April Fools gags should be this subtle more often. It's effective.

ScyStorm said:
April Fools gags should be this subtle more often. It's effective.

Heh

Is it related to a tiny red pixel on the screen? 'Cuz that pixel is driving me crazy...

Xch3l said:
Is it related to a tiny red pixel on the screen? 'Cuz that pixel is driving me crazy...

Sigh, poor pixel. It was too young...

Xch3l said:
Is it related to a tiny red pixel on the screen? 'Cuz that pixel is driving me crazy...

Sounds like you have a dead pixel on your screen.

Best april fool's joke I've seen so far this year.

i still don't get what the gag is

Snowy said:
Sounds like you have a dead pixel on your screen.

Best april fool's joke I've seen so far this year.

But is it just the beginning...

Edit: Would be better if it would be random.

Snowy said:
Sounds like you have a dead pixel on your screen.

um, nope, the pixel dissappears when I put a red image behind it... or when I switch tabs...

found it....

i've just wasted 5 minutes of my time by searching a tiny red dot on my 40inches tv screen....

Zenti said:
found it....

i've just wasted 5 minutes of my time by searching a tiny red dot on my 40inches tv screen....

That isn't all. Try zooming in

It's only there if you're logged in. Don't see it on Wii-U.

Edit: Nevermind. Just saw it, but super tiny cells for GamePad screen.

Xch3l said:
That isn't all. Try zooming in

Hm?

ScyStorm said:
Hm?

The page will move around, but not the red dot.

furballs_dc said:
But is it just the beginning...

Edit: Would be better if it would be random.

You're wrecking my secret text :(

Snowy said:
You're wrecking my secret text :(

Repaired. Don't forget, standard users can't abuse.... use color text.

furballs_dc said:
Repaired.

You lie.

Snowy said:
You lie.

Ok, ok. Patched up with some scotch tape and random nuts and bolts. Maybe even a tuba.

furballs_dc said:
The page will move around, but not the red dot.

Well I knew that, yes. "Zoom in" confused me.

Seems to be <div id="dp"></div>

Oh so it is an April fools joke? in 2 minutes I noticed the red dead pixel is only site related, or I would have freaked out more. that was the longest LCD conditioning test ever.

P.S. If I were on my CRT monitor I would have laughed "HAHAHA"!
P.S.S. Also, is it sad I noticed it the second I opened up the site?

crackers said:
Oh so it is an April fools joke? in 2 minutes I noticed the red dead pixel is only site related, or I would have freaked out more. that was the longest LCD conditioning test ever.

P.S. If I were on my CRT monitor I would have laughed "HAHAHA"!
P.S.S. Also, is it sad I noticed it the second I opened up the site?

I'm on a CRT monitor you can laugh now right now... That's why I thought "is something missing here?". I also tried to clean my screen, thinking it was something stuck...

I never would have noticed if someone didnt say anything

I still haven't even found it, and I do have JavaScript turned on for the whole site. Oh well.

I just bought a new computer, and the first thing that ran through my head was "Damn, now I'm going to have to wait to get it replaced."

That's a really good prank.

Rusteee said:
I never would have noticed if someone didnt say anything

Damn, I just gonna planned to buy a new monitor :)

caninez said:
Damn, I just gonna planned to buy a new monitor :)

From one pixel?
Rich people everywhere.

SirAntagonist said:
From one pixel?
Rich people everywhere.

He didn't say he wouldn't get a refund for the first one.

I first thought there was stuff on my (LCD) screen (and I wondered where red dust comes from). I tried wiping it of, it didn't go away. So I placed my mouse on it and it was gone.
PS:

Xch3l said:
That isn't all. Try zooming in

furballs_dc said:
The page will move around, but not the red dot.

Doesn't work for me. When I zoom, the red dot becomes bigger too. It might be NoScript blocking something.

and now we have 7 months til the next fun holiday .-.

Aurali said:
and now we have 7 months til the next fun holiday .-.

Could do random stuff in between... =~.^=

I still never saw the stupid dot. >_<

Aurali said:
and now we have 7 months til the next fun holiday .-.

Ooh! Ooh! Since we see 500 more than e6, make it act strangely! but don't tell anyone

How? I don't know! Surprise us!

