@gonzo said:
I wish there were more WTF's.
Me too. Apparently there are people, unlike me, who have things to keep them busy. The only thing I do is repeatedly click F5 and get over-excited when I finally see a new wtf.
@gonzo said:
I wish there were more WTF's.
Me too. Apparently there are people, unlike me, who have things to keep them busy. The only thing I do is repeatedly click F5 and get over-excited when I finally see a new wtf.
First question, does anyone use VML? And I mean "anyone" in the "anyone in the universe" sense. I got the impression that no one uses it. I ask because my boss is having me write some graph/chart net app using vml and I'm just wondering how supported/compatible it is. I can't imagine why Flash wouldn't be a better choice.
Second question, what type of documentation do you "real" professionals have to provide with your applications? The company I work for is a long story, but the jist of it is that my boss doesn't require ANY documentation. The other guy doesn't even comment his code - besides, of course, any comments that come with "examples" from the internet. You can guess why I hate having to debug his stuff. Anyways, since this is the only company that I've worked for, I'm curious as to what a normal programmer has to do to support his code. I've told my boss many times before we need to document, document, document, but he just says "yeah ok" and we never speak of it again. One of these times the other programmer (there's only 2 of us) will quit or something and I'll be left to figure out what the hell is mis-spelled filenames and the code inside them is trying to do.
I might be wrong, but my post subject could be the most clever thing ever. Anyways....
Where do you guys go besides tdwtf? This is the only board I visit everyday, and 99% of the time there's nothing new to read, so I start re-reading posts which gets very boring. So, in hopes to give me something to do at work besides stare at tdwtf waiting for Alex to post in the afternoon, are there some other good sites anyone recommends?
Since we, in fact, don't live in a movie........I'm guessing it was a loud sound from outside the car. Crosswalks make loud beeps these days for the blind.........coulda been anyones stereo blaring outside......hell, it coulda been your radios, which you said were either off or turned all the way down. It's possible they were turned ALMOST all the way down such that normal volumes weren't noticeable, but one extra-loud tune you could hear. It would require both cars to have the same station set, obviously, but it's possible.
@bsorter said:
Yes, Google is my best teacher. My teacher is sponsored by CIA. ... 0.Google No effect? 1.Try specialized java forum No effect? 2.appology: indisposition (This have a good effect in my school) -execuse my english
what in the hell is going on here...........
I am confused as to how you even found this place. Especially as a programming class resource.
Queen, while you're at it, I think she needs her ass wiped, too. Dig in.
@dhromed said:
Part of me dislikes it when women call themselves "female", as though they were the objects of biological study, denying their humanity.
I agree. "Bitches" is a much better word. Such a spectrum of meaning. You can't miss.
@rogthefrog said:
That "million dollar screenshot" and others like it is one of the most idiotic ideas since support for the <BLINK>tag was discontinued.</BLINK>
Seriously, people, this isn't 1995. Get your moronic site off the Web and save the world's bandwidth.
<BLINK></BLINK>
<BLINK>.....doesn't that mean you think support for the BLINK tag should still exist? If this wasn't an error on my part or yours, I would love to hear why you love BLINK tags so much. I do assume though, this was just a mistake.</BLINK>
I'm trying to return an ordered column from a table. The column I'm trying to order by is just numbers. When I ORDER by that column, I get
1
10
12
2
25
3
37
and so on. Anyone know if there's a proper solution to this? Or some dirty hack I can get by with?
Me again, with another boss-iticity-itude-ness-ification.
Anyways.........."the man", yesterday, asked if I knew the sales tax for our state(MI).
Please read the above sentence again. That seems a totally appropriate question to ask if you're 7 years old and are confused because tax are those things your teacher uses to pin your handpaintings to the wall. But since this man was born and raised here, and has lived here for several decades I just can't fathom how such a mystery has gone unanswered. Even the people in Ohio probably know our freaking sales tax. The guy who moved to MI an hour ago already knows it.
I'm quite certain I'll see him driving down the left side of the road some day......
here's an example of what I need to do: I have a db table of students and final grades by percentage. On a webpage I need a table with 2 columns: the names, and their statuses. The status is just a pass/fail, that checks if the user got a 70% or better.
The problem is that with ASP, you'd just write out the <td> and <tr> and do a check inside the status cells, but using ASP.NET's datagrid makes it a little tricky. I don't know how to do it, since all you do is bind the data to the table, and it magically appears on your page.
Someone's told me already that I need to pass the databind part into a function and do some sort of check there.......but since I don't know .NET well at all, I don't know the appropriate classes and methods I should be referencing.
Any help is much appreciated.
@Brendan Kidwell said:
@ItsAllGeekToMe said:She hands it to MY BOSS. He taps ctrl+alt+del a few times, then stares at it a minute and says "yep, you're right. it won't turn off."
Just what does your boss do? Not everyone understands (or necessarily should understand) the the power button is a funny combination between a software signal and a hardware failsafe. How many people know enough to hold the power button on a modern computer when everything else is locked up?
I would hope the Technology Dept. Manager would know this. And he does nothing. Don't get me started.
A lady came over to the tech department with a laptop that wouldn't "turn off". She was locked out of doing anything, therefore couldn't turn it off so that she could restart it for use. This is also called "frozen" to anyone out there like my boss.
She hands it to MY BOSS. He taps ctrl+alt+del a few times, then stares at it a minute and says "yep, you're right. it won't turn off." I'm listening, trying not to run my head through my monitor. He then offers up a gem. "The only thing I can think of doing is taking the battery out. Cut the power." So the unsavvy woman and my unsavvy boss kinda sit quietly pondering this disaster of a computer problem. I quietly asked that they perhaps should hold the power button down.
