2006-05-11

andrewducker: (Default)
2006-05-11 06:16 pm

On getting a sense of priorities

In the last ten years, smoking has killed 4,000,000 Americans. Traffic has killed 400,000. Terrorism has killed 4,000.

(Can't remember where I stole this from)
andrewducker: (devil)
2006-05-11 11:55 pm

Well that's bloody annoying (#17 in an ongoing series): Things that don't just stop when you ask the

When I quit a piece of software, unless there's something important it has to ask me (like "Should I save this document") it should simply remove itself from memory, releasing any memory/disk space/network ports it was using at the time.

What it _shouldn't_ do is display 5 screens telling me how great it is, ask me if I want to buy some other products from the same company or (most recently annoying) play a sample saying "Goodbye". 

If I'd wanted to hear anything more from the software I wouldn't have quit it in the first place!