@C-Octothorpe said:
Last I heard it was bad for morale to eat your coworkers.
I was about to comment, but your tag beat me to it... @C-Octothorpe said:
Unless they're hawt
@C-Octothorpe said:
Last I heard it was bad for morale to eat your coworkers.
I was about to comment, but your tag beat me to it... @C-Octothorpe said:
Unless they're hawt
@haha-only-serious said:
if you're really paranoid about spammers you can always use something like that:
That is a great idea for a social site! Only allow people who can answer those questions in. Hmmmm, maybe even a dating site. You, my friend, are a genius!
(tired of celebrity BS on the net)
I have seen quite a few examples of how to validate dates over the years. A lot of them on this site. However, I have a new favorite.
[code]
public void validateDate() throws Exception {
System.out.println(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<");
}
[/code]
Yes, this is running in production.
I wondered where that went...
You got me. pre-CFH Pantera is not on the top of my playlist.
Maybe someone at Pandora programmed a little editorial. There are much better Pantera albums to listen to. (like any of them)
@DaveK said:
@danixdefcon5 said:
It would? Then it logically must also lead you to believe they are keeping track of over seventeen thousand year's-worth of orders....206589 tables would lead me to believe that this DB "design" must involve something like:
orders_Jan2008
orders_Feb2008
orders_Mar2008
...
Even if it was one table per day, that would still be over five and a half centuries. The only kind of explanation I can imagine that would get that number of tables was if they were using one table per *order*.
my money is on one table per person/entity. It is either one row for each order they placed or one row for each update to their profile/information. perhaps both.
any other guesses before we are enlightened as to the real cause?
@tster said:
you shouldn't hide IE because Firefox still has problems. I find myself having to load up IE about once a week when video or something doesn't work in firefox.
one of the requirements for getting the new PC was to use Netflix movies-on-demand, which doesn't work by default in Firefox. However, I found the IE Tab plug-in works. It spawns IE in a Firefox tab. You simply provide a list of sites to use IE instead of Firefox.
Other Firefox plugins (ad blocker, noscript, etc) do not work in the tab, but that is the tradeoff.
I helped my inlaws order a new PC. It was a decent computer at a great price. dual-core pentium 2.0Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, 500GB HD. They did opt for the nice 22" LCD monitor.
It came in yesterday, so I trekked to their house, prepared for the long night of fighting. (It came preloaded with Vista.)
I get there, go through the normal start up, and got to the desktop.
I uninstalled a bunch of crap that wasn't needed. I removed a bunch of crap from the startup. I updated the display to suit their vision and likings.
I set up the side bar with all the neat little things to look at.
I installed firefox with the appropriate plug-ins and completely hid IE.
I ran windows update to get the years worth of patches.
I plugged in the printer (USB) and turned it on.
And the WTF was:
Nothing. Microsoft didn't even put up a fight. The computer runs well. Everything they need works.
I am not mon-OS-istic*, so do consider this MS bashing. I have issues with all major OSes.
Maybe the real WTF is that I expected things to fail.
*mon-OS-istic, adj, the belief in using only one OS.
does that make agn-OS-istic - the refusal to use an OS?
function floor(number)
{
return Math.floor(number*Math.pow(10,2))/Math.pow(10,2);
}
+1 for creating a method that returns a number with 2 decimal places, as long as number has at least 2 decimal places
-1 for naming that method after a built in function
-1 for using a name that incorrectly describes what the method does
-1 for unnecessary use of pow on constanst numbers
-1 for unnecessary use of pow on constanst numbers a second time
-1 for not making sure sure that it always returns a number with 2 decimal places
@RocketRick said:
The real world isn't black & white. No one tool is always best, or even always "good". No one tool is always worst, or even always "bad". Sometimes, Notes is a very good tool for the problems at hand. Sometimes, it's not.
I agree. A lot of people develop badly with good tools. Some people develop great things with bad tools. Notes is just another tool.
@RocketRick said:
An experienced professional should be able to distinguish those cases, and make appropriate technology recommendations, rather than blanket commendations or condemnations. "Hating" any particular tool is counterproductive.
