I will keep this short. A couple weeks ago I went to Star Wars in Concert. Amazing show. It was a very different way to experience the story. The music was flawless. Here are a couple videos I took.
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Shame on you ATI for putting the Catalyst Control Center item in my right click menus without me agreeing to it, and not allowing me to remove it. This bugged me enough to find the registry key and remove it. What sucks is that every time I upgrade the drivers it will most likley come back. This blog post detailed the key to remove.
Haven’t we all got to a point where software developers who make installer packages, and the business leaders that direct them, have some common sense. Doing stuff like this without the users knowledge and not giving them the choice is what got the world into this whole spyware problem. The worst part about this, is that putting options like this in the installer is a trivial configuration setting. But I suspect we will never get past software makers, trying to sneak other software onto user’s computers. Apple is one of the worst. Nefariously forcing an install of the Mobile Me control panel, and sneaking an install of Safari in when running their software updater. This topic really should be a new subject in every computer ethics course across the world. It is the Tragedy of the Commons for consumer software industry.
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