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The deal is only on when at least 10 people have made a purchase. I wonder what is left for the company when PayPal has been paid!-Curt (April 11, 2011, 02:51 AM)
But I'm glad I *didn't* see mice crawling in and out of the innards of a still-living animal at the same time.-JavaJones (April 10, 2011, 08:25 PM)
I saw something like that in person when I was a young child. My older brother had a small pet lizard of some sort and fed it mealwormsw. Well, apparently the lizard ate them whole, without chewing or otherwise killing them. They ate their way out from the inside of the lizard.-Deozaan (April 11, 2011, 01:11 AM)
That is just wrong, dammit. Of course I've heard of such things before, mostly with wasps laying eggs in say a spider and then them eating their way out when they hatch. But somehow when it's not insects/arachnids, it's more creepy...
- Oshyan-JavaJones (April 11, 2011, 01:14 AM)
Mealworms are typically used as a food source for reptile, fish, and avian pets. They are also provided to wild birds in bird feeders, particularly during the nesting season, when birds are raising their young and appreciate a ready food supply. Mealworms are high in protein, which makes them especially useful as a food source. They are also commonly used for fishing bait.
I've written it up here:
Purchasing Artwork for Commercial Use Cheaply-Renegade (April 10, 2011, 12:40 AM)
Interesting writeup, thanks. Are you typically allowed to modify bought stock images?-phitsc (April 11, 2011, 02:10 AM)
I've never clicked one of these except by accident. But honestly, I wonder how many clicks you need until it gives you 400$.
-phitsc (April 11, 2011, 02:11 AM)
i don't mean to push my feelings on anyone.. but do we maybe think the points on this thread have been hashed out several times over, and maybe it's time to move on? just a thought.-mouser (April 11, 2011, 12:16 AM)
I guess I'll just bid adieu. It is clear I am very out of sync with some of the general thinking here...in that I cannot see how anyone would conclude that this "method" has any coat of acceptability whatsoever.
I say that because, to me, if anything is being done (installed or info sent to wherever) before the user has a chance to prevent it, that unquestionably (in my opinion) constitutes unacceptable behavior.-movrshakr (April 10, 2011, 03:46 PM)
I agree to an extent; just not as passionately as you. Mainly though I just want to keep Renegade from getting cranked back up... see if we can save him from destroying his keyboard in this thread!
Jim-J-Mac (April 10, 2011, 10:36 PM)
Clearly, you have no problem with someone, without your permission, installing software on your machine, or sending off data about you or your machine--as does OpenCandy.-movrshakr (April 10, 2011, 04:15 PM)
After seeing your comments over on Gizmo's blog I don’t think it strange at all!
-J-Mac (April 10, 2011, 10:46 AM)
I personally think they should hire Renegade in some capacity. He's done more to build a convincing case for OC (despite the fact I personally don't like how OC implements itself) than some of the official communiqués ever did. He also speaks to the concerns of developers and software geeks. And, being a developer himself, on their level.
Hey DrApps! Maybe you folks should consider hiring this guy in some capacity?
Seriously.
-40hz (April 09, 2011, 12:48 PM)
So, Super Simple has been live for 12 days. It took about 2.5 days to submit, and since then I’ve only made some blog and forum posts. Results? Not too bad. Photo Resizer has moved from second click results to first click results, just as predicted. The Super Simple Photo Resizer even has a top 10 ranking now!
Yeah, I'm not saying it's not justified. Just that it's way too much to create freeware with it-phitsc (April 09, 2011, 04:59 PM)
Let's face it, animals are bastards. With all of the ant slavery, ape war and duck rape in the world, it's easy to decide nature is something best left to the wild. But there are those animals that -- thanks to Disney and The Far Side -- we tend to think are more likely to dispense witty one liners than bite our face. But while we've been busy rooting for them, they've been quietly revealing their true colors ...
I've never installed anything OC has promoted.
Does it do an auto install if you choose one?
Or does it do it another way?-cmpm (April 09, 2011, 10:43 AM)
OC isn't installed on your machine. It runs in the installer temp directory, loaded into memory by the installer so that functions can be called from the installer. Once the installer cleanup runs, it is removed from your machine. Renegade did a test to see if everything is removed, and apparently it is, other than one empty folder.-wraith808 (April 09, 2011, 11:13 AM)
OpenCandy does indeed want to make sure that we don't recommend something that someone already has installed. However, OpenCandy does *NOT* scan your computer and catalog all the programs you have installed (a very common misconception for some reason). What the OpenCandy installer plug-in does do is use what we call "validation code" to determine whether a recommendation a developer has chosen is valid for a given computer. As an example, someone without Outlook installed wouldn't benefit from an Outlook plugin. So if a developer has chosen to recommend an Outlook plugin, an XML-based file of "validation code" is sent to the user's computer. The OpenCandy plug-in (running locally) checks the "validation code" to see if Outlook is installed and if so, the OpenCandy plug-in sends our server a binary "yes" in order for the graphics and messaging for the recommendation screen to be sent to the user's computer to be displayed during the publisher's installation process.
But 400$, not yay-phitsc (April 09, 2011, 01:17 AM)
I was searching for the Pay per install market recently and the rates of download made me chuckle. Check the rates on 21media.biz (sorry not going to give them link).
1000 downloads - 100$ (US downloads), just curious what's the rate of OC in comparison to them ?-mahesh2k (April 09, 2011, 01:27 AM)
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