@NorseLaQuet said:
Although it may be humerus, it is doing exactly what it should do.
THE REAL WTF IS THAT THE WYSIWYG DOES NOT WORK ON LINUX/FIREFOX 3!!
Huh? It works fine for me.
You have to wait for it to load.
@NorseLaQuet said:
Although it may be humerus, it is doing exactly what it should do.
THE REAL WTF IS THAT THE WYSIWYG DOES NOT WORK ON LINUX/FIREFOX 3!!
Huh? It works fine for me.
You have to wait for it to load.
The real problem of flash is just a liiitle thing: it's ass to navigate.
You are rarely able to select or copy anything, the context menu is fucked up, scrolling rarely does what it should do, it's fixed layout (ever gone to a site "optimized" for 640x480?), shitty artistic fonts, clever navigation, et cetera.
I'm not against using flash, but I'm against flash sites. And if you could prove the existence of a usable flash site please do.
In short, unless you are the brother chaps, don't make a flash site.
This post doesn't belong to the sidebar, there is a new forum called "Funny Stuff" dedicated to lame and mug-worthy lols.
CapitalT@CapitalT:~$ locate faith_in_humanity
/home/CapitalT/.Trash/faith_in_humanity
@vt_mruhlin said:
Seriously? NALOPKT = "Not a lot of people know this"? I'm surprised they didn't have WMTAUTSCP = "We made this acronym up to scare clueless parents" on the list.
And to think they forgot our beloved "TDEMSYR".
@belgariontheking said:
@ZippoLag said:
asking where the bathroom is at the momentThe bathrooms move around in Japan?
@drinkingbird said:
What the hell? There are actually places you can get fired from for 5 o'clock shadow?
What sort of ridiculous fucking rule is that? I'd be glad to be away from that company.
I'm more concerned about firing people for just having facial hair. I won't argue if the fired employee was an unkempt gorilla (even though they should give a warning before they fire him), but this is extreme. It's not like beards are unnatural (or gross, as some people imply).
PS: I'm a bearded guy myself (well-groomed if I do say so myself).
@pitchingchris said:
@j6cubic said:
the Thunderbird series was notorious for being hot enough that someone actually fried an egg and some bacon on onDid he take a pic or get it on video ?
I found this.
@PJH said:
@CapitalT said:Am I the only one seeing this in reverse? The first question gets to point directly, but the second is filled with unnecessary babble.No. You removed the context as well.
The first is "I can't do my <solution>" with the implication that the solution is the wrong one since <problem> hasn't been stated. The second is "I have <problem>, I think i need <solution> - how do I do <solution>" giving others more of a chance to say <solution> is the wrong way to solve <problem>.
Can you honestly tell me you've never been on a programming list where a thread goes on for ages trying to explain how to solve something, and at the end of it all, find out that all that effort was wasted because it was an entirely wrong way about solving the unmentioned problem an OP had, and the right solution was completely different (and usually orders of magnitude easier?)Ususally the answers to first sort of suspect question are phrased on some of the lists I'm on as "What is the problem you think
that
is the solution for?"
@http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html said:
Stupid:
How do I get the color-picker on the FooDraw program to take a hexadecimal RGB value?
Smart:
I'm trying to replace the color table on an image with values of my choosing. Right now the only way I can see to do this is by editing each table slot, but I can't get FooDraw's color picker to take a hexadecimal RGB value.
@morbiuswilters said:
Who in God's name would call that function expecting an empty string?
@alegr said:
Linux: Perpetual Beta
@stratos said:
What's so bad about scientology? So they sue a lot and my view of them is that they are basically a out of hand cult following. Worse things have happened in the name of religion.
@utunga said:
I believe what we have here is a humour fail (on your part). Way I read it, the point is that if you try to migrate to Vista (without buyng Novell's wonderful "Systems Management solutions" first, that is) you'll end up as a smudge on the sidewalk.
no?
@t-bone said:
You should upgrade your skills to aolspeak 2.0, courses are available online for free. You'll get more virtual friends that don't give a rats ass about you, but don't know what to do with their time either.
Fresh out of the blogosphere:
"Migrating to Vista is…suicidal?"
@dtech said:
What do you suggest. Not like it's better/worse than other upload services out there... And I don't have a dedicated server waiting for me at my hosting provider...
@lago said:
TRWTF is machine translation. I have yet to see an example where it even allows you to get the gist of the foreign text. Occasionally it manages to help you identify the subject, but then you can generally do that by looking at the pictures anyway...
@ammoQ said:
@morbiuswilters said:But you got your own Magic: The Gathering card made in the Mashup thread! I believe that's the highest honor that can be laid on anyone. Honestly, the SSDS stuff wears thin really quick and I only look at it in distilled format on TSMoE.
Thanks for pointing that out, I would have missed that otherwise. And of course thanks to CapitalIT for making the card. Unfortunately, it can't be played in TheMashupThread. It's like trying to shoot the brain of a headless zombie.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
I think that says more about you than the CD player.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
I seriously hope you are not really recommending tray cd loaders in car stereos....
