if you would wipe one file format off the face of the earth forever, what would it be?

[techs]

Fusetalk.

 

[Gothgar]

lol

 

[Platypus]

another vote for .dll and .exe

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
PDF was the first thing that came to mind, but MOV is a good contender.

This.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: loki8481
definitely .pdf's for me... hate them so much, especially at work where I can't use foxit

PDF is a good choice. There's a few I'd like to see gone. Quicktime, Real Media, and PDF are the top contenders for elimination.

Yeah, I pretty much agree. PDF isn't as awful if you can use foxit reader....but its still a fucking useless format.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: zeruty
Oh yes... how can I forget....
.swf

A good idea...transformed it the most annoying and intrusive banner ad horseshit available while increasing the loading times of simple webpages with awful flash toolbars.

Thankfully, flash bloat mostly guts this annoying crap.

Its the same with PDF, if it just stayed where it fucking belonged instead of spreading like a cancer it wouldn't even matter.

 

[Sureshot324]

.mp3 so it could be replaced by a better audio codec.

 

[Kev]

PDF. By far. Adobe can suck a chode.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007

Originally posted by: vi edit
.docx or whatever the excel version of office '07 is.

Seriously people.....stop freaking sending out documents in office '07 format. Large corporations are notoriously slow in retooling their productivity apps.

I hate having to constantly reply back to all the consultants that we work with asking them for a conventional .doc format.

Surely you can't be serious...Click Me.

I vote to remove ASF files. I love PDF files and MOV area great, too.

I haven't see an asf file in about 10 years...

 

[her209]

.jpg
.mpg
.avi

 

[Nik]

.apple

 

[Cable God]

.rar's inside of .rars...... WTF?

 

[magnux]

.ZIP -- yes, I said it.

RAR is far superior.

But, yea.. MOV files. Them too.

 

[TheVrolok]

I would have said .rm but I haven't seen one in some time. I've gotta go with the rest of the posters and say .mov.

 

[tasmanian]

Quicktime and Realplayer ones.

 

[evident]

.mov, .rm

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
.mkv

5200 dual core with 4 gigs of ram and VLC still always has trouble decoding this piece of crap of a format. or I"m doing it wrong.

it's a container like .avi, not 'format' ....

 

[nobody554]

Originally posted by: magnux
.ZIP -- yes, I said it.

RAR is far superior.

But, yea.. MOV files. Them too.

I forgot about ZIP. I don't have a problem with the .zip extension, but I'd like to stab users through the phone who installed WinZIP.

 

[QueBert]

Maybe it's not accurate, but whenever I'm fixing a middle eastern dudes computer, they all seem to have a ton of RM files on their desktop. Is Realplayer big in Jordan? I swear I come across one a week who's PC is infested with RM files.

 

[rh71]

.rm is still a lot better than .mov... getting the latter to work in MPC took an extra step or two.

 

[Gooberlx2]

pdf is fine
mov is just another media format container, no big deal IMO.
rm is already dead.

Anyway, I'd say the proprietary office formats. I like MS office and all, but I can't afford it and don't have it installed on all my machines. So it's a PITA ensuring something I create in openoffice will display well in Word. In those cases, I resort to....exporting to PDF! Mwahahaha!

 

[gdextreme]

Originally posted by: OUCaptain
.mkv

5200 dual core with 4 gigs of ram and VLC still always has trouble decoding this piece of crap of a format. or I"m doing it wrong.

I think you are doing it wrong. I ran an mkv yesterday with the rig in my sig. Task Manager reported 33% cpu usage (720p video).

 

[ohtwell]

I can't think of a file format I use that I don't like, so I have no answer to this question.


: ) Amanda

 

[evident]

:hopes someone makes a parody dead thread:

 

[TheKub]

.wpd

You Corel motherfuckers can just go to hell!