Adobe's 2006 revenues were $2.575 billion USD.[9] As of February 2007, Adobe's market capitalization

You would think they would improve Premiere Pro.
I just completed a big project using AfterFX, Photoshop and Premiere. Guess which one kept crashing and freezing...... Premiere!!
AfterFX and Photoshop are SOLID and STABLE, Premiere is slower in general, full of crappy bugs and is behind Final Cut & Avid.
It needs more support or a broader amount of media, batch export, 64 bit, stability

>I just want to chime in with glad approval for the
acknowledgement of
>Freehand
> made in the quote from the President of Adobe. I also
regard this forum as
> another official statement that Adobe is committed to
serve the customer
> base
> that rallyes behind Freehand as one of the top preferred
professional
> illustration software choices.
>
> Thanks Adobe for supporting your customers,
Umm...this is a user-to-user forum and was implemented by
Macromedia, so I
wouldn't call the existance of this newsgroup a sign of any
official
commitment on the part of adobe to further support Freehand.
-Darrel

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ADOBE CC Marketing Subscription Trap: Offer USD 29.99 (Renew Subscription), Invoice USD 49.99

I had a few days ago a interesting marketing action with adobe. After a year of using Adobe CC I thought to cancel the my subscription, because normaly I dont use it so often. Like most members I paid with my annual fee conditions USD 29.99 / per month last year.
So I stopped my subscription and blocked a automatic renew function. As I checked my status and of the subscription persion on 27 May 2013 I received a screen infomration the there is a option to renew my subscription as a exisiting Adobe CC User for a other year. And that just for USD 29.99. Same conditions like last year. So I thought, nice move Adobe, why not. So I entered my accout details on the screen and I received a screen information that I'm qualitifed for the discount. Great so I confirmed the nothing else to do. I automatic renew function did the rest.
Suprise, yesterday I received the invoice notification for USD 49.99. Standard price. I contacted the Adobe Support, they had now clue about the situation or a discount offer through Adobe.
It's not about the money. It's a about the marketing trap. Has anyone else made the same experience or has the same problem?

Hi Anreas,
I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties. I see what I can do to help you get things straightened out.
-Dave

Multiple iMacs, multiple family members -- so common, yet so hard?

I have a media-loving family of four. We're an Apple family. One shuffle, two touches, two iPhones (coming Friday), three AppleTVs, and two iMacs. We love them all.
I HATE the pain it seems to be to keep my media in synch, however.
It's not so hard keeping my account in synch with the AppleTVs and my Touch. Where I get into trouble is in wanting to allow my family members to leverage MY library as a basis for theirs. Moving and copying music and movies from my library to my daughter's, for example, just seems a lot harder than it should be. As does keeping my library on my upstairs iMac in synch with my downstairs iMac.
I've been unsuccessful in attempts to use iTunes Ranger.
What's the best way to move between accounts on an iMac?
And, is there an easy way to keep two iMac iTunes libraries in synch?
Also -- can anyone point me to some really good documentation that explains the finer points of media storage on a Mac. Everything Apple provides (unless I am missing the secret detailed manual with all of the crazy tips) seems so high level...
Many thanks in advance. Appreciate the support.
Jim

thejester77 wrote:
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple. What news are you reading? Android is not a company but a phone operating system. GOOGLE acquired Motorola, not Android. GOOGLE's 2011 revenues were 37.9 billion, NOT 22 million. Google acquired Motorola for 12.5 billion, NOT 20 billion.
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!! Again, where are you getting this information? The AT&T ETF is $325 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed. It is NOT $35. Verizon has a similar, although slightly higher ETF of $350 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed.
Yes, we can hear you, but you are not making any sense!

Already Converted 10 of my family members over to AT&T for Nokia Lumia 900!!!

