This made me wonder how they handle possessive case in the Stargate novels.
Posts made by dabean
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RE: SF addict
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RE: Subway
An inch is pushing it, at most I'd use about half that. Too much filling and it either spills out the front when you close it or the cheese oozes out the sides while it's cooking.
I've never tried PBJ's, or anything sweet in mine. Hmm, sounds interesting.
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RE: Who cares what they call it.
"Rag szám" translates to "suffix number". "Rag" on its own translates to "affix".
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RE: Throwing stuff
I have one of those really bouncy red rubber balls that I throw against the wall from time to time. It takes just enough concentration to let me start thinking laterally when I'm stuck with something (that's my theory anyway). I don't share an office though.
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RE: Boss keeps bringing in his home pc and asking the IT staff to fix it.
I happen to agree with tster. It's his choice to have the company and employ you, just as it's your choice to work there. No guns to anybody's heads, just a free market with people willing to step in where required.
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RE: Not Always Right
I realised most other people don't think that way while I was learning to write. I accidentally wrote '3' instead of 'b' one day, and when asked why I replied "they're both green".
After that I kept things like that to myself.
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RE: Irish Girl
@PJH said:
Since it's the same god, what's the fucking difference?
My irrational belief is better than your irrational belief.
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RE: HTML5 character encoding WTF
@morbiuswilters said:
You have to highlight the text you want to turn into a link, then click them.
Bad UI design. They should make you read a dialog box then type "I UNDERSTAND" or something.
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@SpectateSwamp said:
Nope! You are wrong again DHromedSwamp. I didn't chose a Latin screenname it chose me. Came to me in a dream. A dream character said "the guys down at SpectateSwamp really know what is going on" and it still rings as true today; as the morning it was Dreamed/dreamt. Latin smatin I don't dream in Latin. Never had never will. Spectate is and old mumbo jumbo Dream word.
P.S. I will turn on that GPS feature when doing the next Logging road tour. At every turn I'll do a video and a couple stills then maybe a few more along the way to the next turn. then the same. Damn now I need a downloader for these &(%.mpg MD. Records. I'll like it to dump to SSDS mpg catalog format for starters; I'll run the "gf" option for MPG files in SSDS and use that dump file (not MD) as the feeder. No directory lookup required then. SSDS saves half of the day on this little task. I could use the gps location and scroll it over the pic at the corner, right after the video had displayed. Prompting which way L R Ahead Back Q ...Damn this SSDS is powerful maybe too powerful
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RE: "You can scroll up, too"
I overheard the other end of a support call while waiting to meet someone at an office building once. The bit I heard went something like this:
"Winzip x.x.x"
"File, Edit, View..."
"1 file, xxx bytes"
"File, Edit View..."
"That's all it says!"
"1 file, xxx bytes"
...etc.
I couldn't take much of that so I walked into the guy's office and pointed at the file.
"Oh wait, here it is".
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@BC_Programmer said:
Thus was born BCSearch .
A close to 4 meg MSI file? Really?
Bstorer started porting SSDS to VB.Net and look what that did to him. Keep what's left of your sanity and ignore this thread.
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RE: Storing Porn in Floppy Disks
Reading the disk won't do anything, but I remember being told to diskcopy a floppy to itself every year or so to keep it readable.
A few years ago I needed a floppy to install RAID drivers for a Win2K server. The only one I could find was a CDROM driver disk, and of course trying to format it gave "track 0 bad, disk unusable". Not having many options available (it was a Sunday), I used rawrite to write a linux boot image to the disk. After the third write the disk worked again.
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RE: Choose a Real Number
@morbiuswilters said:
For me, two-factor authentication would more annoyance than help, although I like having the option.
My bank only does two-factor authentication when adding a beneficiary. That way whoever gets hold of my login details can pay my creditors at best, and if I lose my phone (preferred authentication method), I can still pay my bills.
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RE: Talk me about bonuses
@fatdog said:
impossible deadlines set by the sales team, or a total clusterfuck of changes and specifications done by a bunch of post-teen-blackberry-bearers-ma-look-I-wear-a-suit excecutive wannabes
God I hate those people. "Let's redo everything from scratch to cater for this particular niche case so that I can get my commission". Fuck 'em.
That said, profit sharing is the way we've gone. I doubt it'll work everywhere, and it's not that easy to implement, but if sales do well we do well.
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RE: What to do with WTF coders ? Am I being too demanding ?
Besides the rest of the problems, that function returns an empty variant (worse than null imo, since 1 + calculateCommision() == 1).
If it's supposed to be a sub, make it a sub. Someone might try to use it as a function, or "fix" it by changing commision to calculateCommision. -
RE: How do I regexp?
@dhromed said:
Why are you all worrying about the email address when the first half of the code is decidedly more shameful?
I mean, seriously. The programmer knows about the comma in the counter pattern {8,} but somehow fails to realise that IT HAS A PURPOSE, and that the entre first half can be replaced with return /\w{6,15}/.test(password)?
They're trying to filter special characters, WTFy as that may be, so return !/\W/.test(password) would probably be better.
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RE: "The Destination of this bus is FILE_NOT_FOUND"
@dhromed said:
Ch. Stealth Armor is only in Broken Steel, I believe.
It's in Operation Anchorage. A sneaky character with silent-running and that armour is a bit game-breaking though.
