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Photoshop CS2 on eBay
There are now few things in life more certain than upgrades, death and taxes. A few months ago I decided I really had to upgrade my copy of Photoshop 6, which is now ancient. Having trotted off to Adobe's Online store I discovered that not only had Adobe jacked UK upgrade prices, which I already knew about from the furore on the web, but also they had changed their upgrade policy. In the past any version of Photoshop from v4 was OK. But Photoshop CS3, the current version and the only one they now sell, could only be obtained as an upgrade from Photoshop 7, CS or CS2. I could only buy the full retail product at an eyewatering £569.88.
Adobe clearly hasn't heard that most of the photography industry is in a tailspin. Most professionals are struggling not to spend money at the same time as they are being subjected to relentless price competition and deprived of the value of what they create by predatory publishers and mega-agencies. One reason I avoided Photoshop CS was Adobe's inclusion of Adobe Royalty Free into Bridge - a mechanism to assist creatives to access royalty free collections from within Photoshop and garner Adobe a slice of the profits. Why would I want to pay Adobe money to assist cannibalism?
To be perfectly honest, v7, CS, CS2 and CS3 mostly add features that I do not want nor need, and certainly are not worth paying £569.88 for. Bridge and Imageready are the major additions and are of no interest at all, I already use the excellent iMatch for digital asset management.
Another reason is that I detest software that requires activation. Although every company that goes this route blathers on about it being fairer to paying customers, I have had plenty of trouble with it. My first encounter was with OCR c.1998, an extremely good but infuriating program for OCR of scanned text. I got very fed up having to email them every time I moved the program through successive hardware upgrades. It sometimes took 3 days for a response, and I have since deleted it in favour of a competitor that requires none of this nonsense. Windows XP Pro's activation has been a pain too, after a succession of hardware problems left me not only with a backlog of deadline work but also a non-working operating system. Having to sort that out over the phone meant I did not get to bed until 3am that night instead of 1.30am. I didn't pay MS to keep me up extra late, and if anything Adobe's version of activation has a more mixed reputation.
Still there are a few improvements in later Photoshop versions: better 16bit support, the healing brush, and I can forsee Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom becoming fairly unavoidable in the future.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed about 30 copies of Photoshop CS2 on eBay, all brand new, sealed, shrinkwrapped 'full retail product'. Most were from eBay powersellers with masses of positive feedback, and selling at £100-£150. I am very careful on eBay, and in 100+ transactions have never yet been ripped off despite a couple of close calls. And these CS2 looked absolutely authentic, as if Adobe had dumped a lot of obsolete stock into the reseller chain. I checked the comments of people who had bought this software, everybody was happy : 'product as described'. CS2 would do me fine. It had all the extra bits I'd actually use, so I bought one.
As soon as I opened the package I realised it was fine, authentic Adobe product. Phew, what a relief, another triumph for my shrewd and excellent judgement: PS CS2 for £110 instead of twice what my car is worth.
So I installed it. Everything went as you'd expect. I filled in the registration wizard, and it came back to say I had successfuly registered. Then it trundled off to Adobe and downloaded all the outstanding updates. And yes, the program worked. But what had become of activation, the loathsome procedure whereby Adobe allow you to actually use what you have paid for, and without which the software stops working after 30 days.? I hadn't seen an activation screen at all. The manual said it should appear on installation. So I tried 'activate' on the menu and absolutely nothing happened.
This was clearly not right, but some Googling revealed it happened sometimes. Adobe's tech support documents suggest a number of possible causes including conflicting software, antivirus products, or hardware issues ranging from lost sectors on the disk to a defective disk. They suggest fixing disk errors, formatting the disk, installing Windows fresh, then Photoshop. Then reinstall all your applications and data and see if it's OK. I wasn't terribly impressed by that prospect.
Next I installed it on my laptop to see if I could replicate the problem. It was exactly the same except installation of updates failed as well. Both machines run Norton Antivirus, have had disks partitioned using Partition Magic, and run some bits of Systemworks - all software on Adobe's list of potential activation-breakers. This was beginning to be irritating and turning into one of those PC sagas that eats weekends.
I then discovered that despite completing the registration wizard in CS2, it didn't seem to have created a product record at the Adobe site for me. Drat, yet another glitch.
Meanwhile, I'd been so pleased with myself discovering this money-saving opportunity that I'd placed a message on CIX suggesting anyone who wanted a cheap CS2 should have a look at eBay. One chap had gone ahead and found exactly as I had - that registration and activation seemed to be broken. He had also noticed that keyboard shortcuts did not work. But he had rung Adobe support and been told that the serial number was invalid.
So too have I, now.
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:24:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Adobe English Customer Service <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: <email@example.com>
Subject: Invalid Serial Number (KMM3021291I51L0KM)
Dear Mr. Sleep,
Your Customer Service Number is: --------
In regards to serial number: 1045-1084-5805-7432-9705-7296, please note that
this is an unauthorised serial number and therefore, the product which you
have may not be an authorised copy. Unfortunately we cannot register this
product using this serial number. You will therefore not be able to receive
technical support or other benefits.
We strongly recommend that you pass a copy of this letter to the dealer or
distributor from whom you obtained the product in order to resolve this issue.
In circumstances such as these your dealer is the appropriate contact.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to
Sarah Stahl
Adobe Customer Service
Tel: (UK) 02073650733
Tel: (Eire) 012421552
Fax: 0031 20 5820800
Email: email@example.com
Both our copies are counterfeit product, it appears. Adobe admitted to me that there are ways in which authentic product can acquire invalid serial numbers, but they are usually returns. Also they said that they never dump obsolete product. After production ceases they store any remaining stock in case it is required as replacements. I read that as : shrinkwrapped and hacked software, to disable activation, can surely only be fakes.
What is remarkable is that these are not shabby boot sale knock-offs, they have exactly the same quality of production as Adobe's own product. Everything is included, shrinkwrapped packaging, a 410-page litho printed manual on coated stock, even stock and serial number labels. The CD printing is perfect, without a hint of second-generation anywhere. Neither of us could tell they were fakes, and worse, nor will dealers and resellers be able to do so unless there is something innately suspicious about their supplier.
I have been in touch with the eBay seller and don't propose naming him because he appears genuinely concerned and promises an immediate refund. Besides there are many sellers. I count 25 'new retail CS2' on sale via ebay.co.uk and 58 via ebay.com. I also looked at the German, French, Italian and Spanish eBay sites, but only found a couple of copies. There is no way to know whether it's only some, many or all eBay PS CS2 that are fakes, but there doesn't appear to be any way to tell until you try and register and activate them. It stands to reason that anyone counterfeiting this well has gone to substantial trouble and expense and will be producing a very large number of copies.
There is of course the likelihood that buyers won't care, so long as they get a cheap version of CS2 that doesn't need activating, that looks authentic and even includes a nice manual. If they return it, they risk difficulty in obtaining a refund, and may lose their money. The temptation is to collude and keep quiet. They may even kid themselves it is authentic but malfunctioning, as I did initially, but I think this is dangerous. We have no idea what other changes may have been made to the software, whether trojans or keyloggers have been added. Counterfeiting at this scale and quality is after all organised crime. I don't particularly want the mafia in my computer.
Presumably most people buying CS2 will actually do so in the belief they are getting the real thing, else they'd simply go and download a Warez copy and Keygen and avoid paying anything. If you Google for 'photoshop CS2 keygen download' you get 1.8m hits, and for CS3 2.7m hits. Aside from the illegality and immorality, who knows what else a hacker is going to install as an unwanted payload? But clearly, Adobe prices make this worth the risk for a great many people, most of whom would never have bought Photoshop anyway. Still, counterfeiting is different from Warez, aimed at people who don't actually want to steal but simply get a better deal than Adobe offers. On old product sold through an auction site by vendors with good track records, it's a plausible and tempting proposition pitched at people who do want to be honest and believe they are getting an opportunity to buy back into upgrade eligibility that Adobe has foreshortened with CS3.
Adobe estimate 4x-5x as many copies of Photoshop are pirated as are sold. Perhaps it is time they looked again at their pricing, upgrade policies and activation as a deterrent to illicit use, because all they seem to have achieved is a massive business opportunity for a better class of counterfeiter able to fool punters and dealers alike, and that will lose them many millions more than hacked copies off Bittorrent ever could.
Below are PDF's of Photoshop CS2 & CS3 software currently on sale via Ebay UK and Ebay USA. How many are legitimate?
|eBay.co.uk - photoshop cs2 retail.pdf
|ebay.com - photoshop cs2 retail.pdf
|ebay.com - photoshop cs3 retail.pdf
Late to find your
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Mon, 2010-03-15 06:09.
