Grumpy_Mike:
Why is it that only posters on the forum who apologise for their poor English have in fact very good English.
I've often wondered that as well.
When finsihed my clothes washer beeps three times in quick succession, followed by a short pause, three more beeps, short pause, three more beeps. It does this every minute indefinately until it is turned off. Someday that beeper is going to be smashed into very tiny pieces!
Well, I fixed the pin header issue. My Arduino clone has compatible headers and additional holes for properly spaced headers. Seeestudio fixed it for some of theirs as well.
I also have one: why does the Arduino "IDE" not allow to start an external editor directly? Or any other tool for that matter?
Motorola Flip phones. When the battery starts dying, they beep incessantly. There is no way to turn this beep off, until the phone beeps itself to death (or I toss it out the car window). We even melted one with thermite.
Car door open beep when the key is in the ignition. I know the bloody door is open, I opened it to let some air in while parked having lunch and listening to the radio.
And get this, I can be doing 100kph down the highway and open the door, no beep.
"Lift here to open" when they really mean "If you don't have long finger nails go get a knife but that doesn't work either so poke and prod and rip until the end of the box is totally destroyed to open"
Graynomad:
Car door open beep when the key is in the ignition. I know the bloody door is open, I opened it to let some air in while parked having lunch and listening to the radio.
And get this, I can be doing 100kph down the highway and open the door, no beep.
What arseholes think this stuff up?
Rob
How are you able to open your car door at that speed? I thought the air drag will make it so hard to open a door at that speed. 100/1.6=62.5mi/h
At least all my cars only beep loudly once with an open door, it won't keep beeping.
@liudr: I am pretty much sure that you can open the door (at least partially) even at 160km/h (100mph). Here in Germany nobody assumes this to be very fast. This is just "fast". I find it always amusing when I see car chases in US movies when the needle of the speedometer trembles as it hits the mystic 100mph. When I am commuting at 160km/h I have to take care to avoid cars that are rapidly approaching from behind
With regard to the anoying beeps: why does my car beep if the "passenger" (=my laptop bag) is not buckled up? At least it stops after some beeps. The previous one kept beeping for 5 Minutes before it gave up.
I keep my bag on the passenger floor, less gravitational potential. Otherwise I keep a hand on it, too distracting. New cars sold in US should have fuel line automatically cut if driven over 100 mi/h or something. I don't know how hard it is to get a driver's license in Germany. Here in US every nut case can get one. I always pay much attention every time I drive. If I drive at 100mi/h I imagine my car will shake too much and fuel efficiency will be half what I get with 65 or70.
100mph is well and truly in my passed, 100 kph is the speed limit so that's normal when I'm in a car. In the truck I sit on 65kph, I sure get to see a lot of scenery at that speed.
I keep my bag on the passenger floor, less gravitational potential. Otherwise I keep a hand on it, too distracting. New cars sold in US should have fuel line automatically cut if driven over 100 mi/h or something. I don't know how hard it is to get a driver's license in Germany. Here in US every nut case can get one.
Allowing higher speeds provides a certain amount of self regulation among the idiot part of the population.