• (cs)

    Geez, when are programmers going to learn to write a function that replaces Nan with some variant of Random(low,high)?

  • Southern (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Geez, when are programmers going to learn to write a function that replaces Nan with some variant of Random(low,high)?
    NaO
  • Obi Wan (unregistered)

    "Microsoft Linux"?!?

    Same class as: "Microsoft Works" "Christian Psychiatrist" (since psychiatry has long since declared 'man has no soul') And many many others that can be found here: http://www.oxymoronlist.com/

  • R. Foster (unregistered)

    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.

  • (cs) in reply to R. Foster

    How is that a jab at Christianity?

  • Not me (unregistered)

    Looking at the ad above, does it make you more or less likely to start a Micrsosoft vs. Linux flamewar?

  • Luke (unregistered)

    I've always found the problem with other distributions of Linux to be the lack of a Start button. That's why I use Microsoft Linux.

  • Leo (unregistered)

    What is that first thing supposed to be? A study on advertising? I don't get it.

  • Velko (unregistered)

    "Windows Server over Linux" as in "Voice over IP"?

    Discount for Philip J. Fry?

  • (cs)

    Obviously nobody here has ever heard of Xenix.

    (Oh, and a nice touch that the wind was out of the N...)

  • (cs)

    What is NaNF in Celsius?

    DivByZero?

  • (cs)

    I wanna know which newspaper or website had that Microsoft Linux survey. So I know to avoid such morons when I see the name.

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    What is NaNF in Celsius?

    DivByZero?

    Naw, just ((0/0) - 32) * (5/9) °C.

  • Rene (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    FILE NOT FOUND.

  • NotMe (unregistered) in reply to Devil N
    Devil N:
    Naw, just ((0/0) - 32) * (5/9) °C.
    That IS DivByZero, moran.
  • Moran the magnificent (unregistered) in reply to NotMe

    MORON, you moran!

    I sense a new meme coming on.

  • (cs) in reply to warmachine
    warmachine:
    I wanna know which newspaper or website had that Microsoft Linux survey. So I know to avoid such morons when I see the name.

    What are you blind? It's The Highly Reliable Times.

  • me (unregistered) in reply to NotMe
    NotMe:
    Devil N:
    Naw, just ((0/0) - 32) * (5/9) °C.
    That IS DivByZero, moran.

    What's a moron you moron.

  • (cs) in reply to PeriSoft
    PeriSoft:
    Obviously nobody here has ever heard of Xenix.

    Of course, but Xenix isn't Linux.

  • Dave G. (unregistered)

    It is moran, you morans.

    http://images.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=get+a+brain+moran&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

  • (cs) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    warmachine:
    I wanna know which newspaper or website had that Microsoft Linux survey. So I know to avoid such morons when I see the name.

    What are you blind? It's The Highly Reliable Times.

    ...whose front page headline is to be considered advertising rather than news, apparently. I note the presence of the Microsoft logo above the newspaper's name.

  • rbonvall (unregistered)

    I just wanted to be the frist!!1! one to say that TRWTF is using Fahrenheit. Thanks.

    Captcha: Celsius. Really!

  • Some Atheist (unregistered) in reply to R. Foster
    R. Foster:
    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.

    Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for Christianity!

  • JB (unregistered) in reply to Not me
    Not me:
    Looking at the ad above, does it make you more or less likely to start a Micrsosoft vs. Linux flamewar?

    Come on now. worse than failure is no place for flaming. Battle should commence immediately in the form of subtle, indirect sarcasm intended to humiliate the opposition and entertain in a true WTF fassion. Engage!

  • Joshua Norman (unregistered) in reply to JB
    JB:
    Not me:
    Looking at the ad above, does it make you more or less likely to start a Micrsosoft vs. Linux flamewar?

    Come on now. worse than failure is no place for flaming. Battle should commence immediately in the form of subtle, indirect sarcasm intended to humiliate the opposition and entertain in a true WTF fassion. Engage!

    your mom

  • Some Flaming Guy (unregistered) in reply to Not me
    Not me:
    Looking at the ad above, does it make you more or less likely to start a Micrsosoft vs. Linux flamewar?

    With Linux being so obviously superior, why would anybody start a flamewar?

    (Note: I flipped a coin and Linux got the nod; flame on!)

  • JB (unregistered)

    Since Linux guy hasn't shown up yet allow me to jump in for him:

    "The real WTF is choosing Windows over Linux because of stability"

  • (cs) in reply to Moran the magnificent
    Moran the magnificent:
    MORON, you moran!

