• Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to LPing
    LPing:
    to prophesy is a valid verb in my Collins (Robert1Collins English/French dictionnary)
    I don't think anyone had questioned whether "prophesy" was a valid verb. The issue (one among many) was whether "prophesize" was a valid verb.
  • Richard McBeef (unregistered) in reply to JamesCurran
    JamesCurran:
    THe funny thing about the SpyBot bug is that you could make the dialog box wider (which revealed nothing), but not longer (which might have allowed you to read it)

    This particular WTF got me thinking.

    We know that there is no perfect software -- any non-trivial program is likely to have a few bugs, mistakes or whatever. That would include compilers. I wonder how many bugs, crashes, etc are caused by a WTF in the compiler.

  • Sam (unregistered)

    Let's not forget to mention all the people that think they "administrate" servers. That one drives me nuts because I hear it constantly. Yes, I know you're an administrator that is employed to perform system administration but it's still "administer".

  • Go fourth (unregistered) in reply to jhandeck
    jhandeck:
    Go fourth:
    grammerCop:
    <snip> ahem, should that not be "...in English which the other 20%..." :)
    Nice name, but you should of checked you're spelling to.
    If grammarCop is still around, that sentence probably has him/her steaming. Along with the french (whose death will presumably not cause the loss, except by theft, of those items in the Louvre), anyone using "should of" should also be shot. (Not to mention the other errors...)
    grammarCop wasn't here in the first place. My taunt was directed at grammerCop.
  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to Go fourth

    grammerCop is a inspiredly nerdy handle. It combines camelCase, bad spelling ('grammer'), and an overall feeling of petulant uptightness. Truly brillant.

  • Pete (unregistered)

    Tends to be "Authentication" for the computer process and "Authentification" for a paper document in Australia.

    Same sort of slight spelling variations are seen with "Programme" being used for a package of reform or something on television and "Program" for the computer task.

  • Dima (unregistered) in reply to nicodache
    authentification is the french word for authentication. it seems the developer was a french-speaking one...
    Yes it is. If Americans can bastardise the verb "to burgle" into "to burglarise", I can't see the problem here.
  • trudeau (unregistered) in reply to Galelasa

    This makes sense, because the gibberish that passes for "French" in Quebec is as bastardized as what passes for English in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to KingNetSurfer
    KingNetSurfer:
    purge:
    seejay:
    purge:
    Its an Error'd submission, which don't have to be comprised of WTF`s.

    Yet with every posting, someone has to point out that the screenshots or photos taken are not WTFs and shouldn't be posted and yadda yadda yadda.

    Sometimes I wonder if people have better things to do with their time or do they fill it all with complaints about things that don't suit their opinions?

    -- Seejay

    The dumb comments are part of what makes this forum interesting. I'm just trying to do my part. Would this place not be boring otherwise?

    actually no it would be informative, and useful, as it stands, it's normally a set of random complaining about the posts, if you don't like the posts, don't look at them. For the most part the site is things that are worse than failure, cases where you can't read the words so you have no idea what to click, or things that could be confusing because it's spelled wrong, are things that should have been fixed before release, now although they may not necessarily be worse than a failure, they are still things that should never hit production, that makes them all free game for the site. If you run the site, you have the right to decide what goes up and what doesn't but since the ones that post it also run it, we have no say on what's appropiate to be on the site and what isn't.

    So I guess you let him get away with "comprised of" ;) haha no soup for you!!

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to trudeau
    trudeau:
    This makes sense, because the gibberish that passes for "French" in Quebec is as bastardized as what passes for English in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    The 'bastardized' French that is spoken in Québec is more similar to eighteenth century French than is the even more 'bastardized' French that is spoken in Paris. The separation of Québec from France at the time of the conquest by Britain preserved the language more intact than has been the case in Europe.
  • Jeffrey (unregistered)

    The Spybot Search & Destroy bug is a common one in one of the previous releases.

    Solution I used when it happened to me:

    This is a provisory solution to fix the problem the bug in the pop-ups checkbox buttons

    http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/9192/sbma9zb.gif

    1.- Download "ResHacker" from here (http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip)

    2.- Deactivate the TeaTimer

    Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Resident. Uncheck the following: Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings)

    3.- Used "ResHacker" to open TeaTimer.exe (Should be in C:\Program Files\Spybot

    • Search & Destroy).

    http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9806/reshack17yd.th.png (http://img456.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reshack17yd.png)

    4.- Press Ctrl+F and searched for the word: decision

    You will see this code:

    object cbRemember: TCheckBox Left = 8 Top = 160 Width = 339 Height = 17 Anchors = [akLeft, akTop, akRight] Caption = '&Remember this decision.' TabOrder = 2 end

    5.- Change the value "Top" from 160 to 190 http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/548/reshack024rt.th.png (http://img475.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reshack024rt.png)

    6.- Press in "Compile Script" and File > Save

    7.- Close the "Resource Hacker" and activate the TeaTimer again

    This is the final result: http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/5186/sbok2jo.gif

  • (cs) in reply to Richard McBeef
    Richard McBeef:
    JamesCurran:
    THe funny thing about the SpyBot bug is that you could make the dialog box wider (which revealed nothing), but not longer (which might have allowed you to read it)

    This particular WTF got me thinking.

