Needlessly complicated. Not to mention the problems involved in turning it back on again if you should need it in the future.
A simpler solution is to implement the tooltip here. If you hover over the dimmed menu item for a time, pop up the tooltip explaining why the item is disabled.
Expert users don't hover, and never get bothered by numerous messages, beginners do hover and get what they need. The tooltip method also makes it extremely easy to see why multiple items are disabled in a row, without forcing repeated clicking and disposing of message boxes, etc.
I loaded up your document. I typed ctrl-f. I type kwangsiensis. The first appearance shows on screen. I press enter. The second appearance shows. I press enter. The third one shows. I want to go back and find the previous one, I click Find Previous at the bottom of the screen. The second appearance shows.
How else should finding work?
Ah, the good ol' days
on
Digital Retro
·
· Score: 5, Informative
TABLE OF CONTENTS: MITS Altair 8800 Commodore PET 2001 Apple II Atari VCS Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 NASCOM 1 Sharp MZ-80K Atari 400/800 Texas Instruments TI-99/4 Mattel IntelliVision Tangerine Microtan 65 HP-85 Sinclair ZX80 Acom Atom Commodore VIC-20 Sinclair ZX81 Osborne 1 IBM PC BBC Micro Commodore 64 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Coleco Vision GCE / MB Vectrex Grundy NewBrain Dragon 32 Jupiter ACE Compaq Portable Apple Lisa Oric-1 Mattel Aquarius Nintendo Famicom Sony MSX Apple Macintosh Sinclair QL Amstrad CPC-464 IBM PC AT Tatung Einstein Atari ST Commodore Amiga Amstrad PCW Sega Master System Acorn Archimedes NeXT Cube
I've used 21 of these machines during my lifetime. Some for only a few minutes of course, like the Lisa at a computer show.
Not if they base their sim on their recent 2005 standings projections. Those were absolutely loopy. They had Calgary winning the West, Minnesota being a top team, with Vancouver and St. Louis missing the playoffs.
Now, sports are notoriously difficult to project, but each of those four items are *huge* longshots. At best, one of the four will be accurate. No chance in hell of all four longshots come in.
They did the same thing in the East as well. I suspect they want to be one of those "psychics" that will crow proudly when one of their longshots comes in, completely ignoring the fact that all their other wild predictions were totally wrong.
That number is too high. It may be the contractual lowest possible salary, but *no one* makes that. The agents simply won't sign for that "little". The lowest guys on the totem pole make 300 grand minimum, usually 400.
Used to be, you wanted some obnoxious rights violating law passed, you attached a "think of the children" coda to it. After all, no one can come out and say they're against children.
Now, you attach 9/11 to it. No matter how disconnected. Fight it, and you clearly support terrorism.
Anybody notice how the more technology we get, the less weird shit happens? When was the last plane or ship lost in the Bermuda Triangle, with modern guidance systems, etc?
And now that cameras are everywhere, you'd think we get *more* sightings of strange things like Bigfoot, Nessie, UFO's. But instead, we get almost nothing now.
I didn't read that particular one until now, it's an interesting story.
I doubt it's as directly connected as the author implies. It's a very good bet that serials were available from the 0th-day the software was released, and there is no "serial free" period from which to compare sales. Maybe sales declined because of word of mouth. Maybe a competitor arose.
The whole part about the "popular Apple hosted serial sharing forum" is simply confusing. Since when does Apple do that?
This app is so small and cheap that it's hard to compare their experiences to a "real" app. Folks are very hesitant to pay for small programs in my experience, even though they're cheap. In fact, the ultra-low price often is a barrier to sales, as folks think the thing is too cheap to be good.
Pirates *aren't* your customer base. They don't buy software. They may use your program without paying, but they aren't a lost sale.
Spending time trying to convert them into customers is completely wasted. Stop them from using your program with a perfect protection scheme, and all they'll do is use a different program.
