h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

PH: Time.

Seriously, there's either not enough of it, or too much of it. You're either rushing around like a blue bottom fly trying to not panic but still get everything done, or you're sat there watching the minutes refusing to fly past.

Sorry, but Time really needs to sort its act out.

I agree, but I think only half of it is time's fault. It's also events - they never occur at the same density or frequency that time does!

It's like...imagine to accordions, or slinky springs, one stacked on the other. On being time, the other being events. The trouble is synchronising them so that they are both compressed or expanded at the same time. But they never are! And then the stack becomes unstable and collapses.

Time and events need to communicate better and stop working at cross-purposes!

(What the am I on about )

PH - the use of 0 and O in passwords.

Judge Judy

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Judy

http://youtu.be/lrlJ12a54XA

I certainly have to agree about O and 0 in passwords and user keys.

An exercise of careless inconsideration that suggests whomever may have other deficiencies of mature development as well.




PH Electronic hardware that lacks a decisive on/OFF switch, prone to turn itsrlf back on unbidden, increasing system demand and user charges.

Hate people that can't tell the difference between 0 and O. oh...
or I l 1 for that matter. Guess that depends on the font.

That's I and l and 1. (curious, posts in a different font)

Years ago, in the days of early home computers, we were taught to put a line through written zeros to distinguish them from letter Os. (I used to be a software engineer.) I did this for years. Now I just use the context to work it out.

I agree that upper case I, lower case l and the number 1 are easily confused in certain fonts, like the one I see in Point. Again, I use context, but it takes time I'd rather not have to spend.

That should have been Pliny, not Point. My tablet used predictive text and I didn't notice. I should use Preview, but I've lost posts that way.

I always strike through zeros - everyone where I work knows about it now, but when we get new people they always get confused.

Really you just shouldn't use predictive text.

Certain monotype fonts make O and 0 look very similar and if you're not familiar with the font being used and are reading, say a serial number you may not have any context for the difference. Game keys used to be notorious for this.

I used to strike through zeros, to make the difference between O and 0 clear in the numbering system used where I worked at the time. Except I was told that it looked too much like a 6 (W. T. F?) and was asked to stop (by which I mean bullied until I did, because that's the sort of place it was).

Today's PH: freezers that get iced up so you can't pull the drawers open. I suppose really my PH is the person who doesn't keep the ice restrained...

Slightly beyond a petty hate this, but vehicles that speed up when you try to overtake them

By all means go at the speed you are comfortable with; I'm no speed demon myself, but what is that all about? Is it some sort of arrogance that they cannot abide being taken over and will even speed up beyond their usual speed to prevent it?

Today I commenced overtaking maneuvers of someone dawdling around 50, but as soon as I did so, they sped up to mach my speed . I know I should've just dropped back and abandoned the maneuver; I usually do in these cases, but I'm afraid testosterone got the better of me on this occasion and I floored it to get past them. Afterwhich they then resumed their previous speed as far as I could tell...

On the same theme, people who insist on passing and pulling into your lane when you are slowing to approach a red light.

Then they just sit there, distracted, when it goes green.

F S

I think sometimes drivers only realise how slowly they're going when someone else comes past, and they then subconsciously feel like speeding up.

That depends...

I know what you are saying quotes, I sometimes don't realise I'm losing velocity, myself, but I would wait until anyone overtaking had passed before speeding up. Otherwise it just comes across as though i'm being childish.

Somebody, somewhere, is typing up a petty hate right now which says:

"...I know I should've just dropped back and let him overtake; I usually do in these cases, but I'm afraid testosterone got the better of me on this occasion and I floored it..."

Well sometimes it seem they just react subconsciously winnoch2, speeding up without realising it themselves. Just look at all those people who seem to have to follow each other, usually in the middle lane, at say 62mph, or any other arbitrary speed, because they can't wake up and either pull over to the inside, or look in their mirror and overtake to do a speed of their choice. A lot of people just do what everyone else is doing, on the roads and in life.

Don't worry though, we can still hate them for it.