Refusing to accept a tool, especially its benefits, is counter-productive. Hating a tool is strictly a matter of opinion.
My hatred comes from the sum of inconveniences surpassing my predetermined level annoyance. (granted I am easily annoyed) Here are my biggest complaints
- the poorly implemented IDE;
- maintaining code written by people with no development background (VB-- as I like to call LotusScript, has the same problems as VB - to many non-developers developing it);
- the incorrect/conflicting/missing documentation;
- the outright confusing implementation of web standards;
- the akwarness of separating source from design
@RocketRick said:
To address one of your other statements: it's not "apathy" to conciously decide to accept a product's limitations in order to benefit from its advantages.
I thought that was part of the definition of apathy? eh, I am not a word nazi.
Anyway, I hope you understand I am not trying to spread my hate; just vent about it. To help you with your case, I'll go ahead and provide this link:
Whitehouse looses emails (Ars Technica)
Outlook sure got kicked in the cajones by notes in that case.
@spacecadet said:
@Sunstorm said:
The law over here in this small European country is that that if you want to pass someone, you do it on the left. If you want to let someone pass, you move to the right. That is the law.
The law is the same in the U.S., for all the good that does.
I lived in Ohio for a while. Ohio-ins beleive the left lane is for driving slowly and the right lane is for parking. (Yes, I am talking about the interstate) Then again, the Ohio Highway Patrol is typically pretty thick.
That is unlike Indianapolis where the left lane is for flying, the middle lane is for passing the people in the left lane not going fast enough, and the right lane is for speeding. ahhh good ol 465.
@RocketRick said:
However, Notes, in and of itself, has been the source of far fewer of those WTFs than you might imagine.
Yes, Notes sucks. All software sucks. If you just think of Notes in terms of it being an email client, I'll be the first to admit that it sucks particularly hard.
If you think of it as a tool for building in-house applications within an environment that implements and enforces a robust and ubiquitous security model (that also happens to include email functionality), then it's actually a pretty decent tool for getting real work done.
That's the real reason you still see Notes being used (and new deployments and migrations to Notes happening) at large companies: it actually helps them get their real work done, securely and efficiently.
That being said, the fact that it's relatively easy to "knock together" a quick Notes application means that there are an absolute boatload of badly-written and just plain awful Notes applications out there, written by a whole host of fools who bill themselves as "Notes Developers", despite lacking two brain cells to rub together, let alone a single iota of common sense related to user interface and interaction design. (See also: Visual Basic, and "teh intarweb" for other fine examples of this sort of developer.)
You know, just like every other development environment out there, there are idiots using it, and there are professionals. Too often, people base their opinions on having seen just the work of the idiots. Just because one of the infinite monkeys slapped together a crappy application using Notes is no reason to condemn the tool he used.
As a long-time Notes user, developer, and admin, I know that there are lots of better reasons to hate Notes. Like any tool, it has its deficiencies and problems. But, on balance, and despite a number of WTFs, I still find that Notes gives me the tools I need to deliver useful (and usable) applications that help my clients get their jobs done, and it does it in a framework that makes it straightforward for me to ensure security at multiple levels of granularity.
It's a net positive, in my book, and a lot of big companies have found that to be true, as well.
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@DeLos said:
@bstorer said:
@ammoQ said:Based on the Frostys I've had, I'd wager that they said "real" because they couldn't say "natural". They're counting on people to read into it the same thing you did: that "real" means "natural". Seems like a subtle dodge to avoid false advertising.real as opposed to ... fake?
They obviously meant "natural" as opposed to "artificial". Like... reals strawberrys instead of red color and artificial aroma.
#5 from dictionary.com: genuine; not counterfeit, artificial, or imitation; authentic:
I would think it would be of the genuine ingrediates (nothing added to the fruit, etc) but odds are it is a "legal" issue where they can't use natural as you said and hope real will convey that message to the customer.
When I worked with government types, I learned quickly that if you can use a simpler word, you should. In some people's minds, everyone is stupid. I recall being scolded for using the word "image" as opposed to "picture". I can easily see some marketer deciding to use the word "real" as opposed to "natural" because "real" has meaning to a 3rd grade level reader where "natural" may be too complex.
