• VE (unregistered)

    That flower course makes a lot of sense actually. We used to sit around in our boring useless meetings wishing we could be the plant duster that walks around the building and waters and dusts the plants. Oh to have such unstressful meaningful work...

  • sino (unregistered) in reply to Harry Carey
    Harry Carey:
    Of course, the real WTF is that there are higher level classes than Entry Level Flower Arranging. Sign me up for the grad level version! I'd like to do research on why a daylilly is often overlooked as the focus point of a centerpiece because the stamen's anthers are falsely preceived as overbearing.
    I'm 12, and what the fuck is this?

    #DEITY, Harry, you're an overbearing douche. I bet you also mock kindergarteners for drawing shittier than you.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to RogerC
    RogerC:
    I suppose getting 80% of your facts right is sufficient to be a reporter for CNN.

    This deserves a first most obvious joke post label. Not that its a bad joke :)

  • (cs)

    We've had it twice before, once in Error'd and once on the sidebar IIRC.

  • Ekaros (unregistered)

    Hmm, anyone else noticed the other WTF with phone number, first 0 is not used with conuntry code... So it would have been somewhat useless anyway, or system might have removed some characters from number...

  • (cs) in reply to skawtie
    skawtie:
    As a resident of Minnesota and a part time resident of North Dakota, I resent that.

    How do you spend more than 100% of your time in two states? Does your bed straddle the state line or something?

  • gil (unregistered) in reply to cconroy

    The phone number actually seems to be hand-written. Or is it just for obfuscation purposes?

  • (cs)

    "Andrew writes, "I really hope I live to be more than 0 years old.""

    If he ever does live to be more than 0 years old, maybe he'll learn a few things, like not to disable javascript in his browser and then complain when a javascript-based life expectancy calculator doesn't work.

  • Bill Clinton is the Man (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    Yep... all my explorer windows have files with those kind of names.

  • (cs)
    "It took a few tries," John writes, "but the second option worked."

    John, I think we need to talk about your methodology...

  • @Deprecated (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    RogerC:
    I suppose getting 80% of your facts right is sufficient to be a reporter for CNN.

    This deserves a first most obvious joke post label. Not that its a bad joke :)

    I thought it was great! If you've ever talked to someone who has been interviewed by a scientific reporter, you would find that 80% correct is 'overqualified'.

    Captcha: damnun - whatever that first WTF was about

  • @Deprecated (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    Captcha: damnun - whatever that first WTF was about

    Oops, that was supposed to be 'damnum', not 'damnun'. Damnun it all to heck.

  • (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    Wasn't the dollar-pound a currency unit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or some other old sci-fi story?
    Red Dwarf.
  • (cs) in reply to Mithras
    Mithras:
    A little dimensional analysis reveals: 
     10 pears           1                       1 pear                     1
---------- * ----------------- =  --------------------------- = -------------------
10 dollars   1 pound of pears       10 dollar-pounds of pears    10 dollar-pounds

    So for every 10 dollar-pounds you give them, you get back one dimensionless unit. Sounds like a good deal to me.

    How did the 10 pears * 1 dimensionless unit in the numerator turn into 1 pear?

  • (cs)

    The pears are $1/lb. The pears are $1/lb. THE PEARS ARE $1/LB.

    Granted, grocery price labels are confusing. I've taken advantage of this (more than once) to get items for cheaper than the corporate office intended, because I was able to convince a local store employee to read the label my way.

  • drobnox (unregistered) in reply to Mr Gramuh
    Mr Gramuh:
    There unproper using of affect v. effect is akiln to my perve of peoples who dont under-stand there/their/they're, But may be its just me.

    Yeah what he said!

    On the contrary, it's all perfectly cromulent!

  • GP (unregistered) in reply to Ekaros
    Ekaros:
    Hmm, anyone else noticed the other WTF with phone number, first 0 is not used with conuntry code... So it would have been somewhat useless anyway, or system might have removed some characters from number...

