Before you get all warm and cozy with your 'own' version of CS6, you have to remember that all versions of Creative Suite have activation code that, like most of Adobe code, works some of the time but certainly not all of the time and usually not when you really need it to.
So, if Adobe trashes it's activation servers for CS4 / 5 / 6 you can never re install. That's presumably why CS2 is 'free' now - they've managed to screw up their activation servers so badly that it's not worth leaving them on.
Adobe has you covered. Just not the way you'd want them to.
Except you are free to ignore iCloud and Adobe Creative Cloud. I personally just use Dropbox for all of the issues you mention. It's nice that Adobe is giving customers a half baked version of Dropbox (No sync options, can't move the folder) but I imagine most people will only use it to sync preferences between different machines. The only thing I use iCloud for is syncing contacts and calendars (and it's not so hot at that). But if somebody wants Apple from start to finish, they can have it. No skin off my nose.
I don't see Adobe restricting file storage to ONLY Creative Cloud - it makes no sense, especially for professional organizations who spend a lot of time and money on storage and retrieval. There are a couple of neat ideas that the CC might be useful for - the basis of a Digital Asset Management system that didn't care which hard drive your file was on for example - but so far the implementation is pretty primitive.
No, actually, Adobe (and everyone else) will be competing with CS2, the 2005 era program that is still quite functional. It's currently 'free' (for valid purchasers or anyone who can copy the activation codes on the page.
No idea how long Adobe will let this slide, but at least on the Photoshop side, it has all the core functionality (except Adobe Camera Raw which can be finessed in several other ways).
And, at least for the moment, you can download CS2 which isn't a bad product. It has all the base Photoshop features - layers, masks, etc. I'm not so sure about SmartObjects but you can work around that. You really don't need "puppet walk" or whatever it's called. The other downside is that you don't have a new version of Adobe Camera Raw which is better than the older versions. However, you can get Lightroom for that or just use the DNG converter.
So, it's hardly ideal. But we;re talking about Adobe, not some rational company.
At least you can now, finally, use OS X and Windows simultaneously without spending weeks trying to get their non English speaking customer reps to understand simple declarative English sentences.
The people that don't NEED an 'overwrought and overpriced professional tool" don't use one. Adobe makes MOST of it's money off of those professionals that need the horsepower.
Although I'm not a fan of subscription pricing, $600 a year is well within the price range of professional software. Yeah, it clobbers a bunch of amateurs but CS2 is available for free and it's a pretty powerful tool in and of itself.
One of my issues was a perfectly working Internet connection - but nothing to do with adobes registration would connect to the net for four days straight.
Right when I needed it.
Sunday to Wednesday, no cs6 *anything*.
Clients were not amused. I was even less amused.
Bullshit. You need an Internet connection once a month. I work on CS6 all of the time 'disconnected'.
Right. Us photographers and artists are just going to drop into C# and just code our little brains out. Hell, the vast majority of Creative Suite users can't even using the scripting engine much less have a concept on how to code an implementation of CMYK, 16 bit layers or the dozen other things that GIMP is missing.
Professional graphics designers aren't expecting someone to code this for free - who do you think pays for Adobe products? Most people believe there is a market for another Photoshop clone to exist outside the Adobe fence, but nobody has managed to come up with it yet. Not an easy job - dropping tens of thousands of dollars out to make a product that has to be priced below Adobe but have the majority of the functionality. It took Adobe a long, long time to get Creative Suite where it is. Yes, there is a lot of fluff, but the core is awfully robust.
This medicine can be a complete game changer. No less.
It's not a medicine. It's an early proof-of-concept in mice. If we managed to produce viable treatments from every mouse experiment ever done we'd all be six feet tall, weigh 150 pounds, run the mile in 4 minutes, have full heads of hair and have secondary sex characteristics that would cause members of the opposite sex (or several other odd combinations) to furiously engage in uninhibited sex.
Reality isn't quite like a Hentai movie so you can just go back downstairs for a while.
Hell, we didn't even get in the local paper when we ignited the Thermite we found in the chemistry lab. I'll bet there isn't a high school this side of Kandihar that even has thermite in the chemistry lab. Hell, I'll bet there isn't a high school that even has a chemistry lab, period.
No wonder kids these days are all depressed and turn to drugs and sex.
Sure, and the teachers should be able to fix the heater when it breaks.
While I support teaching anyone with access to computers the ins and outs of same, expecting your eighth grade teacher to be part security consultant is a bit of stretch.
While I think this is pretty cool and all (Avatar anyone?), once people get a hold of the fact that the enzyme is called 'Luciferase', things could get rather warm for the company (at least in the US).
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Maybe you need a little love.
Before you get all warm and cozy with your 'own' version of CS6, you have to remember that all versions of Creative Suite have activation code that, like most of Adobe code, works some of the time but certainly not all of the time and usually not when you really need it to.
So, if Adobe trashes it's activation servers for CS4 / 5 / 6 you can never re install. That's presumably why CS2 is 'free' now - they've managed to screw up their activation servers so badly that it's not worth leaving them on.
Adobe has you covered. Just not the way you'd want them to.
Except you are free to ignore iCloud and Adobe Creative Cloud. I personally just use Dropbox for all of the issues you mention. It's nice that Adobe is giving customers a half baked version of Dropbox (No sync options, can't move the folder) but I imagine most people will only use it to sync preferences between different machines. The only thing I use iCloud for is syncing contacts and calendars (and it's not so hot at that). But if somebody wants Apple from start to finish, they can have it. No skin off my nose.