Foobaria said:
I still never saw the stupid dot. >_<

it's still there~

Xch3l said:
Ooh! Ooh! Since we see 500 more than e6, make it act strangely! but don't tell anyone

How? I don't know! Surprise us!

Hey now! It's a sneaky mofo.. I haven't seen it in weeks outside of debugging known issues..

Aurali said:
and now we have 7 months til the next fun holiday .-.

Pfft, my birthday is less than a month away!

Foobaria said:
He didn't say he wouldn't get a refund for the first one.

I'm not sure about others, but if I was a tech support/customer services worker and some guy came into the store wanting a refund for one shot pixel;
I'd tell him to shove a low rez dick up his ass.

Oh, and speaking of 500, wasn't there a twitter feed?

Char said:
Pfft, my birthday is less than a month away!

Happy early birthday Char :)

TheHuskyK9 said:
Happy early birthday Char :)

=^.^=

furballs_dc said:
Ok, ok. Patched up with some scotch tape and random nuts and bolts. Maybe even a tuba.

You forgot the rubber chicken. :o

Clawstripe said:
You forgot the rubber chicken. :o

Oh I wondered where I put it.

SirAntagonist said:
I'm not sure about others, but if I was a tech support/customer services worker and some guy came into the store wanting a refund for one shot pixel;
I'd tell him to shove a low rez dick up his ass.

I would not recommend saying that to a customer that just spent $1,000+ on a top-of-the-line monitor from your store, if you want to keep your hypthetical job.

Aurali said:
it's still there~

I see it now that somebody pointed out where on the screen it is.

Foobaria said:
I would not recommend saying that to a customer that just spent $1,000+ on a top-of-the-line monitor from your store, if you want to keep your hypthetical job.

Maybe you've never worked at a low paying position before. Allow me to enlighten you:

At the store I worked at when I was a teen, we got retarded complaints all the time. ONE bad pixel does not constitute a $1,000 refund. Hell, even if the entire screen was smashed in, we wouldn't replace it without a warranty. If I did something as stupid as replacing it or refunding it, my manager would throw my ass out the door faster than a freight train unless I paid the money back personally.

The people like you were the ones I hated the most: the guys who think they own the fucking store if they buy something.

SirAntagonist said:
The people like you were the ones I hated the most: the guys who think they own the fucking store if they buy something.

At least Foobaria is reasonable. No doubt, you've had worse.

Xch3l said:
I'm on a CRT monitor you can laugh now right now... That's why I thought "is something missing here?". I also tried to clean my screen, thinking it was something stuck...

I love CRTs they are damn near indestructible. and they have fantastic picture quality. never had a dead pixel. but I have had a monitor capacitors leak and permanently lower screen brightness to an almost unusable brightness. if I replaced capacitors I could have fixed it.

Crackers, proud owner of a fully functional SamTron 75V.

SirAntagonist said:
Maybe you've never worked at a low paying position before. Allow me to enlighten you:

At the store I worked at when I was a teen, we got retarded complaints all the time. ONE bad pixel does not constitute a $1,000 refund. Hell, even if the entire screen was smashed in, we wouldn't replace it without a warranty. If I did something as stupid as replacing it or refunding it, my manager would throw my ass out the door faster than a freight train unless I paid the money back personally.

The people like you were the ones I hated the most: the guys who think they own the fucking store if they buy something.

Okay, not shitting on your memories and past pain, but holy fuck dude, are you coming into this with a 100% bias. The kind of stores you just described...yeah, I don't shop at those. We don't even -have- those in my area, but then again, my area is not a huge city.

And obviously, I wsa talking about when it was still under warrantee, as in, I get it home, and immediately it's got a flaw in it, so I take it back and they swap it for a new one, they send it back to the manufacturer who gives them their money back. It's not a difficult thing.

What you described...man, that's just fuckin' ghetto. I'm not going to think less of you for "hating" me before even meeting me, nor believing you know how I think, speak, and act, but I'm sorely tempted. I assume you don't work at such an awful place anymore, so just close your eyes, take a deep breath, grow from the experience, and get over it.

crackers said:
I love CRTs they are damn near indestructible. and they have fantastic picture quality. never had a dead pixel. but I have had a monitor capacitors leak and permanently lower screen brightness to an almost unusable brightness. if I replaced capacitors I could have fixed it.

