• JJ (unregistered) in reply to Taka
    Taka:
    The real WTF is that the "dialog box" it created wasn't a dialog box. It was a message box. Windows API FTW or FTL or FTF...
    The real WTF is that apparently didn't even read the documentation for the Windows API function you were referring to:

    "Displays a modal dialog box that contains a system icon, a set of buttons, and a brief application-specific message, such as status or error information."

  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    Carl:
    Microsoft Windows Operating System has stopped working. To get notified when a solution is available, insert a Linux LiveCD and reboot.
    Or just stab yourself in the thigh with an exacto knife.
    Thank you for your kind suggestion. You're right, it is less painful than using Win, but all things considered I still prefer Linux.
    Bim Job:
    The larger part of us have better things to do. Then again, we get paid to work, rather than drool.
    I also appreciate your concern for my income. Let me assure you I make a good bit more than the developers whose work I review.
    Bim Job:
    After drooling, reboot and fix the problem. It's surprisingly easy on XP and later systems. (Which I hate and loathe with a passion).
    Oh, I see now, you have so much pent up anger because your employer forces you to use a system you hate. Been there.
    Bim Job:
    Surprisingly difficult with a Linux LiveCD, though.
    Couldn't say. Once I switched to Linux I stopped having all those problems to fix. So it might be hard, if it ever happened, I just don't know.
  • anonymous Slovak (unregistered) in reply to Markp
    Markp:
    gregj:
    the first picture is from poland, you damn microsoft founded fuck.

    Who are you replying to? The article absolutely never said it was NOT from Poland...

    You are right, but the article states it in a very confusing way.

    The poster is very probably Polish (Staszek is Polish name) and he meant that if he had an Euro bill left from a trip to Slovakia (Euro is used here), he can use it in a Polish exchange office ("kantor" in Polish ;) ) to get infinity of his own currency (PLN). The table is also in Polish.

    However the way it is written it is very easy to overlook the word "left after" or when reading fast to omit everything other than country and think that the photo is from Slovakia...

  • MyKey_ (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Jade:
    why is it that google products can always read my mind?
    Mind cookies. You may think I'm joking but seriously, read the small print. Mind cookies.

    You probably shouldn't have checked the box that said "Mind cookies?"!

    Well, I don't mind cookies. Yamm.

  • (cs) in reply to Taka
    Taka:
    The real WTF is that the "dialog box" it created wasn't a dialog box. It was a message box.

    It couldn't create the dialog box (which was probably much more interesting) so it popped up a message box saying "I couldn't create the dialog box." Where's the WTF?

  • (cs) in reply to CAR912
    CAR912:
    T $:
    I call bologna on the youtube one. ...

    Um... try looking here. You can see that phrase on line 45 of the audioswap JavaScript file that YouTube uses.

    They just want to have fun before the government takes the internet away.

  • eta (unregistered) in reply to jonnyq

    NaN is part of the IEEE spec for floating point double values

  • no*-2 (unregistered) in reply to T $
    T $:
    I call bologna on the youtube one. Go into Firefox, navigate to http://www.yahoo.com and type in

    j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t:-a-l-e-r-t-(-"something unexpected happened, please smash head against keyboard. when done, you may run around in circles, wave your hands, and scream."-)

    to the address bar in firefox (Remove the -)

    Works in IE(ick) too, except the message comes from "webpage". The address bar execution of javascript seem useless until you want to open a javascript link in a new tab.

  • Denwerko (unregistered)

    funny, but it is slovenia, not slovakia

  • Mike (unregistered)

    "Microsoft Windows has stopped working"

    Well, at least they've finally admitted it.

  • The Wanderer (unregistered) in reply to eta
    eta:
    NaN is part of the IEEE spec for floating point double values
    In fact, I seem to recall that under the right circumstances you can even get NaN out of C code.

    Though according to the glibc documentation, you'll also get an "Invalid Operation" floating-point exception at the same time, so you may not ever see the NaN in normal circumstances anyway.

  • (cs) in reply to anonymous Slovak
    anonymous Slovak:
    Markp:
    gregj:
    the first picture is from poland, you damn microsoft founded fuck.

    Who are you replying to? The article absolutely never said it was NOT from Poland...

    You are right, but the article states it in a very confusing way.

    The poster is very probably Polish (Staszek is Polish name) and he meant that if he had an Euro bill left from a trip to Slovakia (Euro is used here), he can use it in a Polish exchange office ("kantor" in Polish ;) ) to get infinity of his own currency (PLN). The table is also in Polish.

