• TerseCoder (unregistered) in reply to Alex
    Alex:
    Has no one notice that the random spam one says SQUIRTING inbetween its calls to $file3.GetRandom() ?!

    No but I noticed it say SQUITING

  • (cs)

    Google just took the Milc Inc. song "Walk on water" serious. Or do they think they are god and dubbed you to be jesus?

  • The Wanderer (unregistered) in reply to Tom Hanlin
    Tom Hanlin:
    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.
    Um... cup ramen maybe, but not "brick"-style instant ramen, surely? As far as I can tell, the latter is nothing but a block of dried noodles and a separate packet of seasoning powder; I've had it be perfectly good after sitting untouched in a cabinet for months on end, and I've certainly never needed antacids from eating it.

    And if the color and slight wrinkliness of the packaging is any guide, that's definitely not cup ramen in the picture...

  • (cs) in reply to Juenemann
    Juenemann:
    That silly Benny Hill music is "Yakety Sax" by silly Boots Randolph from silly Kentucky. Not really a british product.
    True, but for mechanical copyright reasons, the version actually used on Benny Hill's show was recorded by British session musicians under contract to Thames Television.

    This saved Thames £thousands by having to licence the original recording.

  • kayaktothemoon (unregistered)

    Google isn't trying to be funny by suggesting you kayak across the Pacific. The only way to test route continuity is to provide continuous routes.

    If there was no way to get from California to Australia, the testing software would need to stop at California and pick an arbitrary place to start up again. By providing a route across the Pacific Ocean, the software can ensure that all routes are covered.

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to Tycho
    Tycho:
    The walking directions aren't a WTF. That really is the quickest route assuming you're willing to take ferries. What's wrong with crossing into France and Belgium, or better yet, taking the train?

    Would a ferry really take 3 days over such a seemingly short distance?

    In fairness, it's still not a WTF - that's google maps for you. I t really can't work out even simple walking routes....

  • Miguel (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.

    Google Maps has several of the available public transit services for my area in system, but not, for some reason, the subway; the result is that in traveling a short distance, its recommended route is to take a train to the next town over, and then take a slightly different train back on a different route, rather than riding the subway for four stops.

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

    Perhaps because we can see ti actually has loaded in the background, you nonce

  • Johnno (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    At least you know that if you blindly follow those Google Maps directions and end up drowning you can blame Google, just like this silly b*tch.
    Funny thing, Kilometers must be longer in the US. That article suggests 2 mile is about 1.2 km. I always thought miles were longer than kms (about 1.618kms in a mile)
  • GI Jo (unregistered) in reply to Seriously curious
    Seriously curious:
    What did you do in Marine Corps?
    DAH...he walked, obviously!
  • googgle (unregistered) in reply to somedude
    somedude:
    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.

    MAybe 'kayak' equates to walking and 'jetski' is equivalent to driving.

    Plus you probably need less petrol from Japan. Wouldn't want to have to turn back because you ran out of fuel on the big stretch (THanks Chico)

  • Lenny (unregistered) in reply to Carl
    Carl:
    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!

    You're a dick. Sure Open Office is free. It's 'auto-correct' (especially on lists and paragraphs) is about 100 times worse (and more difficult to reverse) than MS Word - and Word ain't that good to begin with.

    I hate MS as much as the next person, but I concede the reason for their success is that they do produce superior ($ per functionality wise) products to most alternatives people can find.....

    Stupid Linux Cowboys!!!

  • (cs) in reply to Lenny
    Lenny:
    Carl:
    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!

    You're a dick. Sure Open Office is free. It's 'auto-correct' (especially on lists and paragraphs) is about 100 times worse (and more difficult to reverse) than MS Word - and Word ain't that good to begin with.

    I hate MS as much as the next person, but I concede the reason for their success is that they do produce superior ($ per functionality wise) products to most alternatives people can find.....

    Stupid Linux Cowboys!!!

    You fail on you're first sentence. To be fair, the rest of your argument is no better, but if you start you're argument with a gratuitous insult you have already lost.

  • Vic (unregistered)

    Never mind the Google maps one, does anyone see that "Hannah" with the ramen must be blonde? A lot of packaging has that written on them, because it tells the format of the expiry/production date, which is usually written on the actual container and not the wrapper. Stupid. Whoever wrote this article needs to get it straight.

  • Confucious (unregistered) in reply to Malenfant
    Malenfant:
    Lenny:
    Carl:
    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!

