In other words, it sounds like a problem for people who want to charge large amounts for a shareware product but can't due to a competitor, or who feel like a chump for buying a product that now costs a lot less than what they paid for it?
It onl sounds like that if you ignore most of what I wrote.
It hurts the industry. For one, it reveals how much those developers who participated really value their work. I was rather disappointed to see TextMate in there. It is an extraordinary editor, and the "retail" price of it is higher than the price of the entire bundle. I bought it before this bundle. It was pricey, but eventually I accepted that the developer really thought it was worth that much. OK, so I paid.
And now I see that he really doesn't think it's worth all that much. I can't see it as being promotional - I think pretty much anybody in his target audience is already aware of it.
And the developers who chose not to participate - who think their product is worth more - will be hurt. I will be a lot more hesitant to pay full price for something else. Because I will remember the foolish feeling of having paid full price when I saw this bundle.
I think basically it says that shareware is not really worth what people are asking. And shareware is in a funny position. It's not simply fighting "should I pay or do without," but it also struggles against "should I pay or should I find a serial number." The greater the "overpriced" perception, the more like people are to choose the latter.
cmd-esc. If you use cmd-` a lot, you'll know what I mean.
Thanks. Just the other day I was getting ready to watch a movie. Everything was all set - I parked the laptop on the coffee table in front of the couch, parked a girl on the couch, poured two glasses of wine, dimmed the lights, curled into the couch.... and then realized I'd forgotten the remote. Not knowing how else to invoke it, I instead fumbled around launching DVD player, which of course is not nearly as impressive a way to play it.:-)
I use escape a lot (because of TextMate's autofill), but I never hit the command key while doing so.
So the new question was, what do you use cmd-' for? But I see that it cycles through windows. So thanks, you've been very helpful today;-)
How about regular click an edge to move the entire window, and control-click-drag anywhere on an edge to resize?
And how about actually adding an edge? It's too easy to "miss" the window I'm aiming for and accidentally click the window behind, bringing it to the front. OS 9 Windows had a nice fat border, and this was never a problem. Yes, the current windows look "cleaner," but they don't work as well.
I think a big part of it is that many users have now been around long enough to have gone through an upgrade cycle - New iPods, new computer, and now they're got to deauthorize, reauthorize, move stuff, and the only part that troublesome are the songs they bought on iTunes. And so they feel like a chump, and they get the feeling that their "purchase" is not quite as permanent as they thought, and the biggest visible difference between a ripped song and a purchased one is that the purchased one is inferior.
When customers feel like a chump for giving you money they tend to stop doing it. Feeling like a fool far outweighs "doing the right thing." It's time for DRM to go.
I can't help thinking that someone at Microsoft took a look at Aqua, and decided that it was probably time to overhaul Windows' interface as well;
Good design is *really* hard. Especially on as large a scale as an OS interface. OS X, which is clearly better than anything else, is still really not all that good. It might be that it's simply too hard a problem.
And apparently nobody at Microsoft is capable of good design, and what makes it then doubly hard is it's often not really clear exactly *why* something is a good design. And so if you're in a situation where you don't really understand what you're trying to do, you have no choice but to practice "cargo cult" design and try to do the same thing that works for somebody else. Unfortunately you tend to end up with bamboo sticks in your helmet that way.
Wow, that is the most racist thing I have ever read.
And yet not a thing about race was mentioned. But if you're considering "Third World" to be a race, even so it's hard to imagine you haven't heard more racist things than that.
I use the word "precedent" all the time. Apparently I can go around telling people I'm a lawyer now.
Of course you can. In fact, there's even a...what's that word? You know, when something has already happened and it's considered a reasonable example? Darn it all. Well anyway, it's already been done.
I don't get why a company can't use their own products to promote themselves.
In this case, the cost of acquiring a customer is based in part on what others are willing to pay to Google. If one of those "others" is Google itself, you can see how it might look a little funny.
Most importantly, how do the manufacturers imagine people are supposed to open those things?
My preferred method is to have someone else do it. By that I mean I will ask the store to open it for me. Obviously that's not always convenient, but when I can I have them do it. I figure the advantages are twofold - One, I don't have to open it and injure myself, and two, if enough people did that the stores might tell the manufacturers they don't want that damn packaging.
I shudder to think what might have been accomplished with the time I'd have saved if I hadn't tried to take a shortcut the first time I wrote it.
I've never once had a non-trivial program to write in which I completely understood everything about it, and it was simply a matter of typing it out. So the first version always contains mistakes in judgement.
I have, of course, often thought I completely understood everything, but I've always been wrong.
It's like golf, only you can easily kill yourself or someone else if you're not careful.
Sign me up! I've found it's really hard to actually take anybody out with hitting a stupid little ball at them. Plus even when you get a good one off, etiquette requires that you actually warn them that it's on its way. I'll bet nobody tells them quails nuthin.
