Comments on: Adobe MAX 2007 – Wrapup

By: Mom

Mom — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:07:04 +0000

Some of us (not divorced) women are proud of our grown children’s high paying jobs.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:20:25 +0000

Ha. I didn’t read this prior to the edit. But it’s amusing that somebody might think you were cruising the female attendees. Amusing to me. I’m sure not to everyone. Not that I endorse that kind of thing.

We have to play some Magic. If I wait much longer, I’m just going to make another deck and I think 11 is already a bit much.

By: Ripley[NLM]

Ripley[NLM] — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:58:31 +0000

Is this the support page for that paintball mod for that Quake game?

By: capo

capo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:01:37 +0000

Hah You’re much more observant than me. I never notice rings, hair, clothes…. Jewelry of any type has to be pretty ostentatious (or unusually attractive) before I notice it. But I’d be quick to check out what phone, laptop, PDA or MP3 player they had. Same deal when my wife and I are watching some musical act on TV. She’ll comment on their hair, their clothes, their sleazy half-dressed background singers… I’ll be saying stuff like “yup, all SM58 Betas. And that’s a Taylor 314CE. Looks like the drummer is sub-mixing through an old Mackie 1604…”

By: WarAxe

WarAxe — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:21:31 +0000

@ capo :: Okay, I edited my post to better reflect why I thought the women were divorced… thanks for pointing it out. I actually didn’t hear one woman say she was divorced, but more than half (by anecdotal observation) of attending women were >40, wore no “rings”, yet during conversation found ways to bring up their children (at times bragging about their grown childrens’ high-paying jobs).

By: capo

capo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:06:25 +0000

Sounds like the Novell conference I used to attend every year (Brainshare) although I never asked any of the females about their marital status. I’m not an Adobe user, but I get to repackage their apps every year for campus distribution and I have two complaints (no, three):
1. Adobe is the undisputed king of bloatware. Even MS takes second place.
2. Their apps are extremely unfriendly to those of us who have to do “enterprise installs”, although to their credit, that’s begun to change a bit with CS3. They’re finally beginning to allow XML scripted silent installs and with a little tweaking I can even swap out keyed versions of the actual .exe’s in the installer.
3. their tech support, though not the worst, is also far from being the best. I’ve had at least two instances in the past few months where I’ve had support issues escalated and never heard back from them again.

Not that anybody cares about this, I’m sure…