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Re: TurboTax money formatting. This thing of formatting money without a trailing zero in cases where the number of cents, pence, (dollar) cents, or whatever is a non-zero multiple of ten (ex: formatting 4 euros 50 as 4,5€) is fairly common in France, although not for amounts related to taxes.
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Hipster cafés seem to like doing this too; I'm told it's because people are more willing to pay 12.5 for a sourdough bun if the price doesn't look like money
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Fill out the application form posted (a href="C:\Users\Bob\HR stuff\Job Application (1) final revised- additions by Paula [Version 4] COPY 3.doc") here (/a). And include scans of all your personal documents so we can share them with strangers!
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LOL the GM notification is because someone at the shop put fake info in there. GM's systems require it to bill recall work. I don't know why they didn't use the dealer's real info, guess they thought "Big Beaver" was funny.
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From my limited observation, this seems most common in eurozone countries where the previous currency’s subdivision had so little value that it was never used in daily life anymore. Whereas in countries whose currency had high enough value that its cents (or equivalent) were used, euro amounts almost invariably do include a trailing zero.
Also, I’ve even noticed on TV people from B*****m say things like “four euro five” when they mean €4.50 rather than €4.05.
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Spanish pesetas had dropped cents altogether decades ago but nobody ever writes 4,5 €. In spoken language you typically say four with fifty. I admit, though, there's a bit of a grey zone with 4,05 € -- when the shop assistant says "four with five" I feel I have to ask if they mean 05 or 50.
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In the TurboTax screenshot, I first thought that 175,2 was the amount of the taxes you owe, but it's seemingly the cost of filling your taxes with that company, and not even the real cost because AMERICA. I'm so grateful that my country provides a free government-developed website which is also among the best public administration software here.
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“a free government-developed website”
So, one paid for by your tax dollars. TANSTAAFL.
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A chain burger joint does this.
But not for the food, or the drinks. They'll sell you a kids toy for $6.7 [sic]. The incorrect formatting annoys me more than the two numbers.
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I think it'd still cost less than turbotax. Assuming the tax website costed $2 billion and the cost was spilt evenly amoung every person in australia, that's $75.60 per person. And $2 billion should be an overestimation because the australian government's new (and completely useless) weather website "only" costed $96 million, and I wouldn't think a tax filer would cost too much more.
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yes, that is what reasonably competent governments do: provide required services for their citizens.
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Yes, because it’s much better for everyone to pay money to commercial companies that want to make a profit off doing things that the government made too complicated for you to do yourself, than paying the government a likely smaller amount per person to make things simple enough that you don’t need the commercial companies as middlemen.
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I have to point out there is an 888 W Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI. However, it's a steakhouse, not a car dealership.
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For the vast majority of people
http://localhostvery definitely is an invalid redirect. I very rarely have a web server running on127.0.0.1or::1for that matter and if I did, it would almost certainly not be running on the default port 80.