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What I'm trying to say is, put the money to ACTUAL GOOD USE, and not into the pockets of the large corporations.-Tinman57 (January 07, 2013, 07:00 PM)
Wraith888: Technically, you're perfectly right, and I knew this even before I made my request. But since the thread starter insisted on his thread being NOT SPAM, then all of us had us in a big way, to change NOT SPAM into SPAM would be just retaliation and more elegant at that then saying something like, all those who did this to us are big a...
So why not change the subtitle to [ATTN: SCAM, WORSE THAN ANY POSSIBLE SPAM]-helmut85 (January 07, 2013, 06:08 PM)
But I don't want it to stop there! Most of the ideas for companies to contact I got from threads here, recent recommendations, and my own experiences. Help me out with any requests that you might have in this thread. After I get a few in the pipeline, I'll start up a status thread to let you know how it's going with your favorite request.@40hz
I agree with you but we are living in he world where you subscribe games (Steam does not sell games any more) and some people need warnings on hot coffee cups.-fenixproductions (January 07, 2013, 05:54 PM)
Could one of the moderators change the subtitle of this thread from (NOT SPAM) to (SPAM), please?-helmut85 (January 07, 2013, 04:42 PM)
Why? No matter what happens, it's still not forum spam.-wraith808 (January 07, 2013, 05:24 PM)
+1 w/ Helmut85...
I think it would be more accurate (and fair to Adobe) if it read: Rumors of Adobe releasing CS2 for free? (NOT TRUE)-40hz (January 07, 2013, 05:32 PM)
-the program's full name is PageFour - Software for Novelists and Creative Writers and has nothing to do with a personal informations manager.-Curt (January 07, 2013, 03:59 PM)
Could one of the moderators change the subtitle of this thread from (NOT SPAM) to (SPAM), please?-helmut85 (January 07, 2013, 04:42 PM)
)I don't know the numbers there, but it seems to me that putting an asteroid in orbit around the moon probably wouldn't support as many households as something like having an economy that actually supports manufacturing jobs rather than eliminating them.-Renegade (January 06, 2013, 09:27 PM)
While there is a lot of scientific value in space exploration and experimentation, and it does create jobs, it still seems to me that $2.6 billion could be better spent somehow to create jobs that get people off the dole.-Renegade (January 06, 2013, 07:17 PM)
I have a much better idea, let's spend that $2.6 billion on our own economy. I'm not anti-NASA or anything, but this is somewhat extreme even for NASA, especially for that amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere....-Tinman57 (January 05, 2013, 06:23 PM)
I have a feeling that this is just a hypothetical. They are looking at okay what would it take to do this, they're not going to actually do it.
Cause it doesn't really fit the pattern for what NASA would normally be doing.
Although building the rockets required to make this happen would most certainly be an economic stimulis. This is where people get the space program wrong.
Those billions of dollars spent on each flight?
It's not wasted. That money went into the hands of the engineers and scientists that made it possible, and the factory workers making the hardware. Billions of dollars into the US economy, and indeed the global economy for each rocket built regardless of if it succeeds in its mission or not.
A fair portion of that comes back as income taxes, and it also kicks up revenue from other sources as other industries move in to profit from the technology developed by the space program. Ultimately it could be a very profitable business even if only 1 out of every 2 rockets leaves the ground without exploding, although scientific success is far better than a high failure rate.
And I'd much rather see that kind of money spent paying people to build rockets as government employees or their subcontractors rather than being given away as handouts through Social Services because there aren't enough jobs.
Building rockets is a bigtime industry with a lot of work to be done.-SeraphimLabs (January 05, 2013, 06:28 PM)
I think I am the prototype on the thread's subject. I have purchased hundreds of useful programs that weren't useful at all - at least not to me. And then I upgrade to the new version, because now I have it, so I must upgrade it, or the initial purchase would seem wasted...
Just like our DC member Darwin I have now changed my ways. I am down to 145 programs installed, and haven't made a single purchase.. ehh... more than a couple of purchases since November. Hello, my name is Curt, I am a softoholic...-Curt (January 04, 2013, 10:26 PM)
GOG is redoing the "End of the World" sale that they had on Dec 21 - there are a bunch of bundles at 75% off and nearly all of their games are 50% off if you decide not to go with a bundle.
If you like old, nostalgic games, it's a good time to buy. I've been replaying Ultima Underworld the past few days, and I'm loving it (but my sleep cycle isn't).
All games on GOG are DRM free.
http://www.gog.com/-mwb1100 (January 02, 2013, 01:21 PM)
I've bought over 10 games through Gog.com The only thing I don't like is having to use their downloader, I prefer my own.-Tinman57 (January 04, 2013, 04:59 PM)
I've had nothing but good fortune with Amazon proper. Can't say that, however, for some of their third party vendors. And some times ya hafta look pretty close to determine if you are purchasing Amazon direct, even though the payment is to Amazon. As an aside, I wonder how big a cut Amazon gets from those third party purchases?
-barney (January 03, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Occasional slip-ups... but nothing compared to the convenience or prices.There.-Tuxman (January 02, 2013, 09:50 PM)
Because I've seen that before.-Tuxman (January 02, 2013, 09:04 PM)
Why do you need the start menu? You can simply click the lower left corner, where the start button used to be, and you can type just as you would before. I don't know many people who navigated the menus rather than typing the entry name...At least users NOT on XP.I'm on XP, when I want to run an app I just hit Win-Q and then type the first couple of letters of the app I want to run, and Ta-Dah! It's running. It's called Slickrun. But there are times when I want to run an app that I haven't used in a while and can't remember the name. That's where the start menu comes in handy, or I can hit Win-Q and have Slickrun give me a list of apps...-Josh (January 02, 2013, 09:14 AM)-Tinman57 (January 02, 2013, 09:00 PM)