Author Topic: Things that piss you off! (Read 319488 times)

Mysterion · « **Reply #9160 on:** July 06, 2013, 08:39:21 AM »

Net suddenly "Limited connectivity" and then have to troubleshoot. Automatically fixes then. Repeats every hour or so...

ThePlaneJet · « **Reply #9161 on:** July 06, 2013, 09:44:08 AM »

Scrubs thinking they're all good. Haha.

Mysterion · « **Reply #9162 on:** July 06, 2013, 10:49:54 AM »

Can't scan a book and turn it into an E-book. Seriously? Rip all the pages and scan 600 pages separately?!

froody1911 · « **Reply #9163 on:** July 06, 2013, 11:29:24 AM »

How else do you expect it to work?

Mysterion · « **Reply #9164 on:** July 06, 2013, 12:08:31 PM »

Well officially, people don't tear thousands of pages and scan the books, the professional ones you find like here. Perhaps I just want these:

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning#Non-destructive_scanning

Non-destructive scanning
In recent years, software driven machines and robots have been developed to scan books without the need of disbinding them in order to preserve both the contents of the document and create a digital image archive of its current state. This recent trend has been due in part to ever improving imaging technologies that allow a high quality digital archive image to be captured with little or no damage to a rare or fragile book in a reasonably short period of time.Some high-end scanning systems employ vacuum and air and static charges to turn pages while imaging is performed automatically, usually from a high resolution camera located over an adjustable v-shaped cradle. Images are then shuttled from the imaging device into various editing suites which can further process the images for either an archival-quality file such as TIFF or JPEG 2000, or a web-friendly output such as JPEG or PDF.Google's patent 7508978 shows an infrared camera technology which allows to detect and automatically adjust the three-dimensional shape of the page.Researchers from the University of Tokyo have an experimental non-destructive book scanner that includes a 3D surface scanner to allow images of a curved page to be straightened in software. Thus the book or magazine can be scanned as quickly as the operator can flip through the pages; about 200 pages per minute.

froody1911 · « **Reply #9165 on:** July 06, 2013, 12:21:48 PM »

I thought the part you were pissed about was mainly the time scanning each page individually would take and not that you have to unbind the book.

Burkingam · « **Reply #9166 on:** July 06, 2013, 12:31:20 PM »

Allergies piss me off!

Mysterion · « **Reply #9167 on:** July 06, 2013, 12:32:07 PM »

All those factors: too long, have to unbind, etc. But THE worst was probably having to take each page, open the scanner lid, place it, press 3 buttons to scan it, wait 30s, open lid, place page somewhere, take another page, the whole process basically of taking a page and keeping it.

But those expensive stuff would probably be thousands of $...

Meh, first when I saw Bradley I was like "Wooot! Such a strong guy in the good side! First time in an anime we have overpowered in good. They won't lose now!". Especially after Greed 1's death. Later when the plot twist came in... ARGH!

Excel not letting me cut AM/PM in 12h format.

Tiffanys · « **Reply #9168 on:** July 06, 2013, 04:54:03 PM »

Realizing that I lost hours of playtime on Skyrim when I made a new character since my vampire girl I'd been saving with quick saves and didn't actually make a normal save for quite some time... @_@

Why do I do these things to myself?

metro. · « **Reply #9169 on:** July 06, 2013, 04:57:50 PM »

Quote from: Tiffanys on July 06, 2013, 04:54:03 PM

Realizing that I lost hours of playtime on Skyrim when I made a new character since my vampire girl I'd been saving with quick saves and didn't actually make a normal save for quite some time... @_@

Why do I do these things to myself?

Masochism maybe? I lost like 6 hours of Metro: Last Light because I forgot to transfer my save when I reformatted my computer

OnT: Having friends that don't like going out.

gits · « **Reply #9170 on:** July 06, 2013, 05:17:05 PM »

Quote from: metro. on July 06, 2013, 04:57:50 PM

OnT: Having friends that don't like going out.

Oh, that pisses off my friends as well.

RayIII · « **Reply #9171 on:** July 06, 2013, 05:22:52 PM »

I'm like that too. I like staying at home at watching a movie.

ThePlaneJet · « **Reply #9172 on:** July 06, 2013, 05:38:29 PM »

People that always wanna go out to do something.

Mysterion · « **Reply #9173 on:** July 06, 2013, 08:41:56 PM »

Ymir, you *****. I think if I had the real manga infront of me I'd rip the pages to a million pieces in anger.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #9174 on:** July 07, 2013, 12:28:37 AM »

The heat.

ThePlaneJet · « **Reply #9175 on:** July 07, 2013, 01:46:52 AM »

Large clusters of ants on my food.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #9176 on:** July 07, 2013, 01:49:37 AM »

Quote from: ThePlaneJet on July 07, 2013, 01:46:52 AM

Large clusters of ants on my food.

lol

Darth.Sid · « **Reply #9177 on:** July 07, 2013, 03:43:20 AM »

Quote from: ThePlaneJet on July 07, 2013, 01:46:52 AM

Large clusters of ants on my food.

I'm pretty sure 'cluster' makes it sound sooooo much more wrong than it already is....

Tiffanys · « **Reply #9178 on:** July 07, 2013, 08:54:24 AM »

Quote from: ThePlaneJet on July 07, 2013, 01:46:52 AM

Large clusters of ants on my food.

One day a few years ago I went to go pour a bowl of cereal and I didn't have the lights on so I didn't know at first but I felt something on my hand that was holding the bowl... I turned on the light on my stove and I saw a swarm of ants start pouring out of the bowl... there had to be hundreds of thousands of them!

It freaked me right out. I quickly put the bowl down and did that panicky brush ants off hand thing while squirming about frantically. Then as repayment I got out a paper towel and killed all of them by hand, squishing their life out. Stupid ants... It took a long time too, just for all the ants in the bowl. I poured a little out on a paper towel and as they started to scatter and run I'd kill them all one by one and I did it until I'd killed them all and separated them from the cereal. I thought about eating it after that but I was too grossed out.

I ended up dousing the cereal box in raid, cleaning out my cabinets, cleaning my already clean kitchen, and then I bought air tight sealed containers for cereal in the future from Walmart.

I started putting out borax+powdered sugar for the ants so they'd take it back and kill themselves and I also put out some terro liquid ant killer stuff that worked similarly. After a few weeks the never came back to my kitchen.

They're the worst kind too. Odorous house ant. They're tiny little black ants but when you squish them they have an extremely pungent smell.

They came to my bathroom later but I got them out of there too, and every now and again I see them in my room and I've killed them repeatedly.

Ants, man... Fuck em, lol.

ThePlaneJet · « **Reply #9179 on:** July 07, 2013, 09:52:30 AM »

lol cool story bro. But that's a really good idea though. The poison sugar.

Somehow I've learned to live as one with these ants but last night was the last straw.

OnT: Decaffeinated coffee.