@morbiuswilters said:
Tell that to YouTube and their $1 million/day bandwidth fees.God didn't invent cable modems just so we could waste His precious bandwidth.
@morbiuswilters said:
Tell that to YouTube and their $1 million/day bandwidth fees.God didn't invent cable modems just so we could waste His precious bandwidth.
@Bumble Bee Tuna said:
QFTI cannot imagine any possible situation in life where I would want to tolerate a work environment that included piles of shit in the middle of the bathroom floor.
@galgorah said:
I work for a sub company of a major Mental Health insurance company. Hell we may even provide your mental health benefits...
Ahh, so I see the inmates are running the asylum. You really need to stop hiring the patients as coders/insurance agents. This will surely help with the shitting on the middle of the floor.
@galgorah said:
Good god, where do you work Arbys?At my office we once found a pile of poo in the middle of the bathroom floor. No Idea why the person didn't walk the 5 feet to the stall... This bathroom is notorious though. Theres someone in my office who has no concept of hygene. Poo on the flusher, walls, seat, sink, door handle, etc. Piss soaked tp hardened onto the toilet. Oh and we've occasionally found blood.... We think its the work of one employee since it happens once a day.
@El_Heffe said:
How do you even create something that ONLY works in IE? I mean, I understand how to write something that doesn't render properly (styling, colors etc.), but not how to make it not work at all.@Heron said:
All because he merely attempted to find out why it didn't work in LinuxI use Windows but I would have had the same problem (at least temporarily) since I use Firefox. The problem isn't that the website "didn't work in Linux". The problem was that the website didn't work in Firefox. TRWTF is people who create bizaare abominations that will only work in IE.
Hey Swamp, I just noticed that Microsoft has infringed upon your registered trademark of SSDS (you did register it right!) with their SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) for cloud computing. Fire up the lawsuit in the name of sharing data!
@Renan_S2 said:
And I feel so sorry for you if you have dumb dumb coworkers ...
Don't feel sorry for him, his dumb dumb coworkers are a pair of magical rocks.
@belgariontheking said:
@SpectateSwamp said:
When I need something I don't need to think about which app I'll use. Just SS and jam it.If I recall correctly, Jam it is your euphemism for compiling. So you're advocating recompiling every time you want your DATA. I like that.
Oh it's great! Also, every time you add a new file to the data store you simply add the file name to the end of the myFiles array, recompile the entire codebase and data retrieval has reached awsomeness without having to use that bullshit 'indexing' mumbo jumbo. All you have to do is change the search string (mySearchString) to match the file you are looking for, recompile the entire codebase WHAM as so as you fire up the app (a mere 48 seconds) your file is ready for use.
@Indrora said:
@morbiuswilters said:@Indrora said:
...and second the state I live in is something like 48th in the union.I'd say West Virginia, but that's probably being far too kind to WV... Nebraska?
Worse. "... So far from heaven, So close to texas" comes to mind... Its New Mexico. And it sucks balls for education.
Being from New Mexico myself, I can attest to the education level being fairly low. However, you seem to be near the bottom of the barrel yourself because even I know that New Mexico was the 47th state and that Arizona was the 48th.
@Weng said:
(he moved out suddenly saying "I have no property" and left enough crap in that room that I filled a 26ft moving van with it.)
Damn, how big was his room if you could fill up a 10 x 26 ft moving van? I used a 30ft van to move my house (5 bdrm) and I have a lot of crap.
@SQLDave said:
@Hitsuji said:
I would hate to be this person's tongue...
There's another phrase for the list of phrases I never thought I'd hear/read but have anyway.
Yeah, but at least it was accompanied with a picture of stamps instead of a picture of Brittney Spears.
@jpaull said:
Wow. You learn something new every day.
Norfolk : England ::
WestVirginia : United States
FTFY
@Indrora said:
So, Here's the WTFs here:
I'm takingmy college offers a CS graduate coursevia blackboardon advanced concepts in C#.- My university requires this course to be taken online
- The developers behind Blackboard
9 made the assumption that formatting standards were universal//enough said- The timer actually does nothing. I've spent five hours idling on a test thats "supposed to take" 1.5 hours and suffered nothing.
- Its assumed by Blackboard that 1 minute (60 seconds!) is enough for someone to possibly finish a test.
FTFY
My uni has some similarly stupid classes: Internet Programming (learning how to write a .NET web site!! as a graduate!!!). Well, at least it should be an easy A.
