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Star Wars Premier: The Line People
proudtobeageek writes "A friend of mine, an attendee of a midnight opening of Star Wars Episode III, took the opportunity to conduct a short documentary/interview of the costumed movie goers. He has his short movie available here on his blog."
This is just getting rediculous. When will people stop using such a shitty codec. I stopped the download as soon as I seen it was in Quicktime. I refuse to watch that peice of junk
"solution: do not fuck up the point-and-click install next time"
It's not a question of fucking up anything. Dunno about him, but let me assure you _I_ know where the associations and options pages are on both. It's either Firefox or Quicktime that's fucked up, or some unholy interaction between both: it forgets those options.
Actually, I suspect it's Firefox, seein' as even after I set it up to open MPEGs with DivX Player, it occasionally gets a brainfart and shows them with Quicktime embedded. Usually after I used CTRL-F a few times.
Also, more like wishful thinking than real hating Quicktime or anything, but I instinctively dislike _any_ program that wants to keep itself loaded in the tray. That includes Quicktime, Real Player, Open Office, Sun's recent JVMs, and anything which tries to stay there just to seem like it loads faster, as opposed to being _needed_ all the time. (E.g., video or sound drivers.)
I don't want half my RAM full of programs I use at most once a week. Even if I was a secretary, I wouldn't need Open Office in RAM all the time. And I'm still drawing blanks what-the-heck-a-profession would use the Real or Quicktime _viewer_ hundreds of times per day, so 1 second loading time makes a difference. Porn site reviewer maybe?
It's getting to the point where you can get your machine just as stuffed without even needing spyware. All those programs "helpfully" preloading themselves can already put a low end machine into swapping.
And what really bothers me is that it's invariably a way to hide crap programming.
It used to be at some point that code quality mattered. True, sometimes you had to end up with a larger program for extra speed (e.g., unrolling loops or special cases as separate functions) or for extra functionality. But not with stuff like loading 100 MB of Java VM, and several seconds of just pure initializing that, just because that's the buzzword of the day. And in any case, if your program took too painfully long to even load, it used to be _your_ problem, not the user's.
Now we just preload it and act like, w00t, our bloat loads instantly. We're so l33t. Too bad the user's machine now swaps, but now it's suddenly the user's problem, not ours. We can just call the user an idiot and move on.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
...and the starwars line is less detached from reality.
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Can we please stop encouraging these people?
'Thats they exact same thing a banana wrench monkey.'