at least there's alternatives to iTunes (songbird), quicktime(VLC) and Adobe Reader (foxit). To embedded flash objects? none that I can think of, but I am sure there is something. Odds are it would have to be a custom firefox plugin that one would have to scour the internet for. Back when I was a lowly tech I was always amazed at how itunes would cram a good 6 extra processes into a PC just by being installed, let alone run. Same goes for almost any adobe product these days, it's ridiculous how much crap those two companies cram into a computer. People are always amazed as to why their poor little compies get so bogged down by merely installing a few programs just to gain functionality. It's almost as if software has been specifically designed to punish the user for their choice of OS.
See, this is where I disagree with you. What we don't need more of are these clean, simple sites that you long for. Clean cut is great, but clean a shave is far better, as demonstrated on this flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14815126@N03/show/
(NSFW)
What's not to like?
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at least there's alternatives to iTunes (songbird), quicktime(VLC) and Adobe Reader (foxit). To embedded flash objects? none that I can think of, but I am sure there is something. Odds are it would have to be a custom firefox plugin that one would have to scour the internet for. Back when I was a lowly tech I was always amazed at how itunes would cram a good 6 extra processes into a PC just by being installed, let alone run. Same goes for almost any adobe product these days, it's ridiculous how much crap those two companies cram into a computer. People are always amazed as to why their poor little compies get so bogged down by merely installing a few programs just to gain functionality. It's almost as if software has been specifically designed to punish the user for their choice of OS.
"For me, pepper, I put it on my plate." -Jean Chretien, former Canadian PM
See, this is where I disagree with you. What we don't need more of are these clean, simple sites that you long for. Clean cut is great, but clean a shave is far better, as demonstrated on this flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14815126@N03/show/ (NSFW) What's not to like?