Late to find your article..... I try this, after few months looking for cheap original adobe.. I give up now.. take a look, http://www.gimphoto.com/2007/08/downloads.html PS:Photoshop brushes works well with this software..
I bought Adobe Photoshop CS4
Submitted by CA11 (not verified) on Sat, 2010-02-20 04:17.
I bought Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended for very low price, so low if I told you then you would automatically say it was not genuine. Here is my experience: It works perfectly and the serial number was accepted during installation and software activated. What has been the experience of buyers that bought "counterfeit" was the serial number simply invalid, or did it not activate, what exactly was wrong? I have read a portion of comments on here after reading the original post and am not sure exactly. You see, what I have is very low priced Adobe PS CS4 Extended. It installed, serial numer was accepted, activated, allowed me to download and install updates and works perfectly fine. And I happen to know the software has not been hacke dor cracked or whatever, because I downloaded the trial version from Adobe directly (installed it on a clean machine with no previous installs) and it worked just the same. I happened to save over 90% and do not see what the problem is; it is not OEM (I don't think Adobe do such software) it is genuine retail license.
I've read all these posts
Submitted by ayala (not verified) on Tue, 2010-01-19 13:40.
I've read all these posts with great interest. As a (not very high earning) freelance designer, I've been working with old (i.e non-upgradeable) versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, etc but realise I can't put off buying Adobe CS4 for much longer. However, it seems like the proverbial "caught between a rock and a hard place"- whether to pay over £1100 for a kosher version or buy at £600-£700 from Ebay or other "discount" seller and risk ending up with an unusable fake. There are, currently, on Google, a couple of top hits which offer this software (CS4 Design Standard) for £605 - very tempting. I checked one of them out (Horizon.soft.co.uk) which had a UK domain and London postal address, only to find that the "office" was a mail drop only and the company was actually US based. Another such company (PBSoftware) has an almost identical website. Something just doesn't feel right! Meanwhile, on Ebay, there are a couple of sellers, offering multiple copies of this software at £679. Checking out two of these sellers, I find them to have the same address (an ordinary house). They both have high feedback scores, so I'm currently contacting some of their customers to see if they have experienced the sorts of activbation problems you describe.
Fake versions Adobe CS4 Extended etc.
Submitted by ron99999 (not verified) on Fri, 2009-11-20 19:06.
I had the same experience and I am very wundering what is happen and the fact I don't find so much about this topic on the internet. So many people (buyers) don't know they have fake versions. Besides Adobe is not helping you with Paypal claims. I am very happy I found this webiste, so I can link to it and let people show in the Netherlands that this is more than an occassionally loss of 300 Euro in my case! To warn people is the best thing you can do … Some text from trosradar.nl : these Adobe CS4 Photoshop Extended packages are fake (one says in forums from China), with a fake serialnumber and a fake activation process (check it at Adobe)! Check your Adobe CS4 package bought at Ebay for a much lower price at Adobe, mostly they are fake!! Check generally all software bought on Ebay / Amazone etc.!! Don't buy from hidden people (mostly criminals), ask their telephone number (not mobiles) and name first and check it before you buy (afterwards you can report them at the police or to special organisations if there are, when your product is fake)!! In a normal webshop, the owner is mostly known!! Even when Paypal (is also Ebay) had accepted your claim, Ebay will not always remove criminals from their website. It seems Ebay protects criminals, ask an employee if you know one in your neighbourhood !! It is very easy to improve the system of selling for Ebay / Amazone etc., but do they want that ? For example, when you buy, send automatically an email to the buyer with all personal data from the seller, so you can contact/check him/she first … do you buy in a real shop from an invisible person ?? An idea from myself is to have an optional shipping option when you buy software or something else on the internet, that your item will be first checked at a third organization (when choosen for that option of course e.g. for the serialnumber). See it as employees of customs who are doing their jobs at transport companies, if eveything ok they forward the item to you, if not the seller has problems … of course you as buyer has to pay the extra option … especially usefull for buying at Ebay etc.
Wow great post
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Sun, 2009-10-25 23:05.
I was researching purchasing cs3 on ebay myself. Glad I read your post before I did. I agree 100% with everything you say. Thank you.
Submitted by Dawid B. (not verified) on Wed, 2009-10-14 16:11.
This happens now on Amazon marketplace: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/shops/storefront/index.html?ie=UTF8&marketplaceID=A1F83G8C2ARO7P&sellerID=A3JI03WC1J79XU I guess it's going wider and wider... Half an hour I made comment on another store (ortservices) - it's closed now and the one linked above just opened. I notified Amazon, I notified Adobe, still didn't get money back. This is one big, f**king joke...
Counterfeit CS2 - and the Adobe company
Submitted by Southern Belle (not verified) on Tue, 2009-02-17 05:01.
Well, it's now February 2009. I've read this webpage AFTER buying my CS2 from EBay. Like most of you, I was not interested in getting illicit software. I use Photoshop 6 only occasionally for personal use, and am taking a class to learn more about it. The class requires CS2 or CS3.
I've bought other older software versions quite successfully, so had no reason to think this would be different. My copy is as excellent as the others seem to be. The biggest "red flag" I noticed was that the manual is in black-and-white only, no color pages. All those supposedly-lovely images used as examples of using color look like bad xeroxes.
My software installed and registered, then gave me the afore-mentioned activation error to restart and reinstall. Which didn't help. It didn't say it wouldn't activate. I was lucky in one detail. My seller refunded my payment even before the software arrived. When I wrote him that I would pay again as soon as the activation was successful (hint, hint), he replied that the refund was no mistake; he'd used a drop-ship company (out of Singapore, yes) and they'd shipped "wrong items", so he was refunding my money. So now I have a counterfeit copy I can keep.
If I can confirm that there's no malware on it, I may install it as a trial version and see what happens, or try to get around the activation. All I need is to get through class without having to use the computers at school. After that, I can go back to Photoshop 6, or PhotoPlus. And by the way, for those of you looking for alternate software, I highly recommend PhotoPlus, by Serif. I've been using the Serif products for many years. They're based in the UK, and the PhotoPlus does almost as much as Photoshop for a fraction of the price. And once you're on their customer list, they're always offering really good deals on upgrades and companion software. They also offer a 30-day trial - they'll ship you the software and you can use it for 30 days.
As for the Adobe company, I did phone them to inquire about the activation error. I was told that "EBay is not an approved Adobe reseller" (duh!) and they don't support CS2. CS4 gets free installation support; CS3 gets charged installation support, and CS2 gets nada. He didn't ask anything about my copy being counterfeit, didn't ask my serial number to tell me it was counterfeit - nothing. The plethora of counterfeit copies is clearly of no concern to them. If they wanted to eliminate the counterfeit copies, they could do so many things - the first being to loudly publicize that, as Tony learned, old legal versions are never legally sold on the aftermarket. How about a link on their home page to teach current and potential customers about the risk and telltale clues to counterfeit products? My experience with this poorly reflects as much on Adobe as on the counterfeiters. It reinforces my decision to stick with Serif products.
Regards, Southern Belle
eCostsoftware and Adobe
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Tue, 2008-12-30 10:44.
I too have had similar problems with eCostsoftware as Thierry, and I too, like others here, have also had the same CS3 counterfeit problems on eBay, though luckily the eBay Seller gave me an instant refund on my £150.
In fact it was my initial problems with eBay that drove me to look for a legitimate, yet cheaper source of Adobe software than Adobe's on-line shop. That's how I found eCostSoftware.
I took the precaution of contacting Adobe first before I ordered to verify them as a valid Adobe Software source, they informed me several times that they are a legitimate Adobe reseller and that I wouldn't have problems (and still claim to this day that I won't have any problems).
I've been watching their site like a hawk, and I know they don't have any of the Adobe product I want because they told me ! Yet their website's product availability counter went UP from a NON-ZERO number to an even higher one (when they didn't have any product to start with and didn't get any more in). When I questioned them about this, they said that they are going to take that webpage off (why not just fix the quantities ?)
Yet that didn't stop them taking A LARGE SUM OF MONEY from my account (despite me cancelling my order AND them confirming with me that the order had been cancelled). Not surprising that I have reported them to the Trading Standards and my Bank (and am still trying to get my money back).
Yes, it has only been a week - so it's early days maybe to start complaining at full force.
BUT I have NEVER EVER seen a company EVER take money BEFORE they even have any product.
Okay.. I purchased a
Submitted by Kristy (not verified) on Mon, 2008-11-10 16:54.
