actually, i wouldn't say slobbering. rather deep fellating.
i had purchased a set of downloadable mp3 audiobooks from
graphicaudio.net. and for the record, they do excellent work. their
tagline is "a movie in your mind". they produce full cast audiobooks with
high quality sound effects. i like them so much that i have aquired by
various means all of or most of their rouge angel, deathlands, doomsday
warrior, destroyer, earthblood, and my favorite the survivalist along with
most other titles. some time ago, maybe a year or two, graphic audio
switched the method of payment for their downloads. before you could
download a zip file of .wma files, .mp3 files or cds. however with the
phasing out of drm protection, the .wma files were on the way out which
disappointed me greatly. while i did not love the format, it made
downloading easier. the .wma files only played after downloading the zip
which was not placed on a protected server. the .mp3 files however are
zipped on a protected server. meaning so many download attempts, and
timed links that will expire.
i bought that set of books last night and had opera 10.60 beta download
those files. then i went to bed. i get up and i find that not only were
they not completed (at last check before going to bed, it should have been
2 hours. i checked maybe 4 hours later) but any attempts to resume the
download reset the file all the way to zero or did not progress any
further. after 3 attempts unsuccessfully, i go back to the download page
to try the links in a download manager where i find that i had reached the
maximum number of downloads. complete bullshit. their system has been
set up to detect download ATTEMPTS, but not download COMPLETIONS. i don't
think it would be that hard to detect if a server could detect a completed
download. i e-mailed them letting them know that my downloads had never
finished, but slowly petered out to nothing and i needed the links again.
the downloads failing is a noted opera issue. some downloads will stop
downloading in opera for no reason. however the remedies that graphic
audio were typical level 1 tech talking to computer n00b type solutions:
don't use a wireless connection, download using a wired connection, don't
use download managers because they typically fail at 97% and most
sickeningly USE FIREFOX to download your files.
as soon as i saw that, i was this close to saying give me a refund and
shove firefox up your ass. firefox is not the browser you thought it is.
i have tried it and i am not and have not been impressed. for all the
great things about it using extensions, opera has built in. standard.
graphic audio is not the first company i have used that has disdain for
opera. turbo tax for example says you can use internet explorer or
firefox or safari. i think chrome was even a choice. opera? fuck no,
are you kidding? it seems to me that being standards compliant is an
afterthought and being popular means more than being better. opera has
always been standards compliant but it once was a adware browser you could
buy to get rid of the ads. browser sniffing has limited its use on the
net but any page internet explorer can render, so can opera. while this
wasn't the case, and there was no way for the tech guy to know i was not
using internet explorer unless i told him, the automatic head jerk up and
down the firefox cock just because i had a browsing problem is maddening
and disturbing all at the same time.
come on graphic audio, you can do better than that.
