It does not, it runs locally.

It's a dropbox-style cloud, which means it's a folder on your local computer and it syncs to the cloud in the background.

Their Cloud files have useful understanding of the Adobe filetypes and can let you preview on the web, do annotations, turn on and off layers, and download in different formats. For example, I could put an Illustrator file up there and you could toggle layers then download as a png, jpg, AI or a PDF. Those are pretty decent, but the cloud files are definitely not the strong point of Adobe CC right now. Their mobile apps could sync to CC, but they've discontinued most of those except Ideas.

The strong points right now for the cloud piece of CC are the TypeKit account, the 5 basic Business Catalyst sites, and the Adobe Edge & Muse apps (which are only licensed through CC).

You were ahead of the curve! Considering CS3 was released in 2007.

FWIW, you could sell software and transfer licenses fairly liberally (compared to most software vendors I see). It was limited to 4x per license, but that's better than I can do with Office (which will allow you to transfer it only once).

The check happens monthly, and IIRC has a grace period of a few days before it locks things up. So you're only stuck if the internet goes down RIGHT WHEN the license check happens to come around.

Otherwise, you can use it offline just as with all previous versions.

The apps run locally, just the same as all previous versions. Creative Cloud includes dropbox-style syncing of a folder, but it is not required.

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.