One more reason to believe that Irish are similar to Greeks... they
try to maximise profit in all situations:-) Why do you think we
invented Ouzo? (Which is the drink made out of the crap left when
ALL other possible alcoholic drinks are made...)
Ffibys
My step-daughter brought a
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:52:41 -0400, Darren Branagh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)#
It's known the world over that our friend Darren is the root of ALL evil
;-)
I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an
Oh yeah...Blame me for your alcoholic ways when you're in Ireland... 8-)#
Who else is there to blame ;-)
I recall my first encounter with ouzo tooI drank an entire bottle at a
greek night in my local pub (don't ask). Took a large fried breakfast the
next day to sort me out, and I made
Hmmm, fried breakfast after Guinness doesn't work. In fact, your stomach is
usually OK after Guinness UNTIL you eat :-(
Hm Neither does coffee flavoured sausages... remember that?
6am I think at a services stop on the way to Bristol with Hilary O'Kelly.
Darren.
Yes! First and
By experience of many years heavy drinking, always better to have the
breakfast first then the alcohol.
Never quite sure if drinking during breakfast is OK, but I always seem
better with food in first then drink. That is only in the morning.
Derek
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Oh yeah...Blame me for
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hilary is fine, and still in that HUGE Castle, all on his own. Still
beavering away with his Gold Card QL - I call on him when I visit my
parents. I think hes on email still -
Hilaryokelly AT hotmail DOT com
He has written some
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:38:18 -0400, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Reminds me, I really must organise another Irish Show, maybe in Galway
for a
change.
Would that be an Irish Show or a show
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:38:18 -0400, Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Reminds me, I really must organise another Irish Show, maybe in Galway
for a
change.
Would that be an Irish Show or a
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:28:39 -0400, Darren Branagh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Knowing how tight Galwegians are, the one with the lowest price and
maximum
alcohol content!! :-))
See I told you in the past Darren that Irish and Greeks are not that all
different ;-) heehee
Guinness is the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:38:18 -0400, Malcolm Cadman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Reminds me, I
One more reason to believe that Irish are similar to Greeks... they
try to maximise profit in all situations:-) Why do you think we
invented Ouzo? (Which is the drink made out of the crap left when
ALL other possible alcoholic drinks are made...)
Ffibys
My step-daughter brought a small
Tony Wrote:-
In the old days, QL work used to be my living, and a good one.
For the last 6 years at least, I have stayed because I have made many
good friends. I don't make money or even do it for free. It actually
costs me money to stay with the QL.
Tony
I couldn't agree more. Although
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Reminds me, I really must organise another Irish Show, maybe in Galway for a
change.
Would that be an Irish Show or a show held in Ireland ... :-)
--
Malcolm Cadman
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QL-Users
At 01:45 25/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
What market?
Rather my point, is there any such thing beyond this QLique ? most in the
band are fairly well furnished with software.
This thread started with the suggestion of a DVD of related material as a
product, what a horrendous thought to have to
David Tubbs writes:
You, Per, don't convince me you have not solved someone else's problem
with taking top payscale. Never done work for local community, or worked
for a charity ?
Im not sure I catch your drift, but Ive spent most of my working life in
unwaged positions, in so-called ideal
At 19:19 26/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
You, Per, don't convince me you have not solved someone else's problem
with
OUT
taking top payscale. Never done work for local community, or worked
for a charity ?
Disklesia Roles
Sorry Per
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 at 19:19:08, P Witte wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
David Tubbs writes:
You, Per, don't convince me you have not solved someone else's problem
with taking top payscale. Never done work for local community, or worked
for a charity ?
Im not sure I catch your drift, but
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2005 00:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
- Original Message -
From: Just about everbody who monitors the user list
About 10 days or so ago, Darren Branagh asked a quite straight forward
question
- Original Message -
From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
My
Basically, it entails getting a concrete OK from QUANTA to buy some.
Then we
will need somebody or somebodies to write a front end, and copy the
data to
them (at USB speeds, this is a very quick procedure).
So, what we need is some quanta money, and someone to write the
software to
drive the
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-(
You are.
