Ah, this is where people are talking about the slightly modified avatars, and I tried created a whole new thread! Guess that's what I get for skipping the WTF for a couple months.
Posts made by Jojosh_the_Pi
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RE: Where was I when I missed the grand forum avatar shuffle?
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Avatars
What's with the trend of people using slightly modified default avatars? I started to notice this a few months ago (not just here), but maybe it's been around a while, and I don't wander around forums often enough anymore.
Can this fad last longer than parachute pants? The Macarena? Star Wars Kid? -
RE: Hell in a bit-basket
@ObiWayneKenobi said:
And, of course, the third WTF is the ridiculous over-commenting of everything.
Usually, I'd rather see over- than under-commenting.
But then I saw this...multiple times..
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RE: TODO: Insert link
<threadjack>
I was about to ask what "YAFI, YGI" meant before realizing it would just be faster to look it up myself.
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RE: Norton 2005 WTF!?!?
@versatilia said:
(probably because no sane person will buy it off the shelf)
People will, 'cause it takes up the most shelf space at Best Buy.
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RE: Excel clears the undo stack?
@savar said:
Did you ever copy 20-30 cells and then close Excel. It gives you a warning saying there is a large amount of data on the pasteboard, and would you like to purge it? When did a few hundred bytes become a large amount of data? I have 2GB in my laptop dumbass -- for godsakes just keep everything in memory.
Excel's erring on the side of caution, which is (usually) better than the other way around. What if you really need to release that memory and it didn't say anything?
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Don't use WTF for anything else
http://www.technorati.com/wtf/
It's supposed to stand for "Where's the Fire", but I can't get my head around WTF meaning anything else.
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RE: Too lazy to use my scanner
@SeekerDarksteel said:
Yea, no kidding. I was gonna wear my Sailor Moon uniform too! I get so few chances to wear it and it's totally not creepy at all!
Let's pretend you're female to avoid turning your post into nightmare fuel.
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RE: Myspace error
@unklegwar said:
So why did I sign up if it sucks, you ask? I met a hot chick at a concert and she and her hotter friend had pages.
I signed up that night.
So sue me :-)
If it's about a cutie, you lose no credibility. We're just curious how things turned out. (And if not great, expect unattached WTF'ers to beg for more info!)
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RE: Speechless, indeed!
@Control_Alt_Kaboom said:
3. It's the safest version of Windows ever Note that they were careful not to say "safe", just safer than other Windows versions. It's kinda like saying the next American president will be better than Bush. /ducks/
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RE: Dear dummy,
@asuffield said:
@Volmarias said:
@asuffield said:
@Coincoin said:
It was in my junior times. I had to patch an e-commerce site running on Microsoft Site Server in a very big non profit international organisation which name I will keep secret
Why do people do that? You don't work there any more, they can't fire you. Why protect them from the derision they so clearly deserve?
As you say that, I smell the faint odor of bridges burning
You wouldn't actually want to work in one of these places again, would you?
Even a bad place to work can help you find a good place to work if you have good relationships. Of course, the good place mustn't know how bad the bad place is.
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RE: "I Hope My Current Employer Never Finds Out", by Jimmy 'This is my real name' H.
At first I thought he had to be foresighted enough to be using a pseudonym. Favorite line of his site:
I am an analyst for a major financial institution by day, and an entrepreneur by night.
Dang. Sounds like your everyday superhero.
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RE: Make a video, play it back, ...
Just imagine the reaction if the police were white.
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RE: Colorado DMV wtf's in the news
@aquanight said:
The Real WTF is this isn't on the front page.
Could you imagine the war cry of the masses? "Alex, today's WTF is way too long! The new name sucks! I'm never visiting again!"
Perhaps it could have been a "Virtudyne 2", another classic multi-day WTF. Too bad we already know the story!
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RE: "Easy" coding
@tiro said:
This is decidedly not a WTF. It's a neat app in the tradition of Logo or Squeak that's aimed at getting kids into programming at an early age. Very cool
True, it's not a WTF. Should have been posted under general discussion. That's the second time in a month I've done that.
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RE: Colorado DMV wtf's in the news
That has to be the longest sidebar ever--if not, it's close. And it was worth reading every word.
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"Easy" coding
Free tool offers 'easy' coding
I shudder when I read something like that...is this the specter of "VB6 is easy" renewed? (Not a slam on VB6, but on how so many picked up bad habits because of how it was "taught").
Fortunately, there seems to be very little actual coding (in the traditional sense) going on, and it's directed to kids anyway.
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RE: Everyone loves Microsoft
@Cloaked User said:
@TheBigYin said:
This reply is satire, right?
I'd imagine so - I just checked, and Word 2000 doesn't report any grammatical errors in that passage.
The reply was in Babelflish.
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"Security is Our Concern"
A security company whose guards sleep on the job? I'll take two, please.
Actually, I'm being a bit unfair. This company makes electronic surveillance equipment, and they're trying to imply that their systems are so good, you won't need security guards. But for the 99.9% of the world that doesn't know that, the conjunction of a sleeping guard with "security" does not make a good impression.
