Actually I think it is very nice of Stardock to present use with such software. These people work hard with long hours to make these programs. Which by all means I fully intend to pay for and test at any given length. I've been around here for a few years and it has been a really interesting experience to see the new programs from Stardock.
Some people do not enjoy working with computers. I do and have a lot of fun with it. Even though I have had my ups and downs. I still try to keep with what is the best for customizing my windows. People need to understand one thing. If there is something you do not like. Then do not use it!
If you are ready and willing to give a real project of doing things with windows a try. Then by all means use the products. Even if it is a beta or alpha... that will soon change to where it is a full release. But by testing and using the beginning of the software. I get a fuller understanding of how it is going to work in the final release. That along with input for making what I hope it to be also.

There is no adware in Stardock products. That is a very foul thing to say. Stardock makes some of the best software there is on the market today anywhere. The reason you feel the way you do about it being related to adware is sad. Then you should look at all the other major software companies out there too. I would be willing to bet you think they are as you think to be adware also. Truely they are not at all. Everyone has to market the programs for something to get what they need for more research.
Research is an on going process with every software company. They all have to keep up with the market of new tech. and the people that are using it.

We need to get a grip on the real truth behind it all. Being that a lot of things are marketed today. Which is never completely ready for every user; but is for some. Once all the bugs are worked out as some see it. There is always going to be someone else who has something different. Which has to be worked with and fixed for them to use it correctly.

Give it a chance and see what it can really do for you. If you do not like it? Then do not use it.
Simple as that...

SGT  

A few years back When I first became interested in ODT, window blinds in particular, I started visiting the forums hoping to learn from the pros on how to build my own skins.After witnessing the treatment of the occassional newby, who dared ask what some considered to be a foolish question.Condenscending and sarcastic answers would be putting it mildly. Within the last year , I read an article some where that stated that sort of thing was not tolerated any more. I figured hey I'll go to the forums, see if there is anything interesting to read about. Well from what I see those hard working pros are finally getting paid for all their hard work. I think that is great. If you have the experience and knowledge to build a premium skin, power to you. I've noticed that theme manager seems to be on the way out, having only 7 new Themes displayed since Oct. 2006,only two of those were premium themes.Yea, I know, it's only supposition. I will wait to see what the future brings. Most of us are willing to pay for MyColors. In fact I was contemplating giving them as christmas gifts. We all spend more than twenty dollars for one present. But when newby's to MyColors,have questions and concerns regarding the interface or download manager,lol.We are just looking for answers, not articles that imply " Let me tell the whiners a truth about life: Money is exchanged for goods and services." All I have to say is --Merry Christmas.
I don't speak for anyone else. this is just one person's perspective.Mycolors seems to be the wave of the future If you've never used it, you ask questions, that is what the forums are for, isn't it?

Stardock also gives direct links to the software... neither is needed to download it... Just bought software today... for my wife's computer... and installed without the use of Impulse, or SDC...

The original poster was upset about the store tab.

By the original posters logic then iTunes is also ADWARE.
That evil s/w not only has a STORE link, hell it even has the option for a MINI-STORE on my Library!!! How dare they!

Wait wait wait.. omg.. when i load IE7 it takes me to this MSN page where my god, there are ADs!! OMG there are even links to BUY THINGS!!! who do they think they are...

My lord people, do you want people to stop making ALL software? Or do you think the world OWEs you FREE software? Either way, this is just ridicules.

stop it.. you cant mean that... SUE THEM!

Just so that a few people are aware from time to time Stardock software does get attacked by random security software for being malware, adware, or whatever. Object Dock weather gadgets were attacked by anti virus for using scripts in the weather gadget to access the internet for example.

Impulse loads nothing with out permission (save for it's own updates of course) and does not contain any of the malware or adaware garbage. It does load/install software (access and sometimes adjust in the coveted System 32 file) and access the internet though, and in some cases this makes security software jumpy. Most times we contact those companies and work with them to clear the issue. I felt this was still worth mentioning if in the more literal sense of the meaning instead of the original argument.

