I frequently get feedback (both positive and negative) on the applications I've written. I'd love an opportunity to comment on this feedback, either to address concerns or to graciously accept the accolades.
The reviews suck for customers, too. There's a budget app from iBearSoft called "Money". It got great reviews, but after buying and installing the app, I discovered that it was just awful. I mean, really horrid. You have to put end dates on all recurring income and expenses for some reason, and when I put an end date of January 1, 2039 on my paycheck, it literally took over 5 minutes to recalculate my budget. Also, it doesn't matter that my wife gets paid a monthly salary: it insisted on dividing that amount by the number of days in the current month and using that as her daily pay in all other months. Apparently it wasn't keen on the idea that "$X per month" doesn't depend on the length of a month.
The point of that is that the app had some pretty major flaws that would affect common users. I gave it a 3-star review, basically saying "it shows promise but needs some work." Almost immediately, there were several new 5-star reviews saying that it was the best such program ever and fast and accurate. I later downloaded a newer version and found the same flaws, then lowered my rating to 1-star to counteract the blatantly obvious shills. It was immediately drowned out by the same people updating their reviews so that they were displayed before mine.
Does anyone know of a reliable rating system outside of iTMS? The current one seems to be broken for authors and customers.
You know, I'm sick of hearing about Photoshop. Really. I know about 5 people who use it, and everyone else happily runs the "non-serious" stuff you're disparaging.
That hippie "OSS or nothing!" stuff is great for light work and 1 a.m. dormroom philosophy, but it doesn't cut it for those of us who use our computers for a lot more than browsing the web and sending some email.
Yeah, well try this: Windows sucks for running the software I want. No KDE? Barely has Amarok? None of the command line tools (don't get started about Cygwin unless you're willing to give WINE some credit). See, if you're willing to pick high-profile-but-niche programs, then I can play that game all day.
Sorry, I don't take arguments that start with "get out of America" very... Seriously.
There are times when it is appropriate. If you disagree with the majority politics, religion, or other subject, fine. If you disagree with the fundamental underpinnings of our socio-legal system, then perhaps it's time to look elsewhere for a set of believes less inherently incompatible.
Examples of the former:
"I can't stand Bush/Obama/whoever."
"Christians/atheists/Muslims/Pagans suck."
"Capitalism/Socialism/Communism sucks."
"Democrats/Republicans/Greens/Libertarians are the party of the devil."
Examples of the latter:
"If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide."
"It's for the children."
"Freedom of expression should be limited when it's for the best." (Not counting specific "fire in a theater" or "criminal conspiracy" exceptions.)
"The good of the many outweighs the good of one."
See the difference? Each of the second set could be logically defended within certain frameworks, but is antithetical to the Constitutional system we've built this particular country upon. If you believe strongly in any of them, then this might not be the best fit for you.
There is no money in curing cancer though. Curing cancer would put half of the Medical Establishment out of business.
Bullshit. That implies that every advanced country in the whole world is in on the conspiracy. Go ahead and explain to me how planned economies like China and North Korea would rather allow their citizen-workers to die than to cure them so that they could get back to production.
That's what you're really saying, after all: America is the only country capable of research, and every scientists in every company in America is in strict compliance with their cabalistic orders. Not one single biologist saw fit to leak a miracle cure before they were silenced. That's practically the definition of paranoid delusion.
And it would've been better if she could buy the same steroids OTC, so that there were no checks and balances to see why she was going through a month's supply in 6 days?
It's the doctors who are the drug pushers. Without them the public wouldn't have a fraction of the dangerous chemicals they're shoving into their faces as we speak.
Speaking of which, you might tell your own pusher to cut the crack with something other than meth. Your paranoia is starting to show.
This is what happens when you let the government in to places where it shouldn't be. There shouldn't be a state record of prescriptions, in fact the entire idea of government restricting the sale of certain chemicals to a doctor-monopoly is wrong.
The Libertarian in me agrees with you. The Realist in me who watches soccer moms stuff antibiotics into their cold-infected children for two days and then stopping disagrees wholeheartedly.
There are some things that inherently need to be done under professional supervision. Medicine dosing is one of them.
Price sharing. If I have one news paper they really should give me the device, if I cancel my subscription and get an other one, the new company should pay the other paper the balance of the device, then give me service, If I choose to not have any news service, I pay the balance left for the device. about $5.00 a month of my subscription should go to paying off the balance, or return the device.
Simplified: free reader with a two-year subscription, early cancellation fees applicable. It worked for the phone companies.
SMS is available: it's built-in, e-mail is not present on every phone and relies on a third-party service provider plus settings
Translation: phone providers suck for not broadly offering decent services.
SMS is faster: because there is no GPRS/TCP/IP/SMTP/IMAP/POP connection and transfer overhead
And a Prius is faster than a Ferrari because it doesn't have those big, heavy brakes.
