• Rich (unregistered) in reply to un.sined

    > How is this a WTF?  Sure, it's funny and all, but it's a user configurable value. 

    > I'd give them several points for creativity, but this is hardly a WTF (unless the W is for 'who').

    Or in this case, Whore TF?

     

    captcha: jiggles (somewhat appropriate for weak-ass whore joke) 

  • nworb (unregistered) in reply to Me

    This is actually WTF committing a WTF... you haven't heard of a fully assembled dimension?  WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Anonymous:

    Volmarias:


    I hate those things [green intellitext linky things] with an absolute passion. They significantly increase the time the page needs to load, and interrupt me while I'm reading. Every time I run across one, I immediately try and figure out the server so that I can block it, and don't stop until I finish.

    HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE those!

    I hate them too. Luckily, I have Firefox.  And Greasemonkey.  And the "Uh Oh! Intellitext link ad remover" script. 

    I never see them anymore.  Hooray!
     



    And I have Opera, with Adblock that lets me block all content from a particular address, using wildcards. The hardest part is digging through the source to actually find where the script is served from. Since I blocked intellitxt.com and konasomethingorother.com, I seem to have gotten them all.
  • (cs)
    Anonymous:

    That's not a bug, it's a feature! Past time delivery - now I can get my AMD 64000000+ delivered to me last week!

    "Lessons in Time Travel.  Be here last week"

  • (cs) in reply to 1337
    Anonymous:
    humm.. turn off javascript... captcha: batman.. he doesn't need javascript


    Thats like saying "Tired of spam? Don't use email!"
  • cellocgw (unregistered)

    I see that all the time on my WinXP machine.  I don't care so long as I can actually really connect over the network :-)

    Who knows where XP fails to properly update some field. 

  • (cs)

    Why is that infinite instead of a divide by zero error?

  • (cs)

    With a chance for null pointer exceptions in the afternoon, some possibly severe.

  • (cs)

    Re the GCHQ (DoB in the future).

     

    The great bit is the logo on the "it's a live one" link:

    <q>Intelligence Matters</q>

    Apparently it doesn't matter /too/ much ;-p

    Marc

  • AC (unregistered)

    Am I the only person who absolutely hates those combo boxes to choose the year? It takes me an order of magnitude more time to find the damn year on those than to type four flipping digits!

     Since they should be doing the validation on the backend anyway, what's the point?!?!?
     

  • (cs) in reply to whitetiger0990

    whitetiger0990:
    Why is that infinite instead of a divide by zero error?

     

    Because the guy was that good. :-)
     

  • (cs)

    Target:  Gotta love it when just one missing word makes the WTF.

     

    Wireless:  Could be a guy.  Could be far, far worse.  ("Roo-mate", anyone?) 

     

    UPS:  I thought they'd stopped re-using tracking numbers.  Apparently not.

     

    Year-of-birth drop-down going up to 2020:  This was probably just someone deciding it wasn't worth spending the time to make it dynamic.  They may even have been right.

  • Hill (unregistered) in reply to Rich

    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Ok, I'm glad someone explained what was supposed to be funny about this because I sure couldn't figure it out on my own.  I still don't think it's funny but at least now I know what it was supposed to be.  I don't get why this made the cut, is everyone around here an 11 year old boy?

    No, but neither are we a bunch of old ladies.

    Rich

     
    I just want to say that Rich doesn't actually speak for everyone who reads here.  I am both an an 11 year old boy and a bunch of old ladies.

    Hill

     

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to AC
    Anonymous:

    Am I the only person who absolutely hates those combo boxes to choose the year? It takes me an order of magnitude more time to find the damn year on those than to type four flipping digits!

     Since they should be doing the validation on the backend anyway, what's the point?!?!?
     

    I agree.

    I've found the use of select wigets are just as prone to error by mis-selection as text wigets are by mis-typing.

    It might make sense if there was a need to restrict the selection.. say to a tight range of years.

