Grinding Away..Things that grind your gears, part three

[thecomicbookguy]

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Change in topic slightly, but d-bag "musicians" who play first at a small club show, and then act like jerks the rest of the night. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Science, particularly your band members who stood in front of us during the bands we were actually there to see (i.e. pretty much everyone other than you), and talked with their gf's/friends/family throughout the other bands' sets. Maybe you guys should pay attention - your music was bland and forgettable; I was singing songs by a band I'd never heard of before last Thursday in my head the rest of the night. If you want to stand around and chat all night, there's a perfectly good (not to mention quieter) sidewalk outside.

(And yes, I linked the band name "Science" to two other bands - they were the bands that played after the jerks, and were FAR better. I'd rather give them hits than the crappy band that ground my gears.)

 

[Handyman]

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That reminds me of a story...a buddy of mine used to be in a band (like 10-15 years ago) that was pretty big locally. They had a showcase at one of the local music places and one of the bands playing with them was The Presidents of the United States of America who I believe were just on the cusp of becoming known. As he tells the story they were the biggest jerks in the world, whining and complaining, wanting all the amenities and acting like they were the stars when they were one of the opening acts. My buddy is not a mean guy, very rarely violent but he says he wanted to punch the leader singer in the face for being a ******

 

[pirate]

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Was my family unusual if we had a rule of "If we're here to watch a game, then watch the game"? None of this running around garbage that I see far too often. I get that kids have a hard time sitting still for too long, so let them loose during an intermission or break between innings, or perhaps make a race out of going to and coming back from the bathrooms/concession stand/something like that.

Kids will do what parents allow/teach them to do...if you tell them to sit down and watch, they will...for a while. Starting with a 9 inning game might be a bit much but 3 innings sitting and then an ice cream works, 3 innings more and head home.

Parenting isn't easy but it ain't as hard as people make it look...set some rules, stick to them, take away a toy or desert if they can't get with the plan and don't give in to whining, crying and tantrums.

That is why I get irritated at the same people you do, they are lazy and inconsiderate

 

[state of hockey]

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Maple Grove, Minnesota.

 

[The Rube]

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Maple Grove, Minnesota. Especially that maze of commerce in the Weaver Lake Road area.

 

[zamboni crash-test dummy]

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Road construction signage/barricading apparently isn't taught in public schools or technical colleges or online or Ivy League Schools or anywhere. They must take the people that are too dumb to operate equipment and task them with putting up the barrels, the signs, direct traffic, etc.

What a freakin nightmare the street where my employer is located has become. And the worst part is there's no other way into the industrial park.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Kids will do what parents allow/teach them to do...if you tell them to sit down and watch, they will...for a while. Starting with a 9 inning game might be a bit much but 3 innings sitting and then an ice cream works, 3 innings more and head home.

Parenting isn't easy but it ain't as hard as people make it look...set some rules, stick to them, take away a toy or desert if they can't get with the plan and don't give in to whining, crying and tantrums.

That is why I get irritated at the same people you do, they are lazy and inconsiderate

 

[Handyman]

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Maple Grove, Minnesota.

I was just there...and while yes it sucks, I must ask why you mention it now? I know the Red Lobster I was at didnt grind my gears

edit: Road Construction blows!

 

[state of hockey]

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I was just there...and while yes it sucks, I must ask why you mention it now? I know the Red Lobster I was at didnt grind my gears

edit: Road Construction blows!

Nothing good ever comes from my being there. Ever. Also, Brent hit another great point. I know that maze extremely well now and can navigate through it fine, but it is still irritating to drive 10 minutes when it should take two.

And yes, construction blows as well. Took me an hour to get to Shoreview from Coon Rapids on a friggin SUNDAY. Should take 10 minutes, tops.

 

[The Rube]

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Nothing good ever comes from my being there. Ever. Also, Brent hit another great point. I know that maze extremely well now and can navigate through it fine, but it is still irritating to drive 10 minutes when it should take two.

And yes, construction blows as well. Took me an hour to get to Shoreview from Coon Rapids on a friggin SUNDAY. Should take 10 minutes, tops.

