• Funky D (unregistered) in reply to David L.

    Tim Horton's does exist in Dayton. I bought a can just to see what it was. Not bad, but not worth a 40% premium over the Folgers I can get locally from the Sam's Club.

    TH makes pretty good chili, though!

  • HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou (unregistered) in reply to DD

    Blasphemy!

  • eric77 (unregistered) in reply to eric76
    eric76:
    maybe the upgrade consisted of instructions on how to increase the number of file handles.
    Or maybe the upgrade consisted of instructions on how to increase the number of the version string to one that support would support.
  • (cs) in reply to AnOldRelic

    [quote user="AnOldRelic"][quote user="LenL"][quote user="DD"]And, some day, you may actually be able to get coffee in McD -- but probably not in my lifetime.[/quote] Missing the /sarcasm? Or were you serious? I've got a coupon right in front of me for $1.00 off any Medium Hot coffee.[/quote]

    Well I guess he mean RAEAL coffee, you know the kind that is actually hot when you drink it.....

  • FreeBSDPwns (unregistered) in reply to jesus_christ_you_people

    You are right. I have spent two work terms at an agency and plan a third with a different agency this summer.

    The gist of a dev server is that it is secluded from production and the team can do to the server, whatever they wish! It is a DEVELOPMENT SERVER...why is there a policy for updating??? Why is a DEV SERVER supported by tech support at ALLL?

    The TEAM/branch/dept. or w/e supports their OWN DEV SERVERS. Only production servers are open to support boobs.

  • Skinman55 (unregistered) in reply to frits
    1. Coupon for Hortons donuts
  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to null reference

    Umm... they are next door to almost every Wendy's in Ohio.

  • Ken B. (unregistered)
    "Um, What about our FTP site?" his boss offered helpfully.

    "Certainly, we can fax it to your FTP site. What's the number?"

    "74.50.106.245:21"

    :-)

  • HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou (unregistered) in reply to DCRoss
    DCRoss:
    To our non-Canuck friends, "You've always got time for Tim Horton's" is their current marketing slogan.
    Don't forget people who live in former parts of the USA which have already been annexed by Canadia. I have been seeing Canadian military bases disguised as Tim Horton's all over the New York Throughway for years.
    Firstly, you better spell the name of your soon-to-be masters correctly.

    Secondly, I was thinking of eliminating you because you revealed our plans, but decided that it isn't worth it. The US has far too big an ego to even consider the possibility of annexation.

    The first seven things that will happen when we take over:

    1. You will be required to use metric for everything. (Oh boy, this'll be fun to watch!)
    2. You will replace all intersections with roundabouts. (Without traffic lights, unlike that one you got in the middle o' DC.)
    3. You will be formally banned from calling yourselves 'Americans' under penalty of life-in-prison. 'USAans' is acceptable. (Shame we don't have the death penalty in Canada.)
    4. You will reintroduce the letter 'u' into words which require it, putting an end to this horrifying practice you have of omitting them everywhere. The first word to be fixed is 'color', correctly spelled as 'colour'.
    5. You will be forced to recognize all the parts of history you keep conveniently keep 'forgetting', like the fact that we burned down your White House, that you fine with Hitler and his concentration camps until he sank one of your boats, and that you actually lost the Vietnam war.
    6. You will stop abusing the word 'state' and rename all your 'states' as 'provinces'.
    7. You will be required to know who is Rick Mercer.

    That'll teach those cocky traitors to the Crown who said invading Canada would simply be a matter of marching up there with an army.

  • RandomUser423681 (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    Sean:
    Periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. Keep up the non-period-inside-quotation-marks good work. :)
    Compare: "Periods ALWAYS go inside." said Sean. vs: "Periods ALWAYS go inside" said Sean.

    In the first example I am claiming you ended your sentence after four words. The second example is an accurate (if incomplete) quote.

    My CAPTCHA -- vindico -- proves I'm right!

    And, as I recall, most of my English teachers would have insisted that the second should be: "Periods ALWAYS go inside," said Sean.
  • RandomUser423681 (unregistered) in reply to RandomUser423681
    RandomUser423681:
    Fred:
    Sean:
    Periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. Keep up the non-period-inside-quotation-marks good work. :)
    Compare: "Periods ALWAYS go inside." said Sean. vs: "Periods ALWAYS go inside" said Sean.

    In the first example I am claiming you ended your sentence after four words. The second example is an accurate (if incomplete) quote.

    My CAPTCHA -- vindico -- proves I'm right!