You can insert 6 CDs one-by-one. You should be able to work out the rest by yourself."
IMO trays aren't that bad (and they could double as cup holders too!).
Speaking of car CD players, I saw some cars with stickers on the players that say "Insert only one CD at a time" when the player will gladly accept six. WTF?
Am I the only one who thinks that slot-loading drives are just a retarded gimmick? They are way too vulnerable. Do they serve any purpose at all?
Sheepmen consumers:LOOK! shiny!
Please don't revive dead threads. If you came here through "Topics Not Read" then I suggest going to each forum and clicking "More Options" (at the bottom of the page) then clicking "Mark all read". Any active topic will reappear within 1 hour.
This isn't a WTF, this is a sign of intelligent life.
Alt(ernative) text should describe what the image is, and this is a good example of it. You wouldn't want them to write "BOOBIES!!1!" when the image is a boring generic pregnant woman would you?
@Eternal Density said:
Challenge: write a function that takes two arguments and returns the smaller argument if the first argument is less than the second argument, otherwise return the larger argument.
int func(int arg1, int arg2){ return arg1; }
I'd suggest that you play around with KDE. It's written mainly in C++ and using Qt (Platform independent UI toolkit). But you don't need C++ since you can use scripting languages. It's ideal if you want to sharpen your OO skills.
It's highly platform independent and got a plethora of interesting frameworks (Akonadi, Solid, Phonon, and NEPOMUK to name a few), I highly recommend giving it a look.
Start here
<nr/>
PS: yes I admit I'm KDE fanboy, I can't help it if it rocks.
@wonkoTheSane said:
@SpectateSwamp said:How come that crow is in my back yard? Spookie birds these medicinie ones.
I wish I had a proper look before my last post... Why is the bird in your yard? Is it the big lump of bread taped to the fence? I think, it just might be.
@morbiuswilters said:
You do not recall correctly. xfce has its own WM.
Even within the source you provided xfce kicks KDE's ass.
xfce is open source and who gives a shit which is older? Also, I consider the occassional focus-stealing (the only app that really does it is FF) a tiny loss compared to the hell that is KDE. I'm not particularly fond of Gnome, either, but unless Jesus himself started writing for the KDE team in the last 2 years I'm probably going to still hate it.
@morbiuswilters said:
but CapitalIT called xfce retarded and I must defend my maiden's honor
I won't argue about ugliness, it's a pointless discussion. For those who want to prettify KDE there is always kde-look.org. But slow and bloated? Do some research, not for my sake but for the sake of those who put a lot of effort in this gigantic project.
Sheesh, some people.
@Eternal Density said:
I actually wish more Linux programs would adopt this as a way to alert the user to important information without popping the damn window up in front of them (curse you Gmail!!!!)
My favorite:
I need to get a hotmailaccount registred, how do i do it?
hello isnt someone answering here?
You understand that this isn't a damn phone, right?
Not to mention the blur effect behind the text.
@Zealander said:
Fashion blog GoFugYourself.com made a post about an ugly GQ cover page (may be NSFW - picture of a model in a bikini.) I thought this fits into Graphic Design WTF criteria.
Obviously GQ didn't have anyone to put on the cover that day and decided to use the stock photos. But whoever was tasked (newly hired designer?) screwed up royally:- incorrect shadows make the model look like she's about to fall;
- bad perspective make one leg smaller that the other;
- and the use of standard Photoshop drop-shadows around model's figure.... oh my god!
I can't stress enough how bad that cover looks. Think of the worst code WTF with the exception that the cover will be seen by ten of thousands of people. And even though the target audience (men) could probably care less, I can assure you that upon seeing this, every graphic designer will have a seizure.
Wait.... is she doing a patridiotic pose in a "Sailor Moon" bikini?? That's the real WTF®™
PS: Am I the only one who think a girl is fugly when you can count her ribs?
@magetoo said:
@CapitalT said:So, they use a different rating than ESRB?TRWTF is Video Strip Poker being rated 12+, while some child-friendly, yet contain a little play-fighting, games rated 16+ (not shown in picture).
I guess it means that breasts are not considered dangerous in Germany. Who'd have thought!
@jo-82 said:
TRWTF is Video Strip Poker being rated 12+, while some child-friendly, yet contain a little play-fighting, games rated 16+ (not shown in picture).[URL=http://img214.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=33485_German_Amazon_WTF_122_120lo.jpg][IMG]http://img214.imagevenue.com/loc120/th_33485_German_Amazon_WTF_122_120lo.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Maybe "below 10 Euro" does not mean below EUR 10,00...
@tster said:
@CapitalT said:O_O That's one messed up distro you are using! Of course (as per most FOSS projects) bug reports are always welcome, you don't need me to tell you that :)@MasterPlanSoftware said:@dlikhten said:Compared to modern Linux distros, it is troublesome.Actually other than Creative drivers (they suck w/ linux drivers, X-Fi has only 64 bit drivers, no 32 bit...) me and my co-workers have so much easier time setting up linux than windows. My co-worker spend 2 months setting up a network printer in Vista WITH HP support. Turned out Vista deleted or modified some config which made it impossible to configure the printer (it never cleaned the drivers completely so he could not re-install the drivers), he had to re-install Vista and it kinda works now. Out-of-the-box for linux,
worked within 2 minutes of installation.I have no had 1 positive vista remark yet. Everything is another problem. We are all happy we are not migrating to vista, at best we will migrate to linux.
