• Anonymous (unregistered)

    But the least productive choice is to press Help.

  • (cs)

    I had a chance to be frist, but I let it go. And I'm okay with that. :)

  • (cs)

    Actaully, I'd like to know where they have enough warehouse space for that many crab doodads. That's enough for everybody to have 100000 of them, and still have some left over.

  • nobulate (unregistered)

    The days calculation used by Visual Studio is in fact correct. Microsoft minutes (tm) are markedly not scaled the same as earth time, nor is it as linear.

    (4 / 2147483647) = C = 1.86265E-09

    Where C is the variable constant defined in the win32 API in time.h, it is primarily responsible for calculating copy and download times, boot times, process scheduling, mouse movement, window drawing speed, window management... pretty much anything that requires power.

    One overclocking trick is to recompile windows with C = 1.0, then the OS behaves as you expect (tm).

    P.S. First, you failed. bwha ha ha ha!

  • F (unregistered)

    Vlad should look more closely. It's "$153,521," that he needs, not "$153,521". Obviously the former is greater than his measly "$926,533" - it's longer, for a start.

  • Cujo (unregistered)

    It's fake crab anyway.

  • Fresh Avocado (unregistered)

    I wonder if sidebar posts get stale after four weeks ...

  • Pock Suppet (unregistered)
    You don't have enough game dollars. You need $153,521, but have only $926,533.
    Not enough game dollars? Cue microtransactions.
  • (cs)

    That should almost be enough crab rangoons. What is everyone else gonna have?

  • Diego (unregistered)

    What game Vlad playing?

  • (cs)

    The Microsoft Expiration has already been discussed at length - that is TRWTF!

  • Leighton (unregistered) in reply to F
    F:
    Vlad should look more closely. It's "$153,521," that he needs, not "$153,521". Obviously the former is greater than his measly "$926,533" - it's longer, for a start.

    It pains me to do this but you should have a better understanding of grammar. The comma is there to break the sentence up. This is confirmed by the Build button showing the correct figure.

    This comment is greater than your measly one.

    CAPTCHA: bene - This has bene fun!!!

  • Gill Bates (unregistered) in reply to Diego
    Diego:
    What game Vlad playing?
    Why would anyone want to know? It's pay to play. It's crap and should die. Everybody involved in its development should have a diarrhea. Everybody paying the microtransations should see their money spent on foreign aid.
  • Dale (unregistered)

    I do like the popup "Do you want to cancel the cancel that you have requested?" If you read it carefully, it make sense, but I'll bet the ordinary users will have some trouble understanding it.

  • (cs)

    I spload. Mcrumm everywhere.

    Looks like rangoon.

  • Hawk (unregistered)

    It's simple really - the amount of crab in the crab rangoon is on the same the level as that of homeopathic remedies.

  • Brompot (unregistered) in reply to Hawk
    Hawk:
    It's simple really - the amount of crab in the crab rangoon is on the same the level as that of homeopathic remedies.

    That still leaves an awful lot of crust.

  • (cs) in reply to Cujo
    Cuj:
    It's fake crab anyway.

    This - TRWTF is thinking that a crab rangoon contains any actual crab in the first place!

    Gill Bates:
    Why would anyone want to know? It's pay to play. ... Everybody paying the microtransations should see their money spent on foreign aid.

    a) get the hell over yourself trying to dictate how other people spend their own money

    and b) the phrase "game dollars" might give away the fact that it's not real money anyway.

    I've changed my mind already - you're TRWTF...

  • (cs)

    Hey, if "game dollars" are anything like BitCoins, this is merely an artifact of the volatile marketplace. Between the time the software (or the really hot blonde pictured...) looked up his game dollar account and the current price, the value of game dollars, in game dollar units, fluctuated madly.

  • Hugh Hefner (unregistered)

    Just proves that blondes with big boobs can't do math.

  • (cs)

    What game is he playing?

  • (cs)

    C Pitfall and Traps for detail on bug on dollar value comparisons.

  • Slapout (unregistered)

    "So, does WinSCP want me to click Cancel or OK to cancel?"

    You should press Help, which will then bring up a dialog displaying "FILE_NOT_FOUND".

  • (cs)

    1e15 crab rangoons is only 7701 in decimal terms. Not really that much at all.

    But then again I don't really care for crab.

    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

  • (cs)

    "In the inventory section, it says they have 1 quadrillion units of crab rangoon in stock," writes Michael, "With that many, you'd think that crabs would be extinct."

