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Remember the good old days when one could just download or copy from media a program and it would just be there? You'd open the folder you just downloaded or copied, and there would be the .exe file. You'd click it, and the program you intended to run just ran?
Well I don't really remember those days. But I'm sure such a time existed, because there are still simple applications out there that just need be downloaded and, maybe, uncompressed in order to run.
But when did we lose our way? I realize that some programs are just too damn complex to simply download and run, so I get the need for a separate installation application. But when did it get so bad that one has to download and install a program that then proceeds to download another set of files to install the original application you were trying to get?
And then doesn't it just bug the crap out of you when the second download you inadvertently downloaded doesn't even install the program correctly, so you have to run through the same procedure again, re-running the superfied secret-download-file program files you thought you had in the first place, but didn't?
Damn you, Java Runtime Environment!
Well I don't really remember those days. But I'm sure such a time existed, because there are still simple applications out there that just need be downloaded and, maybe, uncompressed in order to run.
But when did we lose our way? I realize that some programs are just too damn complex to simply download and run, so I get the need for a separate installation application. But when did it get so bad that one has to download and install a program that then proceeds to download another set of files to install the original application you were trying to get?
And then doesn't it just bug the crap out of you when the second download you inadvertently downloaded doesn't even install the program correctly, so you have to run through the same procedure again, re-running the superfied secret-download-file program files you thought you had in the first place, but didn't?
Damn you, Java Runtime Environment!