I'm bad with directions, but whenever I go to that maze, I can almost guarantee 3 U-turns, a couple wrong turns, 1-2 phonecalls, 20-30 cusswords, and that's with a map, to get where I wanna go. And I still have never found the way to the Best Buy in that area. 3 hours' drive time and counting; lifelong accumulative.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Riverdale?

 

[Handyman]

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I'm bad with directions, but whenever I go to that maze, I can almost guarantee 3 U-turns, a couple wrong turns, 1-2 phonecalls, 20-30 cusswords, and that's with a map, to get where I wanna go. And I still have never found the way to the Best Buy in that area. 3 hours' drive time and counting; lifelong accumulative.

Yeah but you suck I suck at directions and dont have nearly the trouble. Of course I can like, look out the window and see what is around me and go from there

How long is all this work on 94 gonna go on...I swear it is shut down every other week and down to 1 lane on the other side of town months at a time. What the heck are they doing that is so important that it takes an hour to drive home at midnight?

 

[The Rube]

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Yeah but you suck

With directions? You'll get zero argument with me. I'm probably the worst person to navigate in the history of time. And that includes Christopher Columbus.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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With directions? You'll get zero argument with me. I'm probably the worst person to navigate in the history of time. And that includes Christopher Columbus.

I'm the opposite. I look at a map and see where a place is and can just drive there without looking at the map again. Once I have been somewhere once (sober) I can drive there again without a problem.

 

[state of hockey]

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I'm the opposite. I look at a map and see where a place is and can just drive there without looking at the map again. Once I have been somewhere once (sober) I can drive there again without a problem.

I am the same way.

No dx, not Riverdale. Although that is the same sort of deal. Pretty much modeled after Arbor Lakes. It is a trend sweeping through the outer 'burbs, and I want it to go the hell away.

 

[thecomicbookguy]

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I'm having problems with Google Chrome, and after reading a few things, the issues may not be with the browser, but with my computer. I'm using a laptop, that is probable 6-7 years old, but it's not terrible. It runs Photoshop CS3 with little-to-no problems. It's not the fastest machine you could buy, but it's only a dog by the standards of what you'd find at a store right now.

Yet, the software being built today is too much for it? I can't use Chrome without waiting for my pages to load like I'm on dial-up because my computer isn't brand new? Maybe if software engineers could write programs that didn't eat half my computer's memory to display a page of text or allow me to type in a search window, we wouldn't need 2 GB of RAM and processors running at over 1 GHz (really, how many average consumers really need the amount of power today's computers feature? Yeah, I'm sure most have visions of editing home movies shot on their digital camera, but how many of them ever actually do?).

Bloated, unwieldy software is cheaper to write than elegant, compact software, and there's no longer any real restrictions due to computer power or storage capacity. Why keep the size of MS Office under 1 GB when most computers come with 160GB* hard drives as the base model, and come with DVD drives? Not like anyone's trying to cram software onto a tiny hard drive anymore, or needs to install using uber-tiny (space-wise) floppy disks, or even CDs. Want to add more features to the program, but it's going to add 10-20,000 lines of code? Go for it! What? People with older computers won't be able to use it (and it's not like we're going to offer any sort of support for older versions, or, you know, sell them anymore)? Too bad. They can but new ones!

 

[The Rube]

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...internet page rant....

See: ESPN's website

Even my brand new comp, with 4 megs, and some bells and whistles, takes a bit to load that site.

KISS: Keep it simple, stupid.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I'm having problems with Google Chrome, and after reading a few things, the issues may not be with the browser, but with my computer. I'm using a laptop, that is probable 6-7 years old, but it's not terrible. It runs Photoshop CS3 with little-to-no problems. It's not the fastest machine you could buy, but it's only a dog by the standards of what you'd find at a store right now.

Yet, the software being built today is too much for it? I can't use Chrome without waiting for my pages to load like I'm on dial-up because my computer isn't brand new? Maybe if software engineers could write programs that didn't eat half my computer's memory to display a page of text or allow me to type in a search window, we wouldn't need 2 GB of RAM and processors running at over 1 GHz (really, how many average consumers really need the amount of power today's computers feature? Yeah, I'm sure most have visions of editing home movies shot on their digital camera, but how many of them ever actually do?).

