• (cs) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    Hey, what if life itself were 3-D? That would be AWESOME!!!!
    [image]
  • ÃÆâ€â„ (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    by:
    Slicerwizard:
    toth:
    duis:
    @Deprecated:
    3-D is clearly referring to it's cup size.
    ++1

    Syntax error near "++1", Line 1

    Syntax error near "it's"

    No, he has strict English = off.

    TRWTF is that the iPad will "autocorrect" "its" to "it's".

    So you're saying it's autocorrect is TRWTF?

  • (cs)

    The cupcake is a lie...

  • (cs) in reply to Slicerwizard
    Slicerwizard:
    toth:
    duis:
    @Deprecated:
    3-D is clearly referring to it's cup size.
    ++1

    Syntax error near "++1", Line 1

    Syntax error near "it's"

    whoop'sie...

  • by (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    Slicerwizard:
    toth:
    duis:
    @Deprecated:
    3-D is clearly referring to it's cup size.
    ++1

    Syntax error near "++1", Line 1

    Syntax error near "it's"

    whoop'sie...

    Eye two think your wrong...

    [Waiting to hear pop as all English majors' heads explode]

  • (cs) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    I'd go for one of those 3-D giant cupcakes, after all 3-D makes everything look cooler.

    Hey, what if life itself were 3-D? That would be AWESOME!!!!

    Haha! My wife got annoyed at me while seeing that animated Christmas Carol movie with Jim Carey because I was saying how everything: popcorn, cookies, etc. was better in 3-D.

  • EFPTOZ (unregistered) in reply to @Deprecated

    You're not looking closely enough at the sprinkles on the 3D cupcake. Obviously it's an autostereogram.

  • distracted (unregistered)

    Assuming that the cupcake is in fact a food product (and not, say, a giant inflatable cake), both the "giant" and "3-D" have a simple explanation: It is a large cake in some way made like a cupcake (Tapered inwards to the base, a rounded or pointed top, coloured icing and/or sprinkles, possibly with corrugated sides). So while it is just a cake, it's key feature is that it is a large version of a cupcake.

    The 3-D is possibly referring to this: It would be possible to make a flat cake that was shapped like a cupcake: ie a cut out cake that had the same top profile as the side profile of a cupcake. Saying that your cupcake is 3-d is saying that you didn't take this shortcut.

  • nick (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that SAP uses tables(inside of anchors) instead of selects on its E-Recruiting Page.

  • Tanuki (unregistered) in reply to nick
    nick:
    TRWTF is that SAP uses tables(inside of anchors) instead of selects on its E-Recruiting Page.
    The real wtf is SAP.
  • the beholder (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Where can I get that download speed? I'd like to download the state secrets of all nations in less than a second.
    How did you find out my security question and why are you displaying it in your username?
  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Robajob
    Robajob:
    Wasn't Giant Cupcakes a wrestler?

    That was Giant Haystacks.

  • hunter2 (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Where can I get that download speed? I'd like to download the state secrets of all nations in less than a second.
    How did you find out my security question and why are you displaying it in your username?
    What security question? It only shows "************** ****************** *****************" for me.

    Edit: you can see it because it's your security question. Everyone else just sees the stars.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to anon
    anon:
    Grandpa's Long Drawers:
    I don't get what the WTF is with the triple-decker giant cupcake. Obviously they are larger than cakes. I mean look at the picture.

    I wasn't aware there was a maximum size limit for cakes. Although I think people who make wedding cakes might disagree with you. Also The Cake Boss (though I hate him so), who's signature is making gigantic cakes.

    Syntax error near "who's".

  • Cupcake (unregistered)

    Easy: A 2D cupcake is a 3D one after being hit with a sledgehammer.

  • (cs) in reply to RayS

    the cupcake is a lie

  • Keith Brawner (unregistered)

    Just for the record, cakes are flat on top, while cupcakes are rounded. I was informed of this when planning our wedding, as my wife wanted a cupcake for everyone (and a giant cupcake to cut). I cannot disagree that the thing on top in the picture is a giant cupcake, rather than a small cake. To top off the argument, the cupcakes were filled with filling, which is something not done with cakes (too flat).

    [image]
  • (cs)
    You had to try, didn't you

    What they really meant to say was

    Fortunately for you and the rest of the universe, we have blocked your attempt to open a giant wormhole through the space/time continuum. Someday you can tell your kids how your evil plan to destroy the universe was thwarted.
  • Mike Caron (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Steam, amirite?

    (The program, not the service.)

  • (cs)

    Ring ring

    "Hello?"

    "Hi, is your trial running?"

    "Um, yeah...?"

    "Then, you'd better go catch it!"