Okay.. I purchased a Photoshop CS3 for $80 and the very same day that I purchased it, I read this article.. so I wrote to the seller, explained my concerns and asked her if she could double check the serial number with Adobe before shipping it.. turns out, it was pirated.
The seller was extremely apologetic, and having purchased the CS3 from ebay to resell, assured me that she had no idea that it was fake.. the payment was refunded, transaction cancelled, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Thanks for the heads up! Now, I'm only considering purchasing a PS from a seller who has personally registered the software and is willing to transfer the license.. and I'm definitely checking with Adobe first!
photoshop CS2 activation
Submitted by antonyz (not verified) on Sat, 2008-11-08 22:51.
I had a problem with photoshop CS2 activation. I went through the installation and updates and it registered OK. When I came to run the program it proceeded to start up but a message came up saying that there was a problem with activation and to restart the computer and reinstall the software. I went through tyhe whole procedure again with the same results. I then uninstalled the program and installed it on a different computer and it activated with out problems. The original computer had a lot of software a 1920x1200 graphics card and Internet security software. To date I have not been able to determine why it is OK on one computer and not the other.
I purchased Adobe acrobat
Submitted by rocax (not verified) on Thu, 2008-10-30 04:29.
I purchased Adobe acrobat pro9 from the online shop eCostsoftware, 20 days ago, my visa card was debited immediately and but still no news of the delivery. Sending emails or catching them over the phone or chatting-online seems to be useless.
I strongly recommand to avoid this site which will cost your purse
ecostsoftware eCost Software 16 - 18 London Road Twickenham Middlesex TW1 3RR
I agree with Tony's comments " I'd be interested to know what they say, especially if they say something like 'the only way we can guarantee authentic software is if you buy direct from Adobe online shop'.
ebay not the only site
Submitted by MJ (not verified) on Thu, 2008-10-16 22:29.
an up and coming contender www.ebid.tv appears to be flush with counterfeit copies of CS2 - I've just been silly enought to have gone and bought one, thinking out of date software might be going cheap. I didn't even need to open the shrink wrap to tell, it has "designed for windews xp" (their typo not mine) on the side - considering this artwork would be provided by M$ is should be spelt correctly. The intel logos next to it are of a poor quality too.
Hi Tony, I'm another person
Submitted by M (not verified) on Wed, 2008-10-15 16:58.
Hi Tony, I'm another person who bought a fake CS2 on Ebay Uk. I had previously bought and successfully registered Acrobat 7 and InDesign 2 boxed with serial numbers that worked, activated and updated, so I felt confident with this. In fact, it worked first time - with the screwed up keyboard commands, but I attributed that to the fact that I was using it on a Mac with Parallels. The problems only started on re-installing the software: it wouldn't activate. I have contacted the seller, and while not holding my breath will be interested to see what he says. The version I bought was on DVD sealed, but there are minor differences from the two legit versions: - the serial number sticker is slightly larger and is on thicker, flat paper - the font of the serial number is slightly different - the font size of the serial number is slightly larger. Otherwise the jewel case is identical, and the sheets in the case are identical. It looks - as has been suggested above - that it has been printed from the original file but on a different offset printer. It says made in Singapore on the CD as others have reported. What I'd like to know, is why when you go to the Adobe site and test the serial number, it gives a non-committal response, rather than simply saying "fraudulent copy" and allowing you to report it! It's just bonkers. Why make it so hard to help them? Cheers, M.
I've just googled cs2 and
Submitted by Soller (not verified) on Fri, 2008-08-15 16:28.
I've just googled cs2 and found your page - had it my mind to look on ebay for a copy - thanks for the info as it's now made me think twice.
hi, thank you very much for
Submitted by vladimir (not verified) on Mon, 2008-07-21 16:25.
hi, thank you very much for an article. I have absolute same problem, and after read this article I realize My copy is pirate. :( ... My good friend from USA bought adobe photoshop cs2 for me for 245$ from eBay and I am sure she didn't really know the seller sell pirate software. The box was nice, same great manual, two CD but activation didn't work. So I will talk with her ASAP and find some solution for this. but because I use this software for 4 months I don't think she will get her money back. :( So I will have to buy Photoshop again, but this time I will be more careful. (sorry for my bad English, I'm from Czech Republic)
Hi, I sell software on ebay
Submitted by Simon (not verified) on Fri, 2008-06-27 20:11.
Hi, I sell software on ebay and rest assured every item I sell is 100% genuine and for retail in the UK. I've come across quite a few of the fakes and they are all over ebay... although it looks like they are being sold by quite a few different sellers, I'm not sure if that is the case as the listing styles are all remarkably similar and it seems that as one seller disappears, never to be seen again, another one immediately takes their place! They are very good fakes it has to be said but there are a number of ways that they can be spotted... I don't have one in front of me to check but the type face used on the 'Adobe Photoshop CS2' on the front of the box is definitely not right - I think it's a different font and the weight and color is definitely different - it's bolder and darker. There are general problems with the color matching and the inks used but the easiest way to tell it's a fake before opening it is to look at the Adobe logos - if they look anything but a perfect red then it's fake... all of the ones I've come across are a weaker red and slightly orange in color. The label on the bottom showing the part number etc is a good indicator as well - if the ink is thick and very black it's most likely fake or from the USA. The film used to wrap the manual is very thin and flimsy on the fakes... will most likely rip if you rub it for a second or two! The CD cases on the UK retail version has the Adobe logo on the black spine and also says something like '2 discs' or '2 CD' which the fakes don't. Also... and this is a biggy! The feather on the front of the CD case on an authentic version will run vertically and on the fakes they all run horizontally! ...that's all I can remember off the top of my head but hope it helps someone! Don't be put off buying software on ebay - just make sure to ask questions first and if you do buy anything buy it through PayPal using your credit card... that way if you buy a fake item you can just call your credit card company who will give you your money back and who will also investigate the trader! As far as I know there aren't any fake Photoshop CS3s, as yet, on ebay - the thing to avoid is buying one which isn't supposed to be used in this country... most being sold on there are from the USA. The way to check before buying is to ask the seller to look on the bottom of the box and let you know where it says it was printed... only buy the ones which say 'printed in Ireland' because that is the UK retail version. Then ask them for the Manufacturing Part Number and search by that on Google within the UK - that way you know exactly what you're getting!
Hi Tony, I think I'm a bit
Submitted by Kevin (not verified) on Wed, 2008-06-11 22:47.
Hi Tony, I think I'm a bit late on this posting, though with all this talk on Adobe pirated software bought directly on ebay, what about resellers? I'm interested in purchasing the Adobe CS3 Design Premium and after I've read through these articles there is no way I will be buying this on ebay. I've searched around and have come across a range of pricing, from 1100gbp-1600, now what? All these companies reselling these products appear to be legitimate with many positive reviews but I can't believe that adobe distribution channel in the UK would allow for such a discrepancy, 500 gbp?? something's fishy here also. I'm considering buying from this company as they have one of the cheaper prices out there but too cheap to be true, can anyone give me their opinion as to whether I should buy?? www.ecostsoftware.com http://www.ecostsoftware.com/uk/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?pid=3251 Thanks Kev
Good article, I found that a
Submitted by Jaime (not verified) on Thu, 2008-04-24 06:11.
Good article, I found that a lot of those same sellers on eBay, also are selling high quality counterfeits of Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. These also come in a seal box with all the original materials. The difference comes with the quality of the hologram on the cd, which is actually painted and protected with a thin clear film (youll have to compare with a genuine disk to notice the difference). Also when you install the server, it installs as an Enterprise Server (doesn't request activation), instead of a Standard Server. Also, the port holes on the COA are not "cut" as on a genuine COA, and if you look at the back of the COA, you can tell that the security strip its not placed as it suppose to be. So far, I have found 30 different sellers selling these items, 11, accounts have been closed, (6 different accounts from the same 2 counties in Ohio) I have written more information and posted pictures on an the following ebay guide. http://reviews.ebay.com/Counterfeit-Windows-2003-Standard-Licenses_W0QQugidZ10000000005938184
A small addition to the debate
Submitted by Roger Messenger (not verified) on Mon, 2008-03-24 21:16.
To confirm that you have a counterfiet copy look at the small print on the disks you have received. Mistakes can be found. On a copy I have seen, the text reads countries,Adobe ie. there is no space between countries and Adobe. Also there is text reading aregistered.... ie. no space between a and registered. If you have a copy of the Total Trainin Video Workshop, they have spelt TOTAL wrong in one place (TEOTAL) A genuine Adobe product would never have these errors.
