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We've had a few threads lately about things that are done to software that don't really have anything to do with the real purpose of the software.* Someone asked how to add licensing, and I've got my own thread complaining about a certain music program's latest version.
The point of this thread, though, is to iterate, compare, and contrast the various injustices dumped upon us in addition to the code that actually does real work.* Things like:
DRM/Licensing/Copy protection - this has been hashed, rehashed, and corned-beef hashed to death, but it does fall into the catagory.
Upgrade nagging - How about you only nag me once a week.* Or maybe you could email me.* Microsoft Money, for example, starts harassing in September for a program that won't even be usable till the following year.**Have you ever run Paint.Net and*not been told about a new version?***
Browser propagation - Almost functional browsers inside of other programs that don't need a browser.* This was big during the whole RSS feed craze, but it seemed to have died down, except in media players.* I already have a browser, and your program should use it.* Always.* Only a retard would want to 'surf' through their media player.
Cute and Confusing - Every single motherboard that I've bought has had some weird monitoring program with rounded edges, weirdly located buttons, and a chronic inability*to run at windows startup without throwing an error.* Asus, you suck the worst at this.
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The point of this thread, though, is to iterate, compare, and contrast the various injustices dumped upon us in addition to the code that actually does real work.* Things like:
DRM/Licensing/Copy protection - this has been hashed, rehashed, and corned-beef hashed to death, but it does fall into the catagory.
Upgrade nagging - How about you only nag me once a week.* Or maybe you could email me.* Microsoft Money, for example, starts harassing in September for a program that won't even be usable till the following year.**Have you ever run Paint.Net and*not been told about a new version?***
Browser propagation - Almost functional browsers inside of other programs that don't need a browser.* This was big during the whole RSS feed craze, but it seemed to have died down, except in media players.* I already have a browser, and your program should use it.* Always.* Only a retard would want to 'surf' through their media player.
Cute and Confusing - Every single motherboard that I've bought has had some weird monitoring program with rounded edges, weirdly located buttons, and a chronic inability*to run at windows startup without throwing an error.* Asus, you suck the worst at this.
Any others?
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