• Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to Sean Ellis
    Sean Ellis:
    The real WTF is that the clock in the first picture was from the UK, where everyone knows that extra "leap hours" are added every 7th of Octodecember.

    Octember you fool. The acid we slipped you when you last came to one of our rock fetivals must have been too much for you. Should have given you the lite version.

  • jdw (unregistered)

    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

  • David Wright (unregistered)

    The pen is not TRWTF. Just because the Queen lives in Windsor Castle, it doesn't mean the other inhabitants of the town are rich enough to throw away a perfectly good free pen just because it has test text on it.

  • (cs) in reply to Joshua Armstrong
    Joshua Armstrong:
    Regarding the Test Pattern - Do Not Ship: I have a drawer full of dog tags that all say the same thing:

    I FIXED THE DOG TAG MACHINE HA HA HA HA HA HA I ROCK

    I used to work in the military personnel office on an Air Force base and one of my jobs was making dog tags. I used that test pattern because it hit the five points where the machine usually jammed. Since they didn't contain any personal info, I decided to keep the test plates as souvenirs of my time there.

    I'm sure Alex would give you a mug if you sent him one of those dog tags.

  • StupidTheKid (unregistered) in reply to David Wright
    Thirty O'Clock:
    The pen is not TRWTF. Just because the Queen lives in Windsor Castle, it doesn't mean the other inhabitants of the town are rich enough to throw away a perfectly good free pen just because it has test text on it
    The problem is the poster saw this at a restaurant. Restaurants are not usually known to make pens, so it implies they probably bought it at a surplus somewhere. Which suggest that somebody, somehwere, might have printed 30,000 pens with test strings. Which is some significant WTFery.

    I admit this reasoning requires a lot of assumptions however. And you can't spell assumptions without ...

  • trwtf (unregistered) in reply to StupidTheKid
    StupidTheKid:
    Thirty O'Clock:
    The pen is not TRWTF. Just because the Queen lives in Windsor Castle, it doesn't mean the other inhabitants of the town are rich enough to throw away a perfectly good free pen just because it has test text on it
    The problem is the poster saw this at a restaurant. Restaurants are not usually known to make pens, so it implies they probably bought it at a surplus somewhere. Which suggest that somebody, somehwere, might have printed 30,000 pens with test strings. Which is some significant WTFery.

    I admit this reasoning requires a lot of assumptions however. And you can't spell assumptions without ...

    "umpti", as in "umpti-million 9s is a lot of 9s".

    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)

  • Jerry (unregistered) in reply to trwtf
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    Exactly how many universe-existence-plank-times can you get in an umpti-million?
  • Ozz (unregistered) in reply to trwtf
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    My wife had a brazillion once. She said it was very painful.
  • Fred (unregistered) in reply to Jerry
    Jerry:
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    Exactly how many universe-existence-plank-times can you get in an umpti-million?
    I think about 69 umpti-thousand.
  • CT (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    pjt33:
    The Adwords one looks like autocomplete - someone hit m and completed to month rather than minute.
    I think you mean that someone hit "d" and completed "decade" rather than "day". :-)

    You think it's more likely that the maintenance was supposed to go last for 10 days than for 120 minutes ?

  • oldtroll (unregistered)

    that is the length of day us radio engineers need to complete our work. Thankfully, with HDRadio, now this is possible.

    Still get paid the same, though.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    My wife had a brazillion once. She said it was very painful.
    She's just saying that to make you feel better.
  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Ozz:
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    My wife had a brazillion once. She said it was very painful.
    She's just saying that to make you feel better.
    It certainly made her feel better...
  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to CT
    CT:
    Ken B.:
    pjt33:
    The Adwords one looks like autocomplete - someone hit m and completed to month rather than minute.
    I think you mean that someone hit "d" and completed "decade" rather than "day". :-)

    You think it's more likely that the maintenance was supposed to go last for 10 days than for 120 minutes ?

    I think have more like want the maintenance lasts even like more than as go then.

  • cappeca (unregistered) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

    But this is too dangerous, what if you can't alt-f4 back? Every layer runs Word slower, you'd be trapped in Word eternity.

  • FuBar (unregistered) in reply to Jerry
    Jerry:
    Exactly how many universe-existence-plank-times can you get in an umpti-million?
    Over 9,000.
  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    jdw:
    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

    But this is too dangerous, what if you can't alt-f4 back? Every layer runs Word slower, you'd be trapped in Word eternity.