Verizon,
You decided to drag you feet, promote the crap out of Android and stop supporting Windows Phone 7.
So I converted 10 of my family members over yesterday to AT&T for the Nokia Lumia 900.
I got them $100 credit towards the Nokia Lumia 900 which AT&T was charging $99 dollars for the phone on Pre-Order.
So my family members only had to pay $36 for the activation fee.
Verizon, you had your chance. You had multiple chances. If you truly wanted an LTE Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft, you could have easily worked something out with them, just like AT&T did.
All the information has been leaked out, Apollo/Windows Phone 8 was supposed to have LTE but because AT&T showed that they really were interested in Windows Phone 7 and actually carring a lineup of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft worked it out for them.
So you can take all your Droid crap that you have heavily invested in, along with all your iPhone 4s that keep hogging all the bandwidth on your network and stick it were the sun don't shine.
I promise you this, when my contract is done I will be terminating my account in FULL and switching over to AT&T as well.
To not even stand behind a product that we all have signed 2 year contracts with is unacceptable for the price were paying. To hold back all updates besides Mango is unacceptable just to lock in new 2 year contracts. And I'm talking about Droid too.
Carriers should not be in controll of phone updates PERIOD!!! Updates should be released from the OS Manufactures just like on computers. This business model that the industry has created is a SCAM, JOKE and an INSULT to everyone that puts there hard earned money up for phone service.
Verizon, you have lost all respect in my book, and I will do everything possible to get everyone and everybody I talk to away from your network.
Only way to solve this issue is to address the Windows Phone 7 community and actually annouce something, PERIOD!!! Release the 8107 update as a good faith measure and issue a press release stating your business model regarding Windows Phone 7... Unless you want more dollars going to AT&T.
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple.
Do Something, NOW!!! CAN YOU HEAR US NOW!!!
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!!
TheJester77

thejester77 wrote:
Also, latest news shows that Android only made $22million in revenues last year, and spend $20 billion acquiring Motorola. So I don't see Andriod being able to do much in the year 2012 to ramp things up to compete against Windows Phone 7/Nokia and Apple. What news are you reading? Android is not a company but a phone operating system. GOOGLE acquired Motorola, not Android. GOOGLE's 2011 revenues were 37.9 billion, NOT 22 million. Google acquired Motorola for 12.5 billion, NOT 20 billion.
Also, here's another suggestion... Do like AT&T has done and give users a early termination fee to get out of there contracts. I believe they charge $35 dollars or something higher if your not satisified and want to terminate your contract early.
Since you don't want to support or offer any more Windows Phone 7, why keep us as unhappy customers. Give us an option to pay a early termination fee and leave!!! Again, where are you getting this information? The AT&T ETF is $325 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed. It is NOT $35. Verizon has a similar, although slightly higher ETF of $350 less $10 for each month of your contract which has been completed.
Yes, we can hear you, but you are not making any sense!

Problem with variable

Hi. I'm making a form for work for people to book places on
training courses. Having an annoying problem with variables that
i'm hoping has a simple solution. Any help with this will be much
appreciated.
All the info is held in an external text file which looks
like this (but much longer):
&totalcourses=2&
&course0=Please choose a course&
&course1=my course one&
&totaldates1=3&
&c1date0=Select a date...&
&c1date1=15 September 2006&
&c1time1=Time: 10:00 to 16:00&
&c1date2=23 January 2006&
&c1time2=Time: 11:00 to 16:00&
&c1date3=28 February 2007&
&c1time3=Time: 12:00 to 16:00&
&course2=my course 2&
&totaldates2=3&
&c2date0=Select a date...&
&c2date1=15 September 2006&
&c2time1=Time: 11:00 to 16:00&
&c2date2=08 January 2007&
&c2time2=Time: 9:00 to 16:00 &
&c2date3=15 February 2007
&c2time3=Time: 12:00 to 16:00&
The course titles are loaded into an array and then into a
combobox. When a course is chosen a second combobox loads the
relevant dates array for that course. When a date is chosen the
time is shown in a dynamic text box.
Problem is - if more than one course is on the same date it
will show the time for the latest course with that date. For
example - course 1 is on 15 sept at time 10:00 to 16:00, course 2
is also on 15 sept at time 11:00 to 16:00. When 15 Sept is chosen
for course one it displays the time for course 2 on this date -
presumably because it comes later in the text file.
I've attached the actionscript for this - Can anyone help me
sort this out??