  • (cs)

    I think the "Giant Cupcake" is defining a cupcake by shape and, imporantly, by aspect ratio. A cupcake is about as tall as it is wide. A cake is not. So a cupcake with cake-sized diameter would be very tall. Then it would be both "giant" compared to a regular cupcake and, colloquially speaking, "more 3-D" than a regular cake.

  • (cs) in reply to GalacticCowboy
    GalacticCowboy:
    You had to try, didn't you

    What they really meant to say was

    Fortunately for you and the rest of the universe, we have blocked your attempt to open a giant wormhole through the space/time continuum. Someday you can tell your kids how your evil plan to destroy the universe was thwarted.

    Yea, something like the 'Spacetime continuum violation: You can not reserve in the past' error which which i included for fun in a reservation database as it was a 'cant happen' error (i.e the application should make sure that the user can not select start times prior to current time).

    Significantly however, I can say that the users consistently manage to provoke that error once or twice a week... (which proves the old adage: Engineers try to make fool prof systems, the universe tires to make better fools, so far the universe is winning.) :-)

    Yours Yazeran

    Plan: To go to Mars one day with a hammer.

  • (cs)

    I have now implemented the following error in the application I'm working on: "A subnetwork can not be its own parent." "You just had to try, didn't you?"

    Public beta is soon. Let's see how soon this is noticed.

  • Dairy major (unregistered)

    The 3-D cupcake is simply advertising the three sorts of dairy product used in its making - perhaps. Milk, cream, more milk maybe

  • (cs) in reply to airdrik
    airdrik:
    Hey, what if life itself were 3-D? That would be AWESOME!!!!

    It's true. The universe is really only 2-D. That's why the entropy of a black hole is proportional to its surface area, not its volume (which means that its maximum information content is too.) It's a holographic projection, not that anyone who hears that will understand what it means. A really 3-D universe would be CRAZY.

    For bonus fun stuff, wait until we all decide that gravity is an entropic force too. :)

  • (cs) in reply to Keith Brawner

    As much as we'd like our geeky logic to determine this 'cupcake' label be based on shape and attributes of said confectionery, I do believe, that historically, 'cupcakes' were so called as they were baked in cups, and as such, the name is "given to any small cake that is about the size of a teacup."

    Following this logic, anything larger would identify with similar-sized objects, ie jarcake, potcake, tubcake or bucketcake.

    Wikipedia WTF.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupcake#History

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    by:
    Slicerwizard:
    toth:
    duis:
    @Deprecated:
    3-D is clearly referring to it's cup size.
    ++1

    Syntax error near "++1", Line 1

    Syntax error near "it's"

    No, he has strict English = off.

    TRWTF is the iPad

    FTFY

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    "You just had to try, didn't you?" is now a meme. Get over it.

    I have to say, I am exactly the sort of person who has to try. First I tried putting Microsft Virtual PC into itself; no dice, it knows. VMWare in VMWare similarly knows. OK, so we need to mix virtualisation platforms. Let's try Virtual PC in VMWare - hey, now we're getting somewhere! OK, let's go for broke: VirtualBox in Virtual PC in VMWare! Unfortunately, this caused a virtualisation black hole to open up on my desktop and shortly thereafter the universe exploded. Damn, I was worried that might happen.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous

    http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2005/10/23/3727.aspx

    A five year old meme even!

  • (cs) in reply to @Deprecated
    @Deprecated:
    3-D is clearly referring to it's cup size.

    You win.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    -PC (Any) |-Virtual PC (Any) .|-VMWare (Linux) ..|-Wine ...|-Spectrum Emulator ....|-Slowloader |-VMWare .|-VirtualPC ..|-WinUAE

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Flatline
    Flatline:
    http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2005/10/23/3727.aspx

    A five year old meme even!

    Check your urban dictionary, a meme isn't just "something that happened one day", it's "something that happened one day and subsequently gets so far run into the ground that any possible humor once derived from it becomes a distant and unrecognisable memory". That is what we shall now proceed to do with "You just had to try, didn't you?".

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    -PC (Any) |-Virtual PC (Any) .|-VMWare (Linux) ..|-Wine ...|-Spectrum Emulator ....|-Slowloader |-VMWare .|-VirtualPC ..|-WinUAE
    I bow to your emulator nesting abilities! Seriously though, you need to get VirtualBox in there somewhere. It's awesome, free, and can add a whole new level to your obscene emulator nest!
  • Neil (unregistered)

    "You just had to try, didn't you?"

