• (cs) in reply to galgorah
    galgorah:
    The arctic winter in Madrid is a harse mistress. worse even than antarctica's apparently.
    Indeed. But it does make Madrid in winter an excellent place to eat revenge.
  • (cs) in reply to Voodoo Coder
    Voodoo Coder:
    Schrödinger's Sound Card...
    Unrelated (even to Schrödinger), but I just heard my favourite ever geek joke today (which doubtless you all know. Tough.)

    Werner Heisenberg was driving through Berlin one day in 1942 towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. A Nazi traffic cop pulled his government-issue Porsche over by the side of the road.

    The cop was incandescent. "Have you any idea what speed you were doing?"

    "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know where I am."

    Danke schön; Ich bin hier die ganze Nacht...

  • (cs)

    "Multiple of $0.00"

    Sounds like Bender or his robot friends shouldn't go there... Division by zero

  • Cahlroisse (unregistered) in reply to Wyrd
    Wyrd:
    Are there any real-world substances that will remain liquid at -173 deg C? Oh I guess there's something, I just haven't checked. I mean -173 is really, really damn cold, it's a little over half way to Absolute Zero, ya know.

    I guess some of the room temperature gases would still be liquid.

    No elements are liquid at -173. All room temperature gases turn solid before that (see krypton, xenon) or don't become liquid until after that (see oxygen, nitrogen).

    But that doesn't mean there isn't some substance that, if mixed properly, would remain a liquid at 173. Like adding sugar to water.

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Werner Heisenberg was driving through Berlin one day in 1942 towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. A Nazi traffic cop pulled his government-issue Porsche over by the side of the road.

    The cop was incandescent. "Have you any idea what speed you were doing?"

    "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know where I am."

    I also like this comic.

  • (cs) in reply to Mr.'; Drop Database --
    Mr.'; Drop Database --:
    pink_fairy:
    Werner Heisenberg was driving through Berlin one day in 1942 towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. A Nazi traffic cop pulled his government-issue Porsche over by the side of the road.

    The cop was incandescent. "Have you any idea what speed you were doing?"

    "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know where I am."

    I also like this comic.
    What, just because it's in German?

    Christ Jesus, man, why don't you just sell your soul to pointless Japanese Warcraft spam?

    Begone. Or at least sign on, so's we can make legitimate fun of you.

  • David (unregistered) in reply to Wyrd
    Wyrd:
    Are there any real-world substances that will remain liquid at -173 deg C? Oh I guess there's something, I just haven't checked. I mean -173 is really, really damn cold, it's a little over half way to Absolute Zero, ya know.

    I guess some of the room temperature gases would still be liquid.

    Propylene is liquid at -173 C.

    Many commmon gases (Nitrogen, Oxygen) will still be gases at that temperature. Nitrogen boils at -195 C, Oxygen at -182 C.

    Alcohol, even pure alchohol, will be frozen.

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to David

    Also the simple alkanes (methane, ethane, propane).

    Wouldn't want to drink those though (though the danger primarily is frostbite). Anything non-poisonous?

  • ledhund (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Voodoo Coder:
    Schrödinger's Sound Card...
    Unrelated (even to Schrödinger), but I just heard my favourite ever geek joke today (which doubtless you all know. Tough.)

    Werner Heisenberg was driving through Berlin one day in 1942 towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. A Nazi traffic cop pulled his government-issue Porsche over by the side of the road.

    The cop was incandescent. "Have you any idea what speed you were doing?"

    "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know where I am."

    Danke schön; Ich bin hier die ganze Nacht...

    its allowed to observe how fast you were going, and after that, switch to observing where you are

  • TarMil (unregistered) in reply to ledhund
    ledhund:
    its allowed to observe how fast you _were_ going, and after that, switch to observing where you _are_

    And the good point is, measuring the speed may have moved you away from the speedtrap.

  • Dlareg (unregistered) in reply to avflinsch

    Oxygen does NOT burn (it makes other things burn though... :)

  • Chris Ovenden (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    An audio device was detected in the computer, but no sound cards were found. Obviously, the device is not a sound card. Perhaps it's a very noisy fan, or you dropped your cell phone into the case while working on it?
    Nope, it's the built-in speaker.

    BEEEEEEEP!

  • Teh name!! (unregistered) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    Schmuli:
    That isn't the temperature outside; it's at what temperature they keep the beer inside that cafeteria/restaurante.

    At that temp they must grind the beer into a fine powder and serve it with a spoon. Licking a beer popsicle at that temp would freeze your tongue.

    I've had liquid nitrogen in my mouth, not a lot. But its the same as with lead, as long as you don't swallow, you're fine. The vaporizing of the liquid (int he nitrogen case) is fast enough for it to nto actually touch your tongue. If you swallow it, your stomach will probably explode though, from those very gases. ;)

    So as far as licking the popsicle, nah, your tongue would probably not freeze. You'd just get freeze burns. Which, while annoying, isn't quite as bad as a frozen tongue.

  • ledhund (unregistered) in reply to TarMil

    hmm I was too fast to bite there maybe, I've always interpreted the joke as that Heisenberg didn't know his velocity as he was measuring his location.

  • Sork (unregistered)

    Good thing they made space for 3-digit temperatures.

  • Mr.'; Drop Database -- (unregistered) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Mr.'; Drop Database --:
    I also like this comic.
    What, just because it's in German?
    I find it curious that you're fluent in English, yet you can't recognise a comic written in plain English when you see it. Do you have a learning disorder you haven't told us about?
  • (cs) in reply to Jamie Edwards
    Jamie Edwards:
    I was with Scotia for a while...another WTF is the fact that they believe that having to enter two passwords to sign on to their online banking counts as dual factor authentication.

