• invisible idiot (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Windows 8, rite?

    uxor!

  • (cs)

    The JOIN tables one was pretty funny, especially with the all-caps JOIN.

  • secundum (unregistered)

    15,000 BTU? You could run a small matrix on that!

  • P. Almonius (unregistered)

    This is why Little Bobby Tables from xkcd always sat alone at lunch.

  • Yazeran (unregistered) in reply to secundum
    secundum:
    15,000 BTU? You could run a small matrix on that!

    Yea, that's like 15 MJ which corresponds to about 4 kg of TNT :-)

    No wonder graphics cards cost so much if they deliver that kind of power.. :-)

    Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer

  • (cs) in reply to P. Almonius
    P. Almonius:
    This is why Little Bobby Tables from xkcd always sat alone at lunch.

    I thought that was because he deleted all the other students.

  • faoileag (unregistered)

    So Time Warner Cable can predict in Advance when their Sun servers will fail? Their IT department must have come up with an awsome piece of software! And I want it, than I can postpone making backups until the very last day!

    Oh, sorry, I see from the other submission that Windows already ships with such software - then they can keep it!

  • Vilx- (unregistered)

    An SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks - can I join you?

  • (cs)

    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to Vilx-
    Vilx-:
    An SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks - can I join you?
    Error: 1104 - ER_TOO_BIG_SELECT
  • hanzo (unregistered) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.

    So why does that picture show where to find that security number on an american express card?

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Nutster

    Yet the image to help find CVV code displays the Amex card

  • faoileag (unregistered) in reply to ochrist
    ochrist:
    P. Almonius:
    This is why Little Bobby Tables from xkcd always sat alone at lunch.

    I thought that was because he deleted all the other students.

    No, the cartoon said "DROP TABLE Students", not "drop table on students".
  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)

    At last, Dell has made a computer that Hank Hill can use.

  • drake (unregistered)

    I find it rather disconcerting that a facility with the potential to accidentally create a black hole is running windows...

    All the physicists I know use some form of *nix when dealing with any actual lab/testing equipment (sometimes facilities force Windows at the desk).

  • ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL (unregistered)

    So an OUTER JOIN is when you put the tables against a wall to make a buffet line, and an INNER JOIN is when you put them together in the middle of the room for more people to eat together?

  • yetihehe (unregistered)

    "Personally, I don't think that an ampersand is all that special" Only when you don't work with php "programmers" who can't even escape url data correctly.

  • Andrew (unregistered) in reply to faoileag
    Vilx-:
    An SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks - can I join you?
    Two SQL programmers walk into a NoSQL bar... then leave because they can't find any tables.
    faoileag:
    No, the cartoon said "DROP TABLE Students", not "drop table on students".
    You just made my day.
  • Rnd( (unregistered) in reply to hanzo
    hanzo:
    Nutster:
    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.

    So why does that picture show where to find that security number on an american express card?

    Designer liked that stockphoto? It also works with my VISAs atleast the backside one...

  • JM (unregistered) in reply to drake
    drake:
    I find it rather disconcerting that a facility with the potential to accidentally create a black hole is running windows...

    All the physicists I know use some form of *nix when dealing with any actual lab/testing equipment (sometimes facilities force Windows at the desk).

    1. This was a display machine at a "Universe of Particles exhibition", not a work machine

    2. It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.

  • (cs)

    The Chase might be a sign of malware. Note the URL.

    That, or this is a section of the site that uses some 3rd party thing.

  • (cs) in reply to faoileag
    faoileag:
    ochrist:
    P. Almonius:
    This is why Little Bobby Tables from xkcd always sat alone at lunch.

    I thought that was because he deleted all the other students.

    No, the cartoon said "DROP TABLE Students", not "drop table on students".

    DROP WOODEN TABLE ON STUDENTS?

  • Niels E. Rasmussen (unregistered) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.

    In fact, their off-line order form comes without American Express as well. So the omission is not even accidental.

    I think TRWTF is lymphedemic fashion garments with flowers and curliques. #Shudder#

  • (cs) in reply to JM
    JM:
    It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.
    Well that's reassuring.
  • Valued Service (unregistered) in reply to ochrist
    ochrist:
    faoileag:
    ochrist:
    P. Almonius:
    This is why Little Bobby Tables from xkcd always sat alone at lunch.

