out of context, it could be cause for concern... The error message is actually only seen by the administrator when creating multiple new users where at least one already existing user has the same initial password assigned. This enables the administrator to assign a different password... or not. Mo Dean

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    Pim:
    ...But the chance that when there are two people in a room, they share the same birthday, is still 1/365. Wikipedia notwithstanding.

    It may be worthwhile to mention that this is because there are (neglecting 29 February) 365^2 possible combinations, and 365 of them are doubles, giving a probability of 365/(365^2) == 1/365.

    Of course this assumes that every birthday is equally likely, which is definitely not true, but whatever.

    But you also need to include leap years. For these purposes I would Feb 29 count as Feb 28, Mar 1 or actually Feb 29. In the case it's Feb 29 the naive case would be marginally lower than 1/365, if it's Feb 28 or Mar 1 then it'd be marginally higher than 1/365.

    However as you mentioned, each day is not equally likely, so you'd have a fair amount of statistical analysis before you could get the actual value.

  • b0b g0ats3 (unregistered)

    for all intensive porpoises, we should stop picking apart the grammer and spelling of the comments. It's getting old.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Jeremy
    Jeremy:
    TRWTF is that Singapore Airlines does not support Language 3!

    Given that Singapore has 4 official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil), they should offer Language 4 also - it IS their national airline after all!

    Then they need a "Rest of World" option...

  • (cs) in reply to hatterson
    hatterson:
    Someone You Know:
    Pim:
    ...But the chance that when there are two people in a room, they share the same birthday, is still 1/365. Wikipedia notwithstanding.

    It may be worthwhile to mention that this is because there are (neglecting 29 February) 365^2 possible combinations, and 365 of them are doubles, giving a probability of 365/(365^2) == 1/365.

    Of course this assumes that every birthday is equally likely, which is definitely not true, but whatever.

    But you also need to include leap years. For these purposes I would Feb 29 count as Feb 28, Mar 1 or actually Feb 29. In the case it's Feb 29 the naive case would be marginally lower than 1/365, if it's Feb 28 or Mar 1 then it'd be marginally higher than 1/365.

    However as you mentioned, each day is not equally likely, so you'd have a fair amount of statistical analysis before you could get the actual value.

    Right. The reason I neglected 29 February and the differing probabilities of birthdays is that both concepts are irrelevant to what we're really talking about — playing cards.

  • lister (unregistered)

    I was on an Air Canada flight recently that had some difficulties with the entertainment system. Mine wound up going to a black text screen and had an error message about svgalib. Linux!

  • Rob (unregistered)

    The real WTF is that he didn't realize that a real game of Texas Hold 'Em played in a casino is played with multiple decks of cards...

  • fgb (unregistered)

    How can you call more than 4 times the pot?

  • SeaDrive (unregistered)

    Those seatback screens are driven by Linux systems. How do I know? I've seen them boot twice. Once on Jet Blue, once on Delta.

  • Curious (unregistered)

    WTF is wrong with the logic in the holdem picture?

  • (cs) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    Given that Singapore has 4 official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil), they should offer Language 4 also - it IS their national airline after all!

    Then they need a "Rest of World" option...

    o Language 1 o Language 2 o Language 3 o Language 4 o Language FileNotFound

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