Renting at $20 a month is $240 a year, so students are actually getting screwed too.
Sort of. $20 / month gives you the entire Creative Suite (at least this year). Not bad if you're using more than two or three applications. For a student, it could open up a lot of possibilites.
Until next year when they double the price, of course.
Photoshop was the only game in town. They're losing the low end rather rapidly to other companies like Corel and Pixelmator. It's only a matter of time before that erosion eliminates their market.
Worse, Adobe's decision is having serious fallout for other communities like the photographer community that historically always used Photoshop for their touch-up work because it integrated well with Lightroom. Even though they haven't been stupid enough to make LR cloud-only, there are a lot of folks who are very unhappy with the current state of affairs.
And I suspect that Adobe doesn't really care. If you buy a copy of Photoshop once every 4 - 5 years, you're not sending Adobe much love. So they don't send much back. If this works for the bigger shops / better customers than it's a win. Remember, if you don't sell to the hoi polli, you don't have to support the hoi polli.
I suspect that within two or three years, one of two things will happen: Adobe will back-pedal on the whole rental-only model or Pixelmator and Corel Paint will get significantly improved, fully native DNG support and photographers will dump Photoshop en masse, and along with it, quite possibly Lightroom.
Which will be fine, if they do it. I'm afraid that Corel and Pixelmator just don't have the ability to lift their products to near PS status. For a lot of people, what they have may well be good enough and they certainly will attempt to take advantage of the situation. But to displace PS, I think not. We shall, however, see.
Adobe gets around this by promising that you can 'keep' your old versions around and just 'move forward' for new stuff. I would imagine that Autodesk would do the same. After some reasonable amount of time, the only version standing will be the current one and all you have to do is to make sure the old formats still load. Which is what software companies should do anyway.
However, one gets the impression from TFA that Autodesk is planning (at least in the short term) to do a hybrid model. Sell both the packaged, forever versions and sell subscriptions. If that is the case, I have less heartburn about it. I actually like the Adobe subscription plan - for me, it's a bit cheaper and quite a bit more flexible. (The annoyance of having to install patches / upgrades twice a week though is actually killing my enthusiasm for this). But I do want the ability to say 'stop' - no more upgrading - if the price goes through the roof or if I simply don't find any rational reason to upgrade.
Adobe would have gotten a ton less heat if 1) they didn't call it 'Creative Cloud' since the 'cloud' has very little to do with the new model and just confused people and 2) allowed either a subscription model or forever pricing. But since Adobe's marketing is too stupid to understand the difference between DRM servers and distributed computing, you can't expect too much.
It's the free market, son. That's what makes America great.
Seriously, it's the insane near religious stance that everything has to be a) profit making b) run like a widget company and c) expand financially forever. Coupled with fair degree of rent seeking, a terrible method of allocating money to people who cannot afford it on their own (Pell grants, the student loan system), massive expansion of physical plants for sports and near complete collapse of the vocational / technical college.
The Perfect Storm, if you will.
Same problem in medicine to some degree. Add a for profit stance to something that should not be run for a profit, stir in a generous heaping of incompetent government bungling, sprinkle with freebies to insulate the end user from economic consequences of their decision and bake slowly in a hellish furnace composed of hot air from insurance companies and Wall Street (the old profit thing) and you have a sticky, toxic mess that's impossible to clean up.
I'm not so sure about appearances being the same. Our bodies are pretty malleable through the early periods of our lives. Our regular habits have a tendency of shaping our bodies in subtle ways that add up to our overall appearance. Have you noticed that people whom grab their nose when thinking tend to have longer noses. People that wear hats often: if they place their ears outside of the hat they tend to stick out farther, if they tuck their ears in they tend to subdue towards the scalp. People that wear boots tend to have more compressed calves where people that don't more elongated. I'm by no means an expert, but it's hard to deny the impact our habits have on us.
Well, Shell is thinking about it. The big problem with Gas-To-Liquids is the upfront cost for the plant. At 10 billion a pop, you want long term assurances that the feedstock will be cheap. It's hard to line up long term contracts for that much natural gas.
