Stones? White Crow? WTF are you talking about?
On second thought... maybe I don't wanna know...
Stones? White Crow? WTF are you talking about?
On second thought... maybe I don't wanna know...
Back in my undergraduate days, there was this woman who kept calling our university's weather center complaining that we were somehow changing the sunset and sunrise time. "I am on to you", she would say. Of course, students answering her calls would ask if there were any mountains or tall hills nearby and she affirmed that she lived in a valley. Students then went on to explain that the sunset and sunrise times in the almanac were for a level horizon and wouldn't be perfectly correct when there are mountains nearby. Even after being told that several times, she still claimed that the university was doing something to mess up her sunrise and sunsets.
The same lady also kept calling us claiming that we were cloud seeding "again" because the sky was full of clouds. Not only do we not cloud seed (or anybody in that area, for that matter), this is ridiculous because cloud seeding causes existing clouds to rain out, thus dissipating them. No matter how much students explained to her that cloud seeding clears out the sky, she kept on calling us.
SpecateSwamp is like this lady. No matter how blue in the face you get with your explanations, he will continue to ignore the facts contrary to his belief. He is also like this lady because after dealing with him yourself, it becomes amusing to watch noobs throw up their arms in frustration for their first encounter with this breed.
@SpectateSwamp said:
We need a mushroom expert to join the thread. I don't want the Latin name either.
Uh... haven't you noticed that I am the "expert" here for all things weather? I have a few of these things called degrees which certify that I know meteorology. I have even published a paper and given some small presentations at professional conferences. I am telling you that those are not mushroom clouds. They are anvil clouds. The reason they flatten out at the top is that the rising air that forms the cloud cannot rise anymore, but has to move out of the way of rising air below. Thats what forms the spreading that you see in anvils.
Mushroom clouds from nuclear and volcanic explosions have the "rolling" effect due to the fact that air further from the center do not get as much upward force, thus they move slightly slower. Eventually, this air cannot rise as much either and will eventually "hit a ceiling" and flatten out.
I know SpectateSwamp will completely disregard all of this and I am not sure why I just spent the last few minutes writing this. Maybe somebody will remember this useful bit of trivia?
It looks like a blurry photo of the piece of tinfoil you use to keep the aliens out of your head!
For my research group, I administer a couple of linux servers. Recently, I had to add a new user, and I gave him a password that he would have to change the first time he ssh'ed onto the machine. I told him exactly what will happen: ssh, give current password, see message saying password needs to be changed, give current password again, then give new password twice. And, if he didn't quite catch all of that, all instructions are shown in the terminal. Shouldn't be a problem, right?
I get an email a little while later telling me that he is having difficulties making it work. He copied and pasted the terminal text and commented it. Here is what he said:
someuser@localhost ~]$ ssh newuser@initrode.edu
newuser@initrode.edu's password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changing password for user newuser.
Changing password for newuser
(current) UNIX password: (I tried local user password and superuser word and also the new password here)
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
Connection to initrode.edu closed.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Nobody should be expected to start way way at the beginning to get all this Desktop Search Knowledge.
Nobody should be expected to start anywhere with your Desktop Search Knowledge.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Way way funnier video. With the same two Canucks. Spruce Hen shoot out. Between 15 and 20 shots were taken at 3 Spruce Hen. They didn't move a muscle and finally walked off into the bush while the 3 or 4th reload was happening. I had both video clips posted under spruce hen shootout or something like that. If I can't find them I'll re-upload em.
The hens probably knew that it was better to not move when 2 drunk Canucks are shooting. Moving will just make them more likely to get hit by a stray bullet.
@Heron said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
Apparently, the problem lies in you then. The joke was applied the correct way. You took it seriously. I cannot help you there. Sorry.
Well that's exactly my point, that I took it seriously. One skilled in the art of sarcasm does not have trouble getting the reader to take it as a joke. If your comment was taken seriously, it is because you did not properly apply your sarcasm. Therefore, you fail at sarcasm.
Is it about time to bring back the sarcasm tags?
<sarcasm>
SS is a great programmer!
</sarcasm>
See? Makes it absolutely clear to everyone with a broken sarcasm detector. No arguments about whether anyone was kidding or not. And the joke remains intact.
<sarcasm>
It is better than C++ grammer!
</sarcasm>
Note to self... Don't ask questions that you probably don't want answers to.
Great... it took him how long to finally point out a speck in one of his videos and we are supposed to be wow'ed?
Also... FWIW, the correct laymen's term for that cloud is "anvil", not "mushroom". Mushroom has certain atomic conocations attached to it. Also, keep in mind that anvil clouds are formed from extremely strong vertical motions of air (i.e. - WIND!). It is very common for debris like leaves to be picked up.
Hey, Spectate, I know the perfect group of people you should go and talk with. Why don't you bother the people who follow ChemTrails! At least you would be among friends there.
