• (cs)

    Ith that thuper Thoth or thecret Thoth?

  • (cs)

    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

  • Holman716 (unregistered)

    Wow, secret message is awesome. I wanna retire when I'm 35!

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!
    The images are mildly funny at best, but since when does not having seen the images preclude leaving more comments given the general level of discourse here?
  • Daniel (unregistered)

    7th! It's Dysan not Dyson. Dyson makes vacuum cleaners.

  • jjc (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    use pixlr to load the url of the picture. it worx

  • nonA (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Reason: The Websense category "Not funny" is filtered.

  • stype (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that Thoth is not y2k compatible.

  • Ben Hutchings (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Your workplace installs AdBlock by default?

  • me (unregistered)
    3.25" floppy drives offer all the reliability you've come to expect from 5.25" drives.
    Nice, talk about truth in advertising... :)
  • (cs)

    Wow, I can't believe people actually used to read 2-page ads! Nowadays, you're lucky to get their attention to read your Google AdWords one-liner.

  • Nils (unregistered)

    Memories.....sigh!

  • csnyder (unregistered)

    If you're not seeing the images, check to see if you have AdBlock enabled - my AdBlock configuration (a fairly common one, I believe) blocked them all, leading me to a real WTF, as the captions by themselves are fairly meaningless.

  • (cs)

    Go bravely with Thoth!

    That must be where Nethack got that name . . .

  • (cs) in reply to Daniel
    Daniel:
    7th! It's Dysan not Dyson. Dyson makes vacuum cleaners.
    And spheres.
  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered) in reply to Daniel
    Daniel:
    7th! It's Dysan not Dyson. Dyson makes vacuum cleaners.

    And spheres?

    [image]
  • (cs)

    Interesting. Wikipedia lists a bunch of strange diskette formats, but 3 1/4" is not among them. I wonder if this was produced before 3 1/2" became widespread, or whether they were knowingly promoting an obscure dead-end technology as "where personal computing is going".

    One thing that is obviously dishonest is praising a "durable methal hub" as an advantage in one sentence and the absence of "rigid metal shutters" in the next.

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    DaveAronson: Snap!

  • (cs) in reply to Ben Hutchings
    Ben Hutchings:
    Your workplace installs AdBlock by default?

    Whatever it is, it's done at the proxy server we go through.

  • (cs)

    Wow, that was trippy, but I was sorely disappointed by the ASCII dog. I feel like Ralphie decoding the Ovaltine commercial.

  • InvisiBill (unregistered)

    Like others said, check AdBlock if you can't see the pics. The images are all in an /ads/ directory. https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/110414/xor-corporation_sm.jpg for example.

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Wow! Frits has a job!

  • C-Octothorpe (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Wow! Frits has a job!

    Once again, surfing pr0n from home is NOT a job... At least, not yet it is.

  • (cs)

    If the software is anything like this other THOTH, then...

  • (cs)

    I'm still trying to decide if I should donate to the Old Programmers' Home, or apply to be a resident.

  • Urbear (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    Dysan and Shugart tried to introduce 3.25" diskettes and drives around 1981. They were just one of several competing formats that didn't make it, along with a 3" diskette and a tiny hard-shelled 2" version that looked like a Barbie accessory. There was even a short-lived computer that used Dysan's disk - the Seequa Chameleon Once Sony jumped on the 3.5" bandwagon, followed closely by IBM and Apple, the little guys' days were numbered.

  • JonW (unregistered)

    Re: the 3.25" disks. That's "Dysan", not "Dyson". Always a mistake to confuse data disks and vacuum cleaners :-)

  • hpa (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    The "absence of rigid metal shutters" sounds like they are trying to promote their own format after the Sony-originated 3 1/2" format had already gained considerable traction. The year 1984 seems to confirm that.

  • Your Retarded (unregistered)

    As far as I am aware, 'Manager' is not a verb.

  • (cs)

    So far, no comments about Mata Hari. If you read the ad, Lockheed (yes, the airplane people) is selling a 1200 baud modem. High technology for the time. Promoting computer security through a dialup connection. Nobody heard of forging caller id?

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Wow! Frits has a job!

    Once again, surfing pr0n from home is NOT a job... At least, not yet it is.

    Jealousy makes you ugly in the face.

