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Posted by Jeff Rife on 11/06/05 17:36
Stan Brown (the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Please understand: I was agreeing with the people who say these
> hidden files are an outrage, and satirizing the apologists who said
> "nobody's complained about this before". Clearly my satire was not an
> effective one. :-)
I missed it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't effective to others. :)
> <rant>
> Hardly any response to a complaint is more infuriatingly stupid than
> "nobody else has complained about it". Aside from the self-evident
> fact that _someone_ has to be first, it's well known that the great
> majority of people don't complain about any particular problem, but
> either suffer in silence or stop using the product.
> </rant>
Yeah, I have two pieces of software like that where I seem to be the only
one with a problem, despite the fact I have the same problem on multiple
machines with different users and configs. What's really bad is that these
are showstoppers (one causes the program to crash every time you use a file
open/save dialog, and the other garbles data files because of a temp file
naming error), yet all I hear is "it must be something in your config".
--
Jeff Rife | "The old guy was leading a 'Simon Says' game
| when he collapsed. On the way down he yelled
| 'call an ambulance!', but no one moved."
| -- Wings
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