    I thought that was because he deleted all the other students.

    No, the cartoon said "DROP TABLE Students", not "drop table on students".

    DROP WOODEN TABLE ON STUDENTS?

    THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!!!!!1!!1one

  • Haligonian (unregistered) in reply to faoileag

    They are referring to the sun. The literal sun.

    Magnetic field is flipping over, will cause communications issues for anything in space, like satellite TV

  • Crispy (unregistered) in reply to JM
    JM:
    drake:
    I find it rather disconcerting that a facility with the potential to accidentally create a black hole is running windows...

    All the physicists I know use some form of *nix when dealing with any actual lab/testing equipment (sometimes facilities force Windows at the desk).

    1. This was a display machine at a "Universe of Particles exhibition", not a work machine

    2. It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.

    But, what if the short-lived black hole is long-lived enough to swallow the part of the universe where we live, and then dissapears? It would be like, like ... like declaring a short long int in C! Normality disappears inside black holes!

  • Valued Service (unregistered) in reply to Kivi
    Kivi:
    JM:
    It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.
    Well that's reassuring.

    Ah NP. Gravity only becomes a problem when there's something between you and it.

  • ANON (unregistered) in reply to yetihehe

    In javascript you shouldn't escape the ampersands.

    If you write 

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    you'll see a window with "&" as text.

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    is what you want and properly what was tested.
  • (cs) in reply to Nutster
    Nutster:
    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.
    Actually, the key point is that Visa and Mastercard charge significantly less for transactions than American Express does.

    Way back when, 1989 or so, I, a newly-graduated student, received a "sign here and we'll send you one" offer for a green(*) Amex card. So of course the next time I was in a shop in a position to buy something sufficiently pricey for it to be reasonable, I pulled out the Amex instead of my Mastercard or my Visa.(**)

    And the guy behind the counter looked at it like it was a week-dead non-iced herring, because I'd picked on a budget PC parts shop and he didn't have the margins to be able to afford the extra transaction fees on Amex cards. Sigh.

    () Less than a year later, they sent me another "sign here and we'll send you one" letter, this time for a gold card. It surprised me, and later on surprised some colleagues in a British pub, because Amex in Britain was much more strict on how it gave out(**) cards, so having a gold card was a sign of wealthiness.

    (**) Curiously, the MC and Visa were both linked to the same account, as a convenience because at the time there were still enough places that only took one of the two.

    (***) Yes, I know, Amex rents (or did, anyway) cards. It's a phrase, get over it.

  • (cs) in reply to JM
    JM:
    1. It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.

    With heavy emphasis on the "accidentally" <evil overlord grin>

  • Hiro (unregistered) in reply to Rnd(
    Rnd(:
    hanzo:
    Nutster:
    So what's the big deal? Lots of companies do not deal with American Express. Visa and MasterCard market their services better.

    So why does that picture show where to find that security number on an american express card?

    Designer liked that stockphoto? It also works with my VISAs atleast the backside one...

    So TRWTF is a designer who placed stock photo selection above design specs.

  • (cs) in reply to ANON
    ANON:
    In javascript you shouldn't escape the ampersands.

    If you write 

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    you'll see a window with "&" as text.

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    is what you want and properly what was tested.
    That depends on whether your document is HTML or XHTML. Naturally.
  • ANON (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    ANON:
    In javascript you shouldn't escape the ampersands.

    If you write 

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    you'll see a window with "&" as text.

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    is what you want and properly what was tested.
    That depends on whether your document is HTML or XHTML. Naturally.

    Are you sure? I used these two doctypes:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    Firefox and Chrome showed me an alert-box with "&" both times.

  • Matthew (unregistered) in reply to ANON
    ANON:
    Pim:
    ANON:
    In javascript you shouldn't escape the ampersands.

    If you write 

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    you'll see a window with "&" as text.

    <script type="text/javascript">alert("&");</script>
    is what you want and properly what was tested.
    That depends on whether your document is HTML or XHTML. Naturally.

    Are you sure? I used these two doctypes:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    Firefox and Chrome showed me an alert-box with "&" both times.

