• Stevie D (unregistered) in reply to Mark Bowytz
    Mark Bowytz:
    +1 for spelling my name right! Behind the scenes dropping in an article is more like copy-paste from Word (typos come from niggling on a story at 2am, FWIW).

    Personally, I blame the 2007's ribbon.

    A bad workman blames his tools. Although in the case of Microsoft, good workmen blame them as well.

  • nisl (unregistered)

    How did they get the exact same wrong number 3 months later ?

  • Whatchacallit Nazi (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    Mark Bowytz:
    the beholder:
    It's ironic to read this when you remember that Bowitz even got be a verb for some time here. "The article has been Bowitz'ed" meant that it was stripped of all fun and chopped to uncomprehensionness.

    And don't forget that the first couple of articles by Remy have been praised for being well-written.

    Actually, TDWTF writing style is trying to emulate the late, great Kilgore Trout.

    Based on the agression building in these comments, I'd say it's working.

    You're telling me. I actually enjoy when the article contains a couple typos and the grammar/syntax/whatchacallit nazis jump on it, proudly ripping it apart. In fact I believe TDWTF's user base would be considerably smaller without them nitpickers.

    Sorry if it seemed I was kicking the dog, but I was only stating a funny fact.

    There should be a comma after "In fact," and "them nitpickers" should be "those nitpickers."

    You also may want to consider rephrasing the first half of the second sentence; "I ... enjoy when..." is awkward in longer sentences. Likewise, consider inserting a "like" after "seemed" in your last sentence.

    I'm glad I could help! :)

  • EngleBart (unregistered) in reply to Hasteur
    Hasteur:
    Even the patients were diagnosing diseases. I saw this one patient hobbling around, harassing the doctors, aparently he solved some conundrum about which disease it was
    I have seen many doctor's that have a severe lack of curiousity. I have seen the old take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning too many times. I almost lost my spouse due to this lack of curiousity.

    Of course, I see the same attitude with programmers and systems support personnel.

    Systems Support: "It works 95% of the time and if you completely change it to work this way, it will work 99.9% of the time."

    I: But it seems that this 5% failure rate is probably affecting other processes. Due to the nature of this failure it is very hard to determine if it even failed. This particular failure happens quite reliably, don't you want to figure out the root cause?

    Systems Support: No. Just change it like I recommended.

  • (cs) in reply to Borken
    Borken:
    wtf:
    Borken:

    Right, I edit all of my HTML pages in ed.

    Is it a WTF that you felt the need to cite Wikipedia when you mentioned ed - on a tech site?

    Considering how ignorant everyone here is of Linux, yes. Out of compassion, I linked so the clueless wouldn't go off searching for erectile dysfunction medication.

    Hey, wait a minute.

    "ed"..."erectile dysfunction" "vi"..."viagra"

    wth is going on here?

  • vovo (unregistered) in reply to Borken
    Borken:
    Zapp Brannigan:
    Gary:
    OK, let's actually take this seriously. A frozen (e.g., blue-screened/deadlocked) computer would in fact cool down, while a computer that slowed down because of some cpu-intensive process would stay warm, right?
    Not necessarily. When my Dell XPS locks up, the cooling fan no longer adjusts to the cpu temperature and it basically cooks itself. What is really nice is that it turns on by itself, locks up and bake until I notice it when I come home. I no longer leave it plugged, that way it only cooks as long the battery lasts. Vista & Dell.
    Go ahead and install Ubuntu. It's free and will take about 10 minutes to install. In the end, you'll have a computer that is a quantum leap into the future and will never lock up.

    Go ahead and log in to Ubuntu remotely using a USB keyboard and mouse and see what happens about 2 hours in after you've been doing a whole lot of edits to your source code... you can curse at me later for making you try it.

  • Amtep (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Serious question: What is "eff you" money? I assume it means "fuck you" really, but I still don't know who's getting fucked in the transaction.
    On this site it is "failure money".
  • (cs)
    "Is the side cold?" Bob asked matter of factly.

    "Wait a minute," replied Sally, and then after a pause, "No not at all."

    "Ok, then," Bob assured her. "Your computer's not frozen, then, it's probably just running a program. Give it a minute."

    WIN. Best answer ever.

    Another user favorite: "My computer just hanged itself." The right answer to that would probably be: "Did it leave a note?"

  • (cs)

    That's why I never tell people to put Linux on their computer.

    Anyway, the computer was clearly frozen (in the first aggregate state of matter). Can I haz smartazz award?

  • boing boing (unregistered) in reply to by
    by:
    dkf:
    Markp:
    Summary fail.
    Paragraph usage fail. And there's confusion between “Bob” and “I”. In short, total editor fail.

    Yeah, but this seems like a work of fine literature compared to that last disaster by Remy Martin.

    Any relation to Remy Porter?

  • Bob (unregistered)

    My wife and I used to own a company that did custom contract software development for companies like Microsoft, Adobe and so on. The phone company insisted our business number had to go in the local Yellow Pages under Computer Services. So we'd get random calls from people wanting us to fix their PC or sell them a modem or give them free technical advice, and some callers would get really huffy and unpleasant when we'd tell them we didn't do whatever it was they wanted.

  • F. (unregistered)

    That's not how to take a proper temperature. (Thermometer goes WHERE?)

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know

    I know about 99 people who would believe this, just because a tech told them.

  • (cs)

    Hey, a real-life BOFH!

  • Onanymous (unregistered)

    Hey, wasn't that the hospital from House M.D.?

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