• Fred (unregistered)
    despite not having an X" diameter drill bit, I was able to make due with a 1/4" bit.
    It was a math problem. X = 1/4. You thought your teacher was lying when she said you'd have use for this after got done with school, but see?
  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," ... You must not be an administrator
    1. Administrator == smart person.

    1. Smart people don't install Microsoft software.

    2. So, if you're attempting to install something from MS, you must not be very smart, so you must not be an administrator.

  • (cs)

    People still use non-FOSS? Odd.

  • Eric (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," ... You must not be an administrator
    1. Administrator == smart person.

    TRWTF is that you think Administrators are smart :D

  • Spearhavoc! (unregistered) in reply to Ralph
    Ralph:
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," ... You must not be an administrator
    1. Administrator == smart person.

    1. Smart people don't install Microsoft software.

    2. So, if you're attempting to install something from MS, you must not be very smart, so you must not be an administrator.

    Petitio principii.

  • (cs)

    I'm sure the post office would still figure out how to deliver to the 0.68046 ZIP code.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Bobbo
    Bobbo:
    "ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...

    I take it you mean an "automatic ATM machine".

  • Jay (unregistered)

    A few months ago I sent a modest contribution to a political candidate. Not long after I received a letter from her campaign asking for more money. No big surprise, I wasn't really planning to give her more money, so I just threw it away. Then I got another. And another. In the month leading up to the election I was literally getting 2 to 3 letters PER DAY, every day, from this candidate. (And by "literally", I mean that literally.)

    She lost the election, but at least she did her part to keep the post office in business.

    I think I'm going to pick some political or activist group that I don't like and send them $5. Not only will that add me to their mailing list so I'll know what they're up to, but over the course of the next few years, they'll spend way more than that sending me appeals for more money. If I can get a bunch of my friends to do the same, we could bankrupt them. Plus, they'll probably sell my name to other like-minded organizations, so I can drain their ally's resources too.

  • Randal Graves (unregistered) in reply to Dante Hicks
    Dante Hicks:
    HighlyPaidContractor:
    I'm fairly certain that I watch way too much porn, but does ATM immediately mean ass-to-mouth to anyone else?

    Oh. My God. You never go ass-to-mouth!

    It's never my idea!

  • (cs) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    JdFalcon04:
    Bobbo:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?

    Nice to see somebody using that term for a change, instead of ATM. We'll all be driving automobiles soon!

    "ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...

    But without ATM Machines, where else could we put in our PIN Number?

    In the PIN number pad attached via the LAN network using the NIC card on your PC computer.

    PS script, don't let RAS syndrome get you down.

    OK, stop that right now, before I call the Department of Redundancy Department and report the lot of you!

  • tekHedd (unregistered)

    Ah good old AT&T... masters of the accidental overbill. I have personally experienced several variations on the theme of "repeatedly billing for services you don't have, removing the charge when you call, and then billing you the next month for the same non-provided service."

    AT&T - good coverage and friendly support...shockingly bad IT.

  • Barney Fife (unregistered) in reply to operagost

    ...I hate it when they tell me I'm "over-qualified".

  • (cs) in reply to Web Dude
    Web Dude:
    To date I have received more than 80 postcards and two letters, all identical except for the date. If that's not love, what is? Thanks AT&T!"

    A couple of years back I was car shopping, and part of my purchase decision was how much the insurance would cost.

    I ended up putting dozens of different cars into a certain insurer's website to get an online quote to see how much the insurance would be.

    A year later I received in the post a quote from them for one of the cars I had put into their site a year ago. The next day another quote arrived for a different car I had put into their site. And another one the next day. And then about twenty more quotes the day after.

    I phoned them up about it and they seemed annoyed at me because it would require getting their IT people to stop their system from doing that.

    So who is TRWTF here? Me for asking for multiple quotes, or them for posting a quote a year later? I never remember ticking any boxes saying they could contact me, that I wanted a quote sending out, or that I wanted another quote from them a year later. I've never seen another car insurer do the same thing.

    About 20 years ago, I moved from Boston back to NJ. Prior to leaving the Boston area, I closed my checking account. Somehow between my closing the account and the bank actually closing it, the account earned 5 cents interest. I was getting monthly statements for a 5 cent balance for about a year afterward. It was costing the bank about 20 cents a month in postage to inform me of that fact. I guess they finally realized the problem after the mail forwarding service ran out.

