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I find this comment kind of racist....but you just publicy told everyone that and I probably don't need to point it out.
Of course you find this comment racist. You have no sense of humor.
btw, you do need to point it out because Red5 didn't tell anybody that you found the comments racist.
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It's actually worse than that -- from the looks of it they used a software package like Systran from French->English on a text which had grammatical errors to begin with.
"Nous sommes affligés" --> we are very sorry (afflicted)
"Nous sommes affliger" --> we are to afflict
"est causée" --> is caused
"est cause" --> east cause??
Not only can't they afford a translation budget, they can't afford to hire someone with a high school diploma
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I'm just going to assume the sarcasmSLASHhumour got lost in the post, because the idea that a peanut is not a nut troubles my entire belief system. I'm sure many anaphylactics agree...
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Sorry for the trouble on your belief system but a peanut is a Legume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume
Up is down, left is Black, and Boolean is defined by True, False and FileNotFound.
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Not to discount all the thinking that's gone into my powerbook's (not macbook) activity monitor display, but as the submitter of the screenshot, I can verify that it was on an 800 mhz ppc TiBook, obviously single-core, one processor, not over-clocked or anything. The hard part was actually taking the screenshot, since the system had ground to somewhere between a halt and a crawl while the video was rendering. I saw it as high as 130% though. It actually happens pretty regularly with Final Cut (whenever I render a lot or export), but I haven't seen it with any other apps, even when the load average is up at 30 or so. I have no idea what Final Cut is doing to make this happen.
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Actually, many culinary nuts are actually stone fruit kernels (e.g. almonds, brazil nuts, pistachios, cashew nuts).
Let's trouble your belief system some more...
Which of these is a botanical berry?
a) Raspberry
b) Strawberry
c) Bell pepper
d) Blackberry
:-p
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"So who want's to guess what really happened when Eugene Kaganovich clicked Yes ..."
In Germany, we call this a Deppenapostroph.
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You forgot "folding the picture (twi for more security) and fax it like that".
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I probably should have submitted this one as well:
Hint: 5:32 is the only correct value.
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That prooves the saying "two wrongs don't make a right" :-)
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Thats because it takes 3 wrong [left turns] to make a right [turn].
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People always forget to take their test cases beyond 2, thus never finding the point at which their test or hypothesis fails.
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I find it kind-of racist that you assume immigrants can't be WASPs.
Rich
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Hey dude, I let you in on a secret and you out me to the whole world? WTF!
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They recently added little stickers reading "Caution, Hot" to the hot water taps in Microsoft break rooms.
I sold all my stock the other day.
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Mine has four dual-core 64-bit CPU's. (I like Super-Micro and Tyan server boards) Depending on how I configure the view on the resource monitor, (or which switches I use on the CLI), it will show either the usage per CPU core as percentage, usage of total CPU resource as percentage, or cumulative process usage of CPU as a percentage. Funny thing is, it seems to ignore how many CPUs there are in the last mode, and it has shown up to 740% CPU usage total.
So it's not really a bug. More like a lapse of judgement.
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I'm guessing something like this as well, but it's funny that it uses two different ways of finding the length (top and bottom), I would assume programming-wise that one would have been enough (whether it returns a good value or not being less relevant) :-)
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Lol, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy maybe?
Captcha:WTF
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On windows, this can happen if you're dumb enough to set something like that up as realtime priority, or if the application designer did it for you. Kernel threads get delayed, and if it's in the top couple priority levels even hardware interrupts are delayed or missed entirely. Usually your system either bluescreens or just plain stops responding in any way if you do that; it's like using windows 3.1 all over again! I know you can do the same thing if you run something as root on linux, and I'm pretty sure you can on unixes, I'm just not sure how.
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Pulp Fiction!
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Ah hell, I'm too lazy to log in.
Top 2 of this Potpury:
1. O-H-O, man that is chemistry. They should go for the nobel price.
2. Washington electronic street sign. Nice alphabet, but lost the Z. No teaching immigranz wizout it.
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The problem being that you want the fast one (read the header) when displaying the track listing, but when actually playing, you display the real one ("how long have I been doing this"). It might take an appreciable proportion of the track's actual playing time to find out how long it really takes to play it.
Yeah, it's funny. But inconsistent data often looks stupid.
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Speaking of VBR MP3 WTFs, long ago when I tried playing a VBR MP3 in an old version of WinDVD, the progress bar and played time in player went completely nuts, jumping all over the place. The song did play fine though.
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I see it very often on pentiums.
captcha: random (yes, it's not every time)
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Or how about the may contain fish or shellfish warning at Long John Silver's? I admit you can buy chicken there but what do you expect in a fish place?!
However, the board seems to agree with the warning. Captcha: clueless
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What's racist about admitting some immigrants come here not knowing English? It took my wife a long time to learn to alphabetize as her native language has no such concept.
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I find it kind of obnoxious that humorless PC nags get rankled by totally innocuous statements, and then post here to display their ignorance of the meanings of words like "racist".
(And no one assumed immigrants can't be WASPs, they only assumed that they could be, say, from India, China, Mexico, or other places where many people don't speak English. Not only are you pedantic, you're wrong in your pedantry.)
Captcha: clueless (how appropriate)
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nancyboy: I was criticizing the criticizer. In saying that the comment about immigrants was racist, he was himself making racial assumptions.
