"Foreign nationals can have legal residency in the US, but would normally be required to present a valid passport from their country of origin. Similarly, US citizens residing in other countries would be presenting a US passport."
This is partly false. U.S. permanent residents need only present their Permanent Resident Card to enter the U.S.. Of course, if they travel anywhere that requires they have a passport they would have one from their country of citizenship anyway. But Canadians, for example, do not need a passport to enter the U.S. if they are U.S. permanent residents, and they do not need a passport to enter Canada.
And what are the alternatives? Gimp? That's not a professional quality app yet and doesn't support CMYK. Quark XPress for page layout? OK for legacy files, trying hard to stay in the game, but has fallen out of favour with many agencies, designers and commercial printers for a variety of reasons. Freehand for vector work? That's owned by Adobe now so you might as well use Illustrator (which Adobe would prefer you do) unless you want to try and get away with an app that has basically become the redheaded stepchild of their software lineup.
This is what happens when a single company basically crushes and buys out it's competition. You end up with an increasingly arrogant, unresponsive and less diligent behemoth that basically does whatever the hell it wants, customers be damned because they have little or no choice. This is what's happening with Adobe, now that is basically the only game in town.
Stay tuned for more public complaints about this company.
Sounds as if you were in one of the mini-stores. They have lots of those shoe-box size ones in malls.
I like them too, though they are all a bit too far, through too much traffic for me to go there. What experiences I have had there have been positive though. It's really hard to leave there without buying something.
""invented the computer" is ambiguous. Many people, Babbage, Turing, etc. worked on the analytical model, and dozens if not hundreds of engineers worked out the details."
Telephone was the culmination of the work of several people, and so the nationality of the inventor is in dispute. Bell did most of his work on the telephone in Canada.
The first computer was a German invention (Konrad Zuse's Z3 in 1941).
The first automobile was a French invention (1881).
The light bulb had already been invented by several people, mostly European, before Edison perfected it.
Not sure about on Windows, but in OS X you can simply download the free RealPlayer. It comes with RealPlayer Downloader, which will automatically download flv files from websites, including YouTube.
You can then use VLC or QuickTime (if you have Perian installed) to watch them.
"See, ok that Canadians have a free universal better-than-ours healthcare system, also they have a communist free high-quality universal better-than-ours educational system from kindergarten to university."
Lets get this straight. NOTHING is free. Health care in Canada isn't free (who pays depends on which province you live in) and neither is education. It cost me a small fortune to get my degree and my parents paid taxes for years to put three children through school.
Please get your facts right before you start labeling countries communist. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about.
You mean you didn't test your files before releasing them? You didn't think that most Mac users would be using Preview?/boggle
Preview is not intended to be a full-featured replacement for Acrobat. It is intended to be a simple, fast, no-nonesense PDF viewer. It excels at the purpose for which it is intended. Of course there is still a place for Acrobat when dealing with complex documents, but to have a quick look at a PDF, or quickly turn a PostScript file into a PDF, or for viewing/printing/exporting images, PDF is just fine.
While it's true that clickable links won't work, to say that "Preview also prints pdfs badly" is completely false. Preview prints PDFs just fine. Of course if you have a five year old Mac with hardly any RAM, running 10.3.x and a crappy printer, your results may vary.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this won't work in Preview in OS X. At least for a while 'til Apple can get revenue from it. Preview, for those not familiar with it, basically renders Adobe Reader pointless on a Mac, especially because it is about ten times faster than Reader. So for stuff that doesn't require Acrobat Pro, Preview rules.
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Ashbringer. Took me a long time to get that. It's worth a lot more to me than a mere 5K plat. :D
"Foreign nationals can have legal residency in the US, but would normally be required to present a valid passport from their country of origin. Similarly, US citizens residing in other countries would be presenting a US passport."
This is partly false. U.S. permanent residents need only present their Permanent Resident Card to enter the U.S.. Of course, if they travel anywhere that requires they have a passport they would have one from their country of citizenship anyway. But Canadians, for example, do not need a passport to enter the U.S. if they are U.S. permanent residents, and they do not need a passport to enter Canada.
http://www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/crossingborders/whtibasics.shtm
"Don't use Adobe."
