Speaking on gtalk to people who are no longer in my immediate vicinity has been very illuminating to me as a person.
First of all, it made me realize how inferior MSN is as an instant messenger. I already much prefer gmail, and now I much prefer gtalk.
I'm a minimalist with my computer things. I just downloaded the new version of Nero (Nero 8) and I was aghast when it told me it was 180 megabytes. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU PUT IN IT YOU TWITS? Does it open the CD, reach out into the world, and attempt to locate an empty CD-R? Does it scratch the CD label into the disc with its sheer psychic powers? It fucking better! One! Hundred! And Eighty! Megabytes!
I haven't installed it yet because it detected Nero 6 on my PC, and Nero 6 refuses to uninstall. I therefore need a new CD burning program that doesn't suck. Suggestions.
Back to the topic at hand. Gtalk. Gtalk is lovely. If you don't have gmail, you really should get it. It's the epitome of what email should be, convenient, easy, FAST. The simplistic beauty of an email client that lets you IM chat in the same place you browse your email and is 100% browser based with no downloads is so mind bogglingly awesome I didn't even realize it was mind bogglingly awesome until after I started using it for a bit.
It also helps me keep in contact, like I said, with my friends. Said friends I suspect have the same irrational hatred of MSN as me. ____ has come online! deserves to die. Die a horrible, painful death, mostly because it alt-tabs me from programs that really do not like to be alt-tabbed from.
That's another pet peeve. When I review a game, if I review a game, you know, professionally, if I have to give it a score card, you know, graphics, sound, gameplay, there'll be a column for 'Alt-tab friendliness' i.e., to what degree can I alt-tab this game and alt-tab back in and still have it work?
Some do well. Sins of a Solar Empire simply pauses and waits for you, and has decent load times back and forth. World of Warcraft has a decent wait sometimes and every so often there's a memory leak, but that can be fixed by alt-tabbing back and forth.
Team Fortress 2 sucks at this. I love the game but if I alt-tab out of it I may as well just quit and load it up again. Extra bonus suck when my antivirus decides to update in the background and instead of headshotting that heavy from across the map I click 'OK' to the 'your update has completed!' box of AVG
That's ANOTHER thing. Do I really, really need a 'your update has been completed!' box? I know it's been completed, and even if I didn't, I don't care. If I needed to know, really really, burningly NEEDED to know, I'd check! And it absolutely, 100%, does NOT need to minimize the game which takes forever to load and will never ever ever load probably after it's been minimized, TYVM!
Sigh.
World In Conflict impressed me with the alt-tabbage. If you alt-tab, the game will go 'Please wait, reloading resources' which reeks of 'hey we thought of this first, check us out, we're awesome.' but in a good way.
Stay tuned; tomorrow I will ramble on even more impressively about something even more random. OR MAYBE I WON'T!
6 comments:
Um... I don't think msn is to bad? *runs away*
"Does it scratch the CD label into the disc with its sheer psychic powers?"
Uh, that's called Lightscribe, and you need special cds and drives to do it. :P
Strange that Nero 6 won't uninstall though...
"____ has come online! deserves to die. Die a horrible, painful death, mostly because it alt-tabs me from programs that really do not like to be alt-tabbed from."
You hate it because of a feature that can be turned off?
If you want the best IM program in the world though, get Trillian. I went on a huge gtalk kick for a while but I pretty much only ever used it at work, to talk to friends in Mumbai. Now I'm back to msn (windows live, I should say) because the latest version is shiny and I don't use any of my old IM accounts anymore, so Trillian is a little redundant. I may go back after the Astra release, we'll see.
I used Trillian about five years ago, but I decided I didn't need most of its functionality and I switched back to MSN.
Mind, I dislike MSN because of what got added in. Like random smileys that replace normal words (other people, not me) the need to download a client, etc.
I just prefer gtalk okay.
p.s. hi thammmmm
Nero... that program has saved my ass so many times i dunno where to begin. Seriously, programs get bloated over time, Nero seriously gets better and better over time.
For example, it's video capture and conversion utilities are simply AMAZING. Not to mention the enormous flexibility it offers when it comes to custom Optical Media authoring. It's so good, the fact that there is no MacOS version IMO makes MacOS inferior as a media authoring platform.
HAHAHAHA!
I use MSN only for work, so I have to switch on the client. The emotes are fun to use, but if I didn't have so many files being transferred here and there I would have just saved myself the trouble and used Meebo instead. No client, no fuss.
<333 Gtalk though. Only stupid thing is that it's not supported on Linux and it's one of the very few VOIP programs that ALWAYS guarantees me clear, crisp calls, without lagging my comp/taking my resources to route other calls through my comp (cookies if you get the reference).
MSN? SUCKS. Lags like anything and it's wayyyy too bloated. Mreh.
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