His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot.
Thanks Tony,
makes one wonder if that is read at all... maybe we should,
if it is a show invitation, just put the show and the date in...?
Jochen
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-(
You are.
His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot.
Thanks Tony,
makes one wonder if that is read at all... maybe we should,
if it is a show invitation, just put the
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 09:44:43, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-(
You are.
His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the
emailshot.
Thanks Tony,
makes one wonder if that is read at
- Original Message -
From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-(
You are.
His
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 12:27:52, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot.
It's quite likely that the email client stripped the .gif image out.
It was not attached - it was simply a link.
Tony
--
QBBS
At 12:51 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
It was not attached - it was simply a link.
Tony
--
A link is only as good as the authoring !
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
Godfroy from JMS is Forbidden and has been for months !
DT
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Jochen Merz writes:
I'm on Tony's mailshot, or so I thought, but I never saw it! :-(
You are.
His announcement was on the JMS .gif image linked to from the emailshot.
Thanks Tony,
makes one wonder if that is read at all... maybe we should,
if it is a show invitation, just put
At 02:02 23/04/2005 +0100,Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Roy,
I don't know why you have to take such an aggressive stance.
It is his way, always got time to dish a superfluous diatribe.
But when I recently furnished him with information he had asked for it was
not even acknowledged nor a relevant enquiry
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 12:51:50, COLIN PARSONS wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!!
Too many worms are installed by clicking on links.
On spam yes.
What makes you think that my emails (and QL traders) are going to do
that sort
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 13:23:02, David Tubbs wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 12:51 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
It was not attached - it was simply a link.
Tony
--
A link is only as good as the authoring !
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
It doesn't - tried it just now.
Tony
--
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!!
Too many worms are installed by clicking on links.
On spam yes.
What makes you think that my emails (and QL traders) are going to do
that sort of thing?
Use Text only and no HTML, if you really want things to be read!!
It was
At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
It doesn't - tried it just now.
Tony
Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL relevant site.
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 14:17:25, David Tubbs wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
It doesn't - tried it just now.
Tony
Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL relevant site.
I give the correct
At 14:23 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Where is this blind alley you talk about?
Tony
Very simply that site has NO QPC or SMSQ material.
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The link *always* was and still is
http://smsq.j-m-s.com
No www!
Jochen
Jeremy Taffel wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
It doesn't - tried it just now.
Tony
Same as before, Jochen has given another address for the QL
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!!
Too many worms are installed by clicking on links. Use Text only and no
HTML, if you really want things to be read!!
It *WAS* text only.
And putting all the contents into the main email is not really helpful
either - if
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
The link *always* was and still is
http://smsq.j-m-s.com
Ah. That's better. At Last !!!
Jeremy
No www!
Jochen
Jeremy Taffel wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
At 14:11 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
JMS from your site leads to a blind alley.
It doesn't - tried it just now.
Tony
Hi Jeremy,
Tis true! I use thunderbird. It allows you to inspect thesource; and it
is plain text. However under normal display it converts text strings
that start with http: into a URL.
Similarly, it converts all the and at the start of the line into
pretty formatted coloured sidebars. There
Hooray!!!
And to help for the future, I've added a proper signature from now on :-)
Jochen
Jeremy Taffel wrote:
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
The link *always* was and still is
http://smsq.j-m-s.com
Ah. That's better. At Last !!!
Jeremy
No www!
Jochen
Jeremy Taffel wrote:
David Tubbs wrote:
At 14:11
At 09:29 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Also worth noting
Hardly, it being so out of date !
that the starter pack offer (234 Euros worth
Shall we say priced at rather than worth.
The authors think it should be higher whilst the market seems to suggest
otherwise.
of software for 99.90 Euros) was
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
At 02:02 23/04/2005 +0100,Jeremy Taffel wrote:
Roy,
I don't know why you have to take such an aggressive stance.
It is his way, always got time to dish a superfluous diatribe.
But when I recently furnished him with information he
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 16:01:56, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
However, the main point is, that unless the body of the text in an
email tells me why I'm supposed to click on a link, then I'm unlikely
to. I receive too many to follow random links without knowing why.