Thank you for this article.
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on Sat, 2008-03-15 23:55.
Thank you for this article. I was about to purchase a cheap copy of cs2 from a vender on Amazon.com. I still had my suspicians, so I did research, and found your blog. It's saved me from a lot of misery.
Counterfeit CS2
Submitted by Andrew (not verified) on Thu, 2008-03-06 16:27.
Thanks indeed for this very good article. I was about to buy a similar CS2 product from US eBay. For all the exact same reasons as you did - an upgrade form an aging Photoshop 6 edition.... Much appreciate your time and effort. I want Photoshop to be cheaper - but really don't want a counterfeit copy. The economics of counterfeiting are: if it is too expensive, counterfeiting is economically viable and unstoppable. The idiots at Adobe need to learn a lesson.
Submitted by J. David Sapir (not verified) on Thu, 2008-02-28 05:24.
Tony, It would be worth trying GIMP - it is FREE and works across platforms. As Adobe beomes more and more protective it behoves people to start looking more seriously at open source software. Firefox for one. I have been using Photoshop since Photoshop CS2 and continue out of habit. I see no point in going beyond CS2. If I was to get really serious I would want to switch to a program like GIMP. It isn't quite Photoshop, but dollars to peanuts, with a little bit of experimenting you can make it do everything you want. Also there is a big community of geeks that listen to suggestions. That is how it is built. David
Reading the above I think
Submitted by Derek (not verified) on Sun, 2008-02-10 19:18.
Reading the above I think maybe it's not worth the risk buying my Adobe software from eBay, no matter how genuine it sounds. Still don't want to be ripped off buying in the UK so has anyone ever had any problems with installation or support buying from so called legitimate sites in the US like amazon.com or others? It's still cheaper even with VAT and import charges.
Reynard Software and Peter Murphy
Submitted by withheld (not verified) on Sat, 2008-02-09 01:00.
Hi Tony, I was just reading about the Adobe issue again on you page when I saw Peter Murphy mentioned in one of your entries, about Apex Design Media software (2007-11-20). Interestingly that is the name that comes up in the whois archives regarding reynard-software: http://www.whois.ws/domain_archive-com/reynard-software.com/ I thought I`d heard the name before. I don`t know what came of Reynard but I did get my money back through WorldPay, also I got a letter from Adobe that I could use in court if required stating that I had been supplied with pirate software, also they sent me a few anti-piracy goodies in the form of playing cards (absolutely brilliant too!), a clock and a digital keyring which I can`t figure out ;-) I kept the CS3 book too. Cheers.
Adobe Creative Suite CS3 design premium
Submitted by Sue (not verified) on Sun, 2008-01-27 19:37.
Hi, I saw someone selling Adobe Creative Suite CS3 design premium which was made in Singapore on eBay. I was wondering all adobe stuff made in Singapore is fake. I heard many times that product (especially Adobe software) in Singapore's "the disk" is not refined,but they are exactly same as sold in USA.But,It states made in Singapore.If I would like to use Adobe in USA,the item on ebay US could be the fake? Please tell me if you know anything. Thank you, Sue
invalid photoshop CS2 on eBay and on Amazon Market Place
Submitted by Colin (not verified) on Wed, 2008-01-23 15:54.
I tried twice to buy Photoshop CS2 at a reasonable price. On eBay the offer promised that the versions had been bought direct from Amazon. It gave me the same result as TS described, except that the activation was not disabled. It would not work or register (which it tried to do automatically). I got my money back from the seller but there was a lot of unpleasantness between him and me, because I did not give him a good rating for the transaction! On Amazon Market Place I tried again, same result except the seller was very pleasant and apologetic and concerned. Adobe gave me the same email re invalidity as TS received in both instances. I am disappointed by eBay for not taking my complaint seriously enough. I think the seller should have been banned at least. Adobe are to blame to some extent, I think, for charging European customers about twice the price they charge US customers. There is no justification for this blatant unfairness. I suspect my versions were US versions which would not activate from a PC which is in the UK and which is using a UK ISP, and I was quite open about the fact that I was in the UK.
It also happend with CS!
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Sat, 2008-01-12 21:31.
Hi, it might be a bit late, but I'd like to mention that I had a similar problem with CS1(!) Premium, bought at ebay.de. It was sold as an american version, cost me >800,-€ a couple of years ago - seemed to be correct pricing for an _am_ version (cheaper there as you mentioned). It says "Printed/Produced in the USA" on manual, CDs etc. (everywhere), and – I can tell for sure - it's a very good offset litho printed box, manual etc., the CDs having bar-codes a.s.o., no shift in colours or anything. Activation went fine, but then … About one and 1/2 year after first (incomplete) install I tried to install GoLive for the first time - impossible. Called Adobe Customer "Service" - just to be told I'd bought an illicit copy and it was my fault not to buy at a certified vendor. No comment on my question about the correct activation. And no chance to get my money back. Why I'm posting this still that late is: the problem obviously occured much earlier than CS2, and I never believed in this simple "chinese high tech piracy" theory. Or still, if it's the case, Adobe behaves in an unacceptable way towards their customers, treating them like thiefs (that's what I felt during the phone call with the "service") instead of tracking down the pirates. If it's big China, _there_ might be the reason for Adobe's (silent) behaviour: it's a huge market of the future, so nothing ever happens - be it Adobe or any given government … Nonetheless I strongly disagree to obey this "Buy from us or be considered a software pirate"-thing. Adoby pirates my harddisks / MBRs as a matter of fact - _not_ saying so on the CDs or manuals. It has cost me (and many others, for sure) days to rebuild my whole system after a messed up Adobe install - who pays for this waste of our life-time? - they give a damn, just writing "If this and that fails, do a fresh windows installation" and "don't use RAID" in their bloody knowledge base! What sort of policy is that?! (Sorry for getting emotional ;-) I really wait for the day to replace all Adobe software by open source stuff - being also able to finally switch to Linux then … And as discussed in Ed Foster's Blog, I now fully understand everyone who buys a legit copy, but uses something else for time-saving and mental health reasons … This software activation policy is not only for "keeping the sheep on the line" (or how someone expressed it), but for tracking users in every possible extent and way – known as data mining … Best thing to avoid it: use a highly customizable firewall or, if possible, use Adobe software just on machines not connected to the internet at all.
I suspect this're geniune
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Thu, 2007-12-20 17:11.
I suspect this're geniune adobe product that are being stolen during transit or in the warehouse. That's the reason adobe not taking any actions?
Hi Tony, Like you and the
Submitted by Phil (not verified) on Fri, 2007-11-23 11:18.
Hi Tony, Like you and the other people here I was annoyed at the discrepancy between UK pricing and US pricing for Photoshop CS3, which is not far off £ for $. I looked at ebay and was amazed at the prices and also very suspicious of the dealers. I posted a comment to this effect on DPreview asking if people knew if these copies were fakes. After a few replies somebody asked me to post a link to the Ebay items. Well I went back to the site and all the fake copies had been pulled. The two main descriptive items that I can see that differentiate between the fake and the real items on ebay listings are that the scammers do not list item as UK retail, they also have the nerve to add goods cannot be returned if the discs have been removed from packaging due to software piracy.
I am absolutely sure that Adobe is aware of the scale of the problem, they would have to be sub moronic not to have a record of failed activations, and there must be masses of people contacting them to ask about these copies. I would not be surprised if what we are witnessing is pure corporate greed where they realize that there is a huge problem, but that if they get their software protection sorted for CS4 then the unfortunates who bought the fakes will not be able to upgrade, and they will still get their profit albeit delayed by one product release.
My guide to buying expensive software: If the product is new, it should only be sold by a genuine VAT registered company with proper address and business telephone number. If it is used, there should be an original receipt/invoice from a proper registered company. Where does this leave us the genuine customer who wants to play by the board and being ripped off from both scammers and the software vendor? I read an article where it explained how it is possible to register email address in the USA, download and register CS3 using US email address (you have to get US ZIP code) and as far as Adobe are concerned you are a US customer. You get all products and upgrades at US prices though support will be at US time zones. As far as I am aware this is totally legal though inconvenient. It would be much better if Adobe woke up to the fact that we live in a global interconnected world and people do not like being ripped off. This problem is entirely of their own making. They cite additional cost of UK distribution etc. Okay Adobe give us the choice of buying from USA with USA support. That should cost around $15 dollars postage plus VAT, which of course business users can claim back. I couldn't care less if they close UK division if it is costing double for the privilege of having one.
