The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

hoodaticus · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Silfax:
Anonymous Coward:
Isn't DX just DirectX? ISTM the error message is pretty understandable then.

DX is also a fairly standard abbreviation for distance, so maybe it was a ffree after a fmalloc that failed? If something is distant, it certainly is far also.

I've always seen it written in lower case in Calculus, but very nice.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

asdf:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
Not to mention that there are no state income taxes and is home to both the NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks and the World Series Champion Texas Rangers.

Hey, check your facts there, buster.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.

What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

pitchingchris · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

hoodaticus:
Anon:
On what planet should the Northeast ever be considered the "Midwest". Stupid oxymoronic geographic adjectives.
It used to be called the Northwest in the days of the 13 colonies.
Addendum (2011-08-05 14:34): This is why we refer to the modern Northwest as the "Pacific Northwest". Even though an Atlantic Northwest makes absolutely no sense.

I've heard news anchors from New York always refer to state X as the Midwest, regardless of location. It's like anything west of New York is the Midwest to them.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

C-Octothorpe:
Peter:
Does Canada use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit? If so, perhaps the temperature in the Detroit area is an unconverted Canadian reading. 28 degrees C is 82.4 degrees F.
That was obvious, but the thing that was new to me was that Detroit now belongs to Canada...

Maybe it's not Detroit. Maybe it's Windsor, Ontario (you know, the city just to the south of Detroit).

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Spoe:
C-Octothorpe:
Peter:
Does Canada use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit? If so, perhaps the temperature in the Detroit area is an unconverted Canadian reading. 28 degrees C is 82.4 degrees F.
That was obvious, but the thing that was new to me was that Detroit now belongs to Canada...

Maybe it's not Detroit. Maybe it's Windsor, Ontario (you know, the city just to the south of Detroit).

Ladies and Gentlemen: Dumbo the magnificent! Not only did you fail to read the other posts, but you also failed to realize that this is a US map.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

What I really love is that the official language is Spanish.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Selling Detroit to Canada is how we continue to have improvements in the unemployment rate.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Historical term; that used to be the "Northwest".

(Also, that reading seems more likely to be for Windsor than Detroit, thus explaining the units.)

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Or maybe 82 is 28 typed backwards, which shockingly no one has yet thought of.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

(And no, "it's a US map" doesn't mean it's not Windsor.

It means it's STUPID that it's Windsor.

See the difference?)

hoodaticus · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

pitchingchris:
hoodaticus:
Anon:
On what planet should the Northeast ever be considered the "Midwest". Stupid oxymoronic geographic adjectives.
It used to be called the Northwest in the days of the 13 colonies.
Addendum (2011-08-05 14:34): This is why we refer to the modern Northwest as the "Pacific Northwest". Even though an Atlantic Northwest makes absolutely no sense.

I've heard news anchors from New York always refer to state X as the Midwest, regardless of location. It's like anything west of New York is the Midwest to them.

If you want to understand the origin of this expression, you need to read some history. After the expansion West, it was no longer fashionable to refer to everything Northwest of the Ohio River as the Northwest. So we started calling it the Midwest. To avoid confusion, the Northwest part of the country was and is referred to as "The Pacific Northwest", to distinguish it from the traditional Northwest that is quite near the East coast.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

doctor_of_common_sense:
the chef's choice soup on Friday is not at all to be avoided, unless you are an ASP fellow of course. That one is a special for linux users, which by conjecture, must be a majority in the area for the place to cater for them specially.

PHP, actually.

So, in my mind, ASP and PHP function essentially the same, as far as HOW they render HTML. Exact same fucking shit, and don't anybody dare deny it. So, MS advanced ASP to ASP.NET over the last 10-11 years - to an awesome technology. Where the fuck is PHP today - expect it may have been added more functions to its API? This is what I need somebody to tell me. How's PHP even alive? What morons pick use it (when they can choose ANYTHING else)?

frits · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

pitchingchris:
hoodaticus:
Anon:
On what planet should the Northeast ever be considered the "Midwest". Stupid oxymoronic geographic adjectives.
It used to be called the Northwest in the days of the 13 colonies.
Addendum (2011-08-05 14:34): This is why we refer to the modern Northwest as the "Pacific Northwest". Even though an Atlantic Northwest makes absolutely no sense.

I've heard news anchors from New York always refer to state X as the Midwest, regardless of location. It's like anything west of New York is the Midwest to them.

