tl;dr; Me getting grumpy about not particularly significant issues.
Youtube. I hate it. Well, actually not - when it comes to things that must be presented as videos, like films/music videos and such.
But for things that might just as well be presented as regular webpages? Ouch!!!!
Currently I'm working on signal processing/signal analysis - as always, for fun. I've figured out how to play Wav files in c#, and showing the signal in a windows form. What I want to find out is how to play for instance a sinus curve. I can of course sample it and create a wav file, but I want to find out if I can play it directly. So I googled for "c# play sound", and here's what I found:
- How to Play Sound in C# Windows Forms (One line Code) - YouTube 2:24
- C# Sound Tutorial - Play sound with 3 Lines of Code! - YouTube 1:21
- C# Tutorial - How to Play an Audio File C#.NET Winforms | FoxLearn 5:04
- C# Beginners Tutorial - 85 - Playing Sounds - YouTube 4:33
Admittedly there were also links to regular web-sites like Codeproject, and I didn't "consult" the videos. But what's the point? If I want to find out how to program things, I want to spend time looking at code examples, perhaps a bit cut and paste, perhaps downloading something. I DON'T WANT TO WATCH, PAUSE, REWIND AND REPLAY A VIDEO!!!!
Well. I admit some videos are quite good. However I've seen enough of "Let's see, how do I do this?", "Oh, I shouldn't have done that, "Let's go back and try this". Ouch!
One more thing: If I start watching a vido on Youtube, there's a chance that I will spend (waste) time watching other videos as well. Like bad Idol/some-country's-got-talent-but-you're-not-one-of-them wannabe videos. Ouch!
DISCLAIMER: I know that a lot of you enjoy creating videos, whether it's let's-plays, reviews and so on. And actually I have no problem with that. Nobody forces me to watch videos. There are also ordinary web-pages. So, those who prefer videos, can watch videos, and those that don't want that, don't have to. Which is good. But this is a thread about me and other oldies getting grumpy, so I demand the right to be a little bit arbitrary and a litle bit unreasonable. But, yes, I don't like unnecessary videos.
pibbur who also demands the right to not always be taken seriously.