But the cynic in me agrees that they are probably hiding something in the choice of words. It is like saying "made with 100% beef" as opposed to saying "100% beef." Some shady lawyer out there is ready to argue that "we mix 100% beef WITH other things."
My rule of thumb is that any software package that says it automatically does something that a developer typically does, the only thing that automatically happens is a migraine.
Has any one actually tried to or successfully used this product?
I have a 3 year old. One day, he was hovering near the stove. I told him not to touch it because it was hot. A minute later, sizzle - WAAAAAA!!!! There are two lessons here. 1. don't touch the stove when it is hot. 2. sometimes it is okay to trust what others say
Yesterday, I was alerted to a problem. An application I support is sending out the same emails, over and over. I do some research - check each step on the data flow. I determine it is in the purging of the data after processing. I check it out, and find that it is running a SQL delete, but not committing. However, the data is loaded and deleted using a fancy enterprise connector thing. It is configured correctly, but is not behaving correctly. I suggest to the system administrator to delete the connection, and build a new one. It 5 minutes of work, tops. He never respondsI present my case to everyone involved, including the administrator who needs to make the update. I still get no reply from the admin. This morning, I get an email, asking if this is going to be fixed. Again, I request the admin to help make the change. Nothing.
This afternoon, I start getting questions from the DBA who I worked with yesterday. Apparently, the admin is doing all his own research. He is asking questions that have already been answered. He never has spent the 5 minutes working on the solution I proposed. At the rate he is working, he might come to the same conclusion I did by tomorrow.
If my solution were that off-base, I would expect an email saying why it is bad, and why we should try something else. I could deal with that. But why waste his, the DBA's, the company's, and worst of all, my time? I have much better things to do, such as post to the daily wtf.
I guess some people never learn. I wonder if he still touches hot stoves, just to make sure it still hurts?
Okay, I have decided that I need to replace the CAPTCHA with the Rorschach inkblot test. Only Bots with personality will pass. Oh, and some people will pass too.
@pitchingchris said:
Kentucky doesn't suck.
Yes it does. Right now, I am less than a mile from it, so it is not an uninformed conclusion.
(But it does have a couple good BBQ joints)
@belgariontheking said:
Violence is the solution!
Of course it is. It has worked for me.
"Handle your exceptions appropriately or I will beat you" has been my mantra at more than one place of employment.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
How about giving us some context... do you agree with the article?
This is just a waste of time.
Summary of the article:
"Mac & os X ain't what I know and I ain't smart 'nuff to learn sumthin diff'ernt."
This reminds me of my typical "one-up" story I tell about bosses calling. I usually whip this out in interviews when I hear about on-call time or after hours support, or when I am talking with others about getting called after hours at inoppertune times.
My wife and I had to schedule a time for her to be induced with my son. We planned it out a couple weeks in advance. I gave my work plenty of notice that I would be out. Being a small office, everyone knew where I was and what I was doing.
So, we were sitting in the birthing suite, letting things progress, when my phone rings. I answer it, not bothering to look at caller-id, assuming it was a parent checking is on us. I was wrong. My boss called me to ask me about some project I was working on. I don't remember what he wanted, but I remember it wasn't important, and was documented in my "things to know while I'm out" list I created. As soon as my wife heard me mention his name, her eyes shot lasers at me (yes, women in labor CAN do this; I think it has something to do with hormones), forcing me to run and hide in the hall. It wasn't a rare occurence for him to call after hours. Flabbergasted, I told him to read me out-of-office list, and I would call him later.
This boss, minus the 24/7 work mindset, was a decent guy. Very intellegent, well seasoned, and easy to get along with. But, in my house, his name will always be associated with one thing.
<!--[if gte vml 1]> <p dir="auto"><![endif]--><img src="file:///C:/windows/agf/temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image002.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" height="547" width="576"></p><p>I feel sorry for this poor developer. </p><p> </p><p> </p></p>
@Mal1024 said:
Ok, so it doesn't actually involve a wooden table, but it's still a huge WTF.
