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Just some quick math about this...

Adobe has released a Creative Suite package every ~20 months (Wikipedia).

CS1 - 09/2003

CS2 - 04/2005 - 19 Months

CS3 - 03/2007 - 23 Months

CS4 - 10/2008 - 19 Months

CS5 - 04/2010 - 18 Months

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If we bought the first premium suite (based off current prices in the Adobe Store) it would have cost us around $1900. Add in upgrades at $400 each, and we get a total lifetime cost of $3500.

If subscription pricing was around since day one and we went with the new subscription pricing monthly rate of $95 (with one year contract) we would end up paying ~ $8650 to date or about 2.5x of buying it over that period (91 Months).

I don't find it surprising that they're going down this route. It surely is an interesting way to charge for downloaded software as we've really only seen this on the web front thus far.

I'm a bit interested to see how many total subscriptions we'll sign up for in a couple years. Reoccurring billing is certainly a nice stream of cash - and a bit of a trojan horse for additional revenue ;)
When I tried it out late last week, I could not get it to run. Installed using the sources provided in the download.

The error was 'blackbird Cannot read property 'style' of undefined'
This has nothing to do with the linked article, though; that's about immutability.

The parallels between objects and closures are neither here nor there.
It's always very easy to spend other people's money, isn't it. I make more than the amount you quote, but I don't have enough money to go around suing the government. Is it because I'm a drama queen? Nope, it's because I have other things to do that require money. I am sure Appelbaum does too.
Yes. That or the educational discount, where Creative Suite is 200 dollars.

I've been hanging on to my copy of cs3 for quite a while, and it only grows less relevant over time. Eventually there will be a different solution, but at this time there simply really isn't any application out there with as battle-tested as a UI as what Photoshop has.

I think most of the sales that they "lose" are the same type of issues that the music industry faces: not a lost sale, just someone trying it out who wouldn't have bought anyway. I've never really seen any institutional or business piracy with Photoshop, just teenagers wanting to use it to mess around.
what % of CS users do you think are using a pirated version?
"apart from being generally sympathetic to the appropriate causes, donating to Tor", there you go, that's what this whole threatre performance is about. Donating to Tor is not going to stop the DHS in any way, but you know, it certainly doesn't hurt Appelbaum's employer when you donate!

As an aside, but nevertheless siginificant to point out, these trips of Appelbaum's are AFAIK business trips, not recreational trips. Appelbaum is traveling because his employer asked him to. So why isn't Appelbaum's employer Tor, or the University of Washington for that matter, taking the necessary steps to assist a traveling researcher/proselytizer? If Appelbaum's employer demands that he travel, isn't it Appelbaum's employer own responsibility to make sure an employee can travel, assisting him with a lawyer or a co-traveling escort? And why would an employer put up with all this, when the employer can just as well hire another proselytizer, one who is not associated with Wikileaks and who can cross borders with a lot less hassle?

Sorry folks, it's just not adding up for me. (But your donations are certainly adding up for Tor!)
This may already be covered (with 88 comments), but I fear this article will go on deaf ears, not just to education, but to general readers of TC (investors, et al). In the same way that companies use higher education as an over-valued indicator of capability, so do investors use incubators, and suffer from the well-known "Group Think" mentality. The important difference is that you have to pay for higher education, whereas with an incubator you get paid. The other nice part is that you can re-apply to an incubator as many times as you want, and there's no social norm about the age you have to attend, whereas with colleges it's a 1-chance opportunity when you're 18, so if you don't get into Harvard you just don't get in (yes, you can transfer, but it's highly discouraged, and mainly in relation to the money involved).

I believe my only gripe with the article is Thiel says you should not judge Harvard-caliber students if they went to Harvard or not, because we just don't have enough Harvard affiliates. But that's very hypocritical thinking for a venture capitalist, whose community resonates the same sentiment of judging YC-caliber companies when there aren't enough YC-affiliates (cause if that was the case, TechStars and other funds would hold the same esteem).
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Huh? If you're having the students read that, presumably with a professor to direct discussion, isn't that just having a philosophy dept?
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> Wikileaks is not engaging in journalism- it's engaging in infowar against America

I would agree that Wikileaks have recently had much material relating to the US leaked to it, and has then published it.

However, I think this ignores their publications in relation to Kenya, Peru, various banks, Scientology, Iran, and so on. They publish what they get.
Fireworks isn't on the list... hopefully that means nothing.
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No, Smalltalk was a snapshot of a system that was meant to keep evolving.