    You're a dick. Sure Open Office is free. It's 'auto-correct' (especially on lists and paragraphs) is about 100 times worse (and more difficult to reverse) than MS Word - and Word ain't that good to begin with.

    I hate MS as much as the next person, but I concede the reason for their success is that they do produce superior ($ per functionality wise) products to most alternatives people can find.....

    Stupid Linux Cowboys!!!

    You fail on you're first sentence. To be fair, the rest of your argument is no better, but if you start you're argument with a gratuitous insult you have already lost.

    My, my....irrespective of the opinions expressed in either post, such wisdom - and all for free?.

  • Dane (unregistered) in reply to Kensey
    Kensey:
    I don't think the Word one is really that bad. When Word starts up, if the user running it has never run it before, it will do some quick setup tasks like setting up its data directories in the user's profile. If it finds out part of its required setup is missing at certain points, it "self-heals" and recreates the missing parts from scratch. In this case maybe the initial setup or self-heal failed, so it's telling the user (in a sort of oblique fashion), "hey, I can't do this on the fly for some reason, run the Setup application."

    And how is that NOT a WTF?

    1. Why would it need setup data in order to finish those "quick setup tasks" ?
    2. If it really needs the setup data, why should it ask you to run setup AGAIN instead of doing everything the first time around?

    captcha: ingenium - I feel very ingenium today

  • Reinhardt (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.

    When that happened to me, Word actually tells me it can't run. In the WTF presented, Word actually opens. Normally when what you said happens, the popup appears over the splash and then everything goes away.

  • Reinhardt (unregistered) in reply to MB
    MB:
    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.

    Actually the route is UK-France-UK-Belgium-UK ... so on your return you could say you smell like Hercule Poirot.

    captcha: erat -> eeeeee(k)!! rat!!!

  • Thav (unregistered)

    I get the typecast exception all the time in visual studio when using a webservice running on apache. DRIVES ME INSANE. I've never figured a way around it, so instead of using the nice webservice connections, I parse the XML manually.

  • Gigasoft (unregistered)

    I like how the fastest route from Oslo to Stockholm involves a trip to Latvia.

  • Bilbo (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix

    There was a Cincinnati-area movie theater that one of the map sites insisted was located a couple of hundred miles off the coast of Ghana, in the ocean.

    I think they finally fixed it though

  • an integer between 1 and 1 (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    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
    Taking a walk on ferry as opposed to a walk-on train?

    Don't you know? Walking on trains is strictly prohibited...

  • eMBee (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......

    that's because it's taking the ocean currents into account, which go southward along the west coast of the USA, so in order to make it all the way accross you have to start sufficiently far north.

  • eMBee (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    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
    Taking a walk on ferry as opposed to a walk-on train?
    when searching in the UK, the train option disappears. i guess there are no trains in the UK. or they are unusable?
  • Kempeth (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    At least you know that if you blindly follow those Google Maps directions and end up drowning you can blame Google, just like this silly b*tch.
    This is priceless!

    Not only did she walk up onto a highway without thinking there might be something wrong about the directions.

    Not only did she think it was a good idea to cross it.

    No, she did that "on a pitch-black night"...

    causing her to suffer severe permanent physical, emotional and mental injuries
    I believe at least the mental injuries predate this incident...

    On another note. I so know that Spam Hammer situation. As a user of Worldwide Email Interchange more or less the only spam I still actually receive is their "totally No USE LETTER". Thank god for an additional spam filter inside the mail client.

  • RocknRoller (unregistered) in reply to Bilbo
    Bilbo:
    There was a Cincinnati-area movie theater that one of the map sites insisted was located a couple of hundred miles off the coast of Ghana, in the ocean.

    I think they finally fixed it though

    So the Lost City of Atlantis was indeed advanced, they had cinemas ...

  • (cs) in reply to RocknRoller
    RocknRoller:
    Bilbo:
    There was a Cincinnati-area movie theater that one of the map sites insisted was located a couple of hundred miles off the coast of Ghana, in the ocean.

    I think they finally fixed it though

    So the Lost City of Atlantis was indeed advanced, they had cinemas ...
    Latitude 0, Longitude 0 by any chance ? You would be amazed how many shops, houses, movie theaters, etc., end up there !

  • Jub (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix

    The real WTF is that the submitter thinks Belgium is France, even though Google maps wrote the correct name of the country into it.

  • (cs) in reply to SenTree
    SenTree:
    RocknRoller:
    Bilbo:
    There was a Cincinnati-area movie theater that one of the map sites insisted was located a couple of hundred miles off the coast of Ghana, in the ocean.