    Maybe that's why AdWords is going to be down for so long.

  • Mikkel (unregistered)

    There was no response from Brain. Narf!

  • CT (unregistered) in reply to undefined
    undefined:
    Check for equality is slightly cheaper in number of transistors than check for ">=" and this optimisation is the reason of such errors.

    In pseudocode:

    1000ms_timer_interrupt:
seconds++;
if(seconds==60){
    minutes++;
    seconds=0;
}
if(minutes==60){
    hours++;
    minutes=0;
}
if(hours==24){
    hours=0;
}
calculate new state of image elements;
send data about it from main chip to display controller;
return from interrupt and set state of main chip to sleep;

    Also comparisons for seconds/minutes/hours can be run simultaneously for the nice race condition.

    I don't even know where to start with what's wrong with your post, and it doesn't come over as a troll post, more as a sad attempt to brag with coding skills that just ... aren't there. Like, at all.

    Looking forward to seeing your code in future TDWTF's.

  • caper (unregistered)

    I can only wonder which other body parts they used as server names.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to Patryk Zawadzki
    Patryk Zawadzki:
    Could it be that the radio broadcasted 18:21 and the receiver added another 12 hours attempting to convert am/pm to 24h? But then why would it display "PM"?

    erm... because it was?

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    Patryk Zawadzki:
    Could it be that the radio broadcasted 18:21 and the receiver added another 12 hours attempting to convert am/pm to 24h? But then why would it display "PM"?

    erm... because it was?

    I think he meant that when displaying 24h, am/pm are typically omitted.

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    Patryk Zawadzki:
    Could it be that the radio broadcasted 18:21 and the receiver added another 12 hours attempting to convert am/pm to 24h? But then why would it display "PM"?

    erm... because it was?

    It was what? Uhm, "a.m." and "p.m." are a 12-hour thing, right?

  • Mirsky (unregistered) in reply to jdw
    jdw:
    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

    Ah so you've partnered with SAP before, then.

  • undefined (unregistered) in reply to CT
    CT:
    and it doesn't come over as a troll post

    I don't know english language enough to write post unambiguously acceptable as troll post. I tried to do it on TDWTF multiple times and have not any results.

  • (cs)

    30 o'clock? Must be one of the clocks in one of those Korean sweat shops.

  • (cs) in reply to cappeca
    cappeca:
    jdw:
    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

    But this is too dangerous, what if you can't alt-f4 back? Every layer runs Word slower, you'd be trapped in Word eternity.

    And each layer is more unstable. A slight disturbance in the first would rip the third to pieces.

  • Chelloveck (unregistered) in reply to lolwtf
    lolwtf:
    Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?

    I think so, Brain, but who would embed a Word document in a Word document?

    anonymous:
    The Alarm clock is probably just in a timer or stopwatch type mode.

    It's likely minutes and seconds.

    It says PM.

    What do you think seconds are? Partial Minutes. Duh.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to CT
    CT:
    undefined:
    Check for equality is slightly cheaper in number of transistors than check for ">=" and this optimisation is the reason of such errors.

    In pseudocode:

    1000ms_timer_interrupt:
seconds++;
if(seconds==60){
    minutes++;
    seconds=0;
}
if(minutes==60){
    hours++;
    minutes=0;
}
if(hours==24){
    hours=0;
}
calculate new state of image elements;
send data about it from main chip to display controller;
return from interrupt and set state of main chip to sleep;

    Also comparisons for seconds/minutes/hours can be run simultaneously for the nice race condition.

    I don't even know where to start with what's wrong with your post, and it doesn't come over as a troll post, more as a sad attempt to brag with coding skills that just ... aren't there. Like, at all.

    Looking forward to seeing your code in future TDWTF's.

    Guess why it does seem to be so wrong? Because it is intentionally, and you did not read very carefully. Obviously, he is trying to show a way how the error might have happened. He is not trying to post a fix, and he is not trying to brag with coding skills.

  • James (unregistered)

    Duh, to view a word document embedded inside a word document, obviously you first must install word inside word.

  • (cs) in reply to undefined
    undefined:
    CT:
    and it doesn't come over as a troll post

    I don't know english language enough to write post unambiguously acceptable as troll post. I tried to do it on TDWTF multiple times and have not any results.

    So it was "great success" then?

  • (cs) in reply to Zolcos
    Zolcos:
    cappeca:
    jdw:
    Two layers of Word documents isn't enough. We need to go deeper.

