• (cs) in reply to Winner!
    Winner!:
    i liked fark's solution to the frist psot posts. They simply made them have a timestamp of 12:00 hours later, and that way it would always be the last post.
    So you post lsat frist psot, and then frist frist psot.
  • (cs)

    I've seen that first pic on ircimages.com a long time ago.

    Note: Don't visit IRCImages.com. It's not a nice place. If you ignore my warning, don't blame me.

  • (cs) in reply to Calm Mint
    Calm Mint:
    kastein:
    I'm getting more tired of undefined (seems people are finally slowing down on that crap...), undefined, and mindless undefined (see also: converting any of the wtf into a comment and blah blah blah)
    oh you're so clever dear! :) drown in a toilet :)
    alegr:
    Winner!:
    i liked fark's solution to the frist psot posts. They simply made them have a timestamp of 12:00 hours later, and that way it would always be the last post.
    So you post lsat frist psot, and then frist frist psot.
    Back when I was a mod on a forum, we decided after brief deliberation to just hand out week-long posting bans (via username first, and IP also if they evaded) to anyone who posted stupid crap. The problem went away rather quickly :)
  • (cs) in reply to RandomUser423656
    RandomUser423656:
    Wonz:
    TRWTF is that "Graham" still uses Gaussian Blur filters to hide personal information.
    The meta-WTF is that many people assume anything that isn't a black box is a Gaussian Blur. Now maybe Wonz actually reversed it first, so he might be an exception.

    Unlikely, since it's CLEARLY pixellated, not blurred.

  • Zerbs (unregistered) in reply to E.T. (phone home)
    E.T. (phone home):
    "When I'm using Windows" is not "when I least expect it".
    I agree, the whole windows error dialog box thing is way to common to be interesting here. Earlier this month there was such an error dialog box covering up about a third of one of those new electronic billboards along the highway. I swear it was on the screen for at least 3 days.
  • (cs) in reply to Not THAT Alex
    Not THAT Alex:
    Auto Date Conversion- bane of my existance:
    The real WTF is OpenOffice Spreadsheet converting EVERY SINGLE DECIMAL ENTRY TO A DATE BY DEFAULT. This makes it out-of-the-box 100% unusable to every engineer on the planet.

    If you complain on a forum about it, after 3 snooty remarks someone will give you the fix, the snooty remarks being Europeans saying that "most of the world uses commas for decimals.". If most of their world does not include India and China and the entire New World, I guess it is a good default.

    Only if the New World you refers to includes only North America. Almost every country on Latin America (Mexico being a exception) uses comma.

    So what you are saying is that he should have said "Most of the New World" along with most of the world, perhaps with the clarification that he was measuring per capita, as opposed to the many other ways of measuring "most."

  • f0dder (unregistered)

    My guess is the museum uses NT4 and that a mouse chord has fallen out of one of the boxes - at least that gives the same (harmless) diagnostic on computer bootup at the NT4 boxes at work :)

  • Dan T. (unregistered) in reply to cconroy

    Does that black guy in the Novell site just keep standing around looking fidgety next to the bunch of blurry text, or does he ever actually do anything?

  • (cs) in reply to amischiefr
    amischiefr:
    Anybody else getting tired of the "hehe my phone number is in scientific notation hehe" WTFs? Do we really need to see another one every week (or every other)?

    Not yet. How many have we seen? Two? Three?

    This IS Error'd. MOST of the errors are the same we've seen before in a different format. The majority of Error'd's are uninitialized variables, some error dialog popping up on some public screen, and overflow/underflow.

  • CiH (unregistered) in reply to Dan T.
    Dan T.:
    Does that black guy in the Novell site just keep standing around looking fidgety next to the bunch of blurry text, or does he ever actually do anything?
    He's laughing at us all!
  • Joel (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse
    A Nonny Mouse:
    that size dropdown is bothering me. presumably the excel date conversion is US, so 2-Jan was originally 1/2 - but there is already a 1-2 in the list... quite a few of them are duplicated too. wtf?