    With all of the WTFs I have seen here, I would be willing to bet that they are still sending the notices.

    OK before else anyone says it - the real WTF was moving back to NJ.

  • Nerg (unregistered) in reply to JamesQMurphy
    JamesQMurphy:
    The towel holder I bought from IKEA didn't come with any mounting hardware. It told me to go to a hardware store and buy whatever hardware was appropriate. I'd call them but I don't have a telephone that's hardwired to an IKEA store.
    And make sure only to have sex with the box while on a rug or it will break.
  • (cs) in reply to tekHedd
    tekHedd:
    Ah good old AT&T... masters of the accidental overbill. I have personally experienced several variations on the theme of "repeatedly billing for services you don't have, removing the charge when you call, and then billing you the next month for the same non-provided service."

    AT&T - good coverage and friendly support...shockingly bad IT.

    I worked as a consultant on one of the multitude of AT&T billing systems. I can easily see this happening, the entire codebase was a massive series of WTFs.

  • The Cow from Elmer's glue AKA Math guy (unregistered) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    Sutherlands:
    The Cow from Elmer's glue:
    Oscar Olim:
    For the post code -1 < 0 < 1, so use 0.

    Or get fancy with 1/infinity

    Hm. I wasn't aware that undefined was greater than -1. Good to know, thanks Math guy!
    Math fail! x/Infinity is approximately 0 (for x != infinity, in which case it is undefined)

    I think you're thinking of infinity/0.

    Its always great when someone thinks they see an opportunity to shoot someone down but end up looking like a douche! ;) yes, 1/inifinity is (approx) 0.

  • The Cow from Elmer's glue (unregistered) in reply to Randal Graves
    Randal Graves:
    Dante Hicks:
    HighlyPaidContractor:
    I'm fairly certain that I watch way too much porn, but does ATM immediately mean ass-to-mouth to anyone else?

    Oh. My God. You never go ass-to-mouth!

    It's never my idea!

    That registered a 3.7 on my WTF-O-Meter

  • eros (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    I love that they took the time to get the AT&T postcards arranged on the wooden table before taking the picture.
    They should have taken the time to get the Irish Girl arranged on the wooden table before taking the picture.
  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    jdw:
    Of course, I'd also expect an ATM ("cash point") not to be using Windows, so what do I know?

    Not that much, Windows is the dominant OS behind ATMs for reasons I've never quite understood.

    That's because the previous dominant OS for ATMs, OS/2 Warp, has been EOL'd.

  • (cs) in reply to HighlyPaidContractor
    HighlyPaidContractor:
    Bobbo:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?

    Nice to see somebody using that term for a change, instead of ATM. We'll all be driving automobiles soon!

    "ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...

    I'm fairly certain that I watch way too much porn, but does ATM immediately mean ass-to-mouth to anyone else?

    That's usually "A2M".

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Zecc
    Zecc:
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," writes Scott. [image]
    So...?

    It's not making an imperative, but actually a point of fact. No administrator would install this, so you must not be one.

  • (cs) in reply to Zecc
    Zecc:
    operagost:
    Zecc:
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," writes Scott. [image]
    So...?
    Who should install a diagnostics toolkit other than an administrator?
    A doctor. DUH!
    If any doctor ever tries to diagnose me with Microsoft software, I'm running for my life!
  • (cs) in reply to Mason Wheeler
    Mason Wheeler:
    airdrik:
    JdFalcon04:
    Bobbo:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?

    Nice to see somebody using that term for a change, instead of ATM. We'll all be driving automobiles soon!

    "ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...

    But without ATM Machines, where else could we put in our PIN Number?

    In the PIN number pad attached via the LAN network using the NIC card on your PC computer.

    PS script, don't let RAS syndrome get you down.

    OK, stop that right now, before I call the Department of Redundancy Department and report the lot of you!

    Off to The La Brea Tar Pits with the lot of you!

  • (cs) in reply to HighlyPaidContractor
    HighlyPaidContractor:
    Bobbo:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?

    Nice to see somebody using that term for a change, instead of ATM. We'll all be driving automobiles soon!

    "ATM Machine" is a topic for another day...