    However the way it is written it is very easy to overlook the word "left after" or when reading fast to omit everything other than country and think that the photo is from Slovakia...

    Please do not tell us about any other problems of yours.

  • Wow (unregistered) in reply to anonymous Slovak
    Jim Paris:
    Author of WinLIRC here: I'm sorry! I was young, and dumb!

    Aww man! Wish I was that humble. Well done!

    anonymous Slovak:
    Markp:
    gregj:
    the first picture is from poland, you damn microsoft founded fuck.

    Who are you replying to? The article absolutely never said it was NOT from Poland...

    You are right, but the article states it in a very confusing way.

    The poster is very probably Polish (Staszek is Polish name) and he meant that if he had an Euro bill left from a trip to Slovakia (Euro is used here), he can use it in a Polish exchange office ("kantor" in Polish ;) ) to get infinity of his own currency (PLN). The table is also in Polish.

    However the way it is written it is very easy to overlook the word "left after" or when reading fast to omit everything other than country and think that the photo is from Slovakia...

    Wow. Dude. Tense much? Calm down man. Were you drunk when you made the original post/flame?

    Whatever. Don't be trying to justify it with a confused and desperate sounding later post. Just put your hands up and apologise for behaving like a dick. It's easy. Look:

    "gregj, I'm sorry for flaming you with this post. I really thought I was being funny and intelligent at the time. I now see the error of my ways. Sorry."

    See? Easy!

  • Wouter Verhelst (unregistered)

    NaN -- the real WTF is that they are using floats for currency. Anyone want to deal with the rounding errors?

  • causa-fora-effecta (unregistered) in reply to Wouter Verhelst
    Wouter Verhelst:
    NaN -- the real WTF is that they are using floats for currency. Anyone want to deal with the rounding errors?
    They're probably only using floats for the display and fixed-point all the way otherwise.
  • Macha (unregistered)

    The Microsoft(r) Windows(r) Operating System is the Windows Media Center as part of XP Media Center edition, and Vista located in C:\Windows\ehome\ehTray.exe.

    It crashes a lot on my PC.

  • swordfishBob (unregistered)

    That actually just shows how we misunderstand and misuse English, though the dialog suggests it has been translated twice. "Please" is a verb, meaning to bring pleasure or joy. e.g. "Would it please you to give me..?", "It would please me to..", "Would you please me by..."

    You could legitimately substitute the phrase "bring pleasure to", or "do a favor for" for the word please. Cheeky wags would misinterpret the instruction; when told to use the word "please", heck, just stick it on the end. Like saying "I want an ice-cream... do favor."

    If you put the word "please" in a dialog, whose pleasure are you refering to?

  • Martin (unregistered) in reply to T $
    T $:
    I call bologna on the youtube one. Go into Firefox, navigate to http://www.yahoo.com and type in

    j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t:-a-l-e-r-t-(-"something unexpected happened, please smash head against keyboard. when done, you may run around in circles, wave your hands, and scream."-) to the address bar in firefox (Remove the -)

    Works in Google Chrome too

  • Rope (unregistered)
    Staszek:
    if I only had my 5 EUR bill left after my last trip to Slovakia, I could have exchanged it for +Infinity PLN and planned for retirement.

    Why an earth would you settle for one infinity PLN when you could get 5 infinites of them?

  • Rene Magritte (unregistered)

    Ceci n'est pas une boîte dialogue

  • (cs)

    I see that "Windows has stopped working" thing everyday. Actually it is a new feature first introduced with Vista and it annoys me when people complain it without knowing how much money Microsoft spent for it. This feature, called "IntelliOS", turns your computer more like human. The message you see is when Windows feels so tired that it needs some rest, thus STOP WORKING.

  • Hexadecima (unregistered) in reply to Alan
    Alan:
    ekolis:
    Now where is that pesky Unicode infinity sign???

    Why, right under the zero key! ∞

    Or at least in my custom keyboard layout for Linux it is.

    Three modifier keys, eight possible glyphs per symbol key and combining diacritics en masse. Try that for size, Windows!

