What induces nerd rage in you?

jeansberg · 2011-08-26T11:03:27.000Z

Mr Popov:

I absolutely rage when I type blahblahblah.co, when at work cuz it breaks IE and I have to end task.

Takes me to a Bing page. Using IE 8.

Zylon · 2011-08-26T12:17:54.000Z

salwon:

But so is the windows preview program, and then I don’t have to resize my pictures to fit on a powerpoint slide.

You do understand that Powerpoint content is resolution-indepdendent, yes?

salwon · 2011-08-26T13:20:36.000Z

It doesn’t resize and compress the pictures when you save it? I always assumed you couldn’t recover the native image once it was in a powerpoint, thanks for the correction.

Still stupid that I had to do extra work.

Zylon · 2011-08-26T13:39:11.000Z

Many’s the time that I’ve wondered why some seemingly simple Powerpoint file is tens of megabytes large, only to discover that a picture of an icon or whatever is actually a cropped printscreen of someone’s entire dual-monitor desktop.

RAGE.

Omniscia · 2011-08-26T14:20:55.000Z

salwon:

It doesn’t resize and compress the pictures when you save it? I always assumed you couldn’t recover the native image once it was in a powerpoint, thanks for the correction.

Still stupid that I had to do extra work.

Resizing the images keeps the file size down. I hate it when people insert huge, 12MP+ images into a Powerpoint presentation and then “shrink” them to 10% of their original size. Because all that original size is still there.

liquidben · 2011-08-26T14:44:02.000Z

There’s an autocompress & crop in there somewhere. In '03 it’s obfuscated under a picture properties popup, but you can have it handle all pix in the PPT. Lord only knows where that is in the newer

Alien_Gurgey · 2011-08-26T15:09:51.000Z

people saying pay’pol’.

(it’s paypal, right?)

NyimaR · 2011-08-27T10:32:51.000Z

My work’s webmail has the wonderful habit of signing me out if I’m writing an email more than a paragraph long. There’s no auto save of drafts either. The number of times that I have lost long and well thought out messages as a result of this is stupid (because I don’t use it often enough to remember that there’s a problem every time). The second writing of the message is inevitably much shorter and less well written.
Also, it REALLY annoys me that in an organisation where all official communication is done by email, some of my colleagues do not open their emails more than once a week.

Mrenda · 2011-08-27T10:44:39.000Z

The one gaming convention I invariably attend has decided to sell all their slots tickets online and in advance of the event. This means that people are going to book anything and everything, and then not turn up. And it means I can’t decide what to go to based on the buzz around the con of who is running what.

This is even worse than their bullshit of the last two years where they said they wouldn’t sell tickets until an hour before the games then proceeded to sell them all at 9am in the morning. I had barely gone to bed at 9am in the morning!

Equis · 2011-08-28T19:52:01.000Z

FUCK YOU FACEBOOK!

When I click not now, it doesn’t mean everytime I reload the page you have to give me your damned popup. No I do not want to take a tour. No I do not care about the features you stealth into my program. Sigh, if I didn’t have friends, I wouldn’t have to use facebook.

Quitch · 2011-08-29T05:09:34.000Z

People who call linear shooters “rail shooters”. Jesus, people!

Omniscia · 2011-08-29T08:50:27.000Z

But what if it’s a linear shooter with a rail gun?

RobotPants · 2011-08-29T08:58:52.000Z

Or a linear shooter that takes place on a train and/or rollercoaster.

Omniscia · 2011-08-29T09:21:53.000Z

That’s what The Last Express was missing.

Chris_Gwinn · 2011-08-29T13:53:13.000Z

I hate it when people dismiss something as “that’s only semantics” when they really mean that it’s unimportant or trivial. That’s not what semantics means, dammit. And then I have to explain why my getting annoyed at their not understanding what semantics means actually is semantics.

Quitch · 2011-08-29T14:15:12.000Z

Even when they do mean semantics it’s annoying. Language is all about communication and semantics are at the heart of it. If you’re not worried about them WTF are you doing opening your mouth in the first place?

Scrax · 2011-08-31T06:06:28.000Z

I used reoccurring about 5 times in that training session.

Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhnnnnnnnngggg.

Nixxter · 2011-08-31T06:42:42.000Z

What, are your Synapses Frozen or something?

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-08-31T06:59:14.000Z

NyimaR:

My work’s webmail has the wonderful habit of signing me out if I’m writing an email more than a paragraph long. There’s no auto save of drafts either. The number of times that I have lost long and well thought out messages as a result of this is stupid (because I don’t use it often enough to remember that there’s a problem every time). The second writing of the message is inevitably much shorter and less well written.
Also, it REALLY annoys me that in an organisation where all official communication is done by email, some of my colleagues do not open their emails more than once a week.

I have to quote this because this is the most annoying thing in this thread as of late. Kill your IT guy!

It reminded me for some reason of when I bought a cheap optical mouse that for whatever reason would spontaneously fling the pointer to the upper right and phantom click. This of course meant that any maximized windows I had open would be closed. Thusly did I return to my old-school wired mouse ways.

NyimaR · 2011-08-31T07:56:11.000Z

Bill Dungsroman:

It reminded me for some reason of when I bought a cheap optical mouse that for whatever reason would spontaneously fling the pointer to the upper right and phantom click. This of course meant that any maximized windows I had open would be closed. Thusly did I return to my old-school wired mouse ways.

Ouch! I hope you dealt with the guilty mouse suitably. I’m imagining a blowtorch for some reason.