Crackers, proud owner of a fully functional SamTron 75V.

... You don't get dead pixels on a crt. you get dead zones.

Aurali said:
... You don't get dead pixels on a crt. you get dead zones.

I know, I was trying to imply I have yet to encounter an issue on my CRT.

still a good April fools joke, it really made me say, "what?" out-loud.

(edit) I lied I didn't know about dead zones, never heard of them either. I'm not too worried about it anyways :)

I have a 36" CRT television that I've had since roughly 1994. Works perfectly. In the time from then to now, I've had three LCDs all fail due to backlights or overheating (in a room that never got above 75F, mind you).

The newer something is, the faster it will fail.

Well, back to topic. I don't know if you guys can see the red pixel any more, cause it's disappeared.

crackers said:
I love CRTs they are damn near indestructible. and they have fantastic picture quality. never had a dead pixel. but I have had a monitor capacitors leak and permanently lower screen brightness to an almost unusable brightness. if I replaced capacitors I could have fixed it.

Crackers, proud owner of a fully functional SamTron 75V.

The CRT I'm currently on has some lines distorted on the top. I haven't checked it (soooo lazy/procrastination), so I don't know if it's a capacitor or something else...

Speaking of capacitors... I was once building an amplifier which I'm using right now when suddenly one of them blew up, the sound was like when you inflate a small part of a plastic bag, hold it with your hand and with the other smash it... in other words, a small "pop". It was a 25v 200µF polarized capacitor totally not expecting someone is interested in electronics... besides Varka...

Renard_Queenston said:
Well, back to topic. I don't know if you guys can see the red pixel any more, cause it's disappeared.

It's still there, it just "background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0);" on your "<div id='dp'></div>" all the way to "<body></body>" until "<html></html>".

Is there some reason you're using spoiler tags instead of parentheses like the rest of the English-speaking world?

Foobaria said:
Is there some reason you're using spoiler tags instead of parentheses like the rest of the English-speaking world?

I can't speak for Xch3l, but spoilers are more fun.both to typeand to read

edidaf said:
I can't speak for Xch3l, but spoilers are more fun.both to typeand to read

Not if you're on a mobile device, where you have to hold your finger on one side of it to read the first half, then switch your finger to the other side to read the other half. It's even worse if you do multiple spoilers in a row like that, because it's difficult to tell where one starts and one ends. And it's more annoying still if the spoiler is long, because some people have to zoom the text in to read it so the rigamarole has to be repeated after scrolling the offscreen part into view.

Oh yeah, and it sucks for people using screen readers (e.g., people who are blind).

Foobaria said:
Not if you're on a mobile device, where you have to hold your finger on one side of it to read the first half, then switch your finger to the other side to read the other half. It's even worse if you do multiple spoilers in a row like that, because it's difficult to tell where one starts and one ends. And it's more annoying still if the spoiler is long, because some people have to zoom the text in to read it so the rigamarole has to be repeated after scrolling the offscreen part into view.

Oh yeah, and it sucks for people using screen readers (e.g., people who are blind).

Well, my ignorance is showing through again. Thanks for the education. It won't stop me from using them, I'll just reserve them for things of no importance. like this not imporant

Foobaria said:
Is there some reason you're using spoiler tags instead of parentheses like the rest of the English-speaking world?

Because I LOOOOOOOVE using them :D Besides, I'm not on the english speaking part... so, ¿qué importa? º('◡' )º

Foobaria said:
Not if you're on a mobile device, where you have to hold your finger on one side of it to read the first half, then switch your finger to the other side to read the other half. It's even worse if you do multiple spoilers in a row like that, because it's difficult to tell where one starts and one ends. And it's more annoying still if the spoiler is long, because some people have to zoom the text in to read it so the rigamarole has to be repeated after scrolling the offscreen part into view.

Does your (mobile) browser has a "Fit width"/"Wrap text" option? Like Opera's?

Oh yeah, and it sucks for people using screen readers (e.g., people who are blind).

