@vt_mruhlin said:
@derula said:
You know, the uppercase dot is a colon.On my keyboard it's a greater than.
what is greater than a colon ?
@vt_mruhlin said:
@derula said:
You know, the uppercase dot is a colon.On my keyboard it's a greater than.
what is greater than a colon ?
@Heron said:
OMG noob!
1) I don't have Win98.
2) Games bought on Steam won't play unless Steam is running.
3) Steam refuses to run in Win98.
4. PROFIT
@Zemm said:
I hate the "HTML" code that Flash itself creates. I neveruse that and instead use SWFObject to embed SWF files in my HTML - whether it is going to be full browser window or within other HTML elements.
the Adobe uses SWFObject (modified though) to embed SWFs in HTML instead of the Flash generated "code" ...
When you want to make sure a column in the db is really, really, really unique:
[URL=http://img200.imageshack.us/i/sidebarw.gif/][IMG]http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/91/sidebarw.th.gif[/IMG][/URL]
@Weng said:
So I'm sitting here, trying to figure out some hella performance
issues.
@bstorer said:
@Nelle said:
I wonder how many TDWTF forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?Thirty-five:
- One to propose changing the lightbulb
- Five to discuss changing the lightbulb, complete with anecdotes about past lightbulb-changing WTFs.
- Four to complain about how hard Community Server makes it to change a lightbulb
- Three to upbraid those four for not quoting properly
- Seven to post spam about handbags or shoes
- One to make lame wooden table jokes
- One to reply with to the wooden table joke with "Brilliant!"
- Two to derail the thread into an argument about interrupt handlers
- Five to derail that argument with a new argument about political-economic theory
- One to post seven months later asking if the lightbulb has been changed yet
- Two to make comments about thread necromancy
- One to lock the thread
- Two to post about how the attempts to lock the thread have failed
And at the end, we're all still in the dark.
lol...
you forgot:
@robbak said:
It is, of course, nothing new. may I present something that has been part of the FreeBSD FAQs for, well, yonks.
How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?
I wonder how many TDWTF forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?
@derula said:
@MiffTheFox said:I seriously can't believe how far this thread got before someone made a lolcat reference.The first lolcat reference was in the article linked by OP.
@Lingerance said:
@blakeyrat said:I do find it interesting that the W3C cares about having more than 3 mouse buttons, while they still have no support for detecting more than one computer monitor.
Why does a web app need to know how many monitors I have?
@Huf Lungdung said:
I should have posted this earlier while the debate was still raging, but better late than never:
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." - John Carmack
and he should know."carmack's reverse" is another example why the patent system is far from being perfect.
@dhromed said:
@PeriSoft said:
Are you sure that you're not suddenly thirst into a bloodthrusty rage?I might be raged into a thrustthirsty blood.
in any case, better than bloodied into a thirstraged thrust
@Weng said:
However, it's worth noting that a $4000EUR laptop is $5700US and UTTERLY NONEXISTANT - so I assume it'd come down to a pricing differential thing where you guys are getting massively ripped the fuck off and paying easily 3 times what we do
www.alienware.com
I am currently saving up for it ....
@tgape said:
I used to play WoW.
after reading your post, i think you should've started with : "Hello my name is tgape and I'm an addict. (Hello tgape). Its been xxx months since my last raid .... "
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
If this absolutely has to be a View, then the only way to do that would be to have a SP that generates the View using the above method.
or a view that selects * from a function returning a table generated with the above method
@KattMan said:
the problem is going the other way, take a CSV file and name it XLS and excell still opens it.
Even better, take an html file and name it XLS, it looks quite ok in Excel ... We used it a while back to export data from a webapp ...
@morbiuswilters said:
Sadly, IIRC, Sun dropped support for self-signed certs in Java 6.
i cant find anything on google... can anyone confirm this ? it would be a major pita ...
@Someone You Know said:
This is a pretty standard Java idiom.
@CyberShadow said:
Weng: I only use it for C++, so the one thing I can say is that the new Intellisense is good. It underlines errors with red squiggles now, just like the ones you get when writing in .NET languages. It's still rough around the edges - takes a lot of time to convert large C++ projects and locks up for about a minute if I try to get a Ctrl+Space suggestion.
@ruperik said:
on the client side, i call it with:
window.open(download);
location.href = download;
@dhromed said:
We stopped supporting IE6 after IE8 came out. You want it => pay more monies
lucky you ... some of our customers (corporate) stilll have it installed ... with custom security settings ... and they want their pages to look nice ...
@arty said:
- Can quit ever be set to True in tersprite?
If you can answer this question then you have helped yourself.
Can quit ever be set
to True in tersprite ? answer
this and help is there
@TGV said:
Sometimes it's useful to have an empty string in your primary key, or use NULL to represent a "missing" or default value.
and how do you handle a left join to that table
@dhromed said:
Really? What's so suck aboot it?
