(student version) because I needed to do some complex mathematical manipulation, and I figured it'd be a handy thing to have around anyway. Plus, I had seen on their website links to download course material (teach yourself type thing) on a bunch of interesting subjects. But it turned out to be worth a lot less than the $150 I paid for it. As did the $200 for Macromedia Studio 4 (MX came out less than a month later--no free upgrade or anything) and the $200 for Office 2000 Pro (dad made me get that so I'd have a legit copy).
By the way, I'm now using Mozilla since IE completely died on me earlier today (there are a decent number of programs that no longer function properly without IE). I was about to extol its virtues, having saved me from IE and Outlook, but I just noticed that it's using 75MB of RAM, more than IE used, even when there were phantom copies of it running. |
