I totally agree. Quicktime is a total fucking annoyance if you don't purchase the damn "Pro" version. However, I use iTunes and it requires QT. >:-(
But then, it could be worse. Try Real player. ;-) While I'm joining your rant, I want to add that Adobe's Acro Reader bugs the living shit out of me. I hate the annoying pink button in the top-right corner. You know the marketing manager at Adobe said "What would be the worst possible color that would clash with most web sites? We must grab everyone's attention" The kiss-asses said, "Pink!" I also hate how Acro Reader decides to update itself in the background while you are waiting for the PDF to appear in the browser. Then, you are sitting wondering why your CFDOCUMENT tag didn't work. Only when you close all windows, you notice that Reader is waiting for you to approve an update. I've seen too many of these issues noted by CF developers. I can't wait until Acro Reader and Flash Player are integrated and then Adobe will make us sit through a "commercial" before the Flash content actually starts playing. Don't even get me started on the TV bugs and in-program commercials. I don't need to know what the fuck comes on after King of the Hill. I have a damn on-screen guide. Who the hell doesn't these days? So, they then show the damn commericals while you are watching the program. The "bugs" used to be just a fraction of the screen. Now, I have seen bugs that are about 25% of the screen and some that are half-way, vertically, on the screen. I'm sure the television program's producers and directors really intended for their "art" to be covered by advertising for next week's movie. God! I hate those marketing bastards! M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 1:13 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Damn Quicktime! Damn it all to Hell! I just really hate QuickTime. I hit a site, it says "you need QuickTime"... I accidentally hit "Okay" to the request. It downloads something then hits Apple's site to download Quicktime. I say "no". You'd think that would be that, uh? No. The stub it downloaded first, although it can't do a damn thing, installs itself into my "Run" key, DOESN'T give me an uninstall option (not in the application itself, not in the add/remove programs, not in the start menu) and displays a useless QuickTime logo in my tray. >From this logo I can see 10 greyed out options (since I don't actually QuickTime installed) and the option to go to Apple's website. To provide me with this invaluable service this little piece of shit needs upwards of two meg of RAM constantly. In the end I had to edit the registry to get rid of it. This is just nasty. When Gator and Hotbar do the same thing it's "Spyware" and "Malware" and so forth... but Apple does it and it's what? "Good UI"? Just venting. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169243 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