@RHuckster said:
All I can think of when I see Specate Swamp since April has been the Space Sphere.
What's your favorite thing about SSDS? (mine is SSDS!) SSDS, SSDS, oh, oh hey, everyone, everyone, hey, HEY, hey... SSDS. SSDS, golf video, aliens, dino-skins, medicine stones, flaten 'em stones, slow-mo video, the merge function... THE MERGE FUNCTION. Oh, no, swamp cops... stay cool, it's the swamp cops. BAM, guilty! Of not using SSDS!
Dad, I'm using SSDS. I'm proud of you, son. Dad, are you SSDS? Yes, now we are a family again.
Hey, guys, hey,hey, HEY guys, I'm the best. I'm the best at sharing knowledge.
NO. Swamp court. Appealing for Mashup Challenge. Doug presiding. Bam, guilty, love SSDS. WTF if Spectate wins?
OMG, I'm going to meet the swampies. What do I say? Uuuh, hi swampies? Ooooh
SSDS. SSDS...
Wait, what is that? SSDS? SSDS?! SSDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Oooh, so much knowledge, got to see it all... oooh, oooh!
I'm using SSDS.
(Yes, mate, I know... *sigh* we're both using it)
SSDSSSSS!
There's an alien, another alien, alien, alien, alien... alien... getting bored of SSDS. Bam bam bam BAM BAM! Take that, SSDS. Wanna use Google, wanna use Google, wanna use Google.
I'm a unicorn!
@Xyro said:
@RHuckster said:I think the last Swampie to do so had to rescue her out of a castle guarded by a fire-breathing dragon and then woo her away from a lord of a short stature with the help of a talking donkeyFrom now on, I'm reading Swampie's posts with an annoyed Scottish accent in my mind.
Thank you. After a morning of dealing with another person just about as dense, I needed that.
@RHuckster said:
Just what benefit do you get from having two cameras take essentially the same video from two slightly different angles, besides for some arcane way to make a really really shitty 3D movie?
Oh, I can just see the advertisements now: "SSRR3D! If other 3D movies haven't given you a headache, this one will!"
@SpectateSwamp said:
Wow when they pull out their camcorder; Swampies will pull out 2!!!
Ah, the caveman logic to quality... "1 -- good! 2 -- better!"
Ok everybody, sing along now!
"It is the thread that never ends! It goes on and on, my friends! ..."
@derula said:
@SpectateSwamp said:@bestest2.txt said:the code for the mp3 metadata dump is at
Ah, the infamous if-if pattern. I also love it how the indenting isn't used to distinguish blocks of code, but to make sure the "Then"s are aligned.If Asc(temptag.genre) = 0 Then ggenre = "Blues"
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 1 Then ggenre = "Classic Rock"
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 2 Then ggenre = "Country"
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 3 Then ggenre = "Dance"
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 4 Then ggenre = "Disco"
*snip*
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 124 Then ggenre = "Euro-House"
If Asc(temptag.genre) = 125 Then ggenre = "Dance Hall"
Good to know that SpectateSwamp will never be able to get anything working in Python!
@WeatherGod said:
In one of the previous epic threads, somebody made a one-line shell command to randomly play videos in a particular directory. I am sure that could be extended to do random first 5 seconds, last 5 seconds as well? If only I could use SSRR to find that command! :-P
Oh, I guess I didn't need SSRR, I just used that little search box in the upper right-hand corner of this forum...
http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/8159/161101.aspx#161101
@morbiuswilters said:
mplayer $(find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | sed -n "$(($RANDOM * $( find vid/ | grep -v '/$' | wc -l ) / 32768)){p;q;}" -)
@Xyro said:
@Xyro said:
Okay okay, tell us clearly: What will the showdown be testing? Gather a list of features, and we'll go through the checkboxes. Or are we just comparing media player's ability to skip over sections of unedited video?@SpectateSwamp said:Swamp video can quickly show you the First 5 seconds then the last 5 seconds of every video you have non-randomly or randomlySo, just to be clear, this is the"killer feature" of SSRR? This is what the showdown is going to focus on? This is what makes SSRR superior to the competition? If I make a program that lets you skip the first and last few seconds of a video, does that make mine superfly too?I'm sure I can do this with Perl and the VLC's telnet interface, but first I need to be convinced I want to...
In one of the previous epic threads, somebody made a one-line shell command to randomly play videos in a particular directory. I am sure that could be extended to do random first 5 seconds, last 5 seconds as well? If only I could use SSRR to find that command! :-P
@SpectateSwamp said:
So just out of common courtesy "I'M CALLING YOU ALL OUT"
How about a dance-off? I think that would be more entertaining.
@spenk said:
@Balthazaar said:
Probably at random times for random events or random times before random events for random lengths of random time.@spenk said:
... while the phone also acts as a reminder alarm.But, with SSRR, you can have random alarms alarming all day long!
So, that would be "random, random, random, random, random, random"?