    Most of them are duplicated....

    It seems there's a difference between: 5/6 and 5-6 (for example) so both are included in the list. 5-6 becomes 6 May (and let's not start on date formats - it took me long enough to work out that 5-6 would be 6 May not 5 June)....

    ditto for the other repeated items....

    The ordering, however, is quite interesting - it skips around quite a lot....

  • Elizabeth (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    Dave:
    As it happens I am an official Englander and we use the Queens head (God bless her soul) for thousand separaters and cups of tea for decimal points.

    No English person would ever describe themselves as an "Englander". Pack up your stuff and go home, please.

    Perhaps he meant England ER (ie Queen of England)

  • (cs) in reply to E.T. (phone home)
    E.T. (phone home):
    amischiefr:
    Anybody else getting tired of the "hehe my phone number is in scientific notation hehe" WTFs? Do we really need to see another one every week (or every other)?
    It's not even a WTF. Just enter the phone number as shown, exponent and all, and most any recent smartphone will handle it. The world is almost out of phone numbers, so they're getting ready for the conversion to 20 digits.

    I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the US, the current system of phone numbers will support more than 9 billion phone numbers minus some exceptions which is easily greater than the earth's population (last I checked) much less that of the US. I presume that other numbering plans around the world work in a similar way, so I don't see why we need to convert to 20 digits.

  • Chuckie (unregistered) in reply to jpa
    jpa:
    jonnyq:
    Auto Date Conversion- bane of my existance:
    The real WTF is OpenOffice Spreadsheet converting EVERY SINGLE DECIMAL ENTRY TO A DATE BY DEFAULT. This makes it out-of-the-box 100% unusable to every engineer on the planet.

    I use Ubuntu and rarely touch OOo, so I have a vanilla install. I just opened up the spreadsheet program and started typing in things with decimals. Everything I could think of - 1.2, 12.12, 12.8, 12.9, 5.6 etc - gets treated as a number. Something with TWO decimals - 12.12.8 - gets converted to a date - 12/12/08.

    Could be some locale-related problem. At work, Excel gives me the same problem: both 12.1 and 12,1 get treated as dates unless I use "format cells". It is an English Office on English Windows with Finnish locale settings.

    Get Rid of it!! It's Finnished.

  • (cs)

    "4.41243E11" is a stupid way of saying +44 1243 nnnnnn, but Slough is reached by area code 01753, not 01243, so aside from the precision error, there's an additional error of -5.1E8.

  • (cs) in reply to jpa
    jpa:
    jonnyq:
    Auto Date Conversion- bane of my existance:
    The real WTF is OpenOffice Spreadsheet converting EVERY SINGLE DECIMAL ENTRY TO A DATE BY DEFAULT. This makes it out-of-the-box 100% unusable to every engineer on the planet.

    I use Ubuntu and rarely touch OOo, so I have a vanilla install. I just opened up the spreadsheet program and started typing in things with decimals. Everything I could think of - 1.2, 12.12, 12.8, 12.9, 5.6 etc - gets treated as a number. Something with TWO decimals - 12.12.8 - gets converted to a date - 12/12/08.

    Could be some locale-related problem. At work, Excel gives me the same problem: both 12.1 and 12,1 get treated as dates unless I use "format cells". It is an English Office on English Windows with Finnish locale settings.

    The OP said "decimal". You're a Finn, so you know that "," is the decimal radix, not "." for your locale.
  • Chuckie (unregistered) in reply to dunawayc
    dunawayc:
    E.T. (phone home):
    amischiefr:
    Anybody else getting tired of the "hehe my phone number is in scientific notation hehe" WTFs? Do we really need to see another one every week (or every other)?
    It's not even a WTF. Just enter the phone number as shown, exponent and all, and most any recent smartphone will handle it. The world is almost out of phone numbers, so they're getting ready for the conversion to 20 digits.

