The whole argument against you kooks is one of fair use. If I paid for something, I should be able to give it away if I want. If I give it away, the person who gets it from me isn't stealing, he's receiving a gift (politicians do this all the time). Just because a bunch of nervous politicians thought they would look bad if they didn't vote for passing the DMCA doesn't mean they know a thing about it. Yes, it's the law, but that doesn't make it right. What do you think our country would be like today if people didn't stand up to unjust laws (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez to name a few)? Should we all just bend over and take it? No.
But hey, if I want to live in a country where a bunch of people told me what I can do with stuff I already bought then I'd move to Iraq...O wait...
Why is everyone here so negative? Horray for Apple for getting some new stuff out there! Who cares if you guys don't like it? Why don't one (or all of you) go out and invent your own makes-everybody-happy ubermouse?
Why am I even bothering to log in anymore? All I do is read complaints from people who are never satisfied. Well, if you can't beat 'em, join em.
Check this out...Apple's idea sucks! Screw those punks and their sell-out style! Rotating disc? How 'bout rotating this! *grab grab*. 'Scuse me while I go use another companies' third-party POS mouse before I even see the finished Apple product! I'm gonna switch to Linux 'cause OS X is too pretty and I want a OS that is ugly and hard to use so I can look cool in front of all my friends... aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghfggghggurgle...ppphhhlphhhpppt! !!!!
Warm fuzzies, everbody! Not cold pricklies! Jesus.
Macs rule, as we all know. Rumors blow. So enough already with the speculation! Wait for the broadcast, and get it from the big man himself.
the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
Of course TechTV will pick it up. The Screensavers know everything! I hope Leo Laporte didn't hear you say that! And I'm sure someone will get it out there in Quicktime. Unless, of course, if whacking QT is what this broadcast is all about. But I don't want to start any rumors.
I think it was back in '95 or '96. IBM and Motorola were in development of dual-platform supporting processor called CHRP or Common Hardware Reference Platform.
The Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) Specification describes a family of machines based on the PowerPC(tm) processor that are capable of booting multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows NT, AIX® and Solaris(tm).
Wouldn't that have been cool? What ever happened to that idea? Here's the old documentation.
It appears that IBM has some information on their site that is still recent, dated Sept. 2002. Weird. I'd love to have one of those machines. PowerPC 970? Forget about it.
I know! It seems like this Acacia is just out to make money on royalties. These seem like sneaky business practices to me. I read that article (thanks) and it just blows my mind:
Over the past several years, the company acquired a series of patents its attorneys believe cover virtually all on-demand transmissions of compressed audio and video over the Internet, cable TV lines, satellite and wireless services. The company's parent, Acacia Research, has previously made tens of millions of dollars in patent royalties on the V-Chip technology included in most television sets.
I can see why NPR would be a little skecthy when it comes to legal issues knowing that there is a company out there like Acacia. It seems as though Acacia is some kind of investment company that only invests in itself. If I were in charge at NPR, I would be a little worried too. Bummer.
NPR has a strange history of alienating people. For example, a snippet on Cory Doctorow's site boingboing from last June, then featured on TechTV's The Screensavers, told a strange story of NPR not allowing people to place an NPR link on their web site:
Examples of such "inappropriate" links include "certain kinds of commercial linking," [an NPR spokesperson] said.
"For example, if Salon.com writes a story about NPR and links to us, that would be fine," because the online magazine wouldn't be using the NPR link for its commercial benefit. "But what wouldn't be fine is if someone sets up a business to link to us and profit from that" -- for example, if someone sets up an online "radio station" whose main content was NPR's programs.
Pretty weird, huh? How exactly would anyone see any "commercial benefit" from letting their readers link to NPR? By that definition, ANYONE could be suspect of profiting from the link.
Wake up, NPR. Now Quicktime? Do you you all just hate the world?
Troll troll troll. Trolls don't use Macs. Trolls seem to prefer beige. They seem to think it's the new grey this season.
Look guys, we know how nice it is to be frugal. Spinster-like, even. But just get off your ass, get a job, and drop the cabbage on a new MDD G4 or even a 12" PBook for crissake! Then you will know what you've been missing. Faster bus, faster RAM, faster processor, it's all you need to blow doors off that beige heap and turn it into an FTP server. Why pay Sonnet 700 clams to eke out more Mhz when you can pay a grand for an eMac which would UNLEASH on that beige G3? Besides, the money just goes right back to Apple to help them make more great machines.
