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		sixothree on Feb 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Splash screens == sloth What's wrong with letting the user browse for a file to open?

jiggy2011 on Feb 21, 2012 [–]

you'll have to search the filesystem which means hitting the disk , moving the disk head away from where it was when it was loading the program.

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