Submitted by Doug Osborn (not verified) on Thu, 2007-10-18 02:14.
Hi Tony,
I think your wishes have come true. There's a fairly mature GNU piece of software - GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/
I've been using this applicationfor some time and while not a pro photographer, its capabilities certainly exceed my needs. For converting RAW images to TIFF, there's dcraw (http://cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/)
Hi Tony, followed your link
Submitted by guest (not verified) on Sun, 2007-10-14 11:32.
Hi Tony, followed your link from the Photoshop forums. I'm another UK dupe here. Some speculation I was just pursuing in my own head was that if those of us who are able are burned by this and turn to Adobe for genuine software they're not actually that 'hurt' by this episode at all? It's also occurred to me that Adobe have contributed to this whole mess by forcing online activation and registration onto us. If my software had not activated and registered successfully the moment I installed it I would have been able to get my money back from the seller by returning the product or at the very least I could have claimed from Paypal. If I wasn't a keyboard shortcut user I may still be using the software totally unaware there was a problem. I'm sure there are many out there who still don't realise.
Identical CS3 fakes.
Submitted by B. (not verified) on Fri, 2007-10-12 18:18.
Well, I just also got stung by a PS CS3 from Ebay UK, which was exactly like you guys described - sealed & boxed, seemingly retail, with 'Made in USA' sticker on the box, but 'Made in Singapore' printed in various places, activation missing (including the options that are supposed to be in the Help menu) and registration never sticking/arriving at Adobe. It also turns out the discs are low quality, mine already had trouble being detected in my drive the third time (I saw the same problem mentioned in another seller's feedback). There are plenty of these on Ebay at the moment - the resellers don't mention that they're US copies (mine didn't), but they all look the same.
But here's the twist, the packaging & contents were for the plain version of PS CS3 - but after you install it, guess what, it's actually the Extended version! What a great way to entice people to keep quiet, greed kicks in and you think you got lucky somehow - best not mention that to Adobe eh? Except if you're already suspicious (as I was) and really want a legit license, the alarm bells are ringing by now, so maybe not that smart after all.
Adobe UK told me the serial number was invalid. I also tried it on the official US trial version of Extended - it was accepted (so it was at least stolen from a valid one, or key generated), but activation was denied, claiming the total number of activations (2 I guess) had been exceeded. Luckily I got my money back.
I've never seen anything like this - I totally agree that Adobe pricing and change of upgrade policies are to blame. I was looking forward to Smart Filters etc. but for now I'll stick to my trusty CS2. What I'm really worried about now is some malware payload - a gang capable of producing fakes of this quality may well have access to smart programmers - and genuinely smart malware could do a lot of damage without being easily detected ...
CS3 and Reynard Software
Submitted by Anon. (not verified) on Mon, 2007-10-01 20:49.
Hello Tony,
I`m the guy mentioned above that bought a pirated CS3 from Reynard Software. My version only came in a clear dvd case with a single sided printed cover, the dvd is a purple dye one with a glossy label attached. On the disc is a whole load of adobe software including Illustrator with a single text file full of serial numbers (about ten full pirated items). Also I got my free book which is the genuine article. It`s my guess that no matter what you buy from Reynard you still get the same disc but thats just speculation. I bought on credit card just in case and they recommended that I send it back to Reynard (as stated on reynards web site). I did, book included which took the postage up to £10 due to weight, and it promptly came back to me after a couple of days with `not here!` written accross the address, notice the exclamation mark. A little surfing reveals that Reynards address is in fact just a forwarding address, but they are a limited company which originally gave me some confidence. to be honest I was expecting to be sent the upgrade version instead when I saw the price but thought it was worth the risk. If you want a scan of the cover of mine please email me.
Please don`t put my name anywhere if you quote me, thanks. Anon.
(NB I have redacted the name of this poster to comply: TS)


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5 Secret Languages That Stuck It to the Man
#2. The Chinese Women-Only Language
It wasn't that fun to be a woman in 19th century China. Foot binding (the art of smashing your feet in the name of fashion) was extremely common, and girls were often confined to hobbling around single rooms on the upper story of their house. To add to the other difficulties associated with basically being Rapunzel, women couldn't even pass the time with a dog-eared copy of 50 Shades of Grey, being that nobody ever bothered to teach them how to read. In the Jiangyong Province, women reacted to this situation by simply creating their own written language.
"I'd say thank you to your wife, but I don't speak woman."
How Did They Do It?
Nushu, or "women's language," was a women-only alphabet handed down from mother to daughter. The most common form of nushu was the "third day" letter, which women sent to each other after a bride moved into her husband's home after marriage. These letters, understandably, usually contained words of consolation for the sorrowful new bride before she was to spend the rest of her life in Smashed Foot Tower.
The alphabet was often embroidered into cloth or painted on fans, which were then exchanged between female relatives and friends. Many nushu characters (there are about 1,000 in all) come from embroidery patterns, along with a few elements of Chinese characters probably picked up from watching boys take lessons.
Via Elgalgolucas.com
Which is why so many of these look like doodles of dicks.
In regular Chinese, each character is kind of its own word, representing a whole concept. But nushu characters are more like English letters, representing sounds. So the languages were different enough that Chinese women could exchange letters and erotic fiction without their husbands knowing what they were up to, kind of like how spammers started spelling "porn" as "p0rn" with a zero to get around word filters.
The language was stamped out in the 20th century when the Communists decided that they didn't like it, and women started being allowed to learn to read in their native language -- in 2002, it was believed that only one woman alive still knew how to write it.
Via James Bear / For The Times
And no one has any idea what she's saying.
#1. The U.S. Town With Its Own Language
Boontling is a language that's only spoken in one small town on Earth. It's not some remote African tribe, though -- we're talking about Boonville, Northern California. Back in the 1800s, farming families settled in the Anderson Valley of California and took up rural pursuits like logging and fishing. For reasons that are now lost to the sands of time, the residents of Boonville started to make up new words for things so that people from outside the town couldn't understand what they were saying.
Whether it started as a harmless prank or small-town paranoia, Boontling eventually grew into its own bona fide language, and Boonville became the only place on Earth where you can find signs like this:
Via Makenzine.com
It means exactly what you ... think it ... means?
How Did They Do It?
As time marched on, like with many languages, Boontling leaked and mixed with the native speakers' English, becoming part of the town's natural way of speaking. Fascinated linguists have composed lists of the hundreds of unique words in Boontling, and they get pretty bizarre -- a "great beer" in Boonville is "aplenty bahl steinber horn," and if your horse has a particularly comfortable saddle, you might be heard to quip "It's a slow lope'n a beeson tree." No, we don't get it either, but it wouldn't be a very good secret language if we did.
Since the language is considered a valuable part of American history, there is some concern that it's beginning to die out. However, the few remaining speakers of it seem intent on keeping it alive -- to sell beer. And judging by how much they drink, it's likely that most people who come into contact with it just assume that the entirety of the town is too shitfaced to speak properly.
C. Coville's non-funny ebook for foreigners, 750 Things I Wish They'd Told Me About America, is available here. Karl has a Facebook, Twitter and a website.
For more reasons Webster should let us write dictionaries, check out 6 Words That Need to Be Banned from the English Language and The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Needs.

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Schools in Kansas are taking precautions to try and keep influenza out of the classroom.
Classrooms seem to be a breeding ground for the virus, according to doctors, because of the close contact.
Tracy Mayfield, Griffith Elementary school nurse in Wichita, said she has tried to teach good hygiene habits through fun activities.
"I think that all the education that the teachers do, all the education that the school nurses, kind of promotes those healthy habits that hopefully is preventing the spread of the illness," she said.
She gives awards for children who wash their hands correctly. She said she feels the preventative measures have been working.
"We're not seeing as much yet until this week, and I started seeing the muscle aches the fevers, the coughs, our numbers are not huge right now but we are starting to see an increase in those kiddos that aren't feeling good," Mayfield said.
Parents should keep their children home if they have a fever greater than 101 degrees, doctors say. If the child suffers from respiratory problems like coughing or wheezing, or not being able to breathe right, you should take them to the doctor.


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18 Feb 2012 1:34 PM #1
Unanswered: Proper way to access viewport from a card
I have a navigationview for my viewport:
Ext.define('App.view.Viewport', { extend: 'Ext.NavigationView', xtype: 'viewportview',
I have created a ref in my card as:
Ext.define("App.controller.Dashboard", { extend: "Ext.app.Controller", config: { refs: { 'viewport': 'viewportview',
In the controller init() the call to this.getViewport() returns undefined - I assume the ref is not created then. I then tried Ext.Viewport.getNavigationBar() but that is also undefined and also seems to be a no no as to accessing the viewport.
