• oheso (unregistered)

    So I asked her, "Where do you want this semicolon, baby?" And she breathed, "Inside, baby; always inside!"

    Now, if only there were some Tim Hortons in Ohio .... (Nice to see so many self-professed Daytonians on here.)

  • (cs) in reply to Herby
    Herby:
    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 oght to do it!

    Fixed that for yo. I dobt yo caught that when yo thoght up yor list...

  • stijmy (unregistered)

    This is ridiculous, and certainly not a WTF.

    Obviously the "patch" was just a series of scripts to be executed on the client's side. Just print them out and fax them if the client does not want to wait.

    The real WTF is an IT boss not realizing this.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to stijmy
    stijmy:
    This is ridiculous, and certainly not a WTF.

    Obviously the "patch" was just a series of scripts to be executed on the client's side. Just print them out and fax them if the client does not want to wait.

    The real WTF is an IT boss not realizing this.

    Well done for making some assumptions but that's all they are. The real WTF is making assumptions then attempting to pass them off as fact.

  • BBT (unregistered) in reply to ShawnD
    ShawnD:
    And don't forget a check is a tick mark or a grid pattern. That thing you pay your bills with is a cheque.

    Sorry, but if you were a real Canadian, you would have referenced hockey here. Mounties will be by shortly to deport you.

  • (cs) in reply to null reference

    There's one in MIddleton, partnered with a Wendy's.

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

    There is one in Middleton, partnered with a Wendy's.

    Now, what's up with adding cinnamon to your chili in Ohio?

  • Procedural (unregistered)

    They could have faxed them a donut back to say thank you for the patch.

  • Procedural (unregistered) in reply to Jay

    We'll take them. LA with health care and no guns will be a fun place again. Plus we'll be able to use the sidewalks and bike in the streets. And people will say nice things to each other. It'll be great, you'll see.

    (We'd also like to purchase Louisiana back; how about we offer you a 200% markup on the price you paid ? That's a fair return.)

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to NorgTheFat

    What a coincidence. I go down the street to get an Iced Cap, sit down to check email and read TDWTF and its a story about Timmy Hos with comments on Iced Caps.

    Providence I tell you, its providence.

  • null reference (unregistered) 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.

    Thanks for the update. Now let me correct myself ...

    Why don't they exist in NE Ohio??

  • IT Girl (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.

    Tim Horton's makes tea too. It's steeped, as in "you're garden's looking steeped Mrs. Chan." Oh yeah, I AM Canadian, and start my day with an extra large Timmie's every morning.

  • riotnrrd (unregistered) in reply to ircmaxell

    I was working support for a software vendor, and we had military customers. A user called me from one such site, and I quickly determined that he needed a patch. I asked for his e-mail to send him the FTP URL (I learned early on not to try to spell out URLs), but he was unable to give me an e-mail address for security reasons. Oh-kay. I offered to give him the FTP URL over the phone, but that wouldn't work either. Right. Since the maintenance contract had a super-duper-bulletproof support level with a cherry on top, I offered to overnight him a CD, but he was unable to give me a mailing adress, again for security reasons. Out of ideas, I asked him how we could deliver the patch.

    The solution? Fax the source code to the patch over, they typed it back in, compile, install, bam! So there you go; it is possible to fax a patch.

  • (cs) in reply to BBT
    BBT:
    ShawnD:
    And don't forget a check is a tick mark or a grid pattern. That thing you pay your bills with is a cheque.

    Sorry, but if you were a real Canadian, you would have referenced hockey here. Mounties will be by shortly to deport you.

    Americans can put "In God We Trust" and pictures of dead presidents on their money. We'll keep putting pictures of kids playing hockey and quotes from "The Hockey Sweater" on our $5 bill.

  • (cs) in reply to Your Name
    Your Name:
    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!"

    "say" is Perl 6, which is not Perl any more than The Matrix Reloaded is The Matrix.

    Addendum (2010-04-16 11:19): (After browsing perldoc.perl.org)

    Never mind... looks like "say" was backported to 5.10.

  • Steve-O (unregistered) in reply to DD
    DD:
    Too bad Tim Hortons is terrible coffee.

    Blasphemer!

  • IT Girl (unregistered) in reply to WhiskeyJack
    WhiskeyJack:
    BBT:
    ShawnD:
    And don't forget a check is a tick mark or a grid pattern. That thing you pay your bills with is a cheque.

    Sorry, but if you were a real Canadian, you would have referenced hockey here. Mounties will be by shortly to deport you.

    Americans can put "In God We Trust" and pictures of dead presidents on their money. We'll keep putting pictures of kids playing hockey and quotes from "The Hockey Sweater" on our $5 bill.

    The $5 bill used to have a picture of chemical valley. When trying to explain where I lived, I could just pull out a $5 bill and point to it.

    Captcha: abbas.... oh mama mia

  • similis - your ire is on candid camera (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    Your Name:
    In Perl: say "Hello World!"

    "say" is Perl 6, which is not Perl any more than The Matrix Reloaded is The Matrix.

