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YES! Another Radio WTF. I'm so glad.
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http://i.imgur.com/xkvf5qS.png
That's some funky quotes.
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”Smart Quotes“ FTL
Filed under: Why yes, they are backwards in this post. well spotted.
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Thought about downloading for later listening ... maybe not ...
[image]It is uninclused? Oh well Googly will tell ...
[image]Or not ...
Maybe GIS can shed some light ...
[image]Or not ...
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Just fix your links:
http://thedailywtf.com/images/remy/Radio%20WTF%20-%20Quantity%20of%20Service%20(192k).mp3
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It's not my link that is broken thank you very much.
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https://github.com/tdwtf/WtfWebApp/commit/e2685ec2ea3a6a170049859f98b53dc2fcf60b39
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Links fixed. There was one Smart Quote. Have no idea where it came from. I wrote the HTML in Notepad. Imma just going to blame Discourse (somehow).
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Lorne is back!
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"Transcript to follow later today."
Transcript?????????????? :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Are you telling me you can't be bothered to just post the script for the audio performance? Or are you saying that the whole thing was improvised?
I now have to wait an unknown amount of time to experience this WTF because you can't be bothered to post a text version. Get this idea through your (...) heads: even now in 2015, not everyone has access to working sound hardware that's supported by the installed OS. (There are reasons why I don't have such a thing. Those reasons aren't even remotely valid, and aren't even my fault either, but they are reasons.)
NOTE: I'm channelling our good friend @blakeyrat here, just to give you an idea of what goes in place of the (...). I've also left out a good deal of my venting because it would have been just to damned (c)rude for my taste.
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Oh, yes, and I hope that if it is really a transcript, the transcription quality is better than last year's so-called effort.
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Hey everyone! It's Steve!
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The broken download is fixed.
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Hilarious. The goal of support isn't to solve the problem, just get the customer off the phone. Christ...
Also, Windows 96.5. lel And the asshole sales guy who sells bullshit. What a shock.
Also, eMachines and/or Gateway?
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Leif or Lyfe???
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Looks like it. My first thought was that IPC was Gateway, but I checked Wikipedia, and it was Gateway that bought eMachines.
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The submitter's name is Lyfe, but that didn't sound good in audio, repeated over and over. So I changed it to Leif.
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And then went out of business themselves ;)
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Spoilers, man!
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Now with Bonus Extras!
https://soundcloud.com/halcyon1234/sets/outtakes-from-quantity-of
(Because who doesn't want their ringtone to be Alex saying "Hey! That's my mouse!" over and over?!??!?!?)
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TRWTF is Daryl not acknowledging that if someone hits a dead end in the script, he needs to improve his script. I mean, people calling for support on other companies' computers is obvious. You should also expect them to call about TVs, lawnmowers, sexual fetishes, and buttock rashes.
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Yeah, the need for the script to quickly end those calls should be obvious even to him.
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Changing the script would cost money. We can't change the script! It would cut down on the quantity of your job experience!
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:wtf:
Linux hardware?
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I spent a period of time in that position on one of my boxes, but that was because I hadn't bothered to plug in speakers, headphones, or a headset :P
You have piqued my curiosity...Admin
I should say I pasted it into Notepad specifically to kill off any special characters. It seems Notepad is learning. Getting smarter.
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Notepad has full Unicode support nowadays ;)
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Great! Can it fucking learn how to do *NIX newlines as well now?
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You can :heart: the app you're using You can use the app you :heart:
You can even use Unicode inside of Notepad now And that's good, isn't it? Grand, isn't it? Great, isn't it? Swell, isn't it? Fun, isn't it? Nowadays.
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The entire purpose of the app is to be a backwards-compatible text file viewer for DOS text files. So learning "how to do *NIX newlines" would kind of break it for its intended use.
People actually using it for editing files is the real WTF here. Even Windows 95 had WordPad for that.
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I like the 3 distinct themes:
Good work guys. I found it to be not uninclused.
