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Appleseed wrote: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.
The realist says that the glass is completely full (nobody sees the thing in there that is far more important than the liquid--the air).
The philosopher questions the very existence of the glass.
alex wrote:Dude. NICE avatar.
Thanks!
mad_machine wrote:oh yes Slant. Where you click back and takes you right back to where you were before you clicked back?
Yes. My own personal Groundhog Day.
Resurrecting an old topic...
"click here" links. We all know how the hell a link works, and will click if we're interested. "Click here" is not a call to action, it's a sorry substitute for half-way compelling web copy.
Click Here links, with no explanation of where they go or what I'm going to see if I click on them (yes, I know I can hover my cursor over the link to see the URL.) If the person who posted it can't take the time to tell me what it is they want me to look at, I can't take the time to click on it.
Text speak..
I just flush those e-mails.
Sorry, I don't speak 'tard and I don't plan on learning.
Shawn
Agreed. Those just set off my snob-o-meter to "ignore".
jharbert wrote:Poor vocabulary. I was taught to use the word "you're" in place of "you are" in the third grade. Saying "Your right" should at least lead to being banned from the internet. And don't get me started on "definately".... (Pro tip: There is no A in "definitely.")
I'm going to defend this one to a certain extent. Yes, it makes me crazy too. I used to be the same way until my freshman required English class. There were a lot of kids coming from inner-city schools, and I'd talk to quite a few of them and realize that this guy is smart... Then I'd read his papers, and they were loaded with errors in spelling and grammar. He mentioned that he had straight A's in high school English. Thats the educations fault, not the persons.
I have a client in Antigua. Runs a company with 85 employees, fairly successful. In person, intelligent and well spoken. His e-mails are almost unintelligible with grammar errors and misspellings. Arrgghh. Another bitch- demanding postal codes for places that don't HAVE postal codes. I'm done now.
Web sites that play songs, sounds, or in any way cause your speakers to do ANYTHING without your permission.
Double especially those sites with the "walk on" person who starts yammering at you. I don't know who thinks that makes a site more effective, 'cause I know it causes me to immediately close the tab and never go back.
Anyone on Craigslist that adds a bunch of popular words at the bottom of their ad that have nothing to do with they're selling. Seriously dude, if I search for "Mustang", I have ZERO desire for a door for a suburban or wheels for a Civic. If I did, that's what I would've berkleying searched for in the first place!
News sites that want me to click a new page link for every single picture/paragraph/sentence.
Those damn Bing embedded text popups that refuse to die for 5 seconds or so after I accidentally scroll over them.
alex wrote:Alex, you're young.... all you've ever known is the 2 letter abbreviations .... it's tough on us old farts that grew up with Minn , Miss , Tenn , Cal , Wis , etc...Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.
ease up a little, you might be old someday yourself 
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.
duct tape works pretty well for this...
ReverendDexter wrote:Anyone on Craigslist that adds a bunch of popular words at the bottom of their ad that have nothing to do with they're selling. Seriously dude, if I search for "Mustang", I have ZERO desire for a door for a suburban or wheels for a Civic. If I did, that's what I would've berkleying searched for in the first place!
Mercilessly flag those turds. Without question.
Rusnak_322 wrote:alex wrote:Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.
How about country drop boxes where USA is not the first choice, but the 72nd (extra annoying for a company website that only sells to the US and Canada).
knowing its the 72nd scares me a little more than scrolling down...
Will wrote: Those damn Bing embedded text popups that refuse to die for 5 seconds or so after I accidentally scroll over them.
You use bing?
pinchvalve wrote:For instance, if you force me to fill out a form to contact you instead of just giving me an e-mail address, you could be killed.
This. I always tell people not to force their users to use forms, quickest way to kill their interest. Glad to hear a professional marketing guy confirms it.
Keith wrote:Where can you get this "DRIFT BUTTON". I want one.
Keith, my Mustang has one. It's on the floor to the right of the brake pedal. I bet that an LS1 Otter has the same button...
924guy wrote:Rusnak_322 wrote:alex wrote:Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.
How about country drop boxes where USA is not the first choice, but the 72nd (extra annoying for a company website that only sells to the US and Canada).
knowing its the 72nd scares me a little more than scrolling down...
That is because that list is the order of literacy, science and quality of healthcare .
alex wrote:Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.
Drop down menus for months/years...same theory
The problem is that from the other end, allowing people to fill out their own forms makes the job much harder. Turning the events database into what you see in the magazine would be much easier if we used a pull-down menu.
I always meant to make that a drop-down actually. 
As Tom says, a dropdown is MILES better for data normalization, and since you can keystroke in your state anyway, it's no more effort (or no less, really) than typing it in. But it makes a big difference to know the guy who put in Mi meant Michigan or was trying to type Miss and got cut off.
JoeyM wrote:Will wrote: Those damn Bing embedded text popups that refuse to die for 5 seconds or so after I accidentally scroll over them.You use bing?
Nope, but Bing puts embedded pop-ups in some of the sites I use. Hate it.
In reply to Tim Baxter:
Now, if the drop down menus could be made to play nice with Firefox for Mac, I would be happy. However, when I am tabbing through a form, and it skips any drop down menu, well, I hate that.
