That was the first thing that caught my eye: Argentina and the U.S. get the special gradient status. The Sun Shines on America, I guess...
Posts made by cdietrich
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RE: Garmany
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RE: Instead of Amazing
I think the OP is first example of Godwin's law passing 1 rather than just approaching it
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RE: Microsoft "Metro"
Explorer is there as an app just like Finder is an app on OS X. Unfortunately they'll probably be getting rid of your favorite XP green hillside theme.
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RE: It's Whose Resposibility?
To me the single funniest event ever is the UNSUBSCRIBE email to all 100+ people. Then, the subsequent, "I ALSO WISH TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST"
Edit: this is in reply to blakeyrat's message Edit 2: I remember being able to format the style on TDWTF but it's late and I've given up -
RE: SMS "Network message" spoofing WTF
So I learned three things today:
- "Last night at the pub" ends just after 1:03 PM
- A test on a single UK cell network constitutes a test on all UK cell networks
- A genuine network message begins with "Message:"
- "Last night at the pub" ends just after 1:03 PM
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RE: E-commerce 2.0 chat staff
Going Schwarzenegger didn't get me very far:
PS -- I had to switch to IE in order to chat... Firefox (2.0.0.15) threw a bunch of javascript errors.
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: Hi and welcome to printingblue.coms LIVE chat support. This is Natasha here to assist you with your printing requirements.</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: Please ask if You need any assistance!</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: are you looking for carbonless forms printing?</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: may i assist you with that?</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: feel free to ask</font>
<font color="red" face="arial" size="2">You:</font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> I'm not into politics, I'm into survival</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: i am here live to assist you</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: ok</font>
<font color="red" face="arial" size="2">You:</font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> Who is your daddy, and what does he do?</font>
<font color="blue" face="arial" size="2">Natasha: let me know your required size and quantity for the carbonless forms?</font>
<font color="red" face="arial" size="2">You:</font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> If I am not me, who da hell am I?</font> -
RE: IE BSOD
Anyway, I'd love to use one of those "message on boot" programs:
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
In Soviet Russia
Superblock overwrites you!
Missing Operating System.
Press the ANY key to continue!!!
LOL. I have no idea what the USSR and superblocks have in common, but that somehow made it more funny! Da!
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RE: SQL madness: Oh not again!
Yeesh... 'View Source'ing the page is even stranger:
</td></tr></table> ....
EDIT:
There doesn't appear to be a difference between http://www.scitech.gov.ph and http://www.scitech.gov.ph/butter.php
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RE: Code examples and interviews
@MonkeyCode said:
And this beauty:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1263379&SiteID=1
Wow -- this makes my day a whole lot better, for some sinister reason.
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RE: Economist WTF
@operagost said:
Let's not ignore the fact that OSHA regulations are not all just common sense. For example, we need things like clearly marked safety boundaries because random people entering a work area cannot be expected to know how equipment moves or where dangerous materials might splash.
Umh, you forgot the site references of people entering a work area not expecting to know how equipment moves or where dangerous material might splash.
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RE: Iterator<vector>
@Jonathan Holland said:
Could it be that he worked at Wisdom Tree...Makers of the worst games of all time?
Perfect segue to an obsession of mine, the Angry Video Game Nerd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw
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RE: Visitor Tracking 2.0?
I can't get my head around a new breed of commercials I see on tv (usually in the daytime, low $$ slots) for commercial websites that are using the URL in funny ways to (I assume) keep track of the marketing person placing the ads for commissions. For instance:
43edconnect.com, 65edconnect.com, 27edconnect.con [all point to the same place, though 27 has a different 'skin']
You also see formats like somedomain.com/43
Usually the web sites are hastily-constructed broker sites that point to other online services.
I think it's a pretty interest phenomenon that these companies trust that people will type these additional numbers in ("/43"). But they must, otherwise the people wouldn't be making any money. Also, wouldn't a url like "43edconnect.com" appear suspicious to the average consumer?
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RE: Best. Memory. Leak. Ever.
15MB of nothing is hardly the worst memory leak ever, considering that Eclipse is using 210MB on my machine at the moment....
My Company Branded (and no doubt monitored) AIM client is using about 70 right now too. Sheesh.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
You know, that is actually a REALLY GOOD IDEA. If you were able to take high enough resolution video to be able to OCR the text, it would be substantially quicker than using a scanner. Given digitisation of books is being done by a number of libraries now, I reckon there's some money in it. Then all you need is an automatic page-turner, and you can get the text of the book effortlessly!
The folks over at Onomy Labs in Menlo Park, CA., have created something similar. It's a computer that can read out loud the pages of a book placed in front of it, called the "Reeding Eye Dog"
http://www.onomy.com/presskit/images/reading-eye-dog.jpg
... add a page turner and we're there!
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RE: New Year's Bug
On the topic of "Wrong number? No. It just shows additional information.":
I used to drive around a 1970 Chevy Beauville van (kind of like this http://images.safeform.com/reviews/images/sporcar.gif but a lot worse). The radio/clock decided at some point that it would drain the battery overnight every night, so we rigged it to only be powered on when the van was turned on. This turned out to be a splendid feature: now we always new exactly how much time it took to get anywhere as the clock would be reset to 12:00:00 when turned on. hehe