I get really frustatrated with cell phones because various coordination and nerve injuries and eye problems make them very tough to use. If I ever decide to get a tablet anyway, is there a tablet out there that can double as a primary cell? Like can an iPad or a high quality Android with a blue tooth head set work? Would you have to get a generous data plan and use Skype in or Google Voice something? Or do some of them take Sim cards and actually work on one of the conventional cell networks?
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
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Typo Boy - May 02, 2013 3:33:05 pm PDT #22372 of 25497
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
le nubian - May 02, 2013 3:41:17 pm PDT #22373 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Typo,
Sumo wrestlers in Japan use Ipads as phones because their hands and figures aren't so nimble for regular phones.
You can use google voice or skype for phone calls on an ipad with a data connection. There are probably other VOIP apps on iphone or android.
NoiseDesign - May 02, 2013 3:56:19 pm PDT #22374 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
Samsung has some phones that pretty much bridge the gap. The Note II is a fairly large screen, not quite into table territory, but very close.
DebetEsse - May 02, 2013 4:03:45 pm PDT #22375 of 25497
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yeah, Liese, I want to know what's going to happen after 3 months.
§ ita § - May 02, 2013 7:02:52 pm PDT #22376 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can get a Galaxy Tab with a SIM and plug in the same headphone you'd use with your phone--my sister uses Google Voice and VOIP to have an American phone number in Jamaica, and she's in heaven with her Toshiba Thrive, which doesn't even have a SIM.
Tom Scola - May 06, 2013 9:32:45 am PDT #22377 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Adobe abandons Creative Suite, announces Creative Cloud.
anyone with a CS 3 or later serial number will get their first Creative Cloud year for $29.99 per month. For everyone else, the complete version of Creative Cloud will set you back $49.99 per month, or you can purchase a single app subscription for $19.99 per month.
Does this mean that you have to store your data in the cloud? I mean, a lot of companies wouldn't want their assets being stored with a third party, and in some cases, might be legally prevented from doing so. And there are a lot of freelancers who do work for companies in direct competition with each other, and need to keep their documents strictly segregated.
Jessica - May 06, 2013 9:38:20 am PDT #22378 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
WTF? Adobe was campaigning HARD for the professional post market after FCX was such a disaster, and now this?
If I have to relearn Media Composer, I'm going to be pretty cranky.
Sophia Brooks - May 06, 2013 9:40:36 am PDT #22379 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think this means no more Adobe for me, because I get the web designer's cast offs. Unfortunately what it means for me is going back to Microsoft Publisher.
Liese S. - May 06, 2013 10:14:20 am PDT #22380 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aaargh!
Ginger - May 06, 2013 10:20:32 am PDT #22381 of 25497
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Does this mean that you have to store your data in the cloud?
I was forced to the Creative Cloud after last year's hard drive crash. I couldn't install my most recent version of Dreamweaver because I was missing one of the versions in the chain of updates. Mind you, I had paid for that chain of updates. Adobe takes the position that Macromedia never existed and Macromedia's data, including software licenses, went up in smoke when it bought the company. I found a cheaper introductory rate for a year, and after that, I'll have to figure out what I want to do.
The data does not have to stored online, and you can use the programs offline. The programs expire in some mysterious way, though. I'll have to figure that one out too.