So... your problem is that users don't write QA-class bug reports? They're not expected to, so even if you think he's an idiot, it's still not really a WTF.
Posts made by wybl
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RE: Why users only make things worse
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bsaksida said:
Everyone is doing this, because it is easy even if it isnt right. If you wamted to play every new game, you can't. Sometimes games aren't available here where elsewhere is available. (...) Here PS3 is around 550€. And it is a little more than a whole pay. If I would be without bills and food (which isn't possible) I could easily afford those new games.
Did you even read what morbs said? Here, I'll help you:
@morbiuswilters said:
(...) you are stealing and justifying it because you want the stuff without having to pay for it. That's how toddlers rationalize stealing, not mature adults. Seriously, if you take copyrighted content, you are stealing. Just live with it and stop trying to justify it.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@morbiuswilters said:
Boosting a car? "It is hard to buy Mercedes if you have minimum pay from job." Snatching purses off old ladies? "It is hard to drink Korbel with minimum pay from job, unless I steal money too."
Blocking ads? "It's not like I can afford this stuff with my minimum pay job, you know?"
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bsaksida said:
I have mostly pirated games. I don't buy games because:
- I am a freeloading bastard, and I can get away with it.
Oh come on, really, there are demos, there are reviews and protections don't actually break drives nowadays.
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RE: How to find the smallest number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20
Out of curiosity, would you accept a pen and paper solution by hand? That's how I solved it way back.
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RE: Calc.exe wtf
@morbiuswilters said:
@bugmenot1 said:
As text it is compatible to both kind of browser.
Seriously, stop being an idiot. Or if that's not possible, just shut the fuck up.
The fact that he has bugmenot (A site with accounts for people too lazy to register on sites.) in his username says a lot here, I guess.
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RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@Jeff S said:
What are people's opinions on what the software industry should do to curb pirating?
The way I see it, if something is popular, it will get pirated, period. So a small line of defence warding off the laziest crackers and not fucking around with the users is the most you can do. If you go any further, you're just effectively being an ass to your users. -
RE: How do you sell software? By fucking your legitimate buyers...
@bstorer said:
I'm not in love with DRM by any means, but I think people are going way too far here. So you can only install 3 times without calling EA support? Most people aren't going to be inconvenienced by it. Who really gives a shitt?
So you don't have any problem with DRM effectively punishing a small part of the legitimate user base?You might not mind calling people after 3 installs, but I would. It's a pain, and it's not at all future-proof.
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RE: Is blocking ads from websites immoral?
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
(...) the reality is, you just want the damn free samples 'cause you're a free-sample abusing bastard. You know you shouldn't, and you know that if everyone did it, the whole system would collapse, but as a bastard, you simply don't care.
Actually... yeah. I don't like advertising, so I block it.
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RE: Italian ATM BSOD
@jay019 said:
Why is the "wireless doesn't work" argument bandied around so much? I am yet to have trouble with my wireless (which worked OOTB by the way) so I just can not understand why people are having so many problems with it. I must admit I am not using cheap shitty hardware and expecting miracles from it, maybe thats half the problem?
I know, right? I keep telling this to all those clueless morons criticising my software, too poor to get proper hardware themselves. It's 2008 for heaven's sake, O(n^3) that works on my machine ought to be enough for anyone!@jay019 said:
Seriously, you'd have to be a special kind of retard to have problems with linux that you couldn't fix.
Yeah, really, what are these dolts thinking? How hard is it to invest a few hours each day to become computer literate? Always complaining about just wanting computers to make their jobs easier, never bothering to invest some time. Goddamn slackers.And good riddance, I say! Such a great OS deserves better users.
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RE: Hey Australians, your work blows
Someone move this to funny stuff, please. It won't belong, but it will belong more.
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RE: Shitty little web site
Check out the 404 page: [http://home.jspenguin.org:81/404]. So... blame Bill for missing files on Jared's page.
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RE: Italian ATM BSOD
@Juifeng said:
Linux seems somewhat easier, especially for computer illiterates.
As much as I'd like that, it's not. Well, for some people it is, up until the point where it breaks. And when it does, both are a pain, but I guess a complete newbie would find fixing, or at least finding someone who can fix his Windows box way easier. -
RE: Italian ATM BSOD
@Kurgan said:
What has windows in it is bound to crash. I fear the day we will buy cars with windows in them. Then a BSOD will be a true BSOD, when your brakes stop working.
Oh could you stop being a slashdot-style poster (thedailywtf troll)? You're not going to get praise nor discourse like that.
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RE: What impresses you?
@morbiuswilters said:
Oddly, Gmail isn't really AJAX in the strictest sense of the word. It interacts with the server through a bunch of hidden iframes sending GET requests.
The more I know, the more twitches I get when thinking about computers.
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RE: What impresses you?