    I'm surprised your storage hasn't collapsed into a black hole!

  • Keith Thompson (unregistered)

    So 2147483647 days is 100+ years?

    Well, yes, it is. Actually it's well over 5 million years.

    (And of course it's exactly 2**31-1 days.)

  • serggegs (unregistered)

    You'll still be hungry 30 minutes later.

  • (cs) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    1e15 crab rangoons is only 7701 in decimal terms. Not really that much at all.

    But then again I don't really care for crab.

    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon", along with many other changes in English transliteration of Burmese names. (The changes have not been accepted by many Burmese who consider the junta unfit to make such changes, nor by many publications, news bureaux including, most notably, the BBC and foreign nations including the United Kingdom and United States.)[10][11]

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    1e15 crab rangoons is only 7701 in decimal terms. Not really that much at all.

    But then again I don't really care for crab.

    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon", along with many other changes in English transliteration of Burmese names. (The changes have not been accepted by many Burmese who consider the junta unfit to make such changes, nor by many publications, news bureaux including, most notably, the BBC and foreign nations including the United Kingdom and United States.)[10][11]

    He said "they".

  • Stuart (unregistered)

    The WinSCP one is fairly obvious, unless you don't speak English, in which case I will submit everything that I see that isn't in my language.

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    1e15 crab rangoons is only 7701 in decimal terms. Not really that much at all.

    But then again I don't really care for crab.

    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon", along with many other changes in English transliteration of Burmese names. (The changes have not been accepted by many Burmese who consider the junta unfit to make such changes, nor by many publications, news bureaux including, most notably, the BBC and foreign nations including the United Kingdom and United States.)[10][11]

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

  • P (unregistered)

    Vlad's submission reminds me of this:

    Let's play Number Wang!

    Unfortunately Akismet thinks that this highly amusing video is spam!

  • (cs) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    C Pitfall and Traps for detail on bug on dollar value comparisons.
    1) To which of the bugs described in that paper are your referring? None of them relate specifically to dollar value comparisons, and it is not obvious which of the many numeric bugs are applicable in this case.

    1. What makes you think the game was even written in C?

    2. You do realize, don't you, that paper is almost 30 years old. Many of the semantic pitfalls it describes will be caught by a modern (<25 year-old) compiler.

  • Morecambe (unregistered) in reply to Dale
    Dale:
    I do like the popup "Do you want to cancel the cancel that you have requested?" If you read it carefully, it make sense, but I'll bet the ordinary users will have some trouble understanding it.
    I'd prefer "Yes" or "No" options, but then I'm in the apparently tiny minority that prefer sane interfaces rather than "Modern" ones.
  • Acton Daleworth (unregistered) in reply to Stuart
    Stuart:
    The WinSCP one is fairly obvious, unless you don't speak English, in which case I will submit everything that I see that isn't in my language.
    Agreed, I saw that and thought "where's the WTF?" OK means you agree to cancelling the current operation, Cancel means you want to cancel the cancellation. Duh.
  • D B (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    What game is he playing?
    What year is it?
  • enim (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)

    The Commonwealth of Virginia hesitates to call itself a state. They want to pretend they still have the same status as Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth. Or maybe Virginia want to pretend that it's an entire former empire like that other Commonwealth? Anyone want to inform them of an event that was in the news some decades ago?

    In Thailand there's still Siam City Bank. In Ontario there's still the Law Society of Upper Canada.

  • (cs) in reply to Slapout
    You should press Help, which will then bring up a dialog displaying "FILE_NOT_FOUND".
    No, you need to click the question mark icon in the top right corner first, then click Help, which will then bring up a dialog displaying "FILE_NOT_FOUND(FILE_NOT_FOUND)".
  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to enim
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    It's not about when it happened, it's about whether this is the case.....perhaps over 25 years the Burmese have accepted that it's Yangon; or perhaps people other than the junta hve started calling it that; or something else...

    point is, obviously the age of the reference doesn't stop the reference being true at the time it was written, however just because that was the case then doesn't mean it still is....

    I found something from the 1950's saying no person has ever been in space....(oops, I think I just woke some conspiracy theorists)

  • commoveo (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    point is, obviously the age of the reference doesn't stop the reference being true at the time it was written, however just because that was the case then doesn't mean it still is....
    And when exactly do you suppose "then" is? (Hint: just because it contains the string "1989" doesn't mean it was written in that year.)

