Bjossi on 30/7/2011 at 02:03

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Way too many people.

It is odd how industry standards seem to be bloated piles of rubbish. The amount of memory and storage space we have access to today has made programmers lazy and wasteful I suppose. I take Foxit Reader over Adobe Reader and Miranda IM over WLM, ICQ, etc. exactly because those alternatives do much more with just a fraction of the resource usage and complexity. Miranda IM for example writes no data to the registry at all, lets you choose where your user data is stored, its install folder actually looks tidy with comprehensible filenames, and its look and functionality can be configured and expanded to hell and back, same can't be said for any of the official IM clients. Right now Miranda IM is using 3 MBs of memory after running for many days straight with plenty of conversations happening, while Skype idles at around 100 MBs after having had absolutely nothing to do for over 10 days. Now if only Skype would open up their protocol, Miranda IM could have a Skype protocol plugin that isn't just a wrapper (Needing the official client running.).

Martin Karne on 30/7/2011 at 05:46

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Curiosity, do you plan to use FreeDOS or something outdated?

Vernon on 30/7/2011 at 13:23

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I stepped through a fucking portal to 1995 when I clicked on this thread.

Adobe Reader has OCR and text-to-speech, amongst other things. I use Sumatra for reading, Adobe Reader for functionality and Acrobat for whatever else. Foxit reader got bloated years ago - never went back, though I heard they reverted that stuff.

Adobe reader has to reboot to obtain 'full functionality,' i.e. install its dumb speed launcher. It doesn't have to reboot to work. There are a million examples of this behaviour and similar. You'd have learned things like this if you knew even vaguely enough about operating systems to actually criticise them. If you had a script that detected/prevented startup changes from occurring you wouldn't have even received the message requesting you to reboot. So this is your own dumb fault and now you're here posting this dumb fucking thread about how much of a luddite you are.

Those of us who aren't fucking retarded haven't had to reboot for anything but driver/kernel changes since Windows XP. It is the same in BSD and lunix. There are very few programs capable of updating/initialising on-the-fly - even Chrome can't do it. There's plenty of other dumb shit to bitch about - like how there isn't a standardised jack on motherboards for case lights and onboard audio or how lunix doesn't keep track of what's installed unless you literally do a diff against a clean installation or how steam is an evil spy program set up by J Edgar Hoover or whatever other dumb, uninformed shit you'll think of next. Get out.

ps +1 TeraCopy

Matthew on 30/7/2011 at 14:38

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And now?

doctorfrog on 30/7/2011 at 16:12

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You shagged your past self, didn't you, you incestuous dope!