Biggest asshole design moves - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=gparent;28969411]Which one? Yeah, agreed. It's like junior high all over again.[/QUOTE] Any large commercial airliner to be honest (A380, triple 7s) it all depends on how much weight the aircraft is carrying combined with the weight of the fuel, if the aircraft tries to land straight after taking off it will be too heavy.

[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28970092]Any large commercial airliner to be honest (A380, triple 7s) it all depends on how much weight the aircraft is carrying combined with the weight of the fuel, if the aircraft tries to land straight after taking off it will be too heavy.[/QUOTE] Ah fair enough, I was talking about prop planes and small commercial aircraft.

[QUOTE=Contag;28970246]Ah fair enough, I was talking about prop planes and small commercial aircraft.[/QUOTE] Nah its not an issue with those as their not made to fly long distances (such as trans-Atlantic) with a large amount of passengers so they require less fuel in the process.

[QUOTE=Van-man;28545524]Because they originally did that to save money, and then it became a de-facto standard. Nothing wrong with it, unless you're blind or mental deficit.[/QUOTE] Annoying as fuck if you don't have much light and you're putting 4 AA batteries in an external DSLR flash.

[QUOTE=Lalelalala;28972020]Annoying as fuck if you don't have much light and you're putting 4 AA batteries in an external DSLR flash.[/QUOTE] You DO know you can FEEL the springs in the thing you're putting the batteries into, and the "tap" at the positive end of a battery??

[QUOTE=HALPMEIMDYING;28955140]Click on your username on the top right > Subscriptions > Check all > Add to Queue[/QUOTE] That list includes tons of videos that I've already watched. What would be wonderful is if YouTube worked just like Google Reader. New videos to watch get automatically added to the list, videos I watch are automatically removed, and videos I don't want to watch I can quickly skip over and they will be removed from the list. I guess the method you described works pretty well for quickly adding them, but I would still have to manually remove every video that I watch. Even then, I don't understand why that feature is hidden away. If you subscribe to channels, it should be front and center: on the main page, easy to see, with no random videos mixed in getting in the way (as it is now).

You have to click the little » which is dumb.

So I am just sitting around minding my own business when my phone vibrates in my pocket. "Oh a text message. I should check that out" I think. Nope, no text message. Just that fucking mute/unmute switch on the iPhone, living its own life. Who's idea was this!? [img]http://masterjan.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone3g_crack.jpg[/img] And of course, with all the wear and tear it receives it managed to break off my phone recently, so now I can't mute my iPhone, but the iPhone it self can, for some reason- when just walking to the bus it will constantly spazz out between mute and unmute, which obviously is really fucking annoying. I swear, all the vibrating is gonna leave me sterile. And, no, this doesn't just happen when it is in some sort of motion. It can start spazzing between mute and unmute even when it's just laying on my desk. How is that even possible!? Is it possessed my the Devil or something? I don't know, but I know one thing for sure: The guy behind this switch is the fucking Devil.

[QUOTE=kevlar jens;28976654]So I am just sitting around minding my own business when my phone vibrates in my pocket. "Oh a text message. I should check that out" I think. Nope, no text message. Just that fucking mute/unmute switch on the iPhone, living its own life. Who's idea was this!? [img_thumb]http://masterjan.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone3g_crack.jpg[/img_thumb] And of course, with all the wear and tear it receives it managed to break off my phone recently, so now I can't mute my iPhone, but the iPhone it self can, for some reason- when just walking to the bus it will constantly spazz out between mute and unmute, which obviously is really fucking annoying. I swear, all the vibrating is gonna leave me sterile. And, no, this doesn't just happen when it is in some sort of motion. It can start spazzing between mute and unmute even when it's just laying on my desk. How is that even possible!? Is it possessed my the Devil or something? I don't know, but I know one thing for sure: The guy behind this switch is the fucking Devil.[/QUOTE]Reminds me of the lens cover switch on my video camera. Its busted so it keeps flashing the lens cover warning text on the screen, but since the sensor is showing lens closed, lens open so rapidly, it looks like its trying to give me an epileptic seizure. Fortunately, it doesn't affect any functionality of the camera. Its just really annoying.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;28975970][url]http://kotaku.com/[/url] See this piece of shit? You do, right? Okay, now. Go and click blog view, so it looks like a site that wasn't made by a 13-year-old webdesigner on Dreamweaver. Aight, now click the title of a fucking article. Fucking do it. Come on read that fucking piece of crap. No luck? Try the image. Come on now, don't be shy. [B] IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK IN HALF THE FUCKING ARTICLES[/B][/QUOTE] Or gizmodo's entire new layout.

