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Journal the_mad_poster's Journal: Linux, SUVs, the RIAA, and How To Design A Shitty UI 17

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First, the shitty UI, because that's what I'm most pissed off about. It's more like a shitty overall user experience though, the UI is just the face on the problem.

Fucking MusicMatch... okay, so, I use MusicMatch for my audio needs because.. well, I do. Here's what fucking irritates me about goddamn software vendors these days.

First of all, about 1 in 3 times I try to shut down MusicMatch, it pops an ad up trying to get me to pay extra so I can start downloading music at a buck a pop.

Toot toot morons! The clue train is coming into your station and I'm letting you ride it for free! I'm NEVER going to buy this "service", irritating the shit out of me by preventing me from shutting things down isn't going to change my mind, it has only succeeded in making me decide against paying you again for the upgraded radio service when the term expires! What, do you idiots hire ethically challenged mental retards to do all your marketing? Yea, yea.

I realize that all marketers are ethically challenged and being mentally retarded would overqualify them...

Next, these dipshits keep asking me to upgrade shit. Finally, annoyed by having to tell it "NO" every time (fuck if I want to upgrade it without them telling me what they're changing...), I relented and let it do the upgrade.

Smooth enough, except for one tiny problem. The damn thing is just a skin over Internet Explorer using some plugins (if you go into "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files" you can see all the files it uses) and after the upgrade, all the plugins and cookies and whatnot are no good anymore. What does it do? Does it alert you to this fact and ask you to clean out the outdated files? Does it do that for you as part of the upgrade?

No, it just sits there and keeps saying "Loading..." forever until you give up when you try to use an online portion of the program such as the radio or music store.

Smooth. Even my little script for all you folks is smart enough to tell when something is wrong with the file it loads...

Finally, there's the seamless movement between the "radio" and "download" sections.

Now, normally you would think seamless movement is good, right?

Well, yea, except the sections you're moving between in Musicmatch look exactly the same, save the relatively obscure title that you're probably not paying any attention to. The problem is that there's no design difference, but the functionality changes when you move between the sections. When I click through to an artist in the radio view, I'd like to stay in the radio view so I can start the artist's station. I don't WANT to download lossy tracks for a dollar apiece so you can tell me what I can and can't do with them. Fuck off with your stupid store.

Okay, on to SUVs... more specifically, the idiots that drive them.

Got something to tow? Great. Buy a truck. Got a lot of people to haul frequently? Great. Buy a van. Or a minivan even.

Got something to tow AND frequently have to carry people around OR go offroad a lot? Great! You're one of the 2% of the SUV-driving population that can actually justify your purchase, and didn't just get totally fucked over at the dealership on the lease term! Congratulations, unlike the other 98% of SUV drivers on the road, you aren't a complete and total dipshit advertising your absolute stupidity with the largest symbol you could possibly find!

Seriously, what the fuck people? I almost never see an SUV with more than three people. They're almost always hauling one or two. They're not safer than a car OR a minivan (in fact, they're MUCH LESS safe than the latter - by magnitudes in most cases). They're big, they're ugly, they're slow, and you bought it because you are a ball sucking moron who got suckered in by a trend started by a bunch of black, high school dropouts who make a shitload more money than you ever will.

You're a fucking idiot. Come to terms with that fact, and just buy a fucking Lexus or something.

So, what set that off? How about the dick-gobbling whore in an Explorer outside the Giant the other day? The bitch in the blue explorer who almost ran over the nice lady desperately trying to get out of the way of the hulking behemoth that was about to back over her because the dipshit at the wheel couldn't see her? How about the crippled old tart in the Expedition who almost slammed into me after she cut right in front of me to dart into the space vacated by the Explorer even though I was clearly not attempting to go into it?

SUV drivers are some stupid, stupid shits.

Let's talk about Lin-ux, bayybee, let's talk about you and me.... let's talk about all these fucktards who think Linux is a viable replacement for a Windows box in your typical desktop situation.

NO.

When I can install useful applications without messing with tarballs or rpms or apt-get on the CLI, come talk to me. When I can run a functional window manager that doesn't hog 90% of the system resources because it's an afterthought sitting on top of a kludge, come talk to me. When I can easily change my context menu without editing a text file, come talk to me.

The RIAA - stealing music is stealing music is stealing music. Say it with me now!

Guess what? The RIAA is suing people BECAUSE THEY'RE PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED IN DOING SO.

