Was reading a post on Steve’s Keynote and saw a link to download Steve’s presentation in filmloop format. Curious to see the presentation i visited filmloop website, took the pain of downloading (another) player, and installed it successfully. But when i tried to run the player it said Failed to initialize. Exiting the application.. I tried again. Uninstalled it and installed again. Googled for “filmloop failed to initialize” and saw one more poor soul with that problem. Visited filmloop faq page. But returned empty handed.
May be its a small connectivity problem wherein my player couldnot connect to its server over the internet. But thats not my problem. Am just damn lazy to get across my cubicle and check with my sysadmin to see why my player cannot access its server. Wait a minute. May be am not lazy…may be i have started thinking that its the duty of filmloop guys to identify such painpoints and eliminate them. Well what ever it is. I dont bother anymore. Even after Guy’s repeated attempts to get people in the loop ( i bet someone is counting the download numbers…9 out of 10 blogs from Guy now carry a link to some .fl file) i am still a stranger to filmloop.
Hmmm…may be we all should agree the fact that people who use software are humans and they are as lazy as me. Unless the software is going to save their job / company any simple hiccup would turn them away. So if you are building a software better think that everybody is lazy and keep your developers busy asking them to find out the hurdles.
Reminds me of this saying “If something can be read easily, then lot of effort has gone into writing it”
