That would work only if a lot of programs interacted by sound. As it is, most people disable all interface sounds, and the only program they want making noise is whatever media player they have.
[QUOTE=short sentences;28652212][img_thumb]http://www.gemwon.com/UploadFile/20100601/20100601070100.jpg[/img_thumb]
HP's new laptop keyboard layout. I'll put up my own picture when I get home, but take a look at the keys down the left side where I want to hit buttons like Ctrl instead of opening a calculator, or open console instead of my email, and other things like that. I don't have time right now to read through the entire thread to see if this has been posted already, but I don't really care because this layout pisses me off.
Another thing I don't like (that has probably been mentioned as well) is Apple's new track pad on their laptops. When I tried it out, it wouldn't click when I wanted it to, but it would click just from the weight of my finger on it, at very inopportune moments. You would think it would click when I tap down on it if the resting weight of my finger alone is enough to start clicking everything in sight.
Also, plastic in general. It just breaks, then you have to go buy a new whatever it was.[/QUOTE]
I'm using one of these keyboards right now actually they're alright to type on, I don't mind them but those fucking 5 fucking keys on the left, whoever designed that should be neutered
*Control* *Calculator pops up* "What the fuck?"
[QUOTE=ze beaver;28652633]I fucking hate how you can't cancel your Xbox Live auto-renew bullshit online, you have to call and deal with a guy with a thick russian accent :argh:
My CC was about to expire and I didn't feel like calling their shitty french support so I just left it like that. Now today, I noticed something on my account : I'm still a gold member. What the fuck :byodood:
They charged my expired credit card twice now, I don't know what bad things it could do but if I try to delete the card on the Xbox website it says I have a negative balance :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
I've canceled my auto renew online just fine. I always seen people say this and I don't understnad it.
Games or programs that require a restart after installation even though THEY DON'T.
I task manager kill that process, boot up the game, IT FUCKING WORKS WITHOUT A RESTART
FUCK YOU GAMES
I DON'T NEED YOUR RESTART
GOD DAMN
[QUOTE=geel9;28660400]Games or programs that require a restart after installation even though THEY DON'T.
I task manager kill that process, boot up the game, IT FUCKING WORKS WITHOUT A RESTART
FUCK YOU GAMES
I DON'T NEED YOUR RESTART
GOD DAMN[/QUOTE]
IMO, the only reason to restart is if you upgrade the kernel or the hardware.
Programs installed? Nope.
Services reconfigured? Nope.
Drivers installed? Nope.
And guess what? There's systems that don't even need that. If you have an OpenVMS cluster, you can literally upgrade the hardware without restarting (power down one node at a time, the rest keep running). And you can upgrade the kernel without restarting (there's a thing for Linux that lets you do that too, but it's commercial). Too bad VMS doesn't run on x86.
-snip wrong thread-
[QUOTE=AntoniD;28659304]I've canceled my auto renew online just fine. I always seen people say this and I don't understnad it.[/QUOTE]
Tell me your secrets.
All the methods google gave me were disabled by Microsoft.
[QUOTE=PelPix123;28663624]Huh? Yes you can. The side with the uncovered holes goes up. I thought everyone knew that.[/QUOTE]
Except that a lot of USBs cover the bottom side with black.
But hey, if it's not immediately obvious which way is up, just put a piece of post-it or an apple sticker or something on the top.
[QUOTE=Coffee;28658148]You know how Windows 7 lets you slam two different programs to either side of the screen?
I think it would be cool if the sound output from the left speaker increased slightly if the sound output program was on the left side of the screen, and if if the program was on the right side it would increase sound from the right speaker.[/QUOTE]
That would be fucking horrible, when there's even the slightest balance offset normally it makes me incredibly paranoid, I don't know what that would do to me.
[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=gman003-main;28660568]IMO, the only reason to restart is if you upgrade the kernel or the hardware.
Programs installed? Nope.
Services reconfigured? Nope.
Drivers installed? Nope.
And guess what? There's systems that don't even need that. If you have an OpenVMS cluster, you can literally upgrade the hardware without restarting (power down one node at a time, the rest keep running). And you can upgrade the kernel without restarting (there's a thing for Linux that lets you do that too, but it's commercial). Too bad VMS doesn't run on x86.[/QUOTE]
I guess since the windows kernel is about as stable as Hannibal Lecter on crack, coupled with the sheer amount of crapware people have running and the variety of installed drivers it's more convenient to just tell it to reboot. Well, it's more convenient for the programmer, not the user.
[QUOTE=wingless;28659220]I'm using one of these keyboards right now actually they're alright to type on, I don't mind them but those fucking 5 fucking keys on the left, whoever designed that should be neutered
*Control* *Calculator pops up* "What the fuck?"[/QUOTE]
Then because of how the F keys work, you have to hit Alt+Fn+F4 just to close a window quickly.
[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Squad;28653555]Sorry, as a chemist who has worked with polymers I can't let you say this.
Not only is saying "plastic in general" wrong, but saying "it just breaks" is even worse.