    I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the US, the current system of phone numbers will support more than 9 billion phone numbers minus some exceptions which is easily greater than the earth's population (last I checked) much less that of the US. I presume that other numbering plans around the world work in a similar way, so I don't see why we need to convert to 20 digits.

    In Aus you have 8 digits + Area Code (0 + 1 digit) AreaCode: 01 for Special Service numbers 04 For Mobile phones 02 (NSW/ACT),03(VIC {and TAS if they have telephones over there}),07(QLD),08(SA,WA,NT) - Are the only ones used (I think) AFAIK, even the 8 digit numbers do not overlap between landlines (yet). I suspect there is already overlap between the last 8 digits of mobile phones and landlines, though.

    Of course, 100,000,000 phone numbers allows each Australian to have almost 5 phones, and allowing for Area codes (even the current 5-code system) allows each Taswegian to have several for each head.....

  • Jools (unregistered)

    Given how long it takes to get something published on this site, I doubt (unless by some amazing coincidence) that Samuel Alba was in the Museum of London "this week-end"

    (Indecently, do Poms use "this weekend" to refer to the weekend just gone? I always hear "this weekend" and think of the one coming up {although I get REALLY confused when people say "next weekend", I never know whether they mean in 1-5 days time, or 7-12 days time (I can work out if we're on a saturday or sunday they must mean the next one....)

  • (cs) in reply to cconroy
    cconroy:
    Then use adblock or something similar to block http://www.novell.com/linux/xml/ylir2.xml ...

    (Is it just because I'm using Windows, or do the edges on everything in this flash object look funny for everyone?)

    np: Tocotronic - Aus Meiner Festung (Kapitulation Live)

  • Gerrit (unregistered) in reply to SlyEcho
    SlyEcho:
    steenbergh:
    Can anyone read what the top one says? I'm really curious as to WHAT broke down there.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321454:
    At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use Event Viewer to examine the event log for details.

    Thanks, I was wondering what it said too.

    Every time I see a WTF with Windows system messages being shown to people who won't be able to do anything about it and covering part of the display they're supposed to see, I think that either Windows isn't the proper OS for this kind of thing or it isn't configured properly, assuming that you can configure it not to show system messges in popups. Anyone?

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to Elizabeth
    Elizabeth:
    OldCoder:
    Dave:
    As it happens I am an official Englander and we use the Queens head (God bless her soul) for thousand separaters and cups of tea for decimal points.

    No English person would ever describe themselves as an "Englander". Pack up your stuff and go home, please.

    Perhaps he meant England ER (ie Queen of England)

    The most relevant person I can think of is Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Sovereign of the Order of Canada, Sovereign of the Order of Australia, Sovereign of the Order of New Zealand, Sovereign of the Order of Barbados, Sovereign of the Order of Valour, Sovereign of the Order of Military Merit, Sovereign of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Sovereign of the Queen's Service Order, Sovereign of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Sovereign of the Order of St. Andrew, Sovereign of the Order of Logohu, Sovereign of the Order of the Star of Melanesia.

    Nothing about England there. Dave is clearly a foreigner.

  • methinks (unregistered)

    so, perhaps size "May" means that everything is still more or less where it is meant to be... whereas size "December" is an entirely different sagging matter... ;o)

  • ysth (unregistered) in reply to jonnyq

    I have installed an en_DK.utf8 locale that uses , as radix character.

  • (cs) in reply to ifndef
    ifndef:
    This comment is undefined ready
    ...and written in size October font.
  • Jasper (unregistered)

    The one with the phone number in scientific notation is a double WTF:

    (1) Storing phone numbers as numerical values is a WTF (2) On top of that, storing phone numbers in a floating-point data type is another WTF.

  • Dugeen (unregistered) in reply to Kensey

    That's only because her part of the table is obscured. The other kids don't care. Typical users.

