John McCormack wrote:
> It seems strange that we might pay Irish taxes when we don't pay US
> taxes. Can this be true?
I'm American, and have been to the UK, and to Ireland, many times. Unless
I'm badly mistaken, I was able to get a VAT refund for non-consumables. That
is, the sweater I bought in
Paul Andrews wrote:
Paul Andrews wrote:
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a
leg.
Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery
versus physical box shipment - seems the
I thought that they were using the www-servers to help farm tropical
type fish in the US now... The ones in EIRE should be used to distill
the whisky or heat up the Guinness :)
John McCormack wrote:
Glen Pike wrote:
product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on
transpor
Glen Pike wrote:
product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on
transport and production, isn't it? :-D
From what I have seen of Vista's random "high CPU usage", it might be
more carbon-efficient to post the CD...
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Good point. :-D
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Glen Pike wrote:
>
>> product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on
>> transport and production, isn't it? :-D
>>
>>
>
> From what I have seen of Vista's random "high CPU usage", it might be more
> carbon-efficient to post the C
product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on
transport and production, isn't it? :-D
From what I have seen of Vista's random "high CPU usage", it might be
more carbon-efficient to post the CD...
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Yeah - it's not an anomaly, always been the way.
It's crazy. :-) Costs more for download than to have shipped, boxed
product. A real incentive to reduce carbon emissions by saving on
transport and production, isn't it? :-D
Ian
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Glen Pike wrote:
> It's been more e
It's been more expensive to download the software for a while - we had
same problem with Contribute a couple of years ago - don't think it's an
"anomaly" here...
Paul Andrews wrote:
Paul Andrews wrote:
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 -
Paul Andrews wrote:
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a
leg.
Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery
versus physical box shipment - seems the wrong way around to
Originally, Microsoft kept developer tools at a lower price to
encourage their adoption.
If they do that with Silverlight maybe it will, eventually, be Flash's
competitor.
- They just have to make it easy to animate AND code applications with -
that would make it a serious competitor for Fla
Glen Pike wrote:
Paul Andrews wrote:
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a
leg.
Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery
versus physical box shipment - seems the wr
Paul Andrews wrote:
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a
leg.
Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery
versus physical box shipment - seems the wrong way around to
Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't monopolys illegal?
No, monopolies per se are generally not illegal. It's unfair
anti-competitive behavior that is illegal.
If I decided to make beer with Brussels sprouts instead of hops, I'd
probably have a legal monopoly simply beca
True
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On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Dave Watts wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't monopolys illegal?
Some are, most aren't. There's nothing stopping you or anyone else
from coming up with a Flash competitor.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't monopolys illegal?
Some are, most aren't. There's nothing stopping you or anyone else
from coming up with a Flash competitor.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruct
A very interesting article on pricing and segmentation:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html
It's a long read, but very enjoyable.
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2009/8/9 Dave Watts
> > - "We charge what the market will bear": Which sounds like the real
> > answer, b
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't monopolys illegal?
I think I remember reading that in my history books somewhere. :\
Karl
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On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:48 PM, "Kerry Thompson"
wrote:
Dave Watts wrote:
This is pretty much the entire answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma
Dave Watts wrote:
> This is pretty much the entire answer.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_segment#Price_Discrimination
There's not much competition for Flash, is there? Adobe have pretty much a
monopoly.
What is curious is that a lot of things just cost more in Europe than in
North Ame
> - "We charge what the market will bear": Which sounds like the real
> answer, but does not make me happy. Still, sending a developer over to
> the US to buy copies in a shop there - because the cost of the flight
> is much cheaper than the software - would make the developer happy.
This is prett
Ian Thomas wrote:
I've given up on trying to figure out Adobe pricing. The last time I
queried the ridiculous difference between US and UK prices the quotes
I had were:
- "It costs more to keep UK support staff": Well, I'm sorry about
that, but I never use your UK support staff - besides, I give
I've given up on trying to figure out Adobe pricing. The last time I
queried the ridiculous difference between US and UK prices the quotes
I had were:
- "It costs more to keep UK support staff": Well, I'm sorry about
that, but I never use your UK support staff - besides, I give other
people suppor
I thought I'd see what Adobe UK are charging for upgrading CS3 Web
Design Premium to CS4 - to see if it's been reduced from an arm and a leg.
Much to my surprise, Adobe is charging ?30 MORE for download delivery
versus physical box shipment - seems the wrong way around to me!
Paul
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