    And, as I recall, most of my English teachers would have insisted that the second should be: "Periods ALWAYS go inside," said Sean.
    Or: "Periods ALWAYS go inside...", said Sean.
  • bw (unregistered) in reply to RandomUser423681
    And, as I recall, most of my English teachers would have insisted that the second should be: "Periods ALWAYS go inside," said Sean.

    Mine would have insisted on:

    "Periods ALWAYS go inside", said Sean.

  • Big G (unregistered) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou
    HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou:
    DCRoss:
    To our non-Canuck friends, "You've always got time for Tim Horton's" is their current marketing slogan.
    Don't forget people who live in former parts of the USA which have already been annexed by Canadia. I have been seeing Canadian military bases disguised as Tim Horton's all over the New York Throughway for years.
    Firstly, you better spell the name of your soon-to-be masters correctly.

    Secondly, I was thinking of eliminating you because you revealed our plans, but decided that it isn't worth it. The US has far too big an ego to even consider the possibility of annexation.

    The first seven things that will happen when we take over:

    1. You will be required to use metric for everything. (Oh boy, this'll be fun to watch!)
    2. You will replace all intersections with roundabouts. (Without traffic lights, unlike that one you got in the middle o' DC.)
    3. You will be formally banned from calling yourselves 'Americans' under penalty of life-in-prison. 'USAans' is acceptable. (Shame we don't have the death penalty in Canada.)
    4. You will reintroduce the letter 'u' into words which require it, putting an end to this horrifying practice you have of omitting them everywhere. The first word to be fixed is 'color', correctly spelled as 'colour'.
    5. You will be forced to recognize all the parts of history you keep conveniently keep 'forgetting', like the fact that we burned down your White House, that you fine with Hitler and his concentration camps until he sank one of your boats, and that you actually lost the Vietnam war.
    6. You will stop abusing the word 'state' and rename all your 'states' as 'provinces'.
    7. You will be required to know who is Rick Mercer.

    That'll teach those cocky traitors to the Crown who said invading Canada would simply be a matter of marching up there with an army.

    As a USAian I'll gladly accept #1 (And it will be fun to watch). However, in #5, I think you mixed up your World Wars. I think you are referencing the Lusitania, which was WWI. It didn't directly start US involvment, but lead to it a couple of years later.

  • cmccorvey (unregistered) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou

    Well I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords...

  • (cs) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    null reference:
    Tim Hortons FTW! Why don't they exist in Ohio??

    They do exist in Ohio. There's one off of I-71 a little bit south of Columbus IIRC. I've also seen one in Marietta in SW Ohio.

    There is one right by the OSUMC in Columbus, too. I lived around the corner from it for a year and ate there exactly once... on the day I moved out of Ohio for good.

  • (cs) in reply to Yazeran
    Yazeran:

    Well I guess he mean RAEAL coffee, you know the kind that is actually hot when you drink it.....

    McD's already got pwned hard for serving hot coffee; say what you will, but they definitely learned their lesson. That lesson being: do not serve anything hot to anyone or they will find a way to burn themselves with it. If you serve something at all warm mark it prominently as hot in a manner similar to: "HOT! CAREFUL! YOU MIGHT KILL YOURSELF!" Preferably with flashing 50 pt. font, if available.

  • Anonymously Yours (unregistered) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou
    HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou:
    Firstly, youu better spell the name ouf youur sououn-tou-be masters courrectly.

    Secoundly, I was thinking ouf eliminating youu because youu revealed ouur plans, but decided that it isn't wourth it. The US has far touou big an egou tou even counsider the poussibility ouf annexatioun.

    The first seven things that will happen when we take ouver:

    1. Youu will be required tou use metric four everything. (ouh bouy, this'll be fun tou watch!)
    2. Youu will replace all intersectiouns with rouundabouuts. (Withouut traffic lights, unlike that oune youu gout in the middle ou' DC.)
    3. Youu will be fourmally banned froum calling youurselves 'Americans' under penalty ouf life-in-prisoun. 'USAans' is acceptable. (Shame we doun't have the death penalty in Canada.)
    4. Youu will reintrouduce the letter 'u' intou wourds which require it, putting an end tou this hourrifying practice youu have ouf oumitting them everywhere. The first wourd tou be fixed is 'coulour', courrectly spelled as 'coulouur'.
    5. Youu will be fourced tou recougnize all the parts ouf histoury youu keep counveniently keep 'fourgetting', like the fact that we burned douwn youur White Houuse, that youu fine with Hitler and his councentratioun camps until he sank oune ouf youur bouats, and that youu actually loust the Vietnam war.
    6. Youu will stoup abusing the wourd 'state' and rename all youur 'states' as 'prouvinces'.
    7. Youu will be required tou knouw whou is Rick Mercer.

