@Weng said:
(Is GIMP still Gnu Image Manipulation Program, or has the obvious and inevitable rename to GIMP Image Manipulation Program happened?)
I'd say "GTK Image Manipulation Program" would be even better.
@Weng said:
(Is GIMP still Gnu Image Manipulation Program, or has the obvious and inevitable rename to GIMP Image Manipulation Program happened?)
I'd say "GTK Image Manipulation Program" would be even better.
@Weng said:
(Is GIMP still Gnu Image Manipulation Program, or has the obvious and inevitable rename to GIMP Image Manipulation Program happened?)
I'd say "GTK Image Manipulation Program" would be even better.
@aihtdikh said:
The formula editor is actually quite good though - I used it for my uni assignments, back in the day. The Office one was just painful.
I really liked the equation editor from Microsoft, even bought the full version (Mathtype). It was(/is?) much faster to type than raw latex and WYSIWYG too. The only thing was to remember the shortcuts.
I (being Dutch) read it as "Activate URLs from the same origin.", basicaly the same as google said, only active.
But I can't figure out what it is supposed to mean. Maybe the original English was something like "Highlight URLs from the same source."?
By the way, for me (apparently I can choose to be in generation Y), some English words got their computer science meaning first. A 'string' is a short piece of text, learned years later that this originated from chaining letters together.
And I recall being suprised that people used the 'string-sign' as a money denominator ($ in C64 Basic). Seemed like an odd choice to me.
(And even weirder 'fork' meant the start of a loop, as in 'FORK=1TO10', although I did know it was used for cuttelry as well.)
@seriousJoker said:
@MiffTheFox said:
@Thief^ said:
Though thankfully you can just use ctrl+c on a messagebox like that. Then paste into notpad, copy just the url and paste and go in firefox.
I'm hoping you were being scarcastic.
Hardly anybody knows about this gem, but it actually does work. Go try it the next time you encounter an error message.
I actually had a hard time reading the 'use ctrl+c' message. It was so hardwired in my system that you could not copy those error messages that I had to read the comment twice to understand it. Good to see I can actually learn something from the sidebar :).
@pbean said:
But the surprise came when I pressed search: nothing happened. As a coder, I tried some tricks (pressing the Return key, selecting another option and the one I wanted again and try again) but nothing worked. So in a feat of brilliance I fired op Internet Explorer and copy-pasted the URL. Hey, it works! I tried some Chrome and Opera as well, but didn't work.
oops.. I never noticed nothing happened. I was happily surprised that packages had got this cheap, so I underpaid at least one package.. never bothered to check wether it arrived..
@morbiuswilters said:
The is in "pure binary" mode. The bottom row is seconds, next up is minutes and third up is hours.
I never understood why 'binary' clocks work like this. Time is measured in some Babylonian/Egytian mix of base 12 and base 60 numbers, which is then usually displayed in base 10. What is the added 'geek fun' to display it in base 2? (especially if you convert the separate decimal digits into binary, instead of the whole number, like this clock apparently can do as well.)
Internet beats are somewhat better, dividing the day up into segments in base 10. However, for a truly geeky binary clock you should subdivide the day in segments using base 2 entirely. So 0.1 would be 12:00, 0.11 == 18:00, 0.101 == 15:00 etc. (You could then also use the part before the floating point to designate days or so.)
Perhaps people would consider such a clock to useless, but you do not buy a geeky toy because of its usefulness.
@savar said:
5) your camera says 1.3 MP but the picture has less than 300k pixels in it
I think this is normal. CCD pixels have only 1 color, so you need 3 CCD pixels for one image pixel. Usually one of the colors has 2 CCD pixels (yellow I recall) because it captures less light than the others (or something like that). That makes 4 CCD pixels for 1 image pixel and 1.3M ccd-pixels/4 is about 300k image-pixels. (Give or take a few for the 1024/1000 factor as well).
Ah I recall that website! I think it is entirely made by interns. I once wanted to make an account, but the site was so bad that I absolutely did not trust them with my money.
I used the dutch version of the site (as apparently did the OP), but they cannot spell our country name right. It says 'Netherland' instead of 'The NetherlandS' (with s). BTW, this is the only (pseudo) Enlish named country in the list, the rest is in Dutch. For the USA they use 'geverenigde staten', while 'geverenigde' has 0 hits on google (I suppose you could translate it something like 'uniteted' which does have 711 hits).
https://eu.clickandbuy.com/registration/http://eu.clickandbuy.com/?lang=nl&Nation=NL
@pascalo said:
http://www.prl.eu.com/
I also like that they register a .eu.com domain (what is that anyway) so it looks like they are international. However, while I am in Europe, I'm sure I won't get them on the line when I dial the phone number on their site..
@utunga said:
Just in case you are seriously, honestly going to abide by the opinions of TDWTF readers i want to voice my vote for clean slate.
Seconded.
I'm genuinely surprised how many people say the opposite. Two wrongs don't make a right (*). Presumably they put you in charge because you are a better boss than he is. Prove them right by acting like one. You're in a professional setting, you do not have to like each other but make the best of it, not the worst. Use the strengths of the people below you, not their weaknesses.
(*) but three lefts do.