Do it in a rediculous manner like this joker, and all you're going to do is drive away your legitimate customers. I wouldn't pay for this thing in a million years. Who knows what crap this thing could pull in the future? All it takes is one bug, and suddenly it thinks legit users are pirates...
This stunt he pulled has caused far more loss of sales for him than any software piracy.
Heard about these guys on a long summer drive a couple of years back.
Carchip
One of the stated selling points along with diagnostics etc, was that you could check how far and how fast your kids drive when they borrow the car. And whether it was disconnected.
View / Message Body as / Plain Text?
Seems to work for me. No graphical quotes as you describe. Don't have any examples like you describe.
Seems to be a sticky choice, so you only have to pick it once.
Call me uninformed, but what part of Infocom are we looking at?
Call me crazy, but since the title is "he's talking about added value", I'd say the added value.
Infocom dominated the sales charts, with *zero* copy protection (unlike the rest of the competition), purely on the quality of their work, and the added value they threw in the box along with quality manuals.
When you opened an Infocom box, you really felt like you got your moneys worth. Maps, postcards, letters, Don't Panic buttons, bags of No Tea.
Alas, floor wax/desert topping syndrome struck, and they went out of business with the Cornerstone boondoggle.
They're not making money off it. They're selling dentistry services, and that's what the customers are receiving.
They're no more making money from the background music than they are from the posters on the wall, or the carpet on the floor.
Does the Carpet Industry Association of America demand licensing fees because customers walk on the carpet, so the dentist is clearly making money off their carpet?
Of course not, because that would be assininely stupid.
Three more for the 1.2 version sitting in my box as well. This was back in the day when you actually mailed in registration cards, and they mailed you updates.
AotP was one of the buggiest games I've ever seen out of box. It wasn't like the bugs were hard to spot, literally a few seconds in to my first flight, starting out on the carrier, and there were graphic glitches galore.
One of the greatest "just push it out now, the quarter is ending" incidents there ever was.
Microsoft Office 4.3 came on 27 floppies, maybe that's what you're thinking of. I still have that sitting on my shelf as well. Remember the days when you got 15 pounds of manuals with expensive business software? I do.
Slashdot Mirror
The bastards.
"Folks aren't watching as much tv as before?"
"I know, lets make it even tougher! We'll screw around with their devices that actually let them watch our shows! It's brilliant I tell you!"
Toy Story is way cooler than Starcraft. ;)
Needlessly complicated. Not to mention the problems involved in turning it back on again if you should need it in the future.
A simpler solution is to implement the tooltip here. If you hover over the dimmed menu item for a time, pop up the tooltip explaining why the item is disabled.
Expert users don't hover, and never get bothered by numerous messages, beginners do hover and get what they need. The tooltip method also makes it extremely easy to see why multiple items are disabled in a row, without forcing repeated clicking and disposing of message boxes, etc.
I'm just not seeing your search problem.
I loaded up your document. I typed ctrl-f.
I type kwangsiensis. The first appearance shows on screen.
I press enter. The second appearance shows.
I press enter. The third one shows.
I want to go back and find the previous one, I click Find Previous at the bottom of the screen. The second appearance shows.
How else should finding work?
MITS Altair 8800
Commodore PET 2001
Apple II
Atari VCS
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80
NASCOM 1
Sharp MZ-80K
Atari 400/800
Texas Instruments TI-99/4
Mattel IntelliVision
Tangerine Microtan 65
HP-85
Sinclair ZX80
Acom Atom
Commodore VIC-20
Sinclair ZX81
Osborne 1
IBM PC
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Coleco Vision
GCE / MB Vectrex
Grundy NewBrain
Dragon 32
Jupiter ACE
Compaq Portable
Apple Lisa
Oric-1
Mattel Aquarius
Nintendo Famicom
Sony MSX
Apple Macintosh
Sinclair QL
Amstrad CPC-464
IBM PC AT
Tatung Einstein
Atari ST
Commodore Amiga
Amstrad PCW
Sega Master System
Acorn Archimedes
NeXT Cube
I've used 21 of these machines during my lifetime. Some for only a few minutes of course, like the Lisa at a computer show.