[QUOTE=kevlar jens;28976654]So I am just sitting around minding my own business when my phone vibrates in my pocket. "Oh a text message. I should check that out" I think. Nope, no text message. Just that fucking mute/unmute switch on the iPhone, living its own life. Who's idea was this!? [img_thumb]http://masterjan.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone3g_crack.jpg[/img_thumb] And of course, with all the wear and tear it receives it managed to break off my phone recently, so now I can't mute my iPhone, but the iPhone it self can, for some reason- when just walking to the bus it will constantly spazz out between mute and unmute, which obviously is really fucking annoying. I swear, all the vibrating is gonna leave me sterile. And, no, this doesn't just happen when it is in some sort of motion. It can start spazzing between mute and unmute even when it's just laying on my desk. How is that even possible!? Is it possessed my the Devil or something? I don't know, but I know one thing for sure: The guy behind this switch is the fucking Devil.[/QUOTE] I love that switch :3 at least on my iphone 4

[QUOTE=wingless;28962984]That, and you have to buy a new fucking TV every 3 months because a new spec comes out, it's also destroyed the monitor market in a sense, every fucking thing has to be 1920x1080 just so fucking manufacturers can stick a shitty HDMI 1.1 Port on it, Remember when they used to be fucking 2560x1600? We've fucking degraded in technology because of shitty HDMI.[/QUOTE] Wait, why do you have to buy a new TV every 3 months? Because advertisers tell you to? Do they come into your house and hammer your TV screen and ask you to fork over money for a new set? Come on. It didn't destroy the monitor market. From some people's perspective sure, but how exactly is it destroyed. You lost 10% of your vertical resolution from a monitor you MIGHT have bought at one time. What did happen was the market homogenized, and TV's and Monitors share many attributes. TV's are now more able to be used as monitors with all sorts of inputs, and monitors have all sorts of inputs for television and traditional broadcast style video formats and movies. I doubt a connector did that all that. It was the move towards centralized entertainment in the home and cheaper production. Youtube went widescreen and HD, Hulu grew in popularity, Netflix exploded, home theater PC's grew in popularity and people were looking for a PC monitor that gave them 16:9 not 16:10. Consoles were running HD and users also wanted to run them on PC monitors. We would still have plenty popular 16:10 Full HD screens if people didn't buy the 1080p screens. The manufacturers were more than happy to oblige I'm sure, as they could produce a cheaper panel that people were looking for. The group of people who-must-have-that-extra-10%-of-vertical-resolution-no-matter-what, was probably much smaller than you think. People were buying the cheaper 1080p panels and they became the norm. Also whats this BS about 2560 panels. Remember when what was 2560x1600? Monitors, yea the elite models and they still are elite, and they still are popular, and you act like everyone and their grand mother had a 30" monitor, and it was the mean connection standard that made that monitor disappear.

Norton antivirus. How the fuck do you make a program that uses 50% of all your four cores when it's idle!?

[QUOTE=kevlar jens;28976654]So I am just sitting around minding my own business when my phone vibrates in my pocket. "Oh a text message. I should check that out" I think. Nope, no text message. Just that fucking mute/unmute switch on the iPhone, living its own life. Who's idea was this!? [img_thumb]http://masterjan.com/wp-content/uploads/iphone3g_crack.jpg[/img_thumb] And of course, with all the wear and tear it receives it managed to break off my phone recently, so now I can't mute my iPhone, but the iPhone it self can, for some reason- when just walking to the bus it will constantly spazz out between mute and unmute, which obviously is really fucking annoying. I swear, all the vibrating is gonna leave me sterile. And, no, this doesn't just happen when it is in some sort of motion. It can start spazzing between mute and unmute even when it's just laying on my desk. How is that even possible!? Is it possessed my the Devil or something? I don't know, but I know one thing for sure: The guy behind this switch is the fucking Devil.[/QUOTE] i remember when one of those broke off on me at an apple store demo 4 days after the grand opening

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;28975970][url]http://kotaku.com/[/url] See this piece of shit? You do, right? Okay, now. Go and click blog view, so it looks like a site that wasn't made by a 13-year-old webdesigner on Dreamweaver. Aight, now click the title of a fucking article. Fucking do it. Come on read that fucking piece of crap. No luck? Try the image. Come on now, don't be shy. [B] IT DOESNT FUCKING WORK IN HALF THE FUCKING ARTICLES[/B][/QUOTE] Late response, but it works fine for me [editline]3rd April 2011[/editline] design is shit though

[QUOTE=Mike!;28977683]I love that switch :3 at least on my iphone 4[/QUOTE] the facepunch post button

[QUOTE=wingless;28962984]That, and you have to buy a new fucking TV every 3 months because a new spec comes out, it's also destroyed the monitor market in a sense, every fucking thing has to be 1920x1080 just so fucking manufacturers can stick a shitty HDMI 1.1 Port on it, Remember when they used to be fucking 2560x1600? We've fucking degraded in technology because of shitty HDMI.[/QUOTE] quit fucking bitching, it's not like it's doing any fucking harm you pansy i can buy HDMI cables for under 5 bucks and my only criteria for video output is that it makes things legible and has audio. if i have to run two separate cables from my PC or PS3 to the back of my TV just so i can get both (which you'd have to do with DVI, there isn't any DVI cable that transmits audio) i'm going to be super fucking pissed off to begin with tl;dr IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

