RichVR
3324
Pretty much what you said Jeff. And as well you having the issues that you are. Nobody should suffer that way. The best of us must live. Life is not fair. The good must live long lives while the evil suffer. Not the other way. Yet it is not so. And that is a blasphemy.
Scuzz
3325
This. It never has been, it never will be. That parents watch their kids die, or babies are born to terrible lives, or that people die in accidents caused by others. Life isn’t fair.
Not sure if this counts as nerd-specific rage but my wife will watch tv with a small but noticeable lack of sync between the sound and the picture. It happens on our tv/cable box sometimes when you first turn it on. All you have to do is turn the cable box off then back on to resync them. But she won’t. I’ve find her sitting watching a show with the mouths obviously moving a half second behind the sound of the voice. And she had to have been sitting there for over an hour. And it’s not like she doesn’t notice, she just didn’t care???!!! Wtf? I’m pretty sure this is grounds for divorce. Or at least sending her to a mental health facility.
My biggest issue with Bluetooth. There is a noticeable delay between screen and audio in both mine and my gf’s cars. Which, I mean, hey, it’s a car. Not a huge issue, right? Except I’m a giant dork and hide out in my car to watch cooking videos during lunch breaks from work sometimes and it’s maddening.
Nesrie
3328
Haha, that would also drive me nuts. A half a second seems so small but for the love of God… if it can be fixed, fix it!
Phew. I was starting to worry about you watching that screen while you drove!
Try changing audio output mode in the cable box from 5.1 to stereo or something.
kerzain
3330
I think CNN did this just to fuck with me.
Not to mention the bizarre placement of the leftmost block.
I think ‘nerd rage’ is a bit overstating my feelings here, but this seems like the best place for it, so here goes: I don’t get the point of those captcha “I am not a robot” checkboxes when I’m buying stuff. Is the idea like, “clearly I am not a robot, see how I click this box? Could a robot do that?” I guess the robopocalypse will finally be upon us when robots develop checkbox clicking abilities. Who knows what could happen, all kinds of random items bought online, clogging up our interwebs with purchases, clogging up our highways and rail systems with packages shipping hither and yon. It does send shivers down the spine.
kerzain
3334
They’re watching your mouse cursor movements and timing.
CraigM
3335
Depending on the implementation, I know some had a hidden check box in the code. Meaning that bots scanning for check boxes would see that, but it is hidden to the user, and this would trigger the bots. Not sure if that is how the re-captcha ones do it.
Tman
3336
I fucking hate re-captcha with a burning intensity of a thousand suns. I mean, how many pictures of street lights, bicycles, busses and firehydrants do they have? How hard would it be to program a matching program?
Listen, I already have to enter a userid and a password, so if you’re worried about spamming (tripadvisor I’m looking straight into your beady little eyes), put a limit on how many things you can do in 10 minutes.
https://www.he-man.org/collecting/toy.php?id=339
He should have been called Spout Snout, not Snout Spout.
Could have been worse. Or better, depending on your POV.
jpinard
3342
All too often the options are ambiguous and I get them wrong. Over and over again.
I just noticed I can’t stand topic with question marks… the irony is that I am replying in one.
I can’t stand exclamation marks either, now that I think about it.
I also dislike it when it tries to mimick the spoken language, with speech turns, or “uh” “urrrrm” and other mouth noises.
Anyway, I find them all unsufferable.
Thank you for your attention.
