I wanted to upgrade. I had the cash in hand. But Adobe destroying file compatibility (can't write CS4 files), forcing the subscription model, cloud and 30 to 90 day reauthorizations on me make it not something I'll do.
So I just keep using CS4. It works. Adobe loses money they would have gotten as upgrades by tens of thousands of users like me. If another program comes out that I can afford that will read and write all the Adobe formats I need (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) then I would switch to it in a heart beat.
Let me get this right. Your friend stops using iMessage. You send her a message with iMessage. You weirdly expect her to magically get the message despite the fact that she is no longer using that service? Riiight...
Maybe you need to fall back to old technology like her phone, email or your two feet.
There is a disk that writes permanently. They claim it will last a thousand years:
"The unique materials used in the M-DISC requires a new disc drive technology to engrave data permanently. The M-DISC Duplicator have been designed and optimized to work with M-DISC as one to etch data into the permanent synthetic stone layers within the M-DISC. Archival-quality DVDs are known to randomly fail leading to permanent data loss."
If you still have the necessary hardware and software to read it you should be okay.
The statistics are about what I would expect. There is no way to try most games being sold online except to download them. You can't try them in the store. If you could, most people wouldn't bother to even download so download statistics would plummet.
Most people download the games so they can try them. Most games are awful so they get opened once, tried and then ignored or even deleted.
A few games get tried a few times but then ignored and deleted.
A very few games are really worth it so those ones people pay for.
As to the in-app purchases, I'm not interested in that wallet sucking method of paying. If I like the trial version of the game then I will register it and pay for it. If it is a game that requires little in-app purchases to play, then I delete the game and find another that is a simple buy and play type purchase.
Hmm... No. I have one of these. It just ate a VHS tape. It does that time to time. Sucks it in and just keeps on grinding the tape to shreds.
I bought this unit for the ability to transfer VHS to DVD. I was not happy with the results.
It is better to just buy DVDs on eBay or used on Amazon for a couple of bucks if your VHS are commercial releases. The quality is far better and it doesn't waste your time. Put the VHS tapes in a time capsule.
Arable land is increasing with global warming as vast amounts of northern land that was once to cold is now accessible to life, both wild and domestic.
The human population growth rate is slowing dramatically. We need more people to be able to think our way out of the big problems that are coming. There is a comet or astroid with our name on it. If you care, breed and educate your children so they can help solve the problems of today and tomorrow.
GMOs as we have them at this point are not sustainable technology so that is rather moot. There is growing evidence that the GMOs are reducing production in addition to the damage their use does to the soil life.
Instead of having big farms each with lots of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, etc we would do far better to have many small farms with fewer animals all out on pasture. All of those animals can be raised on a diet of mostly to all pasture. No commercial grain feeds are needed for any of them. The rise of CAFOs and feedlots was due to an excess of nitrogen and grain. It was all a mistake. Time to correct it.
This is part of why I got out of programming. I saw this coming a long, long time ago. I loved programming all alone. Creating clean, neat, tidy code with excellent, efficient data usage and easy to work with user interfaces that followed good standards and human interface dynamics.
But that has all changed. Coding has become like working with zoning regulators and legislators who know nothing about the rules or environments they deal with.
Now I just code for myself. I still get the enjoyment of it and don't have the hassle or stress.
"The concrete used by the Romans was apparently much better that the ones we use today."
False. It's a nice myth of antiquity, of the good old days being better than today but it is totally false.
Today's concrete is far better than what was produced in the past. Of course, I'm not talking about crappy badly done concrete but the good stuff that is used in most good engineering works. Sure, you can point to a government bid sidewalk falling apart but that is meaningless anecdotal evidence in this discussion. That's politics and greed, not materials science and chemistry.
This totally misses the point. I, and many people, do not want factory produced food. I want food I can replicate without high technology. I can grow plants, fruit, nuts and MEAT out in my fields. Meat is easy to produce. I have pastures. The sun shines on them. The rain falls. The forages grow. My pigs, chicken, ducks, sheep and geese eat the plants (and bugs). I eat the animals (and plants). It works. It's easy. It's reliable. It's sustainable.
My way does not require electricity, high technology, a laboratory or shipments of chemicals from distant locations.
