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Why do we put round pizza in a square box and eat it in triangles?
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For the same reason we park on driveways and drive on parkways.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And who needs a hot water heater? Why heat hot water?
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Why heat hot water?
Simples. To make it hotter! 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We don't. They are Circular sectors[^] not triangles.
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I knew that, but triangles is easier for most people to see...
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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We're not "most people" - details are important to us, they are what we do! 
My neighbour has decided I have "eyes like a sh*t-house rat", after he bought a new car and the first thing I noticed was a missing wheel nut - just by parking next to it... 
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I would consider that a primary feature of a good programmer.
(sorry)
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I would absolutely agree! A good programmer is all about patterns and details, little else matters. (I'm not talking about formal programming Patterns, such as "Singleton", "Factory" and so on - mostly those are just overused names to hide ignorance in idiots).
In this case, a glance at the car gave a "pattern error" and the detail was "missing wheelnut". For me, that's instinctive; monkey see somethign odd, monkey want to know what is wrong.
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Hello all,
1. Acrobat reader DC.
2. Nitro PDF reader.
3. Foxit Reader.
4. Windows Reader.
5. SumatraPDF.
Which is your preferred one and why?
modified 8-Aug-17 12:09pm.
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I use Corel PDF Fusion on my Windows machines - because it allows me to edit / create them as well, and I got it free with at least one of the versions of Paintshop Pro I have bought.
On Android, I use FBReader (because it's my default book reader and it takes very little screen "real estate" for itself).
I wouldn't let an Adobe reader within a mile of my computer ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I wouldn't let an Adobe reader within a mile of my computer
I just installed Adobe Reader yesterday. Wish I hadn't. The installer installed some crapware along with Reader, which I then had to go back and remove, which of course required a reboot 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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And then there will the every-twenty-minutes updates, which also require a reboot.
(I may be exaggerating slightly here, but that's what it felt like last time I installed it...)
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I've used FoxIt for years because it's free, fast and easy.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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FYI, I recently stopped using FoxIt reader as I noticed network traffic to China servers every-time it was opened. It may be legit cloud service but I can't be 100% positive and their government, in theory, could get involved at anytime, I am guessing for a worse-case scenario.
When I was troubleshooting the network behavior of the app, I also looked into its vulnerabilities which was another reason I stopped using it.
Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader : CVE security vulnerabilities, versions and detailed reports[^]
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I still use FoxIt, but always, always, always go through the custom install steps and uncheck everything but the basic program - and then go through the Programs and Features control panel applet, sort by date, and remove anything new that FoxIt still tried to install alongside itself, like this CloudPrint (?) service that I think they finally gave up on after years of me complaining after every update that still included it.
Then I rename their updater EXE so it doesn't launch automatically all the time, despite me telling not to check for updates.
If it's sounding like a lot of trouble...lets just say I'm looking at other people's responses in this thread.
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I always unchecked as well but I never sniffed its traffic until I realized the traffic to China seen on my firewall was from FoxIt.
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Interesting. I appreciate the follow-up. Definitely time to move away from FoxIt, it seems.
Why wouldn't Safe Mode be the default?
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Several years ago, in the early years of Foxit, my employer wanted us, for "political" reasons, to use Foxit. The character rendering, especially in small sizes, was so terrible that it strained my eyes badly, so I refused. After being shown the same document side-by-side, on one screen, in Adobe Reader and Firefox, my boss accepted my complaints, and we ditched Foxit.
A few years later, under a new employer, I tried Foxit again to see if rendereing had improved. It ha not, as far as I could see. We did not switch to Foxit. Linux users claimed that rendering on their screens were very good; it seemed as if the Windows port was a quick and dirty left hand job.
If Foxit on Windows today were as bad as a few years ago, it probably would have been out of the market, so I guess it has improved. But I don't care to check until I have to find another PDF reader; then I might try it again. Twice, with a few years inbetween, leading to the same conclusion, was enough to settle my mind. It takes more than "But try it now, it might have improved!" to excite me.
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Yep. Version 5.4.5. Very old now but quick and clean.
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Thank you for the suggestion Mike, but after what I've read about metrics being sent to China...
I've tested Nitro and Sumatra.
Both are fast on my computer, Nitro seems to do more things, but it also installs a printer driver which in my case is not needed so I've decided to go the Sumatra way. By now it works as expected.
Thank you again!
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6. Evince[^]: free and commercial-use friendly, unlike Adobe Reader
Software Zen: delete this;
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