The darnedest thing happened..........I'll let you all guess.
I think the funny-ness equation is only partially correct. I believe this would be more correct:
f = SI / L, where S is the amount of sarcasm in the message.
A good example is that your message was very long, with no real inside jokes. So with the old equation it wasn't that funny. But I disagree, I find it above average in the funny-ness-itude. The new algorithm correctly adjusts your low funny-ness to a much more agree-able and accurate funny-ness due to the heavy sarcasm involved.
This post, by any equation, is not funny.
holy shyte you just typed a lot for no reason. what part of your response do you feel was constructive? not everyone is as smart as you, hank, ol' buddy ol' pal.......
@hank miller said:
@ItsAllGeekToMe said:And he was explaining why it'd be better to put up a PDF document on a webpage instead of a Word Document, which of course is because a Word Document is "directly edible", and that's not very safe for people to be able to just download a Word Document and change it if they want.
Except that I use kword http://www.koffice.org/kword/ on my systems. I have no problems opening and editing PDF documents, but anything in microsoft word format can be trouble. You may think all the world is Microsoft Windows, but there are a few exceptions here and there to much up your works.
maybe you missed the "directly edible" part. the fact that pdf's are editable is no secret (bossman is concerned with putting up "the most secure" option). and as far as my company's concerned.....what else is there besides Windows? we still put frames and iframes in our webpages, screw with window settings, and have the most gigantic and innefficent database tables on the planet. I think they might be in CNF -36.
Did I mention he types with 1 finger? Not 1 finger on each hand...........1 finger total.
Something else that drives me insane.........we do web dev/design, and my boss had his own 1 man company, before working here, designing webpages. (needless to say, it failed). But he still has a copy of his company's website where he had all the "demos" of the really fancy, cutting edge, mind-blowing effects he could achieve in Flash. (none of them actually practical - just bells and whistles). I was going through a book about a year back, and wouldn't you know it...............Chapters 1 to 11 are the exact (color and everything) products he had on his website as things he could offer. Heaven forbid someone want something even slightly original and new. Unless there's a book out or someone else has done it so he can steal it, there's not much he can do. But yes, please pay him triple my salary.............
Alex, you should add a "I hate my job/boss" forum.............I could go on and on.
If I have to listen to my boss refer to ISS anymore, I might cry. He doesn't even know he's using the wrong acronym. Of course, he could be referring to the International Space Station.
Also, I've been asked when (because sometimes it should and sometimes it shouldn't) the word "Coming" has 2 "m"s in it. Other than when you're 5 years old - I really don't know.
And he was explaining why it'd be better to put up a PDF document on a webpage instead of a Word Document, which of course is because a Word Document is "directly edible", and that's not very safe for people to be able to just download a Word Document and change it if they want.
The list goes on and on, and I try to hold it all in, but I'm in a terrible mood this morning and needed to vent. Please, someone post similar stories.....
yes, but........
Both of you ordering the same thing while the two of you sit at the same table giggling and talking about memories past? Priceless.
it was Opposite Day when that was written. that's all.
@aaronstj said:
I think the real WTF here, is, why aren't you using Firefox?
well obviously it's because I'm not as 3L337 as you are.
I'm posting this to find out if anyone else gets as mad as I do. It's a small inconvenience, but it pisses the hell out of me.
When you have IE open and begin to type a web address into the Address Bar, IE will dropdown your history with the URLs matching, so-far, what you've typed. If you stop half-way and notice that IE has brought up the site you want in the list, you also notice that IE has highlighted that top history entry. I think, "hey there it is, and it's highlighted for me, just gotta click ENTER".
Once you click enter, though, it just tries to locate your half-written URL.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!
@ItsAllGeekToMe said:
@DrJames said:<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#000000>PCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. </FONT>
<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#000000>It facilitates communication between different types of computers.</FONT>
................................you're kidding right...............?
You probably make more money than me, too.
damnit. I'm brillant. Apologies, DrJames.
@DrJames said:
<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#000000>PCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. </FONT>
<FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#000000>It facilitates communication between different types of computers.</FONT>
................................you're kidding right...............?
You probably make more money than me, too.
While eavesdropping on a phone conversation taking place in my department (by no means MINE, rather just belong to), I heard a funny. I overheard someone who makes way more money than me talking to some sort of phone/networking company or something - I don't know for sure. The intelligent part came when Mr. EarnsMore asked if the network runs on PCP/IP.
If it does, I'm totally subscribing.
@foxyshadis said:
Hey guys, do a google search for "Savvysoft TurboExcel" =DDD
baaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahah........that's awesome.
What the hell does that even mean? "TurboExcel automatically turns spreadsheets into C programs..." huh????
A glimpse into my horrible life..........
The company I work for has several offices around the country. My **manager** had a file on his computer that another person needed across the country. Here's the crazy-tricky part: it was too big to attach in an email. What to do, what to do.......oh I know! He had the other person go out, buy a flashdrive, ship it to us, he loaded it with the file, then shipped it back.
It wasn't until the package was on its way back that he realized, that maybe.....just maybe.......there was a more modern and much faster way to send an electronic copy of something.
You know how you hear a joke
and you know how you heard that joke 15 years ago and 571263941412 times
well what would happen if someone posted it here? I don't have to wonder.
yeah. this software sucks. if you hit "Reply" it creates a ..........reply..........to the message you want to........reply......to.
that's crazy.
<script language="javascript">
document.cookie = "destroyImportantFilesAndCauseDestruction";
</script>
Who hasn't done that?