    I'm fairly certain that I watch way too much porn, but does ATM immediately mean ass-to-mouth to anyone else?
    I thought that was A2M.

  • Not A Command Center Administrator (unregistered)

    You must not be an Administrator to post this comment.

    CAPTCHA: cogo, where they send people who make a mess in the fishbowl.

  • M. Webster (unregistered) in reply to dignissim
    dignissim:
    A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    That's the Queen's English, not that you neanderthals could tell!
    The British may have invented English, but us Americans sublimed it.

    FTFY

  • mea37 (unregistered)

    I've noticed that most people making matter-of-fact statements about how "infinity" is treated "in math" don't know what they're talking about. It's particularly amusing when they do it in such a way as to demonstrate a failure to really comprehend what "infinity" means, while "correcting" someone who was actually closer to the truth.

    So let's start here: you need to identify a number system. When you make blanket statements about "math", most people are going to figure you're using the Real numbers. There is no "infinity" amongst the Real numbers. (Nor is there an "infinity" amongst the Complex numbers.) That's why standard calculus uses limits to talk about such things.

    In algebraic (rather than geometric) contexts, the most likely extension of Real numbers that you could talk about is the affinely extended Real number system. In that system x/INF is not "approximately" 0 as a couple comments assert; it is equal to 0, period.

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    A 'Cash Point' has lots of special hardware. It's basically a desktop PC connected to either a bunch of hardware, or one really big piece of hardware, depending on manufacturer. I don't remember NCR specifically, but some of them have separate drivers for card reader, pin pad, monitor buttons, receipt printer, cash drawers, cash verifier, cash path (including the little cash cover door), admin mode switches, and any other hardware that may be optional on the machine (deposit path, bank book printer, cash recycler, check reader, etc). If a bank tried to push a driver update to the ATM and it failed you could well end up with something like this. Good software will detect an unknown window, push it to the back, alert the bank that something is wrong, and throw up an 'out of service' screen.
    TRWTF is using Windows - especially "out of the box" Windows instead of "Embedded Windows", where you can at least control the configuration of the system. I hope they didn't just turn on Windows Update and let the machine's system pull updates from Microsoft willy-nilly...
  • infinity (unregistered) in reply to Oscar Olim

    Umm, yes 0 is between -1 and 1 but zipcodes are all 5 digits so 0 will not work for a valid zip code to mail anything..

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to Silfax
    Silfax:
    I closed my checking account. Somehow between my closing the account and the bank actually closing it, the account earned 5 cents interest. I was getting monthly statements for a 5 cent balance for about a year afterward. It was costing the bank about 20 cents a month in postage to inform me of that fact.
    I had exactly the same thing happen to me, but it was a west coast bank.

    Better yet, a certain satellite phone company recently got to the point where you couldn't place satellite phone calls, because their satellites were fried. Yeah. But the rest of their business model was just fine...

    Anyway, I canceled my service since I didn't want to pay $30 a month for absolutely nothing (imagine that, ungrateful customers!) and for the past several years they've been sending me a monthly statement -- including about 5 "intentionally left blank" pages every month -- to tell me that they owe me 19 cents.

    So just send me the check already!

    But no, they'd rather spend it on postage.

    Really, there are some companies that need to go bankrupt -- for their own good, and everyone else's. But, you know, they're just "too big to fail".

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    Sutherlands:
    The Cow from Elmer's glue:
    Oscar Olim:
    For the post code -1 < 0 < 1, so use 0.

    Or get fancy with 1/infinity

    Hm. I wasn't aware that undefined was greater than -1. Good to know, thanks Math guy!
    Math fail! x/Infinity is approximately 0 (for x != infinity, in which case it is undefined)

    I think you're thinking of infinity/0.

    Nope, you fail. The limit of x / y as y approaches infinity is 0. Infinity isn't a member of the set of real numbers, so division isn't defined for it, so x / infinity is undefined, it's not approximately anything.

  • ÃÆâ€â„ (unregistered)

    I'd like to see what that volume bar was censoring... ;)

  • ideo (unregistered) in reply to A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding
    A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    That's the Queen's English, not that you neanderthals could tell!
    Well, give it back to her, you miserable little thief!
  • ideo (unregistered) in reply to A. N. Other Brit
    A. N. Other Brit:
    dignissim:
    A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    That's the Queen's English, not that you neanderthals could tell!
    The British may have invented English, but us Americans sublimated it into something much more refined.