Do you use them? o_O if so, have +1 of my respect plus +2 of my apologies

(I think (you need (to use ((more parenthesis) and (fewer spoiler tags)))))

Xch3l said:
Do you use them? o_O if so, have +1 of my respect plus +2 of my apologies

No, but I drive a paratransit bus, which means I deal with dozens of handicapped and disabled people every day: People with bad or no vision (meaning they need large text or even screenreaders/braille), bad or no hearing (relying on subtitls and sign language), cognitive issues, poor mobility and dexterity, neural degredation, you name it.

I'm sensitive to these issues because for 30 hours of every week I do nothing but help people who have these issues, and then I come home to the Internet and I'm reminded that, through the invisible shield that is the computer monitor, most of you never even notice.

But not noticing doesn't have to mean not caring. You don't have to rewrite your entire life: All you have to do is keep it in the back of your mind, when you do something, and say "Am I needlessly excluding someone with my action?". Sometimes, you aren't, and sometimes, you are.

Awareness is the key.

Foobaria said:
No, but I drive a paratransit bus, which means I deal with dozens of handicapped and disabled people every day: People with bad or no vision (meaning they need large text or even screenreaders/braille), bad or no hearing (relying on subtitls and sign language), cognitive issues, poor mobility and dexterity, neural degredation, you name it.

I'm sensitive to these issues because for 30 hours of every week I do nothing but help people who have these issues, and then I come home to the Internet and I'm reminded that, through the invisible shield that is the computer monitor, most of you never even notice.

But not noticing doesn't have to mean not caring. You don't have to rewrite your entire life: All you have to do is keep it in the back of your mind, when you do something, and say "Am I needlessly excluding someone with my action?". Sometimes, you aren't, and sometimes, you are.

Awareness is the key.

I use spoilers because I know people rarely read them (and because I know most people aren't interested in electronics, AFAIK), and because they can serve as inner thoughts while parenthesis serve more to explain stuff without breaking the original meaning of the sentence. Well, as I use them.

But still, you have my respect...

Foobaria said:
Okay, not shitting on your memories and past pain, but holy fuck dude, are you coming into this with a 100% bias. The kind of stores you just described...yeah, I don't shop at those. We don't even -have- those in my area, but then again, my area is not a huge city.

And obviously, I wsa talking about when it was still under warrantee, as in, I get it home, and immediately it's got a flaw in it, so I take it back and they swap it for a new one, they send it back to the manufacturer who gives them their money back. It's not a difficult thing.

What you described...man, that's just fuckin' ghetto. I'm not going to think less of you for "hating" me before even meeting me, nor believing you know how I think, speak, and act, but I'm sorely tempted. I assume you don't work at such an awful place anymore, so just close your eyes, take a deep breath, grow from the experience, and get over it.

Of course I don't work at that place. I wouldn't survive on that income.
But my point is that things come with flaws. The computer I'm typing on? Disk drive was wonky. I just bought an external drive. And for all of April 1st, I barely noticed the pixel. A red dot. Whoop dee doo. It's there.
And my situation wasn't "Ghetto". It was realistic. You don't get a refund for every tiny thing that goes wrong in life, and you'll still get scowls/laughter from workers if you try to return a monitor with one shot pixel, even if it is on warranty.

Clawstripe said:
At least Foobaria is reasonable. No doubt, you've had worse.

I was only working at the store for a few years, when I was a poor bastard in high school. I had some pretty fucking annoying customers though. The worst one was a lady who tried to blame ME for her screwed up modem she bought. (She wanted a refund and had no receipt. We stopped carrying most Qwest modems 3 months earlier too.) I heard horror stories, though.

You're still colouring the entire world with your own personal experience. I'm 33 years old, and in all of my adult life, it has gone like this:

1) Get product home.
2) Product has a problem.
3) Take product back to store.
4) Walk out of store five minutes later with replacement product.

No laughs, no scowls, no argument, no nothing. Simple, calm exchange of words. The store gets their money back from the manufacturer, the manufacturer either writes it off as a loss or fixes it and sells it as refurbished, and life goes merrily on.

This is not some charity case, here: This is hard-earned money spent on luxury goods. It's not like I'm going to a church luncheon and complaining they put too many pickles on the burgers.

You've had bad experiences: I get it. But not every customer is a dick, and neither is every store owner/manager. Some of them...get this...actually care about their customers getting what they pay for. It's true!