    I sense a new meme coming on.

    It's not new(s), it's FARK.com!

  • (cs)

    The newspaper headline could be taken two ways.

    1. Windows Server running in a VM or emulator on Linux is more reliable than Windows Server natively.
    2. Windows Server natively is more reliable than Linux natively.

    Also, I believe it is possible to run KDE or GNOME on Windows. The ease-of-use of Linux combined with the reliability of Windows! What are you waiting for!

  • Bill Gay (unregistered) in reply to Some Flaming Guy
    Some Flaming Guy:

    With Linux being so obviously superior, why would anybody start a flamewar?

    Cows will learn to fly before Linux could do all the stuff windows actually do. I've recently tried several linux versions, and not only they were almost everyone the same crap, but they also lack a lot of software. In fact, they all offer the same sofware packages. Just try to find a Sony Vegas replacement for Linux. (good luck)

    Linux may be a better OS than any windows, but in practice it's hardly a choice when it comes to software.

    Somebody wanna start another Open vs. Closed source software fight?

  • (cs) in reply to Some Atheist
    Some Atheist:
    R. Foster:
    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.

    Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for Christianity!

    I think you only get that interpretation of Christianity when you divide what most consider to be "legitimate" Christianity by zero. Kind of like NaN, but with more words.

    I'm not sure if it amazes me more that there is actually something in a weather program that would be dividing values to get temperature (most likely is a bad reference to data), or that there are still people who have uninformed stereotypes about <insert often misunderstood religion of your choice here>.

    (Incidentally, I think that x/0 where x<>0 should be undefined, but 0/0 should legitimately be "any suitable number"; if we define y as the number such that x = y*0, then we see that if x is nonzero there is no suitable number to make the equality, but if x is zero then any number will do. This is, of course, only in the realm of absolutes, not limits, which have neat properties (lim{x->0} (sin(x)/x) is a personal favorite for instance).)

  • ahgan (unregistered)

    The perfect WTF for the NaN entries would be if the weather sensor feeding the display had been ripped off by a pasing storm

    CAPTCHA: Tacos - pity I've already had lunch

  • (cs) in reply to Bill Gay
    Bill Gay:
    Some Flaming Guy:

    With Linux being so obviously superior, why would anybody start a flamewar?

    Cows will learn to fly before Linux could do all the stuff windows actually do.

    Are you talking about Linux as a server, or Linux as a client?

    Just try to find a Sony Vegas replacement for Linux. (good luck)

    Linux as a client, it seems.

  • Marc (unregistered)

    Well there's your problem with global warming!

  • $|i(3_x (unregistered) in reply to Some Atheist
    Some Atheist:
    R. Foster:
    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.

    Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for Christianity!

    Real Christianity relieves guilt and fear (the proto-Christian apostle Paul was NOT a timid guy--see Gal 5:12 ;) ). If you limit sanity to relying only upon reason, leaving no room for the addition of faith, then Christians are indeed insane.

  • (cs)

    I love how low tide is at -999 am.

  • (cs)

    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    In the tradition of explaining the blindingly obvious: it's a "focus group" style question, asking "If you got this as a handout at the next Microsoft developer shindig, would it give you the warm fuzzies about Microsoft?"

    That so many people, who by their presence on this forum can be assumed to be intelligent, are totally fooled... well, I guess Microsoft can start the presses rolling.

  • Highly reliable reader (unregistered) in reply to RobertB
    RobertB:
    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    In the tradition of explaining the blindingly obvious: it's a "focus group" style question, asking "If you got this as a handout at the next Microsoft developer shindig, would it give you the warm fuzzies about Microsoft?"

    That so many people, who by their presence on this forum can be assumed to be intelligent, are totally fooled... well, I guess Microsoft can start the presses rolling.

    People here is smart, pal. But being smart doesn't give you any guarantee of knowing nothing, nor catching every single detail. By the way, i guess you're the only one who thinks that someone thinks that's a real newspaper. Therefore, i have to assume that you were being sarcastic. Otherwise, you're an absolute troll. And we don't wanna think that you're a troll. Right? Sure we don't!

  • (cs) in reply to RobertB
    RobertB:
    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    In the tradition of explaining the blindingly obvious: it's a "focus group" style question, asking "If you got this as a handout at the next Microsoft developer shindig, would it give you the warm fuzzies about Microsoft?"