Rich
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Not only it's H2O (instead of HO2), it also ain't the chemical equation (as claimed in the original), but the chemical formula of water.
I actually had to google for this, because I've never seen it before. Does "No stopping any time" mean "don't stop even if someone else has the right of way"?
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Of course, by the time it's Christmas, there will be no 'L'
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+10 points for you!!
A very well structured and thoughtout use of the wooden table saga!
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The 101% CPU usage on the Macbook is nothing special: The machine has two CPU (cores). If an application uses both cores, the usage can in theory grow up to 200% in theory.
Philip
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we don't know what their Box Office Fee is...
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I do get the same result on linux so its a unix feature
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... that the site famous-quote.com is STILL not fixed, a year and a half later.
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...Please note the filename of the screenshot...
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So you are not allowed to stop at any time, while you have to stop to give way.
The little sign clearly states that under no circumstance you may stop there, but you have to stop to give way. This could be a way for the county to rake in the money from traffic-violations, because there is no way that you can adhere to both rules. :)
Now if it said 'no parking any time', it would have been more clear (though there is indeed a difference between stopping and parking, this difference IMO is not really warranted, but that is another story) :)
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Yes, the large STOP sign, I know that one from our own traffic-rules too... (I'm dutch)
but the second (smaller) one is too ambiguous.
I, myself, would most certainly say WTF if I would encounter them 'in the wild'. And will probably not understand immediately what was meant with that sign.
I used the wrong word in my initial post.. I actually meant "someone who did not originally come from America" (or wherever that photo was taken) (Sorry, I'm not a native english speaking person, I'm only Dutch)
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And this is why nobody can drive properly. The rules of the road aren't always the same everywhere (even from state to state here in the USA, let alone different countries). Nobody should drive anywhere for any reason without knowing the local rules.
I live in southern Texas, and there are some of the worst drivers in the world here. Does anyone really need to be driving F-350 at 90 miles an hour in a school zone while talking on a cell phone and making an illegal blind left turn into the far lane? And don't get me started on yellow lights, they don't mean "Hurry up, here comes red! (and the three seconds after the light turns red where you are apparently still allowed to enter the intersection)". {road rage subsiding.... deep breath.... }
(Coming soon, TheDailyDrivingWTF.com [tm] )
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LOL! This is a credit union--the credit union is simply making it easy for the user to get the application form ahead of time and print it out at home, where the user will complete it with a pen, sign it, then mail it in, or more likely, hand deliver it. The credit union is most likely located right at the place most users would work, anyhow (kinda the nature of credit unions).
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Yep, that's the point. You don't find too many hackers playing around trying to actually disable someone's id just for the fun of it. If it happened too often, the user would just change userids. Try randomly hitting a valid userid--when there are only a couple of thousand valid userids and valid characters are any character, with any length userid.
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Well. "Candy" can make fun of "John" with that feature. Dropping his ability to log-in to make fun of him.
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Actually, I'm not sure it really does break anything.
There's a pretty simple explanation:
The original programmer may or may not have uncovered a problem with clicking "back" at inconvenient times, so threw the warning message out there just to scare users from using the back button.
The current programmer supporting the application (me), never bothered to put the warning message to the test. The code has changed a lot and so the original reason for the message may or may not still exist. I've tried playing with it a couple of times and haven't found anything. I think it's more a scare tactic than anything (WTF?).
And if you're wondering about the maintenance window, I can explain that, but it'll lose it's WTF fun. Looks hilarious when you don't know the details. But basically, the credit union was merging with an altogether different credit union--I needed to get site to come down at 5 pm on 9/28 and have it stay down forever. I could have posted a message that said something along those lines, but that took too much work. The maintenance window message was easy to have come up--basically enter the datetime when the system comes down and the number of hours (it calculates the time back up from the number of hours), and these figures are stored in a database. So I just put the 9/28/2006 5 pm date and entered 10,000 hours. I know it's the lazy solution, but WTF? The Credit Union never complained, and now they don't exist, anyhow...
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Yes--until "John" gets smart and changes his userid, assuming "Candy" knew his userid in the first place (which is generally not public knowledge on a banking site).
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Well, just last week, signing some financing "papers" at a car dealership, one of them was electronic, using Acrobat and one of those signature pad thingers. Of course, you cant expect any joe out on the interweb to have on of those at their PC.
But in any event, some places can be fairly anal about their paperwork; the easiest way to produce an online form exactly like the paper one is to use Acrobat and have it submit the values back. It may be the case of: fill this out and we will start processing it now; print it out, sign it, mail it in, as a signature is required for completion of the process. The partial processing would be a step up from not being able to electronicly submit it at all...
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A friend of mine's box reports this:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
64045 www 1 83 0 76136K 75544K select 2 618:41 7518.75% lighttpd
40097 nobody 1 4 0 265M 264M kqread 2 17:21 7518.75% memcached
39970 in2 1 4 0 6768K 6096K kqread 2 6:06 3358.64% perl5.8.8
72336 www 1 4 0 42236K 13032K accept 3 0:07 67.63% php
72344 www 1 82 0 41428K 12244K select 3 0:06 64.65% php
It must be very costly with that many cpu's.
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NO...did he say anything at all about over clocking? MULTIPLE PROCESSORS that has nothing to do with over clocking
Why don't people listen before they speak?
BTW my CAPTCHA is Craptastic... how appropriate
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That's one of my favorite lines from Pulp Fiction. I also like Christopher Walken's monologue...