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I try but so many of my, um, favorite sites use it 
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You know what they say, if you keep looking at flash you will go blind.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I've uninstalled every Adobe plug-in/product/updater/virus/malware from my computer.
There are significantly less annoying options for every service they offer.
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Yes and No.
Yes for doing it in the first place. And that bloody toolbar.
No because some places in the UK do something much sneakier:
We provide other products and services, tick here if you do not want to hear from us...
We have specially selected partners, tick here if you do want us to pass on your details...
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Ho gosh, that's bad!! 
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I've just come up against this little lot;
I have read and accepted the Terms and Conditions
I would love to be contacted by L'Oréal Paris with more beauty news
and exciting competitions & offers, including free samples in the following ways:
By Email* YesNo
By SMS YesNo
I am happy for L'Oréal Paris to contact me for Market Research
I DO NOT want L'Oréal Paris to contact me:
by post
by phone
The first is a check box you need to check.
The second is two radio sets you need to go for no on.
The third is a check box you need to clear.
The fourth is two check boxes you need to check.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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The irony of McAfee Antivirus being a virus itself is pretty funny.
Turns out they really weren't about us having control of our own computers after all.
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I'm sure Adobe just made money from your oversight. Why does a company as big as Adobe have to resort to such trickery? The weekly updates are enough to drive a person mad!!! To add insult to injury, their updates 'forget' the option I set for the Automatic/Manual/Never update setting...On every update, I have to change it to manual...next time, I may opt to try the 'Never' option to see if it works. Also, how many people have actually found a purpose for the persistent shortcut that the Adobe reader update puts on the desktop?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The other thing they do is assume you are opted-in unless you tell it not to. That really pisses me off. I have to live with Flash but installing that piece of sh*t McAfee is like going into MacDonalds and ordering a sh*t burger and then having a packet of dog turds chips given to you.
Oh wait! I just remembered Flash = McAfee = MacDonalds = Dog Turds.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Yeah my latest updater took me to an Adobe download page that had 'install McAfee computer ruiner' as a default option. It's disgraceful, surely Adobe don't need to play this kind of game.
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Oh yes they do. When you're in the business of selling sh*t and promoting sh*t then McAfee is just another pile of sh*t to punt.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Well, where I live is in the middle of a major Ice/Freezing Rain storm, and I had to be at Ivy Text for a 7:30 AM Economics class, and as it's 7:23, I am starting to think class is canceled, even though I have recieved no emails or other notifications about it. If class is canceled, then 
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Been in those situations myself. At least your showing your dedication.
I have a snow storm on its way to me tonight. Might be the same one that your experiencing.
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Just had one from the Lebanese joint down the road. Delicious!
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Nothing to say.
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Did it have fried aubergine?
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Sounds like Middle Eastern gangster music.
Use the best guess
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Erudite_Eric wrote: Lebanese joint
Whatever.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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So, you prefer a car with the suspension of a pram and zero capacity for coping with winding roads. Okay....
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As my primary car - yes. I'd think about the McLaren when buying a second car.
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I live a couple of miles from, and regularly drive past, the factory. I have a feeling I saw one of them out on a road test not too long ago.
Use the best guess
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Oft see their cars on the old Chertsey Road tween Ottershaw and Chobham. I have indeed seen the P1 though i didn't know it was what it is. I know now.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Seems to be one of their favourite routes, probably due to all the nice bends.
Use the best guess
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Or you can just fake that you are in US or Canada.
Here[^]. Care to try?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Errm - what's it meant to do? All that happens here is a redirect to Bing. Seems a waste of a domain name to me.
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They had something like this before in the lounge.
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Apparently, it works only for users from the US and Canada. For others, it just redirects to the bing home page.
I tried it already and Google won 5/5.
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Quote: a study using a representative online sample of nearly 1000 people, ages 18 and older from across the US. The participants were chosen from a random survey panel and were required to have used a major search engine in the past month.
Well, at least they were very thorough.
Quote: – with all branding removed from both search engines. The test did not include ads or content in other parts of the page such as Bing’s Snapshot and Social Search panes and Google’s Knowledge Graph
It doesn't matter how good your product is, it's not very useful to compare it without the UX.
Study details[^]
If it moves, compile it
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Quote:
It doesn't matter how good your product is, it's not very useful to compare it without the UX.
This was my problem with the test as well. I was getting good results in both windows, but when I've used Bing in the past, the UX put me off.
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Not the link, obviously, that just leads to bing.
The redirect url www.bingiton.com is registered to MarkMonitor[^] which specialises in brand protection. I could understand what they are doing as part of a marketing exercise, but not as brand protection. If MS have not engaged them it is a bit poacher-turned-gamekeeper, if MS did then it's an odd move.
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It works only for users from US and Canada. For others, it just redirects to bing.com
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Oh, that makes more sense then. Perhaps the OP should have posted when more users from the US are active.
I've had a look through a US proxy, it still looks more like a marketing exercise than brand protection.
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I posted that around 6 in morning Eastern time. People in US should be getting online now.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Bing will never, ever, ever have a chance until they change their name.
"Have you Googled it?" is nonsensical but inoffensive.
"Have you Bing'd it?" makes me want to conjugate the "Bing" to "Bang", and always conjures up visions of Chandler Bing from Friends. It's just an awkward and trite name.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I suspect use of a Bong when coming up with the name. It's Bing Bong.
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Lol i am having the same thought too. Bing bing!
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Yeah, well, I gave up using Google when I once looked up Glomerulonephritis, which my wife told me one her friends had. The first five results were for folks, including Amazon, recommending that I buy Glomerulonephritis from them. 
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Well where do you think your wife's friend got it from?
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Tried it before, Google won every time. Same for the friends I've shown it to. They say Bing wins more often, but I haven't seen it once...must be in the wrong demographic?
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May be they show page 1 from bing and page 200 or so from google.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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lewax00 wrote: They say Bing wins more often
I assume, by they, that you mean Microsoft.
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Yeah, specifically I meant in the ads they were running a while back (maybe they still are, I just haven't seen them recently).
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I tried it... I immediately typed in "Serpentooth" (See my signature)... The results on the left showed exactly what I wanted, and the results on the right turned it into "Serpent's Tooth" and gave me a variety of different sorts of crap I couldn't care less about.
Three guesses which one was which... No desire to proceed to search #2.
Microsoft should really stick to making game consoles, IDEs, and alternately-good-and-bad operating systems. The rest, we can do without.
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Here[^]
SFW
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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... youngest dropped her sister's laptop this morning and now it won't start, giving an 0xc00000e9 Unexpected IO Error message. Me thinks it is time for an expensive visit to the local PC Doctor.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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