SMS is clean: no risk of having to retrieve large attachements, hardly any spam due to sender costs
Translation: it's not a bug, it's a feature!
SMS is cheaper
ROTFLMAOWTFBBQ!1!
Assuming you're serious, data plans here start at $30/month for browsing + messaging + whatever else you can send over a socket. Unlimited texting is $20, or you can pay $0.25 as you go. Send 3 text messages a day and it's cheaper just to buy the best plan.
When Amazon came out with the Kindle reader for the the iPhone/iPod Touch I tried it out. Guess what it is wonderful.
...except that you can't subscribe to periodicals with it. I know that Amazon doesn't want to undercut their Kindle sales, but without those subscriptions their iPhone app is just another unexciting reader. I deleted it and installed Stanza with much success; it does a better job as an actual reader IMHO.
And in the same vein, they are inadequate because all instances share a kernel.
And are significantly faster (on our workload) and more efficient for the same reason. Since all jails pull from the same heap, you don't have to worry about under- or over-allocating RAM to an instance. You also don't have to contend with multiple kernels all trying to do bookkeeping many hundreds of times per second.
Jails obviously aren't the right tool for every job, but when they suit your needs, they're outstanding.
I have to say that I've never had problems with him or the other OpenBSD maintainers. I'm not part of their "in crowd" by any measure, but everyone's been decent to me when I've had problems or questions.
Bad approach: I can't do $foo. How do I do it?
Good approach: I RTFM about how to do $foo, but step 5 gives different results for me than the man page says it should. What should I try next?
They're busy people, and when I've been respectful of their time, they've been respectful of mine.
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Do these unscrupulous developers just create a bunch of iTunes accounts and buy their own apps so they can post lots of favorable reviews?
That's my guess, or perhaps each employee and their family members buy a copy.
I frequently get feedback (both positive and negative) on the applications I've written. I'd love an opportunity to comment on this feedback, either to address concerns or to graciously accept the accolades.
The reviews suck for customers, too. There's a budget app from iBearSoft called "Money". It got great reviews, but after buying and installing the app, I discovered that it was just awful. I mean, really horrid. You have to put end dates on all recurring income and expenses for some reason, and when I put an end date of January 1, 2039 on my paycheck, it literally took over 5 minutes to recalculate my budget. Also, it doesn't matter that my wife gets paid a monthly salary: it insisted on dividing that amount by the number of days in the current month and using that as her daily pay in all other months. Apparently it wasn't keen on the idea that "$X per month" doesn't depend on the length of a month.
The point of that is that the app had some pretty major flaws that would affect common users. I gave it a 3-star review, basically saying "it shows promise but needs some work." Almost immediately, there were several new 5-star reviews saying that it was the best such program ever and fast and accurate. I later downloaded a newer version and found the same flaws, then lowered my rating to 1-star to counteract the blatantly obvious shills. It was immediately drowned out by the same people updating their reviews so that they were displayed before mine.
Does anyone know of a reliable rating system outside of iTMS? The current one seems to be broken for authors and customers.
Don't be so mean: SCO has an iPhone App!
I'm kind of proud that my warning against it is (at this moment) the #6 Google result for "FCmobilelife".
You know, I'm sick of hearing about Photoshop. Really. I know about 5 people who use it, and everyone else happily runs the "non-serious" stuff you're disparaging.
That hippie "OSS or nothing!" stuff is great for light work and 1 a.m. dormroom philosophy, but it doesn't cut it for those of us who use our computers for a lot more than browsing the web and sending some email.
Yeah, well try this: Windows sucks for running the software I want. No KDE? Barely has Amarok? None of the command line tools (don't get started about Cygwin unless you're willing to give WINE some credit). See, if you're willing to pick high-profile-but-niche programs, then I can play that game all day.
Sorry, I don't take arguments that start with "get out of America" very... Seriously.
There are times when it is appropriate. If you disagree with the majority politics, religion, or other subject, fine. If you disagree with the fundamental underpinnings of our socio-legal system, then perhaps it's time to look elsewhere for a set of believes less inherently incompatible.
Examples of the former:
"I can't stand Bush/Obama/whoever."
"Christians/atheists/Muslims/Pagans suck."
"Capitalism/Socialism/Communism sucks."
"Democrats/Republicans/Greens/Libertarians are the party of the devil."
Examples of the latter:
"If you're innocent, you have nothing to hide."
"It's for the children."
"Freedom of expression should be limited when it's for the best." (Not counting specific "fire in a theater" or "criminal conspiracy" exceptions.)
"The good of the many outweighs the good of one."
See the difference? Each of the second set could be logically defended within certain frameworks, but is antithetical to the Constitutional system we've built this particular country upon. If you believe strongly in any of them, then this might not be the best fit for you.
There is no money in curing cancer though. Curing cancer would put half of the Medical Establishment out of business.