I'm starting to think that MS is paying trolls to sit around and barrage posts about OS X with replies complaining about the speed.
I resent that. I pay the green to keep MS out of my house. If I started let Winows seep in, I'd kick my own ass! The time is going to come, gentlemen when the latest release of OS X will cease to work on your antiques. Why wait? Come on in with the team, and jump in for the big win.
Look, everybody's machine is different. EveryBODY is different. Maybe you have good luck. Maybe you are lying so we will think you are cool. Wait, lemme try:
I'm running 10.3.8 on my over-clocked 66Mhz PowerMac 6100, and it works great. I'm running Photoshop filters all over the place AND I'm rendering thousands of frames of video. Anyone who buys another new machine is stupid. Yak yak quacky quack smack!
See how easy that was? It's not snappy, but it makes a great toilet seat cover. Matches my towels. GOD I MISS MY NuBUS CARDS!!!!
On December 19, 2002, Tech TV's The Screen Savers aired an episode in which Kevin Rose built a G4 in an ATX case. Most of the parts came from Mac Resq and others. It's an interesting article for anyone who wishes to tackle the project by themselves.
The segment was inspired by an aricle on MacOpz Web Site. I urge all to check it out.
Though this might end up costing a little more, there are benefits: You get to choose your own case (which must be slightly modified), and get the pleasure of building a computer that normally isn't built by anyone except Apple and the pizza box guy.
Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves!
Let's face it: If you compare Apple's software AND hardware innovation to any other company, they stand up extremely well. Apple is a company that is doing both at the same time. Any other company would have folded by now (they were getting pretty close in the late '90s), but they seem to be able to keep setting trends and making money to boot. I'd like to see MS try and pull that off. They seem to be going backwards compared to Apple.
Since OS X 10.2.4 came out, I think this is only the second security update. However, for XP there have been countless updates. The Service Pack One update from a few months back was 120MB! They must've had quite a bit of holes to need a upgrade that big.
It seems that almost every week, my IT deartment is running around trying to install security updates on our computers. It's a good thing I only use my PC for e-mail (not for long, since MS Exchange will soon work with Entourage). I use my Mac for real work.
Well, like I said all the tools for generating a high-res PDF from a professional design title like InDesign are in its own print dialog. I would imagine that one could create a "hot" folder whereby an Applescript would be invoked whenever a Postscript file was saved directly into it: it could automatically distill it and move it wherever you like. Still, as far as attaching to e-mails and whatnot: the separated PDFs of a distilled Postscript file for an average 150lpi four-color offset print job are pretty huge. If the print shop can even accept a PDF over a PS file this might help a little. However, most pre-press shops would rather have the source files anyway.
Don't get me wrong. I still think it's pretty cool. Way better and easier than anything Windows could come up with.
I think it's awesome that Apple is always innovating and improving the awesome OS X. The ability to automatically generate PDFs and use different scripts to regulate their behavior is a great testament to Apple's undying commitment to making user's lives easier. Publishing PDfs for on-line useage will probably become more efficient as the user writes more scripts. However, this seems like it would not be very helpful for those involved in offset printing.
At most pre-press shops around the world, PDFs are becoming integrated into the workflow more and more. But most prfessional design programs already have their own print dialogs and methods for exporting PDFs. Take Adobe InDesign, for instance. I can already export a PDF from the File menu (though I cannot see how to regulate it with all those cool Applescripts). And why would I want to do that anyway? If I send anything to a pre-press dept. at a print shop, it will most likely be a fully separated PDF, or (in most cases) a Postscript file. Many pre-press shops cannot deal with composite PDFs yet. A lot of them are not equipped with a fully PDF workflow. That would make trapping and imposition from a composite PDF quite difficult.
Other software titles that professionals use like Quark, PageMaker, etc. already have their own print dialogs. A high-res PDF of a four-color print job would be too large to attach to most e-mails anyway.
I like the idea for every other usage. This new option is great for titles like Word which use the Apple print dialog. This can have many advantages. Students will most likely benefit from this as they will be able to publish their PDFs on-line to professors and teachers.
Some say that it's too bad that Apple is letting the iMac go. But Apple needs to keep progressing ever forward. Who needs a translucent easter egg with a 15 inch screen when Mini Me has a fly laptop with a 17 inch screen and a Super Drive? If nostalgia sold computers, Apple would still be rolling out the 128k.
