• jay (unregistered) in reply to google defender
    google defender:
    Google sent that spelling error on purpose. It was a joke. Not an authentic error'd.

    Any time I'm caught in a dumb mistake, I always explain that it was just a joke too.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    TGV:
    Jack:
    You have to pay to watch TV in the hospital???

    Oh well, works fine for me, I'd pay not to be forced to watch it.

    What hell-hole of a country is that? I want to stay away from it as long as I can. Anyway, if it's the country I think it is, I would pay for not having to watch as well.

    24 hour bride's channels anyone?

    Quick googling suggests it's the UK.

    Note the word "hospedia" on the right-hand side.

    "Hospedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

    Hospedia Ltd is a provider of bedside communication and entertainment units in UK hospitals."

    So yes, a UK hospital. Looking at the wikip article on Hospedia, they definitely qualify as (redacted) (redacted) (redacted)s, and I'm being charitable here.

    What, wait, someone is criticizing practices at hospitals in the UK, the utopian land of socialized medicine? No, it can't be.

  • (cs)

    Pretty much any country with socialized medicine requires you to pay for TV and phone service. Prices are usually about $20 a night total for both in Canada. I imagine it's double that in the UK.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Ben Jammin
    Ben Jammin:
    I don't see the problem with the AVG one. My computer used to take a minute to boot, but now it boots 36 min before I turn it on. It is really quite convenient.

    If someone tells me that car A is 200% faster than car B, I don't normally understand that to mean that car A travels backwards, but that if, say, car B can travel at 50 miles per hour that car A can travel at twice that speed, or 100 miles per hour.

    The AVG message sounds excessive, that's a rather unbelievable speed increase. But it's not mathematically impossible. Maybe they're comparing their "post" start-up time to a "pre" start-up time that was unusually long. Perhaps it included installing a few dozen Windows updates, for example.

    aptent: A temporary outdoor shelter for applications.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Kg
    Kg:
    out of curiosity...

    where did AVG find the record on the startup time, since it probably wasn't able to measure it itself?

    Assuming that there's no internal log of start-up times maintained by Windows, which of course would easily solve the problem ...

    If I was assigned this task, I'd simply say that on the first boot after you installed my program, the program would make no effort to optimize the boot-up, and measure the time. Then on the second boot it does try to optimize, and compares the result of the second boot to the first.

    I have no idea how AVG does it, but that's the first idea that comes to my mind.

  • F (unregistered) in reply to shepd
    shepd:
    Pretty much any country with socialized medicine requires you to pay for TV and phone service. Prices are usually about $20 a night total for both in Canada. I imagine it's double that in the UK.

    It is if you want to pay in CAD.

  • Todd Lewis (unregistered) in reply to TopTension
    TopTension:
    > "does Weatherbug know something about next Tuesday that I don't?"

    Quite the opposite. You know something, Weatherbug doesn't know. Specifically, that it is called Tuesday.

    I find the very notion of "next Tuesday" rather presumptuous.

  • (cs) in reply to shepd
    shepd:
    Pretty much any country with socialized medicine requires you to pay for TV and phone service. Prices are usually about $20 a night total for both in Canada. I imagine it's double that in the UK.

    It wasn't the case 30 years ago, last time I was banged up in a hospital bed. TV was free. Of course, at the time Thatcherism had barely started to bite.

    Can;t wait for Margaret Thatcher to die. Then we'll all be able to celebrate.

  • (cs) in reply to Todd Lewis
    Todd Lewis:
    TopTension:
    > "does Weatherbug know something about next Tuesday that I don't?"

    Quite the opposite. You know something, Weatherbug doesn't know. Specifically, that it is called Tuesday.

    I find the very notion of "next Tuesday" rather presumptuous.

    Are we going to get into the "if today is Monday, when is next Tuesday" debate again?

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    What, wait, someone is criticizing practices at hospitals in the UK, the utopian land of socialized medicine? No, it can't be.
    Yes, dummy, we're criticising the creeping privatisation of it.
  • (cs) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    shepd:
    Pretty much any country with socialized medicine requires you to pay for TV and phone service. Prices are usually about $20 a night total for both in Canada. I imagine it's double that in the UK.

