Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Ji-L87]

The Xbox 360 Slim E that did away with the optical sound output.

Oh, yeah. Also the Wii U.

I was looking at the that Slim and thought it looked pretty cool but without an optical out it's hard to put that into my current desktop setup, as everything else uses optical.
But, there are boxes one can buy (that doesn't have to be expensive) that strips the audio from the HDMI - but it's another box that needs space power and cables.

[CKR]

The Xbox 360 Slim E that did away with the optical sound output.

Oh, yeah. Also the Wii U.

I was looking at the that Slim and thought it looked pretty cool but without an optical out it's hard to put that into my current desktop setup, as everything else uses optical.
But, there are boxes one can buy (that doesn't have to be expensive) that strips the audio from the HDMI - but it's another box that needs space power and cables.

I route my optical from my 360 to my sound card so I have the same problem. I checked out the boxes that your talking about on Amazon, but I don't like integrating anything else into my setup. I bought a brand new Xbox 360 slim S off of Ebay as a backup for my current 360. First world problems.

[null1024]

I said this before, I'll say it again.
ribbon cables are the work of satan

I'd just got a CF card and adapter for my iPod. Spent 2 and a half hours trying to get the thing working. I reseated the IDE ribbon cable on the thing which seemed to do the trick and got as far as installing the system software onto it. I was closing up the iPod [the thing was on the main menu finally] and was about to pack up all my tools.

nope

I bring the thing back up. Apple logo, empty folder logo. Apple logo, empty folder logo. Apple logo, sad iPod logo.

I reseated all the cables in the iPod. Nope.

The card seems to work, the adapter seems to work, and the ribbon cable is the only other point of failure, unless there's something on the board that's up.

Fuck ribbon cables. The iPod also features one of the most annoyingly placed ones -- where the headphones and hold switch connect to the PCB. There's this accordian'd ribbon cable that makes taking the back lid off slightly dangerous for the device. Bleh.

oh, and fuck cables that have no way to determine orientation of their connector -- ribbon cables and the IDE cable seem to have that issue

[CKR]

The USPS. That is all I have to say.

[moh]

I said this before, I'll say it again.
ribbon cables are the work of satan

I'd just got a CF card and adapter for my iPod. Spent 2 and a half hours trying to get the thing working. I reseated the IDE ribbon cable on the thing which seemed to do the trick and got as far as installing the system software onto it. I was closing up the iPod [the thing was on the main menu finally] and was about to pack up all my tools.

nope

I bring the thing back up. Apple logo, empty folder logo. Apple logo, empty folder logo. Apple logo, sad iPod logo.

I reseated all the cables in the iPod. Nope.

The card seems to work, the adapter seems to work, and the ribbon cable is the only other point of failure, unless there's something on the board that's up.

Fuck ribbon cables. The iPod also features one of the most annoyingly placed ones -- where the headphones and hold switch connect to the PCB. There's this accordian'd ribbon cable that makes taking the back lid off slightly dangerous for the device. Bleh.

oh, and fuck cables that have no way to determine orientation of their connector -- ribbon cables and the IDE cable seem to have that issue

ever tried disassembling an iphone? the ribbon cables in those things are such a pain..

[BitFaced]

This topic could be full of things to do with Apple products, but instead here's a thought? Why do batteries that drain by overcharging/charging while in use have to exist?

[CKR]

ever tried disassembling an iphone? the ribbon cables in those things are such a pain..

Yes I have, and I still don't think I located all those small screws after they fell on the floor. Maybe the dog ate them.

[gs68]

When tea is served by putting the tea bag in the hot water instead of the other way around.

Then again, there's the matter of tea being in a tea bag in the first place.

[nasty_wolverine]

Not little, but big...
Government Officials (fucking lazy and corrupt beyond reason, biggest gripe with my country, things are better now then 10 years back, but still FUCK)
Lawyers (Oh god, where do i even start)

context: dealing with the legal and financial issues after my dads death. He had few accounts with different amounts of money in them, but never named a nominee in case of death. Its a wild goose chase to get the legal papers sorted and getting the RIGHT information from anyone, bank officials, govt officials, lawyers.... my parents live in a small town (officially still classified as a village) so things are a bit more difficult then they need to be. On top of that, I took a long leave from my work, and they wouldnt let me go, so I told them to give me a laptop and I will work from home, so I am working from home. The laptop they gave gets stuck daily for four or so hours randomly on 100% CPU usage. So, for the last week or so I have been dealing with TOTAL FUCK, SOMEONE KILL ME pain and headaches.

