• (cs) in reply to PSWorx
    PSWorx:
    Anonymous:
    Anil G:
    The first one is clearly dead pixels in a 0.. you can see the other 7's are different.
    That's quite normal actually - it's more readable to put the "hook" bit on the 7 if it is very small but once you get to a certain size it is more readable to leave it off. It could be a faulty LCD but the 7 is not a definite indicator.

    Even if not, that would still leave the "57 seconds" indicator in the lower right.

    I've heard that it's more readable to put the "hook" bit on the 7 if it is very small but once you get to a certain size it is more readable to leave it off. It could be (Probably even is) a faulty LCD but the 2nd small 7 is not a definite indicator.

  • mare (unregistered)

    Ah, the check-in questions... The questions you have to answer when checking in with ryanair on their kiosks (paraphrased):

    • Did you pack your luggage yourself?
    • Do you carry any dangerous/forbidden objects in your luggage?
    • Do you carry any objects in your luggage for anybody else?

    Yes / No

    The answer to the first question is an obvious yes, to the last two an obvious no. But you can only answer them all together... (I clicked yes. Because the button had green background)

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to A Nonny Mouse
    A Nonny Mouse:
    Technomage:
    A Nonny Mouse:
    jpers36:
    That's not really an average higher than the max. What's being averaged is "score per out" not "score per inning". The data points, then, should be scores between outs. There is a single data point of 75, not two of 50 and 25. The "score per inning" average is 37.5, less than the max.
    except that a batman's highest score his top score in an innings by definition, and his average is all runs/number of outs by definition, not something you just made up :)
    Then by (mathematical) definition, the one is not the average of the other. :)
    by cricket definition, smartass :P

    aaaaaaanyway, the point is that games can define their scoring/averaging system however they like. so the one in the wtf may be correct according to their definition of the game (although it probably isn't)

    Well, to start off with, what do you mean by "average"? Arithmetic, geometric, or mean?

    Or batting/bowling average, for cricket. Or OOB or slugging or any other ridiculous baseball statistic. (I'm agreeing with the aaaaaaaanyway, here.)

    More to the point, what's the weather like at your end of Birmingham? It's holding up here in the south, although I suspect it'll chuck it down overnight. With a bit of luck, Steve Rouse and the lads will clear it up before lunch, and we can massacre the bastards.

    Those two Aussie LBWs weren't, btw. The Bell LBW was, very definitely.

    How many more minutes, O Lord? How many more minutes?

    I think I'll just go off and listen to some Stranglers. And then go and see how the Sox are doing.

  • Will Dormer (unregistered)

    Insominia leads to madness

  • Yazeran (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    @Deprecated:
    I wish my supermarket sold Sodium Neptunium.

    I think you mean N-Acylneuraminate-9-Phosphatase

    Actually the Neptunium would be more cool, glow in the dark groceries... jummy ;-)

    Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer

  • (cs) in reply to A Nonny Mouse
    A Nonny Mouse:
    games can define their scoring/averaging system however they like. so the one in the wtf may be correct according to their definition of the game (although it probably isn't)

    I hope the quote is attributed right. Aanyway, games can also define words however they want. Last week I heard a baseball announcer say "Smith flew out to center field his last time up".

    No, he didn't; he flied out to center field. Flied is a valid term in baseball. I would like to see the look on the other players' faces if Smith really flew out to center field from home plate!

  • (cs) in reply to Anil G
    Anil G:
    The first one is clearly dead pixels in a 0.. you can see the other 7's are different.

    What if it's actually trying to make an '8'? what then? Huh?

  • Crabs (unregistered)

    Or, the first one could be displaying the radio station it's set to, it being an alarm clock, and all.

    Mine does this too. It does it a lot when I put my phone near it for some reason.

  • Bim Job (unregistered) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    A Nonny Mouse:
    games can define their scoring/averaging system however they like. so the one in the wtf may be correct according to their definition of the game (although it probably isn't)

    I hope the quote is attributed right. Aanyway, games can also define words however they want. Last week I heard a baseball announcer say "Smith flew out to center field his last time up".

    No, he didn't; he flied out to center field. Flied is a valid term in baseball. I would like to see the look on the other players' faces if Smith really flew out to center field from home plate!

    Well, I can't guarantee you that Smith really flew out to center field.

