• Seriously curious (unregistered) in reply to frits

    What did you do in Marine Corps?

  • AdT (unregistered)

    Actually, there is a potential explanation for the WixProjectNode error: The two types could be from different versions of an assembly. Of course, it would be helpful if VS actually mentioned that.

  • Khapin (unregistered)

    But if you "help" Google Maps by saying you wanna go through Liverpool, it gives a more sensible route: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=southampton&daddr=53.409532,-2.960815+to:Edinburgh&geocode=FYa_CAMdnpbq_ykJKRW-V4lzSDHwcdpMalqMpw;;FWC7VQMdsFzP_ykjJpilALiHSDEnF-d8exTyZA&hl=en&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=8&via=1&dirflg=w&sll=53.324312,-2.559814&sspn=1.798038,3.532104&ie=UTF8&ll=53.419354,-2.881165&spn=14.384949,28.256836&z=5

    Southampton->Cherbourg (France)->Wexford (Eire)->Dublin (Eire)->Liverpool->Isle of Man->Belfast (N.I)->Troon (Scotland)->Edinburgh Total: 1077miles, including 863 of ferry, and "only" 214 miles of actual walk.

  • Aris (unregistered)

    For your information, there is a country in front of UK : that's Belgium, that's where I live and they produce great beer (like the one I'm drinking ATM). You walk goes by Belgium and not twice by France, and actually it has a big culture-learning potential.

  • Pedant4j (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    The Visual Studio error is not necessarily spurious. In Java, at least, it is possible to have two objects of one class not be compatible if they point to separate instances of the Class object loaded on different class loaders. Had me scratching my head for hours back in the day.

    Allow me to nit-pick your terminology slightly, as is my wont. The same class bytes, with the same FQN, loaded by two different classloaders, are entirely distinct classes. The namespace of a class consists of both the FQN and the classloader that loaded it.

  • JJ (unregistered)
    Aaron snapped this from the Weather channel back a little while back.
    Exactly how far back is that?
  • zzzzz (unregistered)

    The Word one is bollocks. It quite clearly stipulates that Word isn't installed for the current user. Poor Anders doesn't understand the concept of "user", clearly.

  • (username *)me (unregistered) in reply to JJ
    JJ:
    Aaron snapped this from the Weather channel back a little while back.
    Exactly how far back is that?

    Back to the ice age ;)

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

  • Plz Send Me The Code (unregistered)

    How long would it take to complete the walk if you were playing that Benny Hill music?

    Silly British people.

  • Pedant4j (unregistered) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    Actually, there is a potential explanation for the WixProjectNode error: The two types could be from different versions of an assembly. Of course, it would be helpful if VS actually mentioned that.

    It's the only explanation. Seems Stryder is blaming his tools for his own shortcomings. Stryder, lrn2developer

  • forgottenlord (unregistered) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    At least they have you take the ferry. If you want to get from California to Japan, however, you are instructed to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. (Not to mention you apparently can't leave the US from anywhere but the extreme NW corner of Washington, and you also have to tour one of the islands of Hawaii before continuing your trip)

    Well, in that case it just ran out of alternative solutions. Now, why it has you go all the way to Washington State before sending you to Hawaii......

  • Erik (unregistered) in reply to forgottenlord
    forgottenlord:
    Herohtar:
    At least they have you take the ferry. If you want to get from California to Japan, however, you are instructed to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. (Not to mention you apparently can't leave the US from anywhere but the extreme NW corner of Washington, and you also have to tour one of the islands of Hawaii before continuing your trip)

    Well, in that case it just ran out of alternative solutions. Now, why it has you go all the way to Washington State before sending you to Hawaii......

    Cheaper kayak rentals in Washington.

  • Pete (unregistered) in reply to Buddy
    Buddy:
    Matt:
    One (of several) real WTFs is that Google Maps uses one arbitrary address as the starting point when given a city.

    CAPTCHA: conventio - a gathering of procrastinators?

    It seems to pick some kind of geographical center. The point it picks for the United States is at the shore of a small pond near a farm house north of Dearing, Kanas. Perfect spot for an extraterrestrial landing.

    Well ET needs directions home too

  • (cs)

    If you get directions from Google Maps for Los Angeles to China, it tells you to Kayak from Washington to Hawaii, then kayak from Hawaii to Japan, then Jet Ski from Japan.

    No point really, just interesting.

  • Calli Arcale (unregistered) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    At least they have you take the ferry. If you want to get from California to Japan, however, you are instructed to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. (Not to mention you apparently can't leave the US from anywhere but the extreme NW corner of Washington, and you also have to tour one of the islands of Hawaii before continuing your trip)

    Oh, that is hilarious! Google does have a sense of humor, and to give kayaking directions across the Pacific when given an absurd request is pretty funny.

