23rd March 2004, 6:12 PM
I just don't like system clutter. It's just something I've learned to do to prevent my system ending up like everyone else's I know (slowly getting slower and slower and more unstable as more and more useless junk is set to run in the background). I suppose it can get me a little overprotective and suspicious of a lot of stuff. Don't get me wrong, software progress is all well and good. I tend to update all my software on a regular basis. However, all these codecs running around all over the place are rather pointless. Just a few decent ones, or maybe just one open sourced one, is all that there should be. I shouldn't have to download a new codec every single time I want to watch a video. Yeesh, classic avi was good enough, especially since the only thing I ever even watch is demo movies of games, and sometimes movie commercials. It's not something that needs all this clutter. It's a bunch of 2d images and sound and none of it's rendered. Why all the hasle?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)