    I'm pretty damn sure that Ricky Henderson did, though.

  • aBase (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    My sprinkler system is on a separate meter from my house, and has a separate bill. There is no sewage charge on it. I assume this is SOP everywhere.
    It is if you have an on-property water system that is set up to handle two meters. In my area most new homes, even starter mansions, have such a setup. Otherwise the homeowner needs to make the necessary alterations so that the extra meter can be installed.
  • (cs)

    By Simpson's Paradox, you can have two datasets A and B, such that the average of A is greater than the average of B. Simultaneously, you can break each of A and B into 2 sub-populations (that totally fill out the group), such that the average of A1 is less than the average of B1 and the average of A2 is less than the average of B2.

    If you didn't get that, the Wikipedia page gives an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#Batting_averages

    I'm not sure how this applies to bloody cricket.

  • modo (unregistered) in reply to Warren
    Warren:
    What about minesweeper (and other better games) where your highscore is your lowest (time in this instance)?
    But you wouldn't call it maximum.
  • (cs) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    More to the point, what's the weather like at your end of Birmingham? It's holding up here in the south, although I suspect it'll chuck it down overnight. With a bit of luck, Steve Rouse and the lads will clear it up before lunch, and we can massacre the bastards.
    i don't really care what happens, so long as that traitor pietersen isn't playing. which he isn't. in the game of cricket i dislike both the poms and the aussies, but i guess i hate the aussies more, so for that reason alone i hope you guys clinch the series :)
  • Whatever (unregistered) in reply to Occasional Reader
    In cricket, the average is worked out by dividing the total number of runs the batsman has accumulated by the number of times they have been dismissed.

    That's not an average, that's a ratio.

  • Wodin (unregistered)

    Looks like Netbeans to me. It's pretty bloody useless and annoying if you want to know what the hell it actually means.

  • Net-bean (unregistered) in reply to Wodin
    Wodin:
    Looks like Netbeans to me. It's pretty bloody useless and annoying if you want to know what the hell it actually means.

    Agreed. I saw this page this morning and then in the afternoon saw it manifest in real life. Three dialogs telling me I was checking something out of Subversion...

  • (cs) in reply to Occasional Reader
    Occasional Reader:
    In the last picture you seem confused how the average can be higher than the maximum.

    In the fine game of cricket (where we are currently grinding the Australians into the Birmingham turf) a batsman can easily have a batting average higher than his best score.

    In cricket, the average is worked out by dividing the total number of runs the batsman has accumulated by the number of times they have been dismissed.

    Therefore if in one game a batsman gets 50 not out and then 25 in the second innings before being dismissed then the highest score would be 50* (where * denotes not out) and the average would be 75.

    I have no idea how this is in any way related to the statistics in the picture but it might be :-)

    As an American, I only have one word concerning the rules of Cricket:

    Huh???

    Here we have baseball in which such statistical anomalies are impossible, unless of course the team is the Washington Natinals.

    Some of our pitchers have a higher ERA than pitches thrown, the batters have negative batting averages, and fielders have more errors than plays made.

    It is really simple: In a Natinals game, the numbers do not follow the laws of mathematics. Many have theorized that we may be able to use the Natinals to power a spaceship which can travel between the farthest reaches of the galaxy, though a baseball diamond shaped spaceship might look strange.

    Perhaps we can have a playoff between the Natinals and the robot Krikkit team? At least we wouldn't have to worry about any Natinals batter ever hitting the Krikkit's supernova bomb.

  • (cs) in reply to Bim Job
    Bim Job:
    Well, to start off with, what do you mean by "average"? Arithmetic, geometric, or mean?
    Did you mean to say "arithmetic mean or geometric mean?"? Or "median, mode, or mean?"? I can think of six averages which have some useful application: median, mode, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, and root mean square.
  • (cs)

    I've actually seen the Outlook one. It happened to me at work this week. The same day it was doing this weird thing where if you clicked on the notification popup that tells you that you have a new message, it would try to install Outlook.

  • lolcat (unregistered) in reply to Technical Thug
    Technical Thug:
    By Simpson's Paradox, you can have two datasets A and B, such that the average of A is greater than the average of B. Simultaneously, you can break each of A and B into 2 sub-populations (that totally fill out the group), such that the average of A1 is less than the average of B1 and the average of A2 is less than the average of B2.