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 09:38:54,
=?windows-1253?B?UGhvZWJ1cyBSLiBEb2tvcyAo1u/f4u/yINEuIM30/Orv8ik=?=
wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:16:00 -0400, COLIN PARSONS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neither did I! Put things in plain text if you want things to be read!!
Too many
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 17:15:58, David Tubbs wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 17:01 24/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:
It *WAS* text only.
By definition a gif is not plain text
It was a text link to a .gif.
I also don't have any attachments.
The email was plain text (for the third time)!
Tony
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 14:43:09, David Tubbs wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
At 14:23 24/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Where is this blind alley you talk about?
Tony
Very simply that site has NO QPC or SMSQ material.
You are dead right.
Jochen - you should restore the link to the actual QL site
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
clip
Jeremy, with all your computer interests I am sure that you will find
it even more fun now than the period that you are recalling.
Yes, there is a cost involved for the commercial programs, yet there
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Tony Firshman wrote:
I repeat - my emails are text only.
If there is html there, that is added by your mailer.
Nothing to do with me.
Tony
Tis true! I use thunderbird. It allows you to inspect thesource; and it
is plain
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], gwicks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
- Original Message - From: Tony Firshman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 at 00:53:37, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
His
At 19:55 24/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:
Sorry All current SMSQ/E stuff is on smsq.j-m-s.com,
and that's the official SMSQ homepage, and always was.
No point in pointing to an outdated ad somewhere.
then try this one Jochen
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~godefroy/english on this
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:32:58 -0400, David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 19:55 24/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:
Sorry All current SMSQ/E stuff is on smsq.j-m-s.com,
and that's the official SMSQ homepage, and always was.
No point in pointing to an outdated ad somewhere.
then try this one
Hi David,
then try this one Jochen
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~godefroy/english on this server.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.imaginet.fr Port 80
Well, it seems that the link to Thierry's website is broken,
(will remove it, unless somebody has a working, but ...
what has this to
At 20:51 24/04/2005 +0200, Jochen wrote:
Well, it seems that the link to Thierry's website is broken,
(will remove it, unless somebody has a working, but ...
what has this to do with links to MY ad from QL 2004's mailshot
last year? (at least that was the subject of the last 30+
emails or so).
I
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Tony Firshman wrote:
I repeat - my emails are text only.
If there is html there, that is added by your mailer.
Nothing to do with me.
Tony
Tis true! I use thunderbird. It allows you to inspect
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 21:04:33, SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Not an ad. This is the link to you on my website.
When I started it (in 1996 I think) j-m-s.com -was- your QL link surely.
Surely??? No, impossible. I did not own a website in 1996.
My first emails date back
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 at 20:16:36, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
ess to change any settings.
I don't work in local government, just the UKs largest defence
contractor. All the IT is outsourced. The contract specifies the
levels of support received. It also has the conflicitng
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel writes
Malcolm Cadman wrote:
I have the pointer environment. But its very old - I bought it from
Care Electronics when they had a shop in Watford; perhaps in 1988. I'm
not sure that it was sold as QPAC2 though. Files include
- Original Message -
From: Just about everbody who monitors the user list
About 10 days or so ago, Darren Branagh asked a quite straight forward
question about the possibility of there being a market for a DVD containing
an emulator and heaps of QL Software with a purpose written front
David Tubbs writes:
that the starter pack offer (234 Euros worth
Shall we say priced at rather than worth.
The authors think it should be higher whilst the market seems to suggest
otherwise.
What market? Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Per
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- Original Message -
From: Dilwyn Jones
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
- it actually looked more like runny mascara than anything else so I hope
wasn't being wound up about it all!
