LarryK

I think the new pejorative term is "Hobbyist", whatever that means. I've noticed a lot of posts that start: "well, if you're just a hobbyist then...".

Note: I'm not a hobbyist.

Thanks for catching that Warren, sounds like a look at the fine print will provide hours of fun discussion.

Hey, if you want good internet service at a reasonable cost your're going to have to look somewhere else, try South Korea.

CS1 works on Macs without activation, one reason I still keep it around, but PS7 is still on the shelf as well. Of course none of that will work on New Macs.

You have to ask? I doubt we'll need a "psychic hotline" to figure this one out.

That's because it's so rare that Adobe actually improves anything. They usually move on to another version rather than fixing the bugs in the old version.

I always buy the latest version in case I have to translate files from brain-dead clients who are too stupid to know it's not a good idea to introduce new, and pretty much always buggy, software...

Well, once upon a time my phone cost $3 a month and my TV was free. I don't think people today believe that ever could have existed.

I guess marketing people like "cloud", because it sounds less ominous than "Giant Server Farm, you are being extorted to support, which is being pilfered for content as we speak by foreign hacker...

gw5815 became self-aware on May 6, 2013...

Yeah, I think he may be a clone, he's been posting all day, and apparently still posting with cogent comments that amount to cheerleading.

Just drink the Kool-Aid and everything will be fine!

That's what I'm doing.

I've used Adobe products since 1988, given them tens of thousands of dollars, and put up with highly touted, new, buggy features that never get fixed before the next upgrade comes out, after which...

That's what they said about activation, guess they were wrong.

They just used Coke Classic to stick us with Corn Syrup. I only drink the Occasional Mexican Coke with Real Sugar. There's a world of difference.

How are you going to use the files if you can't open them?

Sure, for electrocution.

Yes, and carpenters would just love it when their tools stopped working every month, and none of the work they had previously done was accessible.

A greedy fat cow doesn't require a subscription.

Yeah, probably only a matter of time before the Gambling, Drugs and Bordellos.