hamrickdavid

Yes, back in 2004 we did offer lifetime free updates for Professional Edition customers. We changed it to 1 year of updates a number of years ago, but indefinite access for the versions released during your free update period. But of course, we grandfathered in all licenses that came with lifetime free updates. I think when we started offering lifetime free updates back in 1998, we didn't expect to still be working on VueScan 27 years later!

Those old Nikon scanners really were great scanners - VueScan will be there when you need it!

VueScan Developer here. We have a subscription option - but that's really intended for customers who have short term scanning needs (ie. scan all of your slides). If you purchase a one-time VueScan license, you can use it indefinitely.

Not a ton has changed for the better - but a few things have:

  1. Ticket prices have come down in real terms (especially with the advent of low cost airlines)
  2. Fuel economy on newer jets has improved
  3. Increased number of routes and frequencies
  4. Lie flat seats in business and above on long haul
  5. WiFi on planes
  6. In-flight entertainment - both seatback units and video over WiFi

Spreadsheets and word processors are good examples. Visicalc was overtaken by Lotus 1-2-3 which was overtaken by Excel. WordPerfect was overtaken by Microsoft Word.

This is great. I continue to use bitbucket for all of my personal repos since they provide unlimited private repos for free. I would use github for my private repos but I have lot's of small repos that make private github cost prohibitive.

I think that all of that can be supported by file formats. There is no rule that an image file format can only hold the pixel information. The issue is that it's hard for all vendors to agree on a standard, and once it's agreed upon, people want to add more information to it. We have EXIF for images, but what happens when iPhoto and Picasa both add face tags?

I don't believe files are the issue, it's agreeing on the interchange format that is.