Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

I'm gonna say "people who ask you a yes/no question when you're right there in the room and then don't look at you to see if you nod" even though I know those people would totally be on this thread citing "people who nod in response to a question instead of saying yes or no and maybe don't even look at you first to see if you're looking at them" and that would be just as fair.

But, c'mon, if you're going to talk to someone, look in their general direction for a second after doing so. And don't shove your headphones back on 3 milliseconds after you've stopped talking, because maybe they'd like to say something in reply that takes more than 3 milliseconds to formulate.

(I dunno if I'm extremely mentally slow or just socially out of practice or probably a bit of both, but basically any sentence longer than "yeah" takes me a moment or two to put together)

Full version of Adobe Acrobat will not let you print more than 999 copies

I understand that there has to be a cutoff point but cmon

Why would you want to print out more than, say, five?

holding a raffle?

because we do inhouse printing for clients that send us pdfs that they want like, 1000, or 2000 copies

shouldn't you have pro printing shit for that many and not just be hitting print in acrobat

I think that is the message adobe is sending

If you're working for a print shop of some kind, I guess that's one thing.

But people printing 75 copies from their computer instead of printing one and copying that 74 times at the copier is one of my little office "pet peeves."

Hell, we can even print straight to the copier now, even though no one really knows how.

You guys still have printers at your desks? We have a handful of laser printers in common areas and the printer/copier/collator in the supply/mailbox room.

That's the way it is at my office.

Except I use the printer that's across the building in a different department. I work with a bunch of reporters who figure out a way to jam the printer at least once a week. Besides, I can always use the brisk walk anyway.

I get my pens from the next building over because they have nicer ones.

Same here, except replace "get my pens" with "use the restroom."

if I want to print 1000 copies of a pdf in my office and get angry when I can only print 999, then this is thread to express my rage NOT TO EXPLAIN WHY I AM PRINTING 1000 PDFS IN THE FIRST PLACE

but, since you are nice ppl and not jerks I will tell you that we have a few different printing companies (from small to large) that we outsource almost all of our client jobs to but there are certain jobs that we print inhouse, ie occasionally having to duplex and trim 2000 copies of a pdf.

nah, I'm a jerk :D

Can you use Photoshop instead?

http://i.imgur.com/fwYjGl4.png

bwahaha

btw I am always rationally angry at all software developers, including myself

I'm going to shut up now.

Are you really arguing 74 copies of one original are a better way to go about large batch printing though pp o_0

lol

holy shit I just found out that you can use the mouse wheel or up arrow to increase the print qty beyond 999

let's all hug

lol

ALL THIS FOR NOTHING

No, I get where copying 1999 copies onto 1P from a Xerox should never be called "professional printing."

I just quietly wonder if clicking CTRL + P in Adobe Acrobat is any better.

But I offer this to VG - you still have every right to be IA over having to use a mouse wheel to input a quantitive figure.

When people assume that their experience is typical or indicative of common knowledge. I know everyone does this to an extent, but when people at work say "Someone needs to create a tool that does this tedious task for me" instead of asking others what they do in the same situation and just realizing everyone has a tool already... ungh

also, assuming that because you haven't heard of something, that it might not exist, regardless of how plausible that seems

when you are typing a term into a search box which correctly autocompletes until you type one more letter (which still fits with the autocompleted term) and the suggestion disappears

yessss

aka the Discogs search box

Search Box Beefs

• Fields that already have text in them. Most of the time, it'll say "SEARCH" and disappear when you've put the cursor in there. But there are other times where the word "SEARCH" is in there physically (well, you know what I mean) and you wind up quickly searching for SEARCHheadphones for mac."

• OR it'll auto-finish it by showing you a drop-down of terms, you click on the one you want, and ... nothing happens. You still have to click the little magnifying glass.

• My least-favorite is Google's auto-suggestions where you'll type "Emerson, Lake &" and it asks if you want Emerson Lake & Palmer. You say, fuck yeah, of course I do, and it gives you a search of that term WITHOUT the quotations, so instead, you get results for Emerson OR Lake OR Palmer.

Sounds like the landlord is expecting me to get rid of several shelving units and large collections of monthly music magazines because he's threatening me with a fire inspector.
same fire inspector seems to be citing some pretty petty regulations about where bins are placed etc which sound like it will eventually mean walking half way across the estate to throw out rubbish.

Being kept awake by extremely itchy feet. Wondering if it's diabetes related. Has woken me up a couple of times this week.
& feeling on edge because of letter from landlord. I don't want to get rid of 20 years of certain magazines which are on shelving in my hallway. Wish I owned my own place so I didn't have to put up with

mb u got bedbugs

Search Box Beefs

• Fields that already have text in them. Most of the time, it'll say "SEARCH" and disappear when you've put the cursor in there. But there are other times where the word "SEARCH" is in there physically (well, you know what I mean) and you wind up quickly searching for SEARCHheadphones for mac."

• OR it'll auto-finish it by showing you a drop-down of terms, you click on the one you want, and ... nothing happens. You still have to click the little magnifying glass.