And what are the alternatives? Gimp? That's not a professional quality app yet and doesn't support CMYK. Quark XPress for page layout? OK for legacy files, trying hard to stay in the game, but has fallen out of favour with many agencies, designers and commercial printers for a variety of reasons. Freehand for vector work? That's owned by Adobe now so you might as well use Illustrator (which Adobe would prefer you do) unless you want to try and get away with an app that has basically become the redheaded stepchild of their software lineup.
This is what happens when a single company basically crushes and buys out it's competition. You end up with an increasingly arrogant, unresponsive and less diligent behemoth that basically does whatever the hell it wants, customers be damned because they have little or no choice. This is what's happening with Adobe, now that is basically the only game in town.
Stay tuned for more public complaints about this company.
Wrong. Apple is almost twice as profitable.
Sony's 2007 Net Income = $1.7B ($70.3B in revenue). (http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/results/statemnt.aspx?Symbol=SNE)
Apple's 2007 Net Income = $3.5B ($24B in revenue)
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/22results.html
It's also true that if he RTFM he would realize that it IS possible to operate it with the lid closed. You just have to know WTF you are doing.
According to Google Finance:
.58%
Sony annual net profit margin =
Apple annual net profit margin = 14.56%
It appears that while Sony has the HUGE numbers on its side, Apple is far more profitable.
Sounds as if you were in one of the mini-stores. They have lots of those shoe-box size ones in malls.
I like them too, though they are all a bit too far, through too much traffic for me to go there. What experiences I have had there have been positive though. It's really hard to leave there without buying something.
""invented the computer" is ambiguous. Many people, Babbage, Turing, etc. worked on the analytical model, and dozens if not hundreds of engineers worked out the details."
Fair enough.
Telephone was the culmination of the work of several people, and so the nationality of the inventor is in dispute. Bell did most of his work on the telephone in Canada.
The first computer was a German invention (Konrad Zuse's Z3 in 1941).
The first automobile was a French invention (1881).
The light bulb had already been invented by several people, mostly European, before Edison perfected it.
Not sure about on Windows, but in OS X you can simply download the free RealPlayer. It comes with RealPlayer Downloader, which will automatically download flv files from websites, including YouTube.
You can then use VLC or QuickTime (if you have Perian installed) to watch them.
"A splashdown in water seems to be favored."
Where else would it "slashdown"?
Just a little Mod abuse here. Nice going.
Because as we all know, free is ALWAYS better.
"See, ok that Canadians have a free universal better-than-ours healthcare system, also they have a communist free high-quality universal better-than-ours educational system from kindergarten to university."
Lets get this straight. NOTHING is free. Health care in Canada isn't free (who pays depends on which province you live in) and neither is education. It cost me a small fortune to get my degree and my parents paid taxes for years to put three children through school.
Please get your facts right before you start labeling countries communist. You clearly have no clue what you are talking about.
Give them away to a library. You can't possibly reread all those books anyway.
And just for laughs, don't be surprised if they pay you a visit.
How many people would actually check on a woman to see if she is on the list?
It looks to as if the OP has hardware problems, such as flaky RAM.
We use a font manager that can manage system fonts and have no problems whatsoever.
You mean you didn't test your files before releasing them? You didn't think that most Mac users would be using Preview? /boggle
Preview is not intended to be a full-featured replacement for Acrobat. It is intended to be a simple, fast, no-nonesense PDF viewer. It excels at the purpose for which it is intended. Of course there is still a place for Acrobat when dealing with complex documents, but to have a quick look at a PDF, or quickly turn a PostScript file into a PDF, or for viewing/printing/exporting images, PDF is just fine.
I'll add to that by also saying that Anonymous Coward's view that Preview renders PDFs badly is also complete and utter hogwash.
While it's true that clickable links won't work, to say that "Preview also prints pdfs badly" is completely false. Preview prints PDFs just fine. Of course if you have a five year old Mac with hardly any RAM, running 10.3.x and a crappy printer, your results may vary.
If you mean a password-protected encrypted PDF, Preview can view these. It presents you with a password field then displays it normally (v3.0.9).
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
Preview does allow adding/editing annotations, plus limited text editing.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this won't work in Preview in OS X. At least for a while 'til Apple can get revenue from it. Preview, for those not familiar with it, basically renders Adobe Reader pointless on a Mac, especially because it is about ten times faster than Reader. So for stuff that doesn't require Acrobat Pro, Preview rules.