Hi. I'm making a form for work for people to book places on
training courses. Having an annoying problem with variables that
i'm hoping has a simple solution. Any help with this will be much
appreciated.
All the info is held in an external text file which looks
like this (but much longer):
&totalcourses=2&
&course0=Please choose a course&
&course1=my course one&
&totaldates1=3&
&c1date0=Select a date...&
&c1date1=15 September 2006&
&c1time1=Time: 10:00 to 16:00&
&c1date2=23 January 2006&
&c1time2=Time: 11:00 to 16:00&
&c1date3=28 February 2007&
&c1time3=Time: 12:00 to 16:00&
&course2=my course 2&
&totaldates2=3&
&c2date0=Select a date...&
&c2date1=15 September 2006&
&c2time1=Time: 11:00 to 16:00&
&c2date2=08 January 2007&
&c2time2=Time: 9:00 to 16:00 &
&c2date3=15 February 2007
&c2time3=Time: 12:00 to 16:00&
The course titles are loaded into an array and then into a
combobox. When a course is chosen a second combobox loads the
relevant dates array for that course. When a date is chosen the
time is shown in a dynamic text box.
Problem is - if more than one course is on the same date it
will show the time for the latest course with that date. For
example - course 1 is on 15 sept at time 10:00 to 16:00, course 2
is also on 15 sept at time 11:00 to 16:00. When 15 Sept is chosen
for course one it displays the time for course 2 on this date -
presumably because it comes later in the text file.
I've attached the actionscript for this - Can anyone help me
sort this out??

Adobe: No Linux Flash Player Till 2007

see
http://www.crn.com/sections/custom/custom.jhtml?articleId=192501179
>>
Adobe: No Linux Flash Player Till 2007
By Stacy Cowley, CRN
2:25 PM EDT Fri. Sep. 01, 2006
Impatient Linux users will have to wait till the end of the
year for even a
preview release of Adobe's Flash Player 9.
The company's lead Flash for Linux engineer, Mike Melanson ,
reported this
week in his blog that Adobe won't release any alpha versions
of its Flash
port, holding out instead for a full-featured beta scheduled
for release
sometime late this year.
Adobe recently released a major Flash overhaul, version 9,
for Windows and
Macintosh clients. For Linux users, the release lengthened
the Flash gap
between them and other users: Adobe skipped Flash Player 8
for Linux and
hasn't released a Linux update since mid-2004. Because Flash
is not fully
backward-compatible, Web content developed for the newer
Flash players often
won't run in version 7, the most current Linux version.
Adobe's market
research shows that 86 percent of U.S. computer users are
able to view Flash
8 content.
"I have to question a cross-platform strategy that has a bias
against one
platform," RedMonk analyst Stephen O'Grady, a Linux user,
gripped in his
blog. The lack of a modern Flash player leaves him unable to
view content on
a number of Web sites, including major destinations like
ESPN.com.
An Adobe spokesman said the company expects a full release of
Flash Player 9
for Linux in early 2007. Because of the "short" cycle between
Flash Player 8
and 9 -- ten months -- Adobe opted to skip version 8 for
Linux and move
directly to version 9, he said.
Melanson's blog tracks the day-to-day progress and decisions
Adobe is making
on Flash for Linux. A full-time Linux user since 1999,
Melanson shares the
frustration of his comrades about Adobe's Linux lag.
"In September, 2005, I happened [across a blog that]
mentioned in passing
that Macromedia was looking for someone to port Flash Player
to Linux. I
applied for the job and now here I am," he posted.
"When I started at Adobe, I found out that there is a shadow
cabal of
engineers that very much want to see the current Flash Player
run on Linux,
and would even try their hand with the current codebase from
time to time.
But there are only so many hacking hours in the day."
>>

