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Steve Jobs is almost right...

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    Abu Mami
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    His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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      His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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      Lost User
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      Looks like you got 1 voted by a Barry Manilow fan.

      Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP

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        Looks like you got 1 voted by a Barry Manilow fan.

        Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP

        modified on Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:54 PM

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        Mycroft Holmes
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        Now there is an association I would never have credited, Barry Manilow and any CP lurker.

        Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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        • A Abu Mami

          His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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          Christian Graus
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          I agree - how often can those upgrades do ANYTHING ?

          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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            Looks like you got 1 voted by a Barry Manilow fan.

            Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^] "Program as if the technical support department is full of serial killers and they know your home address" - Ray Cassick Jr., RIP

            modified on Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:54 PM

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            Abu Mami
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            Trollslayer wrote:

            Looks like you got 1 voted by a Barry Manilow fan.

            I'm sure it wasn't anybody at Adobe - they're all busy creating new updates.

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            • A Abu Mami

              His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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              swjam
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              Even now, flash and javascript updates are still annoying, but somewhere down the road Steve Job's developers will write the code that will make the whole world sing.

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              • A Abu Mami

                His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                Abu Mami wrote:

                Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product.

                What's more annoying is that they use every hacker trick in the book to make their updater run, without even telling you that they've installed it. I have a small program that alerts me every time a program (or installer) tries to put something in a startup dir or in the registry to start when Windows starts. Adobe devs bypass it by being as devious as virus developers. I don't like that kind of behaviour, and do not trust companies that cannot be honest about what they are doing to your computer. They also use registry functions that should only be used by system administrators, to hide registry keys (even from system administrators!) For me, that behaviour classes adobe as malware producers and scum -- what else are they doing to your computer, that they don't want you to know about (and that you probably won't find out about, because the registry keys are hidden from you)?

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • A Abu Mami

                  His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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                  Doc Lobster
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                  Ok, it just happened again. :( If I had written an auto-updating tool I'm proud of I probably would like it to run as often as possible. Also they may have business goals (such as 3 updates per week) to ensure the effort put into the updater was worth it. :-D

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                  • A Abu Mami

                    His dislike of Flash is well known, but why not just ban ALL Adobe products. Every time I turn my computer on, there's another freakin' update for an Adobe product. I can't stand it - it's even more annoying that a 24 hour Barry Manilow music festival.

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                    Abu Mami
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                    Updates on my home development laptop, then my office machine, then again at home... ***sheeesh*** This is becoming tiresome. Think I'll tune into the Barry Manilow Internet radio station and chill out.

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