The browser-embedded Flash player (or a derivative) is the preferred small (and low quality) video delivery mechanism on the web-based Internet. While I completely understand the usefulness of such a player (or at least the amusement it procures), I can’t fathom why the hell it’s so resource hungry. That damn thing sucks an inordinate amount of CPU to play tiny videos! What’s wrong with this thing?
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rants | Tagged: adobe, environmental cost, Firefox, Flash, mac os x, os x, power consumption, power production, stupid power sources, Windows, windows 7 | 
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Posted by Steven Pigeon
Ensuring that one’s costumer base remains loyal, also known as lock-in, is an important part of many software and hardware manufacturers’ business plan. Recently, I came across an especially displeasing example of sneaky and subtle customer lock-in strategy from our friends at Microsoft.
Sneaky Cat is Sneaky
3 Comments | C, C99, Life in the workplace, Operating System, Portable Code, programming | Tagged: best practices, C Standard Library, Costumer Lock-in, legacy software, Lock-in, memcpy, memcpy_s, memmove, memmove_s, memory.h, sneaky, sneaky bastards, Standard libary, string.h, wd4996, Windows, _CRT_SECURE_DEPRECATE_MEMORY | Permalink
Posted by Steven Pigeon