So how do I do this in B3?
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Viewport is a singleton. Ext.Viewport is a common reference to it.
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Even before you use the new Thule EasyFold, you'll be pleasantly surprised by one of its features: the foldability. By folding the carrier it takes up less space in your car and it's also very easy to carry by hand.
The new Thule EasyFold is a user-friendly bike carrier for all types of bikes. In a simple two-step operation, you mount the carrier on the towing hook, unfold it, and it's ready to use – all in a matter of seconds.
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Is there a simple way to use
ltrim() to remove a single instance of a match instead of all matches?
I'm looping through array of strings and I'd like to remove the first, and only first, match (vowels in this case):
ltrim($value, "aeiouyAEIOUY");
With default behavior the string
aardvark or
Aardvark would be trimmed to be
"rdvark". I'd like result to be
I'm not bound to ltrim by any means but it seemed the closest built-in PHP function. It would be nice of
ltrim and
rtrim had an optional parameter "limit", just saying... :)


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The Celtics: Old But Not Over
Yeah, no, nope, naw, not today. That's what the Boston Celtics said Sunday. This is not to say they are going to win this first-round playoff series against the New York Knicks. They will almost surely not.
They remain down three games to one, staring up at a rough cliff, and only the daffiest optimist would give them a chance. Let's be real. The second-seeded Knicks are quicker and stronger and the seventh-seeded Celtics are erratic and…erratic. For Boston, this is probably not going to end well.
But it did not end in Game 4. It was supposed to be the end, wasn't it? The script had been pre-written. End of an another Boston era. Farewell to Kevin Garnett, who came here and delivered. Maybe even to Paul Pierce, who'd been in green forever, in sickness and in health, the throaty-voiced heart and guts of the whole revival. These 21st-century Celtics had won a title, and come maddeningly close to another, and there was that near-shocker against the Miami Heat last season, but there were finally too many miles on the rumbly old Volvo. The Celtics appeared creaky and slow. They faded when it mattered. When Rajon Rondo went down with a season-ending knee injury, there was a flurry of winning, and a brief delusion that Boston was better off without its electric point guard, but it was a mirage. Three games down was three games down. Since the Marathon attacks, Boston had been such an unbreakable, stirring place, but a city's emotion couldn't transform reality. Time had caught the Celtics.
Paul Pierce said he didn't think about it. He didn't think about the big picture, the idea of losing Game 4 and what it meant for him and his career and this town, the only pro city he has ever played for. He didn't sound ready to go there. Contemplation? He wasn't contemplating a thing. Actually, that's not true. Pierce said he called friends in New York before the game and told them to be ready for dinner this week. Dinner in New York. Game 4 was going to be Game 4. Pierce had penciled in Game 5.
"I was pretty calm today, actually," Pierce said. "I really didn't think about the aftereffects."
Still, the afternoon began desperate. That's what endings are like for declining champions: cornered, angry, furious. There wasn't much of a crowd when the game began at TD Garden, owing partly to the glorious New England spring weather outside, but also to…well, who wanted to witness the brutal finale of a beloved team? But the Celtics opened with energy, and New York was awful. The first half was a rout. Early in the third quarter Boston led by 20. The Knicks seemed ready for a late brunch.
But the Celtics would make it hard on themselves. Of course. They would allow the Knicks to claw back into it. Of course. Inconsistency has been the consistency of these Celtics, and soon they were letting the Knicks in through the kitchen door and fixing them pancakes. An easy day unraveled. New York charged back in the third quarter and took its first lead late the fourth. Knicks fans began dancing courtside in blue and orange. Even when the game kicked into overtime, it appeared to be New York's game to lose.
And then a strange thing happened: New York lost. Or, rather, the Celtics did exactly what no one expected, which was to find improbable energy and take the game away. The veteran guard Jason Terry scored Boston's last nine points in a 97-90 overtime win. Terry had been fitful all season; before Sunday, his biggest moment in this series had been the crisp elbow he took from New York guard J.R. Smith, which earned Smith a one-game suspension. But this Terry? This was the Terry who'd tormented the Heat in the 2011 Finals while playing for Dallas.
Now Terry was standing outside the Celtics locker room talking about the next game in New York. Boston planned to be ready. "I don't care if Patrick Ewing comes out and suits up for the Knicks," Terry said.
"We have nothing to lose," said Boston's Jeff Green. "All the pressure's on them."
Ridiculous? Sure. Here's an even more ridiculous stat: Since 2004, no New York team carrying a 3-0 series lead over a Boston team has won another game. The Celtics cannot summon Curt Schilling in a bloody sock. But it will happily rely on some historical ghosts, even if it just messes with New York heads.
In the rafters of the Garden in Boston there's a grid-like series of banners with the retired numbers of Celtic legends. The youngest one contains the numbers of modern Celtics: Larry Bird's 33, Kevin McHale's 32, Robert Parish's 00. There are two empty slots at the bottom, side by side, where you could easily fit a 34 and a 5. This is not to say that Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett have reached the end. You never know anymore when people are ready to walk away. But they weren't ready Sunday. For Boston, that felt like enough.
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It's hard to imagine a more difficult life decision than deciding to be a parent.
How do you know if you're ready to be a parent?
It's hard to imagine a more difficult life decision than deciding to be a parent.
How do you know if you're ready to be a parent?
Well, I usually say this:
Then go for it. Ready or not.
When it comes to knowing if you are ready I think that may be very personal. If you take, personality wise, after your mom or dad, ask them. As a generic list I'd have the following points, but I'm not that sure they really are universal:
Then you are more then ready. And if you aren't, you will be quite quickly.
Nobody is ever really ready to become a parent, even when they become one.
That being said, there are any number of criteria that people use to weigh in the decision of whether they want to have a child. Financial, religious, emotional, mental and many other considerations need to be part of the decision to start trying to have a baby.
Having a baby is not something to be taken lightly. It's possibly the hardest, yet at the same time most rewarding thing I've ever done. But if you feel that you're ready to add a new dynamic to your life, if you enjoy being around children, and you want the ultimate in creating something that will take life beyond your own, then you may be as ready as you'll ever get until the baby comes.
Actually, there is a formal process which attempts to answer this question objectively.
When you wish to adopt (and especially if you don't yet have any children) your adoption social worker will spend about six months with you and will try to measure how ready you are to take the leap into parenthood. This list might prove useful even to those planning their own children naturally.
He or she will explore:
Obviously this is quite a demanding list, but rightly so! Parenting is a hard old thing to do. Also, you are not expected to demonstrate you can satisfy every requirement to the absolute maximum, but it's a good set of questions to consider.
There are other issues he or she will explore with you concerning adoption itself which I haven't listed, because they're not relevant to this question. Also, the process may vary in other countries. This is based on the UK adoption process.
When you start asking yourself questions like "Am I ready to be a parent?", then you probably are ready to be a parent, or at least, as ready as any other first time parent. Having kids is really, really weird. Seriously, its not like anything you've ever done before. So it's not something you can get ready for, emotionally.
Do your books, though, and check your insurance out. You can sort of prepare practically. People will give you a lot of the stuff you need (clothes and what not) but formula, bottles, diapers... that all adds up. But people do pay for it. So as long as you are solvent and feel comfortable with your employment situation, you're probably as ready as you're going to get financially as well.
When the pregnancy test comes back positive?
If, on the other hand, you've been actively and successfully avoiding parenthood until now, you're ready to have children when (in order of importance):
If you qualify on all five points, then you're almost ready to be thrown to the shark tank and may even be likely to survive the first three years or so. After that, it's almost easy.
People have also been known to survive when they don't qualify for two or more items, as long as they aren't both of the first two. Those sometimes (possibly even often) end in murder-suicide and newspaper stories that include the question "How could anyone kill a little baby?" Divorce before children is a much better option, believe me.
This is a really hard question to answer because the answer is somewhat subjective, and ultimately does not determine whether someone becomes a parent or not. A lot of people don't know whether they're ready or not, and then they just go and have kids anyway. If you want to become a parent in a conscious way, I think you evaluate your financial status, your emotional readiness, and your relationship with your partner, assuming you have one.
Ideally, you have run some numbers on whether you can afford to take care of a child (it's not cheap). Also, you have a reasonable belief that you're a pretty emotionally secure person: as a parent, you're going to have to neglect yourself for a few years. Finally, it's a lot easier to become a parent with a committed partner who will support you than it is to do so alone.
