{"id":7198,"date":"2010-02-18T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2010-02-18T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T18:26:27","slug":"tages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7198","title":{"rendered":"TAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are asking to install system drivers with administrator-level access, this:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/tages.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='tages.jpg' title='tages.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;is <strong>not good enough<\/strong>. Any installer &#8211; no matter how large or small the software &#8211; should make a point to inform the user what is being installed. The word &#8220;TAGES&#8221; conveys nothing to the user. I actually had to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tag%C3%A8s#Tag.C3.A8s_device_drivers\">look it up on Wikipedia<\/a> to know what I was about to put on my computer.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re at it: Why the crap is it installing a system for dealing with CD and DVD discs, when I&#8217;m installing a digitally distributed game with <em>no physical media<\/em>? (Funny how these DRM systems are so often broken or sloppy, yet their problems always create <em>additional<\/em> burdens for the user.  The bugs and oversights are <em>never<\/em> in our favor.)<\/p>\n<p>Whoever came up with this: Go microwave your face, you drooling imbecile. <\/p>\n<p><i>For the record: The game is Far Cry 2. (Review copy. Wouldn&#8217;t normally put up with this much DRM for a game of this&#8230; caliber.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are asking to install system drivers with administrator-level access, this: &#8230;is not good enough. Any installer &#8211; no matter how large or small the software &#8211; should make a point to inform the user what is being installed. The word &#8220;TAGES&#8221; conveys nothing to the user. I actually had to look it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}