• (cs) in reply to Anketam
    Anketam:
    Almost first, *coughs* frist, sorry. Anyways I personally do care about the 7th decimal spot, those rentals always trying to squeeze every little bit out of you.

    You were 1.00000013658932th?

  • Nagesh (unregistered) in reply to Jack
    Jack:
    Nagesh is not normal intelligence.
    Quite rite, I am socring highly on the exams in university.
  • Jesus (unregistered) in reply to Epon
    Jesus sorry for the typos :E
    No problem, my son.
  • ziubellu (unregistered)

    @malfist sorry but you and Google obviously miss the physics part: everybody knows butter does melt at Mach 2,well before c speed.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Malfist
    Malfist:
    With the stick of butter, I learned that google's caculater can calculate anything.

    For example, (one stick of butter) * (speed of light) = 35,463.6845 m4 / s

    Could this be considered the marginal constant?

  • Your Mom (unregistered) in reply to Big Daddy V

    It didn't realize you wrote and wanted millibits?

  • Zunesis: Nothing Less Than The Best (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    vastrightwing:
    So what happens if you put "writeony" into readonly?

    <input type="text" readonly="writeonly"/>

    A puppy dies. You sick bastard!
    Puppies usually die when I'm being a sick bastard - though it has less to do with twisted html tags and more with the fact that their brain gets saturated with my semen.

  • (cs) in reply to Zunesis: Nothing Less Than The Best
    Zunesis: Nothing Less Than The Best:
    C-Octothorpe:
    vastrightwing:
    So what happens if you put "writeony" into readonly?

    <input type="text" readonly="writeonly"/>

    A puppy dies. You sick bastard!
    Puppies usually die when I'm being a sick bastard - though it has less to do with twisted html tags and more with the fact that their brain gets saturated with my semen.
    Oh, you do it THAT way? Weirdo...

  • Myth (unregistered) in reply to Yet Another Steve
    Yet Another Steve:
    anonymouse:
    Malfist:
    With the stick of butter, I learned that google's caculater can calculate anything.

    For example, (one stick of butter) * (speed of light) = 35,463.6845 m4 / s

    +1, that deserves to be a "featured comment", I haven't laughed this hard in ages!

    Plus, now we know how fast is a "butter fly". :P

    I drive my wife nuts with this, but I've got my kids calling them "flutter-bys" because that's what they do...

    That was their original name - "butterfly" was a corruption of it.

  • Ken B. (unregistered)

    So, if "stick of butter half cup" assumes a multiplication problem, how come "stick of butter speed of light" suggests "Speed Stick deodorant"?

  • LK (unregistered)

    TRWTF is measuring butter by volume instead of mass.

  • Mythbuster (unregistered) in reply to Myth
    Myth:
    That was their original name - "butterfly" was a corruption of it.
    Or alternatively, you could be talking bollocks.

    This message is not spam.

  • (cs)

    Okay, we've all had our little fun about Google's butter-friendly calculator.

    Was it here or somewhere else that someone asked Wolfram|Alpha's interface for the number of calories involved if the observable universe were made entirely of bacon? While I can't find the reference just now, they were able to get it to produce a figure for that but not when they used ham instead of bacon.

  • Mr. Buttersworth (unregistered)

    http://xkcd.com/687/

    Abusing dimensional analysis for fun and buttery goodness

  • American (unregistered)

    one US stick of butter * 0 = 0 m3 one metric stick of butter * 0 = No answer Even google hates metric.

  • voyou (unregistered) in reply to AB

    "anything_in_here" isn't fine; that will make it well-formed XML, but only readonly="readonly" is valid XHTML.

  • (cs) in reply to American
    American:
    one US stick of butter * 0 = 0 m3 one metric stick of butter * 0 = No answer Even google hates metric.

    Yeah. I also tried to ask it how much is one metric foot, one metric pound or one metric gallon, but got no answer.

  • (cs)

    Want to know how long it would take to download a 100 MB file over a 56k line? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+mb+over+56k

    Apparently it'll take a bit less than 2 and a half square-kilogram-meters per hypercubic-seconds-degrees-kelvin. Thanks, Google, I never would've guessed!

  • (cs) in reply to joemck
    joemck:
    Want to know how long it would take to download a 100 MB file over a 56k line? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+mb+over+56k

    Apparently it'll take a bit less than 2 and a half square-kilogram-meters per hypercubic-seconds-degrees-kelvin. Thanks, Google, I never would've guessed!

