I don't really do design (so much for autocad) and I'm really surprised there are enough people paying that much money to rank the proggram that high in the survey (unless there are that many pirated versions).
Autodesk is one of the 5 largest software companies in the world. Tens of thousands of businesses rely utterly on hundreds of seats of AutoCAD in order to do their jobs. And pay extortionate fees (to Autodesk AND Microsoft) to do so.
So you have a potential huge cost savings, a way out of the upgrade treadmill (Autodesk is brutal about upgrade policies - you have a few month window before you're buying full seats for an upgrade), and increased system reliability to boot. What's not to love?
Oops, didn't finish reading your comment. I just last week upgraded my PS6 to CS2 (and still prefer to do most of my paint work in 6), so I haven't run into that yet.
SoftImage XSI and Blender are replacements for Flash? In what universe? Being able to render animations to SWF does not make something a flash authoring tool.
Oh, and for your collection of Photoshop files: you're chained to Adobe for as long as you value those. You'll never be able to use free software to edit those
Really? I have a bunch of applications here that can read and write layered PSDs, including some hacked-together user-made scripts. Does Adobe charge developers a license fee for PSD compatibility?
Yeah, but with each release, Autodesk are bigger and bigger dicks about the fact that they're the standard. The arm-twisting they employed to get firms from 2000 to 2005 was unconscionable. A lot of CAD managers dream of the day they can storm Autodesk HQ with pitchforks and torches.
Combine that with the fact that now apparently Revit is the future and ACAD is dead (never mind that nobody seems to really like it), and you have a lot of people looking to jump off that train. Bentley's marketing material really hammers it home - I've never seen anything talk more openly about their competitors abusing their customers.
Fair enough, but OC behaviors are pretty much the antithesis of "displaying some adaptability." Randy goes pretty far outside his comfort zone, but manages to find his equilibrium there.
That sounds more like an episode of Monk. I don't read Randy as OCD, just as a man who is very, very particular about his cereal. I'd lean more towards something along the lines of the heroin-shooting scenes in Requiem for a Dream, but perhaps drawn out to show the memories and associations and hard work of preparing the ultimate cereal experience.
When McDonald's employees get paid for making a hamburger, no matter how bad it tastes.
When lawyers get paid for providing legal services, win or lose.
When GM employees get paid for building a new car no matter how it drives.
When the band at your wedding gets paid regardless of whether people dance.
What does your enjoyment of the product have to do with whether the people who worked 80-hour weeks to bring it to you are being treated fairly? Would slavery be OK if you really liked the products it made possible?
Alienware is also rapidly getting a bad, bad rep among animation houses. I personally know 2 studios that have resorted to chargebacks when dealing with them. Boxxtech are the folks to beat for DCC workstations.
bank transfer (my bank charges me somewhere between 12-15 EUR plus the Sender has to pay an additionals 12-15 EUR)
What REALLY pisses me off is that there's some additional middleman that takes a fairly decent chunk out of the transfer that can't be predicted - Overseas wire transfers always arrive $10-$25 short, even though my European client pays their bank's fee up front, and mine doesn't charge for receiving.
Anyone solved this problem, or learned to predict the charges?
Given that your predecessor proved himself completely unable to prevent attacks that were known about well in advance through legal means, unable to catch the terrorist leadership regardless of the legality of the means, and gutted many of the real counterterrorism capabilities of our country in the name of feel-good boondoggles, don't be so hard on yourself.
If your school gives you a day off for the first day of deer season (definitely a regional thing), it can safely be assumed that archery will be regarded as a perfectly acceptable sport, regardless of the presence of zero-tolerance weapons policies.
Heck, my HS had a shooting club and zero-tolerance. A cased long gun wasn't considered a weapon.
On some highway-to-highway interchanges (like the NJ to PA turnpike interchange), they have Express EZPass lanes with posted 45 MPH speed limits. Given how many poeple walk around toll plazas, I'd never want to blow through the slow lanes.
I think the cable companies realize it, too. My cable feed still claims to carry G4, but instead shows a channel called OLN that seems to be devoted entriely to the sport of bull riding.