    I suppose that depends on how badly you expect the package carrier to screw up before attempting to contact the intended recipient.

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Ekaros
    Ekaros:
    Hmm, anyone else noticed the other WTF with phone number, first 0 is not used with conuntry code... So it would have been somewhat useless anyway, or system might have removed some characters from number...

    Floats are bad about losing the leading 0's

  • (cs) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Someone You Know:
    Wasn't the dollar-pound a currency unit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or some other old sci-fi story?
    Red Dwarf.

    Ah yes, thank you. I knew it was something silly and British.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    Another vote for the pears simply be $1/lb. Around here we have a store that periodically runs ads with a whole bunch of things that are 10 for $10--although in practice the register simply rings them at a dollar each even though technically you should have to buy 10 to get the price.

    Very rarely are any of the items in the "sale" anything resembling a good deal.

  • (cs) in reply to Lorne Kates
    Lorne Kates:
    "It took a few tries," John writes, "but the second option worked."

    John, I think we need to talk about your methodology...

    You, ma'am, win this thread.

  • (cs)

    The CNN WTF actually makes sense when you consider how their audience has declined. You don't want to turn someone away by telling them they suck at news, do you? Give them a perfect ten, and they'll keep coming back for more.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to gil
    gil:
    The phone number actually seems to be hand-written. Or is it just for obfuscation purposes?

    And that's TRWTF; a (presumably) conscious human being wrote, by hand, in a box clearly labeled as "phone number" in English and (presumably) Chinese and marked as not just important but "VERY IMPORTANT" and didn't stop for a second and think "this is a very odd looking phone number".

  • coder_mom (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Actually, it's probably 10 lbs for $10, I've seen that before. But it's very awkwardly signed.

    captcha: genitus - a highly contagious form of intelligence

  • (cs)

    I just cannot wait until the government is forced to modify Social Security Number by adding a digit or putting in a letter. I will just laugh my head off at all those programmers and analysts who assumed SSN would always be a 9-digit integer!

    When disks were 10MB and cost thousands for each, saving bytes was a big deal. Nowadays disk is running $.10 per gigabyte (and dropping fast) so stop worrying about that extra byte or two and start storing identifiers as strings.

  • All-Beef Patty (unregistered) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    Andrew:
    Gare.Chicago:
    Even better than the radio button goof on the Adobe printer WTF is the improper use of "affect".

    The improper utilization of affect v. effect is akin to my peeve of people who don't understand there/their/they're. But maybe it's just me.

    Gare

    Yeah, I'm like that with people who write "utilization" when they mean "use".

    Especially since utilization and use mean the same thing and are both perfectly valid words to use there?

    Both perfectly valid words to utilization there?

  • Bobble (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    I will just laugh my head off at all those programmers and analysts who assumed SSN would always be a 9-digit integer!

    As someone whose Social begins with a '0', I already laugh at idiot developers who think an SSN is an integer.

  • yeah whateva (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    The pears are $1/lb. The pears are $1/lb. THE PEARS ARE $1/LB.

    Granted, grocery price labels are confusing. I've taken advantage of this (more than once) to get items for cheaper than the corporate office intended, because I was able to convince a local store employee to read the label my way.

    And of course, for the employee that doesn't concede, play up a temper tantrum like a little child. I've had shoes literally thrown at me by a soccer mom, which is why I have such a pessimistic view of people regarding money.

    Nobody wants to pay as much as everyone else. If somebody sees someone else getting a discount, they want one too. It's a race to the bottom.

  • (cs)

    The whole pounds system is a WTF anyway.

    My first child was born last week, at 4.32kg. He's a big boy. But mothers think of their mothers, etc, so babies' weights are still generally referred to using pounds and ounces for the non-nurses (Australia went metric in the 1960-70s). He is therefore also "9lb 8½oz". More than one person thought this is "almost 10 pounds (as in 9.85)" and I had to Google to find out there are 16 ounces in a pound...