@SenTree said:
Interesting. Is the warning disabled by default, or non-existent ? I think all of the (embedded C) compilers I've used give that warning by default. I should think lint isn't too happy with it either.
Good question. My teachers always made us compile with -Wall, and if we had warnings that was points off. I never took the time to learn which warnings always show up and which ones show up with -Wall or -pedantic.
@cconroy said:
If not a joke, then at least intentionally bad (and proud of it). Scroll down near the bottom:
<font color="#990000"><font size="+1">HavenWorks.com has been an Aesthetically Challenged News Website Since 1998</font></font>
<font color="#ff0000">hrrmph !-) Awarded for</font> "Worst Web Site of 2008 [1st Place]" by WebPagesThatSuck.com
"The Web's Most Useless Sites [2nd place]" by PCWorld "El peor diseño del mundo" by elMundo.es
"The Worst Designed Site on the Web" of 2008 by Digg.com
The BBC.co.uk asks "How not to design a website?" "It defies words" says Heather Cotten
Croatian : "necim zastrašujucim" Dutch: "Guantanamo bay voor je ogen"
French: "les plus horribles!" German: "die schlechtesten Webseiten"
Greek: "[untranslatable]" Italian: "il peggior sito web"
Portuguese: "obra de arte!" Spanish: "El peor sitio web del universo"
"made me cry out in horror" says Crawford Kilian "“White Space” Challenged" says Hafner
and "Most Poorly Designed Website in the World" of 2007 by Digg.com
<font size="-1">[ HavenWorks.com is not responsible for loss of vision, disorientation, or headaches from visual overload :-|</font>
<font size="-1">[[ Aesthetically HavenWorks was meant more as a Mondrian, we apologize that it comes off more like a Jackson Pollock ]]</font>
Now that is funny. At least they know that they suck.
@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
I had to close out Firefox with the Task manager because it locked up.@Someone You Know said:
If you think that's bad, he just told me he's found one worse. This took about 70 seconds to load for me, making 81 requests for 33.76 MB of content. Enjoy.
Wow. Twenty minutes and loading... (and, no, I'm not using a 56k modem).
That is by far the worst site I've ever seen.
@Monkios said:
picture of... well... I don't know...
Man, that is one ugly chick on the right. That's not you is it?
@boh said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Filed under: OTOH my vanity plate is witty and says something about me as a person: "HRSECOK".So you like Hershey's chocolate?
HRSE COK ..... Think about it... There is no H in COK for cHocolate. It does bring one thing to mind though.
@stratos said:
@morbiuswilters said:
@stratos said:
@dhromed said:
Well, you're from Zeeland.
Afsteken en wegduwen die hap. ; )
translation: Stand and push away the bite. ;)
Ze zijn al begonnen met de hedwigepolder, duurt niet lang meer.
translation: They have already started to Hedwig polder, will not be long.
Speak American, dammit!
translated for you, courtesy of google translate
Alright, now can somebody please translate from Google into English?
@dhromed said:
Yeah but each programming session would only last 2 minutes. You would have to code in Python.Something about real men having an attractive naked woman bent over towards an upright, very large keyboard, and each of the man's firm pelvic thrusts from behind pushes the woman's head on a button, thus producing keystrokes.
This could work.
@morbiuswilters said:
That's why you should use emacs: a simple C-x C-z C-w will get you up-and-running.
Is that like pressing Alt + F4 + S to save in MS Word?
@Weng said:
I'd just like to point out that you CAN download WoW and play beyond the trial period without a physical disk - you just have to get the installers from within someone else's (paid, active) account control panel. The download links are EXCEPTIONALLY well hidden for all but the current expansion, but they exist. I know this because I destroyed my best friend's WoW disks at her request, but she was able to relapse by finding those downloads in her account CP.
Or you just download it from http://www.bigdownload.com/games/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/pc/wor ld-of-warcraft-full-install-client. It is the full install for any version, you don't need any keys, you don't need any accounts. Just download the full game and play either trial account or your pay account.
My wife wanted to start playing it again after a year of not playing. When she quit I immediately threw out the old disks. I found that site, downloaded it and it lets her play. She started out with her 10 day welcome back trial, and then set up the pay account again and no changes at all were necessary. They (Bliz) don't give a crap about you having the CD's, they care about you getting a paid subscription. Their money rests on the $14/month from the 8 million people playing.
@Mole said:
Ok, fine, but why do you even need to download the game? Your already playing it, the only thing that has expired is the 10 day limitation, which I'm assuming is done online (would be stupid to do it in the client), so all you want is that limitation increased by however much time you paid for (I'm going to assume monthly). Why does it require a activation key to prove you have the full version of the software before even allowing you to buy a subscription? I can imagine requiring you to purchase any optional addon packages, but not the base package.
