• Buffled (unregistered)
    "I woke up one morning to see this," Phillip Jäger writes, "thankfully, it was only 6:00AM and I did not oversleep."
    Unfortunately, you then stepped outside and realized everyone had big hair... and Journey was playing loudly from your neighbor's open window.
  • JeffW (unregistered) in reply to Erasmus Darwin

    Well, maybe its a ROM containing all 1440 possible times. Or if its only a 12 hour clock, all 720 possible times, using UTF-16.

  • Some Wonk (unregistered) in reply to JeffW
    JeffW:
    Well, maybe its a ROM containing all 1440 possible times. Or if its only a 12 hour clock, all 720 possible times, using UTF-16.

    Well, you will need to have 2880 bytes for those, if you are going to avoid performance problems, and have an integer cache.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    That clock is like some girls I know. Still living in the 80's.

  • hughdbrown (unregistered)

    Obviously, you've woken up and it's 1989 again. Later today, the Exxon Valdez will run aground, the US will invade Panama, the Ceauşescus will be executed, and the Berlin Wall will fall.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Kermos
    Kermos:
    Well, issue also is that even *if* the lowly grunt at StuffMart gives a crap, they are not usually allowed to do anything they are not told to do. One thing I see in a lot of companies is that if a person actually thinks and does logical things, instead of mindlessly following instructions, they'd actually get into trouble for it.
    Ug – I think…
    So really, it's a combination of either the grunt not giving a shit and management punishing anyone that actually does give a shit (which results in people not giving a shit and everyone being happy).
    Either that or…? (s/and/or/?)

    And I'm not sure that that management punishing some would result in everybody being happy. Unless you mean that everybody who's still there would be happy…

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Obviously the clock is showing metric time.

    The WTF is that it shouldn't have switched to metric time by itself in the middle of the night.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Quirkafleeg
    (s/and/or/?)
    On second thoughts, s/either //?

    Must–stop–thinking–must–dumb–down–must–watch–programmes–like–X-Factor…

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    From this angle it looks almost Orwellian...

    1984 anyone?

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    From this angle it looks almost Orwellian...

    1984 anyone?

    $ sdate -e 1984-12
Fri Dec 9170 20:34:17 GMT 1984
$

  • History Teacher (unregistered) in reply to BB
    BB:
    True metric system would have 100 minutes in an hour.
    Metric system doesn't have minutes. A minute (of an hour or a degree) is 1/60th, and furthermore a second is 1/60th of minute (of a degree or an hour).

    I think hour is still ok for fully metric system time unit. So metric system would have 10 hours per day, divided into deci-, centi-, milli-, micro-, nano- etc hours. Or possibly just leave out the "hour" unit and use day as the basic unit of time. So one SI second of time would be 1/24/60/60 days = 0.0000115740741 days = ~12 microdays.

    12 micros... Actually, that doesn't sound half bad.

    Alternative would be to go back to the true, original Babylonian sexagesimal time system, and ditch this modern hybrid system with Egyptian 1/12th of daytime and of nighttime. Sometimes old is better, and these new Egyptian influences make the whole system a bitch to work with.

  • (cs) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    Also many of those companies time how long it takes to put up the signs and the people have goals etc. Having to go print out a sign manually is going to seriously screw up the person's average time and/or require going to a manager because often the employees are only trained to go get a manager for anything outside of the ordinary who is under same constraints only for them it is the time the whole team takes.

    This is all going against the probability that that sign will actually be audited by corporate and they get in trouble for not fixing it.

    Then again it could have nothing to do with this and the person is just flat out lazy.

    I don't know about timing people, but certainly they only have a certain amount of time to put up the signs before other tasks (such as serving customers) kick in.

    But lack of attention to signage is a common source of frustration for me. At my local supermarket, they have several cases similar to the following:

    Brand A, $4.99 for 6.5 oz

    Brand B, $6.49 for 9.1 oz

    Which is the best value?

    Well, helpfully, they have "unit price" printed on the label, so you check those:

    Brand A unit price 77c

    Brand B unit price $6.49

    Oh thank you very much.

  • (cs) in reply to History Teacher
    History Teacher:
    one SI second of time would be 1/24/60/60 days = 0.0000115740741 days = ~12 microdays.

    12 micros... Actually, that doesn't sound half bad.

    Yeah, a dozen.

  • (cs) in reply to History Teacher
    History Teacher:
    BB:
    True metric system would have 100 minutes in an hour.
    Metric system doesn't have minutes. A minute (of an hour or a degree) is 1/60th, and furthermore a second is 1/60th of minute (of a degree or an hour).

    I think hour is still ok for fully metric system time unit. So metric system would have 10 hours per day, divided into deci-, centi-, milli-, micro-, nano- etc hours. Or possibly just leave out the "hour" unit and use day as the basic unit of time. So one SI second of time would be 1/24/60/60 days = 0.0000115740741 days = ~12 microdays.

    12 micros... Actually, that doesn't sound half bad.

