Posts Tagged ‘rant’

Nov 17
2008

Google and Adobe are ruining the world

Back in August I blogged about something that really pisses me off: When applications install in to your C drive regardless of where you tell it to install.

Another thing that is similar and just as heinous is when you download a program, run the installer and then the installer downloads another installer. Again.

If this isn’t the installer, what is it? An installer for the installer? Redundant much?
I could give a flying fuck if you want me to have the latest version. Create an auto-updater for your software if you want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. I downloaded the setup file because I wanted it to be accessible from anywhere. If I knew this was just going to be a proxy for the real setup I would have just run it from my temp files after it had finished downloading. I chose to save the file so I could use it anywhere and any time. Now I need to be attached to the internet just to install your stupid browser that nobody takes seriously anyway. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, this is Google after all, not exactly king of the software realm. Unfortunately though, they aren’t the only ones that do this.

Dear developers: Stop it. Just stop it. It’s not clever. It’s not cool. It’s stupid and you’re stupid for thinking it’s any good. Just quit it.

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Listening To: Gotan Project - El Norte
Aug 2
2008

C: Drive Usage

What a FUCKING surprise! Continuing today’s ragey theme, why the fuck do things require space on the C: drive when I explicitly tell it to install to another drive?

Adobe’s Audition music editor is the latest culprit of this stupid and archaic trend. The program requires ~350mb of disk space. During the installation it asks where you want to install it, so I decide to install it on to my 750GB drive I’ve named Local Data. So you know what it does? It installs about 50mb in to the drive I told it to install in to and the other 300 in to my C. Why? Why even ask me where I want to install it if you’re just going to stick it all in C anyway. Fuck you. No wonder I never have any free space on C.

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Listening To: Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Slow Motion Tag Team
Aug 2
2008

MP3 Players in Australia

As some of you may know I’ve recently been on the lookout for a new Portable Media Player.
After much research I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to get a Creative Zen 32GB. I say “going to” because NOBODY FUCKING HAS THEM.

I’ve been to every shop in town that would have them, except for Tandy’s because it doesn’t fucking exist. Seriously I’ve been up and down Charles street ten times, inside David Jones and in the fucking mall. IT DOESN’T EXIST. It’s a LIE.
Nobody has them.
I’ve been to every shopping mall in South Australia, the largest sized MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod I found was a whopping 8 gigs. Eight. Fucking. Gigs. Fuck you Australia. I purchased an iRiver h320 over four years ago. At the time it also came in a 40gb variant. Are you honestly telling me that in four years we’ve managed to regress 32gb? And the fact that they sell ONE gigabyte models at almost the same price as the 8GB model is just fucking hilarious.

The kicker is that when I ask them if they sell the 32gb model, most salespersons’ jaw almost drops to the floor. They’re like, “What? There’s an MP3 Player that isn’t an iPod that’s larger than 16GB?”
One guy even tried his darndest to sell me a crappy 8gb model. Why the fuck would I want 8gb when I explicitly asked for a 32gb model. He was all like, “8 gigs is all you’ll ever need!”
I told him Bill Gates said the same thing about memory but I don’t think he got the reference. I don’t think I even have 8gb free on my iRiver h320.

So Why? What the fuck does Australia have against MP3 players with decent storage? I can buy a piece of crap iPod touch with 80 fucking GB of storage but if I want a functional, modern PMP I have to put up with 8gb? What kind of logic is that? FUCK YOU AND YOUR HOUSE.

Fuck you South Australia. It’s times like these that I thank Science that online shopping is a reality. Sure I have to pay extra for shipping and handling, but at least I can actually fucking OWN it.

/rage

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Listening To: Sleeve Channel - Give A Little
Jun 28
2008

Repetitive Electronic Music

So I went shopping today at the apparently local mall of shopping and every clothes store was pumping out the latest club beatz as normal. Now I don’t mind decent club songs, I don’t quite get the connection between fashion and dancing but it’s not the songs that bother me. Infact I am quite partial towards to music of sweat and bouncing. It’s the crazy volume they play these songs at that frustrates me beyond all.

It’s so loud that it isn’t fun to listen to any more. There’s such a thing as too loud. I’m young and hip and incredibly good looking so it’s not that I’m getting old or anything. It’s just common sense to play these songs at a comfortable volume. Unsurprisingly everyone was yelling at each other because they can’t hear each other’s puny human voices over these amazing club songs.
You know how people say, “Size isn’t everything”? Well the same goes for volume, man. Seriously it’s just lame.

One store I went in to didn’t even have a decent sound system, just a little radio sitting there pumping out these bass-heavy songs with little to no bass actually being presented. This made the song crazy tinny and quite painful to listen to. I was checking myself out in the mirror (which is hard not to do, I confess) and swore I saw blood spewing from my ears. It suddenly became clear why all their stock was covered in blood.

Actually now that I think about it’s probably that the person in charge of the sound is just deaf. He’s probably the douchebag that sits in front of the speakers at clubs bobbing his head away like a retarded step-child that nobody loves. No wonder he hears static all day.

In other news, my screenshot of Infernal from way back is now directly linked to from a warez site. I should pull one of those aresholic switcharoos and put up a big porn picture or something, but being the innocent Catholic-raised schoolgirl that I am, I won’t.

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Listening To: Dave Armstrong & Redroche - Love Has Gone (Club Mix)