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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Dngrsone said:
The crowd-funded device I invested in is stalled because of competition... I may never see the device I was so excited to see happen due to someone else hitting the market first with an inferior product.
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Wasn't another fitness band was it? Because I think there is a bit of competition these days, like nearly every phone-maker and half of Shenzhen's cheapo tech industry is producing the things now. LOL
 
Seek Thermal introduced a crappy little thermal camera that hangs out of the lightning port of an iPhone.

The Mu Thermal is wireless... more flexible, better interface... but VCs want to touch it because Seek Thermal beat them to market.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Thats why ill never back a device. Most of the time they will suck, thats if youll ever see them.
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It's rather like betting on a horse race, except there's thousands of horses to choose from. There's thousands of projects on Kickstarter, but only very few eventually come out with a commercially successful and profitable product.
 
Dngrsone said:
Seek Thermal introduced a crappy little thermal camera that hangs out of the lightning port of an iPhone.

The Mu Thermal is wireless... more flexible, better interface... but VCs want to touch it because Seek Thermal beat them to market.
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Give it a couple of months, maybe hundreds of the things listed on Alibaba.com and Made-In-China.com, and Shenzhen doesn't care too much about patents and other IPs either. :rolleyes:
 
What is really frustrating is that if they had just given me an early model, I could have reviewed it under real-world conditions and maybe even gotten my employer to buy a handful.

Now it's even too late for that because we are getting rid of the planes that would have benefited from this tool.
 
At work I had Office 2007 & was recently upgraded to Office 2013 - it's a whole lotta white with the option of super light grey, or a tiny bit darker light grey for a little contrast. I spend most of my work day in Word & Outlook & it's hard on the eyes... I miss the color!!

P.S. I really only posted this to see if I had an "Edit" button when posting... :p
P.P.S. But the Office 2013 gripe is legit.
 
I can't stand Office anymore... I do everything in Notepad or Wordpad, then move it to Office when absolutely necessary.

More often, I work in Libre Office on my laptop and then export to Office for work.
 
Dngrsone said:
I can't stand Office anymore... I do everything in Notepad or Wordpad, then move it to Office when absolutely necessary.

More often, I work in Libre Office on my laptop and then export to Office for work.
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I've been using Polaris office for a while. Been using it mainly on my tablet.
 
I use Office 2007 at work and 2010 at home.

I don't see any incentive to upgrade. Not a whole lot of radical improvements in office suites from version to version.

I bought 2010 for personal use in college because Libreoffice had some limitations that were intolerable for me. I got the University version for $85 at Best Buy. Came with the full suite.
 
The only reason we were upgraded right now is because we had some outside software that wasn't playing nice with the 2007 version, so IT upgraded us to 2013. Thankfully the issues with the other software seem to be resolved but the first couple days I was really feeling the eye strain. Then I had to keep googling to find out where they moved certain features, but after the first few days I was back to being productive :rolleyes:
 
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I use iWork! :cool:
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My coworker came to work, took her break, called the manager a b****, and left. Nothing is going to happen to her, and we will come in tomorrow to work with another manager that she wants to work with.

Now tell me something isn't wrong here. This is why I don't want to be a manager anymore. At least not in this place. I'll go to Northbrook, or something and be a manager there. Hopefully there is some respect there.
 
MyWife said:
Honey, stop on your way home from work and pick up some steaks for supper please.
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It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The first significant snow is forecast for the morning. There meat section of two grocery stores are wiped out. Two woman were fighting over a turkey. Add to this the 85% (non scientific number, just my observation) of people that forget year to year how to deal with snow and their first instinct is to fill the spare room in their house with loaves of bread, milk, and gallons of water so the checkout is a madhouse. Even the crappy bread made with sticks and twigs has been wiped out. People are wrestling in the aisles over the last granola bars. I survived. I came home with 2 rib-eyes and 2 strips.:mad:
 
Unforgiven said:
It's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving... so the checkout is a madhouse.
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I work my cashier job tomorrow (Wednesday) night, it should be interesting. Our store closes at midnight & I only work until 11, but even on regular weeknights it can get surprisingly busy. I'm sure we have tons of staff scheduled though, so hopefully it won't be too nutty.

And hopefully no doofuses like the guy I rang up Saturday afternoon, who AFTER swiping his card & paying for his groceries, then handed me a coupon for his turkey (that he just paid for) to be free. [emoji21]
 
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