  • Jim (unregistered) in reply to commoveo
    commoveo:
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    point is, obviously the age of the reference doesn't stop the reference being true at the time it was written, however just because that was the case then doesn't mean it still is....
    And when exactly do you suppose "then" is? (Hint: just because it contains the string "1989" doesn't mean it was written in that year.)
    Then = the time it was written. Things might have changed since it was written - even if that were yesterday..... (Hint: Not sure anyone since 'da Doctah' has suggested it was written in 1989)

  • refoveo2 (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    commoveo:
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    point is, obviously the age of the reference doesn't stop the reference being true at the time it was written, however just because that was the case then doesn't mean it still is....
    And when exactly do you suppose "then" is? (Hint: just because it contains the string "1989" doesn't mean it was written in that year.)
    Then = the time it was written. Things might have changed since it was written - even if that were yesterday..... (Hint: Not sure anyone since 'da Doctah' has suggested it was written in 1989)
    and noone has anything better to do than argue over irrelevant semantics on an irrelevant post two days ago......

  • nobis (unregistered) in reply to refoveo2
    refoveo2:
    and noone has anything better to do than argue over irrelevant semantics on an irrelevant post two days ago......
    xkcd wrong on the Internet etc
  • floored (unregistered) in reply to refoveo2
    refoveo2:
    Jim:
    commoveo:
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    point is, obviously the age of the reference doesn't stop the reference being true at the time it was written, however just because that was the case then doesn't mean it still is....
    And when exactly do you suppose "then" is? (Hint: just because it contains the string "1989" doesn't mean it was written in that year.)
    Then = the time it was written. Things might have changed since it was written - even if that were yesterday..... (Hint: Not sure anyone since 'da Doctah' has suggested it was written in 1989)
    and noone has anything better to do than argue over irrelevant semantics on an irrelevant post two days ago......
    oh yes they do....

  • (cs) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    It's not about when it happened, it's about whether this is the case.....perhaps over 25 years the Burmese have accepted that it's Yangon; or perhaps people other than the junta hve started calling it that; or something else...

    This.

    In 1990, Saddam Hussein announced that Kuwait was properly a province of Iraq, and took actions consistent with that position. The rest of the world said otherwise, and took actions consistent with that position. Ultimately, the original announcement had to be retracted. But for a few brief shining moments, it was "current".

    I don't have "Yangon" on my Google Plus newsfeed alerts, so I might well have missed a change in the official position about just what use of that name implies. But I have seen recent game-show questions that suggest the related renaming of the country to "Myanmar" is accepted in greater circles now than it was in 1989.

  • wisi (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    Jim:
    enim:
    da Doctah:
    Nagesh:
    da Doctah:
    And they renamed the place to Yangon a couple of decades ago anyway.

    So you're a member of the junta?

    In 1989, the current military junta changed the city's English name to "Yangon"

    You got a cite a little more current than 1989?

    If it happened in 1989 then that's when it happened, the facts don't change just because it's not "current". (And you originally referenced the event as "a couple of decades ago", so you're hardly in a position to complain about old news.)
    It's not about when it happened, it's about whether this is the case.....perhaps over 25 years the Burmese have accepted that it's Yangon; or perhaps people other than the junta hve started calling it that; or something else...

    This.

    Nagesh posted that the name change happened in 1989, and you complained that 1989 was too old. If you meant something other than the year the change happened, you communicated it appallingly.

  • Sir Galahad the pure (unregistered) in reply to Jim
    Jim:
    I found something from the 1950's saying no person has ever been in space....

    Well, that's to be expected, since HAARP is only operational since 1984, thus you should not find anything after 1984 that claims we never went to space - because since 1984 our reptilian overlords use HAARP to control our minds and make us gay.

    I am not making up the "reptilian overlord" conspiracy theory. Apparently Lady Diana was killed by them, because she threatened to reveal the secret that the Queen is really a reptilian. Really, google it and get your remaining sanity blown or wonder where those people get their drugs...

  • (cs)

    Yangon was Rangoon Now it's Yangon, not Rangoon Been a long time gone, Rangoon Now it's junta delight on a moonlit night.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to Sir Galahad the pure
    Sir Galahad the pure:
    I am not making up the "reptilian overlord" conspiracy theory. Apparently Lady Diana was killed by them, because she threatened to reveal the secret that the Queen is really a reptilian.
    She was killed before becoming a princess?

    How old is this news we're talking about?

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