Aral Balkan, I’m not on Adobe’s Christmas card list anymore via Twitter / AceyTech
Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony - Ars Technica
Flash can die in a bloody fire as far as I’m concerned. 10 lashings for the nincompoops at Adobe who thought that “Flash” has any place in “open government.”
The douchbagging ridiculousness that is Adobe and its plague of a platform that is Flash knows absolutely, inarguably, no bounds.
In one breath this Adobe rep touts the Pre’s multitasking abilities. He shows off how he has three different cards (applications) running Flash instances like a film preview, a game, and a music player embedded in a site.
In his next fucking breath, he boasts that they did a lot of work to make sure Flash stops when you switch away from an application.
We multitask on the Pre! Nya nya nya-nya nya.
Oh wait, no we don’t.
Because Flash is god-foresakenly pathetic dreck.
But buy it and make us money. Wake the hell up people: we aren’t a design company anymore. We’re just a company. Who gives a crap about experience, or quality, or making something work, or the fact that we’re trying to hijack the web with our terrible products and proprietary bullshit.
Love,
Adobe, The Reason The Web’s Unwilling Ass Feels So Sore
Adventures in ClickToFlash: Acrobat.com. I don’t know if it’s so much of a “challenge to Google Docs” as something for Google to kind of point and snicker at. I also wonder how it looks on an iPhone and whether there is a mobile-friendly site.
Adobe usability fail.
As if that’s anything new.
Dear Adobe: What the hell is this?
After following Steven Frank’s advice to find out if Adobe’s software is causing Mac OS X’s kernels to log errors every few seconds, I tried downloading the Adobe Licensing Repair Tool to try and fix the problem. Never mind the fact that Console.app locks up every time I try to start it (could Adobe’s apps be causing this? Who knows!), the image above is what you’re greeted with after mounting the DMG.
What the hell is acresso_tool? I can only assume .py is a Python file (no, I’m not a developer). LicenseRecoveryLauncher.app sounds like something useful, but then what the hell are mac_install_lima and mac_install_lucknow. Should I be wishing for “luck now,” before I begin this process? Maybe Adobe should have tossed in a pray_to_a_few_dieties_for_the_hellofit directory to truly drive the sense of broken 21st century despair home.
Or maybe Adobe could have included some instructions to let users know what the hell to do with all this crap. Would a .txt file and a few sentences really have been that hard?
Really Adobe?
I am seriously considering uninstalling all of Creative Suite Web Premium CS3, whipping out a video camera, and setting fire to the retail box and install discs. Maybe it’ll be a big hit on YouTube.
Hey, then I could say I got some genuine use out of an Adobe product for once.
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