    Alternative would be to go back to the true, original Babylonian sexagesimal time system, and ditch this modern hybrid system with Egyptian 1/12th of daytime and of nighttime. Sometimes old is better, and these new Egyptian influences make the whole system a bitch to work with.

    Wow. That's 12 µDays I'll never get back.

  • All-Beef Patty (unregistered) in reply to badcaseofspace
    badcaseofspace:
    For the sake of everything WTF: How. The. Hell. Does one manage to attach a poster saying "Before: £0.00" and a division-by-zero error. That sign actually looks unwieldy. It must have taken at least several minutes to affix while ignoring what it says along the way. This person was either blind or suffering from a ruthless episode of laziness.

    I once worked for a company that would handle a variety of IT services for various retailers. While most of them were happy to accept the standard format for the various reports, the one thing that EVERYBODY wanted customized was their purchase order form. Each new client would send us a sample of what they were currently using, and we'd do our best to duplicate it. It got to a point where you wouldn't even notice what was on the purchase order, the only variation of any real significance was in the formatting.

    One particular client, like every other, submitted a sample P.O. for us to duplicate. The copy was passed around to several different people and on the third or so trip that it made to my desk (love bureaucracy) I finally noticed that the order form was for several different size dildos and butt plugs. It was hardly shocking since the client was an adult video store chain.

    My point though is that sometimes you see the same kind of document or piece of paper so many times that the words and numbers on it stop being something you bother to look at and read. You just take it and do whatever it is you're supposed to do with it.

  • scott (unregistered)

    Take a closer look at the clock - some of the bars on the display are dimmer than others.

    If you squint a little, you can clearly see that the clock is reading 14:04 - a valid time in anyone's books.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to scott
    scott:
    If you squint a little, you can clearly see that the clock is reading 14:04 - a valid time in anyone's books.
    If I have to squint to read the time, how the heck is the OCR supposed to get the right value when I scan the picture of the clock on a wooden table???
  • disz (unregistered)

    The clock is obviously overclocked.

  • Pual (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • regeya (unregistered) in reply to Craig

    'I love the emphatic "#DIV/0!" on that one sign. It's all starred and everything.'

    Everything's better in a starburst, even divide by zero errors.

  • (cs) in reply to scott
    scott:
    Take a closer look at the clock - some of the bars on the display are dimmer than others.

    If you squint a little, you can clearly see that the clock is reading 14:04 - a valid time in anyone's books.

    Especially considering the fact that virtually every 7 segment display renders a "9" including the bottom bar, those aren't valid 9s!

  • OJ (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    I would be VERY alarmed if I woke up and it was 1989. Having to live through the 90's twice? Once was quite enough thankyou!

  • Patrick A (unregistered)

    For any Aussie, the Telstra letter isn't really anything special, since that's about the average standard of service we receive from them!

  • (cs) in reply to All-Beef Patty
    All-Beef Patty:

    several different size dildos and butt plugs.

    ...

    You just take it and do whatever it is you're supposed to do with it.

    Pictures, go away.

  • gilhad (unregistered) in reply to bannedfromcoding
    bannedfromcoding:
    OP:
    "err... maybe I'll not. Wait. What am I supposed to do?"
    Hit Alt-F4, of course!

    Ok, now I am on my 4. virtual screen (from 12), all programs running as before, what next?

  • Red October (unregistered)

    I used to work at RadioShack. Their signage was usually quite good, but for about a month or so it couldn't handle certain small discounts. A sale tag was generated with a numeric representation of either a percentage value deduction or a dollar value deduction, whichever was larger numerically. So a $10 iten that was %50 off would be marked with a "%50 Off!" notation on its tag, while a $500 item that was $50 off would likewise get a "$50" off notation. At any rate, some stuff, like iPods, which are price controlled, started going on really tiny "Sales", usually just dropping the ¢99 from the price, i.e. $499.99 becomes $499, item on sale. Except the price tag had a relatatively conspicous "$0 Off!" notation. Not quite as funny as an actual Devide_by_zero error on a sign, but damn near.

    CAPTCHA "nobis". The server is speaking Latin...

  • (cs)
  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    in metric time not possible to have 89 mins is a hour :)

  • Jonathan Wilson (unregistered)

    The Telstra letter doesn't surprise me, the real WTF would be finding someone in Australia that DOESN'T have something bad to say about Telstra.

  • Kahler (unregistered)

    I've got a similar clock. Fortunately I didn't use it as an alarm. Otherwise I would've got up pretty late. You can find the image in my blog.

    We also have another digital clock which now runs almost two years with no batteries.

  • JK (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    No, I believe that's Delorean time.

  • God (unregistered) in reply to Kahler
    Kahler:
    We also have another digital clock which now runs almost two years with no batteries.

    TRWTF is that your clock actually don't work. It's only your brain created virtual reality with working clock.