[Ed Oscuro]

Just a "boy times sure change" note here, nothing groundbreaking...but the Assassin's Creed Black Flag guy looks more like Garrett than some Vader unmasked wannabe.

Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

[CKR]

Not little, but big...
Government Officials (fucking lazy and corrupt beyond reason, biggest gripe with my country, things are better now then 10 years back, but still FUCK)
Lawyers (Oh god, where do i even start)

context: dealing with the legal and financial issues after my dads death. He had few accounts with different amounts of money in them, but never named a nominee in case of death. Its a wild goose chase to get the legal papers sorted and getting the RIGHT information from anyone, bank officials, govt officials, lawyers.... my parents live in a small town (officially still classified as a village) so things are a bit more difficult then they need to be. On top of that, I took a long leave from my work, and they wouldnt let me go, so I told them to give me a laptop and I will work from home, so I am working from home. The laptop they gave gets stuck daily for four or so hours randomly on 100% CPU usage. So, for the last week or so I have been dealing with TOTAL FUCK, SOMEONE KILL ME pain and headaches.

That story saddens me. I'm sorry for your loss.

[null1024]

Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

I can't imagine AC standing for anything else. Bleh.

[BPzeBanshee]

Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

I can't imagine AC standing for anything else. Bleh.

When I think of AC I think "arcade", like Thunder Force AC.

[CStarFlare]

I've been trying to get a the Windows 95 version of Magical Chase to run in VMWare for two weeks now. I think I've finally hit a brick wall - the game does some sort of text check when it starts up that fails (my assumption is that the text contains Japanese characters, which don't exist in the English version of Windows 98). Considering the headache I went through to get this far I think I'll just quit. The worst part is, it's probably exactly the same as the PCE version which is obviously insanely easy to run. It would have been nice to find out for sure, but whatever.

Still, it's kind of nice to have a virtual machine with 98, since it opens up a lot of other gaming possibilities. There's a surprising number of old PC shmups I never heard about until the Sideline thing came about, and a lot of them seem difficult/impossible to get running on Windows 8.

[Ed Oscuro]

Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

I can't imagine AC standing for anything else. Bleh.

When I think of AC I think "arcade", like Thunder Force AC.

Years ago some crusty old gamer tried to rip me a new one for using the initials CV for Castlevania, and not for ColecoVision. "You dragged me into this topic with a misleading topic title" D: Such inconvenience!

Now, the prospect of clicking spoiler tags for the rest of my life is something else, though.

[null1024]

Random page buttons on sites that don't keep in your history. Mostly webcomics. XKCD fails to do this, SMBC succeeds.

"oh whoops, I hit the button before I noticed something interesting, lemme hit back to see it" NOPE

[hecheff]

This topic could be full of things to do with Apple products, but instead here's a thought? Why do batteries that drain by overcharging/charging while in use have to exist?

Isn't that more of a charging mechanism issue rather than the battery itself?

[Ed Oscuro]

Technobabble in sources that should know better...example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor#Polarity

Although the anode and cathode of symmetric supercapacitors consist of the same material, theoretically supercapacitors have no true polarity. Normally catastrophic failure does not occur, however reverse-charging a supercapacitor lowers its capacity. It is recommended practice to maintain the polarity resulting from a formation of the electrodes during production. Asymmetric supercapacitors are inherently polar.

I think it's just a rogue sentence, but not sure.

[drauch]

^I thought you copy/pasted that out of a Shirow Masamune manga for a moment there.

[ED-057]

Technobabble in sources that should know better...example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor#Polarity

Although the anode and cathode of symmetric supercapacitors consist of the same material, theoretically supercapacitors have no true polarity. Normally catastrophic failure does not occur, however reverse-charging a supercapacitor lowers its capacity. It is recommended practice to maintain the polarity resulting from a formation of the electrodes during production. Asymmetric supercapacitors are inherently polar.

I think it's just a rogue sentence, but not sure.

Hmmm, well I have two problems with it. First, the word "although." It is out of place, since lack of polarity would be the expected result of having the same material used for both sides. Second, "polarity resulting from a formation" is pretty uninformative and ambiguous wording.

Incomprehensible wikipedia articles are pretty easy to find though, even outside the realm of math and hard sciences eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry

[moh]

Technobabble in sources that should know better...example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor#Polarity

Although the anode and cathode of symmetric supercapacitors consist of the same material, theoretically supercapacitors have no true polarity. Normally catastrophic failure does not occur, however reverse-charging a supercapacitor lowers its capacity. It is recommended practice to maintain the polarity resulting from a formation of the electrodes during production. Asymmetric supercapacitors are inherently polar.