    It wasn't the case 30 years ago, last time I was banged up in a hospital bed. TV was free. Of course, at the time Thatcherism had barely started to bite.

    Can;t wait for Margaret Thatcher to die. Then we'll all be able to celebrate.

    Ding, dong, the witch is dead?
  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Note the word "hospedia" on the right-hand side.

    "Hospedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

    Hospedia Ltd is a provider of bedside communication and entertainment units in UK hospitals."

    So yes, a UK hospital. Looking at the wikip article on Hospedia, they definitely qualify as (redacted) (redacted) (redacted)s, and I'm being charitable here.

    Interesting fact, BTW: the version of Firefox used on Hospedia terminals for browsing the web also supports local file:/// URLs, although you have to get quite tricksy with the stop and refresh buttons to prevent it from auto-blanking itself.

    Also, they ship with what looks like a full source tree installed.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Hospedia Ltd is a provider of bedside communication and entertainment units in UK hospitals."

    So yes, a UK hospital. Looking at the wikip article on Hospedia, they definitely qualify as (redacted) (redacted) (redacted)s, and I'm being charitable here.

    Just the name, Hospedia, makes me cringe. And 10 pounds per day for a TV set, that's insane. Some people are hospitalized for months. You were indeed most charitable.

    I think Hospedia is a worthy commemoration of the late Margaret Thatcher (as has been pointed out just above me, so I notice).

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    jay:
    What, wait, someone is criticizing practices at hospitals in the UK, the utopian land of socialized medicine? No, it can't be.
    Yes, dummy, we're criticising the creeping privatisation of it.
    Quite. However, all treatment is still free to UK residents (and to EU residents who have the right paperwork), and if you can afford private care, you can still jump the queue for a number of more minor procedures, which are usually carried out at so-called 'private' hospitals. Pay-per-use bedside phones and TV are a consequence of the public-private partnership deals under which many recently-constructed hospitals in the UK were built. In short, the local NHS trust need to make the rent each month because they don't own the building (yes, really). Hence the pay-per-use stuff, and having to pay to use the car park, both things one never had to do maybe 20 years ago. Go figure if it's better to have modern efficient hospitals on those terms, or put up with often Victorian premises woefully unsuited to modern hospital practices?

    Residents of other countries (e.g. the USA) will still be treated in almost every case, but they will generally be personally liable for the cost of the care afterwards (or their insurers will be). This is comparable to other countries. For example, the one time I needed to go to the local hospital in Canada (I had poison ivy, something almost totally unknown to GPs in the UK) and IIRC it cost me around Can$250 later for the quick five-minute consultation I had.

    In the rest of the EU, typically I would pay the same money for the same things as the local residents would. One time, holidaying in the Netherlands, my wife need some pills which were prescription-only there, thus we had to pay the same somewhere-around-€20 that the locals would have needed to pay for the same prescription, plus the cost of the medication, also just like the locals would.

  • (cs) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    If to the limit of the password expiration be set to days 18,446,744,073,709,551,559, then why to the limit of the password expiration reminder be set to days 18,446,744,073,709,551,552 before to the limit of the password expiration?
    Security reasons.
  • Ryusui (unregistered)

    I'm pretty sure the Google Chrome thing is a deliberate joke.

  • (cs) in reply to Ryusui
    Ryusui:
    I'm pretty sure the Google Chrome thing is a deliberate joke.
    Of course, that's perfectly normal on a small embedded device with no file system.
  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Cad Delworth
    Cad Delworth:
    One time, holidaying in the Netherlands, my wife need some pills which were prescription-only there, thus we had to pay the same somewhere-around-€20 that the locals would have needed to pay for the same prescription, plus the cost of the medication, also just like the locals would.
    Please describe to me the difference between "the prescription" and "the medication." I understand the difference in dictionary definitions, but if I talk about "paying for a prescription," the prescription = the medication. You seem to be using them differently, and I'm curious.
  • (cs) in reply to TGV
    TGV:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Hospedia Ltd is a provider of bedside communication and entertainment units in UK hospitals."