  • Marvin the Martian (unregistered)

    The overexcited-div-by-zero one: TRWTF is that that's the weirdest you could find there. It's quite obviously from a UK Decathlon store, where traditionally half the labels are still in french, or mixed french/english, and lots of missing values & NaN's. As they are in Decathlon's Dutch, Belgian and Italian shops.

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    Man, you should see the faces of people trying to find the Exit / restart / close button. Peekaboo!

  • (cs)

    Maybe if it ask "Quit Setup" you need (Y/N)

  • Hmm (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Obviously it's still wrong.

  • (cs)

    The obligatory xkcd link.

  • CptObvious (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    metric time still using minute with 100 seconds? I guess that's why they have more time.

  • aussie (unregistered)

    Cowper Avenue, EAGLEBY QLD 4207?

  • slavka (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    metric time has 60 minutes, you fool.

  • uxor (unregistered)

    I don't get the one with Sphere, so there were no FAQs.... uhhm okay?

  • teh ullamcorper (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Obviously the clock is showing metric time.
    More like US imperial. They are the units that don't make any sense.
  • need have need (unregistered)

    pcmment attack drive defend

  • Rob (unregistered) in reply to History Teacher
    History Teacher:
    BB:
    True metric system would have 100 minutes in an hour.
    Metric system doesn't have minutes.

    It doesn't now, but it did. IIRC, they tried that around the time of the French Revolution.

  • Alex G. (unregistered) in reply to Pointers on using your clock
    Pointers on using your clock:
    Back in college, during a week where I was averaging about 2-3 hours of sleep (or less) a night while finishing some programming projects, I woke up to the alarm going off. I looked at the clock and my brain figured all I needed to do was change the pointer in memory to a different location so that the alarm would stop.

    I'm a network guy, and had several similar experience due to sleep deprivation. I once woke up in the morning coughing, wondering what the hell got in my lungs, until I thought "Oh, I just woke up, this makes sense. It must be the DHCP lease that i'm coughing up a bit."

    It took a while before I realized it was nonsense.

  • anon (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    Even metric hours consist of only 60 minutes, It may however be imperial time?

  • xeno (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Even metric hours consist of only 60 minutes, It may however be imperial time?
    People are confusing metric time and decimal time here.

    Metric time consists of units based on the standard second e.g. kiloseconds. It's not used to describe time-of-day, as there are 86400 seconds in a day - the units are not convenient. There is no such thing as a metric hour or metric minute, these units are not metric. Only the standard second is really a part of the metric system.

    Decimal time consists of a day divided into 10 decimal hours, 100 decimal minutes per hour and 100 decimal seconds per minute. The decimal second is not the same length as a standard second. Just to be confusing the standard second is the one used in all metric measurements. Decimal time was a French invention tried (for 12 years) then abandoned during the revolutionary period. So, to recap, metric time != decimal time.

    The time shown on the clock is not a valid decimal time because the hours shown exceed 10. The minute value is valid, contrary to most of the comments here.

  • Big W (unregistered) in reply to rfsmit
    rfsmit:
    Ben:
    Also many of those companies time how long it takes to put up the signs and the people have goals etc. Having to go print out a sign manually is going to seriously screw up the person's average time and/or require going to a manager because often the employees are only trained to go get a manager for anything outside of the ordinary who is under same constraints only for them it is the time the whole team takes.

    This is all going against the probability that that sign will actually be audited by corporate and they get in trouble for not fixing it.

    Then again it could have nothing to do with this and the person is just flat out lazy.

    I don't know about timing people, but certainly they only have a certain amount of time to put up the signs before other tasks (such as serving customers) kick in.

    But lack of attention to signage is a common source of frustration for me. At my local supermarket, they have several cases similar to the following:

    Brand A, $4.99 for 6.5 oz

    Brand B, $6.49 for 9.1 oz

    Which is the best value?

    Well, helpfully, they have "unit price" printed on the label, so you check those:

    Brand A unit price 77c

    Brand B unit price $6.49

    Oh thank you very much.

    Well Gee, who would've thought that they're not as helpful as it might appear when it comes to putting the unit price in??

    I often notice (especially with things like toilet paper or tissues) that unit price has different units for different brands....

    The home brand might show $0.62 per roll, while a competitor's brand shows $0.65 per 100. Often in such a case, the home brand might only have 90 sheets a roll.

    Oh, woe is me...I can't imagine why the company would try to mislead me like this....

  • Sol Trujillo (unregistered) in reply to Jonathan Wilson
    Jonathan Wilson:
    The Telstra letter doesn't surprise me, the real WTF would be finding someone in Australia that DOESN'T have something bad to say about Telstra.

    Racist C&*%ts

  • Design Pattern (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Even metric hours consist of only 60 minutes, It may however be imperial time?

    Nah, that would mean it is not showing the nunes, and even then there are only 15 moments in imperial time... http://blog.forret.com/2004/08/imperial-time-units-here-come-the-nunes/

    It must be US military time, as you say ninehundred when it's 09:00 AM: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/militarytime.htm

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