• (cs)

    I suppose this will be 1010139th.

  • Jens (unregistered)

    Whenever you here a word you don't know it could be place in the U.S.

    The same is true for words you know.

  • TT (unregistered)

    [[ zero > 1,010,139 ]] && echo "There is not enough memory"

  • (cs)

    Good Lord, an ST-412. I remember having one of those in my PC, way back when, around 1987. It was a loaner, and I bought my own ST-225 to replace it with twice as much storage in half the physical space.

    The ST-412 was 10MB, and the one I had borrowed had the unpleasant habit of dropping sectors. The sector would write OK, but after a while it would go bad and fail to read.

    And the drive took five minutes to spin up in that PC, because it pulled four amps from the +12V rail when coming up to speed, and the PSU could only barely cope with that.

    At the time, I lived in the US, and I scoured Computer Shopper for the replacement. Being a student, I had a limited budget, and I found the cheapest supplier only three miles from home. "I'd like one of these. I'm in the next town, can I come over and collect the drive?" "Of course."

  • (cs)

    Apparently in the website only the thumbnail is bad, the full picture actually shows a DVD drive.

  • Antti Nagesh (unregistered)

    Obviously Bright are using Apple maps for their location proximity algorithm

  • rfoxmich (unregistered)

    There's more than one Zurich.

  • Dork (unregistered)

    Am I being really stupid? I can't figure out what's wrong with the math on campus one?

  • TheSHEEEP (unregistered) in reply to rfoxmich
    rfoxmich:
    There's more than one Zurich.
    And how many Switzerlands that contain a Zurich?
  • F (unregistered) in reply to TheSHEEEP
    TheSHEEEP:
    rfoxmich:
    There's more than one Zurich.
    And how many Switzerlands that contain a Zurich?

    Work it out for yourself: they're all within 20 miles of all of New York (NY), San Jose (CA), Mc Lean (VA), Charlotte (NC) and Atlanta (GA). That should cover ... let me see ... a little less than zero square miles.

  • Skeeve (unregistered) in reply to Dork
    Dork:
    Am I being really stupid? I can't figure out what's wrong with the math on campus one?

    Well, it took me three semesters to finish all I math. How long did it take you to finish you math?

  • smilr (unregistered) in reply to Dork

    It's less of a technology fail - and more of spelling, grammar and understanding of the English language. It contains at least the following errors: "... a UVU student?". "...finish all you math..." and there should be more punctuation than one question mark in 3 sentences.

    The thought of learning a large quantity of math in a short time from an organization that obviously doesn't know or care about the above is laughable.

  • $$ERR:get_name_fail (unregistered)

    Sounds like some shady offer of the kind "you give us lots of money and we give you a piece of paper which says that you already took the classes you need"

  • British Boy (unregistered) in reply to smilr

    "... a UVU student" is ok in my book. I assume it's Utah Valley University, and I wouldn't say "an Utah Valley".

    TRWTF is that it should be maths and not math

  • (cs)

    Correct is:

    "A European" "A ukulele" "A ouija board" "An honour"

    It is the pronunciation of the word that matters and not what letter it begins with.

  • (cs) in reply to smilr

    But, they neatly avoided that nasty your/you're befuddlement, didn't they?

  • NaN (Not a Name) (unregistered)

    What OS is that Classilla thing?

  • RuBen (unregistered) in reply to Skeeve
    Skeeve:
    Dork:
    Am I being really stupid? I can't figure out what's wrong with the math on campus one?

    Well, it took me three semesters to finish all I math. How long did it take you to finish you math?

    You math, bro?

  • Garrison Fiord (unregistered) in reply to NaN (Not a Name)
    NaN (Not a Name):
    What OS is that Classilla thing?
    An old one.
  • (cs)

    Apparently, people still use Smalltalk. Who knew?

  • noland (unregistered)

    Wow, Mac OS 9 in daily use – that's sort of heroic! Thanks :-)

  • Niel (unregistered)

    Well of course shipping is free from the moon. You just heave it over the edge of the gravity well. But return shipping -- forget it! Costs more than the product even if made out of solid gold. (Which there's a lot of, sitting around on the surface of the moon. Trust me. If you're insanely rich, you should so fund a mission to go collect it!)

  • Jack (unregistered)

    It should be obvious that 1010139 is a binary number that somehow got corrupted toward the end. Naturally, when the computer tries to compare it with zero, it gets an unhandled exception. So you can't rely on the results when you have invalid data.

  • Dicks (unregistered)

    As advertisers. our most sacred principle is that you have the inalienable right to be shown relevant ads at all times. So when you sigh up, we collect as much personal data as you will give us, like where you live. Then we sort our database and show you the top 5 most relevant.

    Now you may think a job in another country should get a relevance score of .1010139, but that's still higher than .0000000 (isn't it? let me double check...) so those are the ads you're going to get.

  • Fred (unregistered)

    Is that class zero-logy? As in, a full semester of studying the forms, uses of, and operations with zero?

    Let me guess, the graduate class (also just one semester for your Masters degree) is one-logy. Then you know everything you need to make and run a computer.

  • Carl (unregistered)

    Damn, if only more ads would tell you where to click. I mean, when there's only one huge shiny button on the screen, how are you supposed to know what to do?