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RE: The Spammers have Won
Ban the word "shoes" while you're at it. I'm sure we can all find a work-around if needed.
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RE: Assorted WTFery
@dhromed said:
So why is WB bad again?
- Steaming piles appear on your coffee table
- Fist-fights with non WB users
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RE: Try to figure out which kind of software this is
8 search buttons that we're sure of, possibly 13 or more. Whatever it is, I'd guess it's as hard to use as it is to maintain.
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RE: StackOverflow ad
@morbiuswilters said:
Yes, but "Kiss goodbye to X" is not a common phrasing in English. It sounds incredibly weird.
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RE: Don't you hate it when your boss tries to stifle innovation?
Shouldn't you be talking to your boss instead of us?
I don't mean your department head or manager or whatever, your "boss" should be a businessman. If you can point out reasons why your method is better and his only reply is: "everyone else does it that way", then you should either go higher up or find another job.
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RE: Computers will begin freezing in 2012
WTF.
Supply and demand, seems he hasn't heard of the concept. On the other hand, maybe the internet is a magical commodity which should never cost money.
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RE: Atry-fax
@Heron said:
Apparently, I can't use my network-shared HP Deskjet 5650 in Vista.
Have you tried installing it as a local printer then adding a local port with the UNC path of the share?
Eg. Add port, local port, \\pc2\hp
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RE: REGEX...
I'd say you need a negative lookbehind. Try this:
([^/]*(?<!default))\.aspx
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RE: Job Cultures
Our office bar went unused for years since nobody bothered to keep it stocked. A friend of mine and I made a proposal to the partners that we'd run the place in exchange for whatever profit we made, and that's worked rather well. We've since rented a 50" TV, and most Saturdays 20 to 30 people show up to watch whatever game is on.
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RE: Another billing WTF
@SlyEcho said:
We just keep the money and don't say anything unless the customer starts asking about it.
I should probably explain a bit more. I have a clothing account from the same company which I actually use. Two indentical envelopes arrive on the same day with the same "special offer" filler junk and my statements. It may be two different departments but when I changed my address online both statements followed me, so it seems they share an accounting system.
The logical thing to do would be to debit one account and credit the other, or deposit the money into my bank account, or even send me a cheque. It's only $2 though, so I don't care enough to phone them and they either don't notice or don't care that they've wasted way more than they owe me on postage alone.
Not a big WTF, was just reminded about this by the OP.
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RE: Another billing WTF
I overpaid a loan by the equivalant of around $2 once. Since then they've sent me a statement every month saying they owe me the money, for the past 3 years.
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RE: "Fresher can also, appie" (A WTF Job)
@dhromed said:
@DaveK said:
WTF is appie?
Appie is the colloquial name for Albert Heijn, a big Dutch supermarket.
It's short/slang for "apprentice" in my parts.
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RE: Shhh, please let Mysql sleep and p_forsale
@amischiefr said:
Since Spectate Swamp is back
Wait, what? Where?
I'll freely admit that I'm fairly drunk right now, so if you're kidding just tell me. Otherwise I expect a link.
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RE: Question1-Progress Bars (My other thread was hijacked by lettuce)
@tster said:
This is one of the most obvious lies I have ever read on a forum.
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RE: Forums Fixed & YACSWTF
I wondered where that "theme=palegreenandsimple" or whatever it was in the URL came from.
Thanks, definitely working now.
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RE: Question1-Progress Bars (My other thread was hijacked by lettuce)
@Steeldragon said:
also, your second line of code doesn't work in the 2008 edition, i already tried it.
No, you think you tried it. If you actually tried it you'd know that it works.
@Steeldragon said:
progressBar1.value(prog)
vs@tster said:progressBar1.Value = 33
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RE: Average age of TDWTF'ers
29.9141289
Started dreading the moment that number ticks over, recently.
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RE: The idiot strikes again
@halcyon1234 said:
I think you mean:@dhromed said:
Or perhaps, The Idiot Begins, and The Dark Knucklehead.
Idiot.
Idiot: De-Evolutions
Idiot: Rise of The Idiots
(Of course they'll won't be able to get the same idiot back for the third one, but that's okay-- they'll just call it a prequel)
Idiot.
Idiot: Reloaded
Idiot: Revolutions
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RE: The idiot strikes again
@glassx said:
Get him fired maybe? Sorry to be blunt, but he's obviously in over his head.So, what should I do, other than killing him?
Point this out to his/your superiors.
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RE: US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet
I'd bet a beer that her internet actually worked. She just stuck the CD in the drive and when nothing happened, naturally assumed it was broken.
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RE: US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet
@Spectre said:
Oh, and requiring custom software for the Internet connection is a WTF as well.
A non-technical friend of mine signed up at a local ISP recently and spoke about 'just popping in the CD'. That sounded a bit strange to me, since it was an ADSL line with a router included. Turns out the router is shipped in bridge mode, and the software walks the user through the PPPoE setup. Makes sense to me actually, since the users that know better won't use the CD, and those that don't won't have to phone them about port-forwarding and IP's etc. -
RE: ./configure and the horrors within
@tdb said:
cat auth.log | cat | grep Invalid | cat | cat | sed 's/^.*from //' | cat | cat | sort | cat | cat | uniq -c