You actually don't have to download or install the "official" game anymore. The system just downloads a 'patch' automatically.
@PJH said:
Fuck you for posting that shit! I don't care what he says in the second article, I'm never eating pussy again.@morbiuswilters said:
Unlike you, I'm able to take a leak without pissing all over my hands, so washing is unnecessary.http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1043/why-are-men-supposed-to-wash-their-hands-after-urination
Only 8 oz. a day? I just came up with a new slogan: I could have had a Me8
@morbiuswilters said:
@obediah said:
@DescentJS said:
That person's intelligence doesn't amount to a hill of beans.I don't think EJB familiarity is a useful measure of intelligence.
You should at least know the difference between Java Beans and Netbeans, though.
QTF
Not knowing the annotations and how to use EJB3 is excusable, but not knowing what a bean is means you have your head up your ass. At least he didn't say: "yeah I know java beans, that's what they use at Starbucks to make my coffee."
I like how he's using generics to create the list of type Object.
@DOA said:
The only real question now is... what is the function to get head?
void getHead() {
if( girl.isDrunk() )
dragGirlToBathroom();
else
buyGirlDrink();
}
@bjolling said:
what was your first ever Sierra Adventure game? Mine was "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards". (see also my avatar)
Besides Leisure Suit Larry, I LOVED Phantasmagoria. It was a kickass game for its day.
@Justice said:
@morbiuswilters said:
<speculation on the role of horsey sauce in the defilement of the men's room at Arby's>
I'd always assumed that sort of explosive reaction was part of their raw materials recycling and reclamation program. Are you sure you didn't wander into the kitchen by mistake? Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.
Thanks asshole, I can never eat at Arby's again :(
@Mole said:
Yes, that really is stainless steel and solid
American blackAfrican American walnut.".
FTFY lest you incur the wrath of Kanye West.
@bstorer said:
What, you want them to go outside? And risk exposure to the day star?!
They could have a night game. Kind of like the 10PM East coast monday night bullshit the NFL does. Like I really want to stay up until 1-2 AM just to watch my team lose.
@belgariontheking said:
...in Cincinnati...
Even though I live here (as of 2008) I am actually a Denver fan <ducks /> I would like to appologize on behalf of the entire Bronco nation for Sunday, we are sorry for your loss. We promise to find a real quarterback by the 2009/2010 season.
@belgariontheking said:
Interestingly enough, in JAX, even an NFL sellout doesn't fill the stadium. They reduce the number of seats that are available for NFL games because they could never fill that stadium (76,867) every week, as the stadium was built to house the Florida vs Georgia game every year.I know you know this, amischiefr, but many here that probably don't.
Yeah, we be poo folk down here. They are predicting that every single game this year might be blacked out due to the current economy. This place sucks.
@belgariontheking said:
Some football teams will be unable to sell out their stadiums so their fans will not be able to watch the game live on TV. They will be able to watch tape delayed versions.
Really? Where is that? Here (Jacksonville) if the stadium doesn't fill (which happens all too often) the game is simply "blacked out" and you can't see it at all, unless you go to the game. They don't run it later on TV from a 'taped' version.
@Weng said:
You could always build and debug in 64bit. Then you just get a warning ding and a dialog telling you "Piss off, you forgot to stop debugging when you figured out what the fucking problem was."
Finally, I was begining to think something was wrong with my VS (or right as the case may be). I can change aspx pages while in debug mode, refresh the page and all is good. But if I try to change any CS pages it tells me to fuck off and quit debugging first. This is how it behaives be default for me.
@Zemm said:
Vegetarians are TRWTF
Amen. I can't remember which comedian said it, maybe Carlin, but he said something like "you vegetarians are to blame for the environment, you eat all of the oxygen giving plants and leave the methane producing cows. I'm doing my part to reduce methane gas by eating as many cows as I can" (or something like that).
@nixar said:
@katana said:
Totally agree. you have to give some people a break, take a deep breath and count to 10...and begin again from the start. Losing the rag with them just because they can't describe what they are trying to do smacks of pure arrogance. That's the RWTF in this case I think.
You know, you'd have a very good point if we were talking about an old lady having trouble with 'em newfangled intarwebs, or a minimum wage call center drone.
But we're talking about a level 2 support technician whose job description includes basic Unix shell and SQL, log analysis and reporting, and supposedly went through an ITIL training session.
