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

    You just had to try, didn't you?

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

    You just had to try, didn't you?

    My hero!

  • (cs)

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirty-one.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to Bert Glanstron
    Bert Glanstron:
    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

    It's important to note that that post itself included a repost.

  • Bert Glandstrom (unregistered) in reply to Bert Glanstron
    Bert Glanstron:
    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

    Maybe you shouldn't waste your time reading every article. You got what you deserve, Bert.

  • (cs) in reply to Chip
    Chip:
    If you've ever driven through that area, as I do on a regular basis, you won't be surprised that Google got confused. I bet what happened is that the street view car only went south on Medford Street, which in that location is really a service road for the elevated McGrath Highway. Google is trying to use that as the northbound side as well, and runs into trouble because the actual northbound side is a hundred or so feet away on the other side of the highway.
    Most standalone car GPS units also lose their figurative minds in parts of Boston.
  • (cs) in reply to Ozz
    Ozz:
    trwtf:
    (umpti-million is just a little less than a brazillion)
    My wife had a brazilli on once. She said it was very painful.
    FTFY I am told that brazillis tend to chafe badly.
  • Yzibit (unregistered) in reply to toth
    toth:
    Yo dawg, I herd u liek writing Word documents, so we put a Word document in ur word document so u can word process while u word process

    'Sup dawg, you tryin' take my job 'n shit?

  • Raj Khootrapali (unregistered) in reply to Yzibit
    Yzibit:
    toth:
    Yo dawg, I herd u liek writing Word documents, so we put a Word document in ur word document so u can word process while u word process

    'Sup dawg, you tryin' take my job 'n shit?

    Oh, nonono sir, your job has been outsourced to me. Now, have you turned your engine off and on? Good. Next, please replace the spark plugs.

  • Neades (unregistered) in reply to boog

    Shit, they've been trained in the use of antiviruses! The sub-software is extra dangerous now. Our only escape is to travel deeper... to limbo, where programs sleep().

  • (cs) 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.
    Wow. Did the brazillion let you watch?
  • Lauren (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    The route is 14 Marcella St. in Cambridge to 13 Joy Street in Somerville mass, walking directions. And either is it fake, or a very weird fluke, cause google doesn't show it now.

    I call fake.

    I highly doubt it's fake. Google gave me horrendous driving directions involving McGrath Highway--I suspect the two issues are/were related. It seems to be confused by the fact that it's a divided highway with odd underpasses.

  • Loren Pechtel (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 ...

    It doesn't take 30,000 pens with test strings. The test string pens probably went in with other misprinted pens.

  • Email (unregistered)

    What? It's 30 o'clock in Japan right now.

  • pez (unregistered)

    Interesting how nearly vertical lines look normal below the horizon but look crazy above it.

  • Clock Owner (unregistered)

    I have this clock too, and every once in a while it does the same thing. Damn programming errors.

  • Mel (unregistered)

    The clock one really made my day!

  • Kiwi (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    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.
    Yep, the person who wrote the code for the GPS providing the station reference time decided that 42 was a good number to use for the hour to indicate that the satellites were out of sight, and the clock has deducted 12 hours to get 30PM.
  • williamF (unregistered) 
    In pseudocode:


1000ms_timer_interrupt:

seconds++;

if(seconds>=60){

    minutes++;

    seconds=0;

}

if(minutes>=60){

    hours++;

    minutes=0;

}

if(hours>=24){

    hours=0;

}

    FTFY

  • (cs)

    So, I heard you like Word, so I put a Word document in your Word document so you can write a letter while you write a letter.

  • Dirk (unregistered) in reply to Tester
    Tester:
    DO NOT SHIP - Test Comment Only DO NOT SHIP - Test Comment Only DO NOT SHIP - Test Comment Only
    It had to come!
  • Jon (unregistered)

    Sup dawg, we heard you like installing, so we put an installer in your installer so you can install while you install.

  • Marc (unregistered)

    The clock isn't a WTF. You just need to set the time zone to Earth.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Using Word as a document viewer is dumb anyway. You got what you deserve, Matt.

    Agreed. Excel should be used to embed Word docs, since it handles embedded flash videos so well already.