    That'll teach thouse coucky traitours tou the Crouwn whou said invading Canada wouuld simply be a matter ouf marching up there with an army.

    Fixed that four you. Filthy Canadians with your ouveruse of 'u' in wourds.

    CAPTCHA: nulla - sufficient amount ouf u-s already, thanks.

  • Crash Magnet (unregistered) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou
    HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou:
    DCRoss:
    To our non-Canuck friends, "You've always got time for Tim Horton's" is their current marketing slogan.
    Don't forget people who live in former parts of the USA which have already been annexed by Canadia. I have been seeing Canadian military bases disguised as Tim Horton's all over the New York Throughway for years.
    Firstly, you better spell the name of your soon-to-be masters correctly.

    Secondly, I was thinking of eliminating you because you revealed our plans, but decided that it isn't worth it. The US has far too big an ego to even consider the possibility of annexation.

    The first seven things that will happen when we take over:

    1. You will be required to use metric for everything. (Oh boy, this'll be fun to watch!)
    2. You will replace all intersections with roundabouts. (Without traffic lights, unlike that one you got in the middle o' DC.)
    3. You will be formally banned from calling yourselves 'Americans' under penalty of life-in-prison. 'USAans' is acceptable. (Shame we don't have the death penalty in Canada.)
    4. You will reintroduce the letter 'u' into words which require it, putting an end to this horrifying practice you have of omitting them everywhere. The first word to be fixed is 'color', correctly spelled as 'colour'.
    5. You will be forced to recognize all the parts of history you keep conveniently keep 'forgetting', like the fact that we burned down your White House, that you fine with Hitler and his concentration camps until he sank one of your boats, and that you actually lost the Vietnam war.
    6. You will stop abusing the word 'state' and rename all your 'states' as 'provinces'.
    7. You will be required to know who is Rick Mercer.

    That'll teach those cocky traitors to the Crown who said invading Canada would simply be a matter of marching up there with an army.

    What about Ice Hockey, Boxing Day, or replacing the head shots of dead white men with that English chick on all our currency? Or a Health Care system that works?

    It would be hard to do worst than those clowns in D.C. now. I for one would welcome our new overlords.

  • AA (unregistered) in reply to robb
    robb:
    The real WTF is naming a man Jody.

    Almost as big a WTF as naming a man Jayne.

  • (cs) in reply to Nice Troll
    Nice Troll:
    print "Hello World!\n"; # only quote what you want printed vs. print "Hello World!\n;" # syntax error

    It's only a syntax error in Perl if that's not the last statement. In Perl, semicolons separate statements; they don't necessarily terminate them.

    Still, it would look stupid seeing

    perl:
    Hello World! ;

    So yes, strict English quoting rules are stupid.

  • (cs) in reply to Bub
    Bub:
    null reference:
    Tim Hortons FTW! Why don't they exist in Ohio??

    Nothing exists in Ohio.

    You've obviously been there (I grew up in Toledo).

  • Herby (unregistered)

    To take this into a proper context: s/Tim Hortons/Peet's/ s/Eh!/WTF/ s/Canada/California/ s/ou/o/ There might be more, but that ought to do it!

  • Scrappy (unregistered) in reply to ircmaxell
    ircmaxell:
    Rune:
    To me the real WTF is upgrading a database that is in a broken state.
    Good point... If it was me, when the guy said that they can support an older version in a production app but not a development one, I would have said thank you and hung up. Then I would have called back and said that the problem was happening on my production system and I need help.

    Seriously, they want you running different versions between development and production? WTF?

    Seriously, from the point of view of the vendor, both databases are production databases. Just because one is used for development tasks by the client should have no bearing on anything support-wise.

    The gov't contractors weren't developing the database were they? It's like Microsoft not supporting OS's just because some development is occurring with them.

  • The Bytemaster (unregistered)

    I wonder if this thread is the reason that Tim Hortons is trending on twitter today...

  • Jack Skellington (unregistered) in reply to fuzzix
    fuzzix:
    "We should call the vendor and see what they say," he said.

    "Can we try this while you sit on hold?" he asked.

    Who said the whatnow?

    I got lost here too....also, what was the boss adamant about?

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to Crash Magnet
    Crash Magnet:
    Or a Health Care system that works?

    Yes, a health care system that works so well it's going broke and they are considering private insurance as a means to make it soluble.