  • MB (unregistered)

    Walk into France. Now back to England. Now back into France, now back to England, now back to France, and back to England. Sadly, this isn't France. But if you followed this route you could ... smell like you're French.

  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Trevel
    Trevel:
    When you install some programs on Windows -- Microsoft Office included -- it has you specify whether it's being installed for *everyone* or just the current user.

    This is, apparently, what happens if you install it for just the current user, switch users, and then try to run it. Why someone would do this and then go "Ha-ha! It's accurately informing me of my problem and what I need to do to fix it! WTF?!" is beyond me.

    But at least it doesn't try to send me to France.

    If you only installed Word for a certain user why are other user's able to run it? Why did they get a shortcut?

  • Juenemann (unregistered) in reply to Plz Send Me The Code

    That silly Benny Hill music is "Yakety Sax" by silly Boots Randolph from silly Kentucky. Not really a british product.

    captcha: damnum as in "Damnum, my feet hurt from all this walking"

  • ajtacka (unregistered) in reply to (username *)me
    (username *)me:
    Hasn't anyone else here walked for 8+ hours, without more than a 1/2 hour break overall.

    /serious

    Yup, I did, a few weeks ago. And I got stamps on a map, and a plastic shoe-shaped tag for my trouble. :)

  • Jellineck (unregistered) in reply to Buddy

    It is very convenient when you live about a block from the geographical center of your city. I've probably increased the time until my eventual decent into computer-induced carpal tunnel syndrome by at least 15 minutes over the course of my life by not having to type my street address.

  • EngleBart (unregistered)

    It really seems like one of the really long numbers on the weather map should have said FILE_NOT_FOUND. That would have made it a perfect capture.

  • Rodger C. (unregistered) in reply to Mark

    TRWTF is that you can install Word for only one user

  • ParkinT (unregistered) in reply to java.lang.Chris;
    java.lang.Chris;:
    The walking route one is not a WTF. The route includes ferries that take walk on passengers, and as a result is the quickest route.
    And I thought Albert had mistakenly chosen TriAtholon as the type of Route.
  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to Rodger C.
    Rodger C.:
    TRWTF is that you can install Word for only one user
    TRWTF is that idiots insist on paying for Word when Open Office is free and, uhhh, Open.

    But if you do install M$Word, and then it says you can't run it, how come it is obviously running already behind the dialog box? It is as if you drove your car halfway to work and suddenly it seized up and said you started it with your wife's key so F you loser. How rude!

  • EngleBart (unregistered) in reply to Rodger C.

    The real WTF is the Windows Registry.

    I prefer software you can unzip into one spot, move it around if you like, make a copy, have multiple versions installed (in different folders/directories/repetoires of course), and delete it without have to worry about registries, uninstall info, etc.

    This is a program, not user specific data!

    Add it to the path if you really need it from the command line, otherwise just use a fully qualified short cut.

  • (cs) in reply to Seriously curious
    Seriously curious:
    What did you do in Marine Corps?

    0311 Basic Infantryman (Grunt). I also cross-trained to 0352 TOW Gunner.

  • (cs) in reply to Calli Arcale
    Calli Arcale:
    Herohtar:
    At least they have you take the ferry. If you want to get from California to Japan, however, you are instructed to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. (Not to mention you apparently can't leave the US from anywhere but the extreme NW corner of Washington, and you also have to tour one of the islands of Hawaii before continuing your trip)

    Oh, that is hilarious! Google does have a sense of humor, and to give kayaking directions across the Pacific when given an absurd request is pretty funny.

    That seems to be the only way across the pacific. If you change the destination from Japan to Austrailia you still go via Japan. Truly silly is you change it to Dutch Harbor AK to Japan

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Q
    Q:
    "Walking directions are in beta" - which means the feature is not even partially complete. so you get the next best result...

    NP-Complete?

  • Dan (unregistered)

    Interesting. Google used to let you choose between most direct route and fastest. Or maybe that was Live Maps. Either way, that option would have been useful here.

  • (cs) in reply to Calli Arcale
    Calli Arcale:
    Oh, that is hilarious! Google does have a sense of humor, and to give kayaking directions across the Pacific when given an absurd request is pretty funny.

    Actually I suspect it's just easier to define a "route" across bodies of water rather than have a bunch of special cases where it has to say "oh, no route exists from A to B, or C to D, or E to F, or A to C, or A to D..."

    Then since you have a route that doesn't really exist as such, you provide the subtle clue that "hey, I can't just drive this part, I have to... oh, right."

  • Snarf (unregistered)

    The ramen noodles one is not a WTF either. I know this because I recently bought and consumed some of that exact same brand of ramen noodles (I think it was Maruchan), and noticed the very same thing.

    The "BEST BY: (MM, DD, YY)" text is pre-printed on the packaging, as shown in the image. The actual best-by date is then printed in a faint dot-matrix font about an inch to the right.