  • Olddog (unregistered) in reply to mfarah
    mfarah:

    whitetiger0990:
    Why is that infinite instead of a divide by zero error?

     

    Because the guy was that good. :-)
     

    Zero is a math crutch. Potential is a sports crutch.

  • (cs) in reply to Olddog

    Am I the only person who absolutely hates those combo boxes to choose the year? It takes me an order of magnitude more time to find the damn year on those than to type four flipping digits!

     At least with Firefox, you can type into a combo box.

     

  • Pax Diablo (unregistered) in reply to EvanED

    For those details, you need to click on the "Quantum View" tab which shouldexplain in full detail the methods used to deliver prior to the order date.

  • (cs) in reply to whitetiger0990

    whitetiger0990:
    Why is that infinite instead of a divide by zero error?

     the limit of 1/x, when x tends to zero, is infinity. If (and this is a big if) someone, wishes to return a value, instead of a divide by zero error, infinity would be a good choice. But then again, why would anyone do that?


    Edit: Guess my rant was what you ment on the first place. The real WTF(tm) is that im at work at a saturday 4:00 AM. 

  • rob_squared (unregistered) in reply to Brett

    Anonymous:
    Ok, I'm glad someone explained what was supposed to be funny about this because I sure couldn't figure it out on my own.  I still don't think it's funny but at least now I know what it was supposed to be.  I don't get why this made the cut, is everyone around here an 11 year old boy?

    Ahh, there you are!  This forum was looking for an uptight person who enjoys a feeling of smug superiority over others.  Welcome aboard! 

  • amanimous (unregistered) in reply to un.sined

    I think the wtf here is that the big star says he's currently "Not connected" to TigerNet and the little text directly under it says he is in fact connected.

  • Dr Sanchez (unregistered) in reply to Hill
    Anonymous:

    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:
    Ok, I'm glad someone explained what was supposed to be funny about this because I sure couldn't figure it out on my own.  I still don't think it's funny but at least now I know what it was supposed to be.  I don't get why this made the cut, is everyone around here an 11 year old boy?

    No, but neither are we a bunch of old ladies.

    Rich

     
    I just want to say that Rich doesn't actually speak for everyone who reads here.  I am both an an 11 year old boy and a bunch of old ladies.

    Hill


     

    "The grownup in me likes the prospect of fun. But the kid in me is suicidal over what a fat bastard I'll become! "

     CAPTCHA: hacker ("Because I AM NOT A ROBOT")
     

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Rich

    it is pronounced "Jiggawatt" in the movie, as that is how it was written in the script.

  • (cs)
    Alex Papadimoulis:

    I know you have to cover all your bases with Employment law and all, but I have a feeling that the yet-to-be-born would not sue for discrimination because they were unable to apply for jobs at Government Communications HQ. (from Piers Kittel, it's a live one!)

    [image]

     

    That's no WTF, GCHQ have just obviously taken some time out from spying on us to invent a time machine and are hiring staff from the future ;-)
     

    <Aside>And has anyone else noticed this potpourri isn't showing on the firont page?</aside>

  • ChiefCrazyTalk (unregistered) in reply to RC Pinchey
    Anonymous:
    Alex Papadimoulis:
    Jason was pretty pleased that UPS was able to ship his order back in time. Next step: sending it to his address instead of some place in Virginia ...
     OK, call me stupid if you like, but after staring at this for a good few minutes I've completely failed to spot the WTF. I guess it's either because a) I live in the UK so am unfamiliar with some key aspect of US geography and/or postal regulations, or b) because I'm being a total muppet. Could someone clarify please? 
    How about the fact that it was delivered 4 months BEFORE it was shipped.  I think thats a WTF on any continent.
  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to AJR

    Just because the script writer doesn't know how to spell does not make it the correct spelling.

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to pinguis
    pinguis:

    whitetiger0990:
    Why is that infinite instead of a divide by zero error?

     the limit of 1/x, when x tends to zero, is infinity. If (and this is a big if) someone, wishes to return a value, instead of a divide by zero error, infinity would be a good choice. But then again, why would anyone do that?


