• barenaked (unregistered)

    It's been one week since my train arrived...

  • RuBen (unregistered)

    Thank you for reading this null

  • BentFranklin (unregistered)

    Fascinating! The cloud-database URL is really really deep, but not infinitely so. But I bet each time I refresh it gets a little deeper.

  • Nagesh-saki (unregistered)

    Comment Informatio always read

  • DD (unregistered)

    [b]Frist![\b]

  • JP (unregistered)

    Thank you for allowing us to provide your continued identity theft protection. Your null null

    Looks like someone stole THEIR identity...

  • Recursive Reclusive (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Samsung KIES; horrible, horrible piece of crapware. Adds nothing and just gets in the way. Plain folder access is better in every way.

  • (cs)

    At least the jackpot amount is accurate to 100000 currency units...

  • DonaldK (unregistered)

    And one that note, I trust that you all will enjoy your weekend!

    Your null null

  • Bert Jansen (unregistered)

    Those xyxyxyxyxyxyxyxyxxy risk their lives every day! Don't mock them!

  • ishmael (unregistered)

    Is Starbucks setting itself up now as an ostaria?

  • (cs)

    How is it possible that no one has made the one comment that must be made. I guess the responsibility falls to me:

    It's over 9000!!!

  • Barteke (unregistered) in reply to Bert Jansen

    lol @ your null null

  • Kevin D (unregistered)

    Well, now we know where this guy works... http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Applet-Redirect.aspx

  • (cs)

    What I find concerning is that the newspaper uses Wikipedia template syntax for its captions... (Or, perhaps it doesn't, but the editor of the caption thought it did.)

  • (cs)

    I just accidentally null the whole thing. What should I do?

  • (cs)

    Welcome to the Enrichment Center! Your train will depart in nine, nine, nine, nine, nine...nine, nine...

  • null (unregistered)

    null null

    null

  • golddog (unregistered)

    How could Scott even consider turning down that agreement? It's like gold!

  • oh yeah (unregistered)

    9999th post!

  • dbk (unregistered)

    overcast database FTW

  • (cs)

    It's clouds all the way ...up?

  • Parliamentary Train (unregistered)

    Must have gone to the wrong station - clearly "St Pancrs" has a much worse service than St Pancras itself.

    Captcha: suscipit - I suscipit a typo....

  • Bernard Mergendeiler (unregistered)

    The 0.0 jackpot looks like some kind of shenanigans to me. A perod is the German thousands separator, not the decimal point. The decimal point in German is a comma. One million Euros would be written: 1.000.000,00 or more likely 1.000.000,--

    Also the banner is much narrower than a reasonable length for the horizontally-displayed number field.

  • airdrik (unregistered)

    And that is why you should put your databases on Sun servers: The clouds just get in the way!

  • (cs)

    So if I get 30 stars on my Starbucks card, can I also expect infinite free coffee (hopefully it's not NaN free coffee)?

  • Synchronos (unregistered)

    Do you Brits really say "train AT St. Pancras" when you are heading TO St. Pancras? If not, you know TRWTF (tm): telling people at platform which is the station they are at, rather than telling where the train is heading.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Bernard Mergendeiler
    Bernard Mergendeiler:
    The 0.0 jackpot looks like some kind of shenanigans to me. A perod is the German thousands separator, not the decimal point. The decimal point in Switzerland is a comma. One million francs would be written: 1.000.000,00 or more likely 1.000.000,--

    Also the banner is much narrower than a reasonable length for the horizontally-displayed number field.

    FTFY.

    Also "Mio." means million, so they'd write "Mio 4.2" or so. Most players don't care so much for the lower digits ...

  • nimis (unregistered) in reply to DD
    DD:
    [b]Frist![\b]

    So, you're great mind also...

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    Do you Brits really say "train AT St. Pancras" when you are heading TO St. Pancras? If not, you know TRWTF (tm): telling people at platform which is the station they are at, rather than telling where the train is heading.
    Or, more likely, bad editing.
  • (cs)

    I usually amend EULAs before agreeing to them, getting rid of objectionable parts and such. A blank one is refreshingly acceptable, and I see those more often when installing software via WINE.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to JP
    JP:
    > Thank you for allowing us to provide your continued identity theft protection. > Your null null

    Looks like someone stole THEIR identity...

    Feature please!

    This will be my new reference for "identity theft". (Until xkcd does one, of course. ;-)

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to foo

    The photo is taken at St Pancras. So the poster was rushing to catch the train at St Pancras to somewhere (like Sheffield). Why the departure board needs to tell you that, I really don't know.

  • anon (unregistered)

    Hey, stop whining, out here in the sticks we only get buses every 19999 minutes.