I can't find the post, but this reminds me of the government contractor who took a screen shot of each directory, put it in photoshop and cropped the directory contents, then used OCR to get the text. He must have read this documentation.
@origin_dev said:
I think the lack of knowledge of the company he worked for points to the explanation. Awful programmers who only ever learn the most basic functions to make something sort-of-work might be very good at interviews. In this case, there wasn't any other IT people to tell the boss his work sucked.
In my experience, the best programmers usually have poor communication skills which means we interview poorly and find it hard to get work.
I would agree that some of the best programmers are not the best communicators. In addition, some of the best overall IT folks (programmers, architects, DBAs, etc) usually have a bit of arrogance to them. Non-technical people can get turned off by someone like this.
@origin_dev said:
Case in point; a database i just inherited from a university educated developer had the following tables:
- staff_costs_0203
- staff_costs_0304
staff_costs_0405- staff_costs_0506
You get the idea...every financial year, he would add another table with the new staff pay levels in them. Awful, just awful. But he was able to get the job because he walks the walk and talks the talk.
This isn't always bad, in my opinion. I have done similar things in accounting situations. Each year, it would open a new book (create a new table), and make the old book read only for all (bar system level accounts). It was to ensure that data was not changed, accidentally or on purpose, after that year was done. Since people had no business updating, and very few had interest in reading, the old data, it worked out nice.
Granted, my situation was a bit more than read-only data. Maybe he had a reason to hide historical data? Maybe I'm just being optimistic.
(Optimism is a bad trait in the software business, so it seems)
This year, I bought 2 laptops. Both dual core intels at 2 Ghtz.
Each had 1 GB of RAM. laptop 1 is a macbook
running tiger, and laptop 2 is running vista home premium (with aero and about everything else disabled). Laptop 1 has a separate video memory while
Laptop 2, I eventually learned, has shared video memory. (this is important because from what I can tell, people with nicer video cards have fewer issues with vista.)
Task 1: push the power button, log in, launch Firefox, and log into my email account.
On Laptop 1, it takes about 14 seconds. On Laptop 2, it takes about 75 seconds.
Task 2: firefox open with several tabs, including a flash game, a news site, web based email, and a pdf. also, listen to music (iTunes) and navigate hard drive
On laptop 1, I can do all the above without ever even noticing an issue with responsiveness. On laptop 2, when I try to open a PDF, it slows down. I can listen to music (iTunes). When I try to navigate my hard drive, the machine quits responding.
These may not be formal benchmarks, but they are enough for me. I doubled the RAM in the vista machine (2GB), and the only difference is that it crashes less often. I will not compare battery life as they have totally different size batteries and and different size displays. (funny enough, both get between 2 & 3 hours)
I am not trying to bash MS or push apple. I have few issues with XP. I use to run Win2K (using LightStep instead of explorer), and it would stay up for months without a reboot. I use to support old versions of Mac, and I could crash them pretty regularly. But, I will say that MacOS X is the simplest OS I have dealt with. Vista is the slowest and most memory intensive OS I have dealt with.
I am starting to believe that vista is an even bigger screw up than ME.
<font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">poor requirements account for 71% of failed software projects</font>
from what I see, that says of all the projects that fail, 71% is due to bad requirements. So, that would mean the other 29% failed, but for other reasons.
It was probably a computer. Google's translation is about the same quality.
Aren't there people out there that will translate your text for you for a modest fee? If not, I think I have a new business idea.
oh, and check out: http://www.engrish.com/*.
*by posting this link I am in no way endorsing the website, its creators, or any content contained on and/or linked to
It is fun share topics from thread to thread. Here is another tongue in cheek take on it:
@Sunstorm said:
Hint: Look up the company name from the screenshot.
it was at http://www.dundermifflininfinity.com . But, that site seems to have disappeared. http://www.dundermifflinpaper.biz/ still works.
@lanzz said:
@dphunct said:And nevermind that they have more fat, more calories, and almost the same number of carbs per serving of regular chocolate. Sugar free means they are healthier right?it appears they are targeting diabetics, so the concern is the blood sugar, not the carb intake.
diabetics care about carb intake, not sugar. they "think" they are targeting diabetics.