Watch
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I don't know why you have to take such an aggressive stance. Why do
you have problems? I was not complaining about the cost, nor requesting
a price reduction, merely offering the constructive suggestion that if
the
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I don't know why you have to take such an aggressive stance. Why do
you have problems? I was not complaining about the cost, nor
requesting a price reduction, merely offering the constructive
suggestion
Jeremy said -
/
And now for another suggestion
The QPC2 demo on Marcel's site hardly shows the system off to its best
potential.. The presentation of the screen that results from the boot
file on the .win file that is included for download is awful, and could
have been from qdos. There
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
I know that response was meant as a jest, but I was being perfectly
serious.Surely, if you are interested in selling a product, its up to
you to show what it can do. If you leave it to the prospective buyer to
try to
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 at 00:53:37, Jeremy Taffel wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this
is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ...
did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No!
Where did you advertise
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
My position is quite simple really. I use computers for soving
engineering problems, and find myself using windows (98,XP, 2000),
Linux, Solaris., but the OS is less important to me than the tools.
clip
So, to answer your
David Tubbs wrote:
At 00:18 22/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this
is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ...
did we get
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this
is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ...
did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No!
Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it.
It was sent out by email to the newsgroups, advertised
by TF's mailshot, placed on
Ich glaube es ist ausgekauft, Ich kann es nicht sehen bei
http://www.j-m-s.de/index_e.htm
... und natürlich
http://qpc.j-m-s.com
Jochen
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http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
One technique is to get an 0870 (national number) at 7p a minutes and
1p or 2p of the call charge is given to you, this is like the system
that free ISPs use and if I had the money for a second line for a QL ISP
I would use. The Phone Coop (http://www.thephone.coop) used to offer
this service
Users that confuse the both need a quick lecture that's all...
That was my point Marcel, Jochen and I choose to sell it. They know the
price. Try arguing with the man at the petrol pump on a slack day or the
supermarket checkout at night by saying - there are not many people
buying why not
So whats wrong with the demo version of QPC2? You can check out most of the
new facilities and run most new programs. Enough to satisfy curiosity, I
should think.
No, not really, not without being able to save config files etc.
A reminder here that there are programs like my own Launchpad
On the other hand, while the money will never, ever compensate for the
time or energy, it does show me that people respect the work and are
interested in it. If no one was willing to pay what I consider to be a
very underpriced cost for QDT, I would read it as no one appreciated
the work
Am Fri, 22 Apr 2005 8:41:22 + hat Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:
It all adds to the Rip-off-Britain impressions we have.
You could replace Britain by every EG-country, I'm afraid :-(
The latest trick I had to undergo with the German Postbank two days ago.
After the usual
COLIN PARSONS writes:
So whats wrong with the demo version of QPC2? You can check out most of
the
new facilities and run most new programs. Enough to satisfy curiosity, I
should think.
You can't save any work. Hardly the way to encourage any new programmer to
the platform!!
Its
Jeremy Taffel writes:
So whats wrong with the demo version of QPC2? You can check out most of
the
new facilities and run most new programs. Enough to satisfy curiosity, I
should think.
No, not really, not without being able to save config files etc.
Ok, so if you had to solve the problem
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
You'll probably get a free black eye from a p***ed off bored spotty
teenager to match Geoff Wicks's through trying it and nothing else.
I did not know the Quanta chairmanship fight was actual ;-), seriously I
am sad to hear someone has hit Geoff and hope he is alright.
--
P Witte wrote:
Id go one better: The place to start, of course, is to make the Qx0
designs public and free so other people can develop and improve them,
and in some cases, build their own. A free computer to run free
software on. Just the thing.
The obstacle is production. If I publish
You'll probably get a free black eye from a p***ed off bored spotty
teenager to match Geoff Wicks's through trying it and nothing else.
I did not know the Quanta chairmanship fight was actual ;-), seriously I
am sad to hear someone has hit Geoff and hope he is alright.
I don't know what
On Apr 22, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
On the other hand, while the money will never, ever compensate for the
time or energy, it does show me that people respect the work and are
interested in it. If no one was willing to pay what I consider to be
a
very underpriced cost for QDT, I
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it.
Jeremy
Probably in QL Today. Do you subscribe to that?
No
You see this is where I have a problem with all this. Here is someone
who 'cannot justify
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James
Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
For myself, I started QDT as an interesting project. Plus I really
enjoy the people involved in the community.
