• foxyshadis (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    A whole army of grammar pedants on a technical blog and only one other person bothers to do the math? That's TRWTF right there.

    Also, hopefully it's not a static formula, it's a representation of the real formula with all of the city's values plugged in. For some bizarre reason it's even formatted correctly, presumably the web designer was checking his calculations. If not, he must have copied and pasted it in a bizarre way.

  • SQLiteSpy (unregistered)

    Error 5 is not an ERROR!! Why do ya insist?! *grumble

  • (cs) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Also, hopefully it's not a static formula, it's a representation of the real formula with all of the city's values plugged in. For some bizarre reason it's even formatted correctly, presumably the web designer was checking his calculations. If not, he must have copied and pasted it in a bizarre way.
    No, that's Wolfram Alpha - the engine does its own typesetting.
  • (cs)

    If the school ever gets there grammar test working, they ought to submit it to a Turing test. How did they ever expect to judge the correctness of an open-ended grammar problem automatically?

    The employee, who had at least one arm, fell to the ground in a very heavy manner and one of his arms, which was probably attached to his body but we don't know for sure, broke after he began to fall but before he entered a state of not falling.

  • MC (unregistered) in reply to WW
    WW:
    "This popped out while I was filling out a new phone for AT&T," wrote Mike Barber, "Now I am a programmer... but I'm not sure what they wan't me to do."
    wan't.

    Wan't.

    WAN'T.

    WAN'T.

    It was bad enough when people started using apostrophes to mean "here comes an S" but expanding it to "here comes a T" is so wrong there is no word for that much fail.

    If you extend it to "here comes an S and a T", you can have fir'st.

  • Xythar (unregistered) in reply to Scott
    Scott:
    std::cerr<<"Info: Changes had been made to "<<this<<" arm() that may have corrected the problem.\n"; </div>

    Can you do that?

    I think so, provided that "this" has been overloaded to support the << operator.

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered) in reply to Xythar
    Xythar:
    Scott:
    std::cerr<<"Info: Changes had been made to "<<this<<" arm() that may have corrected the problem.\n"; </div>

    Can you do that?

    I think so, provided that "this" has been overloaded to support the << operator.

    Tut. "this" is a pointer, and will be formatted as such. "*this" would require an overload.

    appellatio: bestiality, but with fruit?

  • hdgjhd+ (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR
    AlpineR:
    If the school ever gets there grammar test working, they ought to submit it to a Turing test. How did they ever expect to judge the correctness of an open-ended grammar problem automatically?

    The employee, who had at least one arm, fell to the ground in a very heavy manner and one of his arms, which was probably attached to his body but we don't know for sure, broke after he began to fall but before he entered a state of not falling.

    You could also employ the "clever multiplication by zero"-pattern and enumerate some of the things that didn't happen to him while falling. He was not eaten by a lion, for one.

  • titter.com (unregistered) in reply to Steve the Cynic

    [quote user="Steve the Cynic"][quote user="Xythar"][quote appellatio: bestiality, but with fruit? [/quote] You mean fructophilia?

  • titter.com (unregistered) in reply to titter.com
    Steve the Cynic:
    appellatio: bestiality, but with fruit?
    You mean fructophilia?

    FTFM

  • RogerWilco (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR
    AlpineR:
    If the school ever gets there grammar test working, they ought to submit it to a Turing test.
    I'd settle for something that whacks people on the head each time they mix up "there/their/they're" or some of the other common faults I see even a lot of native speakers make.
  • Ray S (unregistered)

    To prevent the
    of the arm, always remember to use a &nba;

  • Ray S (unregistered) in reply to hdgjhd+
    hdgjhd+:
    You could also employ the "clever multiplication by zero"-pattern and enumerate some of the things that didn't happen to him while falling. He was not eaten by a lion, for one.
    Actually, being bitten off would explain why just the arm itself was falling. It could also explain why the arm broke pre-impact.

    Case closed.

  • PostingOnlineMan (unregistered)

    erm... the "employee" whose arm fell off...

    would he happen to be a failed candidate for the Legion Of Superheroes ?