In their defense, there are at least as many people on the East Coast as there are in the between the coasts (>100 miles inland). Further, a significant percentage of those folks are in the NY metro area. It's much like measuring mass in matter--empty space doesn't matter.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Bort:
Or maybe 82 is 28 typed backwards, which shockingly no one has yet thought of.

Yeah, because every time they want to show that map, someone types in all those numbers.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Bort:
Or maybe 82 is 28 typed backwards, which shockingly no one has yet thought of.

Holy Shit! This is the second time now that someone who posts as Bort has said something that I also was thinking and also goes by the name Bort.

It occurred to me too, but I realized that it was highly unlikely.

frits · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Bort (the other):
Bort:
Or maybe 82 is 28 typed backwards, which shockingly no one has yet thought of.

Holy Shit! This is the second time now that someone who posts as Bort has said something that I also was thinking and also goes by the name Bort.

It occurred to me too, but I realized that it was highly unlikely.

Unfortunately, you have dissociative identity disorder and two of your personalities post here. Very sad.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Thank you for that. I was trying to find the odd number out on that map. That is mid west? Really? I would have thought it more east.....

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...

Don't apply your misguided morality to me!

C-Octothorpe · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Lone Star:
distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...
Don't apply your misguided morality to me!

Oh christ... This isn't going to be one of those "I have retarded kids, so you can't say the word retard" threads, is it?

I don't like drinking and driving either, but I don't push my shit onto anonymous people on the intertubes.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Lone Star:
distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...
Don't apply your misguided morality to me!

Shut up - the guy is right.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

RE: electric bill, was it for Doc Brown?
1.21 GIGAWATTS

Hmm, short jokes get tagged as spam... mental note to file later.

Matt Westwood · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

steveo:
Since no one else replied ... Espresso is correct. I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
I bet whoever put in the clearance price fat-fingered the keypad and hit the 7 instead of the 1.

captcha: usitas - usitas down on the espresso machine

According to Wikipedia "expresso" is an alternative form.

Trouble is, I keep thinking of the word "express" in the medical / obstetrical context, and it puts me off having milk in mine.

Matt Westwood · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

bene:
Lone Star:
distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...
Don't apply your misguided morality to me!

Shut up - the guy is right.

I think it's great that people in Texas are allowed - nay, encouraged - to live stupidly dangerous lifestyles. It means the stupid cunts are far more likely to kill themselves and each other off.

operagost · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Patrick:
SeySayux:
Peter:
Does Canada use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit? If so, perhaps the temperature in the Detroit area is an unconverted Canadian reading. 28 degrees C is 82.4 degrees F.
Yes, only one country in the world uses Fahrenheit, and that's the US.
<Cue massive amounts of comments why the Metric system is better>
<insert massive comment why the Metric system is better, and blasting Imperial back to the stone age where it belongs>

dkf · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

operagost:
<insert smug comment that the Fahrenheit scale was created in 1724, not the Stone Age>

The stoned age? You mean, like, the 1960s, man?

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

REAL Texan:
What I really love is that the official language is Spanish.

While Spanish may be the lingua franca in Texas, I thought Hawaii was the only U.S. state to have an official language -- and it has two of them (olelo and English)

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Canadian Anon:
Thank you for that. I was trying to find the odd number out on that map. That is mid west? Really? I would have thought it more east.....

East and west are the same thing blahblahblah ...

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

anonymouser:
Andy:
I had to look Detroit up on Google maps to even know where to look.

You must be from South Carolina. Or The Iraq, such as.

ROFLMAO

Here in South Africa that pageant video clip is way more famous than Detroit...

hoodaticus · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

frits:
Bort (the other):
Bort:
Or maybe 82 is 28 typed backwards, which shockingly no one has yet thought of.

Holy Shit! This is the second time now that someone who posts as Bort has said something that I also was thinking and also goes by the name Bort.

It occurred to me too, but I realized that it was highly unlikely.
Unfortunately, you have dissociative identity disorder and two of your personalities post here. Very sad.

Not so sad if it's concurrent. I could use that myself; just give me two computers instead of one.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Blakeyrat's Law: Any discussion of an ad will quickly devolve into a discussion of the use and/or morality of ad-blockers.

7 Posts was pretty fast.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Texan:
Jeff Hollandsworth:
It got warm in the midwest recently
Are you effing kidding me? [image]

That's why I live in San Diego. :) Haha, screw the rest of you guys. :)

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Mmm, division by zero soup. Just like my NAN used to make!

hoodaticus · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Gunslinger:
That's why I live in San Diego. :) Haha, screw the rest of you guys. :)

I had to leave San Diego for work you bastard!

