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mad_machine wrote:I really hate the websites that ask me to submit my email twice to double check it. I usually cut and Paste
Which means that if you had a typo the first time you entered it, you also have a typo the second time you enter it, so the required email will never actually get to you.
That's there for a reason. Proofreading is a lost art.
Proofreading is a lost art. I understand typos and the occasional incorrect usage - brakes, breaks, accept, except... The world would be so much better if people would spend that extra minute and proofread.
I'm an engineer = bad at words, better at numbers. Sorry, y'all. 
RossD wrote:I'm an engineer = bad at words, better at numbers. Sorry, y'all.
"Four years ago I couldn't even spell 'engineer', and now I is one!"
You can always tell an engineer..
but you can't tell them much. 
Many years ago. I worked in a hardware store, where we sold a lot of plumbing supplies. Much of plumbing involves knowing the difference between 1/2" and 3/4' galvinized pipe. Often somebody would come in with a micrometer declaring that it couldn't be 1/2" pipe, because nothing measured .5 inches. I would tell them those are nominal sizes, and a good way to tell the difference is to take a nickel and a quarter, and check the diameter using those. If it's the same size as a nickel, it's 1/2", if it's the same size as a quarter, it's 3/4".
A few times, they would come back in later and declare that it turned out to be 3/4" pipe instead of 1/2".. then ask, "How do I get that nickel out of the pipe?"
Engineers, most every one of them.
Another web sin: not replying to the question asked in an email, or not replying at all once a email dialogue has been established...
Im trying to get a small qty of material from a supplier. Weve been emailing back and forth for a week or so determining what it is that I need. They normally sell 50# bags of the material I need, but I only need around 20#. I asked him to quote me a 50# price, and asked if they have any open bags that they might sell cheaper. In the same email I also asked if they sell a second type of material typically used in conjunction with the first. He replied that they can get the second material, but didnt give me a min. order qty, price, availability, anything, nor did he answer my other questions. So then I sent a new email asking specifically:
1. what is the 50# price for matl A?
2. do you have any open bags matl A, or sell a smaller qty?
3. whats price, MOQ and availability for matl B?
its been 3 days since and he hasnt returned my emails or a VM I left earlier today...Unless hes got some emergency going on in his personal life, thats some serious web sinning happening...makes me crazy
Speaking of email sins, I have a developing pet peeve: off-topic emails in a chain of group emails.
Fr'instance: I email with my band a lot. There are 7 of us, and we have a lot going on. We'll have an email thread about, say, a date check for an upcoming gig. Inevitably, somebody will stray OT, and not only does that bug me, it also makes one thread unnecessarily long, when it could be two (or three) easy-to-find and easy-to-follow individual threads. Worst is when they're one line responses.
Ooh, that's another one! A one line response to a long email chain, and the sender doesn't bother to clip the 12 emails below it. Granted, Gmail does that for me, but still...
Or the folks with a 14 line Notice of Privacy at the end of an email that says "Yep." Grrr...
Okay, I have a lot of email pet peeves.
My work email does that "notice" BS...I almost never work outlook to email people about personal stuff...thats what yahoo is for. My sis told me once that if she has to look at that privacy junk one more time she was going to cut my brake lines...she knows how to find em and what tool to use. She doesnt get emails from me at work anymore
When I contact someone about an item on CL, I send a message asking if the item is still available, then listing my phone # and email address (just in case), asking to set up a meeting, and explaining that I want the transaction to be as smooth as possible. About half the time, their entire response consists of "yes, i still have it."
Another frustrating experience on both forums and CL is when you contact the seller within hours of their item being listed, and when you try to schedule a meeting, the response is "Actually, I'm out of town for the next 2 weeks."
It bugs me when something is listed on Craigslist like the following:
1996 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE RIMS BODY KIT AC HID CAI SHIFT KNOB EBRAKE DRIFT BUTTON
car is in good condition
Where can you get this "DRIFT BUTTON". I want one.
Hmm, a Cutler Hammer M22 pushbutton can be ordered with "Schnell" laser engraved on it. That's even better than DRIFT. They also have rabbits and one that looks like a rocket firing.
I am so going to find a reason for a Schnell button in one of my cars.
Does anyone have a clue what Keith is talking about?
A "Drift Button" is, I believe, a piece that disables the ratchet/locking mechanism in the e-brake handle.
Forms that require zipcode AND city/state.
I'll defend that one, Pete. You simply can't reliably extrapolate one from the other. In my small town, for example, there's more than one ZIP, and my ZIP goes across more than one city limit. Then add in the Shawnee Mission postal district, which stretches across multiple cities and ZIPs, and it will SURELY be screwed up.
I do think, though, that forms should make every effort to pre-fill themselves out with any info they may have on hand for you. Our online store, for example, already knows most of the info if you've put it in your profile.
Josh wrote:Does anyone have a clue what Keith is talking about?
Sure. "Schnell" is "fast" or "quickly" auf Deutsche. That would be awesome - a big red button with Schnell on it! If you have teh NAWWS it would be perfect.
Josh wrote:Does anyone have a clue what Keith is talking about?
A "Drift Button" is, I believe, a piece that disables the ratchet/locking mechanism in the e-brake handle.
A fly-off handbrake in rally speak.
But I prefer to think of it as a big button that when I press it, it makes my car drift! It's much more entertaining that way.
Zip/town correlation is pretty good. We use it in our mail order software, and on the roughly 1% of the time that it pulls up a different town name, it's because one's more of a neighborhood name. It would be a reasonable thing for a web form to rely on if the address isn't critical.
Was reminded of another... Rude moderators.
Somebody on a Saab forum remarked on Ted's death and one of the mods brought up chappaquidik (however it is spelled) and I simply mentioned the whole, "he's dead, let's not speak ill of him" and a mod jumped all over me about how he hates the kennedys, from the "nazi loving" Joe down to Ted.. and that he "didn't start this thread" and then locked it.
Rude mods really need to be taken out and shot
People who make viruses.
P.S. I'd literally be for killing them, not just as a saying, I'm dead serious. I'd operate the red lever, or whatever.
I really dislike those sites that effectively disable the "back" button.
oh yes Slant. Where you click back and takes you right back to where you were before you clicked back?
NYG95GA wrote:You can always tell an engineer..
but you can't tell them much.
The optimist says the glass is half full.
The pessimist says the glass is half empty.
The engineer says the glass is twice as big as it should be.
ProjectVIN wrote:People who make viruses.
P.S. I'd literally be for killing them, not just as a saying, I'm dead serious. I'd operate the red lever, or whatever.
Dude. NICE avatar.
NYG95GA wrote:Having trouble with spam?
Go to your address book, and put in this address:
aaaaaa@aaaaaaa.aol.(dot) com (or whatever IPS you use)
It worked for me. When a hacker tries to access your address book, they'll never get past that into the real addys.
As an IT guy, or former one I suppose, this is one of my internet pet peeves. What hilarious internet logic leads you to believe that would do anything to stop spam or someone "hacking" your address book?
Keith wrote:Where can you get this "DRIFT BUTTON". I want one.
In my Z3, it was a button labeled "DSC".