"Plastic" is such a general term for the list of polymers you can make that ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES.
Depending on how you create the polymer you can change the physical characteristics. So you can make a plastic that bends and flexes with ease, or you can make a plastic that you could smash with a hammer and break the handle of the hammer before the plastic loses its structural integrity.[/QUOTE]
But however you make it, if you leave it out in the sun for 30 years, it becomes brittle and breaks.
[QUOTE=short sentences;28679311]Then because of how the F keys work, you have to hit Alt+Fn+F4 just to close a window quickly.
[editline]18th March 2011[/editline]
But however you make it, if you leave it out in the sun for 30 years, it becomes brittle and breaks.[/QUOTE]
and the fn keys are fucked, forgot about that.
[QUOTE=wingless;28680418]and the fn keys are fucked, forgot about that.[/QUOTE]
My laptop defaulted to those too. There was a setting in the bios to set it to default to regular F# keys.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;28660568]IMO, the only reason to restart is if you upgrade the kernel or the hardware.
Programs installed? Nope.
Services reconfigured? Nope.
Drivers installed? Nope.
And guess what? There's systems that don't even need that. If you have an OpenVMS cluster, you can literally upgrade the hardware without restarting (power down one node at a time, the rest keep running). And you can upgrade the kernel without restarting (there's a thing for Linux that lets you do that too, but it's commercial). Too bad VMS doesn't run on x86.[/QUOTE]
I found a page by the official TortoiseSVN people somewhere that said even though the installer prompts you to restart, really all you have to do is close explorer.exe and start it again (which is basically log out log back in). So maybe you just have to do something less drastic for those games but the installer base they use only knows "hurr restart?"
And I never could get drivers to work in any way shape or form under Windows without something resembling a restart (I've managed to get it to work occasionally with Hibernate, but YMMV).
[QUOTE=short sentences;28679311]
But however you make it, if you leave it out in the sun for 30 years, it becomes brittle and breaks.[/QUOTE]
Not really.
Torx screw heads.
Late most likely
Intel changing its CPU Sockets 5 times in 4 years. All I can say is...MOTHER FUCKER!
Proprietary connector cables.
[QUOTE=Swilly;28684064]Late most likely
Intel changing its CPU Sockets 5 times in 4 years. All I can say is...MOTHER FUCKER![/QUOTE]
more performance
[QUOTE=axon;28684319]more performance[/QUOTE]
He's probably referring to the mounting holes for the coolers.
Which I can understand he's bitching about.
[QUOTE=Van-man;28684338]He's probably referring to the mounting holes for the coolers.
Which I can understand he's bitching about.[/QUOTE]
1155 and 1156 share the same holes, plus most coolers ship with all the backplates
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5zNU6HePs[/media]
All thanks to "plastic".
5.25" floppy disks...
[QUOTE=short sentences;28684514][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5zNU6HePs[/media]
All thanks to "plastic".[/QUOTE]
The Nissan Titan is overall a horrible vehicle, so that doesn't really count when they skimped out EVERYWHERE
[QUOTE=short sentences;28684514][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5zNU6HePs[/media]
All thanks to "plastic".[/QUOTE]
Its because they used cheap ass plastic
Generally i agree with everyone that plastic is fucking shit, even though not every kind of plastic is, the strong ones is NEVER used when they should
[QUOTE=short sentences;28684514][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5zNU6HePs[/media]
All thanks to "plastic".[/QUOTE]
not the plastics fault, its obviously nissan's doing. its likely they did it on purpose even. horray for the monetary market system.
[QUOTE=Lick;28593272]How itunes doesn't sell fucking mp3s by default.
How you don't own the rights to games you purchase.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure? I buy mp3s from iTunes by default all the time with no DRM?
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;28687182]Apple.[/QUOTE]
So you're saying you'd rather have a phone with 2 3.5mm jack ports(One amped the other unamped), 3 video out connectors(Composite, component and s-video), USB port, connector for remote control, a connector to power accessories and a serial port rather than one connector which can do all of these?
The menu that comes up when you leftclick the Steam tray icon:
[img]http://www.shrani.si/f/3V/Tw/4y5M2Ys/assholemenu.png[/img]
Let's say you want to open up Steam, but you accidentally single instead of double click the icon because you're used to singleclick shortcuts. And the exit button is directly under your cursor when it opens up. :argh:Needless to say, I've had to restart Steam quite a few times because of this.
[QUOTE=pebkac;28688197]The menu that comes up when you leftclick the Steam tray icon:
[img_thumb]http://www.shrani.si/f/3V/Tw/4y5M2Ys/assholemenu.png[/img_thumb]
Let's say you want to open up Steam, but you accidentally single instead of double click the icon because you're used to singleclick shortcuts. And the exit button is directly under your cursor when it opens up. :argh:Needless to say, I've had to restart Steam quite a few times because of this.[/QUOTE]
When I click it doesn't open with my cursor over the exit button, but I've managed to hit the exit button while trying to open my friends list so many times.
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