    I think they finally fixed it though

    So the Lost City of Atlantis was indeed advanced, they had cinemas ...
    Latitude 0, Longitude 0 by any chance ? You would be amazed how many shops, houses, movie theaters, etc., end up there !
    Including Dublin Ferry Port, so you'll be able to walk there.

  • JoachimS (unregistered)

    Aloha!

    Another path to try: from: gothenburg, sweden to: brest, france

    I really like the suggested ferry trip back and forth to Ireland.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    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

    Taking a walk on ferry as opposed to a walk-on train?

    Perhaps it was going for the cheapest route. Have you seen the state of rail fairs over here?

  • (cs) in reply to JT
    JT:
    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.

    Actually, I occasionally get this error on my work PC even when Office is installed for all users. Office would be working fine, and then suddenly it thinks the software is not installed properly.

    In order to fix it, I have to create a new user, login as that new user, launch all of my Office Applications, export the user registry keys for Office (HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Licensing), and them import them back into my normal profile. Still clueless how this happens, but occurs every couple of months.

    When your free trial period expires?

  • muflon (unregistered)

    You can read SQUIRTING from that random spam if you ignore the function calls :)

  • Avium (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    At least you know that if you blindly follow those Google Maps directions and end up drowning you can blame Google, just like this silly b*tch.

    "...an approximately two-mile (1.2 kilometer) course..."

    Umm...What?

  • Carl T (unregistered)

    Here's another scenic trip suggested by Google Maps. I like how it keeps traversing the same patch of water over and over from different directions. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from%3AKøge to%3AVisby&dirflg=w (If I can only get it through the spam filter...)

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

    When I was in the Marine Corps, I did. With a backpack and weapon. Easily.

    Sounds like a trip to the mall with the wife.

  • greyfairer (unregistered)

    The walking route is actually UK->France->UK->Belgium->UK. Pretty awesome how you could actually walk from Oostende to Zeebrugge to catch the next ferry.

  • teh ramma (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...

    Except that beta means feature complete.

  • hh (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix

    try poole to edinburgh... that gets you no less than 6 channel crossings, picking up the same route after the first 2 crossings...?!

  • (cs)

    Zeebrugge is not in France.

  • Not you (unregistered)

    "Robert's random spam" says 'Squirting'

  • Adam (unregistered)

    Google won't give me a route from Boston to Antarctica. What a disappointment.

  • (cs) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    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
    Taking a walk on ferry as opposed to a walk-on train?
    It's in beta, and may be missing pedestrian paths and sidewalks. Do you think it would know all about the UK train system? It probably knew about the ferries already if they can take cars.
  • Charleh (unregistered)

    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.
    Pedant4j:
    It's the only explanation. Seems Stryder is blaming his tools for his own shortcomings. Stryder, lrn2developer

    Actually I've seen this when the resources file sets a public property on a usercontrol to NULL in the designer - if you remove the NULL from the resx it fixes the problem!

  • Doug (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    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
    Taking a walk on ferry as opposed to a walk-on train?

    In the UK? You must be kidding.

  • Brad (unregistered)

    Go to Google maps and get directions from San Francisco to Hong Kong...you better have your kayak ready.

  • FuBar (unregistered) in reply to Avium
    Avium:

    "...an approximately two-mile (1.2 kilometer) course..."

    Umm...What?

    It's a simple typo. He meant 3.2 kilometers, but '3' and '1' are next to each other on his keyboard.

  • Lenny (unregistered) in reply to Malenfant
    Malenfant:
    Lenny:
    You're a dick. Sure Open Office is free. It's 'auto-correct' (especially on lists and paragraphs) is about 100 times worse (and more difficult to reverse) than MS Word - and Word ain't that good to begin with.

    ...

    Stupid Linux Cowboys!!!

    You fail on you're first sentence. To be fair, the rest of your argument is no better, but if you start you're argument with a gratuitous insult you have already lost.

    TRWTF is you don't realize how much of a dick you are.

  • Aaron (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix

    My guess is that Google is that it is the best route based on the transit info Google has access to, but it clearly is missing some important info. It's a WTF if only for the path it was able to come up with.

  • Dirk (unregistered) in reply to java.lang.Chris;
    google:
    Use caution – This route may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths.
    It sure might.
  • (cs)

    Google's map feature desperately needs a "Ignore all ferries" tick box.

    I don't understand why Google's normally smart people haven't figured this out.

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