I've been following the events closely and was trying to figure out how this will affect the industry. What has gone down is clearly a goof, not a marketing plan. Some say that it will help sales of CS5/6; others say it will hurt them. My best estimate is that the net effect on CS5/6 sales will be close to zero. However, as parent stated, if Adobe doesn't walk back their "permission" to use CS2, they have effectively killed off Elements. PS has the much higher price tag, but I'm sure that Adobe makes much more money off of Elements due to volume.
Elements: dead Paint.net: dead GIMP: dead on Windows any other photo-editing software already struggling to survive: dead
Aside from PS, the other big release was Acrobat 8 Pro. This is really bad for Adobe, too, as there are no free, _usable_ tools for creating PDFs. Acrobat 8 Pro has everything most people would need to create PDFs, so this particular goof will definitely hurts sales of the modern version.
Adobe is between a rock and a hard spot: kill major sources of revenue or take on a PR nightmare. If I were them, I think I'd take on the PR nightmare instead of losing Elements and Acrobat. Let's see how this plays out.
I could never bring myself to pay for TV. It seems like such a huge, freakin' waste of money. I have no problem with paying a lot up front for a one-time fixed cost, but I don't want a subscription. Here's my set up:
MediaPC with 1 TB HDD, HDMI out, S/PDIF out, and two tuner cards using Windows 7, ~$400
the best antenna out there, the Winegard HD7698P, ~$150 (although I think I went overboard here. If I were to do it again, I'd go for a more moderate antenna.)
two Redbox kiosks within walking distance, $1/movie
webOS is actually an excellent operating system. I was a huge Android fan until I got my TouchPad. I bought it with the intention of scrubbing webOS and throwing on Android as soon as a port was available. After using it for a while, I realized how good webOS is and that moving to Android would be a downgrade. The only major problem with webOS is the lack of apps.
What I don't understand is why free tax filing is only available to low-income citizens. It's got to be cheaper for the state or the feds to process returns electronically. Why not offer it free to _everyone_? I think it would save the government money.
Windows XP is the obvious choice out the two choices. If you have to have a single platform, it should be Windows. If you had enough IT support for two platforms (which you don't), then Windows and Linux. I've worked with various companies as a software engineer. The distribution of platforms that I've worked on has been roughly 50% Windows, 40% Linux, 10% Mac.
Macs are much more common for creative fields, but if you're focusing on math and science and want to use what industry uses, go Windows.
The StarCraft II Trilogy consists of the base StarCraft II game and two subsequent expansion sets. StarCraft II is subtitled Wings of Liberty (working title) and will include a lengthy single-player campaign that focuses on the terrans and puts players in the role of Jim Raynor, one of the series' main heroes. The first expansion set, Heart of the Swarm (working title), will follow later and include a single-player campaign focusing on the zerg and Kerrigan, Queen of Blades. The second expansion set, Legacy of the Void (working title), will continue the story experience with a single-player campaign centered on the protoss.
"Money gouging" is subjective, but Blizzard has subtly been raising prices of their games all along. I was able to play SC with a bunch of friends using a single copy of the game way back then. With WCIII, spawns no longer worked, so I had to buy three copies to play with my wife and kid on Battle.net. Now I have to buy three games just to get the full gaming experience for myself!
The obvious solution to issues like this is to not ban any products, but to mandate adequate labeling such that the consumer knows how much damage the product does to the common good, then charge the consumer for that damage.
In this case, TVs should have a label that lists toxic materials and estimates annual electricity consumption (similar to that of appliances), then charge an upfront tax for toxic material disposal and an electricity tax for power plant emissions. Problem solved.
I just hope developers quit requiring admin access for games to run properly. I have admin access, but I don't want to give it to my wife and kids. It's always a hassle to configure a game so that it works for my wife and kids. The edutainment games are the worst!
You must have a less recent model than I do. My laptop's batteries last until a rootkit is successfully installed allowing hackers access to my machine, then the batteries explode, destroying the game system that I paid four digits and got mugged for.
Such a negative slant against the Boy Scouts over the fact that they are showing some integrity... It's hard to understand how the intelligent people that make up the slashdot community don't understand the concept and purpose of intellectual property.
Were you too busy studying CS in college to learn anything from Econ 101?
Jefferson isn't saying that *all* rights are inalienable. He's simply saying that when a government tramples on inalienable rights, it is the the right of the people to overthrow the government.
There are God-given/inalienable rights and state-given rights. The government may not have the authority to deprive people of God-given rights (like the right to live), but it surely has the authority to take away state-given rights (like the right to drive a car).
Yahoo bought DialPad. I used DialPad a lot. PC-to-Phone was FREE for the first 20 minutes (IIRC) when they were trying to gain users. Then they reduced it to five minutes before doing away with FREE PC-to-Phone calling all together.
His only human contact should be via electronic messages with each message sent to him being among 10,000 unfiltered spam messages. Let him waste his life sorting through messages just as he's done to so many others.
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I know a few Democrats that were superromneyphobic.
Once Skynet becomes self-aware, this is one of the first devices that it will take possession of.