I just wanted to get that said and out of the way before someone takes this down the other path more than I have right now. Really I only think of it because we get plenty of emails about it of late.

it's always something

Well just to let you all know.. I was corrected somewhere back there. lol and I agree with it all. I have mixed feelings about it all.

one I agree with the fact thats some advertising must be done and is all around us whether we like it or not. I was wrong to assume that advertising should be removed from my sight. When I buy a car i no longer want to see advertisements for the car i just bought but I am wrong to assume that there will not be any. The fact that i open the door and see Honda embroidered on my car seats, The Honda emblem on my steering wheel, the emblem on the Jensen stereo system and that just me getting in my car. I have the Sceptre name on my monitor, the Logitech symbol on my mouse and keyboard, the Direct TV emblem on my remote, the Staples emblem on my stapler, the yellow pages emblem on my phone book. I am bombarded my ads everyday and got worked up over nothing.

For all those with replies that were constructive, I appreciate and for those that posted just to be a smart-ass i hope you got you entertainment value.




Thanks HG for your understanding about my post. By the way I wasn't upset when I posted this, I just wanted to prove a point, nothing more nothing less.

For those of you seeing this in reply #38. This is actually a combination of 3 various replys combined to make one awfully confusing statement.
----REPLY ---(1)If I pay for something it should work, I should not have to beta test it or put up with things i do not want,Everything I have ever seen of yours Has been the best. But if i am paying for something and it has features I don't want the answer is simple i just won't resubscribe, No Whinning, it's just business, I guess. I have loved the products, skins, ideas and imaginations of all those who have come and gone, I only wish that those with the knowledge would occasionally listen to the rest. If a product doesn't adhear to what I want or expect the choice is simple,....I won't buy it the next time around.Impulse isn't a feature or a product.
----REPLY(2)---- It's a download manager for getting to products.---
----REPLY(3)----Well Ive paid for software I do not seem to have access to via Impulse.I have an email, with the reg codes to all Stardock software Ive purchased. However, When Im told by that email to use impulse and input reg codes, I do to no avail. Impulse will NOT let me have my software. I have sent an email to Stardock support, as well as made out a so called Help Ticket...both to no avail.I want my software...Stardock...11 days is more than enought to fix this problem, or tell me what I am doing wrong. No Stardock input in that time is simply NOT acceptable.Someone please help me with this crazy crap!Xythe

Taken out of context it looks like one big rant instead of three differing opinions, LOL

Actually, there are two tabs that I regard as adware... The Store tab and the News icon under the Community tab.  And then theres the strange appearance of the nVidia icon under that same tab.  What's that all about?

I have Impulse on my machine right now only because I need it to download already purchased software and their most current updates.  Other than that, I wouldn't have it on my machine, period!  That adware requires a significant outlay in my dialup bandwidth. Each time I log in with Impulse, the program frequently slows to a crawl and even freezes completely for periods of time. All that content it downloads each time I sign in is a monumental waste of my time. All I want to do is get the latest program updates.  That's it!  I already own all the products from Stardock that I can afford to buy, and even if I had money to throw away, I'm not really interested in any of their other offerings.  Further, your forums are better accessed directly from a standard browser than the erzatz one you have erected around IE.  You have simply added another layer of complexity and bloated code on top of another load of the same from MS.  This is not efficient! 

I would favor splitting the Community and store tabs out into Their own application completely separate from the download and and update functions.  Stardock... I want to make it clear to you that if Impulse continues on this path, I will not be resubscribing when my subscription runs out. 

Since I really don't think you're going to listen to me, I would like to know how I can get standalone versions of all the software that I have purchased through my Object Desktop Subscription.    

Exactly, Impulse was built by stardock as a one stop software distribution portal. Meant to make the managing of your pruchased products easy and reliable.




I realized your post was more of a debate starter than a flame fest. Yes it would be cool to remove the badging from things at times. tv screens, monitors, cars, etc, at times. But not only do these badges offer advertising to the companies, but also allow you to besure you are typically getting what you ask for. I buy a house it comes with a frigidair deep frezzer, I move in and wala the frigidair is replaced with a much cheaper deep freezer.I will notice this easily by the badge on the freezer.

with the way cars are now if all of them had the badguing removed, it would be harder for police to track them. what kind of car was it ? ..um.. red ?...

some times badges/ads are a necessary evil. I would rather see a few ads within stardocks impulse bringing in new customers and revenues, than try to pay for all this with higher prices on the products.. or see SD crumble from a lack of funding..

Still all in all a good debate Goo