Reply With Quoteyeah, i got it with my digicam as well, ive fired it upa couple of times for a laugh
My googling skills are very l33t.
Elements has some pretty good preset actions in it to clear up photos/images for web publication, I found
yeah, i got it with my digicam as well, ive fired it upa couple of times for a laugh
Heh I dont want to buy it, i was just interested in the price. I wouldnt waste my money on something which would be shit compared to what i have & Im guessing I cant upgrade legally either, so no point.
Im sure they will employ someone clever one day who will deal with the home/hobby market.
It's all about doing the right maths....... but that'll be fucked by someone cracking it. (numbers made up from top of head, obv I know they are wildly innacurate!)
Say Photoshop retails at £1,000
5,000 pros buy it - revenue = £5M
If they targetted home/ student market and retailed it at £100 and they sold 50,000 legit copies = same amount of revenue
If they pitch it at £100 the pros would be happy because they would get the product they would buy anyway for way cheaper, subsidised by the home market.
The problem is that someone will crack it, then they'd still sell maybe 10,000 legit copies at the lower price = £1M revenue
It's a vicious circle
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As former director of IT (that always looked so nice on my badge at E3) of a tech company, I was responsible for purchasing and budgeting. And to make the maths more obscure, realize that when you talk about buying the software for a company (large contracts) you're entering a realm of maths where:
Company buys 1000 licenses at $50/license
Licenses generally cover: upgrades at no cost for 2-3 years (enough to cover the next x.0 version usually) + network install cd for rollout + the right to make 5-30 copies for backup purposes.
Individual buys 1 license at $100/license
License covers: 1 copy of software. Upgrade at no or little cost if its a new revision altogether. The right to make 1 copy for backup purposes.
And people wonder why software gets cracked.
Yes. I am the new copy protection. If you get a cracked copy, I come round your house and break all your eggs and spill all you milk. With a baseball bat.Originally Posted by PapaZeb
All seriousness tho, no matter how clever the protection is, someone will break it. Anyone remember the protection system in Elite 2: Frontier? it was hell on the gamer, as every time you docked at any port the police at that port could sometimes (not every time) ask you for the frirst letter of a certain word on a certain line on a certain page of one of the three manuals. It was a massive pain in the ass for the gamer, but was supposed to be virtually unbreakable, due to the random element. It was broken about 1 week after commercial release. P'fah. Take that David Braben
That was a fucking pain in the arse that.
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