Yeah but you didn't state it that way. You said "a guy from the support team" which could have been anybody. Especially when you say a "new" member of the support team. Could have been a 19 year old intern for all we know.
But, being as he is supposed to be higher up, he's a douchebag for not being able to figure something so simple out.
Aww :( it's blocked for me. Can anybody post it on something like tinypic?
This one really shows just how fucked up their search/rules engine is. A lisp is a common disorder, so what do they have as treatments for a lisp? You guessed it: programming!
Which kind of makes sense I guess, if you can't say it in spoken words: type it. I guess. At least they put the correct definition.
The Java one is pretty good. Apparently the treatment for Java is cocaine, awsome.
@takatori said:
What's the joke behind "アジアの病人"? "The Asian Patient", starring Ralph Fiennes Chang?
It only says "Patient" if you translate from Chinese to English, try Japanese to English.
@takatori said:
Actually, I think I will get it done the right way in the end, just not by contradicting my superior in front of his colleagues in a meeting. Even if I won the battle I would lose the war--even those who agreed with me would be turned off by my approach were I to have persisted. Decision-making doesn't work the same here.
Yeah, nobody likes to get called out in front of their peers. While I am sure that a lot of people on here will say that they don' t mind, I still think that generally most people would take it personal. Being polite about it, not making it a personal attack and taking it off line will definitely help your case.
@tster said:
I was talking about their annual profit/loss from 2008 (specified by the words "last year").
Here is some data:
Note that yes, last quarter they made a profit, but that follows 4 quarters of losses (one of them 4 times greater than the profit posted in Q2 2009). Are you just against companies making money? Do you agree with Obama that profit is evil?
Allstate tried to increase their rates in 2006, before the market crashed. EVERYBODY (well not everybody, but almost) lost money last year, duh.
What is with your "i'ld like to suck George Bush's dick" type of questions? <sarcasm> Oh yes, I absolutely HATE it when companies turn a profit. I mean, everybody should just be giving everything they have to those less fortunate, then God would accept us in his holey grace</sarcasm>
Get your head out of your ass. I didn't vote for the dick. I have no problem with a company turning a profit, but I do have a problem with companies that try to rape their customers.
@tster said:
2. Car insurance is not mandated by federal law.
3. Car insurance is not mandated by any law. If you don't want insurance you are free to not have it, you just can't drive on the roads.
4. Home owners insurance is not mandated by federal (or any other level) law either. I honestly have no idea what you are talking about, but perhaps if you have an FHA loan then the government actually requires you to have insurance. Then again, FHA loans are basically the government loaning you money, so they are just acting as most banks do when they require you to have home owners insurance for the duration of the mortgage.
You are absolutely right, I said federal law when it is actually mandated by the local states. I should have just said government (which could imply local governments instead of federal).
Stating that there is no law that requires you to have insurance is a folly though. If you own a vehicle (in New Mexico, Texas and Florida, I don't know about the other 47 states), whether it is on the road or not, you have to have insurance. You must have home owners insurance in the state of Florida (once again, I don't know about the other states on this issue). Therefore, since there is no mass transport reaching where I live, and I like having a house, I have to drive to work. Don't get all stupid and say "you could ride a bike... heheheh" because I'm not riding 20 fucking miles to work. Therefore, it Florida state law that I have both home owners insurance, since I do own a house, and car insurance. Therefore, since the state government is mandating that I carry this insurance, they should ensure that the companies are not completely ripping us off and taking advantage of us. Which they are doing a fairly good job of here.
@tster said:
5. I would never force someone to move from anywhere to anywhere else (unless they have broken the law in some way in which case I would move them to prison). That violates their human rights I believe.
But you're saying that people shouldn't live in Florida, or anywhere natural distasters can occur, otherwise we should be subject to insurance companies charging way more than is reasonable.
@tster said:
6. Here is basically what you are arguing. Person A offers to sell their product/service for a given price ($X). Events change and that product service drastically increases in price for person A to produce. So person A changes his price to $Y. Now there are a whole bunch of people offering similar services, and a fuckton of people buying those services. Those people could tell person A to fuck himself and his service and go use a competitor. Instead those people use the force of government (people with guns and prisons) to tell person A, "you can't sell the fruits of your labor for the price you want, you have to sell it at the price we want you to. If you don't we will take you from your family and put you in prison." How do you not see that as a violation of the most basic human right (the ownership of self and your own labor)?