    So yes, a UK hospital. Looking at the wikip article on Hospedia, they definitely qualify as (redacted) (redacted) (redacted)s, and I'm being charitable here.

    Just the name, Hospedia, makes me cringe. And 10 pounds per day for a TV set, that's insane. Some people are hospitalized for months. You were indeed most charitable.

    Another scammy aspect of it is that when you rent one of the devices, it offers you an option to send free texts to your friends to let them know you're in hospital. The message they receive, however, just says "So-and-so wants to let you know they're in hospital" and a phone number you can contact them on. What it doesn't tell you is that when you dial that number, you'll be forced to listen to an unskippable recorded message at premium rates for over a minute before you get to actually talk to them. There's no hint of that in the text, nor even a link to a website with T's and C's, and it eats over a quid of your credit without any warning. If you've got less than that on your phone, you'll be cut off before you can even speak to them, then have to go get more credit and then listen to the damn message *again*.

    TL;DR: Bastards.

  • Ryan (unregistered)

    "Recent corporate changes improved password change notifications, but I don't think this alert is one to worry about."

    Expiring passwords after 38.8 universe lifetimes is simply not following best practices for IT. EVERYONE knows that the multiversal standard is 25!

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to trucking foll
    trucking foll:
    google defender:
    Google sent that spelling error on purpose. It was a joke. Not an authentic error'd.

    TRWTF is jokes on the internet. NO ONE gets them.

    As evidenced by every other poster here who apparently got them?

    Oh, you were trying to make a joke here? Fucking troll!

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to amazed
    amazed:
    Having to pay to watch TV in a hospital is a barbaric WTF! The poor sods are lying there ill, just well enough to watch a bit of TV to take their minds off their suffering, and they have to pay for it?!

    I hope these days the average patient knows someone who will lend them a tablet loaded up with content, let this scum-sucking system wither and die.

    Luckily most tablets are equipped with WLAN, Bluetooth etc., so they can forbid them just like cell phones because they would disturb the sensitive machinery (i.e. the one from hospedia, and disturb in the sense of stopping it making money).
  • Cathal (unregistered)

    As far as I can gather the Google "mistake" is a deliberate attempt at humour, as I've seen this in a number of versions.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Ben Jammin:
    I don't see the problem with the AVG one. My computer used to take a minute to boot, but now it boots 36 min before I turn it on. It is really quite convenient.

    If someone tells me that car A is 200% faster than car B, I don't normally understand that to mean that car A travels backwards, but that if, say, car B can travel at 50 miles per hour that car A can travel at twice that speed, or 100 miles per hour.

    That would be 100% faster, or 200% as fast. 200% faster would be 150 mph.

  • GoddersUK (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    While it does seem a bit... ...exploitative it's worth remembering that we don't have to pay (at point of service) for our medical treatment. I'd rather pay a few quid for tv than a few grand on pain of death for medical care.

  • Someone Somewhere (unregistered)

    Some of these are good, the Google spell check one was meant to be ironic, it's not an oversight.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    TGV:
    Jack:
    You have to pay to watch TV in the hospital???

    Oh well, works fine for me, I'd pay not to be forced to watch it.

    What hell-hole of a country is that? I want to stay away from it as long as I can. Anyway, if it's the country I think it is, I would pay for not having to watch as well.

    24 hour bride's channels anyone?

    Quick googling suggests it's the UK.
    I'm not sure what the country has to do with it. When I was in hospital with my first kidney stone, there was no bedside TV. When I was in hospital with a broken leg, there was no bedside TV. The third hospital that I was in had bedside TV with the same kind of relationship to a payment machine as the one in this WTF. It seems to me the attempt to make extra money is done by the hospital not by the country.