    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/89349727.html

  • Some Aussie (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Think yourselves lucky you're not tea drinkers - you can't get a good cup of tea anywhere except in your own home. And yes I'm British, shut up already.

    What on God's earth would possess you to even post something like that!!

    Stupid POMs!!

  • DLJessup (unregistered) in reply to Bub
    Bub:
    null reference:
    Tim Hortons FTW! Why don't they exist in Ohio??

    Nothing exists in Ohio.

    Actually, Nothing exists in Arizona. (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=nothing%20az&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)

  • J (unregistered) in reply to bw
    bw:
    And, as I recall, most of my English teachers would have insisted that the second should be: "Periods ALWAYS go inside," said Sean.

    Mine would have insisted on:

    "Periods ALWAYS go inside", said Sean.

    The rule does not specify that periods go inside quotes - the rule is "Punctuation marks always go inside quotes."

    The correct version of that sentence would be:

    "Punctuation ALWAYS goes inside," said Sean.

  • (cs) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter:
    For long-term archival storage, paper kills any digital format out there. Depending on the kind of paper and the conditions in which its stored, it can easily last thousands of years. Nothing optical or magnetic comes anywhere near it.

    You assume that you have to keep all the bits on the original media. The good thing about digital formats is that they can easily be copied to new media.

    Obviously the whole digital preservation issue is a lot more complicated than that, but you have to abandon the idea of preserving the media forever.

  • Zonie (unregistered) in reply to DLJessup
    DLJessup:
    Bub:
    Nothing exists in Ohio.
    Actually, Nothing exists in Arizona. (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=nothing%20az&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)
    Good call! There used to be a verrry small town there. But, unfortunately, when I drove by a couple weeks ago, they had torn it down. Now there's Nothing there!

    Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Yuk! Oh, my, such fun!

    Hey at least I'm not Canadienne.

  • ajd4096 (unregistered) in reply to Bub
    Bub:
    It's secure, gives immediate confirmation of receipt, and uses multiple layers of error-correction as well as providing a hardcopy for backup.

    Secure? Confirmation of receipt? Fax must be different where you live.

    Telex, on the other hand, ....

  • Crash Magnet (unregistered) in reply to Dan
    Dan:
    Crash Magnet:
    Or a Health Care system that works?

    Yes, a health care system that works so well it's going broke and they are considering private insurance as a means to make it soluble.

    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/89349727.html

    Unlike our system which works so well it's driving everybody broke and they were considering public insurance as a means to contain cost.

  • augue (unregistered)

    I have never tried Tim Hortons.

    Could one of the Canadians on this forum fax me a cup of Tim Hortons coffee and a Tim Hortons doughnut to my ftp site, eh?

  • detly (unregistered) in reply to merpius
    merpius:
    McD's already got pwned hard for serving hot coffee; say what you will, but they definitely learned their lesson. That lesson being: do not serve anything hot to anyone or they will find a way to burn themselves with it. If you serve something at all warm mark it prominently as hot in a manner similar to: "HOT! CAREFUL! YOU MIGHT KILL YOURSELF!" Preferably with flashing 50 pt. font, if available.

    Let's be a little fair here - that woman got third degree burns to 15% of her body through a reasonable amount of clothing. That makes a McCup-O-Coffee more hazardous than liquid nitrogen, relatively weak hydrochloric acid, molten solder, and heavily diluted Irn Bru™.

    (I can be quite clumsy in the lab.)

    Still, the fact that it was all solved by a near-invisible warning does kind of show an underlying cynicism. All those other things require either (a) a three hour training course (usually two weeks after you've started using them anyway) or (b) being Scottish.

  • (cs) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou
    HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou:
    The first seven things that will happen when we take over: 1. You will be required to use metric for everything. (Oh boy, this'll be fun to watch!)
    Why? Just mix'n'match like we Canadians do. * I need a 40 kg bag of cement to fill this 2 ft hole. * Mix 2/3 cup of powder with 2 l of water. * It's over 35C in the kitchen when I turn the oven up to 350F.
    2. You will replace all intersections with roundabouts. (Without traffic lights, unlike that one you got in the middle o' DC.)
    Canadians aren't British. We can't figure out roundabouts either.
    4. You will reintroduce the letter 'u' into words which require it, putting an end to this horrifying practice you have of omitting them everywhere. The first word to be fixed is 'color', correctly spelled as 'colour'.
    And don't forget a check is a tick mark or a grid pattern. That thing you pay your bills with is a cheque.
    7. You will be required to know who is Rick Mercer.
    And be forced to watch "Talking to Americans."
  • Scrappy (unregistered) in reply to Some Aussie
    Some Aussie:
    Anonymous:
    Think yourselves lucky you're not tea drinkers - you can't get a good cup of tea anywhere except in your own home. And yes I'm British, shut up already.