See also this interview with Alan Kay: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523
I am continuely surprised that someone hasn't come to undercut this market (besides pirating which might be a huge factor here). But can Adobe's offerings be so far and above others that people think $95 a month is a great deal?

Note: I obviously don't use this suite so I don't know the true benefits of the software.
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"Cowards, all of them."

I don't think they are cowards, though I do think that Appelbaum's public defeatism with regards to his refusal to sue the DHS is going to discourage a lot of people who would have also sued the DHS over similar treatment (Appelbaum is not alone, though he wants you to think he is) from doing so. Appelbaum earns triple the American average and can't get a lawyer. People who earn less than him (the overwhelming majority of Americans) are going to look at this, think to themselves: "This guy has more money than I do, yet even he can't get a lawyer to sue the DHS", and give up before they've even started.
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It's hardly difficult. You click Store > Adobe Store and right under Photoshop are 3 buying options including the subscription.
I think subscription pricing fits the software model vary well. However, their pricing is stupid. If you pay for 6 months it would have been cheaper to just upgrade the product outright. Software is not like renting a car where you already know how to drive, you really need to know how to use it before it becomes useful and that takes time.

Edit: Now I could see paying that as a daily rate. If you work on this stuff 3-4 days a month it would cost less and feel like less of a ripoff to rent vs. buy.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=0d78...

I've seen two things implicated in several google support threads about the issue. First, having both the system and google's sandboxed flash versions enabled as plugins, and second, an older version of Trusteer Rapport (typically offered by banks) was implicated.

Both may be fixed by now, but if it's still crashing, try about:plugins, enable Details at top right, and disable the system version of Flash.
Sort of OT but I remember getting letters from AAUP when they were involved in negotiations for certain benefits for Lecturers, Part time Lecturers (TAs were considered to be part time lecturers because of some statute IIRC) when I TAed at Rutgers..
From the Rogue Amoeba website:

http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/10/a-tour-of-airfoil-3/

"Airfoil Speakers works pretty much like an AirPort Express from the point of view of Airfoil. It advertises its services over Bonjour, then uses the same AirTunes 2 protocol that Apple uses. However, despite using the same protocol, iTunes won’t talk to Airfoil Speakers. iTunes uses cryptographic authentication to ensure that it only talks to real AirPort Expresses, and we weren’t able to mimic that. Until Apple removes those checks, Airfoil Speakers will only work with Airfoil 3 and Airfoil for Windows."
"Object-oriented programming" seems to have a "blind man and the elephant" problem. People differ radically in their opinions of it based on what they think "OOP" is. The problem with OO as commonly practiced is that it encourages the promiscuous, distributed proliferation of mutable state. Sometimes this is the right model, especially when involving processes that might be on separate machines, but not usually.

For example, you can write a Die class with a sides field (integer), a topFace field (integer) and a roll method that sets the value of topFace to a random integer between 1 and sides, inclusive. To use the Die, call roll and getTopFace. Want to roll 5 d10s? Then create Die(10) five times, then call .roll and .getTopFace on each of them. By the way, you now have five pieces of mutable state in your program and, if you ever forget to call .roll and only call .getTopFace on your dice (maybe you've been tempted to keep the Die objects around for "efficiency") you get erroneous results.

Clearly, that's the wrong way to solve the problem. It's better to just call (rand 10) five times: in general, you only care about the results of the rolls, not the "dice". (This approach still isn't "purely functional" as written, because it still uses a randomizer, e.g. state, but it's close enough for most purposes. Passing around a PRNG state is pretty heavyweight.)

Sometimes you need the full power of pi-calculus (communication, message passing) but usually you want to stick with lambda-calculus (referentially transparent computation) as far as you can take it. Mutable state is almost always necessary at some point, but you want to segregate it as much as you can.
I think Adobe pirating is pretty rife, although they do also offer heavily discounted student editions for junior designers. My understanding is that the people that buy Adobe software at the commercial price are design studios, and this is one of the most essential tools to their profession. It's comparable to asking why .NET shops pay the similar prices for Visual Studio.
>Pre-internet regional schools were often held in near equal esteem as Harvard/Yale. As information became more fluid (USNWR and the internet) the ranking of credentials became easier to obtain. This won't change.

If regional schools received such a blow, why did their tuitions radically increase right in line with the Ivies' increases?