@snoofle said:
So the kids have done their trick-or-treating, and brought home about twenty pounds of assorted chocolates. The wife lets them each take a handful or two, and makes me take the rest to the office so it's out of the house so she doesn't get tempted to pig out. I'm on the bus this morning, loaded down with a large bag-o-candy when she calls me on the cell phone: don't give it all away, I have a craving - bring it home tonight.
Um, if I bring it home, then I'm a) simultaneously listening and not listening to her and b) enabling her to pig out and get fat; if I don't bring it home, I'm not listening to her.
Anyone got a spare room?
Replace the chocolates with sugar free chocolate and hope she doesn't notice the warning on the label....
Warning! May have a laxative effect.
And nevermind that they have more fat, more calories, and almost the same number of carbs per serving of regular chocolate. Sugar free means they are healthier right?
with all that [BLOW], how does it ever expect to make it through customs?
@GettinSadda said:
Why not fake up an e-mail to Bill from the FBI saying that they have detected significant amounts of spam originating from that e-mail address and they will be popping in to investigate. Include the fact that if the spams are genuinely sent by him he will be liable for 6 months in jail for each one sent. Then inject this into your e-mail server so it appears to have genuinely arrived from the FBI.
Then watch him panic for a while
I remeber working at an ISP and sending random emails from God to people. Those were the days....
@djork said:
Don't you love it when you see a stack trace that looks like:
at Company.Product.Namespace.Class.Method(SomeType arg) in C:\path\to\some\wtf\source.vb:line 6912And then upon inspection, line 6912 (in context) looks like:
6911: Catch ex as Exception
6912: Throw ex
6913: End TryMakes you want to just jump up and kiss the person who wrote it...
I would still put it one step above:
try {
...do something...
} catch(Exception e) {
// todo: log the exception
}
Yes, the comment was in the code. During a team meeting I literally threatened to beat people for such an offense soon after finding this.
@KenW said:
Nope. This is obviously a case of using "greater than" instead of "greater than or equal to".
if seconds > 60 then
instead of
if seconds >= 60
would cause this problem easily.
or > 59 would work just fine. it would take care of that rounding issue too.
Excuse my ignorance, but WTF is a ribbon anyway? Why would someone need to click it?
I saw an ad the other day that looked suspiciously like a netflix ad, but never said it was netflix. I thought it was mightly clever to hijack someone elses marketing campaign. Why invest the money yourself?
@mabr said:
@asuffield said:@Vechni said:http://digg.com/programming/Java_packets_you_should_know_and_use
Perhaps he meant 'packages that you should know and use'.. and perhaps he should know what they as well.
This is quite common, and irritates me on a regular basis. The problem is that in the Germanic languages, "package" and "packet" are the same word, so most Germans (and related foreigners) are clueless about which to use.
English is a Germanic language, West Germanic to be exact. So not all Germanic languages has this "problem".
The english grammar is Germanic, but a very large part of the english vocabulary is Romantic.
@bstorer said:
Bonus: if you read the page, it doesn't list java.util as one of the "main and most commonly used java packets".
granted you do not have to import it, I tend to rely heavily on java.lang ;)
@RevEng said:
As a Canadian lesson for you, C Plus is the de facto brand of orange pop. Also, there's an old (silly) federal law that no drink can contain caffeine if it isn't dark in color. Hence, Mountain Dew doesn't contain caffeine either (which completely ruins it). On the other hand, I never would have considered adding caffeine to orange pop.
Does that include beer? This article talks about caffeinated beer. Most lagers and ales are pretty light. Does a beer need to be a porter or stout to be caffeinated too?
And caffeine free mountain dew?!?! That is a WTF.
In all my research, I didn't find a language named c+, but I did find that Sunkist (the soft drink) had a version named CPlus in Canada. It didn't have caffeine. Caffeine is what makes Sunkist superior to other orange sodas. Crazy Canucks.
A coworker just mentioned that 20 years ago, in college, they programmed C and C+. Apparently, C+ was a precursor to C++. I never knew that. Maybe my coworker went to the same school that now teaches C pound.
