Kireatic

Going through the backup of the old blog, I saw my epic rant, spanning all the little bits and pieces that annoyed me a year ago today.

I think that this new incarnation should be christened with it’s very own rant, and so I shall endevour to let loose some of the steam I have had building up towards creation in general posthaste. So, without further ado:

Lack of 64-bit drivers
64-bit operating systems have been around a long time now, ladies and gentlemen of the hardware driver coding industry. There isn’t a large excuse not to have 64-bit drivers for any product you offer vista drivers for, at the very least! My poor scanner has been left berefit by you people!

The missing nView panel
NVIDIA used to have a lovely little control panel, key among it’s features was a great capability to deal with dual screens, even stretching the taskbar between them automatically. Was great. Then they moved to the Control Panel (with caps), and that feature vanished. I’m not sure who to blame, nVIDIA or Microsoft, but I want my dual screen taskbar back. Ultramon messes up explorer on 7 too often.

Chrome’s lack of Tab Preview
I read somewhere that Google Chrome dev builds had the tab preview enabled in 7, showing the tabs you had open on the start bar preview like Internet Explorer does. They either lied, or you have to enable them somehow. Neither scenario is good. Just make them go, Google!

Google Wave’s Alpha
I really like Wave. It has so much potential, and I can see myself using it a lot in the future. And the Alpha itself is fine, if not a little unfinished, but hey, it’s an alpha. Only thing is, I can’t test it properly when I only have two other contacts with Wave. Well. Damn, looks like I’ll have to wait till the end of the alpha! Great way to get testing, Google.

iPhone applications which auto-rotate
It’s fine if there’s a setting to disable it, but…take right now for example. I’m trying to write this lying down, but the damn screen keeps rotating. Stop it. Include a setting for the people who are lazy and want to use your software on the sofa or in bed. You are just making our lives awkward.

Demomen
I’m talking about Team Fortress 2 here. There’s something inherently wrong about a class that requires nothing more than an ability to wait for someone to walk past before automagically making them go kabloowy. They may well be counterable, and yes, there’s skill in placing the traps. Doesn’t stop them being freaking annoying.

People who cut sales assistants short
I work in a shoe shop, when I’m not coding. There is nothing ruder than a customer who doesn’t let you finish your sentance. Yes, we are trying to sell you stuff, but we are gracious about it. Where I work, we don’t get commission for how much we sell – we have targets, yes, but failing to reach them is just one of those things. If you don’t want to buy what we have, wait until you know what it is we are offering before you decline. Even better, don’t lie and say you have some. Just say, “no thanks”, or “not today”. And let the poor worker do their job. It’s retail, make it slightly easier.

Farmville
Casual gaming at it’s worst and most spammy. Facebook brings everyone down low, but the day I play farmville is the day I annouce to the world my undying love of PHP Syntax Errors. Which is never.

Facebook “Social Quizzes”
On the topic of Facebook, those annoying little quizzes which ask you about your friends? Please, stop filling them out. You are not only annoying everyone, but also feeding data about these people into a database somewhere. Which isn’t good.

Not being allowed Lie-ins
I want my rest. I’m sure you can understand.

That’ll do for now…you got any pet hates? Share any of mine?