• My least-favorite is Google's auto-suggestions where you'll type "Emerson, Lake &" and it asks if you want Emerson Lake & Palmer. You say, fuck yeah, of course I do, and it gives you a search of that term WITHOUT the quotations, so instead, you get results for Emerson OR Lake OR Palmer.

― pplains, Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:12 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

all of those, but also

• Typing a name in Facebook search and hitting return takes you to wall of person top of the list of suggestions instead of a results page. Like it defaults to an "I feel lucky" option.

yeah that's a pain in the arse

The most surprising aspect of Facebook for me personally is that I haven't posted "ILX group" or "rand paul press secretary" as a status update (yet.)

i really hate that the mac keyboard has the cd eject key directly above the delete key. the amount of times that I accidentally hit eject instead of delete is just...i can't... RAGH

I still get irked by their mute key, down volume, up volume configuration. Something like

D   D))   D))))

Half the time I try to turn down the volume, I hit the mute since it's the button on the left. Does that mean the mute should be in the middle or on the right? My suggestion would be for Mac to take a cue from television remotes and put it near those buttons, but not right next to those buttons, and for God's sake, don't use the same icon.

Also, for such a weird company that doesn't want to to things like make the power button visible to the user because there's no need to look at it when it's already turned on, making the mute button a speaker icon with no sound waves is inaccurate since you press the same button to make the volume (and sound waves) reappear.

yeah that whole speaker volume thing was confusing when I first started using mac

and for mute at least use the accepted symbol of the little speaker with an x over it

I thought about upgrading my Time Warner package -- I currently have this weird thing where I just get standard tv (like broadcast) plus HBO (includes 6 HBO channels, HBO on demand, and HBO GO), and supposedly the fastest internet. I wanted to add basic cable for a month so I can watch the NBA playoffs. It wasn't that much more money, but my ONLY choices are a package with DVR (which means they have to come to my house and set up a new box) or a package with no HBO. Fuck that, I don't have time for another bullshit installation. Fuck yr packages.

now I'm in a chat and he's telling me totally different shit from the guy on the phone. I swear they just make stuff up.

I used up all the energy it would take to type about it dealing with it, but I finally came through a two-day ordeal with Comcast at about 6 pm this evening during which I talked to like seven different people none of whom gave consistent (or correct afaict) information.

Well that was fucking weird. After posting that my interns went out all of a sudden but when I turned on my tv I had all these cable channels. I called again and after a ridiculous amount of time and dealing with several people I got my internet back but I still seem to have cable channels even though they have no record if my account being changed. Maybe someone hooked me up?

Lol my internet. I'd never tolerate it if my interns went out all of a sudden in the middle of a cable crisis. They'd be fired at once.

How do you not want a DVR?

I just didn't want to have to have to deal with scheduling an installation just so I could watch the NBA playoffs.

So yeah, I seem to have free cable now? No longer IA. IH.

This is one I think of all the time, but by the time I get back out in the street, I think, Aw, this is too trivial for the IA thread.

But -

My daughter's school parking lot is shaped like a paper-clip. We American drivers go up the right side, drop the kid off at the building on our right and then loop over the oval and come back down the left side back to the street. In the middle of the paper clip are where people actually park their cars.

And every so often, there's the parent in a hurry who'll spot a few empty spaces and instead of going around the extra 30 feet, will cut through the middle coming out on the other side - usually in front of the driver they were just driving in front of.

It's useless, slows everyone down including the driver who now has to yield to oncoming traffic instead of being the oncoming traffic, adds unnecessary weird traffic to an area filled with kids and is just plain dumb.

It doesn't really hurt me at all though, so yeah, I usually forget about it once I'm down at the empty train tracks, sitting behind a school bus who by law has to stop, even though I don't think those tracks have been used since the Civil War.

I follow someone on Twitter who has three children and she tweets a lot about the parents at her kids' school and their inability to follow basic traffic laws, so I think this must be a thing. Based on my two examples. BRB pitching article to the NYT.

Our insurance rep kept handing out two-dollar bills to anyone who happened to have a question. One of our know-it-all employees probably made $8 for not shutting up.

― pplains, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This guy showed back up today and gave us an hour-long motivational seminar!

Starts off by asking for volunteers. Three people stand up. "Morgan, give those three their $2 bills... So who wants to make $20?"

75% of the company stands up.

Me, I sat right where I was, and felt somewhat justified when he got the volunteers he picked to do push-ups on stage for the $20.

I did get a $2 bill for admitting that I make a to-do list each day, but then it felt dirty when he was all "I do too! In fact, I even keep my bucket list on my to-do list!"

You can't win with some people, but you can make two dollars.

Oh no what if he confuses the two lists and all he manages to do before he dies is pick up the dry cleaning and achieve in-box zero!

Haha, well, I do think that you just wrote my epitaph, minus the dry-cleaning.

Direct debit set ups that change from the way they've been for years where they are more responsive to payments made up to the time the payment is taken to suddenly only recognising anything made 7 working days before. So they go around demanding money already payed and screw up balances one had kept.
Next thing on that slippery slope is bankruptcy. Hopefully avoidable but I can see it coming, not wanting to panic or anything.