  • (cs)
    [image] I NEED this clock! Seriously, 30+ hours per day; Do you have any idea how much work I could procrastinate in that amount of time?
  • Rex (unregistered)

    Meh! I once had a help desk email forwarded to me a year after I changed jobs - it was about an error message that came up. It was my little easter egg I had added to a bit of code that had a one in 10E(a lot) chances of ever appearing. It read: "An error has occured. Please read the following phrase loudly and clearly into your monitor: 'Nip, Nip, Nip, Nip, Ftang, Ftang, Ole biscuit barrel.', then click OK.".

    I really did ROFLMAO!

  • Steve Urkel (unregistered)

    Where's the WTF in the DeviceInstaller one?

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to Ben
    Ben:
    Look, you just have a corrupted DeviceInstaller Installer installation. Uninstall the DeviceInstaller Installer and then rerun the DeviceInstaller InstallerInstaller.
    Urgh... reminds me of patching Websphere Application Server. You gotta install the fix pack installer, which often breaks, and requires the fix pack installer installer uninstaller to be run.
  • kastein (unregistered) in reply to Josh
    Josh:
    The route is 14 Marcella St. in Cambridge to 13 Joy Street in Somerville mass, walking directions. And either is it fake, or a very weird fluke, cause google doesn't show it now.

    I call fake.

    boog:
    Loren Pechtel:
    I don't understand the superman bit with the Google map. It looks to me like you can go under that elevated road.
    Yeah, but good luck dodging that big blue vertical line without Superman's incredible speeds.

    Gee, I wonder what that line means?

    I'm fairly certain, since there are two of the, uh, superman steps, and two raised highways (one north, one south), that this is where the googlemobile's GPS unit lost the signal and said "huh, I have no idea where I am now, or what my altitude is." So a few points have some ridiculous altitude listed but no lat/lon.

    And yes, we drive crazy in massachusetts... I found a one way dead end street in Boston one time. I'm not sure how you were supposed to get out of it, but you could go in anytime you wanted.

    If you really want to see some crazy driving, drop by Kelley Square in Worcester some time during rush hour. 2 state routes, the exit ramps for an interstate highway, 7 roads (several of them one-way), multiple islands, no traffic lights, and a couple of bars and gas stations. The accepted method of making it through is to close your eyes, lay on the horn and gas, and pray.

  • MeBerserk (unregistered)

    "Will this day ever end?" writes Roger.

    I don't want to be cliché: but this would have never happened in the old days, when displays just contained the parts that were required!

  • Shadowfax (unregistered) in reply to Shondoit
    Shondoit:
    [image] I NEED this clock! Seriously, 30+ hours per day; Do you have any idea how much work I could procrastinate in that amount of time?

    I can't believe none of you have realised that the clock is just upside-down. Clearly, it's saying "12:0E Wd". The clock's in hexadecimal, so 12:0E is 18:14, or 6:14pm, and Wd is short for Wednesday, naturally. On top, it says 01 02-81 -L0 (February 1, 1981, and the atmospheric pressure is low). Of course, TRWTF is that Feb 1, 1981 was a Sunday. That's just bad design.

    Jeez. Do I have to do all the work around here?

  • (cs)

    I had a radio like that. It had a function to "sync" to the embedded time in the radio signal of some stations.

    If you did this between 24:00 and 1:00, it would display something like 24:34 and keep counting. Apparently it had a "== 24:00" somewhere in it's internal code and you could get it to do this by having it "skip" 24:00.

  • Christoph (unregistered) in reply to James
    Duh, to view a word document embedded inside a word document, obviously you first must install word inside word.

    :)) that is so funny yet logic!

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Ken B.
    Ken B.:
    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.)

    The last time I was in Boston I saw a bumper sticker that read, "If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk".

  • Jay (unregistered)

    30 o'clock! It's later than it's ever been before!

  • James OBoston (unregistered)

    OMG i used to totally get turned around and messed up at that McGrath/Washington mess. I know exactly where that is in Somerville, MA.

    There's a data center down the road, and frustrated engineers driving in circles trying to get to it. And a Target store.

  • Design Pattern (unregistered)

    So did anyone port VMWare to VBA yet?

  • M (unregistered)

    It's arguable that this is the submitter's responsiblity, but it would be heartening to see HOME ADDRESSES redacted on submissions.

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