> It sounds to like Adobe are using outdated development
practices.
> The kinds of systems multiplatform developers use these
days
That's the point .. 'these days'.
Much of the problem is older code, must be over a decade old
now) which was
not well written. That is not an uncommon occurence in
products that have
such a long existence as flash player. Supported platforms,
development
techniques, developer guidelines, management etc all change
over the years
and things that seemed 'a good idea at the time' end up
becoming a problem.
In hindsight there would be many things that should have been
done
differently in the past .. but without a working time-machine
that cannot be
fixed, without an enormous investment in development to
rewrite the code
base in a manner that can be more easily ported .. which is
what is
happening.
Also the low level optimisations required for such
cpu-intense real-time
graphic processing are difficult to port, as they rely on
optimised assembly
code for different cpus and chipsets
And further there is the issue of different operating systems
and libraries
to link against on different platforms.
> nightly/daily automated builds
Anyone who thinks supporting new platforms its just a matter
of re-building
or doing daily builds is naive. There is no indication that
Adboe does not
make use of these practices. But continuous integration and
nightly builds
are only tools to maintain a port once it is done .. it
doesn't help you DO
the port in the first place.
> From a marketing point of view you want a simultaneous
release on all
> platforms
I'm sure Adobe DO want simulataneous release .. if it were
possible. But
that is not possible if the software is not ported to all the
platforms.
With it ported to the platforms the vast majority of people
use (windows and
mac) it makes sense to release the newer versions that are
required in order
to release other major revenue-earning products like Flex.
That is a valid
and sound marketting and financial decision.
> In the case where assembly
> programming is used compiler intrinsics are more
maintainable and portable
> than
> inline assembly, I can vouch for their high performance
vs hand tuned
> assembly.
You simply cannot get the performance demanded using
intrinsics.
> Note that Apple uses gcc and Linux uses gcc and so I
can't see many
> incompatibilities at the compiler tools level?
> Maybe it is lack of experience
> with Linux, or maybe there have been lots of programmers
leaving since
> Adobe
> took over?
It may be worth your while reading the blogs by the adobe
developers where
they discuss the issues and get feedback from people such as
yourself.
> On the subject of buisness priorities, the number one is
that the customer
> comes first.
Exactly .. so MM/Adobe got the player out as quickly as
possible for the
majority of their customers. Making EVERYONE have to wait
while the player
was ported to all the other minority platforms would NOT have
been good for
the majority.
As they say .. you can't please all the people all the time.
You have to
pick you battles.
> In particular where websites are concerned you want to
get access
> to as many users as possible.
Exactly .. and FlashPlayer penetration and usage stats reveal
that it IS
availble to the vast majority of users and moreso than most
other
multi-media technologies
> The quoted 86 percent of users able to view flash 8
content is probably
> an over estimate and this figure is only stated for the
US
> as most of work in a global marketplace these days
figures like this are
> not very usefull.
Have you even looked at all the figures (which you don't seem
to believe
anyway) .. its worldwide and broken down into regions.
> The internet is all about maximising your potential
customer
> base and anything which prevents a siginificant minority
just makes no
> buisness
> sense at all.
Its only significant when you are part of it :) The vast
majority of
people, and those with the money to spend, are using Windows
and Mac.
That's where the customer base is.
> The bad publicity that Adobe has generated from
delaying/canning
> a Linux version of flash player is cumulative and the
internet is all
> about
> word of mouth. I hope for Adobe's sake they don't
neglect their customers
> needs
> in future.
I'm sure they won't .. which is why they are still activly
porting to other
platforms.
I would much rather see them take the time to do it right,
rather than let
quality slip in order to rush out a half-done product to
satisfy the demands
of the few.
Jeckyl

Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe

Here is some general information about the history of Adobe for new users. But later on quotes from Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe.
1) In 2005 Adobe buys Macromedia:
"On April 18, 2005 Adobe Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion."
Great! Just buy out competitors and add their programs to your portfolio:
ColdFusion, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver.
2) In 2009 Adobe buys Omniture
Shantanu Narayen led the $1.8 billion acquisition of Omniture, Inc.
In a press release, Adobe's president and CEO Shantanu Narayen called the deal a "game changer for both Adobe and our customers"
There is no denying that. Adobe knows how to change the game. Usually without any warning or consideration to the end user whatsoever.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen:
"When you think about digital media, Adobe is already the largest provider of tools and services for the creative community. Everybody is re-tooling for the future of web - devising strategies for new and multiple screens (television, mobile, tablet/PC)and app stores. With devices like photoshop touch and cloud-based services, we are aggressively moving towards that shift."
Adobe? Agressive? No, no, no. You must be thinking of a different Adobe.
wikipedia.org:
"Critics have accused Omniture of attempting to hide the fact they are collecting data. Critics claim they do this by sending the information to a domain name that looks and sounds similar to an IP address used to connect to devices on the local network and not the Internet. This has led to speculation that the domain name is used to trick users or firewall rules."
Sounds like something Adobe would want to own alright.
3) In 2012 Adobe buys Behance
Quote from the Behance blog:
"Our mission to connect and empower the creative world is getting a big boost today. Our team is thrilled to join Adobe and take Behance to the next level. We’ve been given an opportunity to influence creative work, careers, and the creative industry on a grand scale, and we intend to do just that."
Sigh, please don't. just don't. We are being influenced enough as it is.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen (December 2012):
"I'm pleased to report we delivered record revenue of $1,153,000,000 in Q4. This performance helped us achieve record revenue of $4.4 billion in fiscal year 2012."
At the very high expense of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Time will tell how strong your monopoly really is.
Shantanu Narayen:
"At Adobe, we're focused on 2 large market opportunities: Digital Media and Digital Marketing. 2012 was a milestone year in terms of innovation with our Creative Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud. We achieved great success in both these areas."
Shantanu Narayen:
"Adobe is changing how we provide value to a broader set of customers. We will deliver customized offerings for individuals, workgroups and large enterprises. As with all successful subscription services, we're offering a free trial program. This enables an easy on-ramp and a funnel of prospects that we intend to convert to paying subscribers."
Turning us into future Cloud drug addicts, The first one's always free! Thanks Adobe!
"We have begun transitioning enterprise customers to enterprise term license agreements, which provide them cloud services and updates to our desktop tools. Pricing for each segment is designed to reward loyal customers and aggressively transition them to the cloud."
Once again. Adobe? Agressive? Surely you jest!
"An advisory agency, Brendan Wood International, had ranked the 'Top Gun CEOs' for 2009 based on their ability to make smart acquisitions, make themselves visible and expand the company's value propositions, among other things."
"Shantanu Narayen has been in the industry for a very long time and always has a strong sense of what the next key steps are in terms of positioning the company in the industry."
Yeah well, I guess you can't always be right.
"When Adobe announced in 2003 it was introducing product "collections and suites", customers and industry watchers wondered about Adobe's motivations. Was it all about money? Ultimately Adobe's Creative Suite of products became the standard.
Narayen anticipates a similar kind of embrace for Adobe CC. "A few years from now, people will say, 'How could I even imagine a Photoshop that was not connected to the cloud?'"
Dark times ahead indeed if that happens.
Quote from Shantanu Narayen - May 2013:
"And finally, in monetization, whether it's video that's going to increasingly move to IP networks, whether it's physical retailers who are increasingly moving their business online, I think the more we can transact business and close the loop with respect to monetization, we think that, that's a big opportunity available for us as Adobe."
Yes, having a monopoly sure is awesome. Not having to deal with those pesky free market systems.
Shantanu Narayen:
"A strategy that we outlined over a couple of years ago is really through the combination of what we call the Creative Cloud and the Marketing Cloud, to really have a complete solution that provides this integrated platform across the entire content life cycle."
In other words, Adobe will get its greedy little hands on everything we could possibly want to do. And aggressively force us to go along with it.
And finally a quote from Steve Jobs when talking about a music subscription service:
“I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.”
Let's face it. This 'Cloud scheme' is all about the money. It has no real extra value to us, the ''valued and loyal customers'. The only way to possibly change this as some other users have said on this forum is to vote with your wallet. That's the only thing that matters to the people at the top of Adobe. Money money money.
Customer satisfaction? Adobe doesn't care. Customer loyalty? Adobe doesn't care. And the sad thing is. Eventually we will tire from complaining and just conform to this sad new reality...

