They can’t change anything if you’re disconnected from the net.
It’s not spyware. This is the activation we’ve come to love so much. Don’t worry, you can still work with that ball and chain on your ankle.
Does anyone know any more about this?
The people who wrote that "review" don’t seem to know ANYTHING about it.
Bob
They can’t change anything if you’re disconnected from the ‘net.
Or if you’ve got a properly configured firewall, which everyone should anyway.
Dave,
If you dislike activation so much why do you use Photoshop? Judging by your website you have absolutely no need for it. I’d suggest MS Paint might be more your speed.
John,
If you are so concerned about the Adobe LM Service sending data to Adobe then shut the service off after you’ve started Photoshop. You can’t disable the service, Photoshop will start it regardless of startup type status but you can stop it after Photoshop has been started. Not that this does a whole lot of good because the Adobe LM service only verifies that Photoshop has been authenticated which is why the service can’t be disabled and why stopping it after the Photoshop has been started won’t change anything.
TO put it simply, that "review" was full of crap and so is anyone else who says the Adobe LM service is spyware.
"Judging by your website you have absolutely no need for it."
Dave is always helping people here with Photoshop. Your comment says a lot about you, Stuart.
Jake,
You’re right Jake, it says that I’m sick and tired of people repeating complete and utter crap passed on by third hand accounts from people who heard it third hand as well. Dave’s comments are way off base and he deserves any bit of ridicule and scorn he receives because of them.
If you dislike activation so much why do you use Photoshop? Judging by your website you have absolutely no need for it. I’d suggest MS Paint might be more your speed.
Really not fair Stuart. I’m a technologist. Just because I’m not good at art doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. And as a technologist I have a decent grasp (continually self-updated) of the entire industry and what and where problems look to be coming from, both legal, privacy-wise and technologically. I don’t like when restrictions are placed on technology. Call it gut instinct, or sentimental foolishness. Whatever. I believe what I believe and it’s based on fact as reported in many technology publications and my own research, experiments and endevors in technology.
And my website is YEARS out of date. Or did you miss the last update was : "Changes last made around about: Aw-Ghost 26, 1999." I didn’t even own photoshop back then. I didn’t get my own personal version (non-work) before ps 6 had almost run it’s cycle. I was thrilled enough with it to come up with the money for the Dynamic Media collection myself when it had nothing to do with my chosen profession, which I’m pretty good at, if I can say so myself.
I do professional, non-artistic web sites at work. Strictly financial stuff. Data base access and updates. Very dry. No design (as in image) elemnts at all. Layout of text and tables and grids and buttons and colors is more my business. Making the pages run smooth and fast while juggling HUGE amounts of data on an intranet is what I do. The thrill I get from my web work is in the code (ASP, HTML, DHTML, vbscript, javascript, css and xml & xslt) all working together on the same page, meshing… making music. But, just because I can’t/don’t/am not good at "drawn" art, doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate it, or that I don’t ooze jealosy over those of you who can.
Do you see many in here who stick up for Adobe more than me? PS is the only way I can even approximate the talent that most of you guys have in drawing/art. I’m grateful for it. I’m talented in music, writing and all manner of technology. But I can’t draw for shiete, even though I FEEL it. It facinates me. It calls to me the way music calls to me. But while I can play the bass, the guitar and the piano and sing quite passably, I suck at drawing. Don’t you think I know that? From my posts over the last couple of years don’t you think or see that I’m intellegent enough to recognize that?
But I also see beyond the "appplication" of the application – to the beauty of the program itself. It’s a technilogical marvel. Amazing. Fast, sleek, powerful and always evolving. In it’s own way, it’s as beautiful as any work of art created with it. Do YOU see THAT?
Like I said, that comment was really not fair and really hurt, especially coming from you, someone I respect.
dave
Dave’s comments are way off base
not. maybe exagerated (poetic license), but you’ve got blinders on my man.
thanks for having my back jake! 🙂
No prob, Dave.