  • Dugeen (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    OldCoder:
    Dave:
    As it happens I am an official Englander and we use the Queens head (God bless her soul) for thousand separaters and cups of tea for decimal points.
    No English person would *ever* describe themselves as an "Englander". Pack up your stuff and go home, please.
    Well, he describes himself as an official Englander, not a real one. That's probably why he forgot the apostrophe in "Queen's", and spelled "separator" wrongly.

    I believe there may have been an element of irony in his post. Switch your scanner from 'orthographic' to 'semantic' mode.

  • housecaldwell (unregistered) in reply to CiH
    CiH:
    Dan T.:
    Does that black guy in the Novell site just keep standing around looking fidgety next to the bunch of blurry text, or does he ever actually do anything?
    He's laughing at us all!

    Whoa. That's creepy!

  • (cs) in reply to Jools
    Jools:
    (Indecently, do Poms use "this weekend" to refer to the weekend just gone? I always hear "this weekend" and think of the one coming up {although I get REALLY confused when people say "next weekend", I never know whether they mean in 1-5 days time, or 7-12 days time (I can work out if we're on a saturday or sunday they must mean the next one....)
    It is confusing. I usually say "this past weekend" or "this coming weekend".
  • Fortrinn (unregistered)

    I've seen a few of those in the Science Museum... somewhere I have a pic of its main displays down near the cafes doing that.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Chuckie
    Chuckie:
    dunawayc:
    I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the US, the current system of phone numbers will support more than 9 billion phone numbers minus some exceptions which is easily greater than the earth's population (last I checked) much less that of the US. I presume that other numbering plans around the world work in a similar way, so I don't see why we need to convert to 20 digits.

    In Aus you have 8 digits + Area Code (0 + 1 digit) AreaCode: 01 for Special Service numbers 04 For Mobile phones 02 (NSW/ACT),03(VIC {and TAS if they have telephones over there}),07(QLD),08(SA,WA,NT) - Are the only ones used (I think) AFAIK, even the 8 digit numbers do not overlap between landlines (yet). I suspect there is already overlap between the last 8 digits of mobile phones and landlines, though.

    Of course, 100,000,000 phone numbers allows each Australian to have almost 5 phones, and allowing for Area codes (even the current 5-code system) allows each Taswegian to have several for each head.....

    The catches are that:

    (a) Phone numbers are not assigned from a single big pool. In the US phone numbers are organized into 3-digit area code, 3-digit exchange, then 4-digit sequence. Area codes are assigned to geographical areas, for example, area code 307 is for the state of Wyoming, while 516 is the western half of Long Island, New York. So if Long Island is running out of available numbers, the fact that there are plenty of spares left in Wyoming is no help. Exchanges are assigned to smaller geographical areas, like a single town, with similar effects. We've just recently started allowing more than one area code or exchange to cover the same area. Like New York City now has three area codes.

    If we abolished the idea of area codes and exchanges and just assigned numbers sequentially with no particular pattern, we could make better use of the available pool. I presume this was not done in the past because the system was invented at a time when a national database was an unheard-of idea. It made sense for a central organization to hand out area codes to regional organizations, and then for the regionals to hand out exchanges to locals, and then the locals could hand out individual numbers to customers. That way when somebody in Chicago needed to assign a number, he didn't have to check with every other city in the country to make sure nobody had used that number. Even today, I understand that blocks of numbers are given to different phone companies to dole out to their customers.

    (b) In this age, it is not unheard of for a person to have more than one phone number. Until a few months ago, my family, which consists of two people, had 6 phone numbers: my cell phone, my daughter's cell phone, our wall phone, our fax number, my work cell phone, and my work desk phone. I dropped the wall phone as unnecessary, so now we only have 5 phone numbers for the two of us.

  • Petey B (unregistered) in reply to E.T. (phone home)

    facepalm

    unless the phonenumber ends in all 0's, no, it will not work.

  • (cs) in reply to f0dder
    f0dder:
    My guess is the museum uses NT4 and that a mouse chord has fallen out of one of the boxes

    A mouse chord? Like in "Babe"?

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