Fun times.
Now, sports are notoriously difficult to project, but each of those four items are *huge* longshots. At best, one of the four will be accurate. No chance in hell of all four longshots come in.
They did the same thing in the East as well. I suspect they want to be one of those "psychics" that will crow proudly when one of their longshots comes in, completely ignoring the fact that all their other wild predictions were totally wrong.
Salary database
Tomorrow, I order my first AMD computer. This old P3 will be tossed into the junk pile.
I'm making all my important documents by cutting out letters from the newspaper.
Now, you attach 9/11 to it. No matter how disconnected. Fight it, and you clearly support terrorism.
And now that cameras are everywhere, you'd think we get *more* sightings of strange things like Bigfoot, Nessie, UFO's. But instead, we get almost nothing now.
But no, they've all dried up. Odd that.
I doubt it's as directly connected as the author implies. It's a very good bet that serials were available from the 0th-day the software was released, and there is no "serial free" period from which to compare sales. Maybe sales declined because of word of mouth. Maybe a competitor arose.
The whole part about the "popular Apple hosted serial sharing forum" is simply confusing. Since when does Apple do that?
This app is so small and cheap that it's hard to compare their experiences to a "real" app. Folks are very hesitant to pay for small programs in my experience, even though they're cheap. In fact, the ultra-low price often is a barrier to sales, as folks think the thing is too cheap to be good.
Spending time trying to convert them into customers is completely wasted. Stop them from using your program with a perfect protection scheme, and all they'll do is use a different program.
Do it in a rediculous manner like this joker, and all you're going to do is drive away your legitimate customers. I wouldn't pay for this thing in a million years. Who knows what crap this thing could pull in the future? All it takes is one bug, and suddenly it thinks legit users are pirates...
This stunt he pulled has caused far more loss of sales for him than any software piracy.
One of the stated selling points along with diagnostics etc, was that you could check how far and how fast your kids drive when they borrow the car. And whether it was disconnected.
View / Message Body as / Plain Text? Seems to work for me. No graphical quotes as you describe. Don't have any examples like you describe. Seems to be a sticky choice, so you only have to pick it once.
Sure, it's all fun and games until someone bounces an eye out.
Call me crazy, but since the title is "he's talking about added value", I'd say the added value.
Infocom dominated the sales charts, with *zero* copy protection (unlike the rest of the competition), purely on the quality of their work, and the added value they threw in the box along with quality manuals.
When you opened an Infocom box, you really felt like you got your moneys worth. Maps, postcards, letters, Don't Panic buttons, bags of No Tea.
Alas, floor wax/desert topping syndrome struck, and they went out of business with the Cornerstone boondoggle.
They're no more making money from the background music than they are from the posters on the wall, or the carpet on the floor.
Does the Carpet Industry Association of America demand licensing fees because customers walk on the carpet, so the dentist is clearly making money off their carpet?
Of course not, because that would be assininely stupid.
MREs
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored MREs
Of the way we were...
Tits and ass have been encouraging viewing for years.
Three more for the 1.2 version sitting in my box as well. This was back in the day when you actually mailed in registration cards, and they mailed you updates.
AotP was one of the buggiest games I've ever seen out of box. It wasn't like the bugs were hard to spot, literally a few seconds in to my first flight, starting out on the carrier, and there were graphic glitches galore.
One of the greatest "just push it out now, the quarter is ending" incidents there ever was.
Microsoft Office 4.3 came on 27 floppies, maybe that's what you're thinking of. I still have that sitting on my shelf as well. Remember the days when you got 15 pounds of manuals with expensive business software? I do.
Now, they're just your quintessential American glam rock band.
Sadly, many of the sequels dropped the random maps, and were lousy. They just never seemed to figure out the correlation.
How appropriate, means Did Not Finish in my world.