What the factory farmed methods, be they CAFO or huge grain fields, does is to concentrate the power and wealth into the hands of the few resulting in a fragile, brittle system that can easily fail or be attacked and controlled by hostile forces.
We have livestock working dogs. They do guarding and herding as well as other jobs on our farm. They do math. They can differentiate less, more, count, know numbers (we use numbers with them) and do simple addition.
Yes, these are not your ordinary pet dog - they're bred for intelligence and work at their jobs from a very young age so this may not be representative of all dogs. However, if our dogs can do math I'm not at all surprised monkeys can and I expect apes including chimpanzees and dolphins can probably do math too. These are social, cooperative animals and most of them are hunters which tends to develop brain hardware and skills.
I would love to see an alternative to Adobe for Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator. I have used Photoshop and Illustrator (licensed owner) since versions 1.0 and now have CS4. I don't want Adobe's Cloud version. I don't want to deal with the cloud or subscription based software. CS6 won't save files in CS4 format so I don't want it for that reason too. Just as we have OpenOffice it would be nice to have OpenCS.
Ha! Working for someone else is far more of a risky gamble than working for myself. As an employee you have to satisfy your boss and the clients. As my own boss I only have to satisfy my clients.
Odds of success: Boss% x Client% Client%
You have a much higher risk as an employee. I'm taking less of a gamble as an independent. Pretty simple math.
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I'll get right back to you on that thought...
I wanted to upgrade.
I had the cash in hand.
But Adobe destroying file compatibility (can't write CS4 files), forcing the subscription model, cloud and 30 to 90 day reauthorizations on me make it not something I'll do.
So I just keep using CS4.
It works.
Adobe loses money they would have gotten as upgrades by tens of thousands of users like me.
If another program comes out that I can afford that will read and write all the Adobe formats I need (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat) then I would switch to it in a heart beat.
Let me get this right.
Your friend stops using iMessage.
You send her a message with iMessage.
You weirdly expect her to magically get the message despite the fact that she is no longer using that service?
Riiight...
Maybe you need to fall back to old technology like her phone, email or your two feet.
There is a disk that writes permanently. They claim it will last a thousand years:
"The unique materials used in the M-DISC requires a new disc drive technology to engrave data permanently. The M-DISC Duplicator have been designed and optimized to work with M-DISC as one to etch data into the permanent synthetic stone layers within the M-DISC. Archival-quality DVDs are known to randomly fail leading to permanent data loss."
If you still have the necessary hardware and software to read it you should be okay.
http://www.amazon.com/LG-Elect...
http://www.amazon.com/M-DISC-4...
Looks interesting for time capsules.
The statistics are about what I would expect. There is no way to try most games being sold online except to download them. You can't try them in the store. If you could, most people wouldn't bother to even download so download statistics would plummet.
Most people download the games so they can try them. Most games are awful so they get opened once, tried and then ignored or even deleted.
A few games get tried a few times but then ignored and deleted.
A very few games are really worth it so those ones people pay for.
As to the in-app purchases, I'm not interested in that wallet sucking method of paying. If I like the trial version of the game then I will register it and pay for it. If it is a game that requires little in-app purchases to play, then I delete the game and find another that is a simple buy and play type purchase.
The eyes are actually part of the brain and have computational and comparative circuits built into them. This has been known for many decades.
The buffalo used to toot up a storm...
Hmm... No. I have one of these. It just ate a VHS tape. It does that time to time. Sucks it in and just keeps on grinding the tape to shreds.
I bought this unit for the ability to transfer VHS to DVD. I was not happy with the results.
It is better to just buy DVDs on eBay or used on Amazon for a couple of bucks if your VHS are commercial releases. The quality is far better and it doesn't waste your time. Put the VHS tapes in a time capsule.
Arable land is increasing with global warming as vast amounts of northern land that was once to cold is now accessible to life, both wild and domestic.
The human population growth rate is slowing dramatically. We need more people to be able to think our way out of the big problems that are coming. There is a comet or astroid with our name on it. If you care, breed and educate your children so they can help solve the problems of today and tomorrow.
GMOs as we have them at this point are not sustainable technology so that is rather moot. There is growing evidence that the GMOs are reducing production in addition to the damage their use does to the soil life.