That's why the Pearl project in Quatar went through. Quatar guaranteed a set price for decades.
The hope is that the Pearl plant will get the kinks worked out and they can bring other GTL projects in for considerably less. However, given the volubility of both supply and cost, this is going to be a big problem for the technology.
Don't blame the government. It''s just reality being annoying again.
As of the year 2000, although small-scale incinerators (those with a daily capacity of less than 250 tons) processed only 9% of the total waste combusted, these produced 83% of the dioxins and furans emitted by municipal waste combustion.[8]
(from the Wikipedia article).
Looks like you can get it to work economically on a large scale only. Might be a reasonable answer for bigger cities. There are still other things burned off that the incinerators tend to put out, like metals.
Looking at most of the clips and with a medical background I'm convinced that
1) It's not staged. Too many people demonstrably dead and too many different clips. I don't think anyone has the wherewithall to stage manage that big of a hoax. 2) Some sort of neurotoxin is involved. Despite Assmasher'''s assertion, some of the kids did seem to have tonic clonic seizure activity. The hysterical guy certainly could have been decompensating psychiatrically (ya think?) but there were too many other examples that were more classic. I did not see any pattern of symptoms that points to a particular agent but I'm hardly an expert in the field.
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Look, we can''t even manufacture duct tape in orbit yet. Much less pure silicon.
I hope you're a very patient fellow.
Zero.
I don't think that concept means what you think it means.
Not that kind of oversight.
No he ain't. He be all ironical.
For example, compare the Received Pronunciation of "bath" to what they say in Tennessee.
Crick? i.e, "He warshed himself in the crick."
What are you doing? Commuting from Vancouver to Toronto?
This sort of software isn't typically used for just a couple of months. It takes that long to just get past 'Hello World'.
Renting at $20 a month is $240 a year, so students are actually getting screwed too.
Sort of. $20 / month gives you the entire Creative Suite (at least this year). Not bad if you're using more than two or three applications. For a student, it could open up a lot of possibilites.
Until next year when they double the price, of course.
Photoshop was the only game in town. They're losing the low end rather rapidly to other companies like Corel and Pixelmator. It's only a matter of time before that erosion eliminates their market.
Worse, Adobe's decision is having serious fallout for other communities like the photographer community that historically always used Photoshop for their touch-up work because it integrated well with Lightroom. Even though they haven't been stupid enough to make LR cloud-only, there are a lot of folks who are very unhappy with the current state of affairs.
And I suspect that Adobe doesn't really care. If you buy a copy of Photoshop once every 4 - 5 years, you're not sending Adobe much love. So they don't send much back. If this works for the bigger shops / better customers than it's a win. Remember, if you don't sell to the hoi polli, you don't have to support the hoi polli.
I suspect that within two or three years, one of two things will happen: Adobe will back-pedal on the whole rental-only model or Pixelmator and Corel Paint will get significantly improved, fully native DNG support and photographers will dump Photoshop en masse, and along with it, quite possibly Lightroom.
Which will be fine, if they do it. I'm afraid that Corel and Pixelmator just don't have the ability to lift their products to near PS status. For a lot of people, what they have may well be good enough and they certainly will attempt to take advantage of the situation. But to displace PS, I think not. We shall, however, see.
Adobe gets around this by promising that you can 'keep' your old versions around and just 'move forward' for new stuff. I would imagine that Autodesk would do the same. After some reasonable amount of time, the only version standing will be the current one and all you have to do is to make sure the old formats still load. Which is what software companies should do anyway.
However, one gets the impression from TFA that Autodesk is planning (at least in the short term) to do a hybrid model. Sell both the packaged, forever versions and sell subscriptions. If that is the case, I have less heartburn about it. I actually like the Adobe subscription plan - for me, it's a bit cheaper and quite a bit more flexible. (The annoyance of having to install patches / upgrades twice a week though is actually killing my enthusiasm for this). But I do want the ability to say 'stop' - no more upgrading - if the price goes through the roof or if I simply don't find any rational reason to upgrade.