    There is no try, only do.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Paul:
    -PC (Any) |-Virtual PC (Any) .|-VMWare (Linux) ..|-Wine ...|-Spectrum Emulator ....|-Slowloader |-VMWare .|-VirtualPC ..|-WinUAE
    I bow to your emulator nesting abilities! Seriously though, you need to get VirtualBox in there somewhere. It's awesome, free, and can add a whole new level to your obscene emulator nest!
    Now, if there's a Spectrum emulator for the Amiga (Is there? I don't know) I've never heard of VirtualBox before this conversation, I'll chuck it in where I guess it would fit.

    |-Virtual PC (Any) .|VirtualBox ..|-VMWare (Linux) ...|-Wine ....|WinUAE .....|-Spectrum Emulator ......|-Slowloader

    And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you play Monster Maze on your new PC.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    Anonymous:
    Paul:
    -PC (Any) |-Virtual PC (Any) .|-VMWare (Linux) ..|-Wine ...|-Spectrum Emulator ....|-Slowloader |-VMWare .|-VirtualPC ..|-WinUAE
    I bow to your emulator nesting abilities! Seriously though, you need to get VirtualBox in there somewhere. It's awesome, free, and can add a whole new level to your obscene emulator nest!
    Now, if there's a Spectrum emulator for the Amiga (Is there? I don't know) I've never heard of VirtualBox before this conversation, I'll chuck it in where I guess it would fit.

    |-Virtual PC (Any) .|VirtualBox ..|-VMWare (Linux) ...|-Wine ....|WinUAE .....|-Spectrum Emulator ......|-Slowloader

    And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is how you play Monster Maze on your new PC.

    YES! Monster Maze here I come! And you know what, I can't remember what it was called but I know there is a Spectrum emulator for the Amiga because I used to have one back in the good old days (I've got to admit I loved the Amiga). I'm picturing a new competiton here, the Emulator Nest Depth Challenge 2011. You're already in with a very real chance of winning ENDC'11.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    RE You just had to try

    I was once told I had to put a license agreement in a software product that was purely for internal use. So okay, I wrote a license agreement that included clauses like, "You agree to sacrifice no less than three chickens to Microsoft" and "By using this software you agree to let the lead developer date your daughter." The software was in use for years, and not once did anyone say anything to me about the license agreement. Maybe people just chuckled at it or maybe they just said "What a moron" and moved on, but frankly I think no one ever read the license agreement. Something I'll remember if I ever want to perpetrate a scam.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to AnthonyC
    AnthonyC:
    I think the "Giant Cupcake" is defining a cupcake by shape and, imporantly, by aspect ratio. A cupcake is about as tall as it is wide. A cake is not. So a cupcake with cake-sized diameter would be very tall. Then it would be both "giant" compared to a regular cupcake and, colloquially speaking, "more 3-D" than a regular cake.

    Clearly what we need here is an official definition of "cupcake". Isn't there some government agency that has a legal definition? I recall when I lived in Ohio they had an official state definition of "ice cream", and at one point they updated it to include frozen yogurt in the definition.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to ÃÆâ€â„Â
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Where can I get that download speed? I'd like to download the state secrets of all nations in less than a second.

    Nice try, Julian.

  • Matt (unregistered)

    "You just had to try didn't you?"

    I'm now going to re-write all my code to include passive-aggressive error messages. They are the future.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Where can I get that download speed? I'd like to download the state secrets of all nations in less than a second.

    Nice try, Julian.

    Don't you mean, "You just had to try, didn't you?"

  • (cs) in reply to My Name
    My Name:
    Anonymous:
    ÃÆâ€â„Â:
    Where can I get that download speed? I'd like to download the state secrets of all nations in less than a second.

    Nice try, Julian.

    Don't you mean, "You just had to try, didn't you?"

    I have tried. Pray I don't try any harder.

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    ... VMWare in VMWare similarly knows. OK, so we need to mix virtualisation platforms. Let's try Virtual PC in VMWare - hey, now we're getting somewhere! OK, let's go for broke: VirtualBox in Virtual PC in VMWare! Unfortunately, this caused a virtualisation black hole to open up on my desktop and shortly thereafter the universe exploded. Damn, I was worried that might happen.

    Fortunately now, VMWare ESX can even virtualize itself!

    Woo hoo! Akismet finally acknowledged my existence! Although, damn, it denies my entitlement to submit my comment. Damn. :(

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to random_garbage
    random_garbage:
    Anonymous:
    ... VMWare in VMWare similarly knows. OK, so we need to mix virtualisation platforms. Let's try Virtual PC in VMWare - hey, now we're getting somewhere! OK, let's go for broke: VirtualBox in Virtual PC in VMWare! Unfortunately, this caused a virtualisation black hole to open up on my desktop and shortly thereafter the universe exploded. Damn, I was worried that might happen.

    Fortunately now, VMWare ESX can even virtualize itself!

    Woo hoo! Akismet finally acknowledged my existence! Although, damn, it denies my entitlement to submit my comment. Damn. :(

    This is awesome, I had no idea ESX could do that. Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely be playing around with this.

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