You are not viewd by anyone at Adobe as anything but $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Your art your soul or anything else do not matter what matters is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
From Adobe to wall street
current and thereby driving higher average revenue per user. Additionally, our shift to a subscription model will increase the amount of recurring revenue that is ratably reported, driven by broader Creative Cloud adoption over the next several years.
To assist with the understanding of this transition and the related shift in revenue described above, we are using certain performance metrics to assess the health and trajectory of our overall Digital Media segment.
These metrics include the total number of current paid subscriptions and Annualized Recurring Revenue ("ARR"). We define ARR as the sum of:
� the number of current paid subscriptions, multiplied by the average subscription price paid per user per month, multiplied by twelve months; plus,
� twelve months of contract value of Enterprise Term License Agreements ("ETLAs") where the revenue is ratably recognized over the life of the contract.
In addition, we expect renewal rates associated with Creative Cloud, and potentially other subscription offerings, will become key metrics used to measure their performance. Because the majority of Creative Cloud subscriptions have been annual and the Creative Cloud launched in May 2012, we have not yet reached the first anniversary of these annual subscriptions and, therefore, we anticipate that meaningful data regarding subscription renewal rates will first become available later in fiscal year 2013.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES In preparing our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC, we make assumptions, judgments and estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. We base our assumptions, judgments and estimates on historical experience and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On a regular basis, we evaluate our assumptions, judgments and estimates. We also discuss our critical accounting policies and estimates with the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. We believe that the assumptions, judgments and estimates involved in the accounting for revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, business combinations, goodwill impairment and income taxes have the greatest potential impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. These areas are key components of our results of operations and are based on complex rules requiring us to make judgments and estimates, so we consider these to be our critical accounting policies. Historically, our assumptions, judgments and estimates relative to our critical accounting policies have not differed materially from actual results.
With the exception of the discussion below, there have been no significant changes in our critical accounting policies and estimates during the three months ended March 1, 2013, as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates disclosed in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2012.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Where can I download a free trial of adobe photoshop for mac os x 10.5?

Hi,
I cant seem to find a free download of adobe photoshop for my mac os x 10.5. Does anyone know where I could find this?

Should you have been misled about the capabilities of the iBook G3
portable PowerPC-based Apple computer you bought online, you may
be able to return it; misrepresented products may be returned if you
bought through such places as eBay, etc.
Also, the name iBook has been re-used, it currently not only applies to
old vintage or obsolete Apple portable PowerPC G3/G4 computers, it
also applies to the newer iBooks ebooks, applications, software, and an
author application where later spec computer or device systems are
needed to utilize their function. But not current portable computers.
For relatively inexpensive Intel-based white polycarbonate Apple portable
computers that could run Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion 10.7, you may find
some resellers of repaired or used stocks, with Core2Duo processors,
and these MacBook entry-level models replaced the PowerBook/iBook G4
builds in 2006, then were discontinued by 2010. Now there are MacBook/Air
MacBook/Pro models, the latest models are rather different in build & OS X.
everymac.com has information about most all Macs, including portables
and their years of manufacture, specification, and other details.
So, I'd check into the returns situation, and get some model of more recent
build; even a repaired one with a limited guarantee could be OK. Depending
on what your expectations are, you may find a deal, or a disappointment in
trying to find a bargain without more information on what their limits are.
Older models no longer made appear in online resale sites, some companies
repair and resell a variety and their inventory is changing all the time. But other
resellers may not really know anything at all about the items they sell on ebay.
A local Mac user group may be helpful with locating something nearby. Or you
could try some online resellers who have a good reputation among Mac users.
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!

Adobe Products and recent lockup/crash/dead system issues.

So there has been a lot of talk recently about some Adobe products (photoshop included) having some real issues with the most recent security update (2006-003).
There has been some suggestion that deleting VersionQue will fix this issue, as well as some other solutions. The issues themselves seem to vary a little, from photoshop refusing to install, to system locking up upon PDF work, to the system not booting at all!
I thought it wise to email adobe personally and ask what they suggest you do.
Here is the response I got:
John,
Adobe has been able to reproduce a complete freeze of an Intel based Mac when installing the Creative Suite 2 or Photoshop CS2 after the Quicktime 7.1 and security update 2006-003 were installed. Note, both these updates must be present for the freeze to occur. In addition, the Adobe pdf printer will also cause a system freeze. We have communicated the problem to Apple who are investigating the cause. Adobe can't fix the problem, the solution has to come from Apple.
I can't advise you on the best way forward, I don't know what Apple's timeline for a fix will be. You could also forego the QT 7.1 update. Please note that we have not done extensive testing of our current applications under Rosetta..
Regards,
Sooooo....! Looks like the ball is in the orchard.
Feel free to post your work arounds to the issues in this thread!