    We know that there is no perfect software -- any non-trivial program is likely to have a few bugs, mistakes or whatever. That would include compilers. I wonder how many bugs, crashes, etc are caused by a WTF in the compiler.

    Well, they've got a lot better in the last twenty years.

    In the early days of C++ (say, 1990), the Zortech compiler (or was it the linker?) used to loop infinitely. Quite an impressive WTF, assuming it was built on recursive descent (and assuming it wasn't the linker, in which case all bets are off).

  • (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    trudeau:
    This makes sense, because the gibberish that passes for "French" in Quebec is as bastardized as what passes for English in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    The 'bastardized' French that is spoken in Québec is more similar to eighteenth century French than is the even more 'bastardized' French that is spoken in Paris. The separation of Québec from France at the time of the conquest by Britain preserved the language more intact than has been the case in Europe.
    Bravo, mon frère! Although you might have included the rest of La Province.

    There are two wonderful things about Québecois, from my perspective:

    (1) It annoys dignitaries visiting from Paris, and presumably the Academie, and (2) The Québecois have done away with that god-awful way of expressing eighty and ninety in ways that involve taking your shoes and socks off and counting to twenty.

    Disclaimer: As an Anglo-Norman, I have a far stronger affinity to the Québecois than I do to Parisien(ne)s. Not too keen on the Breton bit though: bloody Celts get everywhere.

    Interesting that the post was from someone willing to call him/herself "Trudeau," though. Slept with any Rock Gods recently, Trudeau?

  • (cs) in reply to Dima
    Dima:
    authentification is the french word for authentication. it seems the developer was a french-speaking one...
    Yes it is. If Americans can bastardise the verb "to burgle" into "to burglarise", I can't see the problem here.
    Methinks you need the goggles.
  • feksio (unregistered)

    The "Authentification" thing is typical for Slavs (Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, etc). For instance, in Polish - my mothertongue - we say "autentyfikacja" so "authentification" sounds more natural for us. Another example is "propozycja" which many Poles translate into English as "proposition" but the correct word would be "proposal". So I'm strongly convinced it was a Slav that coded this piece of software :)

  • seymour butts (unregistered) in reply to JL

    VCR manuals are hilarious in all languages, not just english.

    Automatic translation? Mad Chinese translators? Who knows!!

  • Jeff (unregistered) in reply to hunter9000

    Netbeans 5.5.1 still says authentification.

    captcha: waffles

    waffle waffle!

  • AdT (unregistered) in reply to Jens
    Jens:
    Not just French. German, Spanish (afair), just about every language in that area except for English spell it that way.

    No, in German, it's spelled Authentifikation. Note the k.

    SCNR / TMLIKNW

  • aleks (unregistered) in reply to Jeffrey
    Jeffrey:
    The Spybot Search & Destroy bug is a common one in one of the previous releases.

    Solution I used when it happened to me:

    This is a provisory solution to fix the problem the bug in the pop-ups checkbox buttons

    http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/9192/sbma9zb.gif

    1.- Download "ResHacker" from here (http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip)

    2.- Deactivate the TeaTimer

    Go into Spybot > Mode > Advanced Mode > Tools > Resident. Uncheck the following: Resident "TeaTimer" (Protection of over-all system settings)

    3.- Used "ResHacker" to open TeaTimer.exe (Should be in C:\Program Files\Spybot

    • Search & Destroy).

    http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/9806/reshack17yd.th.png (http://img456.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reshack17yd.png)

    4.- Press Ctrl+F and searched for the word: decision

    You will see this code:

    object cbRemember: TCheckBox Left = 8 Top = 160 Width = 339 Height = 17 Anchors = [akLeft, akTop, akRight] Caption = '&Remember this decision.' TabOrder = 2 end

    5.- Change the value "Top" from 160 to 190 http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/548/reshack024rt.th.png (http://img475.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reshack024rt.png)

    6.- Press in "Compile Script" and File > Save

    7.- Close the "Resource Hacker" and activate the TeaTimer again

    This is the final result: http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/5186/sbok2jo.gif

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