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First Error'd seems a very poor start of the article... If the "Ja" knop would show
javascript:fireZieNukes(), you would be glad to have adoNothingfunction on the "Nein" button.Again, nobody said "doNothing" doesn't close that window.
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The third one is also not what the caption says. Actually the guy has written component (singular) here. And somewhere else he used componenten (plural) His co-worker / wife tried to inform him that this should be changed to the plural too. How it got into the live software is just a mild :wtf:
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I'm sorry are you from the past? You replied several hours before I could even see the topic.
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Aren't we all, technically?
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Me too! I travelled all the way from 1987. It only took me 28 years to get here.
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I'm a refugee from March 8th 2015.
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It was me. I did it. March 8th, 2015 was such a bad day for me that I decided to erase it from the collective memory so there would be no chance of me going back and having to relive it (groundhog style).
Obviously, the erasure process is not perfect. I will have to go to Plan B ....mmmmmwwwwahahahahahaha!!!!
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Luckily, finding "the real WTF" wasn't too hard today:
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We got a leap day?.... 8 is missing
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Seems Gregory forgot a day when he took over from Julia...
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The "unusual" calendar partakes in a noble tradition dating back at least almost a hundred years.
http://m.snopes.com/2015/06/09/1917-chalkboard-ok/
Also? Windows in those days didn't have Direct3D support either.
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Oh, but they did... [image] :laughing:
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Whatever's outside the window is 3D, and you see it directly. Story checks out.
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I was trying for the physical, solid, prop as the direct, 3 dimensional, support to be "noticed".
But, good, all the same :thumbsup:
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Could the calendar one be a daylight savings thing? That's around the time that you northern-hemisphere folks start that, right? So there would have been a day that was only 23 hours long... if the code was stepping a timestamp 24 hours at a time, it could conceivably have skipped a day (going from 11pm on the 7th to 12am on the 9th)...
[edit] Looked it up, yep, daylight savings started on the 8th in the States. So that's probably what happened...
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Doesn't VirtualBox not support 3d acceleration without already having the guest additions or something? I don't think that particular entry was as wtfy as the rest.
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If I could find a large mass to orbit I could speed up my rate of travel into the future.
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Sorry, no. You would continue to travel into the future at a steady rate of 1s/s. Other people in different frames might disagree with you about the rate of time passing, but your cesium clock would continue to show the same number of wavelengths per second and your measurement of c would give the usual result. You're already orbiting two large masses - the Sun, and the Galaxy - adding another one won't make your clock go any faster. That's because there is no fixed "future" that all observers agree on.
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Say you are a programmer in a country that decides to change first day in week IN THE MIDDLE OF A MONTH (these things might happen), how would you solve the layout? Would it not be the easiest thing to just silently skip the 8th? I mean, who cares? This is really thinking outside the box.
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The components one isn’t a message about “the availability of newer components.” The heading translates as “Component (Henk, you used ‘components’ later on; so I’d use that here too)”. It looks to me like somebody tried to help the translator by pointing out a discrepancy, but did so in a rather clumsy way by putting the hint into the string rather than as a comment nearby.
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Or Tuesdays. Really Tuesday is the most unnecessary day of the week, we should skip Tuesdays silently.
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I tried the Sears site and the search suggested "shitiphone" so I clicked it and got this:
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Since approximately forever, the only way to get the VBox Direct3D driver installed is to do the guest additions installation with the guest in Safe Mode. I believe that's still true.
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I think you'll find that the centre of any black hole is in the future wrt any observer.
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I assumed the calendar was from the Discworld, and was just carefully avoiding the use of the number between seven and nine.
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It's happened already: http://www.genealogytoday.com/columns/everyday/030902.html
Eastern Orthodox Christianity still observes holidays like Christmas using the old Julian calendar. As the difference is now at about 13 days, Christmas falls on January 7.
At that rate, in another ~26,000 years, Christmas will occur in summertime! :)
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I used to think this myself. But I had it in reverse, yes, time will go faster "for you", but you won't be in the "rest" of the future from anyone else. So instead of "quickly getting to the new world/inventions" you'll basically get old before your friends' next ages.
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Oracle
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FTFSH
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Move to Sydney! Summer in the winter and all. No need to wait 26,000 years.
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The proximity of this word to those of the black hole has caused a typing distortion, rendering it unintelligible. Thus placing the sense of the entire sentence at risk.
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With Regard To
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Oh....
Thank you. :blush:
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And if a function called "doNothing" would actually close the window it would be suddenly not a WTF anymore? Maybe you're just one of these people who need the whole page source code in order to comprehend a WTF no matter how obvious it is.
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The WTF is that their interface includes a button that intentionally does nothing.
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javascript:void() is a way of providing a link (or some User interaction) on a webpage, so that the Browser doesn't go rushing off somewhere, or doing something before you (the Devloper) has a chance of "modifying" the Action (with javascript) beforehand.
I personally don't use it, as there are other ways, because to see it pop up in the Status Bar can cause all sorts of emotions and responses in the User. None of which are "good" for enforcing Trust in the User for your website.
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That wasn't the sense of my remark, but in any case astrophysics is far from agreed on the form of the universe in its future. Infinite expansion to a state of near-zero density isn't ruled out.
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Even so, @John_Imrie is correct to say that if he could find a large mass to orbit he could speed up his rate of travel into the future.
If he were to leave here, then spend time in a gravitational field greater than 1G, then come back here, he would have experienced fewer seconds than anybody who reached their common future by staying here. That's what happens when you get somewhere faster.