    The national law requiring TV payments is a completely different kind of WTF. If we can receive NHK's TV signal we have to pay the fee, and it doesn't matter if we only watch other channels because NHK is unwatchable (though other channels are unwatchable too, not like the UK's channel 4). There's no fee for listening to NHK radio which is not bad actually, and for reading their web site.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    why hasn't anyone mentioned that the Google spelling error is intentional?
    How would you know if anyone mentioned it or not? There's no way to find out if anyone did.
  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Interesting fact, BTW: the version of Firefox used on Hospedia terminals for browsing the web also supports local file:/// URLs, although you have to get quite tricksy with the stop and refresh buttons to prevent it from auto-blanking itself.

    Also, they ship with what looks like a full source tree installed.

    Hmmm. Since they're renting the binaries to you, they have to provide the sources if you ask for them, but do they have to provide a permanent copy of the sources or is it enough to lend a temporary copy?

    As for whether they provide the sources in the machine itself or by a separate download from their web site, who cares? If you don't want to waste disk space for a temporary copy, don't rent that part of their hard disk.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to JJ
    JJ:
    Cad Delworth:
    One time, holidaying in the Netherlands, my wife need some pills which were prescription-only there, thus we had to pay the same somewhere-around-€20 that the locals would have needed to pay for the same prescription, plus the cost of the medication, also just like the locals would.
    Please describe to me the difference between "the prescription" and "the medication." I understand the difference in dictionary definitions, but if I talk about "paying for a prescription," the prescription = the medication. You seem to be using them differently, and I'm curious.
    I'm not sure if the difference in dictionary definitions is the same as the difference in practice, but here goes, at least for Japan.

    The doctor or hospital charges a fee for the doctor to write a prescription. That's in addition to the fee for the consultation, treatment by the doctor, and whatever else.

    You take the prescription to a pharmacy. The pharmacy takes the prescription from you, examines your health insurance card, hands over the medicine, and charges for the medicine.

  • (cs) in reply to foo
    foo:
    amazed:
    Having to pay to watch TV in a hospital is a barbaric WTF! The poor sods are lying there ill, just well enough to watch a bit of TV to take their minds off their suffering, and they have to pay for it?!

    I hope these days the average patient knows someone who will lend them a tablet loaded up with content, let this scum-sucking system wither and die.

    Luckily most tablets are equipped with WLAN, Bluetooth etc., so they can forbid them just like cell phones because they would disturb the sensitive machinery (i.e. the one from hospedia, and disturb in the sense of stopping it making money).

    There are also moves to make books illegal in hospital, on the grounds that they are unhygienic. The means to play recorded music is, of course, covered by the ban on electronic devices. Very soon they'll have you all ways.

  • (cs) in reply to Norman Diamond
    Norman Diamond:
    JJ:
    Cad Delworth:
    One time, holidaying in the Netherlands, my wife need some pills which were prescription-only there, thus we had to pay the same somewhere-around-€20 that the locals would have needed to pay for the same prescription, plus the cost of the medication, also just like the locals would.
    Please describe to me the difference between "the prescription" and "the medication." I understand the difference in dictionary definitions, but if I talk about "paying for a prescription," the prescription = the medication. You seem to be using them differently, and I'm curious.
    I'm not sure if the difference in dictionary definitions is the same as the difference in practice, but here goes, at least for Japan.

    The doctor or hospital charges a fee for the doctor to write a prescription. That's in addition to the fee for the consultation, treatment by the doctor, and whatever else.

    You take the prescription to a pharmacy. The pharmacy takes the prescription from you, examines your health insurance card, hands over the medicine, and charges for the medicine.

    In the UK, if you're classified as chronically ill (e.g. you have a thyroid condition), your prescriptions are free.

  • Chloe Red (unregistered) in reply to foo

    It depends where you are, of course. Last time I was in hospital (UK), the nursing staff had no problem with me using my i5 laptop, watching DVDs, and using a tethered phone, as long as the phone was out of sight.

    Plus for most of the day, I could pick up the free wifi from the visitors cafe 2 floors below the ward I was on.

    So, I had the choice of: cost per day for the IPTV/net/phone, or laptop/DVD/net/iPlayer for free.

  • (cs)

    The Google one is intentionally incorrect as an example

  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    Jazz:
    kilroo:
    fhqwgads?