Oh, boo fucking hoo. CDs are overpriced. Cry me a fucking river you big baby. DON'T BUY THEM. Guess what? I think lots of shit is overpriced. I don't steal anything and try to justify based on the idea that I'm somehow entitled to experience the value of something I DON'T NEED if I'm not willing to pay the price for it. Uh. No. If the value is not equal to or greater than the price, in your opinion, you don't buy it. Real... fucking... simple.

Life isn't really this complicated people... please... stop being so stupid...

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  • Copyright infringement, si. Stealing (slash theft), no.

    Everything else you said: dead on.

    • You're right, it's not stealing. It's worse--it's fraud.

      "Mr. Stafety Cap, why did you steal that bread?"

      "I have a starving child"

      "Why did you present yourself as a lawful baker though?"

      "er..." :)
      • "Mr. Safety Cap, why did you make an identical copy of that bread, leaving the original in place?"
        • "Mr. Safety Cap, why did you make a perfect copy of my baker's guild seal?"

          It's not about loss of property. It's usurption of legal right.

  • Stupid drivers are in every type of car.

    • True, but cars belong on the road whereas SUVs don't. The purpose of a sport utility vehicle is to have a capable tool for offroad travel, towing, etc. It's meant to be an all around utility vehicle, not an oversized replacement for a regular car.

      So, you get these idiots that shoot up the interstate at 85 mph in a 4000 pound box on wheels without the slightest clue as to how to actually handle the things. Then, something is on the road, they swerve their top-heavy penis extension at a high speed, roll it,

      • Personnally, I think the stupidest drivers are the ones that "soup up" their cars, but end up wasting money on useless things. Like a ridiculous looking spoiler, an exhaust that's the size of an elephant's ass and looks twice as bad, and Type R stickers. At SUV drivers can say "well, just in case I NEED to go off road I can" despite it being rather silly, it's much better than "Ummm, if I need to race somebody, I can wow them with my bajillion shiny stickers!" Anyways, they're both stupid.
  • Haha... you do have some great points in there. Of course I can't agree with everything, but at least you aren't afraid to speak your mind.

    What happened to the AC that went around calling you the mad poseur? . [reference.com] That guy was a riot.

    • I chopped him up and used him in a stir fry.

      Actually, I think it graduated to posting relevant, but relatively dumb, responses and then trying to say they were trolls. Unfortunately, it's gone from being way too obvious, to so subtle that the posts are no longer trolls.

      Of course, I guess that's the best you can expect from an emotionally stunted fifteen year old...

  • Linux on the desktop I can only justify in one place, namely, a corporation with a guy in charge of being root on all the desktops.

    I use 'em for low-privildge users who need web, e-mail, and openoffice. =P
  • Grr.. I don't like defending Linux, but some of these complaints are silly...

    When I can install useful applications without messing with tarballs or rpms or apt-get on the CLI, come talk to me

    I don't see what the big deal is, regarding software installation. Most "desktop users" don't spend much time installing software. That would be especially true in a business setting. The admin installs it, and then you use it. After that, it's just a matter of clicking icons and choosing menu options and enter

    • Most "desktop users" don't spend much time installing software.

      "Desktops" are home boxes too. People in their houses do not have admins to slap the shit out of them when they're about to do (or already have done) something stupid. These are not valid solutions for Linux to be a ready contendor to the Windows desktop market because they require the presence of a clued-in admin.

      How can you flame software installation on Linux, when 90% of the population gets by with something worse?

      90% of the populati

      • Deal with it.

        This is not a valid attitude if Linux is ready for the desktop.

        Well, the whole point of my long-winded post, is that it is a valid attitude, and my reason for thinking it's valid, is that people have been putting up with it for years. Yes, stuff should just work, but a lot of stuff doesn't "just work", and the public has tolerated this. Most peoples' standards are pretty low.

        As for Nautilus' performance .. ugh, this is exactly the kind of thing that makes me regret defending Linux. ;-)

        • I don't think you need to feel like you're defending Linux. Linux I don't have a problem with (though its community really wears on my nerves quite regularly... [devshed.com]). It's the secondary and tertiary apps that run on the system that irk me. Unfortunately, there really isn't much choice (ironic, that) when it comes to these additional tools, so if you're using Linux/BSD for the desktop, you're basically stuck with the crap the base install gives you unless you're clued in enough to go get a good window manager (w

  • SUVs suck (though my parents both drive them, and my dad actually DOES tow things and haul people and go offroad, my mom has no excuse).

    shitty UIs run rampant.

    i guess all i really have to comment on is your linux comments. the user is going to have to relearn how to do things if they use anything but what they're used to. i don't think the question of 'ready for the desktop' enters into it. if you take a few minutes to learn where to get software for your distro and a couple more to learn to properly inst

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