Instead of having big farms each with lots of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, etc we would do far better to have many small farms with fewer animals all out on pasture. All of those animals can be raised on a diet of mostly to all pasture. No commercial grain feeds are needed for any of them. The rise of CAFOs and feedlots was due to an excess of nitrogen and grain. It was all a mistake. Time to correct it.
Actually, they do scale. That is the beauty of diversified small systems. Don't make them big. Make them many.
Which is why one should raise one's own meat or get it from as local as possible pasture based farms. It is available.
Speaking as a small inventor I say, YEAH! It is about time this went through. This will protect us from trolls by hurting the trolls.
This is part of why I got out of programming. I saw this coming a long, long time ago. I loved programming all alone. Creating clean, neat, tidy code with excellent, efficient data usage and easy to work with user interfaces that followed good standards and human interface dynamics.
But that has all changed. Coding has become like working with zoning regulators and legislators who know nothing about the rules or environments they deal with.
Now I just code for myself. I still get the enjoyment of it and don't have the hassle or stress.
One happy programmer.
1) Portland is only a simple concrete, there are many other improved modern varieties which are widely used and a lot better than any Roman concrete.
2) Marie Jackson gave her opinion, not fact. The very fact that she failed to account for all the better versions discounts her opinion.
It's a myth. A fun myth, but a myth. I hope you don't believe pyramids sharpen razors...
"The concrete used by the Romans was apparently much better that the ones we use today."
False. It's a nice myth of antiquity, of the good old days being better than today but it is totally false.
Today's concrete is far better than what was produced in the past. Of course, I'm not talking about crappy badly done concrete but the good stuff that is used in most good engineering works. Sure, you can point to a government bid sidewalk falling apart but that is meaningless anecdotal evidence in this discussion. That's politics and greed, not materials science and chemistry.
Livestock working dogs. They do it all the time in their work of herding and guarding.
This totally misses the point. I, and many people, do not want factory produced food. I want food I can replicate without high technology. I can grow plants, fruit, nuts and MEAT out in my fields. Meat is easy to produce. I have pastures. The sun shines on them. The rain falls. The forages grow. My pigs, chicken, ducks, sheep and geese eat the plants (and bugs). I eat the animals (and plants). It works. It's easy. It's reliable. It's sustainable.
My way does not require electricity, high technology, a laboratory or shipments of chemicals from distant locations.
What the factory farmed methods, be they CAFO or huge grain fields, does is to concentrate the power and wealth into the hands of the few resulting in a fragile, brittle system that can easily fail or be attacked and controlled by hostile forces.
Bill Gates Meatless Meat is a total fail.
I'll stick to real meat.
We have livestock working dogs. They do guarding and herding as well as other jobs on our farm. They do math. They can differentiate less, more, count, know numbers (we use numbers with them) and do simple addition.
Yes, these are not your ordinary pet dog - they're bred for intelligence and work at their jobs from a very young age so this may not be representative of all dogs. However, if our dogs can do math I'm not at all surprised monkeys can and I expect apes including chimpanzees and dolphins can probably do math too. These are social, cooperative animals and most of them are hunters which tends to develop brain hardware and skills.
I would love to see an alternative to Adobe for Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator. I have used Photoshop and Illustrator (licensed owner) since versions 1.0 and now have CS4. I don't want Adobe's Cloud version. I don't want to deal with the cloud or subscription based software. CS6 won't save files in CS4 format so I don't want it for that reason too. Just as we have OpenOffice it would be nice to have OpenCS.
Only 56% expect to become millionaires?
What is wrong with the other 44%?
Ha! Working for someone else is far more of a risky gamble than working for myself. As an employee you have to satisfy your boss and the clients. As my own boss I only have to satisfy my clients.
Odds of success:
Boss% x Client% Client%
You have a much higher risk as an employee.
I'm taking less of a gamble as an independent.
Pretty simple math.
http://www.funnytimes.com/
They're sometimes too far radically left leaning but still lots of good stuff. At least they're funny (most of the) times. :)
One more reason not to be an employee. Work for yourself.
Of course, they're going to get your photo in other ways. Facebook, blogs, etc.