    If you didn't get that, the Wikipedia page gives an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#Batting_averages

    I'm not sure how this applies to bloody cricket.

    D'OH!

  • m0ffx (unregistered) in reply to Technical Thug
    Technical Thug:
    By Simpson's Paradox, you can have two datasets A and B, such that the average of A is greater than the average of B. Simultaneously, you can break each of A and B into 2 sub-populations (that totally fill out the group), such that the average of A1 is less than the average of B1 and the average of A2 is less than the average of B2

    I recall a more simple paradox, don't know the name for it. You can have two datasets A and B, m(A) > m(B) (where m is the mean). By moving a single member from A to B, you can increase m(A) and m(B). The moved member must like between the two averages. Since it's a below-average member of A, removing it must increase m(A). Likewise, since it's an above-average member of B, adding it must increase m(B).

    This could have real-world uses in, for example, choosing school sets.

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to mare
    mare:
    Ah, the check-in questions... The questions you have to answer when checking in with ryanair on their kiosks (paraphrased):
    • Did you pack your luggage yourself?
    • Do you carry any dangerous/forbidden objects in your luggage?
    • Do you carry any objects in your luggage for anybody else?

    Yes / No

    The answer to the first question is an obvious yes, to the last two an obvious no. But you can only answer them all together... (I clicked yes. Because the button had green background)

    Well duh, if you packed it yourself you are the one carrying in your luggage. So obvious yes on all points. Why would you leave your dangerous objects behind?

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    LO, if that's true (I've never had this dialog myself) then this is a case of very bad dialog design. Show error message, but no indication of what causes the problem or how to fix it. Wonderful.

  • David (unregistered)

    Be careful being late with the sewer bill. You don't want the company returning your poop to you.

  • v.dog (unregistered) in reply to Zomg
    Zomg:
    Steve the Cynic:
    Zomg:
    That last one looks familiar somehow...

    Winmobile 6.1: Bubble Breaker

    I mean I'm sure I've seen it on this site before now. But I can't find it. Damn it.

    I posted in the forums a while back.

    TRWTF is that it's actually WM5.

  • Prosthetic Lips (unregistered)

    Ok, the clock is still bugging me. If it is set to 24-hour time, there is not enough room for the first digit to show a "2" (as in, 23:59). So, that means that there is something else going on.

    It makes me wonder what the big numbers on the clock are showing.

  • Force Flex (unregistered)

    What? Not even one comment on the "intensely creamy strawberry"? Really?!?

  • (cs) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    I wish my supermarket sold Sodium Neptunium.
    I wish my supermarket sold Archimedes Plutonium.
  • elizabethsofy (unregistered) in reply to Zomg
  • m0ffx (unregistered)

    79 minutes past ten is a perfectly valid time.

    Of course most people would refer to it as nineteen minutes past eleven.

  • some (unregistered)

    http://xkcd.com/313/ [image]

  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to Crabs
    Crabs:
    Or, the first one could be displaying the radio station it's set to, it being an alarm clock, and all.

    Mine does this too. It does it a lot when I put my phone near it for some reason.

    Yeah I figured this was what it was. Looks like it's saying the radio is set to 107.9 or something similar to that.

  • hans (unregistered) in reply to Dave C.

    If you carefully look you just see that it is not a 7 (compare the other 7's on the display!) It is a malfunctional 3

  • Blablablaadje (unregistered) in reply to LO
    LO:
    Second to last is not fun at all. Is normal when you are deleting file under windows and not remove it.

    In first case it tries to move it to the trash-bin... So it may happen that there is no room, while trash is stored on same disc.

    For second case - use Shift+Del instead and then no problem - "permanently" gone :)

    So your saying windows need twice the amount the size of the file as free space to move a file to a bin? Not sure how such a bin works in windows, but I gather it's just a file. In that case changing the filepointer should suffice.

  • (cs)

    It reminds me a thing that I saw on my history book:

    http://i6.ebayimg.com/05/i/001/56/24/80c4_1.JPG

    Do you want to vote for fascism? Choose one: yes

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)

    Forget about the guy who bought the clock. What about the poor factory workers who have to put in 100-minute hours to make it?

  • (cs) in reply to Anil G
    Anil G:
    The first one is clearly dead pixels in a 0.. you can see the other 7's are different.