Giving support to people who are accustomed to their old access application and trying to explain where what icon is ...
However bigger problem is when you have a MSSQL backend with linked tables and date fields in your database ....
Then the ribbon thing tends to grind most computers to a halt when you enter the date field on the form, grid or wherever ....
For now, the happiest line of the year 2009:
DoCmd.ShowToolbar "Ribbon", acToolbarNo
@_moz said:
That would certainly make searching your e-mail a bit of a nightmare.
not really, you just convert it to text and save it in a large text file with other emails, documents and pictures. then you use ssds to search through them. rather simple.
@danixdefcon5 said:
At least MS does stuff in useful features in each new "year" Office version.
recently i had to upgrade an access 2003 database to access 2007 ... i still wake up in sweat screaming "riiiiiiiiibon" ...
@dtfinch said:
Once in my lifetime, I felt the need to use sleep() in ASP.
pray tell us the reason why... sounds like frontpage material...
@CDarklock said:
I'd never name my kid Kal-El or Elric. Or, God forbid, BILBO.
how about Optimus Prime...
@dhromed said:
temp as a var holds absolutely zero meaning, and is just as bad as that result var.
I agree "temp" is a pretty non-descriptive name for a var, but why is "result" bad ? I use it often as a local variable in functions for the return value, like
uint32 doSomethingBadToParameters( uint32 a, uint32 b, uint32 c) { uin32 result = 0; if (a > b && b < c) result = 12; if (isPrimeUint32(c)) result += c; return result; }
SELECT DATEDIFF(y, date_born, GETDATE()) AS age FROM users WHERE user_id = 'Nelle'
----
age
----------------
30
(1 rows )
@morbiuswilters said:
Sure it is. What we are concerned with is the ability of the person obtaining the resources to accomplish some task with them. If someone pays a great deal for a scarce resource, they most likely have a very important, profitable task that can be accomplished with those resources. If what that person produces is not more valuable than what they paid, then they waste their money.
you are aware of the existance of one person with the name Paris, last name Hilton, who can afford any ressource before you (or any of us mortals) can, no matter how important or profitable your task may be ...
@morbiuswilters said:
The problem is that you truly believe technology can take the place of human intelligence and judgement, which it cannot. Technology should aid people in accomplishing their goals, not make their decisions for them.
Or as they say : "Artificial Inteligence is no match for Natural Stupidity"
@Heron said:
Indeed we have all heard it before; however, I'm inclined to believe Brandon...
i'll believe it when i see it...
since we are already off topic, i have to say i was frrrrikin pissed a coupleof days ago when i got to the end of brisingr...
as i ordered it i did see it is part of the inheritance cycle, but i thought it was just a fancy word for trilogy ....
@Heron said:
He's working on the last Wheel of Time book
i've heard that one before ... for me the wheel of time series is kinda like the OPs loop ...
@alegr said:
Bullshit. I don't know what kind of crap slows your god-forsaken machine down, but on my XP machine VS2008 loads in 5 seconds, with a simple project.
<not_really>i use that line with the clients when they bitch how our apps are slow : "it works quite fast on my station... perhaps you should upgrade your computer" .... </not_really>
It happened to me as well ...
Some of the translators that were (gues what) translating the website, got carried away and translated the custom email tags as well ...
Like
"[begrüssung]
Sie haben sich vor kurzem im [shopname] als Neukunde registriert."got translated to
"[greeting]
You have recently registered as a new customer at the [name of the shop]."
However, we have caught that in QA already ...
@morbiuswilters said:
I've never found a case where caching a rendered page makes sense. What use cases have you found for these?
Agreed, with an interactive web application, caching the rendered page makes no sense ...
However if you have a page that has a lot of hits (>1000 hits/min), and its contents can only be updated by a administrator/editor through some backend, it is just wasting web/db-server resources.
IMHO it is best just to render it to disk/memory and flush the cache on update.
Some examples:
- CMS/Blog. Cache all pages. When content is changed, page cache is flushed.
- Shop. Cache all product lists, product descriptions etc., when a product gets added, its description/category list is flushed
@morbiuswilters said:
I suspected it from the beginning (as did most people, since Farmer Brown was a troll asshole who was obsessed with me). However, the IP addresses from Farmer Brown's posts was matched up to MPS's which proved it definititvely.
Definitely off-topic, but weren't you guys like best buddies ?
@HypocriteWorld said:
amischiefr, please open your eyes and look at the wonderful world of great programming languages outside Java.
you mean like Coldfusion
@zzo38 said:
Unfortunately, I don't have any Forth that will do listening from internet.
What about GForth. It can call C functions:
lina : a LInux NAtive Forth can call linux systemcalls directly:
what interpreter are u using ?