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Goddamn slow, that's how. At least for the graphics apps I tried to run on it.
It's not that long since the Lebanese civil war...
Why, now that you mention it, yes.
Autodesk is one of the 5 largest software companies in the world. Tens of thousands of businesses rely utterly on hundreds of seats of AutoCAD in order to do their jobs. And pay extortionate fees (to Autodesk AND Microsoft) to do so.
So you have a potential huge cost savings, a way out of the upgrade treadmill (Autodesk is brutal about upgrade policies - you have a few month window before you're buying full seats for an upgrade), and increased system reliability to boot. What's not to love?
Oops, didn't finish reading your comment. I just last week upgraded my PS6 to CS2 (and still prefer to do most of my paint work in 6), so I haven't run into that yet.
SoftImage XSI and Blender are replacements for Flash? In what universe? Being able to render animations to SWF does not make something a flash authoring tool.
Really? I have a bunch of applications here that can read and write layered PSDs, including some hacked-together user-made scripts. Does Adobe charge developers a license fee for PSD compatibility?
Combine that with the fact that now apparently Revit is the future and ACAD is dead (never mind that nobody seems to really like it), and you have a lot of people looking to jump off that train. Bentley's marketing material really hammers it home - I've never seen anything talk more openly about their competitors abusing their customers.
And why, exactly, is turning a bank robbery into a gun battle a good thing?
So was El Mariachi. I'd rather see anything by Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D and Once Upon a Time in Mexico included, than anything by Uwe Boll.
Fair enough, but OC behaviors are pretty much the antithesis of "displaying some adaptability." Randy goes pretty far outside his comfort zone, but manages to find his equilibrium there.
That sounds more like an episode of Monk. I don't read Randy as OCD, just as a man who is very, very particular about his cereal. I'd lean more towards something along the lines of the heroin-shooting scenes in Requiem for a Dream, but perhaps drawn out to show the memories and associations and hard work of preparing the ultimate cereal experience.
When lawyers get paid for providing legal services, win or lose.
When GM employees get paid for building a new car no matter how it drives.
When the band at your wedding gets paid regardless of whether people dance.
What does your enjoyment of the product have to do with whether the people who worked 80-hour weeks to bring it to you are being treated fairly? Would slavery be OK if you really liked the products it made possible?
Alienware is also rapidly getting a bad, bad rep among animation houses. I personally know 2 studios that have resorted to chargebacks when dealing with them. Boxxtech are the folks to beat for DCC workstations.
And if you're looking for something a little more indie, try Soldat. $9 Shareware that's best described as 2D Quake.
What REALLY pisses me off is that there's some additional middleman that takes a fairly decent chunk out of the transfer that can't be predicted - Overseas wire transfers always arrive $10-$25 short, even though my European client pays their bank's fee up front, and mine doesn't charge for receiving.
Anyone solved this problem, or learned to predict the charges?
Try any chinese delivery place in NYC. 1 free can of soda per $10-$15 of your order. Sometimes you even get to pick what kind.
Debugging your kids is easy with the right reference and tools.
Given that your predecessor proved himself completely unable to prevent attacks that were known about well in advance through legal means, unable to catch the terrorist leadership regardless of the legality of the means, and gutted many of the real counterterrorism capabilities of our country in the name of feel-good boondoggles, don't be so hard on yourself.
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Heck, my HS had a shooting club and zero-tolerance. A cased long gun wasn't considered a weapon.
No, he's a rights holder. They're legally bound not to copy the movie unless he grants permission.
On some highway-to-highway interchanges (like the NJ to PA turnpike interchange), they have Express EZPass lanes with posted 45 MPH speed limits. Given how many poeple walk around toll plazas, I'd never want to blow through the slow lanes.
I think the cable companies realize it, too. My cable feed still claims to carry G4, but instead shows a channel called OLN that seems to be devoted entriely to the sport of bull riding.
The boat runs on inkjet cartridges. It has a modified 5 HP Evinrude.
I definitely remember "Pay a toll without slowing down" was one of them. I think of it every time I go through the 45 MPH EZ Pass express lanes.