Spot the error!

Let's get really pedatic. The first ISSUE of the 14th Edition was in 1966 There was a reprint incorporating Amendments in 1969 another reprint incorporating Amendments in 1969 etc

And the 1882 Edition was entitled "Rules & Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks Arising from Electric Lighting."

So there.

:-p

Back in the days when I programmed car factory PLCs, I had some fun with a GM paintshop oven control screen in the US. With the main screen up, only two or three keys were supposed to do anything, and I programmed it so that any other key would send Pacman chewing the screen away, then 'NOW YOU'VE DONE IT!' would flash on the screen, and it would then revert to the original display. What's life without a little fun?

With a lot of TVs and PVRs you press the UP arrow to advance to a higher number channel, but in the EPG you press the DOWN arrow to do the same.

An alarming number of 4 digit passwords begin with "19" - that's why many banks won't accept them for settin-up piurposes.

That really annoys me. All programme guides start with 1 at the top and 2 is next down the page. It makes sense for the down arrow to always go down a hypothetical page to a higher channel number. Is it this stupid because the people who design remote controls read books in an odd way? Numeric keyboards should always have this layout

It annoys me that the on-screen keypad for Marks&Sparks self checkout till are in

format, unlike every other shop's tills - clearly the designer glanced at a phone keypad to help decide which way up to display the digits.

Now I'm confused. Did you mean the other way about?

What I hate is those parking ticket machines that want you to enter your reg with an ABC style keyboard.

Except for the keypads on every PC in the world ...

Huh? You have these bass-ackwards. The top one is a phone, the bottom one a PC keypad. And I wouldn't be too surprised if the vast majority of people had never noticed they were different.

I'd hate those if they read your registration number from your mind. Or off the car. They're simply there to rip people off. What difference does it make if you want to give your ticket to someone else? (Rhetorical question). They're almost as bad as the ones that accept over-payment and don't give change. "Cool Hand Luke" had the right idea.

Maybe, but they're definitely "upside-down" compared to all the others, every time I go to enter quantity 1, I go for the 7, maybe it was a calculator they looked at ...

I find the wording usually says "enter up to three letters from your registration" so I just enter a single letter that occurs in mine.

Oh I know they're different, and my brain is tuned to expect each type in its usual location, but if asked, I don't consciously know which is which - like long complicated passwords that you can type on auto-pilot, but struggle to write down or speak out.

But they are still illogical and wrong. Do people read books from the bottom of the page and go backwards?

What would visitors from Guernsey enter?

Sadly, these days, "top posting" seems to be SOP.

Suffolk County Council is good for those. And the charges are always just below a natural break, such as £1.85. Nobody has that in change, so they always get £2.00, and no change is given. They have one machine in Stowmarket that gives out tickets in two parts, the first goes in the windscreen, the second gets a refund at ASDA. Except that the second part gets 'accidentally' stuck in the machine, and by the time the checkout girl asks for your ticket (maybe), you realise that you never got it. I complained, and was ignored. I now know to either go to a different machine, and check anyway whichever one I'm at, but I wonder how many people like myself have been done the same way at least once.

And yes, I don't see why passing your ticket over to somebody else should be illegal. You've paid for the space, it should be your choice what to do with it.

I was going to say it was for the aid of the deaf/blind who can't hear the doors opening but then thought a little harder.... ;-)

I suspect a lot of these talking things are just to aid selling; all the rep has to do is drop the word "safer" in to his spiel and H&S paranoia sees that it trumps any offering that doesn't make noises.

I know of one where it speaks the wrong floors as it goes up. Not much use for anyone.

So does "Complies with DDA rules." It's also a Europe wide thing, so there may have been compulsion from Brussels.