Sony... why can't you mantain a web site?

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Cunhambebe wrote on 3/14/2005, 12:06 PM
Hey, I'm from São Paulo, Brazil (where we speak Brazilian Portuguese and not Spanish) - maybe miles away from most of you - and things here work out very well. I've never had a problem around here....LOL
Coursedesign wrote on 3/14/2005, 1:25 PM
"so much junk that's part of this site (all the pop ups for example)"

I can't remember ever seeing any, and I just tested again with the popup blocker disabled. No popups for me.

Has anybody else seen any popups on this site?
Spot|DSE wrote on 3/14/2005, 1:28 PM
I've never seen a popup on this site, ever. Not once. I don't have popup blockers on my laptop or my editing system, and I frequently check this forum from both.
Jsnkc wrote on 3/14/2005, 1:57 PM
Yeah, I've never had a single pop up either....you might wat to do a spyware scan on your machine. Something else is probably causing the pop-ups
BillyBoy wrote on 3/14/2005, 2:21 PM
Bad choice of words and I goofed misreading what it was reporting. The software* I was referring to is from Google and blocks "pop ups".

* http://toolbar.google.com/popup_help.html

Where I goofed up was thinking the 208 reported as blocked were exclusive to the Sony site, where in fact the number shown is cumulative to all sites visited since you installed the tool. Silly me, wondering why it takes so long for this site to load when I have ultra fast broadband, I jumped to the wrong conclusion without really thinking seeing how many 'pop ups' were being reported as blocked, (actually me just misreading what it was saying) and having them hidden not seeing them (there were none to see) I wrongly thought this was part of the problem. Nope.
apit34356 wrote on 3/14/2005, 4:18 PM
billyboy," Product activation schemes should be outlawed and made illegal because the consumer has little or no recourse if for example the company decides to stop supporting the software, hits hard financial times and no longer can afford to support it, or simply goes out of business." You have touch on a serious topic of discuss in the boardroom. Remote activation permitts a form of corp blackmail in the big business world, a quick way to force upgrades or increase cost of support. Adobe in euro and asia faces serious hacker solutions backed by corp/governments.
jlafferty wrote on 3/14/2005, 10:05 PM
"I've never seen a popup on this site, ever. Not once."

Such harsh words, DSE -- don't you know you're not allowed to use words like "never" or "ever" even if its true?!

I stand by my post, filmy -- any condescension or foul tone wasn't in my text -- it's something you're assuming.

Vegas, on the other hand -- I'm having problems with external preview recently...

edit: problem fixed -- no good running disks and deck on the same firewire port. So much for supposed "daisy chaining." SIIG card on the way...

- jim
FuTz wrote on 3/15/2005, 5:07 AM

...what's an SIIG card? :/
a brand?
craftech wrote on 3/15/2005, 5:46 AM
...what's an SIIG card? :/
a brand?
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Yes, been around for years. They generally make decent products as well.

John