    Edit: Guess my rant was what you ment on the first place. The real WTF(tm) is that im at work at a saturday 4:00 AM. 

     

    Tends to zero is not the same as zero. Division is defined as the inverse of multiplication. Division by zero could therefore result in any value and is therefore undefined which is quite clearly Not a Number.

     The best thing is to avoid division by zero in the first place where possible.

     

    Rich     
     

  • Rich (unregistered) in reply to Rich

    Anonymous:
    Just because the script writer doesn't know how to spell does not make it the correct spelling.

     

    And in any case, apparently the script spells it "<font size="-1">jigowatt"</font>

     But it's worth remembering that the correct pronunciation of "Giga" is with a soft J. Particularly useful if you want to elicit strange looks from colleagues in the IT industry

     
    (Though I do accept that the hard G is accepted in common use. Just fun to mess with people sometimes).

     

    Rich
     

  • missing (unregistered) in reply to pinguis

    pinguis:
    the limit of 1/x, when x tends to zero, is infinity. If (and this is a big if) someone, wishes to return a value, instead of a divide by zero error, infinity would be a good choice. But then again, why would anyone do that?

    Technically, that limit does not exist.  The limit when x approaches zero from above is infinity.

  • Artemus Harper (unregistered) in reply to missing

    The zero was in fact positive 0. Floating point number have negative and positive 0. You can get positive or negative 0 by underflow.

  • Brett (unregistered) in reply to rob_squared
    Anonymous:

    Ahh, there you are!  This forum was looking for an uptight person who enjoys a feeling of smug superiority over others.  Welcome aboard! 

    That's funny.  Isn't this entire site about having a feeling of smug superiority over others?

  • (cs) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    SomebodyElse:

    I think I'll go Buy some toxins, I hoep I can get some cheap.

     

    The funny thing about this is that all sorts of crap like this turns up. I've had the opportunity to buy all sorts of stuf I did not even know was available.

    Yeah, a while back e-Bay was trying to sell me a short-lived medical radioisotope.
     

    When I Googled for a certain article by Bruce Schneier, I got ads offering to sell me snake oil.

    --RA

  • anonoman (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    There is no UPS station in Linden, there are only two gas stations and the "Apple House" (great donuts . . .).  The UPS station is in Front Royal, behind the Mexican restaurant and the used book store.

  • pinus (unregistered) in reply to Rich

    I AdBlocked the context ads long time ago...

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:

    Not related, but funny.

    [image]

    The most useless sign in America!

    An allusion to Shel Silverstein, most likely. 

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Hill
    Anonymous:

     I am both an an 11 year old boy and a bunch of old ladies.

     Sounds like one hell of a Dateline!

  • (cs) in reply to frogb
    frogb:

    Am I the only person who absolutely hates those combo boxes to choose the year? It takes me an order of magnitude more time to find the damn year on those than to type four flipping digits!

     At least with Firefox, you can type into a combo box.

     

    Actually, that's a feature of most modern operating systems, and by extension, most web browsers. Same deal with list boxes and many other selectable text controls.

    Jesus, it never ceases to amaze me how many dailywtf comments are repeats, probably 2/3 of the thread this time. Are you guys really in that big of a hurry to jam on the post button? ("It wasn't there when I loaded" isn't an excuse, it's called refresh the thread.)

  • (cs) in reply to Volmarias

    Volmarias:
    And I have Opera, with Adblock that lets me block all content from a particular address, using wildcards. The hardest part is digging through the source to actually find where the script is served from. Since I blocked intellitxt.com and konasomethingorother.com, I seem to have gotten them all.

    http://kona.kontera.com/.

  • Fistah (unregistered)

    Never knew those MacDonalds boards were connected..

    FIST!

  • (cs) in reply to pinguis

    If the number is sent as IEEE floating-point, infinity is the correct value.