    Stop being a jerk: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx

    Deadkeys and, yes, three modifier keys (shift, ctrl, altgr). The only limitation is old programs that only accept a single codepage at a time. But it's all there:

    ²³½ƒ¾ſðffflœæƿ÷‚ʒflȣæƿflº¹‘ÆfflǷÐſtƷ™ſtȢ¥£¡

  • Tane (unregistered)

    Fast Cash NaNs sounds like a new competitor for World's Biggest Bingo.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    The timesheet one is not a WTF, but Wes Hutton surely is. "Your timesheet has more than 60 hours booked..." refers to what the guy has entered, whereas "Your timesheet has less than 40 hours" refers to what you're allowed to enter.

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Foo

    Yes, the real WTF is that they are using IEEE 754-2008 to manage your money, instead of a more precise fixed point decimal calculation. I wonder if they also use old Pentium FPUs under the hood.

  • Howard M (unregistered)
    When continuously it uses, connection do as a favor again.

    Yeah, that's not translated from the Japanese or anything.

    Japanese and English are so grammatically different that if you can split translated-to-English sentences in to phrases and clauses (if not smaller bits) and translate each of those chunks literally and in the same order from left to right back in to a stream of coherent, sensible Japanese, this almost always means you have failed.

    In other words: the only thing they got right was the word "again" placed at the end of the sentence.

  • (cs) in reply to swordfishBob
    swordfishBob:
    That actually just shows how we misunderstand and misuse English, though the dialog suggests it has been translated twice. "Please" is a verb, meaning to bring pleasure or joy. e.g. "Would it please you to give me..?", "It would please me to..", "Would you please me by..."

    You could legitimately substitute the phrase "bring pleasure to", or "do a favor for" for the word please. Cheeky wags would misinterpret the instruction; when told to use the word "please", heck, just stick it on the end. Like saying "I want an ice-cream... do favor."

    If you put the word "please" in a dialog, whose pleasure are you refering to?

    Or you could say "I want a status!"

  • Nathan (unregistered) in reply to jonnyq

    The IEEE floating point standard (which most hardware FPUs and programming languages implement) defines several NaN values. They are results of illegal operations which cannot be represented as Infinity or -Infinity, which are also defined by the standard and are often considered special cases of NaN. Any operation which has a NaN as an input must give NaN as its result.

    inverse sin of 100 would result in NaN

  • Lord Naikon (unregistered) in reply to The Wanderer

    Floating point exceptions are disabled by default. So a simple "float x = 0.0/0.0;" will give you a NaN.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    I once exchanged one dollar for an infinite number of korunas. But then I had to buy an infinitely large vault to keep the money in, and I had to spend all the money to buy the vault.
    I'm trapped inside something, and it's your vault.
  • anonymous Slovak (unregistered) in reply to Wow
    Wow:
    Jim Paris:
    Author of WinLIRC here: I'm sorry! I was young, and dumb!

    Aww man! Wish I was that humble. Well done!

    anonymous Slovak:
    Markp:
    gregj:
    the first picture is from poland, you damn microsoft founded fuck.

    Who are you replying to? The article absolutely never said it was NOT from Poland...

    You are right, but the article states it in a very confusing way.

    The poster is very probably Polish (Staszek is Polish name) and he meant that if he had an Euro bill left from a trip to Slovakia (Euro is used here), he can use it in a Polish exchange office ("kantor" in Polish ;) ) to get infinity of his own currency (PLN). The table is also in Polish.

    However the way it is written it is very easy to overlook the word "left after" or when reading fast to omit everything other than country and think that the photo is from Slovakia...

    Wow. Dude. Tense much? Calm down man. Were you drunk when you made the original post/flame?

    Whatever. Don't be trying to justify it with a confused and desperate sounding later post. Just put your hands up and apologise for behaving like a dick. It's easy. Look:

    "gregj, I'm sorry for flaming you with this post. I really thought I was being funny and intelligent at the time. I now see the error of my ways. Sorry."

    See? Easy!

    !Easy. It would involve accepting fact that I'm imperfect and made mistake, but since I'm perfect and make NO MISTAKES, your solution is INVALID. FUCK YOU man. You are idiot because you are saying that I made mistake, but I didn't, you miserable freak. If you know that you made no mistake, it is clear that you DID NOT, in fact, made mistake.

    Clearly this site is made by some freak with superiority complex to boast over so-called bad code.

    It works? It compiles? Does what it is supposed to do? Then, damn it, it is good code.

    CAPTCHA: enim - you for me from now on. If you disk accidentally formats, don't call me, because I'm the reason it formatted.

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