    That so many people, who by their presence on this forum can be assumed to be intelligent, are totally fooled... well, I guess Microsoft can start the presses rolling.

    apparently you missed the [sarcasm] tag on that post about it being from the highly reliable times...

    of course they are hard to see since they're INVISIBALL

    but yeah, I think most of the people here got it...

  • ForcedSterilizationsForAll (unregistered) in reply to me
    me:
    NotMe:
    Devil N:
    Naw, just ((0/0) - 32) * (5/9) °C.
    That IS DivByZero, moran.

    What's a moron you moron.

    You're asking what a moron is and then call the person a moron? That is the real WTF.

  • Leo (unregistered) in reply to Bill Gay
    Bill Gay:
    Cows will learn to fly before Linux could do all the stuff windows actually do. I've recently tried several linux versions, and not only they were almost everyone the same crap, but they also lack a lot of software. In fact, they all offer the same sofware packages. Just try to find a Sony Vegas replacement for Linux. (good luck)

    Linux may be a better OS than any windows, but in practice it's hardly a choice when it comes to software.

    Yeah, that explains all of the Linux installs out there. All those people must be zealots right? Fortunately for those people, they don't care the slightest bit about the lack of some random video editing app.

    PS. I fail at ignoring trolls.

  • Invading Slashbot (unregistered) in reply to Bill Gay
    Bill Gay:
    Just try to find a Sony Vegas replacement for Linux. (good luck)

    Shit, I found six replacements five (almost six) years ago.

    NLE Video Editors http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5625

    Good luck on that whole keeping your proprietary application ahead of GNU software thing. Many have tried, all have failed.

  • (cs) in reply to Some Atheist
    Some Atheist:
    R. Foster:
    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.

    Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for Christianity!

    Odin is the true God.
  • (cs) in reply to RobertB
    RobertB:
    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    In the tradition of explaining the blindingly obvious: it's a "focus group" style question, asking "If you got this as a handout at the next Microsoft developer shindig, would it give you the warm fuzzies about Microsoft?"

    That so many people, who by their presence on this forum can be assumed to be intelligent, are totally fooled... well, I guess Microsoft can start the presses rolling.

    Feel stupid yet?
  • wee (unregistered) in reply to caffeinatedbacon
    caffeinatedbacon:
    It's not new(s), it's FARK.com!

    Damn you, Kitwilly!

  • This Post Brought To You By A Playstation 360 (unregistered)

    First one: One giant WTF. What is that, anyway? A banner ad?

    Second one: Lazy coders decided to just set the date to 3000 instead of adding a "never" option.

    Third one: Well, it's probably more pleasant than it is here.

    ParkinT:
    What is NaNF in Celsius?

    DivByZero?

    Google says it's "A P P E N D I X F - ISO C Data Representations".

    rbonvall:
    I just wanted to be the frist!!1! one to say that TRWTF is using Fahrenheit. Thanks.

    Captcha: Celsius. Really!

    Secodned!!11!!one

  • owh (unregistered) in reply to RobertB
    RobertB:
    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy.

    I wonder what the flamers would do with that.

    CAPTCHA: Darwin - a city under fire

  • Bill Gay (unregistered) in reply to owh
    owh:
    RobertB:
    Um, is TRWTF the fact that everyone so far seems to think that The Highly Reliable Times is A REAL NEWSPAPER?

    HRT: Hormone Replacement Therapy.

    I wonder what the flamers would do with that.

    CAPTCHA: Darwin - a city under fire

    Linux is crap, open source software is a ridiculous idea, the highly reliable times is a real newspaper (you trolls, still talking and no one googled it out yet), and the ones who should be in HRT are the christians. I feel pity for you, people. Specially the ones who still talk about linux as a real option before Windows, the true reliable operating system (even better as server than as client).

    PS: Darwin was right about everything.

  • An apprentice (unregistered) in reply to Some Atheist
    Some Atheist:
    R. Foster:
    Wouldn't be a dev thread without somehow taking a jab at Christianity.
    Guilt, fear and mass insanity. Three cheers for Christianity!
    ...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, I presume?
  • (cs) in reply to Obi Wan
    Obi Wan:
    "Microsoft Linux"?!?

    Same class as: "Microsoft Works" "Christian Psychiatrist" (since psychiatry has long since declared 'man has no soul') And many many others that can be found here: http://www.oxymoronlist.com/

    On the contrary, it's only a particular view of psychiatry that declares that. googles Psychiatry "is the study, prevention and treatment of mental illness and emotional and behavioral problems." No inherent oxymoron.

    And Odin isn't worth mentioning, especially compared to Supreme Commander Thor of the Asgard Fleet! ...what?

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