• Grey (unregistered) in reply to Jebediah
    Jebediah:
    Grey:
    Yes/no/cancel is retarded. In 3rd millenium it must be yes/no/who_cares.

    Or Auto-Correct/Ignore/Go Back....

    The only time I've even considered using 3 options is when there appears to be a mistake that can easily be corrected.... "Do you want me to change Chancel to Cancel?" Yes (Correct or Continue) = Go for your life No (ignore, user knows better) = I might have f*ed up, but I really don't care, so continue, goddamnit Cancel (Go Back and fix it yourself) = OOPS, you're right I'd better go back and redo that

    Yeah... Also, novice users aren't sure what 'cancel' is. I told them 'cancel' stands for 'Stop! I changed my mind!'. Ok, they said, it's alias for 'No'. Umm... Now I AM not sure what 'cancel' really is!

  • civ (unregistered) 
       Case "No", "NO", "no"
      GoTo Rehab
  • linguine (unregistered) in reply to Grey
    Grey:
    Japaneese just can't pronounce 'l', they do 'r' instead. So cancel becomes cancer, e.g.

    'l' and 'r' are are allophones in Japanese. So cancel and cancer are interchangable.

    Americans have difficulting pronouncing the Japanese L/R sound because it doesn't exactly match either 'L' or 'R'

  • tragomaskhalos (unregistered) in reply to foo
    foo:
    "Chancel" is perfectly cromulent. The button by chance either cancels the operation or doesn't. Many applications have such a feature, but few dare name it correctly.
    Your use of the word "cromulent" embiggens the value of your comment.
  • BlackTiger (unregistered)

    India rulez! Rulez! RuleZ! RUleZ!

  • (cs)

    PCs used to have "Abort / Retry / Ignore" as options in certain kinds of system failures. At least it gives you some choices (even if all of them might be bad), unlike the Blue Screen Of Death, which gives you no choice at all.

  • Remy Porter (unregistered)

    Guys, I have some bad news.

    Alex passed at 5:53am this morning. Stay tuned for updates regarding funeral arrangements, where you can send flowers, etc.

  • Thomas (unregistered) in reply to Lockwood
    Lockwood:
    Khaaaaaaaaaaaan!!! səl?
    This.
  • (cs) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter(fake):
    Guys, I have some bad news.

    Alex passed at 5:53am this morning. Stay tuned for updates regarding funeral arrangements, where you can send flowers, etc.

    Hindu believe that if you keep proclaming death of Alex, , it actually increase life-span of Alex.

  • nerfer (unregistered) in reply to Hindi
    Hindi:
    nerfer:
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".
    Here "martyrchord" is an intentional misspelling of a common Hindi swear/curse word:

    madarchod

    If you watch Slumdog Millionaire, you can hear the cop use this word, but you won't see any translation for it in the English subtitles.

    Thanks guys. Learn something new every day, now to use it with my Indian friends.... :-)

  • nerfer (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Aisle bet that code was written by a nave. Easy to altar though.

    Nice, LOL Buttress ushered this nun sense is above many of those who write apse.

    (Spell-check failed only on the LOL, LOL)

  • nerfer (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    Just to be a party-pooper, in case anyone hasn't figured it, it's supposed to be a humorous on-topic alternative to one of the many Nageshes's favourite insult meaning someone who indulges in an incestuous relationship with a close female ancestor.

    I did some research. GIMF.

    Global Islamic Media Front? How is this relevant?

    JK. For the record I did google martyrchord, but nothing relevant came up, so you can just relax. Had I known Hindi slang, I probably would've figured out the rest of your posting.

  • (cs) in reply to nerfer
    nerfer:
    Matt Westwood:
    Just to be a party-pooper, in case anyone hasn't figured it, it's supposed to be a humorous on-topic alternative to one of the many Nageshes's favourite insult meaning someone who indulges in an incestuous relationship with a close female ancestor.

    I did some research. GIMF.

    Global Islamic Media Front? How is this relevant?

    JK. For the record I did google martyrchord, but nothing relevant came up, so you can just relax. Had I known Hindi slang, I probably would've figured out the rest of your posting.

    Before Google there was memory.

    ...and thought.

  • (cs) in reply to nerfer
    nerfer:
    Hindi:
    nerfer:
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".
    Here "martyrchord" is an intentional misspelling of a common Hindi swear/curse word:

    madarchod

    If you watch Slumdog Millionaire, you can hear the cop use this word, but you won't see any translation for it in the English subtitles.

    Thanks guys. Learn something new every day, now to use it with my Indian friends.... :-)

    madarchod, finding realy difficult to believe that you have any indian friends. red-indian maybe.

    most of my countrymen are very xenophobiac and deep in heart, are scared of and heavily suspicius of people who are different from themselves.

  • Sten (unregistered) in reply to nerfer
    nerfer:
    Global Islamic Media Front?

    What? Those infidels serving Satan and spitting into the face of the Great Allah? They will burn in hell for their sins!

    All hail the Global Media Front of Islam!

  • nerfer (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    nerfer:
    Hindi:
    nerfer:
    That's assuming you wrote "martyrchord" intentionally, I assume that's a reference to something I haven't read on this website...? Otherwise the closest word I can think of is "massacred".
    Here "martyrchord" is an intentional misspelling of a common Hindi swear/curse word:

    madarchod

    If you watch Slumdog Millionaire, you can hear the cop use this word, but you won't see any translation for it in the English subtitles.