    Oh good. I'm not the only one.

    Let it be known that I also came here to say "everybody come on fhqwgads". Thanks so much for getting it stuck in my head.

    Go Dumples!

  • Me (unregistered)

    Urm, the Google Chrome message is clearly on purpose.

  • GHood (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    Look out ObamaCare, here we come!

  • oKtosiTe (unregistered)

    The Chrome one was intentional: http://chrome.blogspot.se/2013/02/bettar-spell-chek-in-chrome.html

  • fhqwhgads (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    Jazz:
    kilroo:
    fhqwgads?

    Oh good. I'm not the only one.

    Let it be known that I also came here to say "everybody come on fhqwgads". Thanks so much for getting it stuck in my head.
    You both need to learn to spell. I hear Google has something to help with that.

  • (cs)

    The AVG one is obvious... As part of the new AVG install, it removed the existing copy of Norton Internet Security, which obviously reduced the boot time back down to seconds instead of hours.

  • PaulM (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r

    Yep, it was the UK.

  • foo (unregistered) in reply to fhqwhgads
    fhqwhgads:
    You both need to learn to spell. I hear Google has something to help with that.
    Dunno. I hear they put intentional mistakes in it. Though I can't remember where I read that.
  • Tayacan (unregistered)

    I'm beginning to think that AVG just puts in random numbers.

  • sinni800 (unregistered) in reply to TopTension
    TopTension:
    > "does Weatherbug know something about next Tuesday that I don't?"

    Quite the opposite. You know something, Weatherbug doesn't know. Specifically, that it is called Tuesday.

    The joke is that Weatherbug knows that the world will not exist anymore at this point

  • Kasper (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    they definitely qualify as (redacted) (redacted) (redacted)s
    I feel this calls for a your (redacted) joke. More so due to the fact that you decided to redact the word (redacted).
  • JPB (unregistered) in reply to CodeBeater

    It's not funny because Apple never does anything wrong. They are perfect in the sight of Jobs.

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to TGV
    TGV:
    Jack:
    You have to pay to watch TV in the hospital???

    Oh well, works fine for me, I'd pay not to be forced to watch it.

    What hell-hole of a country is that? I want to stay away from it as long as I can. Anyway, if it's the country I think it is, I would pay for not having to watch as well.

    24 hour bride's channels anyone?

    Not only did this company decide that while people are stuck in bed for hours or even days on end, they should charge them money for television.

    But on top of that, they made the set itself screaming pink and yellow. I gotta say, in Merrie Olde Briton, they don't do evil in half-measures.

  • Meep (unregistered) in reply to GoddersUK
    GoddersUK:
    While it does seem a bit... ...exploitative it's worth remembering that we don't have to pay (at point of service) for our medical treatment. I'd rather pay a few quid for tv than a few grand on pain of death for medical care.

    Right, you don't pay taxes or anything, the doctors all work for free and the drugs and medical equipment just spring into existence.

  • (cs) in reply to jay
    jay:
    Kg:
    where did AVG find the record on the startup time, since it probably wasn't able to measure it itself?
    Assuming that there's no internal log of start-up times maintained by Windows, which of course would easily solve the problem ...
    On my work machine at least, Event Viewer shows events such as the following on boot: 05/04/2013 12:09:57 PM 6009 Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 6.01. 7601 Service Pack 1 Multiprocessor Free. 05/04/2013 12:09:57 PM 6005 The Event log service was started. 05/04/2013 12:09:57 PM 6013 The system uptime is 16 seconds.
  • foo (unregistered) in reply to Meep
    Meep:
    GoddersUK:
    While it does seem a bit... ...exploitative it's worth remembering that we don't have to pay (at point of service) for our medical treatment. I'd rather pay a few quid for tv than a few grand on pain of death for medical care.

    Right, you don't pay taxes or anything, the doctors all work for free and the drugs and medical equipment just spring into existence.

    Yes, in this socialist country, even people who don't hold a job are allowed to survive.

    Crazy, isn't it?

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