    But this is too dangerous, what if you can't alt-f4 back? Every layer runs Word slower, you'd be trapped in Word eternity.

    And each layer is more unstable. A slight disturbance in the first would rip the third to pieces.

    Not to mention the more changes you make to the document, the more the sub-software becomes aware of your presence. If you're not careful to make subtle changes, it may become hostile and turn on you.

  • James (unregistered)

    Ooh, I wonder what happens if you embed a word document in itself?

  • (cs) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    HD Radio: Now with more than twice the hours of regular radio.
    Yeah, since it was 30 hours AFTER noon, that makes it at least 2.5x as many hours.
  • (cs) in reply to James
    James:
    Ooh, I wonder what happens if you embed a word document in itself?
    It's basically like when you look into a mirror while standing in front of another mirror.
  • (cs)

    No response from Brain. Attempting to contact Kidney.

  • drusi (unregistered) in reply to StupidTheKid
    StupidTheKid:
    I admit this reasoning requires a lot of assumptions however. And you can't spell assumptions without ...
    Remember: when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of u and mption.
  • (cs)

    Google maps is not a WTF. Everyone knows it isn't compatible with IE. You got what you deserve, Andrew R.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to caper
    caper:
    I can only wonder which other body parts they used as server names.

    I think the name of the billing server is obvious.

  • Ken B. (unregistered) in reply to trwtf
    trwtf:
    Lurker:
    Where is Google directing you? It is just telling you to continue going along the one-way street in the wrong direction, that's all. The jumping in the air is just what you have to do to avoid the oncoming traffic.
    And as we all know, going down a one-way street the wrong way in Boston is not even vaguely a wtf. More like "business as usual".
    Well, in a city that has "no parking on this sidewalk" signs, what do you expect? (Can someone from that area post a photo of one of those signs? Thanks.)
  • (cs)

    Am I the only one that remember that the no response from brain is a rerun?

  • trwtf (unregistered) in reply to henke37
    henke37:
    Am I the only one that remember that the no response from brain is a rerun?

    Yes. Congratulations! You win!

  • (cs) in reply to Jellineck
    Jellineck:
    This is his rifle, this is his gun. This one's for fighting, this one is for fixing the dog tag machine.

    That would make for a rather unusual service call.

  • (cs) in reply to StupidTheKid
    StupidTheKid:
    Thirty O'Clock:
    The pen is not TRWTF. Just because the Queen lives in Windsor Castle, it doesn't mean the other inhabitants of the town are rich enough to throw away a perfectly good free pen just because it has test text on it
    The problem is the poster saw this at a restaurant. Restaurants are not usually known to make pens, so it implies they probably bought it at a surplus somewhere. Which suggest that somebody, somehwere, might have printed 30,000 pens with test strings. Which is some significant WTFery.

    I admit this reasoning requires a lot of assumptions however. And you can't spell assumptions without ...

    Yes, we all know when you make assumptions to make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'mptions'

  • Matt (unregistered) in reply to James
    James:
    Ooh, I wonder what happens if you embed a word document in itself?

    We must consider the possibility that this error dialog is only in place as some MS programmer's clever strategy to avoid that very situation.

  • BostonDriver (unregistered) in reply to Buggz

    But of course; that's standard rush-hour practice at McGrath Highway.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Patryk Zawadzki
    Patryk Zawadzki:
    Could it be that the radio broadcasted 18:21 and the receiver added another 12 hours attempting to convert am/pm to 24h? But then why would it display "PM"?
    It won't be a conversion error because the time format used by DAB radio is the ISO 8601 extended format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss). ISO 8601 dictates 24 hour time so the radio knows it is receiving the time data in 24h format, no conversion necessary. The problem will be that the station is transmitting the wrong values in the first place. A different DAB radio tuned into the same station would display the same (incorrect) time since it's the fault of the transmitting station.
  • (cs) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    Jerry:
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    Exactly how many universe-existence-plank-times can you get in an umpti-million?
    I think about 69.

    FTFY

  • (cs)

    So I quit the last Word. Or did I? Death to the demoness, Allegra Geller!

  • Bert Glanstron (unregistered)

    Dear Alex,

    In case haven't notice, this is a grownup place. The fact that you insist on recycling the same articles over and over clearly show that you are too young and too stupid to be running thedailywtf.com.

    Go away and grow up,

    Bert Glanstron

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