I consider my "price gouging" to be an art installation / performance art and social commentary:

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/sho...

I actually wanted to price it at a "million dollars" but the system would not let me, so I reduced my desired price by a cent.

For may years now, I have wanted to open a "Million Dollar" store at some point. A store where every item is priced at a million dollars. From a pack of chewing gum, to a pair of socks and anything else in the store. All one price, all a million dollars.

Around the time I put that book up for sale, I decided to try building a version of the store online. I was foiled at the time by the price limit code of the site...

all the best,

drew
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I hear you and do not doubt that happens and sucks when it does happen...

On the other hand, I think that may be a problem I would not mind having with at least one of my projects...

Let's try:

http://www.vassalengine.org/wi...

https://sourceforge.net/projec...

https://youtu.be/0Xg-jYA_xsg

We shall see....

Would you like to play a game?

I am not one to talk but...

I consider the work people do on other projects that I make use of as "help"... When I look at it that way, lots of people help and hte amount of help is huge...

all the best,

drew

+1

Also require upload to someplace like archive.org for a central repository available free of charge to the public. +10

It is what I am seeing...

Also, now a half calendar with no data...

drew

Yes, certain elements are kind of a pain in the ass on the Mac. But the Mac hasn't been the best platform to run CS apps on in years. Windows is. Hell, Photoshop runs better in Windows than it does in OS X *on identical hardware.*

Since the 90s, to maintain an Apple product, Adobe has had to: Port from 68k to PPC, then from Classic MacOS to OS X (Photoshop 7 SUCKED on the Mac, but it ran in both operating systems), then they had to adapt from OS X PPC to OS X Intel. Apple jerks their developers around constantly, while Windows just isn't the same kind of moving target.

While I'm sure you'd love it if Adobe conformed completely to Apple guidelines and played nicely with comparatively recent (I know 10.7 is "old" but the move to Intel is older than that) features that have no Windows equivalent, keep in mind that the more hassle the Apple market is to develop for, the less likely they are to develop for it. Remember when they stopped releasing Premiere for the Mac for awhile because it couldn't compete with Final Cut Pro?

I still use Photoshop on a Mac but only occasionally - I've moved my entire toolchain to Windows, and while it sucks in some ways the Mac experience doesn't I've gotten used to it. I'm looking at expanding my line art production software, as there's a few options in that space, but for graphical heavy lift Adobe has effectively cornered the market.

Importantly, I've been using it since 1997 - any alternative has to be featureful and intuitive, and it's competing with 20+ years of muscle memory and needs to be able to correctly read ~15 years of files.

I use an extension named "ScriptSafe" to give Chrome NoScript-like functionality. The web would be completely unusable without it.

Go back to telling me EXACTLY what you're changing on my system when I install your update and I'll go back to installing them.

(It also means you're only making $41,500, so you're better off negotiating a salary at $49,999.)

Tinfoil hate time: Maybe this is a long-term plan to drive down employee salaries?

There's no incentive to buy newer phones anymore since they're not adding dramatically new must-have features.

My current iPhone has a headphone jack. My next phone, whatever the model, will have one.

I use an old G4 keyboard on my Windows box. While transitioning from one to the other for graphics work I just could not adapt to the lefthand meta key layout - on the Mac it's control alt command space, with most meta commands using command, then command + alt, with the control key used infrequently. On windows it's control, then control + alt, and the Windows key is a hazard to navigation. On a PC keyboard I hit the damned thing incessantly; it was much easier to train myself to skip over it with a Mac keyboard.

I used one of the slimline laptop-keyboard-with-a-number-pad models until it finally wore out recently, and after having a good long eyeroll at the ridiculous markup they've succumbed to in the last decade, I dug a G4 board out of storage. It gets the job done.

Downloading multi-gig patches that contain nothing but BR skins and StW bugs sucks ass when 99.95% of your game time is spent in StW.

I went back to Guild Wars 2, a game with actively maintained PVE that doesn't get worse with every update (technically speaking; there are those who'd complain about class balance and modifiers but after Fortnite, "the visual effects for my abilities actually draw" and "the community isn't constantly scamming me while waiting for me to do their quests for them" are HUGE plusses).

Got onboarded by friends a few months ago; spent a couple of months lovehating the PVE, and it'll probably be uninstalled whenever I need hard drive space. The in-game community is terrible, there are some deep design flaws, and while I was playing PVE continued to get buggier and more aggravating while every patch contained a huge list of fixes and skins for Battle Royale (PVP) with next to nothing for Save the World (PVE). BR got next day fixes for critical issues while key StW class abilities had been broken for weeks when I left.

The only good thing I can say about BR is you die too quickly to tilt, which is more than I can say for Overwatch. Cosmetics seem to be the big draw, and while I can enjoy that content in some games, in Fortnite they have no attraction for me at all.

If you're willing to wait you can get just about any game for next to nothing. Considering most modern games either come with perpetual updates or a lengthy update/patch/DLC cycle, patience is a great way to get more bang for your entertainment buck.

I tried for awhile around ten years ago. It's a good idea in theory but in practice the vast majority of the feeds I bookmarked were entirely content-free, boiling down to "THIS WEBSITE UPDATED. CLICK HERE FOR CONTENT."

And hell, I can get that without a feed reader, just by checking bookmarks.

My webcomic has an RSS feed and it gets clobbered daily by automated traffic, so it's still in use - though I doubt very much that many, if any, humans even notice or care.