Bloated, unwieldy software is cheaper to write than elegant, compact software, and there's no longer any real restrictions due to computer power or storage capacity. Why keep the size of MS Office under 1 GB when most computers come with 160GB* hard drives as the base model, and come with DVD drives? Not like anyone's trying to cram software onto a tiny hard drive anymore, or needs to install using uber-tiny (space-wise) floppy disks, or even CDs. Want to add more features to the program, but it's going to add 10-20,000 lines of code? Go for it! What? People with older computers won't be able to use it (and it's not like we're going to offer any sort of support for older versions, or, you know, sell them anymore)? Too bad. They can but new ones!

That's the problem with my trade. Programmers like adding things that users don't really need, the sales department likes it because they can sell users on more features, and most users like their pretty, bloated interfaces and eye-candy.

ESPN.com is a classic example of a horribly designed, thickly frosted, top-heavy website. Way too many windows and scripts are crammed into the homepage. Unless you're a regular visitor, you have to hunt and peck for everything.

 

[legal_hit]

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I'm having problems with Google Chrome, and after reading a few things, the issues may not be with the browser, but with my computer. I'm using a laptop, that is probable 6-7 years old, but it's not terrible. It runs Photoshop CS3 with little-to-no problems. It's not the fastest machine you could buy, but it's only a dog by the standards of what you'd find at a store right now.

Yet, the software being built today is too much for it? I can't use Chrome without waiting for my pages to load like I'm on dial-up because my computer isn't brand new? Maybe if software engineers could write programs that didn't eat half my computer's memory to display a page of text or allow me to type in a search window, we wouldn't need 2 GB of RAM and processors running at over 1 GHz (really, how many average consumers really need the amount of power today's computers feature? Yeah, I'm sure most have visions of editing home movies shot on their digital camera, but how many of them ever actually do?).

Bloated, unwieldy software is cheaper to write than elegant, compact software, and there's no longer any real restrictions due to computer power or storage capacity. Why keep the size of MS Office under 1 GB when most computers come with 160GB* hard drives as the base model, and come with DVD drives? Not like anyone's trying to cram software onto a tiny hard drive anymore, or needs to install using uber-tiny (space-wise) floppy disks, or even CDs. Want to add more features to the program, but it's going to add 10-20,000 lines of code? Go for it! What? People with older computers won't be able to use it (and it's not like we're going to offer any sort of support for older versions, or, you know, sell them anymore)? Too bad. They can but new ones!

As the original purchaser of the computer you are using, I can attest that it wasn't the bottom of the barrel processor/Ram wise. Though, it wasn't top of the line either. I had no illusions about ever using it for video editing so I knew I didn't need all the processing speed that was available. And the only reason I got rid of that laptop was that I was traveling a lot and it was too heavy to lug around the airport. (it has a 17" screen)

That said, I agree with your rant. My current laptop runs like crap partly because of the software bloat.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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I'm having problems with Google Chrome, and after reading a few things, the issues may not be with the browser, but with my computer. I'm using a laptop, that is probable 6-7 years old, but it's not terrible. It runs Photoshop CS3 with little-to-no problems. It's not the fastest machine you could buy, but it's only a dog by the standards of what you'd find at a store right now.

Yet, the software being built today is too much for it? I can't use Chrome without waiting for my pages to load like I'm on dial-up because my computer isn't brand new? Maybe if software engineers could write programs that didn't eat half my computer's memory to display a page of text or allow me to type in a search window, we wouldn't need 2 GB of RAM and processors running at over 1 GHz (really, how many average consumers really need the amount of power today's computers feature? Yeah, I'm sure most have visions of editing home movies shot on their digital camera, but how many of them ever actually do?).

Bloated, unwieldy software is cheaper to write than elegant, compact software, and there's no longer any real restrictions due to computer power or storage capacity. Why keep the size of MS Office under 1 GB when most computers come with 160GB* hard drives as the base model, and come with DVD drives? Not like anyone's trying to cram software onto a tiny hard drive anymore, or needs to install using uber-tiny (space-wise) floppy disks, or even CDs. Want to add more features to the program, but it's going to add 10-20,000 lines of code? Go for it! What? People with older computers won't be able to use it (and it's not like we're going to offer any sort of support for older versions, or, you know, sell them anymore)? Too bad. They can but new ones!

Same here. I can't even make it through a YouTube video or a song anymore without it slowing down and seriously distorting the sound.