I'm beginning to hate Adobe. Every time I launch an Adobe product on my Mac, their server is contacted, stuff is downloaded, and then I am asked if I want to install it. I guess they're done innovating and have decided to start kicking capitalist arse.

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kennylucius wrote:
I'm beginning to hate Adobe. Every time I launch an Adobe product on my Mac, their server is contacted, stuff is downloaded, and then I am asked if I want to install it. I guess they're done innovating and have decided to start kicking capitalist arse.

You can change preferences so that Adobe programs do not automatically check for updates.

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Sir Harry Flashman wrote:
You can change preferences so that Adobe programs do not automatically check for updates.

I have searched for such a preference--I think you're wrong. Tell me where it is.

Boycott Flash

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kennylucius wrote:

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Sir Harry Flashman wrote:
You can change preferences so that Adobe programs do not automatically check for updates.

I have searched for such a preference--I think you're wrong. Tell me where it is.

With one exception they don't make it easy to find. After Adobe Updater checks for updates chose it from under the Help menu. Then you will see the preferences button. In Acrobat Pro you can find the update preferences in the preferences menu, towards the bottom.

In my opinion all update preferences should be under the preferences menu, but I think we are subject to programs ported from or designed for Windows.

Sorry, but it is not there. I'm using Acrobat 8, part of CS2. You were right about the update utility preferences, though. Thanks.

Finally, a company with the courage and vision to combine crappy video quality with all the hassles of DRM. Hooray!

Actually, this really IS good news for Mac users, because there's a much greater chance of Adobe offering decent Mac compatibility than Microsoft with their DRM, and it's unlikely that Apple will license their DRM for general use. So this means Mac users will no longer be excluded from other online video stores. (The article does say Microsoft's SilverLight will work on Macs, but I really don't know much about that. Are they abandoning yet another protected media platform?! Jeez.)

90% of Flash, like 95% of Javascript, is just annoying (or used to push ever more obnoxious ads). Now they're going to add DRM on top of all that hooey?

There are some browser plug-ins that block Flash, right? I guess I need to go find & install some.

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Dirt Road wrote:
90% of Flash, like 95% of Javascript, is just annoying (or used to push ever more obnoxious ads). Now they're going to add DRM on top of all that hooey?

For Firefox, Flashblock is a must. For Safari, there's nothing quite that good, so I make do with PithHelmet's generic ad filtering.

Remember back when the animated gif was the most obnoxious technology on the web? Ahh, I miss those days..... (I still keep gif animations disabled in all the browsers that I can.)

Most web sites would simply not work, or work far less well, without JavaScript. Don't lump it in with Flash.

JavaScript does amazingly useful things, like putting the text insertion point in the right place on the google home page.

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Anonymous wrote:
Most web sites would simply not work, or work far less well, without JavaScript. Don't lump it in with Flash.

JavaScript does amazingly useful things, like putting the text insertion point in the right place on the google home page.

Correct. Perhaps Dirt Road really meant Java, which is very different from JavaScript.