    Are there banks in Canada that don't believe that? All those I've tried here in the States do. Many offer a fancy little on-screen keyboard to type in one of the passwords, in an effort to defeat keyloggers. I don't know if they actually think this is what two-factor authentication means, or if they just did it to avoid having to spend the money to implement actual two-factor authentication. I suspect a bit of both.

  • (cs) in reply to duis
    duis:
    If this comment beeps please verify your sanity.

    \7

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    St Mary's Hospital for the Cold Hearts:
    Neil:
    Schmuli:
    That isn't the temperature outside; it's at what temperature they keep the beer inside that cafeteria/restaurante.

    Yikes! It would be interesting to see someone try to drink a liquid at -173 c.

    Easy. Order liquid nitrogen any time!

    There are far more suave and stylish cryogenic drinks than liquid nitrogen, you know.
    007:
    I'll take a superfluid liquid helium Martini, please. Three vortices, not four.
    (inb4 "But that implies stirred, not shaken!")

    Well, at -173°C some helium superfluid would be refreshing :)

  • (cs) in reply to Mcoder
    Mcoder:
    Well, at -173°C some helium superfluid would be refreshing :)
    At nearly 100K above the lambda point, it certainly would ;)
  • Anonymoose (unregistered)

    I don't get the last one, how is that a WTF? OMG IT'S A WTF CUZ IT ASKED ME TO TEST FOR A SOUNDCARD THAT DOESN'T EXIST! I don't think that's a wtf or if you think it is, it's on the very low scale of wtf'ness.

  • audiome (unregistered) in reply to Warren

    Not a bug. I have audio devices that aren't sound cards -- external USB ones.

  • (cs) in reply to Julian Calaby
    Julian Calaby:
    I told my partner about this one she almost fell over laughing.

    Thanks, Shambo, you've made our night that little bit funnier =)

    I am so going to have to do that with our servers, which are in a shared datacenter. MWAH HA HA HA!!!! (I BEEPED!!!)

    I once wrote an NT service which randomly beeped every 20 minutes. However, before I could install it on the victims machine, my evil accomplice changed the requirements to every 2 minutes. So, instead of slow Chinese water torture over days and weeks, it was like "WTF is wrong with my machine?" on the first day.

    My evil coworker also sent my project manager a ransom note for his pen, which he posted in his office for inspiration.

    I also wrote a service which selects random Windows error messages and displays them in one of those "red X" windows dialog boxes, but have not yet selected a victim for it.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    galgorah:
    Someone You Know:
    galgorah:
    Someone You Know:
    It's a Confederate spy!
    Or Elvis!... or both?

    A little less Stonewall Jackson; a little more Lincoln, please.

    I'm just picturing Lincoln sway his hips and doing pelvic thrusts while singing "Blue suede shoes".

    They didn't call him the Great Emancipator for nothing.

    See you later Emancipator!

    [ yeh yeh I know wrong old rocker :-P ]

  • (cs) in reply to Andrea
    Andrea:
    Neil:
    Yikes! It would be interesting to see someone try to drink a liquid at -173 c.

    -173 degrees C is still 23 degrees above the boiling point of nitrogen at 1 atmosphere.

    Obviously, Neil was going for the even greater excitement of seeing someone try to drink a liquid at -173c in a hyperbaric recompression chamber.
  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    Voodoo Coder:
    Schrödinger's Sound Card...
    Unrelated (even to Schrödinger), but I just heard my favourite ever geek joke today (which doubtless you all know. Tough.)
    You fluffed the punchline though.
    pink_fairy:
    Werner Heisenberg was driving through Berlin one day in 1942 towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft. A Nazi traffic cop pulled his government-issue Porsche over by the side of the road.

    The cop was incandescent. "Have you any idea what speed you were doing?"

    "No," replies Heisenberg, "but I know precisely where I am."

    FTFY.
    pink_fairy:
    Danke schön; Ich bin hier die ganze Nacht...
    Mein Hund hat keine Nase!
  • (cs) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    Schmuli:
    That isn't the temperature outside; it's at what temperature they keep the beer inside that cafeteria/restaurante.
    Ah, but does that beer superconduct?
    We have superconducting beer. Resistance is futile.
  • Cody (unregistered)

    My school uses the same software as Caleb's submission. It's called MyMathLab and it's absolutely horrendous. I suggest all college students steer clear of any math classes that use it. It's peppered with problems like this, incorrect answers, and various other issues.

  • (cs) in reply to Eternal Density
    Eternal Density:
    dkf:
    Schmuli:
    That isn't the temperature outside; it's at what temperature they keep the beer inside that cafeteria/restaurante.
    Ah, but does that beer superconduct?
    We have superconducting beer. Resistance is futile.
    ARE YOU MAD?

    Who would even think of resisting beer that can levitate? That's just insane!

  • Joel (unregistered)

    But how do you test if it's a multiple of $0 without dividing by zero?

    Captcha: oppeto

  • jusmine (unregistered)
  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Joel
    Joel:
    But how do you test if it's a multiple of $0 without dividing by zero?

    Captcha: oppeto

    amount_sum = 0
while amount_sum < amount_entered
amount_sum = amount_sum + 0
loop
if amount_sum > amount_entered
error "not a multiple of $0.00"
exit
end if
    Let's just hope they didn't want any more than the maximum of $0.00, either...

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