Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well I'm betting it's the "one code-base" thing that drives the updater design but it's just a guess. Adam On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Labovitz <del@pscc.com> wrote: > Brian -- > > Adobe was at one time on the other side of the road. It appears that > they've now grown much too large, hiring help from Microsoft and, before > that, IBM. Seems to me that more and more reasonable programming standards > and principles are lost as time marches on. That said, I wonder who > supervises and signs off on the work of these folks. Their design > committee > has obviously outgrown its conference room. And why do they go out of > their > way to invent new and inferior, extremely forgettable methods of doing > things for which standard conventions already exist? > > > Dave. > > > On 8/11/08 at 11:39 PM, reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) wrote: > > |The *#&^!^! Adobe Updater program *always* pops up at times when I'm > racing > the clock. It > |doesn't know how to run in the background. It requires that you exit the > program whose launch > |triggered it in the first place. Even Windows Update is better better > better. I hope the > |programmer at Adobe who designed Adobe Updater gets ulcers and has to > retire early. Adobe knows > |how to make good software; why did they let some moron design the Updater? > | > | > | > |_______________________________________________ > |Leica Users Group. > |See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >