The minor rants thread.
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@Rhywden said:
The potted plants are not possible because we're not allowed to put almost anything into the hallway.
Can you at least have them in the classrooms? Claim they're for biology or something…
The problem then becomes that we teachers have to care for those plants. That's not a problem during the semester - but we'd have to lug those things home during the holidays.
Unless, of course, we only buy cacti.
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Unless, of course, we only buy cacti.
Swamp grass works quite well. Withstands a lot of abuse in the wild, can't be over-watered, and only really needs sunlight and the occasional addition of soil.
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There's the small snag of a distinct lack of swamps in our class rooms, however.
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So substitute for a plant pot in a (preferably sunny) window. As long as it doesn't have too much drainage, it'll work. I did this for years (before moving to a room with no natural light at all, which sucked).
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Why* is it I can put together every cent of my spending for the past six years in a few clicks, but it takes 6 websites and two phone calls to get two years worth of medical records? Fucking hell.
* Rhetorical question, no answer needed.
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swamps in our class rooms
You're almost halfway there it sounds like. Just increase the humidity by not engaging the A/C... oh wait...
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Because you are chronically ill and underpaid?
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you are chronically ill
Sadly true.
and underpaid?
No, but I was poor long enough that I'm very vigilant about keeping track of my finances. Also I haven't changed banks in years, and they keep old statements.
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it takes 6 websites and two phone calls to get two years worth of medical records?
I hadn't realised it was so easy…
(Healthcare: “We don't care. We don't have to, we're the the HMO.”)
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By the time the index loaded I finished half of the plate...
Eat slower.
Or get more food.
Whatever. In any case, Discourse is perfect and you're doing lunch wrong.
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This fucking imbecile of an architect! Seriously, what is it with those people and their plain inability to consider the fact that a school might have some special requirements?
The school building wherein the sciences normally reside are currently undergoing renovation (I really hope that the moving company really did care about the "fragile!" stickers I pasted almost on every box) and we're posed to move back in at the end of January 2016.
Today I am made aware of the fact that the Physics repository room has gotten an addition: A fire escape stairwell at the opposite end of the room. This means that two of my cabinets don't fit in anymore. Okay, I can make do.
Then they drop the big one: A fire escape means that this room has just become one of the official escape routes. And you're not allowed to lock those.
Sheer genius. A room intended for equipment worth 100,000 € - and those morons decide to make it non-lockable.
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A room intended for equipment worth 100,000 € - and those morons decide to make it non-lockable.
Is there anything special about that room that rooms couldn't be repurposed and the equipment be put in another room that can be locked?
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The other rooms are either too large in comparison, thus effectively removing a class room, are needed for the chemistry and biology repository or are rooms which are behind class rooms.
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A room intended for equipment worth 100,000 € - and those morons decide to make it non-lockable.
I guess they need to employ a security guard then. Fortunately, you only need to pay them absolute minimum wage.
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A fire escape means that this room has just become one of the official escape routes. And you're not allowed to lock those.
Sheer genius. A room intended for equipment worth 100,000 € - and those morons decide to make it non-lockable.
Sounds like someone needs to put in a request for funding a couple of ferocious pit bulls with fricking laser beams on their heads. And until that funding comes through, the equipment will be stored off-site, and Physics is cancelled.
(Ed: ninja'd, but I say Dr Evil pit-bulls is still better than rent-a-cops.)
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Then they drop the big one: A fire escape means that this room has just become one of the official escape routes. And you're not allowed to lock those.
Not even with the sort of lock that releases when the fire alarm goes off?
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There's a kind of hybrid lock where you can unlock the door through a key normally. You can also pull a lever way down - this unlocks the door as well but will also cause a fire alarm.
But still - they could have put that one 5 meters to either side into a normal class room.
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It turns out if you throw a bunch of "smart people words" into a sentence whatever you say becomes science! This is going to be great news for brafox!
Fuck you for showing me this garbage, Facebook. It makes no sense whatsoever. No, it's not beautiful! It doesn't even make sense!
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All atoms were near each other when the universe started
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All atoms were near each other when the universe started
According to most theories, atoms didn't even exist when the universe started. Atomic nuclei formed after a few minutes, when the temperature had dropped to about 1E9 Kelvin, but the nuclei didn't combine with electrons to form atoms for about 3.8E5 years.
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Yeah and it took another few years for HardwareGeek's mom to form and start whoring herself out to those rough and tumble protons.
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So I'm making a couple of minor tweaks to a feature a customer has supposedly tested and signed off as OK. Changes made in the dev environment work OK, copy them over to the 'test' environment and nothing works. Turns out that the web.config on test just denies access to everybody, and has done for a while. There is no way this feature has even been looked at by anybody involved on the test setup. I'm refusing to look at live until Monday as I do not want to fuck with the web.config on there just before I go home (I can guarantee it is different again to test and dev)...