To be honest, I would have abandoned the project quite a while ago if I
was only doing it for the money.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roy wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Would you buy the buggy version, even if it were £20 less? The fix is
usually to get the latest version.
So someone was happy to sell Buggy versions for top
Peter Graf writes:
Id go one better: The place to start, of course, is to make the Qx0
designs public and free so other people can develop and improve them,
and in some cases, build their own. A free computer to run free
software on. Just the thing.
The obstacle is production. If I
On the other hand, while the money will never, ever compensate for the
time or energy, it does show me that people respect the work and are
interested in it. If no one was willing to pay what I consider to be a
very underpriced cost for QDT, I would read it as no one appreciated
the work being
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it.
Jeremy
Probably in QL Today. Do you subscribe to that?
No
You see this is where I have a problem with all this. Here is someone
who 'cannot justify the expense of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Would you buy the buggy version, even if it were £20 less? The fix is
usually to get the latest version.
So someone was happy to sell Buggy versions for top dollar !
No software of any complexity is without bugs. QPC2's bugs
- Original Message -
From: Tarquin Mills
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Just an idea for a new Product.
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
You'll probably get a free black eye from a p***ed off bored spotty
teenager to match Geoff Wicks's
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], COLIN PARSONS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Ok, so if you had to solve the problem of producing a demo that would
satisfy curiosity, but was limited in some way that would compell the thus
satisfied punter to buy the product rather than just continuing to use the
demo,
David Tubbs writes:
Really Per, I am surprised at your response !
Ooops! Have I put my mouth where my foot should have been?
No, not really, not without being able to save config files etc.
Ok, so if you had to solve the problem of producing a demo that would
satisfy curiosity, but was
SMSQ - Jochen Merz wrote:
We cut QPC as a special offer to 49 EUR last year (this
is about 33 pounds - the price region you talk about) ...
did we get hundreds and thousands of sales? No!
Where did you advertise this? I didn't know about it.
It was sent out by email to the newsgroups, advertised
At 11:48 22/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
I did not know the Quanta chairmanship fight was actual ;-),
Surely not so, I thought he was a cert for the job.
Transformation from rebel to house-trained seemed complete.
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Dilwyn Jones writes:
So whats wrong with the demo version of QPC2? You can check out most
of the new facilities and run most new programs. Enough to satisfy
curiosity, I should think.
No, not really, not without being able to save config files etc.
A reminder here that there are
The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase
it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under
a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be
any future for the platform!
Very encouraging discussion ... how many new
The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase
it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under
a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be
any future for the platform!
Very encouraging discussion ... how many new
I really cannot imagine that a price of 45 pounds is unaffordable.
One visit to a restaurant with your family is likely to be more
expensive.
Bad example if you live in the US ;-) hehe (You can feed 4 for about
$20... mind you not a fancy restaurant but a lot of food nonetheless...
COLIN PARSONS wrote:
The only way, taking a leaf from Linux, that it is going to increase
it's market penetration is if it is freely available for download, under
a GNU license. This is a bullet that has to be bitten, if there is to be
any future for the platform!
One can make money with
We're not competing with Linux or anything else - what we
have is unique, thanks to many people. I'd say that
EVERYBODY who puts time into QDOS/SMSQ does it because
he likes it ... some do it for free, some don't, but isn't
it up to them?
This view fits in with what people tell me, that they
One can make money with free software also, but by adding value instead of
charging for the rigths over the binaries.
Added value can be:
- Distribution packages (Disk/CD/DVD)
- Handbooks and documentation
- Commercial support (e.g. for those who bought the package/docs)
- Provide
Dilwyn Jones writes:
One can make money with free software also, but by adding value instead
of charging for the rigths over the binaries.
Added value can be:
- Distribution packages (Disk/CD/DVD)
- Handbooks and documentation
- Commercial support (e.g. for those who bought the
- Original Message -
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Jeremy Taffel writes:
So, all I was saying is that I think that there could be a market beyond
the one that seemingly (according to other emails) has reached
saturation, and foolishly set myself up as a skinflint by offering
myself
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