Also in response to, "the reason why it's a bubble is also what keeps it afloat;" there is no quantification there--what would the tuition numbers have to be before this statement didn't apply? Will it key applying no matter what, even if there was an increase that put tuitions, say, beyond the lifetime earning capacity of the average college graduate?
Immutability is obviously not the same thing as encapsulation and polymorphism, which are what the Qc Na koan is about, but I don't think it "has nothing to do with" encapsulation and polymorphism either. They are both useful techniques for increasing the expressivity of the runtime state of your program, and I think they complement each other nicely. For example, immutability almost absolutely requires garbage collection or other automatic memory management, since deallocating an object is at least conceptually a mutation of its state, and there's a similar but weaker synergy between encapsulation and GC.
Pretty, but seriously, what's the point?
Lots of people here think nothing of paying $10-30 per month for a whole variety of services. To have photo/print/vector editing, video & effects, flash etc etc doesn't seem to be too much of a stretch. I'd wager than most people who used these tools professionally could cover the rental price with their first hour's work.
I took the liberty of turning this into a userscript. Since I was running into trouble accessing global variables from the injected scripts, I forked Mr. Speaker's project and changed the relevant bits in the code.

Edit: Changed all my links to point to mrspeaker's master except the loader. Any changes he makes should get reflected automatically.

Link: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/100977
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not surprisingly it's...
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I wouldn't be surprised if the number was close to 90% or higher.
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Adobe's suite is the standard for the creative industry: anything from publishing (Indesign) to ad agencies to web design shops to (landscape) architects uses it. Often they do seem to use older versions than the latest: there's a significant cost involved in continually upgrading for a few so/so features.
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Sigh. Those who abandon Unix principles deserve whatever they get.
I'd get into that. I am a C/C++ guy, writing Python (etc.,etc.), with R/Perl programming coworkers. There is obvious value for me in external reviews.

The trick is, could there be some sort of bilateral confidentially agreement? That's one I'd need to ponder a bit.
It's the same model as with pirating Microsoft Office. Adobe can't say it outright, but they'd much rather the individual users pirate as long as it means Photoshop/CS remains the industry standard, because most businesses will pay for it.
I also thought the thick end meant it was receiving flow as opposed to originating it. It's also hard for me to look at the graphs and not see motion, particularly the curved ones - years of reading comics. But reading graphs is an expert activity, and I'm open to the idea that with practice this method could become better.
"With this clock right on my desk..."

'Physical' is a fairly safe assumption from that phrase. Yeah, it's still an assumption and you are technically correct.
Julian Assange urges people to take a "scientific" approach to media reports, and to ask to see the primary documents. Well, allow me to be "scientific" with regards to all these reports about Jacob Appelbaum's customs&border issues right now: has Appelbaum ever published his correspondence with the DHS? His FOIA requests? Denial letters he has received from government agencies, the DHS, the TSA, CBP, ICE? The answer is no, no and no. There is no way to verify "scientifically" any of his statements. All we have are Appelbaum's claims on Twitter that "I was told by the G-man that Obama himself has a problem with me"... seriously, how can someone who claims to be a hacker believe such a statement, straight from the mouth of a government goon, cos hey, we all know the G-men never ever lie or exaggerate in order to intimidate, right? Still, no documentation whatsoever, no correspondence between Appelbaum and the DHS. Again, think what you will about Obama allegedly having a personal problem with Appelbaum, this is just not adding up for me.
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I was talking about the content of the actual article linked, though. It bugs me when the highest rated comment in a discussion is a copy-and-pasted blurb from something that is only tangentially relevant.

As long as we're veering off topic, I think it's interesting to consider Erlang in light of Alan Kay's ideas about OOP: While people coming from a C++/Java-ish background likely wouldn't recognize it as any kind of OOP, it's arguably MORE so than those: It's more directly based on encapsulation (via processes) and message-passing, without all of the "x IS-A y" conceptual baggage that comes from their mix of static types and OOP. It also has pervasive immutability.
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The purpose of functional programming isn't to eradicate mutable state as if it were criminal. Mutable state is necessary. It's to control mutable state so that it's easy to determine where state is and how it is expected to behave. The problem with state is that if the architecture is sloppy and it's all over the place, it can lead to impossible-to-reason-about program behavior, especially when the rules that govern the state have been written emergently by several parties over years. Mutable state is a flower in the right part of the garden and a weed in the wrong part of it.