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RE: PSE&G values its customers (i think)
@flaquito said:
You'd think they could have gotten a photo of a slightly more... interested-looking family.
Remember their slogan: "We make things easier." They're probably trying to make the family look "easy-going", or something like that.
That having been said, I'd agree they look more apathetic than easy-going.
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RE: Everyone loves Microsoft
@asuffield said:
Yes, the MS Office grammar checker is a worthless piece of crap. Its sole purpose is to make semi-literate mouth-breathers think that they don't need to get their stuff proof-read. It is entirely useless at improving the grammar of a piece of text; the advice it gives is often bad and usually wrong. A triumph of marketing over sanity.
No! It would not say that the check of the grammar is totally useless. It opens certain types of errors affluent (for example, mistyping "his" instead of "him is"). But, yes, you can never accept your hidden advice.
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RE: Short Time To Live
@KattMan said:
A perfect example of the bottom line always winning is Circuit City, I have since decided to completely deny them my money.
Yeah, that was a fascinating story. Another electronic retail chain I get to avoid (a friend's boycotting Best Buy--they treated her like crap). I can't wait for the day where every electronics chain gives me a reason not to shop there.
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RE: WTF transforms into hate and pain..
@fatdog said:
I've thought of trepanating (is that a word?) myself.
Ah, yes...there's nothing like self-imposed uncomfortability.
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Snopes WTF
Snopes responds thusly: "The interesting aspect lies not in the analysis of the image, but in why so many readers considered it plausible enough to forward to us for verification."
Interesting, indeed. There's no telling how many people will fall for a laughably bad Photoshop job.
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RE: Error in translation
@RayS said:
Oh wait, no I can't, the whole things is insanely ludicrous. Human rights complaints?
The whole human rights complaint bothers me simply because there are real issues to deal with, not this crap. It's not like the software company just blew her off; they apologized and are (apparently) going to fix the problem.
@RayS said:
Calling people who've never even been outside the borders of the US "African Americans"?
A high school acquaintance was born in Mozambique, and applied for African-American college scholarships. She's also white. Apparently, she managed to get some of them even when they found out she was white because she is, by definition, African-American.
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Error in translation
Chinese translation error blamed for slur on sofa label
So what's the greater WTF:
the Chinese translation software?
the woman filing a complaint with a human rights commission? (I'm not blaming the woman for feeling offended, but this seems a little much)
the woman not realizing that a Chinese worker wouldn't have caught the error?
the furniture company for not (apparently) trying to understand her position? (As a customer service gesture, I would have offered some compensation)
(or any of the others that I didn't mention!)
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@asuffield said:
The rules for who does and who does not get benefits are complicated, more or less arbitrary, and make little sense - and are full of problems like this.
Welcome to the United States, friend.
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@RayS said:
As for health care, this is one that I really can't get people not agreeing with. Who would want to live in a society where a significant number of people can't afford the basic health care to keep themselves healthy? Unlike being around poor or uneducated people, sickness can spread to you no matter how well off you are. A sick population also isn't very efficient.
Another issue is that insurers can decide who they want to insure.
I suffer from seizures (happens a few times a year). Health insurance companies have decided that this is too much of a risk to cover, even though I'm able and willing to pay extra. The only way I have health insurance is through my company. If I started working for myself, and tried to get insurance, I'd be screwed.
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RE: Sheet Music 0.1
Wow, I thought 4 sharps was a lot. This is in the key of ...?
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
Definitely. One could talk about level of education, etc.
I enjoyed reading all the stuff in this thread, although it ended up being a huge threadjack. It was interesting to say the least. But it's 17:30 here, which means it's time to go home and stop thinking!
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@TDC said:
*measures income disparity.
I appreciate the numbers. However, income disparity != poverty. Indonesia, although the income disparity is less, has greater poverty rate and lower crime rate than the U.S. A better conclusion would be this: since there is less difference between rich and poor, there's not as much class envy, and thus less crime.
An important question, too, is what kind of crimes are being committed? There are many crimes unrelated to economic circumstance, and even people who aren't poor steal.
I'm not trying to say that poverty and crime are completely unrelated...but I'm not sure how well the numbers show it.
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RE: The small world of Electronic Arts
@Abscissa said:
I don't mean to imply or assume you're american. It's just that I'm from the US, I know first-hand a lot of people around that don't understand that there's a difference between those.
Being an American, I find us (as a whole) to be a relatively proud and ignorant people.
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RE: The small world of Electronic Arts
@djork said:
That's nothing. Our company has a country list that includes separate entries for the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England.
"Technically, they're not the same thing," is the only possible justification I can see for this. And even then, it doesn't make sense. There must not be any Scots who've complained.
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@mdk said:
1. Almost all simply prefer to get a job and be able to live in a bigger apartment or a house and afford some luxuries.
2. I'd rather subsidize them then having them break into my house and steal something after they go broke.
1. True that. There's still the issue, though, of people not pressing so hard to get a job because they don't have to right away.
2. From a probability standpoint: if I'm subsidizing these people, I'm losing money 100% of the time. However, despite that I'm living in a poor, fairly unsafe city like Miami, it's rather unlikely that I will be a victim of burglary.