That's not to say that the iMac was bad or anything. It was Apple's savior. We'd all like to see Apple continue to make great computers. To do that, it's gotta kick that old freeloading 5-year old out of the house.
The initial post was incorrect in saying it was "platform-independent, web-based"
I was quoting Apple. Please refer to the article for further research. It states:
PowerSchool, a web-based student information system from Apple...And because PowerSchool is platform independent, it can be accessed from any Windows or Mac computer with a web browser and supports Windows and Mac server platforms.
If there's something you know that Apple doesn't, we'd like to know. Looking under the Technology tab in the article it sounds like they have a good web-based solution.
I hear ya. Sorry for the sourpuss crack. None of us really knows how things are going to turn out. VPC could be a huge cash for MS or a giant piece of crap. Then again, I think the money men over there have enough green to give all this a shot and not send MS down the tubes (what could besides armageddon?).
Hey, I'm not the marketing strategist at MS, but look at the beating they're taking on the XBox...They're losing something like a hundred dollars per unit because they hope it'll pay off someday. Maybe that's what they're hoping with VPC. They're making a decent amount with Office:Mac (I think they're the leading Mac software developer besides Apple).
I don't know. I just thought some optimism was in need here. Don't be such a sourpuss.
It matters that Microsoft bought it.
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A lot of us Mac true believers would probably cringe at the thought that Microsoft is getting its grubby hands all over a cherished Mac product. I freaked out at first, I'll admit it. But after I calmed down I started to think rationally.
What could be better? I think MS would be crazy to kill it off. So that leaves only better support for the product and smoother operation (we hope). I had loads of trouble with version 5. Hangs, freezes, and everything. Maybe now (and I know that a lot of hardcore Macers will freak out when I say this) Macs and Windows will finally start to get along.
The only shred of content in that article that is news is CompUSA. Users have been dowloading software for years now through various means. Does CompUSA think that by installing a Software to Go kiosk in their store, that's going to expand their (and STG's) market?
Has anyone tried to get help in a CompUSA store? It's impossible to find somebody who knows much about anything (if anyone out there reading this works on the CompUSA sales floor, sorry. It's true, you guys have a rep for lagging). How exactly does a person who doesn't know much about computers (hence the reason they're in CompUSA in the first place) going to figure out how to work the kiosk? Who at CompUSA is going to help them?
The sad but true fact is this: People like to have something tangible to look over before they buy. That's why packaging exists in the first place. People who are not knowledgeable about downloading and installing software from home, where they should be doing it are not going to walk up to a kiosk and get the software all by themselves. Face it. Example: how often do you see people in Borders using the kiosks to look up books? Not that often. That's because people who can't look up titles for themselves will go straight to a sales person, and ask.
Download it from home. If you don't know how, then packaging is here to stay.
The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.
So that would mean that those CloneAid people with the human baby clones are lying to us? No way.
This is all quite obvious to us already. The general public (well, those with common sense) require validity of claims through the desire to hear about SOURCES. When Peter Jennings goes into a story about a new medical claim like rat turds give you cancer, or something, he usually starts off with "According to a study published in this weeks Journal of the American Medical Association..." and so on. That tends to tell the public (again, those with common sense) that the study probably has some scientific validity.
But when you get a story like those alien-subservient CloneAid smarty-pants holding press conferences without any published results, it provokes a media blitz. Go figure.
I use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign all day, every day. I am running 10.2.4. I even connect to SMB servers at work.
So what's the deal? I tried recreating the conditions in the Adobe article by doing exactly the opposite of their instructions. No problem here. I have logged out, back in, and have all 3 programs running...I'm using modifying keys all over the place! Wait a minute...let's reboot the machine and see...just a second...Oh yeah! I'm modifying, baby!
Maybe somebody out there enabled the root user, screwed up their permissions, and then complained to Adobe about it.
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No kidding? That still doesn't mean it's a just law. Limit this! *grab grab*
Goody two goody two goody goody two shoes!
Live a little! Go commit some crimes you boring person!
Jesus, I didn't know they let RIAA spies in here!