    What on God's earth would possess you to even post something like that!!

    Stupid POMs!!

    Well to be honest, since we're on a tangent, it's hard to get a decent cup of coffee in England, and it's hard to get a decent cup of tea in France.

    In Canadia / US of eh you get neither, but at least Canadia has better (stronger) beer. Then again, Brits make far better beer, and so do Czech's.

    erm .. Paula

  • (cs) in reply to HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou
    HeWhoComesBackToHauntYou:
    The first seven things that will happen when we take over: 1. You will be required to use metric for everything. (Oh boy, this'll be fun to watch!) 2. You will replace all intersections with roundabouts. (Without traffic lights, unlike that one you got in the middle o' DC.) 3. You will be formally banned from calling yourselves 'Americans' under penalty of life-in-prison. 'USAans' is acceptable. (Shame we don't have the death penalty in Canada.) 4. You will reintroduce the letter 'u' into words which require it, putting an end to this horrifying practice you have of omitting them everywhere. The first word to be fixed is 'color', correctly spelled as 'colour'. 5. You will be forced to recognize all the parts of history you keep conveniently keep 'forgetting', like the fact that we burned down your White House, that you fine with Hitler and his concentration camps until he sank one of your boats, and that you actually lost the Vietnam war. 6. You will stop abusing the word 'state' and rename all your 'states' as 'provinces'. 7. You will be required to know who is Rick Mercer.

    That'll teach those cocky traitors to the Crown who said invading Canada would simply be a matter of marching up there with an army.

    Fine fine... so long as we get to watch Corner Gas.

  • (cs)

    On one hand I think Tim Hortons (Or Tim' Hortons' or whatever) is a weird name, but on the other hand I'm quite used to Harvey Norman and Dick Smith (Seriously, that name is asking for trouble, these days)

  • (cs) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    Periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. Keep up the non-period-inside-quotation-marks good work. :)

    As has been pointed out before, that depends where you're from. In the UK we place the full stop outside the quotation marks. We also call them full stops and not periods.

  • Raw (unregistered) in reply to Bluesman

    It's like the internet, but slower and without hyperlinks. It uses a technology that's a bit like the e-ink screens, but flexible.

  • call me mr. Ultrasound (unregistered) in reply to Sean
    Sean:
    Periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. Keep up the non-period-inside-quotation-marks good work. :)
    As in: My girlfriend is having her "periods".
  • Optimus (unregistered)

    Do Hortons do an idoughnut with an apple jam filling?

    We have Dunkin Donuts here but I heard Dunkin may be handing over to his brother Randy.

  • katastrofa (unregistered)

    The real WTF is the boss who acknowledges being wrong.

  • z f k (unregistered)

    What about faxing the binary encoded in base64, then in 2d barcode? On a wooden table, of course...

    CYA

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter:
    English Grammar is wrong
    I'm pretty sure it's not you know. Just because you don't like it / don't understand it doesn't make it wrong.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to The Bytemaster
    The Bytemaster:
    I wonder if this thread is the reason that Tim Hortons is trending on twitter today...
    Surely the intelligent IT types around here are not dumb enough to follow a chain coffee shop on Twitter? Please tell me we're not that dumb...
  • Swedish Tard (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    The Bytemaster:
    I wonder if this thread is the reason that Tim Hortons is trending on twitter today...
    Surely the intelligent IT types around here are not dumb enough to follow a chain coffee shop on Twitter? Please tell me we're not that dumb...

    Uhm... Did you even see stuff posted here? :) Of course people in IT are stupid enough to follow shit on twitter. The content here is generated by the IT crowd. :)

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Some Aussie
    Some Aussie:
    Anonymous:
    Think yourselves lucky you're not tea drinkers - you can't get a good cup of tea anywhere except in your own home. And yes I'm British, shut up already.

    What on God's earth would possess you to even post something like that!!

    Stupid POMs!!

    Yeah, Maven sucks.

  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to Nice Troll
    Nice Troll:
    Sean:
    Periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks. Keep up the non-period-inside-quotation-marks good work. :)
    Or, the equivalent in Perl:

    print "Hello World!\n"; # only quote what you want printed vs. print "Hello World!\n;" # syntax error

    In Perl: say "Hello World!"

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