I don't see Adobe restricting file storage to ONLY Creative Cloud - it makes no sense, especially for professional organizations who spend a lot of time and money on storage and retrieval. There are a couple of neat ideas that the CC might be useful for - the basis of a Digital Asset Management system that didn't care which hard drive your file was on for example - but so far the implementation is pretty primitive.
No, actually, Adobe (and everyone else) will be competing with CS2, the 2005 era program that is still quite functional. It's currently 'free' (for valid purchasers or anyone who can copy the activation codes on the page.
No idea how long Adobe will let this slide, but at least on the Photoshop side, it has all the core functionality (except Adobe Camera Raw which can be finessed in several other ways).
Toes? The entire Adobe body, hooves, tail and all should be placed in the beam line at the LHC and sent to some other, more deserving, universe.
OK, so it's not aliens. Then it is precisely who that is building spacecraft docking terminals on Mars?
Scientologists?
North Korea?
Give us a couple of hints, please.
Duel booting? I guess that's one way of looking at it.
"I don't think that word means what you think it means" actually fits here....
He's using Lynx, you insensitive clod.
Which, of course, lends credence to the theory that men discovered language.
Of course, you wouldn't download it unless you had a valid serial number.
Now would you?
And, at least for the moment, you can download CS2 which isn't a bad product. It has all the base Photoshop features - layers, masks, etc. I'm not so sure about SmartObjects but you can work around that. You really don't need "puppet walk" or whatever it's called. The other downside is that you don't have a new version of Adobe Camera Raw which is better than the older versions. However, you can get Lightroom for that or just use the DNG converter.
So, it's hardly ideal. But we;re talking about Adobe, not some rational company.
At least you can now, finally, use OS X and Windows simultaneously without spending weeks trying to get their non English speaking customer reps to understand simple declarative English sentences.
Yeah, it just takes Photoshop
The people that don't NEED an 'overwrought and overpriced professional tool" don't use one. Adobe makes MOST of it's money off of those professionals that need the horsepower.
Although I'm not a fan of subscription pricing, $600 a year is well within the price range of professional software. Yeah, it clobbers a bunch of amateurs but CS2 is available for free and it's a pretty powerful tool in and of itself.
One of my issues was a perfectly working Internet connection - but nothing to do with adobes registration would connect to the net for four days straight.
Right when I needed it.
Sunday to Wednesday, no cs6 *anything*.
Clients were not amused. I was even less amused.
Bullshit. You need an Internet connection once a month. I work on CS6 all of the time 'disconnected'.
Blame your flashbacks on something else.
Right. Us photographers and artists are just going to drop into C# and just code our little brains out. Hell, the vast majority of Creative Suite users can't even using the scripting engine much less have a concept on how to code an implementation of CMYK, 16 bit layers or the dozen other things that GIMP is missing.
Professional graphics designers aren't expecting someone to code this for free - who do you think pays for Adobe products? Most people believe there is a market for another Photoshop clone to exist outside the Adobe fence, but nobody has managed to come up with it yet. Not an easy job - dropping tens of thousands of dollars out to make a product that has to be priced below Adobe but have the majority of the functionality. It took Adobe a long, long time to get Creative Suite where it is. Yes, there is a lot of fluff, but the core is awfully robust.
This medicine can be a complete game changer. No less.
It's not a medicine. It's an early proof-of-concept in mice. If we managed to produce viable treatments from every mouse experiment ever done we'd all be six feet tall, weigh 150 pounds, run the mile in 4 minutes, have full heads of hair and have secondary sex characteristics that would cause members of the opposite sex (or several other odd combinations) to furiously engage in uninhibited sex.
Reality isn't quite like a Hentai movie so you can just go back downstairs for a while.
The only sad thing about your comment is Apple could reinvigorate the Desktop market...
That's right. Tim promised us we would get new MacPros this year. He promised us!
You do realize that most models have coastal Alaska getting colder and wetter in the near term. Interior warmer and dryer.
It's called "Climate Change" because it's not just warming.
Dam these Chinese!
Hell, we didn't even get in the local paper when we ignited the Thermite we found in the chemistry lab. I'll bet there isn't a high school this side of Kandihar that even has thermite in the chemistry lab. Hell, I'll bet there isn't a high school that even has a chemistry lab, period.
No wonder kids these days are all depressed and turn to drugs and sex.
Sure, and the teachers should be able to fix the heater when it breaks.
While I support teaching anyone with access to computers the ins and outs of same, expecting your eighth grade teacher to be part security consultant is a bit of stretch.
Are you being sarcastic?
Please tell me that you're being sarcastic and you didn't really mean what you just wrote down.
Pretty please?
While I think this is pretty cool and all (Avatar anyone?), once people get a hold of the fact that the enzyme is called 'Luciferase', things could get rather warm for the company (at least in the US).
I think your hosts file got corrupted and you replied to the wrong comment.
(Even drug dealers pay their taxes if they're smart -- too much attention on them otherwise.)
I would be interested in knowing best practices in this case.
Do you pay an import duty on your Colombian cocaine? Sales tax in the purchaser's city? Do you get addresses of your customers? VAT in Europe?
Fascinating idea.