  • lawl (unregistered)

    Google maps does that when you drag the route to change it around. There have been many people posting pics of them modifying normal routes and then claiming that google maps screwed it up... and sadly everyone falls for it.

  • (cs) in reply to thnurg

    I didn't seem to have a problem with getting a land route. I also modified it a little to walk 500 miles. Link to screenshot

    For the added WTF, here are some of the last steps:

    363. Turn left 0.5 mi 364. Turn right 0.7 mi 365. Turn right 0.2 mi 366. Turn left 1.8 mi 367. Turn left 0.5 mi 368. Turn left 1.7 mi 369. Turn right 0.3 mi 370. Turn left 262 ft 371. Turn left 1.0 mi 372. Turn right 0.2 mi
    Better take a well-calibrated pedometer with you to figure out when to turn.

  • AnOldRelic (unregistered) in reply to Max
    Max:
    No way a ferry can cover 400 miles.

    Bing maps complains "We can't get direction because the route exceeded the maximum limit" when getting walking directions. This seems more reasonable.

    Reasonable? What if I want to make a multi-day hike?

  • Steve-O (unregistered) in reply to hinek
    Trevel:
    When you install some programs on Windows -- Microsoft Office included -- it has you specify whether it's being installed for *everyone* or just the current user.

    This is, apparently, what happens if you install it for just the current user, switch users, and then try to run it. Why someone would do this and then go "Ha-ha! It's accurately informing me of my problem and what I need to do to fix it! WTF?!" is beyond me.

    Considering that the user would have to navigate to the .exe (or search for it) and execute it from its installed location instead of using the All Programs menu.

    Captcha: capio - A person's head.

  • (cs)

    At least 84208665381115433566589983480478695 inches?!!! Whew!

    "Universe snowed in. News at 11."

  • (cs) in reply to Khapin
    Khapin:
    [...] Total: 1077miles, including 863 of ferry, and "only" 214 miles of actual walk.

    Of course, one could do laps around the ferry during the ride.

  • moz (unregistered) in reply to pinkduck
    pinkduck:
    For a walking route that's 100% walking you could try the OpenStreetMap-derived directions at:
    That route may only involves walking, but the last section of this one is likely to involve travelling in a police car.

    Google is no better, even though this is one of the situations where a ferry actually is the answer.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to (username *)me
    (username *)me:
    When the oil runs out I will both out walk the perusing armies and create an empire out of your home town! muhahaha!
    Presumably you'll be able to do that because the armies are too busy reading to chase you?
  • Rattaman (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    just like this silly b*tch.

    "an approximately two-mile (1.2 kilometer) course" - quoted from the linked article :>

    ps. why cannot I just copy/paste the captcha? That would make using this site a lot easier.

  • Slicerwizard (unregistered) in reply to Coyne
    Coyne:
    At least 84208665381115433566589983480478695 inches?!!! Whew!

    "Universe snowed in. News at 11."

    You already gave us the news. "Film at 11", perhaps?
  • poop (unregistered) in reply to Rattaman
    Rattaman:
    Anonymous:
    just like this silly b*tch.

    "an approximately two-mile (1.2 kilometer) course" - quoted from the linked article :>

    The Real WTF.

  • Mark Whybird (unregistered)

    So, ignoring all the 'not a WTF' comments, did y'all notice that the other 2 options presented ALSO involve crossing the water?

    Captcha; dolor. A color with a head cold.

  • Tom Hanlin (unregistered)

    Please note, ramen actually does go bad fairly rapidly. It's soaked in oil. The oil goes rancid. Won't kill you, but it tastes foul, and you'll be chewing antacids for hours.

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to Matt
    Matt:
    One (of several) real WTFs is that Google Maps uses one arbitrary address as the starting point when given a city.
    Another real WTF is than when given exact GPS coordinates, it often shows some nearby address besides the coordinates, and uses the address rather than the exact coordinates to center the map (and therefore to zoom when using the bar).
  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    Google doesn't actually allow you to decline to use ferries: See for yourself. On the positive side, this does kind of show you why water transport used to be much more popular in the past than it is now. As for the Japan route, TRWTF is that when you enter Japan as destination it automatically assumes that you actually mean 800 m from Kuboki in the backwoods of Nagano. As for those of you who're saying that the VS message is a user error, well in that case you might as well make VS always pop up a ‘User Error’ message when the code won't compile. VS should be able to recognise that the classes though having the same name aren't identical and display an appropriate message.

  • Omnomnomymous (unregistered)

    I would prefer this route myself.

  • Omnomnomymous (unregistered)

    Or this one.

  • (cs)

    The Comment is currently down due to a comment. I am currently... ...oh, screw it.

  • Bret (unregistered) in reply to cdosrun

    lol, I'm glad some one said it

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