Damit, I clicked wrong damn button again

[Dave XYZ]

Damit, Damit, Damit, GAWD damit, I hit the wrong damn button, all my
mp3s got converted to this MS shit instead of the old what ever the hell
it was winmx. Damit it all, help me get out of Bill Gates bear hug,
Gawd damit. I can't enque anymore. Gawd damit.

[John]

Dave:

Once you take the irrelvant information and irrevernet expletives out
of this message, what's left?
"I made a mistake, and I want to blame someone else" (at least that's
what I read). Did Bill Gates make you do that? And where does God
(gawd) fit into the picture?

John <><

[John]

Dave:

Once you take the irrelevant information and irreverent expletives out

of this message, what's left?
"I made a mistake, and I want to blame someone else" (at least that's
what I read). Did Bill Gates make you do that? And where does God
(gawd) fit into the picture?

John <><

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:49:22 GMT, Dave XYZ <dr...@swbell.net> wrote:

[Artifakt]

"John" <jnu...@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:3cb472c2...@news.cis.dfn.de...

> Dave:
>
> Once you take the irrelevant information and irreverent expletives out
> of this message, what's left?
> "I made a mistake, and I want to blame someone else" (at least that's
> what I read). Did Bill Gates make you do that? And where does God
> (gawd) fit into the picture?
>
> John <><
>

How about I made the same mistake again, even though I consiously know
better, because the user interface is designed to encourage the mistake? All
it takes is scrolling through a menu, and clicking one line too high or low,
and sometimes the menu bar is reporting its position half a second ago
instead of now.

You know, for a while 727's (or at least the military version) had the
lights indicating engine flameout right next to an identical light that
indicated the coffee maker was running. When pilots looked down at a steep
angle and saw one of those red lights come on, they often panicked and
declared an emergency. This was called pilot error. Eventually, someone at
the FAA decided it made more sense to put a green bulb cover on that light
than keep saying the mistake was because a lot of normally
above-average-intelligence people were somehow all getting stupid in the
exact same way.

Why does delete end up just above rename in most right click menus for
objects? That's not alphabetical, it's just hazardous. Why does installing
windows media player 7 and the various support packs leave a right click
option to convert all the .mp3 files you have highlighted into .wma or .wmv
format, most often right below to the play or enque options installed by
Winamp or similar software? Why is their no option to convert back? Why
doesn't an irreversible, one-way task have a pop up menu, asking if you are
sure? Bill Gates, or someone he employs, has decided you, me, and everyone
WILL switch to a propriatary format he owns, over a free one he doesn't.

Options: You can learn enough about windows registry to edit out a right
click option you didn't want. (That is possible for about 2 users in 10, but
actually done by less than 1 in 100.). You can avoid using the right click
menu to launch mp3's (but you paid for the functionality of a right mouse
button, didn't you?). You can switch to Linux (but those .wma files won't
switch with you, so better download them again.)

[John]

Thanks, Dave:

I think this post makes a wole lot more sense. Personally, I haven't
had the problems that plague you, but perhaps that's because I am
retired, and I can take all the time in the world to read which box I
click.

Hope someone will give you a reasonable answer, or perhaps even a
solution.

John <><