I've been following the events closely and was trying to figure out how this will affect the industry. What has gone down is clearly a goof, not a marketing plan. Some say that it will help sales of CS5/6; others say it will hurt them. My best estimate is that the net effect on CS5/6 sales will be close to zero. However, as parent stated, if Adobe doesn't walk back their "permission" to use CS2, they have effectively killed off Elements. PS has the much higher price tag, but I'm sure that Adobe makes much more money off of Elements due to volume.
Elements: dead
Paint.net: dead
GIMP: dead on Windows
any other photo-editing software already struggling to survive: dead
Aside from PS, the other big release was Acrobat 8 Pro. This is really bad for Adobe, too, as there are no free, _usable_ tools for creating PDFs. Acrobat 8 Pro has everything most people would need to create PDFs, so this particular goof will definitely hurts sales of the modern version.
Adobe is between a rock and a hard spot: kill major sources of revenue or take on a PR nightmare. If I were them, I think I'd take on the PR nightmare instead of losing Elements and Acrobat. Let's see how this plays out.
Mod parent up. I was going to say the exact same thing.
They're calling it quits on Firefox 16. No more Firefox 16s.
Oh how I was looking forward to another Firefox 16. Too bad.
After checking out news.dice.com, my guess is that they'll keep /. more or less the same, but add a list of related jobs to each news thread.
This release should help CyanogenMod (and CyanogenMod should help customization of this release).
webOS is actually an excellent operating system. I was a huge Android fan until I got my TouchPad. I bought it with the intention of scrubbing webOS and throwing on Android as soon as a port was available. After using it for a while, I realized how good webOS is and that moving to Android would be a downgrade. The only major problem with webOS is the lack of apps.
I wonder if there is something inherent about its design that makes it a sausage fest. Similar to the way that guys prefer Android.
What I don't understand is why free tax filing is only available to low-income citizens. It's got to be cheaper for the state or the feds to process returns electronically. Why not offer it free to _everyone_? I think it would save the government money.
I bet that lameo Lamo is LMAO.
Windows XP is the obvious choice out the two choices. If you have to have a single platform, it should be Windows. If you had enough IT support for two platforms (which you don't), then Windows and Linux. I've worked with various companies as a software engineer. The distribution of platforms that I've worked on has been roughly 50% Windows, 40% Linux, 10% Mac. Macs are much more common for creative fields, but if you're focusing on math and science and want to use what industry uses, go Windows.
What is the StarCraft II Trilogy?
The StarCraft II Trilogy consists of the base StarCraft II game and two subsequent expansion sets. StarCraft II is subtitled Wings of Liberty (working title) and will include a lengthy single-player campaign that focuses on the terrans and puts players in the role of Jim Raynor, one of the series' main heroes. The first expansion set, Heart of the Swarm (working title), will follow later and include a single-player campaign focusing on the zerg and Kerrigan, Queen of Blades. The second expansion set, Legacy of the Void (working title), will continue the story experience with a single-player campaign centered on the protoss.
"Money gouging" is subjective, but Blizzard has subtly been raising prices of their games all along. I was able to play SC with a bunch of friends using a single copy of the game way back then. With WCIII, spawns no longer worked, so I had to buy three copies to play with my wife and kid on Battle.net. Now I have to buy three games just to get the full gaming experience for myself!
The obvious solution to issues like this is to not ban any products, but to mandate adequate labeling such that the consumer knows how much damage the product does to the common good, then charge the consumer for that damage. In this case, TVs should have a label that lists toxic materials and estimates annual electricity consumption (similar to that of appliances), then charge an upfront tax for toxic material disposal and an electricity tax for power plant emissions. Problem solved.
Not quite true. A lot of slashdotters have a girlfriend in Canada. ;)
Captain America must be turning in his grave.
I just hope developers quit requiring admin access for games to run properly. I have admin access, but I don't want to give it to my wife and kids. It's always a hassle to configure a game so that it works for my wife and kids. The edutainment games are the worst!
You must have a less recent model than I do. My laptop's batteries last until a rootkit is successfully installed allowing hackers access to my machine, then the batteries explode, destroying the game system that I paid four digits and got mugged for.
Such a negative slant against the Boy Scouts over the fact that they are showing some integrity... It's hard to understand how the intelligent people that make up the slashdot community don't understand the concept and purpose of intellectual property. Were you too busy studying CS in college to learn anything from Econ 101?
XP SP3 won't come out until 07H2: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+XP+SP3+wont+arrive+
They don't want SP3 to distract people from Vista, so they scheduled it for WAY after Vista launch.
Jefferson isn't saying that *all* rights are inalienable. He's simply saying that when a government tramples on inalienable rights, it is the the right of the people to overthrow the government.
There are God-given/inalienable rights and state-given rights. The government may not have the authority to deprive people of God-given rights (like the right to live), but it surely has the authority to take away state-given rights (like the right to drive a car).
Yahoo bought DialPad. I used DialPad a lot. PC-to-Phone was FREE for the first 20 minutes (IIRC) when they were trying to gain users. Then they reduced it to five minutes before doing away with FREE PC-to-Phone calling all together.
SmartPages.com (now YellowPages.com) has had Click-to-Call for almost two years!
His only human contact should be via electronic messages with each message sent to him being among 10,000 unfiltered spam messages. Let him waste his life sorting through messages just as he's done to so many others.