How can you not see that local governments are making insurance manditory, and the insurance companies are trying to take advantage of that by charging outrageous prices? Should we get into the whole 'loan shark' concept here as well? The government realized that allowing people to charge 300% interest was wrong and placed regulations on that, don't you see a corolation?
@tster said:
7. I never said any kind of insurance should be mandated by government. You seem to assume that I think it should, but I don't.
I never said you did, I am saying that it should be. Try reading my post again.
@tster said:
8. I have no idea what you are talking about the insurance industry is raking in huge profits. AIG alone lost $100 billion last year. Lots of other insurance companies posted loses (Allstate, Progressive, CNA, Fidelity). I am completely dumbfounded by your assertion that insurance is the most profitable sector of the economy. The only one hit harder was probably investment banking. The technology, energy and healthcare sectors are all posting pretty good profits. Perhaps you better do some actual research before blindly lashing out at companies you hate.
Ahh yes, you are confusing the auto insurance industry with the banking industry. A common mistake for somebody who doesn't read any newspapers. AIG didn't lose 100 Billion in auto insurance, they lost it in the Credit Default Swap, which was an insurance designed to help cover losses on Subprime mortgages.
Allstate recorded losses? Really? From their quarterly earnings press release:
"“We generated $297 million of operating income and $389 million of net income despite a 17 percent increase in catastrophe losses compared to the second quarter of last year. In combination with strong investment results, this increased book value by $5.22 per share, or 23 percent, from the first quarter,” said Wilson. “Customer loyalty improved, reflecting increases in customer satisfaction, likelihood to renew and willingness to recommend Allstate. Our reinvention efforts are further improving our competitive position with Your Choice Auto® and Allstate Blue® raising auto new business sales.”"
So, they had an increase of 17% catastrophe losses and still posted profits. Doesn't sound like a loss to me.
@tster said:
@amischiefr said:
I hate Government intervention as much as the next guy, but I wish they would put a cap on these increases. At least here in florida the governor told Allstate to fuck off when they wanted to nearly double their home owners insurance premiums.A) Your a fuckin' commie.B) If you don't want to pay high home owners insurance, don't live where hurricanes come through every year.
A) Wow, "your a fuckin' commie" First, it's "you're" as in: you are. Just because somebody wants a little regulation that doesn't make them a communist. You think that something that is manditory by federal law (such as home insurance and car insurance) shouldn't be regulated? So, the government should make them manditory, but not ensure that the insurance companies a practicing fair policies? Wow, just wow.
B) That's a great idea!!! We should move everybody from Florida, Lousiana, California and everywhere else to Idaho where nothing happens. Force people out of their homes and drive them into more 'controllable' regions. Now, who in this argument is starting to sound more like a communist? (I'll give you a hint, it's not me)
I don't have a problem paying more for home owners insurance than somebody living in say Wisconsin. I have a problem with them raising the rates way above what a normal increase should be. The insurance racket market is one of the few industries still posting huge profits during this economic downturn. They hardly need to double their rates.
@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
See, I don't even have a TVThat's because Billy Mays never found time in his busy schedule to come 'round to your place and scream at you about how great TVs are. If he had, you'd have six of them; especially when he threw in the limited-time offer of Mighty Putty andOxiclean.Oxycodone.
FTFY
@PJH said:
@amischiefr said:I mean honestly Insurance Companies, can I really save money by switching my car insurance? Awsome, then I can save even more money when I switch to the next one.Unfortunately what this line of thinking omits is the price increase over the whole industry between one year and the next.
I getcha, it's just the whole premise is that everybody who switches from Geico to Allstate will save money, then Geico says that everybody who switches from Allstate to Geico will save money, which both can't obviously happen. I hate Government intervention as much as the next guy, but I wish they would put a cap on these increases. At least here in florida the governor told Allstate to fuck off when they wanted to nearly double their home owners insurance premiums.
Personally the insults don't bother me, the blatant lieing does. I mean honestly Insurance Companies, can I really save money by switching my car insurance? Awsome, then I can save even more money when I switch to the next one. Eventually YOU will end up owing ME money!!! Brilllllaiant!
@Heron said:
Blackboard is probably the essence of "TRWTF".
Teachers hate it, students hate it, IT admins hate it... about the only people that don't hate it are the people who are charging (literally) millions of dollars per year to host this stuff for schools.
Yes, everybody hates it, but somehow teachers still use it. I don't know if they are forced by administration to proove that their students used it or not, but I would think that a teacher, especially a CS teacher, could have their students perform a different kind of submission.