    I've told you about this before?

    And after being corrected and discredited, you persist yet on your delusion?

  • (cs)

    "it is going to be a little hard to correct this error for a ZIP code."

    Heh. Just put a . in front of it. :)

  • (cs) in reply to Power Troll
    Power Troll:
    People still use non-FOSS? Odd.

    Yes, when they need things to work properly.

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered)

    If that's not love, what is? It is denial of service.

  • The Typinator (unregistered) in reply to JoC
    JoC:
    "it is going to be a little hard to correct this error for a ZIP code."

    Heh. Just put a . in front of it. :)

    Based on the error message, I don't think they're storing it as a string. If they're storing it as an integer, the interface may not accept that at all. If they're storing it as a floating point number, really entertaining things may happen. I really doubt they're storing it as a fixed point number.

  • CHR. (unregistered) in reply to JoC
    JoC:
    "it is going to be a little hard to correct this error for a ZIP code."

    Heh. Just put a . in front of it. :)

    You know, I come from a really small town.

    "How small is it?"

    It's so small, we had a fraction for a zip code!

    (Rim shot)

  • Wodin (unregistered) in reply to operagost
    operagost:
    Zecc:
    "I received the attached message when attempting to install the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolkit," writes Scott. [image]
    So...?
    Who should install a diagnostics toolkit other than an administrator?

    I think it's badly worded. Obviously what they were trying to say is "You must not be an administrator, because if you were, you would be able to install this product."

  • Wodin (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    Justice:
    TRWTF is drywall mounting. Every kit I've seen comes with those stupid plastic anchors instead of molly bolts. What's more, they don't usually tell you what size drill bit you need for the anchor hole, so you're left to use trial and error until you happen to drill a big enough hole. And then, of course, it probably won't hold up properly anyway.
    If it's drywall, you shouldn't really need a drill at all. A small crosspoint screwdriver usually does the trick. If the resulting hole isn't quite big enough to squeeze in the plug, just wriggle the screwdriver round a bit.

    Bonus: usually a lot less mess to clean up afterwards.

    TRWTF is having drywall in your shower!

    Or is that common in the US?

  • Wodin (unregistered)

    "I found this on the instructions for a shower curtain rod," wrote Joshua Armstrong, "despite not having an X" diameter drill bit, I was able to make due with a 1/4" bit."

    Btw, Joshua, its "make do".

  • Stevie D (unregistered) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    I think you're thinking of infinity/0.
    Or even 1/0
  • wisi (unregistered) in reply to The Cow from Elmer's glue
    The Cow from Elmer's glue:
    Randal Graves:
    Dante Hicks:
    HighlyPaidContractor:
    I'm fairly certain that I watch way too much porn, but does ATM immediately mean ass-to-mouth to anyone else?

    Oh. My God. You never go ass-to-mouth!

    It's never my idea!

    That registered a 3.7 on my WTF-O-Meter

    You only watch crappy movies?

  • The Amazing Transverbero (unregistered) in reply to M. Webster
    M. Webster:
    dignissim:
    A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    That's the Queen's English, not that you neanderthals could tell!
    The British may have invented English, but us Americans slimed it.

    FTFY

    FTFY

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to no name
    no name:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    => British

    => ENGLISH

  • Garmoran (unregistered) in reply to A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding
    A Ruddy Nice Plum Pudding:
    Carl:
    "Popped over the road"? "Cash point"?
    That's the Queen's English!
    Yes, I can just hear old Liz saying that to Philip...
  • AAM (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf

    My initials are "AAM".

    A few years ago, for personal use, I registered a domain with "A2M" in it - all the "AAM" ones were gone.

    Took me a while to realise why I was getting a lot of unusual hits to the website.

  • Randy Snicker (unregistered) in reply to AAM
    AAM:
    My initials are "AAM".

    A few years ago, for personal use, I registered a domain with "A2M" in it - all the "AAM" ones were gone.

    Took me a while to realise why I was getting a lot of unusual hits to the website.

    So, Slick, what's your nickname?
  • (cs) in reply to The Cow from Elmer's glue
    The Cow from Elmer's glue:
    That registered a 3.7 on my WTF-O-Meter

    I remember that!

    [image]

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