3. Which first-world, not-so-powerful country? $500 tuition's a good thing! Although I'm past that stage of life. (And remember, nothing's free--it just that someone else is paying the bill.)
@asuffield said:
Getting thrown out onto the street (because you didn't find a job fast
enough when the market is in an unexpected slump, or you develop a
medical condition that renders you unable to find work, or any of the
other many well-known failure cases in the US laws on this subject)
causes people to become criminals. That's human nature too.Um...we do have job disability benefits and workmen's comp for injuries here. I'm curious as to how long the government should subsidize non-disabled people. 3 months (for example) is clearly too short. What about 2 years? If someone can't find a job in 2 years--even if it's in a field they don't want (and no one can guarantee how in-demand their desired field is)--well, there's probably no helping them.
I'm not all that sure that the poverty-crime link is as strong as we might think. There's logic to it, but there are anomalies as well (eg, countries with greater poverty and less crime) I'm no expert on this, which is why I'm hedging!
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RE: The small world of Electronic Arts
As a minor point, you'd figure the country list would at least be in alphabetical order.
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@mdk said:
What if they do not find a job for 6-12 months? Put them on the street?
I understand the concern. This is where the question of balance enters. How long should the government support someone? 2 years? 3 years? 5 years? I don't know the best answer. But there has to be a limit. Knowing that there's a safety net without a time limit will cause people to slow down on the job search. It's human nature.
And what about the people who figure it's better to get money from the government instead of finding a job?
@mdk said:
@Jojosh_the_Pi said:
These guys voluntarily quit their jobs. Why the heck should they get anything from the government?
So they have something to live on if they do not find a new job immediately afterwards?
Now this is silly. These guys do have a job (albeit with no income yet). I want my tax dollars supporting people who can't work because of injuries or layoffs, not a couple guys who think they'll make a living out of a closet.
If someone voluntarily leaves a (non-abusive, legal) company, and don't have another source of income, they're taking a calculated risk. They don't deserve to get a dime from anyone.
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RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
@rjnewton said:
Social welfare? You must come from the civilized world. I'm afraid this story takes places in the USA.
These guys voluntarily quit their jobs. Why the heck should they get anything from the government?
We're
not completely heartless here. Americans can get 6-12 months of
unemployment benefits as long as they lost their jobs through no fault
of their own. There's a greater emphasis here on "if the government helps people too long, they'll grow dependent" vs "the government should help people as needed; they'll eventually get back on their feet". (how to balance that scale's a matter for debate). -
RE: But where will they put the multifloor aquarium?
Yeah, well, I hope they don't start hating each other 2 months into the project.
From their site:
"We strongly believe that two passionate people in a garage (or closet) can make great games even in this day of multi-million game projects. So we put our money where our mouths are, quit our nice and secure jobs, and decided to embark in this crazy, wild ride."Yes, two people can make fun games...but can they market and sell them? I hope they have significant savings, and don't have families to support. My money's against them. (I did subscribe to their newsletter!)
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RE: WTF Mac Store
Between this and Suks juice, this has been a great week of Clbuttic Sidebars.
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RE: Horry's condition isn't going to get any better
Sorry for responding to myself...this should have gone in General Discussion instead of the Sidebar WTF (it's not really a WTF). Can a moderator change this?
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Horry's condition isn't going to get any better
This one's still live as of 11:00 am EDT...
I suspect Horry's condition is not something that will improve if you just give it time.
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RE: NetAlert: Australia's Internet safety advisory body
@KattMan said:
It's like me saying take my pill and you will be sure to live forever, but I can't guarantee it.
That's why I only trust Alex Chiu's immortality rings.
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RE: AA marketing WTF
@Volmarias said:
@Jojosh_the_Pi said:
They seem to need to try capturing more female business travel traffic (only 30% of their business travelers are women--this is surely below average, but I don't know by how much).
I don't know. You're assuming a parity of men to women in business travelers. Besides, I somehow don't think this site is meant for sensible businesspeople...
You're right; it's not 50/50, but I'd be stunned if it were as much as 70/30 (more than 2 to 1?). Unfortunately, I couldn't find any good resource as to the exact percentage.
Wonder what AA thinks the ratio should be...
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RE: AA marketing WTF
About 48% of AA's travelers are women, which doesn't seem too unusual. They seem to need to try capturing more female business travel traffic (only 30% of their business travelers are women--this is surely below average, but I don't know by how much).
How a women-specific site will capture significantly more business traffic is beyond me.
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RE: A Trio of Company WTFs
@ObiWayneKenobi said:
and repeatedly would try to convert her to his religion (It begins with an "I")
I got it, I got it! It's Iglesia Ni Cristo!
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Maybe there's something to the "awful outsourced workers" thing after all
How would valuable would your CS degree be if you learned at a university without computers--or even electricity?
India high-tech industry out of workers. (As is not uncommon with articles, the title is slightly deceptive. The article claims there's enough people right now, but may change very soon.)
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RE: Happy serialization
@RevEng said:
Now all he needs to include is his home address, the time of day that he works, and where he hides his spare key.
Need you ask? His spare key is either under the welcome mat or under the potted plant closest to the door.