I found this today while trying to delete unnecessary code in a program I am updating. (Yes, I knew there would be code that was never used because I have updated a lot of code for this company). Why was I deleting code? To make it cleaner? To make it easier to read? No, because I received the following error when saving an agent in Lotus Notes: "Memory allocation request exceeds 65,000 bytes". I am sure I will run across many other things that will annoy me just as much. For now, I will waste time and post this.
'****Process Records from Table
Select Case Ucase(usrfunction)
Case"NEW":
If Ucase(usrfunction) = "NEW" Then
Print "Processing Request"
Call CreateFile(...clip...)
End If
Case "ADD":Call RegisterUser(...clip...)
Case "DLT":Call DeleteUser(...clip...)
Case "RMV":Call Remove(...clip...)
End Select
Exit Sub
I'll be the first to say TRWTF is that it is LotusScript (a.k.a. VBScript--). But, when you are a parent, even the ugliest of your children still needs fed.
I need a break.
why resign? how about becoming the office DJ and arranging beautiful mixes? Or, instead of songs, you can set up words and phrases. Then, start wreaking havoc on the servers in order to create conversations.
Okay, in the time it took to write that sentence, it went from funny to just plain sad.
Run.
@mdk said:
1. Enter the grades into the system
2. Print the webpage from the browser
3. Scan it
4. Remove privacy-critical information (names) in Paint
5. Put it in a PDF
6. Put it on the webpage of the course
That is a WTF. The professor could save so much time by printing it, using a marker to cover the private information, and then scanning it. Crazy professors wasting valuable time... it is a shame.
@Yanroy said:
<A title=http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocasubtopic&L=9&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Our+Agencies+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Utilities&L4=DPU+Divisions&L5=Electric+Power+Division&L6=Electric+Industry+Restructuring+in+Massachusetts&L7=Generation+Service+Information&L8=Active+Licensed+Competitive+Suppliers+and+Electricity+Brokers&sid=Eoca href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocasubtopic&L=9&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Our+Agencies+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Utilities&L4=DPU+Divisions&L5=Electric+Power+Division&L6=Electric+Industry+Restructuring+in+Massachusetts&L7=Generation+Service+Information&L8=Active+Licensed+Competitive+Suppliers+and+Electricity+Brokers&sid=Eoca" mce_href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocasubtopic&L=9&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Our+Agencies+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Utilities&L4=DPU+Divisions&L5=Electric+Power+Division&L6=Electric+Industry+Restructuring+in+Massachusetts&L7=Generation+Service+Information&L8=Active+Licensed+Competitive+Suppliers+and+Electricity+Brokers&sid=Eoca">http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ocasubtopic&L=9&L0=Home&L1=Government&L2=Our+Agencies+and+Divisions&L3=Department+of+Public+Utilities&L4=DPU+Divisions&L5=Electric+Power+Division&L6=Electric+Industry+Restructuring+in+Massachusetts&L7=Generation+Service+Information&L8=Active+Licensed+Competitive+Suppliers+and+Electricity+Brokers&sid=Eoca
I haven't studied it in depth, but it appears that most, if not all, of the pages on that site are created that way. Now here's The Real WTF: it seems that those history strings actually determine what page you're viewing!
I tried changing one of the arguments, and I got a 404. my guess is that is the directory path to the file. Instead of actually showing you the file path, they are using some proxy script to map a query string to a filelocation on the server. I wonder what content management system they are using...
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
Personally, I just wish that Apple Software Update would recognise that I have QuickTime only installed and stop telling me to update to iTunes + QuickTime. (I use Winamp) I also wish QuickTime playback didn't involve some ludicrous Export Controller that causes the QuickTime framework to take forever and a year to load whenever I want to watch anything. WMV, MPEG and DivX playback has no such problems. I have QuickTime installed for compatibility, not because I like any part of it at all.
Funny enough, I have no problems with iTunes or QuickTime. Then again I use a Mac....
@djork said:
// This code was generated by a tool.
:)
I have seen that before. I whole-heartedly agreed with the comment. It was followed by "Do not change it" or something. Luckily, the tool that wrote the (tool that wrote the) code had left the company, and a better solution was found.