My loins will never again know the excitement that is PB in summertime.

At least I got to experience it when Street Scene was still in Gaslamp and fucking, smoking, and drinking on the beach were pretty much still legal.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

hoodaticus:
Anon:
On what planet should the Northeast ever be considered the "Midwest". Stupid oxymoronic geographic adjectives.
It used to be called the Northwest in the days of the 13 colonies.
Addendum (2011-08-05 14:34): This is why we refer to the modern Northwest as the "Pacific Northwest". Even though an Atlantic Northwest makes absolutely no sense.

What is Britain then?

hoodaticus · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

mindsofpsi:
What is Britain then?

What the hell is "Britain"? Is that a foreign word, because we mostly speak English here.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

steveo:
I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.

Expressus is latin for ‘prominent and clearly exhibited’, ‘pronounced’ &c. but also ‘imitated’ and ‘squeezed / pressed [out]’ and cognate to words like expressive, expressed &c. In the male and neuter gender, the dative and ablative singular are both expresso. I'm pretty sure that Virgil would have called an espresso a [coffea] expressa.

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

Arne:
TRWTF is having two different colors for 0 and -0.

One color is for -10 to 0, and the other color is for 0 to 10. Would you like them to have the same color for the entire 20 degree range?

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?

da Doctah · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

TheRealPinkyAndTheBrainFan187:
The REAL WHAT THE FUCK is calling it an "electric bill". A bill for "electric"? Or is it actually a bill for electricity?

As opposed to Canada where it would be a bill for "hydro"?

2011-08-05 Reply Admin

M ... you got that backwards. It's not Canada that uses C RATHER than F. It's the US that uses F rather than C or K. The entire fucking world uses Celsius, and science uses K.

The only countries in the world that use F are the US and Belize.

TRWTF is F and imperial units.

shadowman · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

PedanticCurmudgeon:
hoodaticus:
steveo:
Since no one else replied ... Espresso is correct. I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
I bet whoever put in the clearance price fat-fingered the keypad and hit the 7 instead of the 1.

captcha: usitas - usitas down on the espresso machine
YHBT. HAND.
Actually, a corollary of the Law of the Internet is that if a poster isn't trolling, they have been trolled, so I officially declare the "YHBT HAND" meme redundant.

Actually, it doesn't even qualify as a troll. Just a plain joke. The inability to recognize that makes one simply...stupid. And throw on extra stupid points for thinking one is smarter than the person who made the joke and feeling the need to explain it to them.

shadowman · 2011-08-05 Reply Admin

distineo:
Lone Star:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
What I really love is that it is the only state where it is legal to drink and drive.

Morons such as yourself should be locked up for life. Fuck you, dick.

The asshole wants to drink and drive...

So you're ok with mexican slave jokes, but drunk-driving jokes makes him an asshole who should be locked up for life?

lolwtf · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

That little power monitor gadget is probably designed to consume outrageous amounts of power, so they can then send you a 40 million dollar bill.

2011-08-06 Reply Admin

DFWian:
C-Octothorpe:
DFWian:
neminem:
I think the real wtf is people who voluntarily live in places where it gets over a hundred degrees on a regular basis.
Last night, at midnight, it was 100 degrees.
That said, Texas is the place to be because of our guns, trucks, and Mexican slaves.
I noticed how "women" were absent from your list of must-haves...

I guess Sgt. Hartman was right: only steers and queers come from Texas.
Who says I'm a male?

On the interwebs, men are men, women are men and children are FBI agents.

2011-08-06 Reply Admin

TRWTF is the We All Live in America attitude on an international website. Where's Detroit? Care to explain?

Kuba · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

Rookierookie:
I'm not sure Detroit is worth more than a toothpick or two, sir.

Heck, they'd probably need to pay whomever decided to take it over.

Kuba · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

Arvind:
TRWTF is the We All Live in America attitude on an international website. Where's Detroit? Care to explain?

Where Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler are. Obviously.

Kuba · 2011-08-06 Reply Admin

Shinobu:
steveo:
I'm not even sure Expresso is a real word.
Expressus is latin for ‘prominent and clearly exhibited’, ‘pronounced’ &c. but also ‘imitated’ and ‘squeezed / pressed [out]’ and cognate to words like expressive, expressed &c. In the male and neuter gender, the dative and ablative singular are both expresso. I'm pretty sure that Virgil would have called an espresso a [coffea] expressa.

And that's why we say that one expresses milk from the breast.

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