The whole argument against you kooks is one of fair use. If I paid for something, I should be able to give it away if I want. If I give it away, the person who gets it from me isn't stealing, he's receiving a gift (politicians do this all the time). Just because a bunch of nervous politicians thought they would look bad if they didn't vote for passing the DMCA doesn't mean they know a thing about it. Yes, it's the law, but that doesn't make it right. What do you think our country would be like today if people didn't stand up to unjust laws (Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez to name a few)? Should we all just bend over and take it? No.
But hey, if I want to live in a country where a bunch of people told me what I can do with stuff I already bought then I'd move to Iraq...O wait...
Why is everyone here so negative? Horray for Apple for getting some new stuff out there! Who cares if you guys don't like it? Why don't one (or all of you) go out and invent your own makes-everybody-happy ubermouse?
! !!!!
Why am I even bothering to log in anymore? All I do is read complaints from people who are never satisfied. Well, if you can't beat 'em, join em.
Check this out...Apple's idea sucks! Screw those punks and their sell-out style! Rotating disc? How 'bout rotating this! *grab grab*. 'Scuse me while I go use another companies' third-party POS mouse before I even see the finished Apple product! I'm gonna switch to Linux 'cause OS X is too pretty and I want a OS that is ugly and hard to use so I can look cool in front of all my friends... aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrghfggghggurgle...ppphhhlphhhpppt
Warm fuzzies, everbody! Not cold pricklies! Jesus.
Macs rule, as we all know. Rumors blow. So enough already with the speculation! Wait for the broadcast, and get it from the big man himself.
the question is, will Apple broadcast it in QuickTime, will TechTV pick it up?
Of course TechTV will pick it up. The Screensavers know everything! I hope Leo Laporte didn't hear you say that! And I'm sure someone will get it out there in Quicktime. Unless, of course, if whacking QT is what this broadcast is all about. But I don't want to start any rumors.
I think it was back in '95 or '96. IBM and Motorola were in development of dual-platform supporting processor called CHRP or Common Hardware Reference Platform.
The Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) Specification describes a family of machines based on the PowerPC(tm) processor that are capable of booting multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows NT, AIX® and Solaris(tm).
Wouldn't that have been cool? What ever happened to that idea? Here's the old documentation.
It appears that IBM has some information on their site that is still recent, dated Sept. 2002. Weird. I'd love to have one of those machines. PowerPC 970? Forget about it.
I know! It seems like this Acacia is just out to make money on royalties. These seem like sneaky business practices to me. I read that article (thanks) and it just blows my mind:
Over the past several years, the company acquired a series of patents its attorneys believe cover virtually all on-demand transmissions of compressed audio and video over the Internet, cable TV lines, satellite and wireless services. The company's parent, Acacia Research, has previously made tens of millions of dollars in patent royalties on the V-Chip technology included in most television sets.
I can see why NPR would be a little skecthy when it comes to legal issues knowing that there is a company out there like Acacia. It seems as though Acacia is some kind of investment company that only invests in itself. If I were in charge at NPR, I would be a little worried too. Bummer.
NPR has a strange history of alienating people. For example, a snippet on Cory Doctorow's site boingboing from last June, then featured on TechTV's The Screensavers, told a strange story of NPR not allowing people to place an NPR link on their web site:
Examples of such "inappropriate" links include "certain kinds of commercial linking," [an NPR spokesperson] said.
"For example, if Salon.com writes a story about NPR and links to us, that would be fine," because the online magazine wouldn't be using the NPR link for its commercial benefit. "But what wouldn't be fine is if someone sets up a business to link to us and profit from that" -- for example, if someone sets up an online "radio station" whose main content was NPR's programs.
Pretty weird, huh? How exactly would anyone see any "commercial benefit" from letting their readers link to NPR? By that definition, ANYONE could be suspect of profiting from the link.
Wake up, NPR. Now Quicktime? Do you you all just hate the world?
Cool. I only have one working computer. *sigh* You win. Lemme get you that prize I was talking about. Now where is that ol' 6100/66?...
Look, I'm gonna have to clean this thing up. I'll get back to you.
Troll troll troll. Trolls don't use Macs. Trolls seem to prefer beige. They seem to think it's the new grey this season.
Look guys, we know how nice it is to be frugal. Spinster-like, even. But just get off your ass, get a job, and drop the cabbage on a new MDD G4 or even a 12" PBook for crissake! Then you will know what you've been missing. Faster bus, faster RAM, faster processor, it's all you need to blow doors off that beige heap and turn it into an FTP server. Why pay Sonnet 700 clams to eke out more Mhz when you can pay a grand for an eMac which would UNLEASH on that beige G3? Besides, the money just goes right back to Apple to help them make more great machines.
