My local running store. Maybe garmin is running a sale on their website, but Amazon has it for the same price garmin is getting so I dunno.
Either way $30 is a big bite.
I hate the way Adobe products always install shortcuts on my desktop. They even install shortcuts on the desktop if I update! (I hate clutter on my desktop)
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Sooo many ways to end this sentence.
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FTFY.
Seriously, the constant stream of fixes for Acrobat & Acrobat Reader. So sick of it. But corporate standard, have to have them.
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Adobe as a company makes me sad. They used to be awesome and really pushed a lot of 90s creativity in print media, but I feel like theyāve become a fat, bloated parody of themselves at some point.
Itās extra sad that PDF reader seems to be a huge mess, despite being the standard for the format.
(On my Macs I use the built-in Preview app which is incredibly fasterā¦ But worse handling for embedded form elements and such.)
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Yeah, Reader is such a pain in the butt now. Stop opening the stupid sidebar by default, it just adds to the bloat that makes me wait 30+ seconds too long before I can view the contents of the file.
And whatās up with the forked product lines? Stupid confusing.
Every time I get new lenses for my glasses it feels more and more like Iām at a sleazy car dealer. I swear one of these days theyāre going to offer me undercoating.
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Is that what I have to look forward to when my eyesight finally starts getting crappy? Lame.
I have been dealing with that for most of my life. I used to have a -13+ prescription. I had to get special āvery thinā lenses to keep them under an inch thick. I also was offered rolled edges to keep the sides from looking like walls, since they were still very thick, extra small frames (to keep them under an inch thick), special coats to keep them from reflecting oddly, etc. I couldnāt get transition lenses because they didnāt make those in such a high prescription. Thank goodness for lasik!
It was everything today.
- Do I want bifocals for my reading/computer glasses (no, Iām doing fine with single-vision)?
- Do I really not want the anti-glare on my reading/computer glasses (no, Iām doing fine without them).
- Do I want Transitions (no, they arenāt polarized).
- Oh, but Transitions have polarization now! (still no, I have magnetic clip-on shades that came with these frames).
- Do I want the blue-light filtering/blocking lenses? Weāre now finding that blue light is linked to macular degeneration, and the blue light from your screens is messing with your sleep cycle (no, I can get f.lux on my computers to track w/ daylight and Night Mode on my iOS devices works just fine)
Sorry to push the conversation back a bit but @RoadRunner - did you just say 30+ seconds to open a PDF in Reader? ā¦how? HOW? I know MacOSās Preview isnāt exactly feature-rich but just as an experiment I opened a 340MiB PDF off of our external drive and it took eight seconds, most of which was hard drive spin-up time!
Re: Glasses - I wear the buggers too, and itās annoying how little you get from your NHS prescription rather than paying for private. I have single-focus, no anti-glare, no anti-scratch, no polarisation, no filteringā¦ and they still cost Ā£109 (US$159). If Iād paid full price (about double) they would have come with all of those nice things and a free pair of sunglassesā¦ but I are the poor unwashed massesā¦
Yeah, hard to fight corporate standards. Harder to fight the unwashed masses presuming Reader is the only option.
But if you CANā¦ ah, the scope of alternatesā¦
Non-bloatedware PDF readers that actually do MORE than Acrobatās. I fill out forms with mineā¦ freeware. I convert files with mineā¦ freeware.
Suck it, Adobe!
You statement intrigues me and Iām interested in subscribing to your news letter.
I looked up f.lux in google and it is a desktop lighting controller for your PC?
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f.lux controls the colour balance of the screen, keeping it at 65kK during daylight hours, mellowing it to a warmer white during sunrise and sunset, and mellowing it to an even yellower yellow during the night.
Itās really useful, so much so that Apple recently threw f.lux out of the App store and added the functionality to core iOS. Logically it should appear in the next version of MacOS alongside this newfangled āSiriā thing.
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If Adobe Acrobat has to open from nothing, it really does take forever sometimes. I havenāt measured it, but 30 seconds from double clicking an icon to being able to view the PDF is not unreasonable.
Preview is lightning-fast by comparison, although itās certainly not bug-free either. Still, 95% of the time itās the best choice.
It is really bad on our lab computers, which are on a closed network - no internet - so Reader canāt call home. Every time you open a new instance, it takes extra long to respond - canāt scroll & canāt close the program until it is done with whatever it is churning on. Flippinā ridiculous. The renderer built into Chrome, on the other hand, is zippy quick.
That sounds insanely stupid. I take it installing a lighter freeware option is something that would invite the wrath of manglement? Or even just an older version of Reader before Adobe realised that the internet was useful only for spying on each and every mouse click of their usersā¦
Normally, the forensic software does an OK job of rendering the contents, but we sometimes have to open it in the native software for manual review. If thereās even a chance that sometimes the older versions wonāt properly display something in a PDF created with the latest versions, then we canāt use the old version. On the bright side, it isnāt so much management being stupid as we donāt want to have to defend in court that we used a freeware that should be good enough so we can save a few minutes, but may have potentially missed something, even if it is trivial and not relevant to the case. Opposing counselās job is to be a dick on cross, so we have to expect the worst. (or to be sneaky and act all friendly while trying to weasel something out of you that they can hang you with)
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Yes it is. It might not be unusual, but it certainly is unreasonable.
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