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NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio
taped2thedesk writes "Today, NPR's Car Talk, a 'call in talk [radio] show about car mechanics', announced they were switching back to RealAudio, after dumping it for Windows Media a few months ago. When the show switched to Windows Media, Real took notice and convinced the show to switch back, by addressing various listener complaints about their player (many of which were fixed in RealPlayer 10). The hosts say: 'We believe [Real have] made a serious and successful attempt to address those things that our listeners complained about most... They even offered to serve the audio for free online, which defrays an expense we'd otherwise have to cover.'"
Everything people complain about seems to have been addressed.
So what's the point in using a pirated/reverse-engineered piece of software again, except to hurt people who have done exactly what you asked?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't?
Make up your mind...
"PC Load Letter? What the $@#% does that mean?!"
And this is different from blacks and hispanics going to unemployment or social security how?
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
When I'm presented with a bug that I can't reproduce I spend time looking for things that might cause other people problems, especially when it's a show stopper. If there's a problem you have to review/audit the code. I've worked with lazy team members who don't do this. It's stupid, ignorant, despicable and causes problems. It eventually comes back and bites the team and probably ends using up a lot of somebody else's time.