A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)

An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"

Geekgasm

[Stanistani]

Mythbusters and Linux? What a Slashdot combo!

Jamie's the one who tries NOT to get hurt on the show, of course.

Bloat?

[Anonymous Coward]

Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.

But Mandriva have never let a little thing like that stand in their way.

Adam

[cruff]

I though for sure his top tech annoyance would have been Adam Savage. :-)

Re:No offence,

[Anonymous Coward]

it seems like the paragraph or two that mentioned Linux was the only reason for this article to be relevant

I would say "you must be new here", but I doubt you are.

So if Jamie represents Linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and Adam seems to like Apple, who gets Microsoft?

My guess is Buster.

Corrected for him...

[InsaneMosquito]

If I want to be nagged in my car, I'll bring my wife.

Re:So if Jamie represents Linux...

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

I don't think Buster's had a chair thrown at him just yet.

Re:Geekgasm

[bwcarty]

Jamie's the one who tries NOT to get hurt on the show, of course.

Of course, when he does get hurt, it looks more painful than Adam's frequent miscues. That shot he gave himself when cutting the line to his handheld grappling hook winch was rough...it almost ranks up there with Adam putting his lips in the vacuum motor.

This should annoy him

[serginho]

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/15/funny-pictures-welkum-to-mythbusters/ [icanhascheezburger.com] :D

Re:Obligatory...

[chubs730]

I can't even count on my two hands the girls I know personally who are as good if not better looking than she is.

This is to be expected, it can be difficult to stretch a value of zero across ten fingers.

Re:No offence,

[SQLGuru]

If you want devices to be single function, always look for the ones endorsed by the AARP.

Layne

Re:Obligatory...

[Captain Splendid]

Kari is pretty much average.

Granted, she's not Catherine Deneuve, but hot body+cute face+understanding of physics and engineering is not average, not by a long shot. Either you spend too much time in your basement or you're banging Playboy models on a regular basis.

I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which is the most likely scenario ;)

Re:Bloat?

[yoyhed]

Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.

Are you kidding me? I've always thought that the eyes that follow your mouse around were an essential feature to an OS.

Well, if they ever get low on cash...

[Weaselmancer]

It says of her on the Mythbusters website: Sculptor, painter, actor and one-time-only backside-model.

I guess that was the airplane toilet episode. I wonder whatever happened to that model Jamie made...

I can only imagine what that'd bring on eBay.

Re:No offence,

[samkass]

And ironically, I had to click away a jumping JavaScript pop-in window in order to see the page talking about bloat and loading up an interface with crap.

Mod parent down!

[eugene ts wong]

Honestly, what did Buster ever do to you? Leave him out of this.

Re:Adam

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm also surprised that LOLCats (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/15/funny-pictures-welkum-to-mythbusters/ [icanhascheezburger.com]) don't make the list :-)

Re:non standard screws

[businessnerd]

Amen to that!

Just recently I came home to find a cockroach in the LCD panel of my microwave. A true "That's disgusting, but how the hell did he get in there!??!!" moment. Well of course my first thought is to grab can of raid, a screwdriver and open the microwave up. As I get to screw number 3, I realize that this is not your typical screw. In fact, there is no way for my multi-headed screw driver to unscrew it! So now I have no way of being able to look inside my microwave and see if it's just one roach, or if it's a whole nest.

Re:Obligatory...

[everphilski]

at the late niiiight, double featuuure, picture show!

Screw *ALL* OS's!

[elrous0]

Personally, I decided to forgo BIOS's and OS's altogether and just work directly in Assembly.

Re:Geekgasm

[beluv]

Of course, when he does get hurt, it looks more painful than Adam's frequent miscues. That shot he gave himself when cutting the line to his handheld grappling hook winch was rough...it almost ranks up there with Adam putting his lips in the vacuum motor.

No way. The most difficult moment to watch on this show is when the Tori/Grant/Cari trio played a prank on Adam and shocked him with the ark or whatever that was. I will not watch if that episode is airing.

Going to make some guesses here without RTFA

[BeeBeard]

His chief complaints are:

1. Electric mustache trimmers far more newfangled than the reliable steam-powered models.

2. Local beret dealer insists on selling them in outlandish, inefficient colors such as "blue" and "red" instead of the more streamlined "black" model.

3. Technological advances in promulgating human rights laws make it no longer possible to keep hyperactive co-host safely chained to a radiator in the basement between tapings.

Re:Screw *ALL* OS's!

[Gat0r30y]

Assembly is for wussies! Real men code with punch cards. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to the lab just to test our programs. Seriously dude, there are some pretty good compilers out there nowadays. jump on the bandwagon. all the cool kids are doin it.

Re:New Myth to test...!

[3dr]

Hmm, surely there's been at least one useful post and one accurate summary before.

Therefore, I mod this +1, Plausible.

Re:Geekgasm

[TigerNut]

No way. Tori's bicycle face plant [youtube.com] takes both of those, hands (and face) down.

Re:Screw *ALL* OS's!

[Max Littlemore]

I do use a keyboard instead of C++, you insensitive clod!

Re:No offence,

[zobier]

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