    Thanks guys. Learn something new every day, now to use it with my Indian friends.... :-)

    madarchod, finding realy difficult to believe that you have any indian friends. red-indian maybe.

    most of my countrymen are very xenophobiac and deep in heart, are scared of and heavily suspicius of people who are different from themselves.

    Strangely enough, my Indian (and Pakistani and Bangladeshi) friends don't swear at me very much, or really use anything other than English outside the family, because they're professionals and live in the U.S. Funny how that works. I drove 700 miles on a trip last month to visit an Indian friend, his Spanish/Swedish wife and their kids, we had a good time. Of course, he's from Kerala, that'll explain part of it.

    Thanks Hindi for being helpful.

  • Gibbon1 (unregistered) in reply to dtobias
    dtobias:
    PCs used to have "Abort / Retry / Ignore" as options in certain kinds of system failures. At least it gives you some choices (even if all of them might be bad), unlike the Blue Screen Of Death, which gives you no choice at all.

    Old memory dredged up. CPU used to give you that option when you tried to cd to the A: drive but the drive door was open or no floppy was inserted. You had to be really careful because if you hit Abort the operating system would hang. It would also hang on Retry. However if you hit Ignore it would also hang. The secret was to insert a bootable floppy and hit the reset button.

  • (cs) in reply to Sten
    Sten:
    nerfer:
    Global Islamic Media Front?

    What? Those infidels serving Satan and spitting into the face of the Great Allah? They will burn in hell for their sins!

    All hail the Global Media Front of Islam!

    Splitters! Let's hear it for the Islamic Media Global Front!

  • (cs) in reply to dtobias
    dtobias:
    PCs used to have "Abort / Retry / Ignore" as options in certain kinds of system failures. At least it gives you some choices (even if all of them might be bad), unlike the Blue Screen Of Death, which gives you no choice at all.

    Several choices, for example:

    a) Stare at the screen while great heavy salty tears well up into your eyes and drop onto your keyboard, contributing hardware failures to the heady mix;

    b) Switch the computer off, wait a few seconds, then switch it back on again and attempt to continue from the last time you saved the file you were working on (assuming the floppy-drive still works - this is before the days of hard drives, one presumes);

    c) Get up from the chair and go and get pizza and watch some TV or something. You may even at this stage consider the possibility of venturing outside (go and google for it if you don't understand the word "outside") for a change of outlook.

  • Nhoinc (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh

    I AM a expert and VB and see no problem too. ;)

  • FormalWare (unregistered) in reply to nerfer

    Pew! Call the censer!

  • TN Caver (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Yawn. I expect this shit from VB.
    Right, because you can't do that kind of shit in C#: 
    switch (DataConnection.GetDataCellValue("Document Marketing", DataConnection.CurrentBlockID, "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)) {
   case "No":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "3", 0); //No
      break;
   case "NO":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "3", 0); //NO
      break;
   case "no":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "3", 0); //no
      break;
   case "Continue":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "1", 0); ////Continue   
      break;
   case "CONTINUE":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "1", 0); ////CONTINUE  
      break;
   case "continue":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "1", 0); ////continue   
      break;
   case "Chancel":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "2", 0); //Chancel
      break;
   case "CHANCEL":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "2", 0); //CHANCEL
      break;
   case "chancel":
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "2", 0); //chancel
      break;
   default:
      break;
}

    Oh, I guess you can. You just can't write in VB and be a language snob.

  • (cs) in reply to xyourfacekillerx

    If that was the intention, personally, I would have written a comment to that effect to prevent others from attempting to "fix" the problem with a conversion to uppercase.

  • (cs) in reply to xyourfacekillerx
    xyourfacekillerx:
    At first glance, it looks like a logic bug. There appears to be a check for variations on spelling of the same word, but only a handful of cases are considered, inexplicably obvious other cases are ignored.

    Upon reflection, however, I think I see this is not a WTF. It appears the developer wanted to allow SPECIFICALLY those variations of values, in anticipation of future functionality TBD - perhaps in later versions, buttons of the same word but different character cases might perform different actions.

    Fx, "NO" could perform a different function than "No", but the programmer isn't sure what that will be in the future, so for the time being s/he's just assigning them to the same software state.

    If that was the intention, personally, I would have written a comment to that effect to prevent others from attempting to "fix" the problem with a conversion to uppercase.

  • therecklessness (unregistered) in reply to cDub

    i was just wondering what would happen if i entered "nO"

  • Luiz Felipe (unregistered) in reply to derula
    derula:
    foo:
    "Chancel" is perfectly cromulent. The button by chance either cancels the operation or doesn't. Many applications have such a feature, but few dare name it correctly.

    Actually, most Cancel buttons don't work at all and are just there to give a calming sense of cancelability. In my experience, at least.

    Yes, the only true cancel is the eletrical cord cable. Perhaps the reset button, but HP doesnt have one.

  • wazoo (unregistered) in reply to No'am
    No'am:
    There *are* two 'e's in 'procedure'. I think that you meant three 'e's.
    well, obviously three Es are spelled with two Es.
  • bitburner (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh

    This has to be the WTF of the day, you can't even write a sentence that has proper noun and verb usage, that being the case; how can you possibly hope to write decent readable code.

  • mahi (unregistered) in reply to Cyp

    finished,no idea

  • Axel (unregistered)

    The chancel is where the choir stands. I guess a cancel is where the coir stands.

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