  • null (unregistered)

    null null null null null null null null. null null null null null! null.

    null

  • Rich (unregistered)

    Seems like Stack Builder needs the Applet Redirect Pattern from a few days ago

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Rich
    Rich:
    Seems like Stack Builder needs the Applet Redirect Pattern from a few days ago

    Or maybe we've found the actual location of that code!

  • Aidan (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Rich:
    Seems like Stack Builder needs the Applet Redirect Pattern from a few days ago

    Or maybe we've found the actual location of that code!

    Also, it seems that Stack Builder is very good at building a stack...of directories at least.

  • Bananas (unregistered) in reply to JP
    JP:
    > Thank you for allowing us to provide your continued identity theft protection. > Your null null

    Looks like someone stole THEIR identity...

    Nay, they are simply providing a powerful demonstration of their superior identity protection technology.

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to Recursive Reclusive
    Recursive Reclusive:
    TRWTF is Samsung KIES; horrible, horrible piece of crapware. Adds nothing and just gets in the way. Plain folder access is better in every way.
    It is astonishing how many people think they have to buy a "package" to do something their OS already does.

    For example, digital cameras with (Windows only, of course, or maybe fortunately) crapware to "download" your photos (copy them from USB media) "organize" them into "collections", view slideshows, resize, crop, print... and usually the vendor written junk does a much worse job than what you already have built-in to your system.

  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to ishmael
    ishmael:
    Is Starbucks setting itself up now as an ostaria?
    1. Starbucks is not just in Australia. 2. That's not how you spell it anyway.
  • James (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    Also "Mio." means million
    Well if they mean million, why don't they say million? Fucking foreigners!
  • (cs) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    Do you Brits really say "train AT St. Pancras" when you are heading TO St. Pancras? If not, you know TRWTF (tm): telling people at platform which is the station they are at, rather than telling where the train is heading.
    After you get on a train TO St. Pancras, The train well then be AT St. Pancras.
  • Larry (unregistered) in reply to Chris
    Chris:
    The photo is taken at St Pancras. So the poster was rushing to catch the train at St Pancras to somewhere (like Sheffield). Why the departure board needs to tell you that, I really don't know.
    If you are at St Pancras, there won't be a train that goes from there to St Pancras. Ever. But the database doesn't have a flag for "never", so they just used the maximum value they could store.

    Not a WTF. User error.

  • Not Surprised (unregistered) in reply to Rich
    Rich:
    Seems like Stack Builder needs the Applet Redirect Pattern from a few days ago
    So the Stack Builder built a stack. Of redirects, or crap, your choice. But, really, are you surprised? That's what it's designed to do!
  • (cs) in reply to Bernard Mergendeiler
    Bernard Mergendeiler:
    The 0.0 jackpot looks like some kind of shenanigans to me. A perod is the German thousands separator, not the decimal point. The decimal point in German is a comma. One million Euros would be written: 1.000.000,00 or more likely 1.000.000,--

    Also the banner is much narrower than a reasonable length for the horizontally-displayed number field.

    So what, There is clearly no numbers to the left of that 0.0. It could be 0.000.000.000.000.000.000,00 and it would still be 0, regardless of how many comma's or decimal points or whatever is being used to format the number. So unless you 0-pad your numbers, I think the ad is broken.

  • Synchronos (unregistered) in reply to Larry
    Larry:
    If you are at St Pancras, there won't be a train that goes from there to St Pancras. Ever. But the database doesn't have a flag for "never", so they just used the maximum value they could store.

    So, you mean, that if there's no train leaving from the platform, the destination string of the departure board defaults to current location, rather than empty string? Well, interesting design choice, but you could say it works. "Hey, this must be wrong platform, I wanted to Ashford, but this train only gets me back to where I left."

  • (cs) in reply to oh yeah
    oh yeah:
    9999th post!
    I hate to break it to you but you are actually the 352,553rd* post

    The actual 9999th post would have been by Fregas: "oh god kill me now!"

    http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Party_Like_It_0x27_s_1969.aspx#32236

    • Assuming linear and incremental usage of post numbers and factoring in that the first post started at 22,237 (minor WTF there).
  • Synchronos (unregistered) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    Larry:
    If you are at St Pancras, there won't be a train that goes from there to St Pancras. Ever. But the database doesn't have a flag for "never", so they just used the maximum value they could store.

    So, you mean, that if there's no train leaving from the platform, the destination string of the departure board defaults to current location, rather than empty string? Well, interesting design choice, but you could say it works. "Hey, this must be wrong platform, I wanted to Ashford, but this train only gets me back to where I left."

    Or, do you mean that when the wrong destination was somehow set, the system could not find any train leaving to St. Pancras, because being at St. Pancras, it defaulted to maximum value. 'k, now I understand.

    (Sorry, haven't bothered to register, so cannot edit.)

  • (cs)

    Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine Number nine, number nine, number... ...Then there's this Welsh Rarebit wearing some brown underpants

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