  • (cs) in reply to yeah whateva
    yeah whateva:
    Maurits:
    The pears are $1/lb. The pears are $1/lb. THE PEARS ARE $1/LB.

    Granted, grocery price labels are confusing. I've taken advantage of this (more than once) to get items for cheaper than the corporate office intended, because I was able to convince a local store employee to read the label my way.

    And of course, for the employee that doesn't concede, play up a temper tantrum like a little child. I've had shoes literally thrown at me by a soccer mom, which is why I have such a pessimistic view of people regarding money.

    Nobody wants to pay as much as everyone else. If somebody sees someone else getting a discount, they want one too. It's a race to the bottom.

    I've worked retail too and I sympathize with the local employees, but I draw the line at profiting on customers' inability to do math. The only way to fix the corporate office is to affect the bottom line, either via class-action lawsuits or guerrilla tactics.

    Your soccer mom should be banned from wearing shoes for a year.

  • dubya (unregistered) in reply to All-Beef Patty
    All-Beef Patty:
    Herohtar:
    Andrew:
    Gare.Chicago:
    Even better than the radio button goof on the Adobe printer WTF is the improper use of "affect".

    The improper utilization of affect v. effect is akin to my peeve of people who don't understand there/their/they're. But maybe it's just me.

    Gare

    Yeah, I'm like that with people who write "utilization" when they mean "use".

    Especially since utilization and use mean the same thing and are both perfectly valid words to use there?

    Both perfectly valid words to utilization there?

    No, but either can be utilized there.

  • eternicode (unregistered) in reply to Yogi

    If you can find a safe way to extract them from my body, I'd happily sell you 10 pounds for $10.

  • eternicode (unregistered) in reply to Mithras
    Mithras:
    A little dimensional analysis reveals: 
     10 pears           1                       1 pear                     1
---------- * ----------------- =  --------------------------- = -------------------
10 dollars   1 pound of pears       10 dollar-pounds of pears    10 dollar-pounds

    So for every 10 dollar-pounds you give them, you get back one dimensionless unit. Sounds like a good deal to me.

    Nonono, it's "10 {items} per $10 per pound":

     10 pears
----------     10 pear-pounds     1 pear-pound
10 dollars  =  --------------  =  ------------  =  1 pear-pound per dollar
----------       10 dollars         1 dollar
 1  pound

    So one dollar gets you one pear-pound.

    Whether that's a pound of regular pears or a one-pound pear is another issue.

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    The clean-up wizard one is old. Seriously, if it hits you, complain to Microsoft. Posting it here will not get it fixed either and it's getting annoying. Storing phone numbers in longs is not necessarily a WTF, since they can only contain digits. Yes there are the *, # and flash but if those are in your number you can't even be phoned by quite a lot of actual phones, so I suggest you switch to another phone company in that case. Just don't swallow the leading zero. Store a length byte, or prefix with a 1. Note: in many countries all phone numbers start with a zero, and only international ones with two. If it's guaranteed that you don't get those, you don't need to worry about the leading zero. And in some places phone numbers are fixed-length. But don't count on that remaining the case for ever. Sweet dreams, people.

  • (cs) in reply to RogerC
    RogerC:
    I suppose getting 80% of your facts right is sufficient to be a reporter for CNN.

    Sufficient? Hell, it qualifies for an Edward R. Murrow Award Thingy.

  • (cs) in reply to SQLDave

    You guys just don't get it. 10 pears/10 dollars = 10 lb/10 dollars. It's the same thing: each pear clearly weighs one pound!

  • ambrosen (unregistered) in reply to Shinobu
    Shinobu:
    Storing phone numbers in longs is not necessarily a WTF, since they can only contain digits. <snipped lots of caveats>
    Or just store it as a string, so you can keep it as entered by the customer. So you get e.g. 020 7946 0423, 0113 496 0124 and 01632 960 843 all spaced correctly if you're storing UK numbers.

    And if people want dashes and brackets, then you can put those in too. And if you want, write the regexes to space them correctly automatically.

