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Electronics giving you trouble?

Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
edited 2015-05-17 22:10 in General Discussion
I just stumbled across this great 1 minute video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOAYSjeN0M

I'm not sure why the guy stopped so soon, he was on a roll there.

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  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2015-05-16 14:36
    Crazy! Sometimes I feel like doing that to cell phone users who stop right in the middle of a store isle, just inside/outside a doorway, or in the checkout lane to play with their phone - oblivious, expecting everyone else to wait for them to move!

    Although last week, I got fed up with an Oregon Scientific Weather Radio and stomped it into pieces.
    It kept locking up.
    After exhausting normal measures like checking batteries and contacts, etc, I just gave up and creamed it!
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-16 14:53
    Years ago an expensive Technics cassette deck of mind jammed one to many times. It went out the back yard and got flattened by a sledge hammer. My girlfriend at the time seemed to infer that I was violently unstable and soon left. It's possible Technics ruined my life.

    Now I check and find Technics has a really stupid web site: http://www.technics.com
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,920
    edited 2015-05-16 16:34
    Lol, here's all I get - a link to fackbook, twitter and youtube
    technics.com.png
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  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2015-05-16 16:59
    evanh wrote: »
    Lol, here's all I get - a link to fackbook, twitter and youtube

    When I click Heaters link, the url gets changed to http://www.technics.com/us/ and I get images and a video...
  • evanhevanh Posts: 15,920
    edited 2015-05-16 19:40
    Yeah, I run with scripting disabled by default. If they can't be courteous and provide a robust website then I'm not that inclined to reciprocate.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-16 23:17
    You did not miss anything.

    With scripting on that technics web site is ridiculous. It suffers really badly from having been "designed". Huge areas of whites space with some artistically placed two tone non-content. That being some audiophile gibberish about sound system design philosophy. Needless animation and horribly slow to load. Damn thing makes a 171 HTTP requests before it displays anything.

    If you persevere with it long enough you find they do actually have some products.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2015-05-17 01:04
    That's too funny! Technics was also the only tape deck brand I trashed! It munched one too many tapes, and the Dolby system was forever leaking a lot of little noises...

    My favorite was throwing bricks at old CRTs. From a safe distance, of course.

    Heavy site design is a PITA, isn't it? I don't run with scripts off, but I do generally move on quickly if it's a mess. Sadly, this is on the rise for mobile where somehow people can't be expected to use a website...
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-05-17 12:09
    Oddly I have spent far too many hours recently watching presentations on YouTube given by WEB developers at various conferences in the past two years. All about JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, etc, etc, etc. Given by guys from Google, Facebook and whatever. A recurring theme has been page load times, perceived performance, that is getting stuff in front of your users as fast as possible. At the same time actual experience on many web sites has been getting worse. Slower and slower...
  • cruXiblecruXible Posts: 78
    edited 2015-05-17 22:10
    This should have been cued to the music from the Office Space mafia fax machine beat down.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsSr3z5nVk

    I did this in the garage to a wireless mouse that was misbehaving.

    Taught that mouse a lesson!
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