Working happily with CS 6 on Creative Cloud for two days and then…

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Walter Soyka] “trashing preferences, repairing permissions, resetting NVRAM, clearing boot caches, “

mate – that stuff takes literally no time. The issue would be full creative suite re-installs: that is a different order of magnitude altogether in a single billing day.

[Walter Soyka] “But bad stuff can happen to permanent installs, too, can’t it?”

I guess but rarely really? I feel like I’ve gotten away with that. FCP has been a rock for years and CS installs have genuinely been solid.
personally the worst I’ve ever had has been conflicting user permissions and stuff on a san. For FCP on OSX that gets insane incredibly quickly. did for us.

Actually – to be fair – WinNT4? I loved that. Apps on that were nuclear tanks.

[Walter Soyka] “Creative Cloud has worked non-stop for me for the last year, bouncing the app across a bunch of different computers on both platforms. “

righto so. good to hear.

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[Kevin Monahan]

That’s a strange problem. Let me have my colleagues in support take a look at this thread.

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[Richard Herd]

Dennis,

[Dennis Radeke] “the software will recheck activation once every 30 days.”

What about documentarians in the boondocks making documentaries like “Restrepo” in bumblenowhere Afghanistan who cannot get to the net?

I hope Adobe changes course. That is, if someone buys a one year deal then Adobe should recheck activation once per year. (Oh don’t forget to account for leap years.)

Thanks!
Rich

PS Dynamic Link is amazing! It overwhelms X.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Richard Herd] “What about documentarians in the boondocks making documentaries like “Restrepo” in bumblenowhere Afghanistan who cannot get to the net?”

When this Q was asked on Adobe’s forums a rep from Adobe said if you know you’ll be w/o internt access for an extended period of time you can call Adobe support before hand and they’ll make adjustments on a case by case basis.

The other option is just to buy a perpetual license and not use Creative Cloud.

[Shawn Miller]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Actually – to be fair – WinNT4? I loved that. Apps on that were nuclear tanks.”

LOL, right… WinNT 4 running dual CPUs and featuring preemptive multitasking… before preemptive multitasking was cool. There are days I still miss Windows 2000 too, stable, simple, flexible. 🙂

Shawn

[David Lawrence]

[Steve Connor] “That’s just ridiculous, If I pay for a year up front then Adobe don’t need to recheck anything for a year.”

Bingo.

And with this policy, the dark side of software rental is revealed. For all the benefits, it still remains a candy-coated DRM and lock-in strategy.

If you’ve paid for a year of service in advance, there is no valid reason for monthly authentication checks outside of DRM concerns.

For more on why DRM harms paying customers while doing nothing to stop piracy, see this EFF article on the recent Sim City Meltdown.

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[Lance Moody]

Around the Xmas holiday, many folks who had paid for the FULL CS6 suite (not Creative Cloud) began to get dialogs insisting that they were on the Creative Cloud, that their software was about to expire and that they had to reenter their reg numbers.

After doing so things would work for a few days and then the dialog would appear again.

It took weeks for Adobe to finally issue a fix.

As soon as Adobe gets a large percentage of users on the Creative Cloud, I wonder where the incentive will be for them to innovate will lie?

Lance

[Chris Harlan]

[Shawn Miller] “[Aindreas Gallagher] “Actually – to be fair – WinNT4? I loved that. Apps on that were nuclear tanks.”

LOL, right… WinNT 4 running dual CPUs and featuring preemptive multitasking… before preemptive multitasking was cool. There are days I still miss Windows 2000 too, stable, simple, flexible. 🙂
“

YES. Solid stuff. Pretty much all the way through XP.

[Walter Soyka]

[David Lawrence] “If you’ve paid for a year of service in advance, there is no valid reason for monthly authentication checks outside of DRM concerns.”

I don’t think you can pay for a year of Creative Cloud upfront. You can commit to paying monthly for a year in exchange for the lower rate, but I don’t think you can pre-pay the year.

I blame Enron:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/938537#938604

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Walter Soyka] “I don’t think you can pay for a year of Creative Cloud upfront. You can commit to paying monthly for a year in exchange for the lower rate, but I don’t think you can pre-pay the year.”

Walter is correct. You can commit to an annual plan for a reduced rate but you still pay monthly.