All that being said, at some point, if you want to become a parent, you just have to take a leap of faith and go for it. The experience is so profound that it changes you as a person. You will probably find out that parenting is both harder and more rewarding than you expected. The most important part of being a parent is loving, sheltering, and caring for a small human until he or she grows up.
You don't know. You'll never know. No matter how much you prepare yourself, no matter what books you've read, no matter how much you've talked about, no matter how much you've prepared, nothing will ever be the same again. Everything changes, everything.
If you can borrow some for a week, or more, do so. A day is nothing, 3 days is getting there, but you'll only ever really know how much work they are, if you get some for at least a week. It is, without doubt, the best thing that has ever happened to my life, but you will really never know if you are ready, if you haven't seen how it is.
So either offer to look after your brothers/sisters/best friends young kids for a fortnight or so, or just have them. You'll never look back you'll also quickly forget what life was like before them. You will work so hard.
I have controlled 9 digit budgets, and never felt the pressure I do, to make sure my kids are raised properly; nothing will keep me awake more at night wondering if I have made the right decision for them; nothing dents my emotions more than knowing I have been too hard on them, and nothing, nothing in the world will ever mess with your emotions more. I cried once, in front of my eldest's teacher when she praised her very, very highly as a person; it really does mess with you.
I very much like Lennart Regebro's answer.
There is also a consideration as to whether you and your partner would prefer to have your child early, or later in life. Of course, this consideration may be moot depending upon when you and your partner find each other; my wife and I didn't marry until our late 30's, so obviously having a child together in our 20's was not an option, but this will be an option for many other people.
Choosing to have a child early (typically somewhere in the 20's or early 30's) has the potential advantages of finding more new parents in your age range (for example, in the U.S., in 2008, the average age of first-time mothers was 25.1. Being closer to the average age range for parents means that as your child grows, you have an increased chance of finding that your child's friends have parents of similar ages to your own. For some, this may make it easier to find social opportunities with other parents that facilitate "playdates".
Surprisingly, having a child early doesn't necessarily mean that there's a reduced risk of complications. Mothers in their 20's, 30's, and 40's all have their own potential complications, ranging from a higher incidence of low birth-weight with younger mothers, to higher incidences of chromosomal abnormalities and miscarriages with older mothers.
Having a child later may mean you bring a certain amount of increased maturity and experience to the table, which can be hard to quantify, but can certainly be of great benefit, both to your child and your own peace of mind!.
I recently read a personal finance blog entry that reminded me of this question, and which addresses an aspect of the decision making process that I don't feel is adequately represented by any of the other answers.
In addition to the personal responsibility and maturity that should be essential criteria for parenting (second in importance only to a strong desire to become utterly responsible for a new life!), financial responsibility is an important consideration.
Raising children is not cheap.
In most cases, you are either going to have to sacrifice the income of one person, or pay for daycare, for at least a few years. You may even wind up with a combination of both.
In addition to the solid advice of "Don't have children unless you're [both] absolutely sure about it", the blog advises two main financial criteria to consider:
and secondly:
If you have reached puberty, have a willing partner of the opposite sex ( I'm assuming you are trying to conceive), you have an adequate supply of clean running water, enough food during all seasons, are able to make a fire to keep warm in winter, have a shelter that will protect you from the elements and are confident that as a family have a good chance to protect your new family member from predatory or dangerous animals, you are ready.
Do you like playing with kids? Do think about parenthood and you like it?
IF both answers are "yes" - you're ready.
When you are ready to start devoting the time to learning how to be a good parent. Parenting is a hard job. Hard in both senses of the word. It is both tiring physically as well as difficult mentally and emotionally. A lot of people put forth no effort to read or learn anything about being a parent and just do what their parents did, even though most of us have at least some issues (if not whole subscriptions) with the way our parents raised us. So my advice to you is this: If you want to know if you are ready to be a parent, start reading books on parenting. Then you will know, or at least have some idea, of whether or not you are up to the task of being a good parent.
When I decided to have a child, I was already old enough to handle the responsibility. I was 28 when I had my baby, and at that age, I felt that I am financially prepared to support my child. I was also emotionally and mentally prepared for parenthood, as well. I did enjoy my single life, and the time comes when I felt that I want to settle and have a family.
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Is there any way of converting a illustrator file with text and logos to one only. As I'm working for a client that only wants to print with one-color?
With Illustrator CS4 or greater it's pretty easy.
Select all the artwork.
Choose Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork
If the artwork contains black which you want to alter as well..... Click the little pref icon next to the "Preset" drop down menu. This will bring up the Color Reduction Options dialog.
Then Proceed to #3 below.
If the artwork does NOT contain any black, simply choose 1 under the color drop down in the middle of the dialog window. Then proceed to #3 below.
Then double-click the little box under where it reads "New"
The Color picker will pop up... choose the color you want (you can use the basic color dialog or you can pick a swatch if you have a Pantone Swatch you want to use. Add the Pantone Color to the swatches before you start all this though.) Then hit Okay.
Since you say "print"...
The general rule I've found among providers who print single color (single plate, single silk screen, whatever) is that they prefer the artwork itself in black with a specification as to the desired color (usually a Pantone number).
There may be exceptions to this, but I've not run across any. You or your client should ask the print provider for guidance on how they prefer the work set up.
You can very quickly convert to "black plate only" in Acrobat, of course, but Scott's approach will work nicely inside AI.
This is supplementary info, but there's a bit you have to know about printing before you convert the artwork.
It sounds like you want your printers print a one colour job, i.e. use a single, pre-mixed green "spot colour" ink, rather than printing green tones with the normal CMYK process (cyan, magenta, yellow, black).
You need to specify exactly what green you want the printers to use. The normal way of doing this in most of the world is to choose a colour from the Pantone colour matching system. Can the client tell you the Pantone reference they normally use for this green? If they have a style guide, it should be in there.
If you need to pick the colour, all Adobe software will allow you to choose Pantone colours from a palette, but given you are dealing with ink, the reliable way of doing this is taking a look at a printed Pantone sample book. These are expensive, so unless you need to do this a lot, you'll probably want to borrow one, take a look at one when you meet your print rep etc.
(Just checking, there wasn't already a "what is a Pantone colour" question. So I've used this as the basis of one: What is a spot/Pantone colour?).


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I've had a like button on my site for a long time, and right now it has ~500 likes. However, this button only likes the actual link to the website and not a page on Facebook. Today I have created a new page for my service, and even though I've found a way to make a like button for the page, I'd like to know if there was a way to transfer the likes I had on the old button (link only) to the new button (fb page) and also maybe make it so that the old "link-only" button actually links to the new page (right now the link button and page button act as if they're completely unrelated).
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
Unfortunately, there is no way to transfer likes from one graph object to another.
But there is something you can do: Every like button in fact creating edge in opengraph which have a page on Facebook, so you can inform people who already likes your "old page" about existence of new one. You can publish stream updates to the users who have liked your page just like you can with Facebook Pages. There are two ways to get to the publishing interface:
From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/#publishing
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He was born March 7, 1931, in Hopedale, Ohio, a son of the late Rexford C. and Mary (McGrail) Liggett.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife, Janet M. Liggett and son, Rex W. Liggett Jr.
Rex was Methodist by faith. He served his country in the Army Air Corp. Rex was a member of the VFW Amsterdam.
Rex is survived by sons, Joel K. (Kristie) Liggett of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, Robert J. (Janice) Liggett of Richmond, Ohio, and Mark E. (Donna) Liggett of Wintersville; siblings, Ronald, Carol, and Karen; grandchildren, Billie J. Liggett, Jeanie K. Liggett, Kevin M. Liggett, Jeffrey M. Liggett, Jason L. Liggett, and Lindsey M. Koch; and seven great- grandchildren.
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In this talk John Schmor, professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon, addresses questions about the process of creating new work for the theater.
In what Schmor calls a "poetics for devising," he also considers both the "rules" and the limitations of an aesthetic process. Schmor has published about the devising process and performed in numerous divised works in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
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Deciding How You'll Pay for a Home
Swing Loan
A swing loan is a mortgage loan necessary to tide you over when you need to buy a property while you already own another one. Some cases in which a swing loan comes in handy might be when one spouse gets a new job and goes off to the new location while the rest of the family stays behind. The spouse who's already moved finds a great house, flies the rest of the family out, and they agree to buy it, despite the fact that their original home isn't even up for sale, yet.
Or perhaps you have no intention of moving, but quite by accident, you find the house you've always wanted. You're afraid of losing your dream home, so you make a bid and start looking for a swing loan.
