• tru kvlt fan (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Or less-than-attractive Canadian heavy metal girls: kittie
    That is not metal. I thought we went over this.
  • stu (unregistered)

    I'm sorry to dissappoint Benjamin, but that car is actually owned by a gardener.

  • poeorlco (unregistered) in reply to Coyne

    Absolute uncertainties don't work that way - when you say ±15% it literally means ±15%.

  • Daniel (unregistered) in reply to poeorlco
    poeorlco:
    Absolute uncertainties don't work that way - when you say ±15% it literally means ±15%.

    That's a nice tautology you have there.

  • The FBI (unregistered) in reply to frits

    I do, every time I search for images of FBI agents in compromising positions.

  • John (unregistered)

    Wow... an entire company devoted to misleading graphics? The top of Fusion Charts website is a 3D barchart. Bar charts compare one dimension (height), and use the second dimension to identify which value corresponds to which real-world measurement. The meaningless third dimension and perspective is just absolutely inexcusable. And even if it were a meaningful third dimension, part of the third dimension is inevitably hidden, and anyway psychometric studies show that people do not accurately compare areas and volumes to each other. Unbelievable. Maybe their graphs "look great" and make you "feel great," but they're not going to give you an accurate understanding of what's going on.

    I could go on and on about the other charts on the main page (just the main page!), but I'll just leave this rant here.

  • (cs) in reply to John
    John:
    Wow... an entire company devoted to misleading graphics? The top of Fusion Charts website is a 3D barchart. Bar charts compare one dimension (height), and use the second dimension to identify which value corresponds to which real-world measurement. The meaningless third dimension and *perspective* is just absolutely inexcusable. And even if it were a meaningful third dimension, part of the third dimension is inevitably hidden, and anyway psychometric studies show that people do not accurately compare areas and volumes to each other. Unbelievable. Maybe their graphs "look great" and make you "feel great," but they're not going to give you an accurate understanding of what's going on.

    I could go on and on about the other charts on the main page (just the main page!), but I'll just leave this rant here.

    Silly person. Everybody knows that charts and graphics are not for imparting information. They're for impressing people with in the scrabble for attention.

    A certain manufacturing company of a particularly high-profile consumer product in a certain European nation ("that's the WTF, right thar, goldarn it") utilised our s/w for the purposes of generating their financial reports. And behold, verily I say unto thee that they didn't care about the numerical content of the reports anywhere near as much as they threw their fucking teddies out of the fucking pram when the round corners of the boxes weren't shaped quite right, and the background colours weren't quite what they wanted.

    It's the story of industry the whole way through. As long as you've got a pretty picture to show the bosses, paymasters, shareholders, government officials, etc. etc. they'll carry on writing the cheques. To fuck with the numbers, they don't matter shit (and the bosses don't understand them anyway).

    I'm glad I got out of there and into a sector of the industry whose raison d'etre consists of providing lots of lovely pretty pictures at minimal cost and maximum profit.

  • Wtf (unregistered)

    I'm surprised no one picked up on the title of the article: "A Sincere Farewall". Wtf is a "farewall", is that like a firewall but you have to pay bus-fare to use it?

    Captcha 'saluto' - an italian sandwich consisting of salami & prosciutto

  • (cs) in reply to Wtf
    Wtf:
    I'm surprised no one picked up on the title of the article: "A Sincere Farewall". Wtf is a "farewall", is that like a firewall but you have to pay bus-fare to use it?

    Captcha 'saluto' - an italian sandwich consisting of salami & prosciutto

    The frist submitter deliberately misspelled "spensor" so I would argue that actually, subtlely, someone did.

  • kjordan (unregistered)

    The fine picture looks like it's had a digit or 2 scratched or photoshopped off maybe?

  • (cs) in reply to topcat_arg
    topcat_arg:
    ahhh how lovely, the Spanish translation on the ice machine is a total WTF itself.. a missing space and grammatical errors... don't you love Google translator?? and how nice, you shouldn't be touching the ice when you try to get it off the machine... If you can't touch it, then you can't eat either?
    The only real problem is the missing space in "la unidad". With that minor correction, the translation is "WARNING: Do not touch the evaporator while the unit is making ice. You can burn your skin! Please do not touch the ice while shoveling."

    Simple enough -- don't (potentially) contaminate the rest of the ice while collecting yours.

  • nah (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a young girl from Madras Who had a magnificent ass Not pretty and pink As some of you think It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass

    How to request this to become a featured comment?

  • (cs)

    0 fine. Just computer talk meaning: Not fine.

  • RFA (unregistered)

    The '85' relates to the octane rating, which is a measure to the combustibility of the liquid.

    It could very well be that this mixture is 70% ethanol and 30% something else, which amounts to an octane rating of 85.

    So sorry, not a WTF :-)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

  • Wikiwarrior (unregistered) in reply to RFA
    RFA:
    The '85' relates to the octane rating, which is a measure to the combustibility of the liquid.