You still use him? He and his brother were our best suppliers, but we had problems with one item. They kept sending us blackboards, but we explained we need the kind you can write on with markers. After several rounds of this they finally explained that two Wongs don't make a white. So we had to change.
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Parent post, while perhaps not the most clever of the jokes in this thread, is not actually off-topic.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother to type. You are reading a different post from what I wrote.
It onl sounds like that if you ignore most of what I wrote.
Assuming no cost to answering a few thousand emails instead of programming, then yeah, there's no cost.
It hurts the industry. For one, it reveals how much those developers who participated really value their work. I was rather disappointed to see TextMate in there. It is an extraordinary editor, and the "retail" price of it is higher than the price of the entire bundle. I bought it before this bundle. It was pricey, but eventually I accepted that the developer really thought it was worth that much. OK, so I paid.
And now I see that he really doesn't think it's worth all that much. I can't see it as being promotional - I think pretty much anybody in his target audience is already aware of it.
And the developers who chose not to participate - who think their product is worth more - will be hurt. I will be a lot more hesitant to pay full price for something else. Because I will remember the foolish feeling of having paid full price when I saw this bundle.
I think basically it says that shareware is not really worth what people are asking. And shareware is in a funny position. It's not simply fighting "should I pay or do without," but it also struggles against "should I pay or should I find a serial number." The greater the "overpriced" perception, the more like people are to choose the latter.
Let's see. Some things you can kick without a foot:
- Habits.
- Bad tenants, out.
- it, up a notch.
In Spanish I think it's La Pintura Secando, or something like that.
If it's actually true it can't really be FUD, can it?
Thanks. Just the other day I was getting ready to watch a movie. Everything was all set - I parked the laptop on the coffee table in front of the couch, parked a girl on the couch, poured two glasses of wine, dimmed the lights, curled into the couch.... and then realized I'd forgotten the remote. Not knowing how else to invoke it, I instead fumbled around launching DVD player, which of course is not nearly as impressive a way to play it. :-)
I use escape a lot (because of TextMate's autofill), but I never hit the command key while doing so.
So the new question was, what do you use cmd-' for? But I see that it cycles through windows. So thanks, you've been very helpful today ;-)
What Front Row button?
And how about actually adding an edge? It's too easy to "miss" the window I'm aiming for and accidentally click the window behind, bringing it to the front. OS 9 Windows had a nice fat border, and this was never a problem. Yes, the current windows look "cleaner," but they don't work as well.
When customers feel like a chump for giving you money they tend to stop doing it. Feeling like a fool far outweighs "doing the right thing." It's time for DRM to go.
Good design is *really* hard. Especially on as large a scale as an OS interface. OS X, which is clearly better than anything else, is still really not all that good. It might be that it's simply too hard a problem.
And apparently nobody at Microsoft is capable of good design, and what makes it then doubly hard is it's often not really clear exactly *why* something is a good design. And so if you're in a situation where you don't really understand what you're trying to do, you have no choice but to practice "cargo cult" design and try to do the same thing that works for somebody else. Unfortunately you tend to end up with bamboo sticks in your helmet that way.
For sufficiently small values of ludicrous, of course.
And yet not a thing about race was mentioned. But if you're considering "Third World" to be a race, even so it's hard to imagine you haven't heard more racist things than that.
Of course you can. In fact, there's even a...what's that word? You know, when something has already happened and it's considered a reasonable example? Darn it all. Well anyway, it's already been done.
In this case, the cost of acquiring a customer is based in part on what others are willing to pay to Google. If one of those "others" is Google itself, you can see how it might look a little funny.
Just wait until Whip Maker 2.0 comes out.
My preferred method is to have someone else do it. By that I mean I will ask the store to open it for me. Obviously that's not always convenient, but when I can I have them do it. I figure the advantages are twofold - One, I don't have to open it and injure myself, and two, if enough people did that the stores might tell the manufacturers they don't want that damn packaging.
I've never once had a non-trivial program to write in which I completely understood everything about it, and it was simply a matter of typing it out. So the first version always contains mistakes in judgement.
I have, of course, often thought I completely understood everything, but I've always been wrong.
Oh, shut up.
Sign me up! I've found it's really hard to actually take anybody out with hitting a stupid little ball at them. Plus even when you get a good one off, etiquette requires that you actually warn them that it's on its way. I'll bet nobody tells them quails nuthin.
How do you pronounce that? eighty-ies? Maybe you could write 8ies, which I kinda like. Or plain old '80s.
You still use him? He and his brother were our best suppliers, but we had problems with one item. They kept sending us blackboards, but we explained we need the kind you can write on with markers. After several rounds of this they finally explained that two Wongs don't make a white. So we had to change.
So you have a bought and paid for copy of Windows and they've made you afraid to use it. Seems like there's a moral in there somewhere.