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DEAR GAME DEVELOPERS:
STOP MAKING THE GAME PAUSE THE STUPID UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENE WHEN THE WINDOW IS UNFOCUSED AAAAGH YOU BASTARDS ARE DOING IT ON PURPOSE
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Related: give me the opportunity to launch your game in full screen windowed mode before you launch that unskippable cutscene...
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STOP MAKING THE GAME PAUSE THE STUPID UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENE WHEN THE WINDOW IS UNFOCUSED
Bonus points if you have to watch the cutscene multiple times because it plays every time you retry a failed quest/mission.
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Or every time you complete the 4th or 8th cup in Mario Kart 8, at any difficulty level. (Though, technically, you can off-then-on the system to skip it). And then add an incentive to keep retrying cups until you get 1st in all 4 races, so that you get extra cutscenes when you get screwed at the finish line of the last track.
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Thanks, Windows, for actively breaking the programs I'm trying to run
(and yes, I'm playing that game, shut up)
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Windows has so many compatibility hacks in it. It's that adage of "if you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody."
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Thanks, Windows, for actively breaking the programs I'm trying to run
(and yes, I'm playing that game, shut up)
I think it was a way to punish people who actually decided to play Daikatana. "You're playing this shit? Well fuck off. You can come back to Windows once you've washed your hands. You chose to play it, you fucking play it. Don't come crying back to us."
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I mean, if at least there was a way to disable it (that didn't require registry hacks or whatever), it would be fine. And there's no way to notify them of the issue either (that I can find).
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A good metaphor for the game is a sandwich that fell into the toilet. Yes, it's covered with poop, and most people would just throw it away, but there's still good parts inside if you're willing to make the effort to pick them apart.
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...
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(Maybe I should have gone with "cake that fell on the mud")
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I mean, if at least there was a way to disable it (that didn't require registry hacks or whatever), it would be fine.
Renaming it to daikatana13.exe doesn't require a registry hack.
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It comes under the heading of 'or whatever', surely?
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But it breaks Steam.
I mean, you can still launch it the old fashioned way. But it's a small annoyance.
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You could create a stub launcher that would launch the actual (renamed) game EXE.
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I'm not going to install whatever it takes to compile a .exe for this.
I did try making a symbolic link. It still applies the fix.
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I wonder if there's a list of triggered .exe names Windows will automatically shoot at.
Sure you can specify some things manually with the (limited) Compatibility Wizard (or whatever they're calling it nowadays), but it would be interesting to see what things I could just rename and have break in new and fun ways...
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I tried to but couldn't make it further than 2 levels in. It's SO BAD.
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setup
orinstall
anywhere in the name with a.exe
extension will automatically try to elevate the program (after UAC, of course).
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One interesting thing I noticed in Windows 10:
I had a game, my favorite fighting game, which worked perfectly in Win7. In 8, it worked badly. In 8.1, it was slightly worse. In 10, it's suddenly fine. Similarly a Castlevaniaish clone game: Worked on 7, worked somewhat on 8 sometimes, didn't work at all on 8.1 (instant crash) and works perfectly on 10. Both are now old and not developed, and are made in Japan, where they don't know about operating systems past XP. Would have been sad, but understanding if they stopped working forever. But now they do work!
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You know what I dislike? Stores that don't let you rate a product unless you write a review for it, like most seem to be doing recently.
Maybe I liked a game and just want to help it rise above the thousands of bad clones. I don't know how to write reviews, I just think a game is good.
And I don't want it to be attached to my profile. It's not a social thing, I'm doing it to help the author, not to share it with my friends or build a reputation. Why do I have to share everything with my friends?
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(in response to a Star Wars Lego set someone built with their son)
"I AM SUCH A GEEK I AM GEEK PARENT WITH SMAERT KID WHOM WATCH STAR WARDS"
halt it right there, that shit is annoying, fuck off. "nerd/geek culture" drives me nuts. Let me put it to you this way: if you have to go around talking about how you're a "geek" or a "nerd" all the time then you aren't, you're just an
poserannoyance.You're okay @HardwareGeek, we know you're an actual geek!
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if you have to go around talking about how you're a "geek" or a "nerd" all the time
I read that as a kid calling other people (his parents and the person he's talking to) nerds, not someone calling themselves a nerd.
You're okay @HardwareGeek, we know you're an actual geek!
Um, thanks, I guess...?
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I read that as a kid calling other people (his parents and the person he's talking to) nerds, not someone calling themselves a nerd
"Such a fun nerd parent"? Why else would he even bring that up?
Um, thanks, I guess...?
Good lord, man, learn to take a joke.
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"Such a fun nerd parent"? Why else would he even bring that up?
He said, "you are such a fun nerd parent!" The only thing he said about himself is, "i am envious...."
learn to take a joke.
I laughed. I'm just not sure whether being called "an actual geek" is a good thing or not.
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