complaining

There has been some consideration lately on my part as to what exactly my problem is with Adobe. Particularly with Air. Let's talk.

See! See! Air asked me to do an update and added a stinkin' desktop shortcut. Very annoying. Especially, considering that in Vista, I have to enter a a password to delete the shortcut.

This is an example of Adobe's general hostility towards its users. Adobe wraps its products in disruptive and hostile copy protection, creates services and updaters that erode system resource pools, and generally treat the users playgrounds as they're own little stomping grounds.

I believe adobe is manhandling of my personal computer space, and that the shortcut appears without my permission or warning is a symbol of a larger problem of end-user hostility that permeates many of Adobe's products.

I posed this sentiment to some folks at Adobe who have not yet responded. I'll keep you updated if I hear back or I change my mind.

Do you guys, honestly, pay for Wifi access in public?
This comes on the heels of a recent reduction in price in the WiFi at Starbucks.
For me, there's just no reason to subscribe to an off-site wifi service. I don't work outside of my home or office often enough to make it worth the expense. And the few times I've been out and about while traveling, I was able to noodle out free Wifi without having to shop around too much.
But I am curious, do you Web414 Co-working Kidziz pay for Wifi access?
Not that I'm thinking I need it, but the recent Starbucks plan is almost too good to be true. They're proposing two-hours daily access for free if you use a prepaid card once a month.

I mean, I realize that public Wifi is never going to happen, but I'm really ok with that. My experience using the city of Milwaukee's Public Wifi was sketchy at best. (At Pier Marquette Park in Spring of 2007: Couldn't get a signal once, Couldn't sign on to signal once. Gave up. Went about my merry way. Not really a fair trial.)

I'm just saying that the price of a cup of coffee is a way easier way to get online than hoofin' it all the way to the public library.