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Excuse me but, never having nor wanting web site, I'm unclear here. Just what authority recognizes, protects, and enforces the ownership of these names? Historically this is the one basic function of government, to be the authority that recognizes, protects, and enforces the ownership of...

There's a whole hell of a lot of difference between laying a foundation and constructing an entire original package and merely evolving what you already have. The original package was developed years ago and, if the developers had a clue, should have been full amortized in a couple of years...

Not particularly. Upgrades notwithstanding, I see little advantage in a subscription over a one time fee and a number of disadvantages. Even though your software is hideously overpriced, as is often the case with niche market software, I'd still rather pay whatever and not have to deal with...

"Drassage jumps" [sic, it's 'Dressage'] is an oxymoron. There's show jumping, stadium jumping, cross country jumping, and hunter/jumper, and simply jumping over stuff, but there's no jumping in dressage. The devices to which you refer are called 'jump standards'. They may or may not be suitable...

The assumption being that they're referred to as 'amazing' rather than merely 'interesting' because they were new to the OP.

Not particularly new. These effects are known to and used by sidewalk chalk artists for years.

Excellent craftsmanship on a rather pedestrian design. Looks like a sign for a miniature golf course or a ride at a traveling carnival.

A&P = Atlantic & Pacific = Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Been around in the U.S. since the 19th century.

What in hell are you people doing? I have approximately the same tackle. a VJ1204 and an FC7000-30 [from SW by the bye], Flexi 8.6 under XP, and I can put a print anywhere on the media and correctly contour cut. Center, left, right wherever. Once the first mark is located, as long as the three...

The two bottom efforts are dreck. The top one looks like a logo for a trucking company.

Well bucko, if pointing out reality constitutes 'railing' on someone there in your village, then there is considerable difference between your concept of 'railing' and my own. Neither is it considered 'obnoxious' among civilized beings to merely call 'em the way you see 'em. I'm sure the...

The simple geometry necessary to bisect a circle is, or should be, known to every elementary school child. To halve a circle with most any graphics software should be intuitive. All that's required is familiarity with the concept of 'radius' and it's relationship to 'diameter'. If you find this...

Perhaps but I've heard from various authorities that black ink has relatively coarser particles than the other colors and thus the black heads are more prone to clogging. Sounds good, I don't know if it's true but I do know that the black heads always seem the first to go.

The answer is...who knows? There are many factors, so many that the longevity of any particular print in indeterminate. Here's a data point; about 9 years ago I put a contour cut print featuring a complete spectrum as a gradient as well as other solid features on the front of my aluminum...

Every brand has both horrorific and heroic anecdotes. They mean little. Graphtec makes a fine machine as does Summa. I prefer the Graphtec drag knife to the Summa with the blade orientation mechanism. It's just something else to go wrong. Unless you're cutting Lilliputian letters, and if you...

Exactly so. This looks like a third rate talent working at full capacity using MS Publisher. Try again. It doesn't matter what the client wants so much as what the client needs.

Going back to the original question: "best software for the newbies?" Your' only a beginner once, then you're not. That status, beginner, should not dictate what software to use. Get what you're going to end up using day in and day out and deal with it, it's not rocket surgery. The notion...

For all of you that think that all those nasty gasses will be trapped under the laminate if you don't wait some silly amount of time, you should familiarize yourselves with the concept of 'gas permeability'. Vinyl media is gas permeable. Any of the mythical gasses that might be trapped will...

Some years back there was far more difference between calendared and cast vinyl. Today not so much. Cast is inherently more friendly to curves but for a simple curved door or window, they're pretty much functionally the same. I'm sure that this will bring cries of outraged protest from the...

3rd grade eh? Apparently I'm among the reading disabled. You're absolutely correct that words are read by glancing at them as a unit and not collections of individual letters**. Perhaps that's why after my first, and if I weren't actually examining the thing, only glance I thought is said...