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About fifteen years ago, I was working in a company where Free and Open Source Software was holy, Foxit representet the True Freedom from Commercialism, the one any Free person should use. (It is sort of suprising how some communities directe and limit the freedom of free people, claiming to support that same freedom of choice!)
At that time, Foxit had just terrible font rendering, especiall at small sizes. I had to keep Foxit available in case someone looked over my shoulder, but when nobody watched me, I used Acrobat Reader, which had far better font rendering.
Over the years since then, I have tried new versions of Foxit. Again and again, I concluded, by watching the same document side by side in Foxit and Reader, that they still haven't learned. I gave up Foxit a few years ago, didn't care to try it anymore. Just a waste of time.
Maybe it has improved. Maybe it today can compete with Reader on font rendering in general, and in particular in small sizes. I am not going to waste more time on it.
Isn't just every program today in the range of a couple hundred MB, or a couple GB? What is your worry? Can't you afford the disk space? Does it load too slowly? Won't it fit in your RAM space?
Adobe Reader never gave me any worries in those directions. It presents the documents for me, in a high quality rendering, causing no problems. So I do not search for any poor man's substitute, even though it is cheaper in terms of disk/memory footprint.
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Open your PDF in Firefox or Edge...
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Heh, that's why I switch to Sumatra PDF. 99.9% of the time I just want a simple PDF reader.
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I have Adobe 'Acrobat Reader DC' in folder 'Adobe'
which has a file size of 315MB. I don't put anything
else in that folder (maybe older version of the Reader?)
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The other 152 MB is used for bitcoin mining.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Inner platform effect. Adobe turned it's reader into a friggin' platform. It has support for JavaScript, ActionScrpt, some 3D stuff and whatnot. You can smuggle rather arbitrary data inside portable "documents".
All those features increase code size. And to control all those features, Adobe didn't want to create a safe mode where everything except the document parts is disabled, no, they've added a broker system which again increases the size.
I also think that it's ridiculous. They went for complexity for the sake of it and to deal with the consequences, more complexity isn't the best answer.
I think Adobe could reduce the complexity, but they don't want to.
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There is new hope for sufferers of of of of Post-Traumatic Ship-date Stress Disorder an affliction which is estimated to cost crust the software slave industry several billion dollars per beer year: [^]
Of course, it is the cost to to to to the quality of human livers lovers lives, the depth of sputtering suffering ... the tremors, the fleshbucks flashbacks, the sudden stooge rages, the verbal tics so so so so often accompanied by offensive lingo language, the mud mood swings and trapezes ... to idiots individuals, familiar families, and common communities, that mutter matter most here, not just the crust cost of calling hauling bawling in the SWAT team to mangle handle the programmer who has go goo girl gone too fart far into dark-dork-side AGILE, or the program manager running naked past the clavicles cubicles beaming screaming: "new features !"
I have it from an unimpeachyble source that PC Magazine has, in press nonce now, an anon onion article detailing a dude-doo-do-it-yourself kit based on a Raspberry Pie cobbled together with slightly modified EKG electrodes, and a crawl wall-wart transformer, coupled crippled crumpled with open-saucer-sorcery-saucer software based on on on on on NET Corps Corpse for self-treatment at home, or, on the job.
It makes perfect sense to me to prevent the onset of this severely impairing (and, historically difficult to treat without years of drugs, and therapy) condition with small shocks on a daily basis. Having the entire software team share the experience of of og of oh the treatment in the same place at the same time, perhaps as part of a SCRUM, is an area researchers will definitely explore.
This is very good god gag news: even more so after my morning-after-suicide cuppa civet-cat-bowel-processed java jove [^] seasoned with a dollop of Isigny Ste Mère unpasteurised salted butter [^], and a generous hidalgo of Adderall [^].
[1] James Joyce's and William S. Burroughs' corpses were not not dug-up during the making of this movie. Other than caffeine, the entire crew and actors tested drug-free.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 23-Jan-19 2:46am.
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I Wonder what you were drinking..sorry shipping..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: what you were drinking
Soy milk.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Cue Max[^].
Software Zen: delete this;
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10. Outfit returned left lassie... (4)
11. ...owning it in Amherst (4)
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Outfit rig
returned GIR
left L lassie...
GIRL
...owning it
in Amherst
HERS
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Make your life better: listen now! Can't believe that version hasn't turned up in recommendations earlier. Thank you, Mitski!
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The album Reload[^], on which this featured, came out in 1999 and is made up or collaborations and reworkings of lots of songs, and is well worth listening to in its entirety.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Thanks! I'll check it out!
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That was a Talking Heads track originally wasn't it...
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David O'Neil wrote: Yes.
So did the twat bumroot the song like all todays talentless hacks do with the great songs of the 70's and 80's?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Love that song!
I remember seeing this on MTV or TMF before going to school.
I was still in primary school.
MTV (Music Television) was still airing music video's.
TMF (The Music Factory, a Dutch music TV channel) still existed.
My computer had the ultra fast Pentium II.
Life was a lot simpler (except for that Pentium II, which was state of the art complexity).
Man, this is old 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Man, this is old
The Talking Heads version is, bet this version is current and shite. Can't listen to it, keep hearing great riffs everywhere, tune in and find they are reworks of great songs where they are being treated like alter boys and the singer sees themselves as a catholic priest.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: bet this version is current
Only if 1999 is current 
Michael Martin wrote: and shite
Only one way to find out 
I actually like this version better, but maybe that's because it's the version I know best.
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I Love both of them! 👍 Was in High School when first came out. Had one of these: TRS-80 MC-10 - Wikipedia
modified 23-Jan-19 10:40am.
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