Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Maureen
I have used it daily for years, and love it but I'm going to have to move on to something else the version I have is old and I can't afford to upgrade. I might be able to afford the monthly subscription if I sweet talk the boy toy into paying for it. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ras Tafari

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Skinner
On 4/12/2011 12:46 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > This assumes you always upgrade. I know plenty of people who skip a > version. Yes it does. But each of you and me who are happy using older, but working technology. There are those who demand (rightly or wrongly) the latest and greatest. I

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > True, and a very valid consideration when one might be making a buy > versus rent decision.  On the other hand, there is the ongoing cost of > upgrades, once you do buy into the product for the time you continue to > use it.  If you factor tha

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Stoner
I think this is something born from the whole cloud computing business model in that: 1. You pay for what you use, if you only use it 2 months out of the year, then only get it those two months 2. You can scale up a large team for (n) months for a big project and scale back down when its comp

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Skinner
On 4/12/2011 12:32 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: >> The same analysis for people who DO NOT already own a version, so they >> would not be doing the 'upgrade' path. >> >> Just saying, those will be different numbers. > Good point. Obvious, and

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ras Tafari
the the dollar store version of software. they bank on the fact that most people are dumb. they expect some morons to do this. why not leech off of those who are too stupid to realize they are wasting their own money? its a new niche! On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: >

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ian Skinner wrote: > The same analysis for people who DO NOT already own a version, so they > would not be doing the 'upgrade' path. > > Just saying, those will be different numbers. Good point. Obvious, and good. It's $399 to buy, so that's 21 months worth of

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Skinner
On 4/12/2011 12:08 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > What am I missing here? The same analysis for people who DO NOT already own a version, so they would not be doing the 'upgrade' path. Just saying, those will be different numbers. ~~

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > Adobe Systems announced an update to its Adobe Creative Suite 5 software, > which for the first time will be available by way of monthly subscriptions. We were doing a little math here in the office to see if this subscription model w

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Stroz
Ahhmissed that point..my bad. That being said, I have been less frustrated with Dreamweaver in terms of resources than I used to. Maybe it got better, maybe its just that I have a beefier computer. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: > > On 4/12/2011 8:50 AM, Scott Stroz wr

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Tony Weeg
l Message- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:43 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite? > > > I have had to use Dreamweaver for some of my classes at school (don't ask), >

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Skinner
On 4/12/2011 8:50 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > Dreamweaver has had a 'code only' interface for a long time...I used > Dreamweaver when I first started in web development pre-'MX' and it > had a 'code only' view. I believe the point you responded to is that the "Code Only" view does not eliminate the

RE: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Eric Roberts
But that still has the WYSYWYG compenents...I was referring to a version that didn't have the WYSYWYG at all. -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:51 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Stroz
YG parts, that wouldn't be a bad intereface. > > Eric > > -Original Message- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:43 > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite? > > > I have had to use Dreamwea

RE: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Eric Roberts
l the WYSYWYG parts, that wouldn't be a bad intereface. Eric -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:43 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite? I have had to use Dreamweaver for some of my classes

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Scott Stroz
I have had to use Dreamweaver for some of my classes at school (don't ask), and I have found it to not be as bad as I remember. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Ras Tafari wrote: >> i use it daily, and have found it make my coding

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Ras Tafari wrote: > i use it daily, and have found it make my coding life heavenly. > not sure why anyone would bash it.  guess its fun to bash it? Honestly, I haven't used it in years. Adobe said "come on it's great just try it" a few times and each time I was

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Ras Tafari
i use it daily, and have found it make my coding life heavenly. not sure why anyone would bash it. guess its fun to bash it? On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Casey Dougall > wrote: >> Not bad, Dreamweaver for $19 / month... > > I w

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > Not bad, Dreamweaver for $19 / month... I would still not use Dreamweaver if they paid me $19 a month. $1,900/month and I might consider using it for a trial month. -Cameron ... ~~~

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Grant
That must be. I usually shut that off so it prolly wouldn't effect me. Sent from my iPhone. On 2011-04-12, at 7:30 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Medic wrote: > >> >> Dreamweaver isn't even a value at $0/month. >> >> > > hahaha, I hear ya, I've been using

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Casey Dougall
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Medic wrote: > > Dreamweaver isn't even a value at $0/month. > > hahaha, I hear ya, I've been using ColdFusion builder now. Kinda like it but it's a bit buggy with closing tags correctly which is super annoying.

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Medic
Dreamweaver isn't even a value at $0/month. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Casey Dougall < ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey >wrote: > > > > > > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/adobe-creative-suite-subscripti

Re: Would you pay monthly for Creative Suite?

2011-04-12 Thread Casey Dougall
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/adobe-creative-suite-subscription.html > > Adobe announces Creative Suite 5.5, monthly software subscriptions > > > Not bad, Dreamweaver for $19 / month... ~