  • My Name? (unregistered) in reply to RogerWilco
    RogerWilco:
    AlpineR:
    If the school ever gets there grammar test working, they ought to submit it to a Turing test.
    I'd settle for something that whacks people on the head each time they mix up "there/their/they're" or some of the other common faults I see even a lot of native speakers make.

    For sure it must be:

    "If the school ever gets their grammar test working, them ought to submit it to a Turing test."

  • Steve the Cynic (unregistered) in reply to My Name?
    My Name?:
    RogerWilco:
    AlpineR:
    If the school ever gets there grammar test working, they ought to submit it to a Turing test.
    I'd settle for something that whacks people on the head each time they mix up "there/their/they're" or some of the other common faults I see even a lot of native speakers make.

    For sure it must be:

    "If the school ever gets their grammar test working, them ought to submit it to a Turing test."

    Since we're playing grammar games, it should be:

    "If the school ever gets its grammar test working, it ought to submit it to a Turing Test."

    "the school" is a singular noun therefore requires a singular pronoun.

    oppeto: yup, had that one before.

  • Robert (unregistered)

    Perhaps the house is using $2.9 billion in energy because they are using shelves that are not Energy Star compliant.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    3/5.00 = 0.6 3/4.58 = 0.65502183406113537117903930131004

    I would definitely go for the Xtreme value buy.

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    3/5.00 = 0.6 3/4.58 = 0.65502183406113537117903930131004

    I would definitely go for the Xtreme value buy.

    Yes, because you only get 0.6 of one per dollar, rather than over 0.65 ... oh wait, you actually want them?

  • GeerkGurl (unregistered)

    The AT&T one isnt really a WTF- the company just wants to find out what characteristics/what that person did that resulted in satisfaction...e.g. being polite, informative etc.....

  • Grunties (unregistered) in reply to My Name?
    My Name?:
    // make sure arm is broken if dist becomes negative
    Is that like "make sure he's dead"?
  • bramster (unregistered) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    A whole army of grammar pedants on a technical blog and only one other person bothers to do the math? That's TRWTF right there.

    Also, hopefully it's not a static formula, it's a representation of the real formula with all of the city's values plugged in. For some bizarre reason it's even formatted correctly, presumably the web designer was checking his calculations. If not, he must have copied and pasted it in a bizarre way.

    The Real TRWTF -- Rain, Fog, Cloudy -- and a RH of 39%? I think not.

  • My Name, again? (unregistered) in reply to Grunties
    Grunties:
    My Name?:
    // make sure arm is broken if dist becomes negative
    Is that like "make sure he's dead"?

    No. if dist is negative, which under normal conditons can't happen, we better break the loop. Not that the dist-value becomes infinity or overflows and the falling goes on forever.

    captcha: --> eros <-- yeah! ;-)

  • codeblue (unregistered) in reply to jigsaw

    Where exactly is the arm NOW?

  • Joe (unregistered) in reply to dtobias
    dtobias:
    Technically speaking,
    is an XHTML tag, not an HTML tag.

    Yes, thanks to SHORTAG, the traditional HTML tag is "<br" if followed immediately by another tag, as in "<br", or it is "
    ", or the last possibility is "<br/". The above quoted tag would be an HMTL tag followed by a greater-than-sign.

    Captcha: minim (oddly appropriate)
  • HTMLOCDER.exe (unregistered)

    That's a
    oken arm.

  • C (unregistered) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    A whole army of grammar pedants on a technical blog and only one other person bothers to do the math? That's TRWTF right there.
    And TRWTF is that you're not the "one other" either! The result is actually 36.5%...

  • C (unregistered) in reply to RogerInHawaii
    RogerInHawaii:
    Falling heavily? This isn't a grammar question it's a physics issue. Things just fall. They can't fall heavily or lightly.
    So a feather falls just like a rock, right? I thought physics was supposed to study air resistance too. :P
  • (cs)

    Waste not, want not. Wasten't, wantn't.

  • SpaceManiac (unregistered)

    I have actually gotten Not An Errors before. It took forever to debug (and eventually I found out that the application didn't have permission to write to the database)

  • Stevie D (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    TRWTFs:

    Calling Quebec "Quebec City." Quebec having a relative humidity of only 39.0%.

    TRWTF is that 38 people commented without giving that answer ... but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who worked it out :-)

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