Adobe would have gotten a ton less heat if 1) they didn't call it 'Creative Cloud' since the 'cloud' has very little to do with the new model and just confused people and 2) allowed either a subscription model or forever pricing. But since Adobe's marketing is too stupid to understand the difference between DRM servers and distributed computing, you can't expect too much.
Westboro Baptist Church is a false flag operation.
For exactly whom? The church of Scientology? Area 51?
"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child."
Heinlein
It's the free market, son. That's what makes America great.
Seriously, it's the insane near religious stance that everything has to be a) profit making b) run like a widget company and c) expand financially forever. Coupled with fair degree of rent seeking, a terrible method of allocating money to people who cannot afford it on their own (Pell grants, the student loan system), massive expansion of physical plants for sports and near complete collapse of the vocational / technical college.
The Perfect Storm, if you will.
Same problem in medicine to some degree. Add a for profit stance to something that should not be run for a profit, stir in a generous heaping of incompetent government bungling, sprinkle with freebies to insulate the end user from economic consequences of their decision and bake slowly in a hellish furnace composed of hot air from insurance companies and Wall Street (the old profit thing) and you have a sticky, toxic mess that's impossible to clean up.
I think I'll go cook dinner now.
But us Americans want to look in control. Even if we're not. That's why we elect politicians.
Really, you guys have manged to make recycle numbers legible?
I'm impressed.
Umm, yes.
I'm not so sure about appearances being the same. Our bodies are pretty malleable through the early periods of our lives. Our regular habits have a tendency of shaping our bodies in subtle ways that add up to our overall appearance. Have you noticed that people whom grab their nose when thinking tend to have longer noses. People that wear hats often: if they place their ears outside of the hat they tend to stick out farther, if they tuck their ears in they tend to subdue towards the scalp. People that wear boots tend to have more compressed calves where people that don't more elongated. I'm by no means an expert, but it's hard to deny the impact our habits have on us.
Channeling 'ol Alexander Lysenko are you?
Protip: You've missed the last 80 years in biology. Better luck next time.
Nice! I'd love to see a time-lapse video over the course of the next million years watching this black sheep star get flung out of its little flock.
You'll probably have to sign up for this service first.
Whoo hoo! Another pissed off AC.
Go get'em, girl!
I'm happy! I think I'll go for a walk!
Well, Shell is thinking about it. The big problem with Gas-To-Liquids is the upfront cost for the plant. At 10 billion a pop, you want long term assurances that the feedstock will be cheap. It's hard to line up long term contracts for that much natural gas.
That's why the Pearl project in Quatar went through. Quatar guaranteed a set price for decades.
The hope is that the Pearl plant will get the kinks worked out and they can bring other GTL projects in for considerably less. However, given the volubility of both supply and cost, this is going to be a big problem for the technology.
Don't blame the government. It''s just reality being annoying again.
Interesting, but here's one significant problem:
As of the year 2000, although small-scale incinerators (those with a daily capacity of less than 250 tons) processed only 9% of the total waste combusted, these produced 83% of the dioxins and furans emitted by municipal waste combustion.[8]
(from the Wikipedia article).
Looks like you can get it to work economically on a large scale only. Might be a reasonable answer for bigger cities. There are still other things burned off that the incinerators tend to put out, like metals.
If you believe the Israelis aren't actively involved, you're delusional.
Looking at most of the clips and with a medical background I'm convinced that
1) It's not staged. Too many people demonstrably dead and too many different clips. I don't think anyone has the wherewithall to stage manage that big of a hoax.
2) Some sort of neurotoxin is involved. Despite Assmasher'''s assertion, some of the kids did seem to have tonic clonic seizure activity. The hysterical guy certainly could have been decompensating psychiatrically (ya think?) but there were too many other examples that were more classic. I did not see any pattern of symptoms that points to a particular agent but I'm hardly an expert in the field.
Most disturbing.
Why do you hate America?