Haskell takes the most extreme approach of the mainstream languages, which is to segregate mutable state entirely into monads (e.g. IO, STM). Ocaml does this in a more practical way: some types (e.g. arrays, hashtables, records with mutable fields, ref cells) are mutable while others (e.g. linked lists, tree-based associative maps) are constitutionally immutable. Common Lisp really isn't "purely functional" at all; it provides the tools necessary to write functional code, but it also has methods like NCONC and RPLACA which allow in-place modification of cons cells, put into the language for historical reasons.
This is great for someone like me. It's silly to spend the full amount for a programmer like me who wants to use Photoshop for touching up images and website graphics, but I'd gladly pay on a month to month basis.
It sounds suspiciously like you're accusing me of something. The statement after the word "because" in your quote kind of matters to the original sentiment, and you happily ignored it in your calculations. It doesn't take a rocket economist to do:

Quantity x Spot Price = "Value"

However, it also doesn't take a rocket economist to figure out that value there is meaningless, since (a) you're using the spot price, (b) the quantity of BTC to move is greater than the daily volume of the entire market, and (c) attempting a move of this size would probably devalue BTC significantly. You have a value, but there's no way that can be its value currently, because you'd have to spread the transactions out over time -- making the value a different number.

If someone owned $5 trillion of gold, do you think they'd be able to successfully move it all for $5 trillion? That's why the value is meaningless. You're talking about an exorbitant figure of money which the BitCoin market can't support.
Nice - could also have a Tartan scanner (to identify Scottish clans) or a tree trunk scanner to age a tree, or a wood grain scanner to identify different types of wood...
I think this is a good idea for Adobe. Maybe this will deter some people from downloading the software illegally. I only need to use PS once or twice a year, and the thought of downloading it illegally has crossed my mind several times. I haven't downloaded it illegally, instead I use it at my school's computer lab for free (besides what I pay for tuition). If I could download PS for $35 a month, I may just download it each time I need to use it and benefit from having the latest version on my own computer for a cheaper price.
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> if your organization's goal is profit rather than education.

The organization's goal isn't all that relevant compared to the results produced by the folks actually doing the work. Heck, their goals matter more than the organization's goals.

For example, a non-profit can easily be staffed by folks looking to just slide by. Remember - they're being paid just like the folks at the for-profit down the street.

Non-profit is merely a tax and investor-return status. That tells you nothing about what the organization actually does.
Pirates will still pirate regardless of having a lower initial cost subscription option - they're mostly not folks who would be paying customers anyway.
The account I bought initially had 15 MB space limit (it was a 15$ one time purchase for life membership). They never increased this limit... The web interface didn't auto refresh, unless you used "poll" which then only refreshed every 30 minutes.

When I did switch there was a bug in the forwarding that resulted in some of my emails not forwarding (although this went away and only happened to 3 emails).

They might have had better improvements for accounts that required continuous payment, but certainly not mine. It obviously got surpassed by free alternatives.

Despite this criticism, I am very satisfied with fastmail, they served me well for a long time.
Drawing attention to the massive problems in Japan, showing that people care around the globe, and of course financial support through the donation options. What's so difficult to understand?
More likely you will soon be able to get a subscription web app that just does what you need for web layout and image touchups - you can already almost do all of it now, and don't have to fork over any $$ to Adobe.
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Lasers aren't a suitable long-range weapon here in the atmosphere, though. The dissipation over distance is very bad. And if your laser is too powerful it'll heat the air it goes through so much that it turns into plasma, making the situation even worse.

It might be suitable for shooting fast moving objects such as missiles over a short distance.
It depends upon your goal. One 3-second burst from a just about any minigun would clear the deck of a typical pirate vessel, but anyone on board isn't going to return to shore. There are political and ethical considerations to killing pirates on sight.

If your goal is to disable the vessel, a laser like this stands a far greater chance of disabling the vessel without killing the inhabitants.
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> Increasing you standard of living is no fun if everyone else's increases faster.

When you've reached the point where this is the case, you're not really poor any more. For someone who is actually poor, increasing standard of living is good without regard to whether other people's increases more.
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I'm planning on undercutting them with a subscription web app for the niche of web design and web animation. Maybe not such a niche, but as has been discussed in the community, Photoshop is overkill for laying out web pages, and not ideal in terms of workflow integration with developers, the folks who actually do the coding for web sites.
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Right, but this is perfect for those of us who only need Adobe CS 1 or 2 months of the year--pay the monthly fee, add a little to our hourly rate to cover it, and voila!

Instead of ~$3500, you're looking at < $400 / year, which sounds just about right for me and the web dev / basic design work I'm doing.

I can use Gimp or Inkscape or Scribus for basic mockups, and than for the final client prints/work, I switch to the Adobe CS suite for standards compatibility, etc...
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