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  • (cs) in reply to Ian

    Yes. Here in Hawaii everything costs way more than on the mainland (which is what we call the rest of the U.S.). Actually, a dollar pound for pears looks pretty good.

    Addendum (2010-01-23 01:21): A dollar PER pound, that is.

  • (cs)

    The Real WTF is that the Disk Cleanup screenshot has been posted to this site at least twice before...

  • chl (unregistered) in reply to cconroy
    cconroy:
    How do you spend more than 100% of your time in two states? Does your bed straddle the state line or something?

    Or staying in a state for more than 50% of the year qualifies you as a resident.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to ambrosen
    ambrosen:
    Or just store it as a string, so you can keep it as entered by the customer. So you get e.g. 020 7946 0423, 0113 496 0124 and 01632 960 843 all spaced correctly if you're storing UK numbers.
    You would, except that no-one knows how to space out 'phone numbers correctly. Especially not mobile 'phone numbers.

    The big advantage of storing 'phone numbers as strings is that you can enter something like "call 0207 9460423 and ask for Frank" in the 'phone number field.

  • (cs) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    The whole pounds system is a WTF anyway.

    My first child was born last week, at 4.32kg. He's a big boy. But mothers think of their mothers, etc, so babies' weights are still generally referred to using pounds and ounces for the non-nurses (Australia went metric in the 1960-70s). He is therefore also "9lb 8½oz". More than one person thought this is "almost 10 pounds (as in 9.85)" and I had to Google to find out there are 16 ounces in a pound...

    I blame schools for not teaching proper maths any more:
    Ali: "Well why don't they teach proper maff in school?" Rhodes: "What do you mean by proper maths?" Ali: "Why do they teach in kilos and grams when you should really deal in ounces, quarter of ounces, eighth of ounces? Everyone works in ounces. Why don't they modernise and teach in ounces?" Rhodes: "Well, I prefer the old ones, as being a tradionalist, I would have the old things back again." Ali: "Wikkid, and you need to know about quarter of ounces, eighth of ounces, all that kind of thing..." Rhodes: "Well, if you're doing baking or anything of that kind..." Ali: "Ai, for real, for real. Me know baking." Rhodes: "I make my own breakfast every day." Ali: "Ai. An me make ME own breakfast..." Rhodes: "Very good." Ali: "So I mean who ever bought a kilo of anything, you know? Apart from me mate Dave and he's gone down now. I mean, what is that useful for, the kilo?"
    That's how a lot of us folks in the UK get familiar with the concept of binary powers, that is... 8-D
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to campkev
    campkev:
    That's $1.00 for a pound of pears. It's not that f'ing hard, or are you all really that stupid?
    Actually, no. It's $⁻¹1.00 per lb.
  • Bobby M (unregistered)

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  • Zarggg (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    No, no, no... It's very simple: You buy 10 pears, and pay $10/lb for them.

  • Brain fart (unregistered) in reply to Shriike
    Shriike:
    Ok clearly the pears is saying that for the first 10 pears you buy it's only $10 a pound, but after that the price will either go up, down, or stay the same.

    Either that, or:

    FILE_NOT_FOUND
  • Zoc (unregistered) in reply to Shriike
    Shriike:
    for the first 10 pears you buy it's only $10 a pound, but after that the price will either go up, down, or stay the same.
    The produce manager has been playing too much Risk lately.
  • Vlad (unregistered) in reply to Plz Send Me The Code
    Plz Send Me The Code:
    Gare.Chicago:
    Even better than the radio button goof on the Adobe printer WTF is the improper use of "affect".

    The improper utilization of affect v. effect is akin to my peeve of people who don't understand there/their/they're. But maybe it's just me.

    Gare

    your right

    yaw write.

  • Jongles (unregistered) in reply to gil
    gil:
    The phone number actually seems to be hand-written. Or is it just for obfuscation purposes?

    Um...I thought that was where the hilarity and riot came from

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