I've been a user of Creative Cloud since it came out with CS6. I've been a big fan.

Adobe bundles a lot of extra software in here that's beyond the base CS Master Collection. The Adobe Edge apps, for instance, were never available in the perpetual license or boxed CS. You also get some limited hosting, typekit account, online storage, and some other stuff.

As far as price, it's a mixed bag. If you were previously a Master Collection user, you would save money over upgrading every year. You'd come out about the same upgrading every other year. If you upgraded less often than that, you'd be paying more.

If you only want a single app, you can get it for $20 a month. Photoshop Extended CS6 was $999, so that would be 50 months until you're paying more. That's a good deal.

Where it gets tough is if you were upgrading from focused versions of the suite, like Design Standard or Production Premium. You get more apps than you were before, but if you didn't need the full set before, you're paying more for apps you don't need.

He's a contractor. If they're not paying his hourly rate, he doesn't have to do the work.

You are right. That was added in the 3G. Thanks for the correction!

The original iPhone had two main features that the Treo didn't. It had a better screen (capacitive instead of resistive touch screen, 320x480 instead of 320x320) and it had a far, far better browser. Before the iPhone browser, phone browsers were incompatible exercises in frustration. It also did some functions better than the phones out there. Out of the box it came with GPS built in and integrated Google maps. This was at the time that while you could use GPS on some devices, you needed to get a separate receiver for most phones and connect it directly or wirelessly. Google had released their maps app for some devices, but on many devices it had only limited support for GPS hardware.

It also got a lot of interest because it focused on consumer media rather than business uses. It was a good photo viewer and a good replacement for your iPod, because the smallest device had 4GB of storage. The Treo 755p, for instance, only had 128MB built-in storage and while you could expand it by miniSD, I think those were limited to 512MB or 1GB in 2007. So a lot of folks I knew who had Treos still carted around iPods.

Well, the going rates for software engineers in Monmouth Junction, NJ are a lot higher than this:

ORION SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS, INC PROGRAMMER ANALYST
$60,000
2011-05-09

No, they mean bisected.

That's a procedure by which you do a binary search to find which patch caused a problem.

Programming is HARD! Let's go shopping!

In my new house, ADSL was the only option, despite it being in St Louis a couple miles from my old house which had UVerse's top tier. Fiber-to-the-neighborhood apparently hasn't made it to this neighborhood.

How convenient, then, that telcos got about $3300 per person in subsidies.

You should read the book, not just the article above. Competition only works when there are enough competitors. Otherwise monopolies, duopolies, and cartels can form where the companies split up territories and agree not to compete.

David Cay Johnston gives examples from water companies, electric companies, railroads, trash hauling, and telecom where privatization results in price increases massively outstripping inflation.

Seems to be very dependent on the font renderer. It looks great on OS X, but it definitely looks worse on Windows XP in Eclipse. (On my XP, the E and the digits are different heights. On OS X, they are the same height.)

Hopefully some day my company will upgrade us.

Expensive hardware has been dead for a while. That's why Apple had such disappointing preorders of the new iPhone and has been lagging behind Samsung in tablet sell-through.

Or, maybe not.

Well, behaving within the law means the guy turned off his broadband completely. Needing to defend your home broadband against members of your family is crazy.

The Creative Commons License that it was under gives you the right to do exactly that. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

If, as you say, the teachers are not correlated with student results, we'd might as well have cheaper teachers and get the same results.