I think it's just a rogue sentence, but not sure.

This sounds like a very typical sentence taken straight out of a physics textbook. Physics major's are not known for having flawless sentence structure... This is no different than me criticizing a philosophy major for his lack of physics knowledge. It's just not their area of expertise..

[BitFaced]

This topic could be full of things to do with Apple products, but instead here's a thought? Why do batteries that drain by overcharging/charging while in use have to exist?

Isn't that more of a charging mechanism issue rather than the battery itself?

Shit, is that it? Well okay, that charging mechanism then. The 3DS and the older GBA SP have it, but not an iPod Touch or this Laptop I'm using. For the former, I guess it's one of the things Apple puts in that eventually means you'll have to give them more money to replace it, though it's not like they're the only ones who can do it.

[hecheff]

Shit, is that it? Well okay, that charging mechanism then. The 3DS and the older GBA SP have it, but not an iPod Touch or this Laptop I'm using.

To be honest, my line of thought was rather "overcharging by nature is a damaging action, and instead there should be ways to not make it happen while retaining the function of using your hardware normally while being plugged in".

Reason I think this way is that the series of laptops (Fujitsu T-Series) I have been using will automatically stop charging its battery (or batteries) once it has been charged to 80~100% (configurable) and run on the main power supply. That way I don't have to physically remove my battery to prevent cycling charge needlessly when I have it plugged in for long periods of use.

Speaking of which, does anyone else here have a habit of removing their laptop batteries when fully charged (if necessary)?

For the former, I guess it's one of the things Apple puts in that eventually means you'll have to give them more money to replace it, though it's not like they're the only ones who can do it.

That's partly why I'm not very keen on Apple products myself.

[Ed Oscuro]

Speaking of which, does anyone else here have a habit of removing their laptop batteries when fully charged (if necessary)?

I've had the battery from my 2007 laptop unplugged at 40% capacity for a long while now.

This is no different than me criticizing a philosophy major for his lack of physics knowledge. It's just not their area of expertise..

Ouch, I hope that philosophy major didn't take a history of the philosophy of science course (although that's more focused on process and not actual physics knowledge, admittedly, and a lot of philosphers believe in stuff like this)

[ACSeraph]

Assassin's Creed...Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

Damn straight it does!

[Aleksei]

Assassin's Creed...Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

Damn straight it does!

Had a back in forth with someone on youtube comments about that, I won. So what if the other series sells more, AC players were naming it that since the nineties.

[gs68]

Every time someone uses "SNK" (yes, in all caps) to refer to Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan rather than Shin Nihon Kikaku, instead of just using the less-ambiguous "AoT"/"AOT".

[RUGAL BERNSTEIN INTENSIFIES]

[Edmond Dantes]

Also, seeing initialisms like AC. That stands for Armored Core, bub.

I can't imagine AC standing for anything else. Bleh.

When I think of AC I think "arcade", like Thunder Force AC.

To be fair, a Thunder Force/Armored Core crossover for Arcades would be very awesome if done right.

Not that I'm sure what "done right" entails in this case...

[hecheff]

To be fair, a Thunder Force/Armored Core crossover for Arcades would be very awesome if done right.

Thunder Cross x Armored Core x Border Break x Steel Chronicle = ???

Not that I'm sure what "done right" entails in this case...

You mean besides blowing stuff up everywhere forever?

[BitFaced]

Shit, is that it? Well okay, that charging mechanism then. The 3DS and the older GBA SP have it, but not an iPod Touch or this Laptop I'm using.

To be honest, my line of thought was rather "overcharging by nature is a damaging action, and instead there should be ways to not make it happen while retaining the function of using your hardware normally while being plugged in".

Reason I think this way is that the series of laptops (Fujitsu T-Series) I have been using will automatically stop charging its battery (or batteries) once it has been charged to 80~100% (configurable) and run on the main power supply. That way I don't have to physically remove my battery to prevent cycling charge needlessly when I have it plugged in for long periods of use.

Speaking of which, does anyone else here have a habit of removing their laptop batteries when fully charged (if necessary)?

For the former, I guess it's one of the things Apple puts in that eventually means you'll have to give them more money to replace it, though it's not like they're the only ones who can do it.

That's partly why I'm not very keen on Apple products myself.

I have a similar thing with a portable DVD player I've got. I can plug it in and charge the battery, and when I don't want to continue charging it/run it off the mains, I just remove the big battery off the back of it and still have it working by running off of the mains.