"Students miss many lectures in an academic to watch a
missed episode of television on the night before."
Half the lectures are something in somebody else's
field, the other half are some professor who thinks
some political position is Pure Evil and we need to
fight it with our last dying breath - and the one
lecture in my field just re-iterates what I already
know in the dryest possible manner. No thanks.
"'Become a Fan' groups on Facebook"
I don't really care what they hide anymore. I just
ignore them. The only groups I join are the ones that
I wanted to join in the first place because I know and
trust them - not the ones that advertise all over the
place.
"Flash"
You really need to use the NoScript plugin in Firefox
for Flash. Otherwise it becomes a royal pain when some
Flash thing is poorly designed and locks the browser
up.
"Website updates which screw you over for days on end"
And here in ZDNet, most bloggers are pretending that
webifying an app magically gets rid of all install
issues and compatibility problems.
Alas - it just morphs them into new problems! The old
problems may be gone, but the new problems are
generally just as bad.
If people don't like the brand new look of a recently
updated web app, or if it breaks something in their
browser, they're generally screwed until it gets
fixed. Very few websites offer the option of going
back to an earlier, older interface.
The problems haven't really been solved. They've just
morphed into new problems.
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