    Addendum (2010-04-16 11:19): (After browsing perldoc.perl.org)

    Never mind... looks like "say" was backported to 5.10.

    To quote Fat Mike: The idiots are taking over.

  • Brent (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl

    But it's not a good cup of tea... especially the pre-steeped stuff from the pot. I'd go there more often if they at least offered BOP Darjeeling in bags (like Williams).

  • Zapp Brannigan (unregistered) in reply to J
    J:
    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.

    I think that rule varies by country of origin.

  • JW (unregistered)

    This post sponsored by Tim Hortons.

  • (cs) in reply to similis - your ire is on candid camera
    similis - your ire is on candid camera:
    To quote Fat Mike: The idiots are taking over.
    Yes, boss!
  • Design Pattern (unregistered) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter:
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    "PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps. If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet. Integrated packer allows for much better data density - up to 3,000,000+ (three megabytes) of C code per page."

    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.

    Nonsense:

    Neither are optical or magnetic media per se used digitally (see audio cassette, Laserdisc), nor is paper opposite to digital recording (the quoted PaperBack is an example, punched cards are another).

    And paper for long term archiving is not without issues, too: Lot's of books only one- or two-hundred years old already are in danger: Saving endangered library collections

    There are two main reasons for a progressive decay of paper artefacts from the last two centuries. The first is the quality of the raw material. In mid-19 th century, wood replaced cotton as a source of cellulose for the paper industry. Although much cheaper and vastly available, wood has certain drawbacks as compared to cotton - shorter cellulose chains and high lignin content to name only the most important ones. The second cause of accelerated degradation of paper from the discussed period are acidic substances added to the paper pulp during one of the production stages. The acidity causes the breakdown of chains of cellulose, the main component of paper.
  • Étienne Brouillard (unregistered)

    Knowing TH's ads I'd swear this is one of them.....

  • Hubert Humphrey (unregistered) in reply to DD
    DD:
    Too bad Tim Hortons is terrible coffee.

    Too bad you're in the minority on that one.

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

    Uhh what? What part of Ohio you in? In central OH you can't go 200 feet without tripping over one...

  • Fred Wilson (unregistered) in reply to Jaybles

    It's always better to be informed when hating on Ohio. For example, one of the things that makes it a hellhole is that fact that it's possible to get 30 inches of snow in February.

  • Hubert Humphrey (unregistered) in reply to Medezark
    Medezark:
    Now, what's up with adding cinnamon to your chili in Ohio?

    Originates in Greece. Most prevalent chili place in Ohio was started by a Greek.

  • (cs) in reply to J
    J:

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

    Unfortunately, it's not even that consistent, at least here in the U.S.

    Periods and commas go inside the quotes, but question marks and exclamation points depend on exactly what they are punctuating.

    example: Bob said "Do people in Ohio really put cinnamon in their chili?" -- inside quotation mark Did Bob say "People in Ohio really do put cinnamon in their chili"? -- outside quotation mark

    BTW, I grew up in Ohio (as I mentioned earlier in this thread) and I never heard of people putting cinnamon in chili. Of course, I moved away in 1978 and haven't had any desire to return for the whole 32 years since then.

  • hdub (unregistered)

    try www.consensus2012.com free flash polling widget for your blog

  • skeptical hippo (unregistered) in reply to Anon

    [quote user="Anon"][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]

    I'd guess your sarcasm detector is on the fritz.[/quote]

    The sarcasm patch is incompatible with the hot coffee patch.

  • hacksaw jim duggan (unregistered) in reply to Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson:
    It's always better to be informed when hating on Ohio. For example, one of the things that makes it a hellhole is that fact that it's possible to get 30 inches of snow in February.

    Yeah, like 30 inches can compare to 3/4 of a meter.

  • skeptical hippo (unregistered) in reply to IT Girl
    IT Girl:
    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.

    Tim Horton's makes tea too. It's steeped, as in "you're garden's looking steeped Mrs. Chan." Oh yeah, I AM Canadian, and start my day with an extra large Timmie's every morning.

    "I'm what?", Mrs Chan replied.

  • skeptical hippo (unregistered) in reply to oheso
    oheso:
    So I asked her, "Where do you want this semicolon, baby?" And she breathed, "Inside, baby; always inside!"

    You do realize that a semicolon is actually a distended colon, right?

  • Montoya (unregistered)

    This story brought to you by Tim Hortons (tm).

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

    Nothing exists in Ohio.

    And then you see the pick-up full of rednecks. "Oh, hi! Oh..."

  • mr_smith (unregistered) in reply to Shill
    Shill:
    Agreed, the coffee is nothing special, but for the price (when I was there this week it was $1.72 for an X-large?) it's just right.

    That's funny, my mouth is watering for a small double double right now....

    Really? I still think Starbucks is more than that and their coffee is worse.

  • mike (unregistered)

    Files should just come with handles attached to them. That way, they are easier to carry, and you always have enough handles. Duh.

  • Not Entered (unregistered)

    Oracle support?

  • Scott (unregistered) in reply to riotnrrd

    Why didn't you just fax the URL to him?

  • Martha (unregistered)

    atleast the boss was good to him

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