I'm starting to think that MS is paying trolls to sit around and barrage posts about OS X with replies complaining about the speed.
I resent that. I pay the green to keep MS out of my house. If I started let Winows seep in, I'd kick my own ass! The time is going to come, gentlemen when the latest release of OS X will cease to work on your antiques. Why wait? Come on in with the team, and jump in for the big win.
Good for you. Do you want a prize, or something?
Look, everybody's machine is different. EveryBODY is different. Maybe you have good luck. Maybe you are lying so we will think you are cool. Wait, lemme try:
I'm running 10.3.8 on my over-clocked 66Mhz PowerMac 6100, and it works great. I'm running Photoshop filters all over the place AND I'm rendering thousands of frames of video. Anyone who buys another new machine is stupid. Yak yak quacky quack smack!
See how easy that was? It's not snappy, but it makes a great toilet seat cover. Matches my towels. GOD I MISS MY NuBUS CARDS!!!!
On December 19, 2002, Tech TV's The Screen Savers aired an episode in which Kevin Rose built a G4 in an ATX case. Most of the parts came from Mac Resq and others. It's an interesting article for anyone who wishes to tackle the project by themselves.
The segment was inspired by an aricle on MacOpz Web Site. I urge all to check it out.
Though this might end up costing a little more, there are benefits: You get to choose your own case (which must be slightly modified), and get the pleasure of building a computer that normally isn't built by anyone except Apple and the pizza box guy.
Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves! Two computers enter! One Computer leaves!
I hope Steve Jobs takes this beyond Thunderdome!
Absolutely! I forgot, sorry.
Let's face it: If you compare Apple's software AND hardware innovation to any other company, they stand up extremely well. Apple is a company that is doing both at the same time. Any other company would have folded by now (they were getting pretty close in the late '90s), but they seem to be able to keep setting trends and making money to boot. I'd like to see MS try and pull that off. They seem to be going backwards compared to Apple.
Since OS X 10.2.4 came out, I think this is only the second security update. However, for XP there have been countless updates. The Service Pack One update from a few months back was 120MB! They must've had quite a bit of holes to need a upgrade that big.
It seems that almost every week, my IT deartment is running around trying to install security updates on our computers. It's a good thing I only use my PC for e-mail (not for long, since MS Exchange will soon work with Entourage). I use my Mac for real work.
Well, like I said all the tools for generating a high-res PDF from a professional design title like InDesign are in its own print dialog. I would imagine that one could create a "hot" folder whereby an Applescript would be invoked whenever a Postscript file was saved directly into it: it could automatically distill it and move it wherever you like. Still, as far as attaching to e-mails and whatnot: the separated PDFs of a distilled Postscript file for an average 150lpi four-color offset print job are pretty huge. If the print shop can even accept a PDF over a PS file this might help a little. However, most pre-press shops would rather have the source files anyway.
Don't get me wrong. I still think it's pretty cool. Way better and easier than anything Windows could come up with.
I think it's awesome that Apple is always innovating and improving the awesome OS X. The ability to automatically generate PDFs and use different scripts to regulate their behavior is a great testament to Apple's undying commitment to making user's lives easier. Publishing PDfs for on-line useage will probably become more efficient as the user writes more scripts. However, this seems like it would not be very helpful for those involved in offset printing.
At most pre-press shops around the world, PDFs are becoming integrated into the workflow more and more. But most prfessional design programs already have their own print dialogs and methods for exporting PDFs. Take Adobe InDesign, for instance. I can already export a PDF from the File menu (though I cannot see how to regulate it with all those cool Applescripts). And why would I want to do that anyway? If I send anything to a pre-press dept. at a print shop, it will most likely be a fully separated PDF, or (in most cases) a Postscript file. Many pre-press shops cannot deal with composite PDFs yet. A lot of them are not equipped with a fully PDF workflow. That would make trapping and imposition from a composite PDF quite difficult.
Other software titles that professionals use like Quark, PageMaker, etc. already have their own print dialogs. A high-res PDF of a four-color print job would be too large to attach to most e-mails anyway.
I like the idea for every other usage. This new option is great for titles like Word which use the Apple print dialog. This can have many advantages. Students will most likely benefit from this as they will be able to publish their PDFs on-line to professors and teachers.