    It's not enough to set the doctype to XHTML, you need to make sure the server is sending the correct content type or it will still parse it as HTML. That's one of the reasons XHTML never really worked out. IE (older versions at least, I'm assuming it's fixed now) didn't like it, so if you wanted XHML, you had to send a different content type depending on the browser.

  • PC Amok (unregistered)

    Do not JOIN tables? OK, that's just a technicality: SELECT seats FROM Table27 UNION SELECT seats FROM Table28

  • steelcobra (unregistered) in reply to Haligonian
    Haligonian:
    They are referring to the sun. The literal sun.

    Magnetic field is flipping over, will cause communications issues for anything in space, like satellite TV

    Yep, that's probably what they mean, since all non-local TV services receive their feeds via satellite.

  • (cs)

    I angrily defied them. I CROSS JOINed the tables.

  • Valued Service (unregistered) in reply to PC Amok
    PC Amok:
    Do not JOIN tables? OK, that's just a technicality: SELECT seats FROM Table27 UNION SELECT seats FROM Table28
    Great, you got all the seats together, but no tables.

    I suppose we'll play musical chairs.

  • (cs) in reply to Valued Service
    Valued Service:
    PC Amok:
    Do not JOIN tables? OK, that's just a technicality: SELECT seats FROM Table27 UNION SELECT seats FROM Table28
    Great, you got all the seats together, but no tables.

    I suppose we'll play musical chairs.

    I assume that this will be a CURSORy game.

  • Klimax (unregistered)

    TRWTF is lack of WTF.

    One slight engrish (err, japeng?), one notice about disruption due to Sun(no WTF), one shop not accepting rarer D/C card(no WTF), one alert by Windows that SMART is reporting problematic drive (no WTF) and an issue with beta version of software. So that leaves two small WTFs for Friday.

    But I guess without those non-WTFs it would be quite empty article.

  • SHA (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    The real WTF is that the image shows an AMEX as the example.

  • Annonymous (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic

    Actually the point is the sample image is an American Express card.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to steelcobra
    steelcobra:
    Haligonian:
    They are referring to the sun. The literal sun.

    Magnetic field is flipping over, will cause communications issues for anything in space, like satellite TV

    Yep, that's probably what they mean, since all non-local TV services receive their feeds via satellite.

    C'mon now. Only the BOFH gets away with blaming outages on the Sun even when they're totally his fault. The field reversal is already well in progress and I can still get my BBC America.

  • (cs)

    Sun & TV.

    Well actually there is a reason for the Sun blacking out TV. You see most (if not all) TV here (at least in the USA, other places as well) get their TV from Geo-Synchronous satellites. These nice devices are in orbit at 23,000 miles above the equator. Now a couple of times a year, in the middle of the day the sun sits right behind the satellite and overwhelms the ground based receiver. It is like shining a bright light at your eyes and trying to see around it (try it someday). These events happen around the time of the equinox in the spring and the fall (a couple of days different due to some angles).

    Silly comment: Sorry Oprah, you got wiped out! Breaks my heart! Life goes on.

    So now you know. We now return you to your regularly scheduled litany of comments. This has been a "special report".

  • sigh... (unregistered) in reply to JM
    JM:
    drake:
    I find it rather disconcerting that a facility with the potential to accidentally create a black hole is running windows...
    1. It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.

    Yet.

  • Jordan (unregistered)

    The WTF isn't the desktop among the BBQs. It's that it's a /bilingual/ desktop....

  • (cs) in reply to sigh...
    sigh...:
    JM:
    drake:
    I find it rather disconcerting that a facility with the potential to accidentally create a black hole is running windows...
    1. It's well known that there's no potential for LHC to accidentally create a long-lived black hole.

    Yet.

    A black hole with mass 228000 ton (and submillimeter size) evaporates in 1 second.

    Minimum mass for a black hole (with size greater than Planck length) is 1E-5 g. This is too much energy for a particle accelerator.

  • Not Hans (unregistered) in reply to Jordan
    Jordan:
    The WTF isn't the desktop among the BBQs. It's that it's a /bilingual/ desktop....

    I speaks Windows and Linux.

  • Not Hans (unregistered) in reply to Not Hans
    Not Hans:
    Jordan:
    The WTF isn't the desktop among the BBQs. It's that it's a /bilingual/ desktop....

    I speaks Windows and Linux.

    It*

    Stupid no edit. It's a real genitus

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