I have ANGST because the only real problem I ever had with XP -- the computer downloading updates and automatically rebooting if I don't get to it in time to stop it, while I have unsaved files open -- has clearly not improved one bit with my new Vista computer. Stupid freaking Microsoft. But what gives me even more angst is that I can't find anyone else on the internet complaining about it. I mean, seriously, am I the only person in the world who leaves the computer on for more than ten minutes at a time when I'm not sitting in front of it?
I don't want to turn off automatic updates. I like the convenience of the computer downloading its own updates. I just want it to let me reboot when I dang well want to.
This might be even more annoying than how YouTube videos automatically play, so if I want to open several at a time and let them load in the background while I look at other stuff, I have to go to all the tabs, wait until it's loaded at least one second, and manually pause them. And it's even more annoying now that they've removed the "stop and return to beginning" button. And I also miss the "view in original size" button. I mean seriously, what kind of update is this? They remove half the functionality and I still can't move the scrubber less than ten seconds at a time, and the only benefit is that a handful of randomly selected videos can have 10% more resolution and take twice as long to load. And the original angst is compounded by that time I found a guy who sounded like he had a solution. It was a script that stops them from loading. That doesn't do me any good. I don't have a 8 gigabit per millisecond connection here. Videos take a while to load. I want to open them in tabs in the background, let them load while I read stuff, and then come over to them a while later and watch them all. Hasn't anyone out there written a Greasemonkey script that automatically pauses them? I wish I knew the first thing about coding stuff, because then I'd make it myself.
Coincidentally, I have angst because so many companies think using YouTube is too unprofessional, and have to embed their videos on their sites with their own proprietary, much slower stuff. Especially the ones that don't let you load the whole video, but instead only give you two seconds at a time and expect you to stream the whole thing in real time.
