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I wrote about this invasive Google Software Update bullshit on Ars last week. Now it’s gotten even worse with today’s release of Google Earth 5.0.
This is absolutely unacceptable. If I didn’t have to write about Google Earth for my job today, I would decline this derogatory dialog and trash the app immediately.
No, Google, you are not smarter than me about installing files on my Mac. And even if I’m wrong, this is still my goddamn computer, not yours. Fuck off.
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Facebook’s application experience is broken.
I get periodic requests from friends who want to add some sort of birthday calendar or notification service to their profile via an app called MyCalendar. Months ago when I noticed the first one, I clicked the app’s name to find out what it was. This brought me not to an app landing page with an explanation or information about the developer, but an “Allow Access?” page that prompts me to install MyCalendar with a warning that it will be able to access “your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work.”
Setting aside questions about why on earth MyCalendar would ever need things like my friends’ photos or any profile information other than my birthday, I clicked on the name of the application in this warning box hoping to actually get to some kind of aforementioned app landing page.
What I saw months ago is what is still there now: no description of what the hell MyCalendar does, what information it pulls from my profile, or even who made it. Just a list of my other friends who have it installed, MyCalendar’s total number of users, and total fans.
Clicking the “Go to Application” button simply takes me back to the installation screen that got me into this mess.
I have no idea whether all these people have been duped or spammed into using this app, and the “Contact Developer” link at the bottom produces a Facebook-hosted e-mail form with absolutely no information on who or what I am contacting. No developer name, no company name—just a form pre-filled with my personal e-mail address and a notice that my message will be delivered to “the creator of MyCalendar,” whoever the hell that is.
Facebook’s application experience is utterly and depressingly broken.
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My wife went to bed early tonight because she isn’t feeling well, so I took the opportunity to finally get around to playing Bioshock. It’s been out for over two years and Bioshock 2 is coming, so I wanted to be ready.
This is the first thing I saw after I started Bioshock on Windows Vista SP1 (running via Boot Camp) with all the latest updates. I don’t know if this is Steam’s fault, Bioshock’s developer’s fault, or Microsoft’s fault, but this is ridiculous. Granted the state of gaming is not nearly as great on the Mac, but you never see horse shit like this when starting a game. You double click, and it works. You don’t get prompted with a Visual C++ library license agreement that leads to the installation of what seems like worthless cruft.
Fuck, guys. It’s 2009. Figure it out.
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”If you are a newer site struggling to build trusted link equity in the current black hole environment we live in, the mass adoption of the DiggBar is a serious issue.
via Clint Ecker
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”Consumption-based billing has a certain inescapable logic to it—one can generally make a case that people should pay for the costs they incur. But when the prices under such a system are so obviously out of line with the actual costs, clothing the scheme in the garb of “fairness” reeks of hypocrisy.
Time Warner tries again, fails to justify caps and charges - Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
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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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Yep, the Windows driver world is still a mind-numbingly pathetic cesspool of unusability
I’m downloading Windows 7 drivers for my ATI Radeon HD 3870 card. ATI is one of the two global graphics power houses in the world, owned by AMD, one of the two largest CPU makers in the world. Neither are short on resources or smart employees.
And yet the file for the “ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 Suite for Windows 7 (32-bit)” bundle of software and drivers I need is called “9-4_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu.”
What the flying fuck is “9-4_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu” and who the fuck thought it was a good idea to use that name on a file for the public? How is this name useful? How is this efficient? How is that at all the slightest goddamn bit user-friendly?
Why isn’t the file called “ATI Catalyst™ 9.4 Suite for Windows 7 (32-bit)?” In fact, why doesn’t it even have “ATI” or “Catalyst” in its name?
Why is this shit still so damn hard for Windows companies to figure out???! -
”I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet,” said Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive officer Michael Lynton. “Period.
While this quote is pretty astounding by itself, Lynton throws it in reverse with his next statement and makes a pretty good point: “[The Internet has] created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It’s as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled. They say, ‘Give it to me now,’ and if you don’t give it to them for free, they’ll steal it.”
I have to agree, that remarkably selfish attitude is one of the most unfortunate and fundamental cultural shifts that came from the Internet. But people tout it as some bold, positive new reality that we should simply accept.
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Feedback I just submitted to Apple over the Eucalyptus fiasco
Read: Whither Eucalyptus?
The message I sent to Apple’s iPhone feedback page per Craig Hockenberry’s great idea:
I have lost absolutely all of my respect for Apple. I own a Mac Pro, a unibody MacBook an Apple TV, an iPod nano 4G (and have owned one of every generation of iPod—no joke), and an iPhone 3G (which replaced my original iPhone), and never did I think you would allow this to happen.
I just found porn on my iPhone using Safari. Yes, porn. It was accidental (a typo in a Google search, if you must know), but there it was: porn. On my iPhone. If you are protecting us by rejecting such dreadful and nefarious application as Eucalyptus (see the rejection letter here: http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus), how on Earth could you have let me find porn with Safari on my iPhone? In fact, how can you possibly justify shipping an iPhone with a tool as dangerous as Safari in the first place?
I am astonished, Apple. Absolutely astonished.
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Top 10 Rush Limbaugh Racist Quotes
This is a nationally syndicated radio host with an audience of millions. I am dumbfounded.
via lkm
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I’m not too worried about the Digg-hijacking-your-links issue. A few not-in-the-know folks might use digg’s URL shortening services, but otherwise it’ll mostly be deliberate douchebags.
In a way, this means shortened digg URLs will actually be useful as a doucheometer. Thanks digg!
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