Some say that it's too bad that Apple is letting the iMac go. But Apple needs to keep progressing ever forward. Who needs a translucent easter egg with a 15 inch screen when Mini Me has a fly laptop with a 17 inch screen and a Super Drive? If nostalgia sold computers, Apple would still be rolling out the 128k.
That's not to say that the iMac was bad or anything. It was Apple's savior. We'd all like to see Apple continue to make great computers. To do that, it's gotta kick that old freeloading 5-year old out of the house.
The initial post was incorrect in saying it was "platform-independent, web-based"
I was quoting Apple. Please refer to the article for further research. It states:
PowerSchool, a web-based student information system from Apple...And because PowerSchool is platform independent, it can be accessed from any Windows or Mac computer with a web browser and supports Windows and Mac server platforms.
If there's something you know that Apple doesn't, we'd like to know. Looking under the Technology tab in the article it sounds like they have a good web-based solution.
Derek, I give to you the Apple 17" Powerbook School for Children Who Can't Read Good!
How are you supposed to teach all the children to read if they can't even fit in a laptop that's only 1" high?
I hear ya. Sorry for the sourpuss crack. None of us really knows how things are going to turn out. VPC could be a huge cash for MS or a giant piece of crap. Then again, I think the money men over there have enough green to give all this a shot and not send MS down the tubes (what could besides armageddon?).
Hey, I'm not the marketing strategist at MS, but look at the beating they're taking on the XBox...They're losing something like a hundred dollars per unit because they hope it'll pay off someday. Maybe that's what they're hoping with VPC. They're making a decent amount with Office:Mac (I think they're the leading Mac software developer besides Apple).
I don't know. I just thought some optimism was in need here. Don't be such a sourpuss.
A lot of us Mac true believers would probably cringe at the thought that Microsoft is getting its grubby hands all over a cherished Mac product. I freaked out at first, I'll admit it. But after I calmed down I started to think rationally.
What could be better? I think MS would be crazy to kill it off. So that leaves only better support for the product and smoother operation (we hope). I had loads of trouble with version 5. Hangs, freezes, and everything. Maybe now (and I know that a lot of hardcore Macers will freak out when I say this) Macs and Windows will finally start to get along.
Just think positive.
The only shred of content in that article that is news is CompUSA. Users have been dowloading software for years now through various means. Does CompUSA think that by installing a Software to Go kiosk in their store, that's going to expand their (and STG's) market?
Has anyone tried to get help in a CompUSA store? It's impossible to find somebody who knows much about anything (if anyone out there reading this works on the CompUSA sales floor, sorry. It's true, you guys have a rep for lagging). How exactly does a person who doesn't know much about computers (hence the reason they're in CompUSA in the first place) going to figure out how to work the kiosk? Who at CompUSA is going to help them?
The sad but true fact is this: People like to have something tangible to look over before they buy. That's why packaging exists in the first place. People who are not knowledgeable about downloading and installing software from home, where they should be doing it are not going to walk up to a kiosk and get the software all by themselves. Face it. Example: how often do you see people in Borders using the kiosks to look up books? Not that often. That's because people who can't look up titles for themselves will go straight to a sales person, and ask.
Download it from home. If you don't know how, then packaging is here to stay.
The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.
So that would mean that those CloneAid people with the human baby clones are lying to us? No way.
This is all quite obvious to us already. The general public (well, those with common sense) require validity of claims through the desire to hear about SOURCES. When Peter Jennings goes into a story about a new medical claim like rat turds give you cancer, or something, he usually starts off with "According to a study published in this weeks Journal of the American Medical Association..." and so on. That tends to tell the public (again, those with common sense) that the study probably has some scientific validity.
But when you get a story like those alien-subservient CloneAid smarty-pants holding press conferences without any published results, it provokes a media blitz. Go figure.
I use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign all day, every day. I am running 10.2.4. I even connect to SMB servers at work.
So what's the deal? I tried recreating the conditions in the Adobe article by doing exactly the opposite of their instructions. No problem here. I have logged out, back in, and have all 3 programs running...I'm using modifying keys all over the place! Wait a minute...let's reboot the machine and see...just a second...Oh yeah! I'm modifying, baby!
Maybe somebody out there enabled the root user, screwed up their permissions, and then complained to Adobe about it.