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    I wonder where (or what) that hard drive is being shipped from. It certainly isn't the Moon: it's less than 250,000 miles away.

  • Niel (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    I wonder where (or what) that hard drive is being shipped from. It certainly isn't the Moon: it's less than 250,000 miles away.
    Well of course the moon isn't a million miles away, I of all people should know that! But ever since they closed the primary route due to fears of terrorism, you have to take the long way around.

    I'm not complaining, mind you. Anything to keep the people safe.

  • (cs) in reply to NaN (Not a Name)
    NaN (Not a Name):
    What OS is that Classilla thing?
    The reference to desk accessories makes it a pre-OS X Mac OS. Probably OS 9. It bet it's running on one of the original iMacs - those translucent, gum-drop shaped things.
  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)

    okButton textRotate: -60.

  • Captcha:quibus (unregistered)

    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    okButton textRotate: -60.
    But WHY?!
  • TheSHEEEP (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus
    Captcha:quibus:
    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.
    That has totally touched me.
  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus
    Captcha:quibus:
    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.
    Da Da Da Da!
  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    But WHY?!
    Listen, buddy. Leave the big “Why” question to the philosophers. It's a matter of union demarkation; you don't want to induce a strike by the Union of Professional Thinkers, do you, with that sort of behavior?
  • (cs)

    The Job Centre Plus had a quite silly entry, which was apparently due to the advert that had been submitted rather than their system.

    5 miles within this area, which is on the South coast of England. (No transport, so a very narrow view) Kept returning this company in Germany.

  • slartibartfast (unregistered)

    I actually tried to fill out a product review for the literal dvd burner. I wonder how long it'll take before best buy either posts it or takes the page down

  • ClaudeSucck.de (unregistered)

    They took the DVD burning process too serious. And the OK button must have a gravitational problem. Maybe space-time is disturbed around it.

  • (cs) in reply to dgvid
    dgvid:
    NaN (Not a Name):
    What OS is that Classilla thing?
    The reference to desk accessories makes it a pre-OS X Mac OS. Probably OS 9. It bet it's running on one of the original iMacs - those translucent, gum-drop shaped things.

    ahhh, the joys of supporting backwards compatability. supporting Netscape 4, IE6, etc...kinda makes you want to use the DVD burner from the article on the users.

  • I love the 80s (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus
    Captcha:quibus:
    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.
    I don't think that ST-412 was being sold by the Proclaimers. I'm pretty sure it was being sold by the Plimsouls.

    CAPTCHA: mara. Aksimet can mara perfectly good post.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    At the time, I lived in the US, and I scoured Computer Shopper for the replacement. Being a student, I had a limited budget, and I found the cheapest supplier only three miles from home. "I'd like one of these. I'm in the next town, can I come over and collect the drive?" "Of course."

    Wow, I remember Computer Shopper. My parents got me one when I was buying my first Mac (a Classic 2/40) in high school. At retail it was $1500, which was exactly what I had saved up, but I found an outfit in Computer Shopper named Page Computer, based out of LA, that had it for $1250. The extra $250 let me get a Seikosha dot-matrix printer and a high-speed (2400 baud) Supra modem. I still remember the sales guy saying "So when are we going to do this wonderful thing?" and my reply "Right now."

  • eVil (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus

    Baaaaaa-da-da-daaa! Baaaaaa-da-da-daaa! Baaaaaa-da-da-daaa! Baaaaaa-da-da-daaa! Baaaaaa-da-da-daa-da-da-daa-da-da-daa-daa-daa!

  • Nik (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus
    Captcha:quibus:
    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.

    nice... mad props to you

  • AGray (unregistered) in reply to TheSHEEEP
    TheSHEEEP:
    Captcha:quibus:
    But I would walk 500,000 miles And I would walk 500,000 more Just to be the man who walked a million miles, To deliver a vintage IBM hard drive at your door.
    That has totally touched me.

    I sense an epic YouTube cover in the near future...

    CAPTCHA: ideo - This is a really good ideo!

  • n_slash_a (unregistered)

    It is Europe, so they probably don't know what a mile is and just defaulted the unit to light-year.

  • (cs) in reply to anon
    anon:
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    okButton textRotate: -60.
    But WHY?!
    Because you don't like small talk?
  • (cs)

    ALL YOU MATH ARE BELONG TO ME!

  • (cs) in reply to dgvid
    dgvid:
    NaN (Not a Name):
    What OS is that Classilla thing?
    The reference to desk accessories makes it a pre-OS X Mac OS. Probably OS 9. It bet it's running on one of the original iMacs - those translucent, gum-drop shaped things.
    It's clearly a Platinum window, so either OS 8 or OS 9, my money being on the latter — or, but this is very unlikely given the easy-to-understand error warning that includes a suggested fix, someone with a Platinum-inspired desktop theme on Linux.
  • C-Derb (unregistered) in reply to PedanticCurmudgeon
    PedanticCurmudgeon:
    anon:
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    okButton textRotate: -60.
    But WHY?!
    Because you don't like small talk?
    Small talk. Pillow talk. What's the difference, really? You should always rotate -60 and go to sleep when either one is suggested.
  • barf 4 eva (unregistered) in reply to Captcha:quibus

    Great rendition sir!

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