I can install 10 linuxes and configure them by the time i install 1 windows xp or xp x64.
And yes xp x64 is based on 2003 server. Even microsoft says that on their site if you dig up ANY xp 64 information.
If you really have that much trouble installing XP or Vista, maybe you should just put your head on your desk and quit.
...WTF
Nuking the MBR alone is one big WTF (there is no way to tell it "please have MERCY!" AFAIK). The partitioner is crap. And if IIRC it did some config in the middle of installation (network and regional stuff I think). And did I mention that on most PCs installing Windows is an all-nighter? (Ubuntu: about half an hour, more on my slow laptop).
Comparing that to any user-oriented Linux installer (except Debian, Gentoo, and a few) is like comparing dirt to stars.
If by "all-nighter" you mean, sit down at 6:30. Have the installer going by 6:45-7:00. Eat dinner. choose some settings. Do the dishes. Done by 8:30-9:00. In that case yes, Installing Windows is an all-nighter.
Of course, when it is done installing and I install all the drivers for my video card and sound card, then both my printers, my wireless card, an and digital sound all works. Better than on Linux where one of my printers refuses to work, I have to NDISwrapper my wireless, and I can't get digital sound to work for the life of me.
Not to mention, after it's all set up my computer runs really loud for a a week because something is messed up in the beagle daemon and it is constantly at 100% CPU usage.
DOn't get me wrong, I like linux and all. But you need to keep in mind that "installing" entails more than just clicking through the installer and finally getting to your new OS. And ever after all this improvement they have done to the different linux distros, I wouldn't say that setting it up is on average easier than setting up a Windows computer.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@dlikhten said:Compared to modern Linux distros, it is troublesome.Actually other than Creative drivers (they suck w/ linux drivers, X-Fi has only 64 bit drivers, no 32 bit...) me and my co-workers have so much easier time setting up linux than windows. My co-worker spend 2 months setting up a network printer in Vista WITH HP support. Turned out Vista deleted or modified some config which made it impossible to configure the printer (it never cleaned the drivers completely so he could not re-install the drivers), he had to re-install Vista and it kinda works now. Out-of-the-box for linux,
worked within 2 minutes of installation.I have no had 1 positive vista remark yet. Everything is another problem. We are all happy we are not migrating to vista, at best we will migrate to linux.
I can install 10 linuxes and configure them by the time i install 1 windows xp or xp x64.
And yes xp x64 is based on 2003 server. Even microsoft says that on their site if you dig up ANY xp 64 information.
If you really have that much trouble installing XP or Vista, maybe you should just put your head on your desk and quit.
...WTF
@m0ffx said:
On Linux you can install programs as user, but you must have write permission for the installation dirs (ie. you can install it in your $HOME). I have KDE4 (svn) installed in my $HOME, and the only thing that require root is Korundum (ruby bindings) because it needs to install files in /usr/local/lib/ specifically.Awful. Truly, truly awful. If CCP are being this sloppy with their game's code, are they making similarly stupid mistakes with the code that handles the billing?
Also, this makes me think that an operating system should be designed such that most software can be installed by an account with less than the administrator/root account. In fact I'm sure one could implement this in Linux if one desired. At the moment Linux would be just as vulnerable to this kind of screwup by a third-party developer as Windows has shown itself to be.
And it's just another reason to always use absolute paths.
@merreborn said:
Genius!@jcoehoorn said:
You know, 12/1 is tomorrow. Maybe you should wait a day.Reminds me of the sign in the bar that says "Free beer tomorrow".
@m0ffx said:
@CapitalT said:
Umm... what makes this a wtf?Nothing. Hence why I posted it in General Discussion, not the sidebar
Look at your tags. It clearly reads "google wtf". You are excused if the evil autocompletion did that though. (Who programmed this forum, the geniuses behind FrontPage?)
@m0ffx said:or more precisely a Google wtf? You can do it on any site with images on it, not only images.google.co.uk.Wrong. Works on many sites, but not all.
My bad, shouldn't have overgeneralized something as complex (and wtfy) as HTML.
Umm... what makes this a wtf? or more precisely a Google wtf? You can do it on any site with images on it, not only images.google.co.uk.
Reminds me of my experiments when I first learned javascript.
@kirchhoff said:
Girl Genius? I like steam punk as much as the next guy. But the whole comic seems like a setup for the "special nude issue, only $9.99 on wowio" that never comes.
One thing I hate a lot about Microsoft is their too generic names. What next? Create a new metal and call it Metal®?
I saw this multi-point touchscreen before. Is it a rip-off or what?
Now *that*'s something I'd like to code in!
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If someone can read your email freely then you've got something more important to worry about, unless it's your work email in which case you shouldn't use it to register to anything. Believe me the last thing you need is extra spam in it.
PS: Your title is too long.