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+MB+over+56kbps

  • Friedrice The great (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    Matt:
    The stick of butter one actually makes sense. Google is reading it as (one stick of butter) * (half cup) = (1.2 * 10^-4 m^3) * (1.2 * 10^-4 m^3) = 1.44 * 10^-8 m^6

    The author probably wants "stick of butter in half cup."

    Now that you point it out, it actually makes sense. If you ask it to convert "10 degrees-F / square foot" to metric, you want an answer in "degrees-C / square meter" . You want to multiply (or divide) the conversion factors.

    It's not the program's fault if you give it something nonsensical, like "degree-feet" or "sticks of butter - cups". I wouldn't want it to decide if the combination of units I'm giving it makes sense, because all it can do is refuse to perform the calculation. If I happen to be using some measurement that the author of the program didn't think of, it might refuse to do it even though it was, in fact, perfectly reasonable.

    I prefer computers to just do what they're told and not tell me what they think I must REALLY want them to do. It's one thing to refuse to do the job because it's impossible, like trying to convert feet to seconds or delete non-existant records. It's another to say, Yes, I can do that, but I don't think it's a good idea so I refuse. Programs that do that drive me nuts.

    Distance divided by speed-of-light = seconds.

  • Bnon (unregistered) in reply to Friedrice The great

    I can't believe Google doesn't convert Hubble-barns to metric though...

  • (cs)

    readonly="what no of course not why would you even think that"

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Big Daddy V
    Big Daddy V:
    You think the butter thing is bad? I was trying to calculate a download time yesterday. Apparently Google decided to be a smart-ass and take everything literally, so it interpreted "100 mb" as "100 meter-bits".
    OTOH, if you're worried about download time for 100 milli-bits, you should think about switching carriers.
  • foo (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Okay, we've all had our little fun about Google's butter-friendly calculator.

    Was it here or somewhere else that someone asked Wolfram|Alpha's interface for the number of calories involved if the observable universe were made entirely of bacon? While I can't find the reference just now, they were able to get it to produce a figure for that but not when they used ham instead of bacon.

    Try spam instead. Oh wait, I just heard by 2015 the observable universe will be made entirely of spam ...

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Synchronos
    Synchronos:
    American:
    one US stick of butter * 0 = 0 m3 one metric stick of butter * 0 = No answer Even google hates metric.

    Yeah. I also tried to ask it how much is one metric foot, one metric pound or one metric gallon, but got no answer.

    I did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_foot <shudder>

  • Qvasi (unregistered) in reply to American
    American:
    one US stick of butter * 0 = 0 m3 one metric stick of butter * 0 = No answer Even google hates metric.

    Well metric sticks of butter tends to be defined by weight, usually 500 g or 250 g.

    On some American or British products the the packs are 125 g, which I assume is chosen because its a round number fairly close to a quarter of a pound (113.398093 g)

    Why is butter sold by volume in the US; the volume depends a lot on wether it's liquid or solid state doesn't it?

  • (cs) in reply to joemck
    joemck:
    Want to know how long it would take to download a 100 MB file over a 56k line? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=100+mb+over+56k

    Apparently it'll take a bit less than 2 and a half square-kilogram-meters per hypercubic-seconds-degrees-kelvin. Thanks, Google, I never would've guessed!

    +100

    Funniest thing I've seen all day, and I've been refereeing a chimp's tea-party competition all morning.

  • (cs)

    Usually you can omit the trash words from a Google search but in this case you can't. If you actually ask the question correctly you get the right answer:

    sticks of butter in a half cup

    returns

    1 half US cup = 1 US stick of butter

  • Darth Rob (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    ClaudeSuck.de:
    RCubed:
    So to make a html field readonly you set the readonly attribute to "readonly"?

    Yes, and seriously, you shall not put readonly=true

    I usually put readonly="1" because I'm lazy and it's less to type. But now that you mention it, I think next time I'll put readonly="false" just to confuse the next guy. And on my option tag I'll put selected="2" and let them wonder what that means. Hee hee hee.

    Okay, I'm easily amused.

    If you are writing that much html by hand, you are so incompetent that the next person to clean up after you (assuming you have done anything that is worth cleaning up) will not even look at it because he will be re-writing everything from scratch. Seriously, do you realize what you are doing?

