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Well, okay, I'll tone it down.
I don't mean to denigrate anyone, nor discourage anyone from doing with their computer whatever they wish to do.
I just went to a garden railway supplier web site and it immediately attempted to show a movie to me... or at least that is what I assume it did. My anti-virus, anti-phishing and anti-spyware software all came up with warnings and dialog boxes saying that some entity was trying to modify my Registry and inserting new entries into my computer's Start-Up lists.
I started canceling and/or denying permission to alter my PC setup and they just kept coming! Then my PC locked up and I could not get control of anything. I had to pull the AC power plug and battery (its a laptop PC) to get back to being able to make the mouse respond.
It took over an hour to get the PC rebooted and calmed down to the point where I could get back to my e-mail and the MLS site.
The software that I KNOW causes this is Apple's "QuickTime" and it happens way TOO often. Their programmers (possibly at the direction of their superiors) seem to believe that if you so much as peek at their software then you must believe it to be the absolute best-est in the whole wide world and just cannot live without it being installed deeply into the recesses of your computer and thus they attempt to make your computer awash with it.
I DON'T WANT IT.
It may be a fine piece of software and it may present movies and play sounds well, but I utterly HATE the conceit that they seem to have about it. Oops! Sorry, I said I'd tone it down, didn't I?
I would like to make a request to the various web site owners and developers... I know that you want your website to be attention grabbing and memorable... but...
PLEASE,
for the sake of those of us that don't like to have to install this junk, as well as those that are still on slowspeed dialup...
Make the opening page of your web site to be VERY BENIGN!
Don't play music (some folk might not like YOUR selections) or railroad sounds (a loud whistle is cute, but when it is unexpected and the volume knob is all the way clockwise it can be a rather RUDE interruption to others) nor immediately open a movie (folk with slow dialup access will cancel your site before it gets loaded). If you absolutely MUST use QuickTime, (and I am trying very hard not to use obscene adjectives in front of that product's name) you may do so, but give us a chance to SEE your web site BEFORE you inundate us with unwanted and totally undesirable junk.
From the glowing recommendations presented here on MLS, I was considering the expenditure of my hard earned CASH on some products of the company whose site I went to, but I am unable to see the company's products nor even see how to contact them due to the home page of their site being one that plays a QuickTime movie as soon as the page opens. Their site is now on my DO NOT VISIT list and they have lost a possible sale today and maybe others in the future.
I'll shut up now and go away.
I don't mean to denigrate anyone, nor discourage anyone from doing with their computer whatever they wish to do.
I just went to a garden railway supplier web site and it immediately attempted to show a movie to me... or at least that is what I assume it did. My anti-virus, anti-phishing and anti-spyware software all came up with warnings and dialog boxes saying that some entity was trying to modify my Registry and inserting new entries into my computer's Start-Up lists.
I started canceling and/or denying permission to alter my PC setup and they just kept coming! Then my PC locked up and I could not get control of anything. I had to pull the AC power plug and battery (its a laptop PC) to get back to being able to make the mouse respond.
It took over an hour to get the PC rebooted and calmed down to the point where I could get back to my e-mail and the MLS site.
The software that I KNOW causes this is Apple's "QuickTime" and it happens way TOO often. Their programmers (possibly at the direction of their superiors) seem to believe that if you so much as peek at their software then you must believe it to be the absolute best-est in the whole wide world and just cannot live without it being installed deeply into the recesses of your computer and thus they attempt to make your computer awash with it.
I DON'T WANT IT.
It may be a fine piece of software and it may present movies and play sounds well, but I utterly HATE the conceit that they seem to have about it. Oops! Sorry, I said I'd tone it down, didn't I?
I would like to make a request to the various web site owners and developers... I know that you want your website to be attention grabbing and memorable... but...
PLEASE,
for the sake of those of us that don't like to have to install this junk, as well as those that are still on slowspeed dialup...
Make the opening page of your web site to be VERY BENIGN!
Don't play music (some folk might not like YOUR selections) or railroad sounds (a loud whistle is cute, but when it is unexpected and the volume knob is all the way clockwise it can be a rather RUDE interruption to others) nor immediately open a movie (folk with slow dialup access will cancel your site before it gets loaded). If you absolutely MUST use QuickTime, (and I am trying very hard not to use obscene adjectives in front of that product's name) you may do so, but give us a chance to SEE your web site BEFORE you inundate us with unwanted and totally undesirable junk.
From the glowing recommendations presented here on MLS, I was considering the expenditure of my hard earned CASH on some products of the company whose site I went to, but I am unable to see the company's products nor even see how to contact them due to the home page of their site being one that plays a QuickTime movie as soon as the page opens. Their site is now on my DO NOT VISIT list and they have lost a possible sale today and maybe others in the future.
I'll shut up now and go away.