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WordPad was terrible. The only thing worse than a word processor is a bad word processor. Give me plain text, or give me death!
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I'm sure that's exactly what Patrick Henry was referring to.
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All those WYSIWYG programs bug me somewhat. I much prefer HTML, plain text, or I'll even put up with markdown. None of those is incompatible with my minimalist-windows policy.
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Not really. Just treat either
\r\nor\nas a newline. Heck, you could even recognize\n\r, just in case some old Mac wienie mailed you a text file. It is possible to recognize all the line endings and do the right thing; other editors do.Admin
Even if it did what typewriters did with newlines that didn't have carriage returns (go down a line but not to the left) it would be better than the current state of "display rectangle, continue current line".
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Is not the editor that opens when I click a
.txtfile, Notepad is. And all I, as the user, see is broken if the file was written on any other modern OS.Admin
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HEY MORE PEOPLE TELL ME HOW GREAT NOTEPAD IS PLEASE!
I really care.
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It's awesome! It's like this thing you can type words into! And then you can save those words to read again later! :stuck_out_tongue:
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The weakness of Markdown is the lack of a formal specification. Its advantage is that it's a very natural format. It's the only one of those non-markup-but-actually-it's-markup languages that doesn't make me want to stab a pen with a spoon taped to it into my eye.
I'm looking at you, Wiki markup. And don't look so smug Restructured text.
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Underlined text wants a word with you. Something about intuitiveness and long-established unwritten standards of text-only communication on the Internet?
I also hear /italic/ complaining in the background but I have no idea what it wants...
Filed under: I'll save you clicking the "Raw" button:
<!-- :trollface: -->_Underlined_ text wants a word with you...Admin
Hahahah whaaa?
Italics is surround the word in asterisks? That's "natural"? Says who? Italics is-- Onyx beat me to these-- has always been /italics/
And how do you do bold? Asterisks, like always? No, DOUBLE asterisks! Of course. You've never seen one before in your life, but that's the "natural" way of doing it in Markdown!
underline using underscores makes the text italics. How "natural!" (How do you even do underline in markdown? Note there's a toolbar button for horizontal rule, something almost nobody uses ever, and none for underline.)
In the meantime, "natural" conventions like the one I used in the first paragraph (using double-dash to represent an en-dash)? Nope, Markdown doesn't do that. (How do you type an en-dash in Markdown? Do you just have to memorize the character code and use the numpad trick?) Three periods to represent an ellipsis? ... nope, not that either. It just fucking draws three periods.
Anybody who says Markdown is "natural" is a crazy-person.
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Eh, I can kinda live with these. But triple dash is complete bullshit:
And now I'll stop talking about Markdown because I think the point has been made. It's servicable, cringeworthy and annoying, but it works. Kinda. When it feels like it.
But it's in no way natural nor intuitive, sorry.
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It's so UNintuitive that it's mind-boggling when someone comes along and claims it is.
Where the FUCK did you ("you" being Remy) go on the web, computers, email, ANYWHERE, where people typed **bold text** to make text bold and _italics_ to make it italicized? Is there like some weird parallel universe where all typographical conventions are opposites?
EDIT: oh and BTW? Apparently there's no underline in Markdown at all. Welcome to BBCode!
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Why don't we just type everything in 4.7548875-bit ASCII with lojban syntax? We can even cut it down to 4.70043972-bit ASCII if we skip newlines, with the added bonus of not having to worry about notepad.exe compatibility.
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The best part about doing this episode was that I now have a comment section I can link to the next time Blakeyrat complains about people going off-topic in his thread. Win.
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DOS> copy wordpad.exe notepad.exe
Problem fucking solved.
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I can't say I've found it to be particularly intuitive, but it's less verbose than HTML for doing simple document things.
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But don't you see, that's just the beauty of Markdown!
Maybe in Blakey-flavoured Markdown, /italics/ will work the way you want it. The *italics* is just a "convention" that some flavours happen to implement.
This way, everyone wins, and there's no authoritarian standards committee to dictate how you want to use it.