So yeah, as a cynic, it feels really weird for me to say this, but...the world is at times a much nicer and friendlier place than you seem to believe. (Ugh, now I have to go shred a plushie to feel less floofy.)

Foobaria said:
Not if you're on a mobile device, where you have to hold your finger on one side of it to read the first half, then switch your finger to the other side to read the other half. It's even worse if you do multiple spoilers in a row like that, because it's difficult to tell where one starts and one ends.

Get a better browser like Firefox or android, I can tap it and it stays readable until i tap something else, even moving the screen without it becoming black is possible. Also, textwrap, do you use it?

Foobaria said:
Oh yeah, and it sucks for people using screen readers (e.g., people who are blind).

Now, I'm not sure on this one but shouldn't the TtS-Software simply go "Bracket open, spoiler, bracket close, <insert text here>, bracket open, slash, bracket close"?

I don't really think a reader is deterred by something not directly visible to us.

First, not everyone uses the same screen reader. And screen readers work by interpreting the HTML directly, and since I doubt very much any of the inbuilt accessibility guidelines are being used properly (since they almost never are), the reader has to guess. It's why sites that use tables/images for layout purposes are so fucking atrocious for screen readers.

I just examined the HTML code generated for a spoiler here, and it just uses CSS and a <span>, so it may be that in this specific case, a screen reader would not garble it too much. It certainly would not serve its actual purpose if it were really used tas a spoiler warning, but that's not the topic at hand.

That said, plenty of "clever" things done with JavaScript and the like to wrap around text on sites like this does screw over hard the screen readers, even the good ones.

So. Can anyone still see the dot?

Renard_Queenston said:
So. Can anyone still see the dot?

what dot

Renard_Queenston said:
So. Can anyone still see the dot?

I can always see the dot. Always.

Aurali said:
what dot

Dammit, Aurali. Have you been paying attention? The tiny red pixel.

Foobaria said:
You're still colouring the entire world with your own personal experience. I'm 33 years old, and in all of my adult life, it has gone like this:

1) Get product home.
2) Product has a problem.
3) Take product back to store.
4) Walk out of store five minutes later with replacement product.

No laughs, no scowls, no argument, no nothing. Simple, calm exchange of words. The store gets their money back from the manufacturer, the manufacturer either writes it off as a loss or fixes it and sells it as refurbished, and life goes merrily on.

This is not some charity case, here: This is hard-earned money spent on luxury goods. It's not like I'm going to a church luncheon and complaining they put too many pickles on the burgers.

You've had bad experiences: I get it. But not every customer is a dick, and neither is every store owner/manager. Some of them...get this...actually care about their customers getting what they pay for. It's true!

So yeah, as a cynic, it feels really weird for me to say this, but...the world is at times a much nicer and friendlier place than you seem to believe. (Ugh, now I have to go shred a plushie to feel less floofy.)

...Where the fuck do you shop? And it's ONE GODDAMN PIXEL. Free fix? Possibly. Full refund/replacement? Fuck no. It's not like the freaking motherboard's shot.
I didn't hear anything about manufacturer reimbursement. I just knew that if I handed out refunds left and right, I'd put the store out of business.

Renard_Queenston said:
Dammit, Aurali. Have you been paying attention? The tiny red pixel.

Once again! What dot ;)

SirAntagonist said:
...Where the fuck do you shop? And it's ONE GODDAMN PIXEL. Free fix? Possibly. Full refund/replacement? Fuck no. It's not like the freaking motherboard's shot.
I didn't hear anything about manufacturer reimbursement. I just knew that if I handed out refunds left and right, I'd put the store out of business.

depending on the screen type, some companies would find it cheaper to replace the unit then repair it.

SirAntagonist said:
...Where the fuck do you shop? And it's ONE GODDAMN PIXEL. Free fix? Possibly. Full refund/replacement? Fuck no. It's not like the freaking motherboard's shot.
I didn't hear anything about manufacturer reimbursement. I just knew that if I handed out refunds left and right, I'd put the store out of business.

Germany for example, a simple malfunctioning pixel on a screen is a valid reason for a replacement if malfunctioning pixels aren't explicitly mentioned in the buying contract.
And guess what most stores don't write in their contracts? You guessed it, they don't state that dead pixels are to be expected.