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GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Whats up with them...</div> Interesting topic... And its a disgusting trend.

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I just updated Musicmatch Jukebox, I got the retail box a year ago for free with a rebate. The only reason I was using it was because it used less memory, And ran faster than Windows Media or Winamp. The update did NOTHING to the program, and now it uses 13 megs more memory and runs generally slower.

Seems it took the same route as Winamp 3 and Windows media 9.
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  • oRaCLe1118oRaCLe1118 Join Date: 2003-02-09 Member: 13351Members
    not that this is related or anything, but i hate realplayer, i gotta take it out of my processes everytime i log on, or else i have pop ups whilest i play NS... despite my pop up blocker. i thought i prevented the process from starting in msconfig, but nothing ever works for me.
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Oh you gotta tap into regedit to destroy the evil that is realplayer.
    Funny thing, I read that the Realplayer or Realone player or whatever it is called now went open source. Good thing they won't have to worry about people ever wanting to use it.
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--E-Th33ph+Apr 18 2003, 09:01 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (E-Th33ph @ Apr 18 2003, 09:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh you gotta tap into regedit to destroy the evil that is realplayer.
    Funny thing, I read that the Realplayer or Realone player or whatever it is called now went open source. Good thing they won't have to worry about people ever wanting to use it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    lmao, So true <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ChuchumanquiqChuchumanquiq Join Date: 2003-04-16 Member: 15560Members
    I too hate all the evil bloated next versions of software... but some things take a while to optimize, and the better venders will at least give you a way to temporarily fix it while the optimization is in the works.

    I will not use:
    Winamp3, Realplayer, or Musicmatch because they're all bigger than they need to be. Winamp3 might be worthwhile someday but not yet.

    on the other hand... the smallest modern virus scanner's footprint that I've ever seen is like 8-10MB, and that's not something I'm going to screw with doing without... (the crap personal firewall bundled with the new ones is another thing entirely!)
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    I reinstalled mmjb and now its back down to around 6 megs of memory again, so i can play it in the backround again <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Just because mid-high end systems are getting more and more ram, that doesnt mean software vendors should toss programs out to market without thinking how much memory it would use.
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    commercial programmers are lazy and overworked... they churn out crap for the marketing departments. linux is the way to go, its got mostly good decent programmers, but too bad its incompatible with 99% of the world.

    anyway, thats why i switched to trillian. it uses 13 megs where as icq and aim and msn together were taking like 50 off me...
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    trillian is a great program
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