This one is easy!
Boot to safe mode (hold down shift after the startup chime until the spinning gear appears)
Go to system preferences - accounts - remove any login items there
open up Macintosh HD -> Library -> and remove the startup items folder
reboot
win

Issue with Asset Retirement without Revenue (ABAVN)

Hi Experts, hope that you are able to help shed some light on an issue with retirement without revenue (Scrapping).
We have an asset capitalised in FY 2007 with two depreciation areas 01 - Book & 15 Tax. There have then been settlements made to the asset from WSB Elements using transaction type 331 & 336. These were through FY 2008 and depreciation was calculated correctly throughout this time.
The issue was then in FY 2009 when there have been negative settlements posted (adjustments) to the asset and then the asset was retired. The retirement was posted but the values aren't what was expected. It was my belief that the posting should be credit APC, debit accumulated depreciation and then posting to a loss account defined in AO86.
Period Control are the same for retirement '01' for both the straight-line method in book depreciation and the declining balance method in the tax depreciation area .
The posting has been pretty much as expected in the book depreciation area - but in the tax depreciation area where the depreciation key is declining balance there is a reported gain from the retirement.
The report for depreciation are 01 - book shows retirement $1m split between $1.1m in PY and -$0.1m in Current Year.
The issue is that in the tax depreciation area the amount posted for retirement is $1.0 but depreciation posted is $1.125 and -$0.5 with a respective Gain for both prior year (PY) and current year... why has this happened ???
Thanks in advance
Chris
Retirement posting:
PK 75 CR APC value                 TType 200
PK 70 DR Acc. Dep'n CY          TType 250
PK 70 DR Amortisation              TType 290

Thanks Tarun,
I've solved checking the limitation in Customizing. There was a limitation for the Retirement: this was activated only for first Depreciation Area, so for the other ones no retirement will be calculated and net book value was always not equal to zero.
Regards,
Jody

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One may congratulate Adobe for one-sidedly deciding what is best for its customers and ignoring the majority of its users. My records of giving money to Adobe stretch back at least to 2007, but CC is something I will not pay for, out of principle.
And therein lies the danger for Adobe: former users who look for alternatives. They will give competing products a try, i.e. pay Adobe's competitors. Some will be happy even if only out of spite, some will regret it, but will nevertheless pay the competitors, who will use the revenue to improve their products.
Users will become familiar with alternatives, and the next time someone Googles how do I do this or that, there will be links to solutions using other products. Adobe's CC product line will become marginalized for use by fewer professionals, with less entry level artices and tutorials, and more cryptic questions and solutions. The consumer market around the products (books etc.) will shrink if not collapse. This will be very similar to the book economy of Delphi that collapsed with price increases and product margialization.
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Hi,
In my SAP environment historically Revenue GL accounts were created as cost element with category '1' (costs) and are being posted against cost centres. I know it is not SAP best practice, but it has been working like that in here for years. We have not activated and used COPA so far.
I am currently analysing options of implementing costing based COPA. I wonder if the fact that Revenue and COGS accounts are created as cost element with category '1' should cause any issues with COPA.
I know that in a perfect world it should be '11' for revenues and '12' or no cost element for COGS, I just hope we can leave CE category '1'.
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Hi Ajay,
Thank you for explanation. I feared it would cause issues. However, I checked with one company code that has active COPA.
It has two Revenue accounts: one set as '11' , which is used for most automatic SD postings and other one with '1' category which is 'Other revenues' - sometimes used for automatic postings (configured in VKOA for services) and often used for manual revenue postings.
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Karol

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If the takeover of Interakt by Adobe was anything to go by - you've got 2 years to stop using OSX and switch to Windows! And again, the users are the loosers?

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2. MS has very little in the way of competition in any of Adobe's markets
3. MS, contrary to what many Mac fans think, produces stable software with consumer friendly activation schemes. My only beef is the wide berth that they give to OEMs to install Windows with all kinds of crap on under powered machines.
4. MS understands software. While they may not be developing anything overly original, that's where having Adobe engineers at their disposal could come in rather handy.
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