    Nitpicking here, but those are segments, not pixels.

  • (cs) in reply to el_oscuro
    el_oscuro:
    Many have theorized that we may be able to use the Natinals to power a spaceship which can travel between the farthest reaches of the galaxy, though a baseball diamond shaped spaceship might look strange.

    The cross-section of an Apollo command module is not so different from the shape of a baseball diamond.

  • Mr^B (unregistered) in reply to Occasional Reader
    Occasional Reader:
    In the last picture you seem confused how the average can be higher than the maximum.

    In the fine game of cricket (where we are currently grinding the Australians into the Birmingham turf) a batsman can easily have a batting average higher than his best score.

    In cricket, the average is worked out by dividing the total number of runs the batsman has accumulated by the number of times they have been dismissed.

    Therefore if in one game a batsman gets 50 not out and then 25 in the second innings before being dismissed then the highest score would be 50* (where * denotes not out) and the average would be 75.

    I have no idea how this is in any way related to the statistics in the picture but it might be :-)

    So if a batsman scored 50* and 50*, then their average would be infinity then (50+50)/0 ? Would it really?

  • castlerobber (unregistered)

    No, no, no. The clock is set to 24-hour time, so it must be using decimal minutes. That's 10 point 79 hours (about 10:48 imperial).

    CAPTCHA: persto--that yummy basil & pine-nut concoction, brought to your table really fast.

  • Lewis Duckworth (unregistered) in reply to Mr^B
    Mr^B:
    So if a batsman scored 50* and 50*, then their average would be infinity then (50+50)/0 ? Would it really?

    Yes, technically. Although in practice the batsman is usually referred to as having no average.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Fools! The seven is a three with a fault causing some segments not to work.

  • Toño (unregistered) in reply to Bob

    Chronometer

  • CButtius (unregistered) in reply to Technical Thug
    Technical Thug:
    By Simpson's Paradox, you can have two datasets A and B, such that the average of A is greater than the average of B. Simultaneously, you can break each of A and B into 2 sub-populations (that totally fill out the group), such that the average of A1 is less than the average of B1 and the average of A2 is less than the average of B2.

    If you didn't get that, the Wikipedia page gives an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#Batting_averages

    I'm not sure how this applies to bloody cricket.

    Simpson's "paradox" works because A's average is better than B's average but B's best player is better than A's average and A's worst player is worse than B's average.

    So subset off B's best player and A's worst player leaving the rest of B and the rest of A. Even with B's best player removed the average is still better than A's worst and even with A's worst player removed their average is still not as good as B's best.

    Giving some sample "ratings" out of 100 let's give each of A and B 5 players.

    A: 90, 80, 70, 60, 50: average 70. Removing their worst player their average is 75.

    B: 80, 70, 60, 50, 40: average 60 (worst than A). Removing their best player lowers their average to just 55. But that is still better than A's lowest ranking player.

    So subset of A that is their worst player is worse than the lower 4 of B. And the upper 4 of A is worse than the upper 1 of B.

    Simples...

  • (cs) in reply to Prosthetic Lips
    Prosthetic Lips:
    Ok, the clock is still bugging me. If it is set to 24-hour time, there is not enough room for the first digit to show a "2" (as in, 23:59). So, that means that there is something else going on.
    [image]
    Prosthetic Lips:
    It makes me wonder what the big numbers on the clock *are* showing.
    Whatever the shooper wants us to see, of course!
  • Petey B (unregistered) in reply to Robajob

    god damn cricket is confusing.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to DaveK

    Seriously, are multifunctional displays that uncommon? :)

    Obviously, it the left would be the (rel.) pressure (in hPa), the upper right is the current time (a quarter past seven o'clock in the morning), and the lower right is the humidity (% RH)

  • Falcon (unregistered)

    Was that the clock radio that Borat's neighbour couldn't afford?

    GREAT SUCCESS! :-D

  • Mr. T. (unregistered) in reply to PSWorx

    I don't understand your comment. What do you mean, "would still leave the '57 seconds' indicator"?

  • Mr. T. (unregistered) in reply to Ken B

    I don't get it. I'm unfamiliar with the string "NaNp" and so I can't interpret the ratio "NaNp per (x)g". (apologies if it is a programming string; I'm not a programmer, just stumbled upon this site.

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