    It could very well be that this mixture is 70% ethanol and 30% something else, which amounts to an octane rating of 85.

    So sorry, not a WTF :-)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

    No it does not: I wanted to link to the wikipedia article on E85, but after 20 times trying to make Akismet understand it was not a spam, I gave up: go see for yourself that you are wrong.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to nah
    nah:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a young girl from Madras Who had a magnificent ass Not pretty and pink As some of you think It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass

    How to request this to become a featured comment?

    If it had been original, maybe. But I'm afraid it's at least 30 years old, probably considerably older. (The limerick, I mean, not the (blush) a$$.)

  • The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to renewest
    renewest:
    0 fine. Just computer talk meaning: Not fine.
    Only in PHP it does. In strongly-typed languages, 0 means 0. And even so, in PHP and other weakly-typed languages, it'd mean FALSE fine, but not Not fine.
  • Martin (unregistered)

    There ass more!

    http://www.ass-magazin.de/

    Regards, Martin

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to tru kvlt fan
    tru kvlt fan:
    frits:
    Or less-than-attractive Canadian heavy metal girls: kittie
    That is not metal. I thought we went over this.

    Alumin(i)um rock?

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered)

    I took a look at Ass Tecnologia, and it turns out it's exactly what I was expecting. Shitty ERP software.

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered)
    ... the makers of BuildMaster, the v, and ...

    So that's who's been making rude gestures at our repository ...

  • z00n3$!$ (unregistered) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    nah:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a young girl from Madras Who had a magnificent ass Not pretty and pink As some of you think It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass
    How to request this to become a featured comment?
    If it had been original, maybe. But I'm afraid it's at least 30 years old, probably considerably older. (The limerick, I mean, not the (blush) a$$.)
    "Don't fuck anyone over 30!"
  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to z00n3$!$
    z00n3$!$:
    QJo:
    nah:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a young girl from Madras Who had a magnificent ass Not pretty and pink As some of you think It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass
    How to request this to become a featured comment?
    If it had been original, maybe. But I'm afraid it's at least 30 years old, probably considerably older. (The limerick, I mean, not the (blush) a$$.)
    "Don't fuck anyone over 30!"
    What is this, Logan's Run?
  • z00n3$!$ (unregistered) in reply to Matt Westwood
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a slick guy from Cliffrock Who had a magnificent cock Now long and throbbing You might be thinking But it had feathers, a beak, and fucked hens
  • z00n3$!$ (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    z00n3$!$:
    QJo:
    nah:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a young girl from Madras Who had a magnificent ass Not pretty and pink As some of you think It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass
    How to request this to become a featured comment?
    If it had been original, maybe. But I'm afraid it's at least 30 years old, probably considerably older. (The limerick, I mean, not the (blush) a$$.)
    "Don't fuck anyone over 13!"
    What is this, Logan's Fun?
    Is that the one about the kiddie-fiddler?
  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to z00n3$!$
    z00n3$!$:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a slick guy from Cliffrock Who had a magnificent cock Now long and throbbing You might be thinking But it had feathers, a beak, and fucked hens
    There once was a man named like Zune' Who wrote limericks in terrible tune While he tried so in vain To form correct refrain Maybe he'll get these anapests soon
  • The poop... of DOOM! (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    z00n3$!$:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a slick guy from Cliffrock Who had a magnificent cock Now long and throbbing You might be thinking But it had feathers, a beak, and fucked hens
    There once was a man named like Zune' Who wrote limericks in terrible tune While he tried so in vain To form correct refrain Maybe he'll get these anapests soon
    There once was a man named Anonymous Cow-Herd Who... ah screw it, since when're limericks funny?
  • (cs) in reply to The poop... of DOOM!
    The poop... of DOOM!:
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    z00n3$!$:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a slick guy from Cliffrock Who had a magnificent cock Now long and throbbing You might be thinking But it had feathers, a beak, and fucked hens
    There once was a man named like Zune' Who wrote limericks in terrible tune While he tried so in vain To form correct refrain Maybe he'll get these anapests soon
    There once was a man named Anonymous Cow-Herd Who... ah screw it, since when're limericks funny?

    A can-can performer from France Caused tremendous furore with her dance Interviewed by the papers Explaining her capers Said, "Must have forgotten my pants."

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to Al Gore

    It's better than putting Ethanol in the driver!

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to cconroy

    Hi George W. Bush!

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Jens
    Jens:
    So... not all companies in the world with 6500 or so languages check their name and abbreviations to comply with English usage? Shocking insight.

    Sigh. Do we really need to explain the joke? This is like saying, "It's not funny that the man walked into a glass door. Glass is transparent, so he didn't see the door, and thus the accident was perfectly understandable." But of course, that's WHY it's funny. If the door was opaque and he had deliberately walked into it, we'd just ask why in the world he did that; it wouldn't be funny.