I just get tired of people always trashing other people. This, especially on a day when the nation mourns the loss of our last great leader who never spoke ill of anyone. He set the standard to which no one has yet aspired, much less achieved.
This forum provides a safe, relatively anonymous way, to ask questions, offer advice, and even vent once in awhile. The efforts of some who try to stifle this free exchange of information and ideas is a sad reflection on the world we live in. We don’t have to agree and we can respectfully say so. The key word is ‘respectfully".
Jake
Dave,
I sympathise with your reply, but even if you can’t do Art at least you could use the spell checker. Your schoolboy howlers take the edge off your usually pertinent comments.
Cheers – John
🙂
hey everybody’s got a style.
Stuart,
next time before you post critizising someone do a search on the person and see his/her postings. In the case of Dave you would have realized that he is an EXPERT in any thing PS relatad. That includes Web and Equipment.
John
using the spell Checker in a forum where people seek help is a wast of time. One must be a fool critizing someone reading all the posts and answering so frecuently and fast as Dave does. Time is money. Correct spelling takes a back seat.
Ignor all that crap Dave, please.
ignerred. 🙂 stuart knows me. (or does he)? i hope he knows me a little better now anyway.
Well, I just asked a question to get information on an application of which I had a concern. It seems that I got the answer although I had to wade through a myriad of diatribes from boys trying to out testosterone each other, and one eulogy. Thanks to all of you. I needed to bond with my fellow males. Hand me another beer. The "Man Show" is coming on.
The word myriad doesn’t require "a" preceding it and "of" following it.
In fact, it’s generally bad form.
No one has ever accused me of good form. And what is phos phor?
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Myriad myriads of lives. This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word myrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun myrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective myrias was used only in poetry.
More at the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: <
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va =myriad> .
Thanks for being here Dave, you’ve helped me many times, and it seems like you offer help with just about everyone else’s problems as well.
Another good thing you do, is to make everyone here feel welcome even when they are posting for the very first time. That is very important in a forum.
You are right, Photoshop really is quite a miracle, and so are computers and the internet!
<quote=John Joslin>"Dave, I sympathise with your reply, but even if you can’t do Art at least you could use the spell checker. Your schoolboy howlers take the edge off your usually pertinent comments.
Cheers – John
In the case of Dave (but not TDO), <
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-200406 06.html>
Dave’s technical expertise and enthusiasm more than make up for his lack of artistic perfection. His heart speaks art that his hand cannot.
In this day and age of "loose" for "lose," I’ll take Dave’s misspellings over those of the IM illiterate any day of the week!
Thanks OW! I was thinking of that Dilbert strip when I saw the original post! How weird is that?
Not weird at all, Dave. You’re intelligent enough to recognize yourself and your abilities, and cultured enough to be a Dilbert afficionado. Just don’t go Wally on us, okay? My husband identifies with him ever since the paper holder ring Wally invented to minimize the effort of holding papers at work…
I thought the "Deadly binder Safety Manuals" storyline was one of the recent best, myself…LOL!
Just don’t go Wally on us, okay?
I can identify with Wally. Rememeber when he went all happy to a meeting and the Dilbert asked him what was wrong? He replied someone left the keys in the storage cabinet and it was like getting a bonus.
Make sure to read Dilbert’s "Way of the Weasel".
vb doesn’t really go on web pages, but you’re right in a way, i do create a lot of active x dlls to use. so add that one.
VB isn’t even proper compiled code!
That’s true, of course. But Dave might have been talking about VBScript, which is yet another flavor MS developed; it’s not the same thing as VB. They had planned on VBScript replacing JavaScript, but instead it lives along side it. VBScript it is rarely used in commercial Web sites, because it’s only for browsers based on MSHTML (i.e. IE).
By the way, JavaScript is not the same thing as Java, either. Sigh.
Vacation Bible School cr[y]pt?
Ladies and G-men, VB is Victoria Bitter. Good Stuff