  • yocto (unregistered)

    avogadro's number * the answer to life, the universe and everything beer barrels per femtosecond per yottabyte in sticks of butter per year per bit

    Ah, units are fun.

    I want to mess with Google Calculator and Wolfram|Alpha instead of doing anything productive for the rest of the day.

  • Dirk (unregistered)

    Finally!!! A bit of honesty in an installer window.

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to AB

    That's to remove any illusion that

    <input type="text" readonly="NO">

    works. If you type the above you will find that "NO" actually means "YES", very much.

  • A nony mous (unregistered) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    If you type the above you will find that "NO" actually means "YES", very much.

    So? Doesn't it always?

  • (cs) in reply to RichP
    RichP:
    Anketam:
    Almost first, *coughs* frist, sorry. Anyways I personally do care about the 7th decimal spot, those rentals always trying to squeeze every little bit out of you.
    You were 1.00000013658932th?
    Damn straight
  • David Grider (unregistered)

    Shouldn't that be "Butter Metrology"?

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to AB
    AB:
    On the readonly comment, the correct way to make an html field readonly is to include the keyword readonly in the tag <input type="text" readonly>

    But then the abomination that was XHTML came along, and of course the above is not valid XML, so they id it the most bastard way they could....

    <input type="text" readonly="anything_in_here_is_fine">

    and by convention the anything became "readonly" rather than something sensible like "true" or even "yes"

    mhh / the web is full of that kind of crap.

    checked='checked' border-collapse:collapse; visibility:visible;

    etc.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Malfist
    Malfist:
    With the stick of butter, I learned that google's caculater can calculate anything.

    For example, (one stick of butter) * (speed of light) = 35,463.6845 m4 / s

    https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=one+stick+of+butter+times+half+cup#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=one+stick+of+butter+times+speed+of+light&oq=one+stick+of+butter+times+speed+of+light&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=11452l13181l0l13275l15l15l0l0l0l0l193l1680l6.8l14l0&gs_l=serp.3..33i21.11452l13181l0l13275l15l15l0l0l0l0l193l1680l6j8l14l0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e50b7ed8b228eb18&biw=1920&bih=989

    two girls, one stick ?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Darth Rob
    Darth Rob:
    Jay:
    ClaudeSuck.de:
    RCubed:
    So to make a html field readonly you set the readonly attribute to "readonly"?

    Yes, and seriously, you shall not put readonly=true

    I usually put readonly="1" because I'm lazy and it's less to type. But now that you mention it, I think next time I'll put readonly="false" just to confuse the next guy. And on my option tag I'll put selected="2" and let them wonder what that means. Hee hee hee.

    Okay, I'm easily amused.

    If you are writing that much html by hand, you are so incompetent that the next person to clean up after you (assuming you have done anything that is worth cleaning up) will not even look at it because he will be re-writing everything from scratch. Seriously, do you realize what you are doing?

    Umm ... what? How did you get from "I sometimes write a readonly attribute" to "I'm writing too much HTML by hand"?

    Oh well, from the fact that you used the word "worth", you're obviously a serial killer, so there's no point discussing this further.

  • Sir dump a lot (unregistered) in reply to Your Name

    That's how often I #2

  • Jeff Grigg (unregistered)

    I've been looking for the memory card donation station! Thanks!!!

  • (cs) in reply to Anketam
    Anketam:
    Almost first, *coughs* frist, sorry. Anyways I personally do care about the 7th decimal spot, those rentals always trying to squeeze every little bit out of you.
    Agreed. After all, a nanopenny saved is a nanopenny earned!
  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    I usually put readonly="1" because I'm lazy and it's less to type.
    readonly="" would be even less, assuming this is XHTML.
  • My name (unregistered) in reply to DGM
    DGM:
    The real WTF is that sticks of butter come with a conversion chart and measuring lines printed on the wrapper, making it clear that t stick == 1/2 cup. Sometimes we run off to google a little too fast.
    Not outside the US, they don't.
  • DevAd (unregistered) in reply to Malfist

    one stick of butter times the answer to life, the universe and everything per second

    (1 US stick of butter * The answer to life the universe and everything) per second = 0.00496835297 m3 / s

  • Google Guy (unregistered)

    Just FYI, we fixed this query in Google calculator so it returns the expected result.

    -A

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