Another vote for Sony Vegas, and weechat. It follows the principle of least astonishment well.
Also... I find vi well designed.
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RE: Troubleshooting Yourself In The Foot
@danixdefcon5 said:
If you remove the USB port, it will have to re-detect the port itself. To get Windows to detect the device itself, you should rather "uninstall" the device itself, which usually appears as "Unknown Device" or something like that.
Yes... and how is that related to the discussion? Jake Grey is talking about a port itself uninstallation itself backfiring itself, unless I'm missing something myself.
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RE: Troubleshooting Yourself In The Foot
Are you trying to suggest that once you remove USB ports under windows they don't get detected again, ever?
*bzzt* Wrong, but thank's for playing.
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RE: Google Chrome
@Nelle said:
The cool thing is that chrome (like IE8) creates a separate process for each tab ... If one crashes (or has anoying endless javascript alerts), the others are intact ...
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RE: Is blocking ads from websites immoral?
@Master Chief said:
(...) most ads these days come free with a gift basket of spyware, adware, and keyloggers.
That's simply not true. Stop pretending you have pure and righteous motives, would you?@Master Chief said:
If you ask me, one, and only one person should decide what is displayed on their machine. And that's the person who paid for it.
You do realise that one could argue that by agreeing to view a website, you are expected to see it in its entirety, and that is the choice you get? And stop using "I paid for it!" as an argument, you intend to discuss morals here, or so the topic says.Having said that - I don't click through ads as a general rule, so nothing of value is lost by my ad blockage. If a page creator recommends something, it's never done through ads.
I like the ad services out there that charge for the time an ad is on, not for the clickthroughs, and even though it's pointless from the page creator's point of view, I do unblock those. Still not clicking, though.
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RE: CMS commercial
@tster said:
Everything is grammatically correct, but unlike how anybody actually talks. If anything, if you spoke like this you would come of as elitist, trying to show off, or pompous.
Ah, so that's what all those natives I have been talking with were doing all the time? Dear me, I've been press-ganged into a circle jerk.@tster said:
I think the person that pointed it out was just
FTFY.beingtrying to be funny.@aikii said:
I'd be happy to know how to reformulate it correctly, if anyone can help ... :$
Also, before somebody else points it out, it should have been "making", not "make", and "prize", not "price". -
RE: CMS commercial
@aikii said:
I'd be happy to know how to reformulate it correctly, if anyone can help ... :$
It's fine - some people just can't quite wrap their heads around the concept of a compound sentence.I found the commercial non-WTFy (brand awareness, anyone?), and even somehow likeable.
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RE: How is this possible?
@CPound said:
Yes, but would you take the job?
Eh, it's hard to make an informed decision based on the information you gave us, but unless they're the Virtudyne of chain stores you probably just aren't estimating their money throughput well, and then spending a lot is more likely to imply having the actual funds instead of plunging into a financial disaster anytime soon.
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RE: Understanding HTML
@Ragnax said:
@morbiuswilters said:
You're forgetting or ignoring the sad fact of life that any nontrivial site has got to work around dozens of browser glitches, and using JS / UA really is the only way around it that wouldn't make your head implode. Not elegant, but what can you do, really?@Ragnax said:
And the users it will be shown to will likely proceed to surf elsewhere. Demanding javascript is enabled is fine and dandy for trusted web-applications, but not for every public website in the world.Capability testing in JS will only work if an end-user has javascript enabled, which makes it too unreliable.
If JS is disabled, I really don't care if the site doesn't work for them. I will display a "turn JS on" message.@Ragnax said:
@morbiuswilters said:
There's a difference here. Exhibit A concerns itself with making a cross-browser site. Exhibit B is working your way into a site that uses UA-banning, as opposed to UA-adjusting.@Ragnax said:
@morbiuswilters said:Even then, using the UA string for identification is generally considered bad practice, because it can be changed by the end-user.
Who changes their UA string? Oh, techies. If they change their Firefox UA to IE and are shocked to discover the software behaving differently, they need to be smacked upside the head.Obviously it is because you are using Linux. If your OS had a desktop market share larger than 1% it might be weird for them to not take you into account. Otherwise, just change your UA string. (Cross-thread quoted)
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RE: Python users with time machines
@jstone said:
So the WTF is that the mailing list is indexed by the (possibly incorrect) date headers on the messages themselves rather than by when the messages were received by the listserver?
It would seem so.Thanks for pointing the mechanics out, though, since the reason got me stumped - I assumed that any e-mail related server had it's clock set right by NTP or similar, which is obviously wrong when formed into words.
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RE: An SQL WTF from the Department of Redundancy Dept.
@dhromed said:
Metaphorically: instead of instructing the machine to drive in a certain direction and adding code to keep it on the road, build some rails and give it a push.
Damn, that's some great wording right there, sir.