Bullshit. That implies that every advanced country in the whole world is in on the conspiracy. Go ahead and explain to me how planned economies like China and North Korea would rather allow their citizen-workers to die than to cure them so that they could get back to production.
That's what you're really saying, after all: America is the only country capable of research, and every scientists in every company in America is in strict compliance with their cabalistic orders. Not one single biologist saw fit to leak a miracle cure before they were silenced. That's practically the definition of paranoid delusion.
Some of us believe in preventative legislation. The "do whatever you want until you fuck things up for the rest of us" just doesn't sit well with us.
Then get out of America. That's not part of our system design, and your ideas are incompatible with our requirements document. Seriously.
Ummm, is Oracle serious enough?
As I said, I never *wanted* to learn CS. But I have, I have.
With due respect, you learned IT and not CS - not that the former is anything to sneeze at.
And it would've been better if she could buy the same steroids OTC, so that there were no checks and balances to see why she was going through a month's supply in 6 days?
It's the doctors who are the drug pushers. Without them the public wouldn't have a fraction of the dangerous chemicals they're shoving into their faces as we speak.
Speaking of which, you might tell your own pusher to cut the crack with something other than meth. Your paranoia is starting to show.
Why on earth would you give antibiotics for a cold? Colds are viral, last I checked.
That was part of my point.
No argument here. I was just replying to that one specific phrase.
This is what happens when you let the government in to places where it shouldn't be. There shouldn't be a state record of prescriptions, in fact the entire idea of government restricting the sale of certain chemicals to a doctor-monopoly is wrong.
The Libertarian in me agrees with you. The Realist in me who watches soccer moms stuff antibiotics into their cold-infected children for two days and then stopping disagrees wholeheartedly.
There are some things that inherently need to be done under professional supervision. Medicine dosing is one of them.
Vista 64 is a very stable operating system when your computer is fast enough to support it and the drivers are good.
Does such a combination exist outside the lab? Because darned if I've ever seen it.
Or do you mean, 'Enacting mildly socialist, temporary policies that begin to fix things immediately,' like FDR did?
That is a definition of "temporary" with which I am unfamiliar, unless meant in the same sense as "copyright limited to eternity minus a day".
Price sharing. If I have one news paper they really should give me the device, if I cancel my subscription and get an other one, the new company should pay the other paper the balance of the device, then give me service, If I choose to not have any news service, I pay the balance left for the device. about $5.00 a month of my subscription should go to paying off the balance, or return the device.
Simplified: free reader with a two-year subscription, early cancellation fees applicable. It worked for the phone companies.
SMS is available: it's built-in, e-mail is not present on every phone and relies on a third-party service provider plus settings
Translation: phone providers suck for not broadly offering decent services.
SMS is faster: because there is no GPRS/TCP/IP/SMTP/IMAP/POP connection and transfer overhead
And a Prius is faster than a Ferrari because it doesn't have those big, heavy brakes.
SMS is clean: no risk of having to retrieve large attachements, hardly any spam due to sender costs
Translation: it's not a bug, it's a feature!
SMS is cheaper
ROTFLMAOWTFBBQ!1!
Assuming you're serious, data plans here start at $30/month for browsing + messaging + whatever else you can send over a socket. Unlimited texting is $20, or you can pay $0.25 as you go. Send 3 text messages a day and it's cheaper just to buy the best plan.
They sure do.
When Amazon came out with the Kindle reader for the the iPhone/iPod Touch I tried it out. Guess what it is wonderful.
...except that you can't subscribe to periodicals with it. I know that Amazon doesn't want to undercut their Kindle sales, but without those subscriptions their iPhone app is just another unexciting reader. I deleted it and installed Stanza with much success; it does a better job as an actual reader IMHO.
If you want up-to-date software you just need to update the ports collection, this is done via the csup(1) utility.
Better yet, portsnap fetch update.
And in the same vein, they are inadequate because all instances share a kernel.
And are significantly faster (on our workload) and more efficient for the same reason. Since all jails pull from the same heap, you don't have to worry about under- or over-allocating RAM to an instance. You also don't have to contend with multiple kernels all trying to do bookkeeping many hundreds of times per second.
Jails obviously aren't the right tool for every job, but when they suit your needs, they're outstanding.
Odd. Why the hell doesn't FreeBSD's version of pkg_add support any "update" option?
Probably because we have portupgrade, which I like even better.
Bzzt! You forgot to run apt-get update first.
Another thing: Theo may be a dick
I have to say that I've never had problems with him or the other OpenBSD maintainers. I'm not part of their "in crowd" by any measure, but everyone's been decent to me when I've had problems or questions.
Bad approach: I can't do $foo. How do I do it?
Good approach: I RTFM about how to do $foo, but step 5 gives different results for me than the man page says it should. What should I try next?
They're busy people, and when I've been respectful of their time, they've been respectful of mine.