    Personally, I laugh just as hard when English is poorly translated into a foreign (to me) language as I do when a foreign language is poorly translated into English. The difference is that in the first case someone has to explain it to me, and by then the humor may be lost.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Matt Westwood:
    As for "rootkit", it could just be that he's into bestiality with felines.
    Or less-than-attractive Canadian heavy metal girls.

    I don't understand either reference. Which is probably good. Sometimes being naive and innocent saves you from being grossed out.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to z00n3$!$
    z00n3$!$:
    frits:
    Girls don't exist on the internet. It's only dudes (except children...FBI... bla bla bla).

    This rule extends to people pictured on the internet as well. Think about that next time you're surfing pr0n.

    I'm sorry, but are you implying there's something wrong with that?

    Yes.

    Are you implying that there's something wrong with my social and moral beliefs? That would be intolerant.

  • z00n3$!$ (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    z00n3$!$:
    Matt Westwood:
    There was a slick guy from Cliffrock Who had a magnificent cock Now long and throbbing You might be thinking But it had feathers, a beak, and fucked hens
    There once was a man named like Zune' Who wrote limericks in terrible tune While he tried so in vain To form correct refrain Maybe he'll get these anapests soon
    The bad rhyme was for effect.
  • z00n3$!$ (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    z00n3$!$:
    frits:
    Girls don't exist on the internet. It's only dudes (except children...FBI... bla bla bla). This rule extends to people pictured on the internet as well. Think about that next time you're surfing pr0n.
    I'm sorry, but are you implying there's something wrong with that?
    Yes. Are you implying that there's something wrong with my social and moral beliefs? That would be intolerant.
    You don't understand how this works. My lifestyle and attitudes are not about judging people in the first degree. I might judge them for judging, but won't judge them for being who they are.

    Obviously you transported through time to get to the 21st century and aren't yet familiar with the fact that it's wrong to judge people for the things that they do. Enlightened people nowadays aren't so cruel as to do that.

    Do you know how hurtful it is to have someone tell me that something about me is just WRONG. It's like saying I shouldn't exist. How far away is the inquisition from that?

  • El Ka-Ben (unregistered)

    While people make fun of E85, it's growing in use among classic car enthusiasts with high-compression engines. Some cars were over 11:1 from the factory.

    Compression ratios over 11:1 generally detonate on regular gas, and often owners would pick up leaded aviation fuel to run in their cars. However, with a properly configured carburetor and some new resistant rubber lines they can run much cheaper E85, and enjoy their cars more. Circle track racers have been running various alcohol blends for years, so parts are not as hard to come by as you might initially think.

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Given the level of attention to details concerning his farewell, it's no wonder Adam left the Quality Assurance team.

  • Kerry (unregistered)

    I'm pretty sure I saw that ROOTKIT plate the other day...in Ottawa east end?

  • (cs) in reply to z00n3$!$
    z00n3$!$:
    Jay:
    z00n3$!$:
    frits:
    Girls don't exist on the internet. It's only dudes (except children...FBI... bla bla bla). This rule extends to people pictured on the internet as well. Think about that next time you're surfing pr0n.
    I'm sorry, but are you implying there's something wrong with that?
    Yes. Are you implying that there's something wrong with my social and moral beliefs? That would be intolerant.
    You don't understand how this works. My lifestyle and attitudes are not about judging people in the first degree. I might judge them for judging, but won't judge them for being who they are.

    Obviously you transported through time to get to the 21st century and aren't yet familiar with the fact that it's wrong to judge people for the things that they do. Enlightened people nowadays aren't so cruel as to do that.

    Do you know how hurtful it is to have someone tell me that something about me is just WRONG. It's like saying I shouldn't exist. How far away is the inquisition from that?

    But you shouldn't. Sod the inquisition - just send a hit man in and be done with it. It wouldn't be murder, it would be perfectly legitimate extermination of vermin.

  • dick vino (unregistered)

    If you have to proclaim to have a kit to root with, the aforementioned kit must be fairly small.

  • Neil (unregistered) in reply to Jay
    Jay:
    If the door was opaque and he had deliberately walked into it, we'd just ask why in the world he did that; it wouldn't be funny.
    People have painted closed doors to look open, which would at least explain why the man walked into the door.
  • Lucas (unregistered)

    Nothing wrong with the E85, 85% is the maximum ethanol content in the mix, which is the figure you want to know in the best interest of your car's engine. They chose to list also the minumum, problem?

  • Jeff (unregistered)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85

    E85 is "up to 85% Ethanol", but it's typically referred to as having 85% Ethanol for simplicity. Just like how wall power in the US is called 120VAC even though it might really be 110 or 115.

    The "minumum" label is probably a legal thing because there can be a summer and winter blend with different mixtures.

    Not really a WTF, just slightly confusing to people that don't get what E85 is.

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