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Just a little rant about software installation!
OK, so I was installing the newest version of QuickTime today (which seems to only come bundled with iTunes, which I don't want, but that's a different rant altogether!), and when it got to the language selection screen, it gives me an option of "English (United States)"... and that's the only option for English. Why?! It… -
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Perhaps its labeled English (United States), because thats where the language pack was most likely developed, or originally written *gasp* HORRORS!!!!1 (Ie. it sets the language to use, then the character map to display) That and US is usually first in the dropdown menu because the millions of us installing the software… -
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[ QUOTE ] The Quicktime Language Selector includes: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Danish Dutch (Netherlands) English (United States) Finnish French (France) German (Germany) Italian (Italy) Japanese Korean Norwegian (Bokmal) Spanish (Traditional Sort) Swedish ...I guess everyone with a bracketed explanation… -
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All joking aside, at the rate things are going Spanish will most likely be the language of the majority in the United States anyways. Very sad indeed...I know the language but wish that English would be declared the official language of the US and that we'd stop making it so that people don't have to learn it in order to… -
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[ QUOTE ] Heh, my Quicktime player often crashes in browser plugin form. However, that might just be Firefox, I'm not sure. [/ QUOTE ] Seems more often in Firefox. Works perfectly in Opera. On my desktop, the Quicktime player would crash if I moved the window, upgraded, now it crashes when I press play. Pity, because .mov… -
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My faith in humanity is restored, I just installed my old digital camera drivers again, top of the language options list was "English" ... no brackets, no specific locations, just the language. Great! -
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I just plain hate installshield ahd msi that's all I didn't NEED Internet Explorer 6 to RUN MSN Messenger or Windows XP to run Doom3. Hell I don't even need DX9 to run Doom3 (works on dx7 just fine!) -
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hahaha ive kind of wondered that myself mop. its just plain silly if you ask me. It SHOULD be just "english" Side note: If one more friggin game installs dx9c i'm going to blow up on someone at microsoft. Every single new game ive installed has required me to install it... i had it the whole time! -
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[ QUOTE ] Perhaps they should do away with the language selection, and every country just learn English. The language of computers. :P [/ QUOTE ] It would be unfair! Humans would just have to learn binary (and go insane and die and then bird-flu would be useless and humans would win the war against birds and everyone would… -
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[ QUOTE ] Illusions, did you even read what I said? Read my posts again, you will see that your points are completely negated. I don't care that "US" is top of the drop down list, that's not what I'm talking about! Go and read! [/ QUOTE ] ...you are selecting which language pack to use. A language pack includes a list of…
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