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« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2010, 09:16 AM »Did anyone already have it? I was just wondering what the alternative gift was...
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If you don't like it don't use it.-justice (October 21, 2010, 07:53 AM)
Just couldn't resist that~!
-Renegade (October 14, 2010, 07:21 AM)
) the reason that you ended up where you are now? 
Oops - almost forgot: one of the most exasperating missing features in Chrome........... NO PRINT PREVIEW!! What are they thinking with that??-J-Mac (October 13, 2010, 09:35 PM)
Have you tried either of the companion products from JGsoft - RegEx Buddy and RegEx Magic?
Both are directly available in EditPad Pro search pane and the Magic version requires no RegEx syntax knowledge! All the power of RegEx without the pain.-Carol Haynes (October 14, 2010, 03:28 AM)
It is annoying when something I'm used to in FF is not available in chrome. CheckPlaces can fetch favicons without opening a zillion tabs as example. otoh I have about 23 AddOns in FF and I can only do a couple more things than chrome with 7. And one of the 7 is Foxmarks, just to sync to FF now and then. Getting by with a 1/2 dozen extensions ain't bad.-MilesAhead (October 13, 2010, 03:37 PM)
I'm just quoting from what was said in the interview. Maybe it was an average, which would (I think) be going down by now?-wraith808 (October 05, 2010, 09:40 PM)
I don't mean to be nitpicky, but what you wrote wasn't in quotes and you didn't mention an interview. That said, I'm not trying to argue about it. I think I made myself clear previously that I didn't doubt what you said was true--at some point in time--but it doesn't seem to be the case as of now.-Deozaan (October 05, 2010, 10:24 PM)
2. The developer, with no copy protection, no distribution channel, and none of the BS that the software industry says is 'necessary' is making $350,000 a day. Yes... that's a day, as in one sold per 3 seconds.-wraith808 (October 05, 2010, 03:51 PM)
That's a bit high. He probably did make that much in one day, for perhaps a few days even, but I don't think it's accurate to say he does that every day.
Let the stats speak for themselves:1103443 registered users, of which 334312 (30.29%) have bought the game.
In the last 24 hours, 28007 people registered, and 10753 people bought the game.
A sale every three seconds would be 28,800 purchases per day. And as stated above, in the past 24 hours, it's been just over 1/3 of that.
Even still, 10,000 sales per day is about $150,000 USD every day. I wouldn't complain about that.-Deozaan (October 05, 2010, 04:12 PM)
You can't do this without a database linking your data (songs etc), hardware and customer info.
I'm not implying that they collect other data (I've no idea whether they do or not). Clearly their systems aren't good enough to detect the copying from one computer to another.-Dormouse (October 05, 2010, 12:21 AM)
@wraith808 -- Apple will let you buy an app oon your iTouch, then also put it on your iPhone, and put it on your iPad, without charging you each time?
THAT sounds VERY out of character...-Renegade (October 03, 2010, 06:37 PM)
I disagree. Once you've bought apps, if they won't work on an OS, then you'll pretty much stick to it unless something catastrophic happens. So the OS locks you in. That's one of the reasons it took me forever to get an iPhone- I had too many apps on windows mobile (or whatever it was then).-wraith808 (October 03, 2010, 08:31 AM)
But it didn't stop you, did it? And just look at how much the market shares have changed in just a few years. How many WM users are sticking with WM? And WM7 won't be compatible with WM6 anyway.
I miss Agenda Fusion /Pocket Informant and ListPro. But there should be an android version of Pocket Informant very soon. I will otherwise just use apps that do what I want.
Next time, I will look at everything available (except iPhone - I won't buy any Apple product because they are so monopolistic) and make my decision at the time. I expect my next phone to work differently anyway, so a new OS won't be an issue. The change this time has been a delight.
Maybe switching from an iPhone would be harder. Apple control a lot of the data and datalinks as well as the OS and hardware so it might be harder to break free. I don't know; I can't see any such problem with Android.-Dormouse (October 03, 2010, 10:02 AM)
Of course, the thing about smartphones in that the OS is not where the action is: users will switch from one to another without a second thought.-Dormouse (October 03, 2010, 04:15 AM)
Again, not to sound cold because that is not my intent, is that my concern when I go out to eat? If I worried about everyone who was being underpaid, I would tip the people at walmart who ring up my merchandise who make nothing, work 40+ hours per week, and receive no real set of benefits, I would tip the people at mcdonalds working drive thru, I would tip the person working the gas station, etc. I go to a restaurant to eat, not worry about the employment decision made by an individual. At what point do I stop worrying about everyone else and start worrying more about my family and my own obligations?
Again, I am not trying to sound cold, but I take this viewpoint from a realist standpoint and realize that I cannot affect everyone's pay without affecting those whom I have a direct responsibility for (My family). I am not going to tip someone an arbitrary amount set by tradition because it is the normal thing to do. I am going to tip you if I feel you earned it and even then I will tip the amount I feel you earned, not some arbitrary percentage.-Josh (October 01, 2010, 10:19 AM)
That is part of my logic. The cost of the food, whether this is actually the case or not, should cover the service the waiter is providing. If I tip, it should be EXTRA and not an expected part of their income. Why am I going to tip you 15% of a 60 dollar check for 4 interactions (Intro/Drink order placement, drop off drinks and take food order, drop off food and see if anything else is needed, and checking if we want desert/dropping off check) with the occasional extra drink refill? What did they do that warrants $9, in the case of a 60 dollar check, extra? Why should I leave you 15% extra from my check? What, because it is considered "customary"? Sorry, I will tip you when I feel it is warranted and you did something to earn the extra money. I will not tip because it's the "expected" thing to do.-Josh (October 01, 2010, 08:57 AM)
