Sunday, October 9, 2011

Everything's a critic

I was ripping an Enya CD when another program popped up to try and play it. The program whirred for a while and then announced 'No music found'. Not only is everyone a critic, now everything's a critic! 


 And now the technical writer annotated draft version of the same joke.

I was using Windows Media Player to rip my (legal) copy of Enya's The Memory of Trees onto my now venerable son derived PC (the PC is now venerable not my son, although there may be a small tribe somewhere in cyber space that venerates him for reasons I'd best not know) when the pre-installed Acer media player Acer Arcade Deluxe (ALWAYS beware of anything with the word 'Deluxe' in its name - it indicates a desire to make people believe the product is superior without the ability to make it so ['Make it so Number One.' How degrading is that naval terminology anyway, especially if you happen to be the Second Officer? And if that's how the third most important person is referred to, what must really be happening to the cabin boy? Arrrrr Jim lad. Sorry.] popped up to also try and play the CD. Naturally there was a resource conflict and much hanging of programs, whirring and such while I tried to terminate Arcade Reflux (with extreme prejudice) with no success. Eventually the message 'No music found' displayed on Arcade Deluxe's output panel. Not only is everyone a critic, now everything's a critic! But I still couldn't close Arcade Deluxe even using Task Manager until I manually closed all the individual processes which were using over 100M of memory to do absolutely nothing! I must delink this from autoplay, it's getting on my nerves. LOL. And another thing ...




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