[QUOTE=FFStudios;28979148]quit fucking bitching, it's not like it's doing any fucking harm you pansy i can buy HDMI cables for under 5 bucks and my only criteria for video output is that it makes things legible and has audio. if i have to run two separate cables from my PC or PS3 to the back of my TV just so i can get both (which you'd have to do with DVI, there isn't any DVI cable that transmits audio) i'm going to be super fucking pissed off to begin with tl;dr IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER[/QUOTE] calm down bro

[QUOTE=FFStudios;28979148]quit fucking bitching, it's not like it's doing any fucking harm you pansy i can buy HDMI cables for under 5 bucks and my only criteria for video output is that it makes things legible and has audio. if i have to run two separate cables from my PC or PS3 to the back of my TV just so i can get both (which you'd have to do with DVI, there isn't any DVI cable that transmits audio) i'm going to be super fucking pissed off to begin with tl;dr IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER[/QUOTE] Whoa. You can afford an HDTV, but you still use the built-in speakers?

anything apple has ever released.

[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;28980102]Whoa. You can afford an HDTV, but you still use the built-in speakers?[/QUOTE] Makes no damn sense, since the speakers in flatpanel TV's are of the same quality as laptop speakers.

[QUOTE=bothtowers?LOL;28980148]anything apple has ever released.[/QUOTE] I'd own a macbook pro if i had the money. I'd still only use windows but i love the performance and look of the newest models

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;28980811]I'd own a macbook pro if i had the money. I'd still only use windows but i love the performance and look of the newest models[/QUOTE] The performance? Really?

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;28980811]I'd own a macbook pro if i had the money. I'd still only use windows but i love the performance and look of the newest models[/QUOTE] Performance and price/quality ratio are very low on macs. The only real reason to buy one is the looks. The build quality also isnt that great if you look at the faillure rates.

They look nice and the screens tend to seem more crisp. I don't know if they really are or not, my vaio has a blue ray player on it and the screen is extremely crisp so I no longer care. I got this machine for the same price as a mac and it would destroy any of the mac laptops within the price range.

[QUOTE=Brt5470;28978260][b]1)[/b]Wait, why do you have to buy a new TV every 3 months? Because advertisers tell you to? Do they come into your house and hammer your TV screen and ask you to fork over money for a new set? Come on. It didn't destroy the monitor market. From some people's perspective sure, but how exactly is it destroyed. You lost 10% of your vertical resolution from a monitor you MIGHT have bought at one time. What did happen was the market homogenized, and TV's and Monitors share many attributes. TV's are now more able to be used as monitors with all sorts of inputs, and monitors have all sorts of inputs for television and traditional broadcast style video formats and movies. [b]2)[/b] I doubt a connector did that all that. It was the move towards centralized entertainment in the home and cheaper production. Youtube went widescreen and HD, Hulu grew in popularity, Netflix exploded, home theater PC's grew in popularity and people were looking for a PC monitor that gave them 16:9 not 16:10. Consoles were running HD and users also wanted to run them on PC monitors. We would still have plenty popular 16:10 Full HD screens if people didn't buy the 1080p screens. The manufacturers were more than happy to oblige I'm sure, as they could produce a cheaper panel that people were looking for. The group of people who-must-have-that-extra-10%-of-vertical-resolution-no-matter-what, was probably much smaller than you think. People were buying the cheaper 1080p panels and they became the norm. [b]3)[/b] Also whats this BS about 2560 panels. Remember when what was 2560x1600? Monitors, yea the elite models and they still are elite, and they still are popular, and you act like everyone and their grand mother had a 30" monitor, and it was the mean connection standard that made that monitor disappear. [/QUOTE] 1) Hypebole 2) The old HDMI 1.1 Connector only supported 1080P Max, nothing higher. 3) There was a time where it wasn't just 30's with 2560x1600. [editline]4th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=MerzBro;28969290]-bolded stuff-[/QUOTE] What, I can't express anger?

Pulseaudio

Why all the HDMI bashing? I personally like the simplicity of having no pins to get bent, no thumb-screws to fuck with, the small connector size, and both audio and video signals going through one simple cable from my device to the TV. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("Alt of permabanned user." - Seiteki))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=R3400i;28982480]Why all the HDMI bashing? I personally like the simplicity of having no pins to get bent, no thumb-screws to fuck with, the small connector size, and both audio and video signals going through one simple cable from my device to the TV.[/QUOTE] It holds back technology and I want surround sound for my TV. [editline]4th April 2011[/editline] The simplicity is nice though.