    Positive number / 0 = Infinity

    Negative number / 0 = -Infinity

    0 / 0 = NaN

    It should only throw a divide by zero exception if the number is an integer. 

  • (cs) in reply to csi235
    csi235:

    If the number is sent as IEEE floating-point, infinity is the correct value.

    Positive number / 0 = Infinity

    Negative number / 0 = -Infinity

    0 / 0 = NaN

    It should only throw a divide by zero exception if the number is an integer. 

    EDIT: WTF is the page doing treating something that should be an integer as a floating-point value?

    On a side note, The Real WTF is that the forum software has an edit timeout short enough that I had to quote myself to make an addition to my post.

  • (cs) in reply to csi235
    csi235:

    If the number is sent as IEEE floating-point, infinity is the correct value.

    Positive number / 0 = Infinity

    Negative number / 0 = -Infinity

    0 / 0 = NaN

    It should only throw a divide by zero exception if the number is an integer. 

    There are other cases in which javascript returns NaN.

    Any arithmetic operation beside addition (used as concatenation) performed with a string as one of the operand ("foo"/5 for example) if the string can't be cast to an integer in it's entirety ("5"/5 yields 1, but "5foo"/5 yields NaN)

  • Jon (unregistered)
    Anonymous:

    But is it Nan°C or Nan°F?

    It doesn't matter -- I calculated (NaN - 32) / 9 * 5, and the result is still NaN.
  • Ren (unregistered) in reply to un.sined

    Yes, I read it that way as well. It would have been clearer if it read "backwards in time".

  • Smurfer (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    well, this actually happens ALOT, (i am an EX-UPS employee, a robot took my job) but this happens when they reuse a shipping #, and it is only for residential shipments.
  • Jno (unregistered)

    Reminds me of one I failed to capture, on the sad news about Steve Irwin, and dished up by Google when I input the search "Steve Irwin dead":

    Buy Steve Irwin dead on Ebay!

     

    captcha: Craptastic.  You got it. 

  • (cs) in reply to RH
    Anonymous:
    Wow, only one non-WTF in the friday grab-bag.  Are things finally getting better?

     

     get over it

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous

    Which might make sense, except Linden is a suburb of Front Royal, so I don't see the WTF here either.

  • (cs) in reply to Volmarias
    Alex Papadimoulis:


    I hate those things with an absolute passion. They signifigantly increase the time the page needs to load, and interrupt me while I'm reading. Every time I run across one, I immediately try and figure out the server so that I can block it, and don't stop until I finish.

    HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE those!


    If you use Opera, you can get rid of them pretty easily; sometimes you can just click on the javascript provided link and it'll add them to the banslist. Otherwise, open the pages' source and run a quick manual search for any sort of javascript files and promptly add those addresses to the blocklist; refresh the page and the javascript plugin will be permanantly banned from your interwebs.

    This works since 100% of the stupid 'add popup' using sites I've seen link to external javascript files rather than use embedded javascript. 100% of those sites also make me rage at AJAX, but most sites that horribly abuse AJAX do that anyway.
  • SAmm (unregistered)
    Anonymous:
    Anonymous:

    The real WTF is how many people failed to look at the shipped/delivery dates on the UPS screen the caption itself says "Jason was pretty pleased that UPS was able to ship his order back in time."

     

    anybody watch flashtoons on friends of foamy? (http://friendsoffoamy.com - not work safe) look for the one titled Yesterday mail. i'd post a link but i'm at work.. anywayz i'm glad ups figured this before fedex got that whole time warp worm whole thing built btw, i posted this tomorrow ;-)

     

     

    superbowl...GAY!!

    icecream..GAY!!!

  • Faith (unregistered)

    I have headaches with UPS daily.  Billing Information received means that the company charged the purchaser's credit card inadvance for the backorder which generated an invoice which was then uploaded into the ups shared program with the manufacturer (which is the one we have).  Shipping Clerk overlooked or probably assumed it was a backorder for within one week and didn't take it out of the system.

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