[Closed] What's annoying you currently? II

More of the same...

I currently have a stuffed-up "cold voice", as it were, and tomorrow I'm recording a bonus track interview with Söderqvist and others for the upcoming soundtrack release of THE KING OF DEVIL'S ISLAND. Great timing...it will probably sound ridiculous.

Any tips on getting a clear and crisp voice in one day?

Do any of you know sign language?

All I can suggest is that dose yourself up with some sort of decongestant beforehand. If you know of one that works for you and what the "window of stufflessness" is then you could try and time it so that whatever medication you take works best during the interview.

Good God! All I did was mention the name Wal-Mart in an FSM thread -- a thread with NO links to the website. Just people typing the names. And BOOM! A cookie was Wal-Mart was put on the computer:

beacon.walmart


I deleted it. It re-instated itself. How the fuck is Wal-Mart pulling off this goddamn fuckery? Putting a cookie on your computer without visiting their site.

SOB!

Software developers annoy me. I don't understand why software always seems to be needlessly complicated, unhelpful and just plain lacking in sense. Just the other day Windows rebooted my computer automatically after installing some updates. I didn't get a choice because I wasn't in the room at the time, so it rebooted and thereby ruined hours of work another program had been doing. I think this idiocy was in previous Windows versions as well, but despite millions of people being affected by it and complaining about it, and despite of the fact that there's absolutely no reason to not let people decide on their own when to reboot, they still haven't done anything about it. Why? I can only assume that software developers are evil and like when people suffer.

So now I'm trying to figure out how to get MS Paint to save files as jpg as default instead of png. Even though jpg is perhaps the most widely used image format, there's no way in Paint to make it the default save format, which is annoying when you save images all the time. Why do these software developers not let people decide their own preferred default format? Because of evil, that's why.

I searched for solutions on Google, and one of them mentioned a workaround where one should simply choose "Save as" in Paint and right-click on jpg and select "Add to quick access toolbar". Of course when I try to do that it's bloody grayed out! Grrr! "Grayed out" is my nemesis! Which leads me to another complaint about software developers. Why don't they ever provide some help when something is grayed out? Like a question mark one can click on and it will tell you the reason or the possible reasons for why it's not available to click on, and then give possible solutions. Instead, people have to waste hours of time searching on the internet, unless they are wiser than me and just give up.

I then went back to Google to find out why it was grayed out, but Google has this tendency to return results that don't contain the actual search terms you search for, so I quickly had enough of that.

I then tried to do another workaround. First, I simply had to save a blank jpg file via Paint on my computer somewhere. So I try to put it in the C: root folder, and of couse it tells me that I don't have administrator rights. While it's annoying that my own property tells me that I don't have the right to do with it what I want, I guess there are security reasons for this insanity. I then right-clicked on C:, then properties etc. to get administrator rights (something I could have sworn I've done a million times before) and it starts going through every single file on my harddisk to give me rights to use them. Guess what happens when it comes across a file that's in use. It says there's an error and it can't change the rights and it gives me the option to either cancel or continue. Problem is, A LOT of files are in use, so I have to sit and click enter again and again and again. After about a hundred clicks I gave up. Why isn't there an option like "When encountering errors, always perform this action" or something? I know why. It's because of bloody software developers and their evil ways.

Notice how small all my problems have been, yet I've met roadblocks every time I've tried to solve them. Things that should have taken 2 minutes to solve have now taken an hour, and I'm no closer to a solution. I sometimes wonder how much time and money people across the world waste on searching for solutions for these problems, which shouldn't even be problems to begin with. I bet all this time and money, if put to good use, could be used to solve world hunger in a week or two. So yes, software developers have a lot to answer for.

Peter

PS.Finally managed to complete the second workaround step by step and when I tried to save, guess what the default format was. Yep, png.

You're the glorious exception, Bregt. Please don't smite me

Peter

I can't switch phone providers unless I top up my current account in order to call customer services. My account is in credit, but their call centre is on a premium rate number which isn't covered!

Wal-mart....what a peculiar American phenomenon that is.

Indeed. Always great for entertainment for us non-US folks.

Good man, for trying to help, Justin. Many wouldn't notice or bother.

Never been to a Wal-Mart, but I've been to a Tesco superstore in England, and that was pretty much like a convention for the morbidly obese.

Peter

I went to Wal-Mart in America. Needed to buy some washing powder, enough to do one or possibly two loads of laundry while staying in a holiday home in Florida. Of course, I only needed a small pack for this. But in Wal-Mart it - and everything else, in fact - only seemed to be available in boxes approximately as big as the Lighthouse of Alexandria. I asked one of the staff members if they had any smaller boxes; she stood open-mouthed and gave me the kind of expression usually reserved for occasions like seeing an alien life form bursting out of the stomach of a close family member and eventually said "Smaller? Oh no, these ones are much better value." I tried in vain to explain to her that it really didn't make economic sense to buy a box of washing powder big enough to do all the washing I would need to do over the course of the rest of my life when in fact I would do no more than two loads before throwing the rest away. "But you'd pay more per load if you bought a smaller box." "No I wouldn't!" It didn't matter anyway, because they didn't have any smaller boxes.

To my mind, this is Walmart.

Obama is visiting Belgium on Wednesday. While his 24 hour visit will only cost 10 million Euros, the really annoying thing is that he is visiting my home town Waregem. It's a small city compared to Ghent or Brussels but we have Belgium's only American cemetery of World War I. Since it's 100 years ago WWI started, he decided to bring a visit.

However, nobody can visit or see Obama. There's a total lockdown of the area around the cemetery. A friend lives about 100m away and she is not allowed to leave her house on Wednesday unless she has a permit. I'd love to wave and give a kazoo ( ) but it's just impossible. It's somewhat frustrating because it's so stupid.

A foreigner stopping you doing what you want in your own town? Ah, the wonders of democracy.

He should try Belgium Wavers.

Really, Bregt, you may have turned into some kind of extrimist and throw a bomb. Or a kazoo.