Jules Bowman
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Honestly, don’t feed the animals. I see bill as little more than a waste of opposable thumbs if truth be told, and find his signature nothing short of glorious irony.
The only consistent is his delusion that somehow those that dislike FC10 are somehow backwards and unable to move on with life whilst those who embrace the work-arounds are somehow so mentally deft and adept that really now, people should be in awe.
I’ve moved on. I moved on about 30 minutes after engaging with the ugly bugger when auto save did nothing of the sort and lost everything I had done. No manual save, lmao. But if we challenge it or slag it off of suggest that it is shit and not fit for purpose for us, well, we’re incompetent or backwards or incapable of wrapping our little heads around this earth shattering bit of software. Er, yeah, right Bill.
Perhaps you’re just foolish enough to think the emperor’s new threads are hipster fashion. We are all aware the fool is butt naked Bill, and we giggle at your inability to see it.
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I’m curious about mac cards needed for cs6 so I’m posting this to subscribe to the thread. I have a 2011 mac pro (will add full specs when I’m back at the machine)
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Well, we’re not. We’re chatting amongst ourselves on the CC forum. And if Apple ‘need’ short 5 point lists to wrap their heads around its limitations….
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In context hey. Ah, the right speaks.
Nope. It’s still all wrong, sorry. And Foxconn pay above average do they. Well, let’s look at the context. Is the average a fair rate? Doubt it.
There is no intellectualising the pain and misery ladled onto people for the price of a dollar. And if anyone thinks Apple, or anyone, don’t know what’s what, they’re slipping into dangerous denier territory.
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““Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.
“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Indeed.
“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option.”
well, really, it isn’t now is it dears. There are other options. What they meant to say was ‘going overseas, at this point, maximises profits to a huge degree, so FU Barack.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
And no-one at Apple saw an issue with that. That 8000 workers are a) living in their workplace b) woken from their limited rest period because someone at Apple changed their mind c) are doing 12 hour shifts on a breakfast of tea and a biscuit.
Really?
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Interesting Kevin, cheers.
In defence of the Guardian, it does state Apple aren’t the only one.
And as an antagonist towards the current status quo, though what you say may well be true and I have no reason to doubt it:
a) If they stay in Asia, they could still pay more and ensure those working don’t do 12 to 16 hour shifts for next to nothing and find human beings attempting, and succeeding, to commit suicide. The overall wage may be lower in China, but how will the workers of the nation improve that if money rich corporations squeeze every last penny of profit by valuing their labour so low.
b) Apple is American and though things may well be as you state in terms of manufacturing, Apple could still invest in American jobs and American manufacturing if social awareness was even on the radar. As it is modern corporate capitalism is bound by law to subjugate the social to the advancement of the corporation and it’s share price.
All corporations in their current form need to perpetually expand. Need to keep raising their share price. And perpetual expansion is actually impossible. Write the word corporation on a balloon, then start expanding that balloon (by blowing in it). What happens? It doesn’t perpetually expand. At some point it bursts because of finite limitations.
So as the level of disposable income reaches saturation expansion continues by reducing costs. Pay less for materials. Pay less for labour. Pay less for health and safety. Destroy bargaining organisations (Unions) Cut corners. Fines cost less than doing things correctly. Etc, etc.
Corporations are socially destructive. I believe the current economic malaise is a pretty good indicator that the grand modern capitalism venture is fundamentally flawed.
Ok, to the letter of the law no Apple and its ilk are not duty bound to give a shit about the world and the people and nature upon it, and that is the fault of Government and those that manipulate Government (usually those with the power and influence to protect their own vested interests in modern capitalism) but that is not, in my eyes at least, an excuse for not giving a shit about the world.
If any of these companies want to follow the letter of corporate law and maximise profits at the expense of the social and the environmental then obviously they can as things currently stand, but then no-one can complain when people like me, and in this case the Guardian, call them up on it and point out they are being dirty little scum bags in the context of social and environmental factors.
Apple would make less money, both in the short term and the longer term, by investing in American manufacturing. But they would still be turning more than a tidy little profit. Maybe the current CEO wouldn’t be worth $650m in shares, but really, apart from him who gives a f*** about that. You can only drive one car at a time. You can only live in one house at a time. And all the money in the world won’t make your willy any bigger.
They are American. Americans are their people. And many many of those people are suffering in order for Apple, and their ilk, to mint it.
That is, i’m afraid to say, pretty shitty [this is a fact, not opinion… just saying]
Go outside and kick someone weaker than you. Make them cry. Make them feel worthless and helpless and less than they should as a human being.
Not very nice is it.
So why should corporations be able to do that on a mass scale and have it justified because of the articles of corporation? Or because others have done it first, or do it at the same time?
The is no humane justification for the actions of corporations, be that Apple or Tesco or Pfizer or Motorola or anyone.
We call our kingdom Civilisation. Is there any greater misnomer currently doing the rounds?
/left-wing monologue
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haha, statistically we had to agree on something at some point. Glad it was something of real substance leaving us more than enough scope to bicker about far less important things, like my toy box being better than yours, etc.
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Damn, I’m all for Government intervention in countries (their own that is, not other people’s). The Neo-Liberal hands-off-the-markets/masters-of-the-universe approach got us into a bit of a global pickle… and one which really can’t be denied… well, not reasonably and in a manner which won’t derive guffaws from the sane if attempted.
Please all know that my intention wasn’t to justify a cry for smaller Government at all when talking about VAT.
Personally, more regulation and nationalise everything Thatcher and Reagan privatised would be a blinding start.
And more tax at the top… in fact just getting them to pay their due tax amounts would be a start.
And no tax havens. Earn a dollar, pay tax on a dollar (change dollar for Pound/Euro/etc. as relevant)
And Less wars. And less spending on arms. In fact just ban war, it doesn’t make that many people smile. Apparently it’s good for absolutely nothing, so why we still at it? Surely between 6 billion + people there’s enough smart cookies to realise it is utter folly (and rather mean).
And people who need a hand or help aren’t all scroungers to be cast into the pits of urban ghettoism. Remember all, there but for the grace of Gaia go you… so, allow it!
Ta.
ps: Adobe, would still like my £40 though. Many thanks in advance.
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I may be wrong but I believe the Cloud part comes from the fact that subscribers get 20gb of ‘cloud’ space to utilise with their software. So you can upload files and, at least from the snippets I have seen in videos, with Photoshop for example if you make changes on the go they will automatically upload to the cloud and be there for you when you get back to a desktop, for example.
Obviously the software wouldn’t be used form the cloud, that would be just stupid (especially given Virgin Media’s proclivity to not fixing our local broadband cabinet very well) but obviously we are all excited about the software side of it because, well, that’s what we use and the software is downloadable rather than buying a physical copy, when you get the Creative Cloud service.
I don’t know for sure but I would hazard a guess that if you bought the physical version you still get to use the cloud service and there are other versions of the cloud service (again I believe) that you can use/sub without buying all the software too.
Basically Creative Cloud is a ‘cloud’ service but you can download your software too. Then it all integrates across the board.
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Is that price including the current owner discount we’ve all been taking into consideration? If so that’s horrific for you and you win the ‘country most screwed’ award. Though I’ve a feeling that may not include that.
There are currently three different price ranges I believe.
£29 pm if you pay a year upfront and have CS3+
£45 pm if you pay a year upfront
£75 pm if you pay monthlyHere’s hoping you just picked a different price plan. I would find it hard to believe you’d be paying double.
And ta.