Swing loans are interest-only loans, using the first property as collateral for the second property. They're usually executed as equity loans on first property.
Swing loans require you to sign a mortgage note that collateralizes the first house. You'll pay interest only until the first property is sold. When you sell the property, you repay the loan and satisfy the mortgage.
Construction Loan
Construction loans are available to finance new construction. You can be a first-time homeowner and need a construction loan, or you can already be a homeowner who requires one while you build a second home.
The bank agrees to give you a specified construction mortgage, usually with four equal draws or payments to the contractor. When the contractor requests a draw, an inspector is sent to the property site to verify that the builder has completed everything that's been agreed upon to date.
To request a construction home loan, you'll need to take your building plans and a purchase contract to your lending institution. Although all lending firms are different, most require an initial settlement, which is held in escrow until spent.
A construction mortgage is interest only while the property is being built. Once the construction is completed, the bank has a formal settlement, any overages are accounted for, and a standard mortgage (with principal repayment and interest) begins.
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14 May 2011 2:27 PM #1
GXT meets Adobe AIR
Hello poeple,
gwt4air 2.1 (http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/) is some days away.
One of the most important feature of this release is a Java(GWT) API for adobe FLEX. And i m glad to see that i m not the only one who had this idea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sbusEUz5w&t=1718)
For those who use EXT-GWT to build AIR applications this release also include some new components. One of them being the FileSystemTreePanel.
This component displays the user s filesystem in a TreePanel. Below is how the API looks like
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Viewport viewPort = new Viewport();
viewPort.setLayout(new CenterLayout());
ContentPanel panel = new ContentPanel();
panel.setLayout(new FitLayout());
panel.setSize(600, 400);
panel.setHeading("GXT-FileSystemTreePanel Component Example");
//This line is necessary to makes GXT work inside the AIR security sandbox
The component also autoupdates itself when an external storage(USB, external HDD is mount/unmount to/from the user computer.
I m looking forward for your feedback.
Other components will follow soon
16 May 2011 11:53 PM #2
gwt4air 2.1 is out http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/
This release brings a lot of new Features in GWT application development
- Java API for Flex (Browser and AIR)
Client Side PDF API
Clientside Excel API
easy GWT(GXT) - Flex Integration (One can basically integrate any Flex UI component in his GXT application)
Some new GXT components to use in your GXT applications(FileSystemTreePanel, FileSystemTreeGrid, etc...)
I m looking forward for your inputs.
- Java API for Flex (Browser and AIR)
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- The parking lot was empty at the Manhattan Pain and Spine Center Wednesday but it was a much different scene the day before as federal agents and Riley County detectives raided the office of Dr. Michael Schuster.
As authorities swarmed his pain clinic on Westport Drive, the 53-year-old doctor, was arrested at the Manhattan Regional Airport. The FBI won't elaborate on what Schuster was doing there when he was taken into custody.
Now, his patients are left wondering where to turn.
"It's been very frustrating. I can't contact him in any way and I don't know what I'm going to do. In a week, I had an appointment to get my neck blocked. It was a procedure he was going to give me to relieve the pain in my neck and now I don't know what to do. There's a whole bunch of his patients out there that we have to find other doctors, I guess," said Kimberly Dejac.
"I've only gone to him for six weeks so I was very surprised. It's very scary. I'm glad they caught him," she added.
Schuster is charged with one count of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances.
A criminal complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Topeka alleges that Schuster employed unlicensed staff members who distributed controlled substances to patients using Schuster's signature on prescriptions while he was traveling out of the state or out of the country.
The indictment alleges that Schuster was out of the office when a total of 542 patients received prescriptions for medications including oxycodone, morphine, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, fentanyl, amphetamine salts, tapentadol, methadone, methylphenidate, hydrocodone, diazepam, alprazolam, zolpidem titrate and clonazepam.
According to an affidavit from the FBI agent on the case, the investigation began early in 2012 when the Riley County Police Department received reports that Schuster was issuing prescriptions for high dosages of scheduled drugs based on minimal or cursory physical examinations. As a result, several patients had overdosed on their medications and Riley County Police were investigating the diversion of prescription drugs. Simultaneously, physicians and hospital staff at Fort Riley voiced concerns to Army Criminal Investigative Division that active duty soldiers and family members who died from overdoses were Schuster's patients.
Fort Riley Public Affairs officials declined to release information about the reported deaths involving soldiers and their family members.
"I confirm we are supporting the US Attorney's investigation. This is a community concern and as members of the community, we, the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, want to make sure we do our part…While Dr. Schuster was at one time an authorized TRICARE medical provider, any details concerning patients is protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and again delves into investigative matters," said Jason Roberts, 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs Media Relations Manager.
In the affidavit from the FBI agent on the case, it also states Schuster would sign blank prescription pads that his staff would use to issue medications when he traveled.
He was the only person in the office with a DEA registration number to prescribe controlled substances, the agent said.
Red flags were raised by local pharmacists who called his office with questions after receiving prescriptions with his signature that were "early"- meaning that they had been issued prior to the expiration of the normal 30 days between prescriptions, given the frequency the drugs were to be taken- only to be informed that Schuster was out of the office traveling. Manhattan pharmacies were notified not to fill prescriptions from his clinic.
"During these interviews, I learned of Dr. Schuster's pattern and practice of using unlicensed staff members to issue prescriptions to patients at times when he was not present in Kansas, let alone his clinic," the FBI agent wrote in the document.
Schuster, previously known as Mikhail Pavlovich Shusterov, is a 1982 graduate of Stavropol State Medical Academy in Russia. Around March 2004, he moved from the northeast to accept a position at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan and eventually opened his own practice nearby.
The 14-page affidavit goes on to state findings from interviews with Fort Riley physicians and local area pharmacies, including allegations that Dr. Schuster prescribed unusually high dosages of narcotics "despite questionable medical necessity;" allowed patients to get early refills and had a tendency to attract patients suspected of selling their prescription medications on the street.
Investigators documented various prescriptions bearing Schuster's signature while he was on trips to Russia, South Africa, Uruguay, Canada, New York, Chile, Argentina, and Israel.
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $1 million. If death or bodily injury results from the crime, the penalty is not less than 20 years. Schuster made his first appearance Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in federal court in Wichita. He entered a plea of not guilty.
A bond was not set by the magistrate judge after federal prosecutors described the doctor as a flight risk. They said Schuster has more than $1 million outside the U.S., a home in Paraguay and two passports.
The judge ordered Dr. Schuster to be held in custody pending a hearing at 10 AM Tuesday, April 30 in federal court in Topeka.
Kevin Neitzel, owner of "The Fridge" has been in business on Westport Drive for 17 years. His liquor store is located across the street from Schuster's clinic.
"I was just as shocked as everybody else. It's just crazy that something like this happened here in Manhattan... It's dangerous when you're messing around with prescription medication.. It's crazy the amount of traffic that went in and out of there the last two years. It's hard to believe all of that was going on on our little street here on Westport," Neitzel said.
Calls to Schuster's attorney, Barry Clark of Manhattan, have not been returned.


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WACO (January 10, 2013)—Two Waco firefighters underwent medical evaluation Wednesday night after they were burned fighting a South Waco house fire.
Units were sent at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to a house in the 1700 block of South 18th Street where initial reports indicated there may have been someone trapped inside a burning house.
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16 Feb 2011 5:54 AM #1
How can I do to fire a button click event?
Hi everyone!!!
I'm trying to fire a button click event, but I'm afraid to do something bad, because my listener never catches the event (I never see the alert ).
This is what I wrote:
final Button myButton= new Button(); myButton.setSize("90px", "45px"); myButton.setText("PRESS ME"); myButton.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener<ButtonEvent>() { public void componentSelected(ButtonEvent ce) { } public void handleEvent(ButtonEvent e) { MessageBox.alert("", "HELLO", null); } }); EventType et = new EventType(Event.ONCLICK); myButton.fireEvent(et);
Thanks a lot!!!
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18 Feb 2011 2:29 AM #4
You never ever want to do this. Its one of the worst practices you can do. You should create a method that the listener calls and you can also call manually.
18 Feb 2011 4:55 AM #5
Yes I've already done so, but I was curious how dispatching events
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If you only call the button's handler then you miss the styling update that an actual button press would provide.
19 Nov 2013 12:16 PM #10
QA automation
Also calling a click event would be useful for QA (GUI test automation). Instead of trying to understand the developer code to find which function is the actual handler, the GUI tester could have a generic "button.doClick()" call to simulate a user click with UX and behavior integrated.
It could be accomplished by
button.fireEvent('click', button);
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