  • lesle (unregistered)

    Legal length paper, 14", folded twice is 3½", and fit inside a man's coat pocket. Shirt pockets became standardized at around 4". Mini floppy diskettes were made 3½" so they would fit in a man's shirt pocket. Look it up.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    Considering that Mata Hari was a WW1 spy who was executed in 1917, I don't think that boosting that she couldn't break into your computer is much or a selling point.

    a) she's (long) dead b) she had probably never heard of a computer c) she was the seducing military bigwigs type of spy rather than the tech-savvy breaking into stuff spy

  • Quango (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    They did exist: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#325

  • AnonCoward23 (unregistered)

    You do not cross The Lamp of Thoth, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6r3xI_9LUU

    You probably shouldn't cross Jex Thoth either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHe9l1cF08

    Akismet does seem to want to cross them, though...

  • RiptoR (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    Actually, it does mention them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#The_3-inch_compact_floppy_disk

  • iToad (unregistered) in reply to dogbrags
    dogbrags:
    So far, no comments about Mata Hari. If you read the ad, Lockheed (yes, the airplane people) is selling a 1200 baud modem. High technology for the time. Promoting computer security through a dialup connection. Nobody heard of forging caller id?

    Actually, this probably predates Caller ID. I'm old enough to remember when a modem was a box with rubber inserts that you put the phone handset into. You couldn't actually buy one. Like the phone, you leased it from the phone company.

  • mperry (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    Wikipedia talks about this size disk in "History of the floppy disk". There were a lot of weird sizes back in the day. For a while, I thought the 3" disk would become standard but, like the superior Amstrad and Apple computers that used them, were passed over by most of the US.

    Some of our company's CNC machines still used 8" floppies, one more reason to hook them into the network.

  • npo4 (unregistered)

    ah, because these are images are ads, they've been put in a folder called ads, and that's probably why they're blocked for everyone like me who use adblockers

  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Wow! Frits has a job!

    Once again, surfing pr0n from home is NOT a job... At least, not yet it is.

    It is if you're getting paid for it.

  • soer (unregistered) in reply to jjc

    Yes is 'doez', but its pretty much a pain in the arse and destroys the flow of the web page.

    All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!

  • soer (unregistered) in reply to jjc
    jjc:
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    use pixlr to load the url of the picture. it worx

    Yes is 'doez', but its pretty much a pain in the arse and destroys the flow of the web page.

    All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!

  • soer (unregistered) in reply to soer
    soer:
    Yes is 'doez', but its pretty much a pain in the arse and destroys the flow of the web page.

    All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!

    Or - I could hit the quote button then my comment might make some sense!

  • (cs) in reply to imgx64
    imgx64:
    Wow, I can't believe people actually used to read 2-page ads! Nowadays, you're lucky to get their attention to read your Google AdWords one-liner.

    To be fair, people still do. (In fact, they pay for something that are like ads -- ever seen people reading Consumer Reports?) You just have to be in the right mindset.

    csnyder:
    If you're not seeing the images, check to see if you have AdBlock enabled - my AdBlock configuration (a fairly common one, I believe) blocked them all, leading me to a real WTF, as the captions by themselves are fairly meaningless.

    To be fair, it was actually doing its job.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    Google dysan 3.25" diskettes

  • Abso (unregistered) in reply to soer
    soer:
    All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!
    Alternately, you could accept that if you use a plugin to remove some images from web pages then it might remove some images from web pages. And that someone running a web site with ads may not have much interest in accommodating the blocking of those ads.
  • Erik (unregistered) in reply to brazzy

    """During the early 1980's many competing formats were tried to compete with the 3.5 inch drives. From various companies there were 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, 3.25, and 4.0 inch formats!"""

    from http://www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html

  • Ovidiu (unregistered)

    3.14159265 inch computing is ready when you are ....

    Also, CAPTCHA was "genitus"

  • BentFranklin (unregistered)

    Hmmm... Unit testing for management... I like it!

  • The Ancient Programmer (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Nagesh:
    frits:
    Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!

    Wow! Frits has a job!

    Once again, surfing pr0n from home is NOT a job... At least, not yet it is.

    The selection process and interview should be interesting!

Leave a comment on “What the Ad?! - Maybe It Means 'Exclusive OR'”

Log In or post as a guest

Replying to comment #:

Log Out

« Return to Article