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To: maine-iac7

I’m getting sick of the internet.

Javascript yanking your chain. Flash is always busted. HTML5, Firefox generating new releases about every half hour.

And lately more and more stuff getting geared towards mobile devices, as if desktop/laptop users are just old fashioned and don’t deserve any support...


5 posted on 09/20/2013 6:09:51 PM PDT by djf (Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: djf
And lately more and more stuff getting geared towards mobile devices, as if desktop/laptop users are just old fashioned and don’t deserve any support...

I don't like being forced into a box. I refuse to register my cell on any sites - even the bank, for example.

I refuse to upgrade from a 'regular' cell to a 'smart phone' or any others. (I have CAMERA for a camera and a PC for the Internet. All I want my phone to be is a PHONE.)

I tell my 15 grandkids I 'don't know how' to text because their phones are glued onto their hands and I don't have time for that!

If my kids and 'grands' were not spread all over to heck and gone - coast to coast and north to south and Alaska - and if I didn't have to have the PC for my editor - I seriously think I'd shut down the dang thing...and go back to snail mail. (I have steadfastly refused to get rid of my land line - it's a safety issue, beside a stubborn issue)

11 posted on 09/20/2013 6:41:27 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: djf

It is not just the internet.

Every software upgrade breaks something else.

Firefox has had trouble with Adobe Flash since around FF version 12. Now, later versions of FF (22, 23) have problems with .pdf files.

Then there is the java stuff (not javascript, but Sun’s java).

And Windows updates. I just rolled back an upgrade to IE10 I did not instigate, but Windows did on its own. I have some old IE add-ons that are no longer updated, but they are handy tools that do not have modern equivalents. They worked, until IE10. When I uninstalled IE10, Windows reverted back to IE9. The add-on tools are working again.

It is frustrating. Upgrades or updates create as many new problems as they fix existing ones.


25 posted on 09/20/2013 7:18:18 PM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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