----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Poor programming (was Re: Algol vs Fortran)
> I had Windows Media Player crash on me the other week and jammed CPU
usage
> at 100% :( Not great on my laptop, as the only
way to shut it down is
to
pull the plug
out of the mains and then pull out the battery (timed
carefully - thank god for the HD access light!).
Ouch. Well, that's not
exactly well written software either. I get by
with Miro or VLC for video and Songbird, which I also use as a browser
since it's built ontop of the same engine as Firefox and can use most of
Firefox's plugins. Much nicer than itunes or anything else I've used
recently, though it takes some work to get it to be as nice as firefox.
Running this on OS X or Linux is a godsend over that other thing from
Redmond that they claim is an operating system. I've not been able to
make any app crash the OS so far in that manner, but that's just me. :-)
It was just as it was about
to reload in the music file (something else I hate - why re-load in the
music file you were just playing, especially when it's not a large file
(<5MB)?!!) after reaching the end when the problem occured.
Well, I do like the ability for the apps I use to restore themselves to
the same state they were in before I quit them - saving context is a
good thing. Obviously if you had just crashed you should detect that
the app wasn't closed cleanly and give the user some options. If you've
seen the Session Manager plugin to Firefox, IMHO, the way to do right by
the user.
Yes, I quite agree with you on that. When Firefox crashes (usually because
of a flash plug-in) I love the fact that it gives you the option to restore
it's status.
However, the point I was making with WMP was that it reloads the music file
each time it reaches playing the end of it. I can understand re-loading it
in if WMP was shut down, crashed or not used for a long time, but to re-load
in the music file before each time it is played is ludicrous. For example,
if I were to play a 1 minute long song for 1 hour, it would load it in an
additional 59 times after opening WMP and loading in the song.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk