Re: cable and sat don't have the bandwidth for it
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The Trouble With 4K TV
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I remember those demo videos. They came out at a time when almost nobody's computer was fast enough to play them. Required an over 3GHz CPU at a time when most people had 2.4GHz.
OTA doesn't look so bad. It's cable/satellite channels or cable/satellite rebroadcasts of OTA that have the problem of blockiness in fast action. The only exception I can think of is PBS, because they have 3 or 4 subchannels of video content. But when I watch the big 4 (ABC,NBC,CBS,Fox) over the antenna, I've never seen a shortage of bandwidth causing blockiness.
Not necessarily. If there was a separate screen for auto-focus, and you could zoom it to 1:1. Tap an object's edge on the main screen and the focus screen could show a small box of 1:1 pixels for focusing the edge. Well - that's a partial solution. Any situation that involves dollying toward an object or an object coming toward the screen would still require fast reflexes, but maybe the sharpness would be lost by motion blur anyway.
4K is roughly 35mm quality, so it's not like they haven't been focusing 35mm lenses for close to 100 years.
Probably not the first "whoosh", but if you're referring only to ones you've personally read and you want to be pedantic about your use of the 3rd O, you're probably right.
That wouldn't work - not with the upgrade version. This also certainly ruins any upgrade install from CS2. They would all use the CS2 activation servers during install to verify upgrade eligibility.
The "While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free" doesn't explicitly deny that they are giving it away for free. Everyone's waiting for an official answer, however.
Or buy it when they goofed their coupon codes, and gave an EXTRA 80% off instead of a total of 80% off for the academic version. I got CS5.5 Design Premium for just over $100 back when they did that.
Even Adobe agrees on that front. That's why they have a product called Lightroom - dedicated solely to the task of "developing" digital photos and managing groups of photos.
I'll chime in and say UI as well. It's just not all there from a UI standpoint. Clearly, the power is there. That's why Cinepaint (GIMP-based) is so successful in the film industry.
The way Photoshop handles layers, mixes raster and vector layers, and the way the workspace is set up is just so much nicer. GIMP just isn't intuitive. There was not such a huge learning curve when I picked up Photoshop or even way back in the late 90's when I used Paint Shop Pro.
If by "feel their age", you mean blazing fast, then I agree. Photoshop CS2 sitting idle with no files open is using 8MB of RAM on my Windows 7 x86 computer. There's a lot I like better about this version than CS5.5 that I have at home. No glitchy GPU acceleration, no dark grey interface, and in fact no Macromediafication of the UI at all.
CS2 has the healing brush and spot healing brush. That's the most important update since Photoshop 5, in my opinion. Saves loads of time. Nothing new that's come out - not even content-aware fill or resizing is all that great for the average photography user. If you're using Photoshop Extended features to evaluate an MRI or something, then you need a newer version.
Definitely would. And it would also work on any version of OSX you can manage to install Rosetta on. CS2 is old, so it runs fast on new hardware, even through the translation layer. I'm still hoping to see someone get Rosetta working on Lion or Mountain Lion.
Yes. It's activation-free. You get it once, and it always works. You can install it over and over again provided that you keep a backup copy.
They could have required you to contact customer service, and provide a download token tied to an Adobe ID. That's still not shifting activation, because you only have to do it once. You might as well say that having to go into a store to buy something instead of just stealing it is "requiring activation" but it's not.
You have to activate the retail version of CS2 to use it. I'm also fairly certain that CS3 upgrade media contacts the CS2 activation servers to verify upgrade eligibility. Are you talking about the former or the latter?
For CS2, no. That's why they posted the download online with the activation-free serial numbers. Well, you could install it, but it wouldn't activate. You'd have to install the version they are providing online and using the key they provide. Making a backup to DVD, you have the perpetual ability to use the CS2 you paid for regardless of Adobe's future actions. This is a good thing. This is what you'd hope every software provider does when it's time to turn off activation servers.
It's just not normal to publish the link in a publicly accessible place with no documentation on that page at all - just a list of downloads and serial numbers.
No, they have an employee of Adobe who was speaking on behalf of the company without official authority.
Here's what Adobe officially says:
Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.
Which is very clearly intended to be ambiguous wording.
In fact, I'm not even sure if I can use my CS3 upgrade media anymore, since there's no way to validate it as an upgrade. Probably have to do a phone activation - if they can even manually override it. They need the activation servers to verify the CS2 key over the phone, too.
You wouldn't qualify for an upgrade from CS2. With the activation servers off, they can't even validate your license to CS2, and you don't have a valid activate-able product key anyway. There's no such thing as an upgrade install that doesn't verify your eligibility (unlike Windows).
They turned off the activation servers, and had to release an activation-free copy of the software to continue supporting original purchasers of CS2. The proper thing to do. It's just that they accidentally made the download links available to everyone.
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I remember those demo videos. They came out at a time when almost nobody's computer was fast enough to play them. Required an over 3GHz CPU at a time when most people had 2.4GHz.
OTA doesn't look so bad. It's cable/satellite channels or cable/satellite rebroadcasts of OTA that have the problem of blockiness in fast action. The only exception I can think of is PBS, because they have 3 or 4 subchannels of video content. But when I watch the big 4 (ABC,NBC,CBS,Fox) over the antenna, I've never seen a shortage of bandwidth causing blockiness.
Well, your TV is probably only going to get 720p30 input vs. 1080i60 anyway.
Not necessarily. If there was a separate screen for auto-focus, and you could zoom it to 1:1. Tap an object's edge on the main screen and the focus screen could show a small box of 1:1 pixels for focusing the edge. Well - that's a partial solution. Any situation that involves dollying toward an object or an object coming toward the screen would still require fast reflexes, but maybe the sharpness would be lost by motion blur anyway.
4K is roughly 35mm quality, so it's not like they haven't been focusing 35mm lenses for close to 100 years.
Probably not the first "whoosh", but if you're referring only to ones you've personally read and you want to be pedantic about your use of the 3rd O, you're probably right.
That wouldn't work - not with the upgrade version. This also certainly ruins any upgrade install from CS2. They would all use the CS2 activation servers during install to verify upgrade eligibility.
The "While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free" doesn't explicitly deny that they are giving it away for free. Everyone's waiting for an official answer, however.
Or buy it when they goofed their coupon codes, and gave an EXTRA 80% off instead of a total of 80% off for the academic version. I got CS5.5 Design Premium for just over $100 back when they did that.
Even Adobe agrees on that front. That's why they have a product called Lightroom - dedicated solely to the task of "developing" digital photos and managing groups of photos.
I'll chime in and say UI as well. It's just not all there from a UI standpoint. Clearly, the power is there. That's why Cinepaint (GIMP-based) is so successful in the film industry.
The way Photoshop handles layers, mixes raster and vector layers, and the way the workspace is set up is just so much nicer. GIMP just isn't intuitive. There was not such a huge learning curve when I picked up Photoshop or even way back in the late 90's when I used Paint Shop Pro.
Cool Edit 2.0 is still very usable software 12 years later, and so is the classic cool edit 96
Too bad the same can't be said for Adobe Audition.
If by "feel their age", you mean blazing fast, then I agree. Photoshop CS2 sitting idle with no files open is using 8MB of RAM on my Windows 7 x86 computer. There's a lot I like better about this version than CS5.5 that I have at home. No glitchy GPU acceleration, no dark grey interface, and in fact no Macromediafication of the UI at all.
CS2 has the healing brush and spot healing brush. That's the most important update since Photoshop 5, in my opinion. Saves loads of time. Nothing new that's come out - not even content-aware fill or resizing is all that great for the average photography user. If you're using Photoshop Extended features to evaluate an MRI or something, then you need a newer version.
Definitely would. And it would also work on any version of OSX you can manage to install Rosetta on. CS2 is old, so it runs fast on new hardware, even through the translation layer. I'm still hoping to see someone get Rosetta working on Lion or Mountain Lion.
Yes. It's activation-free. You get it once, and it always works. You can install it over and over again provided that you keep a backup copy.
They could have required you to contact customer service, and provide a download token tied to an Adobe ID. That's still not shifting activation, because you only have to do it once. You might as well say that having to go into a store to buy something instead of just stealing it is "requiring activation" but it's not.
See my pre-emptive self-reply:
And before you say it, CS2 has hit EOL. I have no reason not to disable update checking.
And before you say it, CS2 has hit EOL. I have no reason not to disable update checking.
You have to activate the retail version of CS2 to use it. I'm also fairly certain that CS3 upgrade media contacts the CS2 activation servers to verify upgrade eligibility. Are you talking about the former or the latter?
And it would be really hard to uninstall the product and reinstall it, wouldn't it?
For CS2, no. That's why they posted the download online with the activation-free serial numbers. Well, you could install it, but it wouldn't activate. You'd have to install the version they are providing online and using the key they provide. Making a backup to DVD, you have the perpetual ability to use the CS2 you paid for regardless of Adobe's future actions. This is a good thing. This is what you'd hope every software provider does when it's time to turn off activation servers.
It's just not normal to publish the link in a publicly accessible place with no documentation on that page at all - just a list of downloads and serial numbers.
No, they have an employee of Adobe who was speaking on behalf of the company without official authority.
Here's what Adobe officially says:
Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.
Which is very clearly intended to be ambiguous wording.
In fact, I'm not even sure if I can use my CS3 upgrade media anymore, since there's no way to validate it as an upgrade. Probably have to do a phone activation - if they can even manually override it. They need the activation servers to verify the CS2 key over the phone, too.
End of December 2012, I believe. The download page has been up since then, too. It only went viral a day or two ago.
You wouldn't qualify for an upgrade from CS2. With the activation servers off, they can't even validate your license to CS2, and you don't have a valid activate-able product key anyway. There's no such thing as an upgrade install that doesn't verify your eligibility (unlike Windows).
Ignore that - it only takes a little effort to get it working.
They turned off the activation servers, and had to release an activation-free copy of the software to continue supporting original purchasers of CS2. The proper thing to do. It's just that they accidentally made the download links available to everyone.