David Tubbs wrote:
At 00:18 22/04/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Roy wood wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeremy Taffel
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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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... but at least Freddy was paying and it
was worth it to have a nice long chat with him again!
As far as I remember from my own dealings with Freddy, many years ago, there
was no other choice but to have a long chat - he could talk for hours, and
remain on topic
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
As far as I remember from my own dealings with Freddy, many years ago, there
was no other choice but to have a long chat - he could talk for hours, and
remain on topic too.
;-)
I used to do some work for him - which never came to fruition as he vanished
before it was complete -
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.
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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
On Friday 22 April 2005 19:15, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
Anyone an expert on Ghostscript. Have installed it on my Q60, and it
works very well, prints postscript files and text and graphics.
It comes with some utility scripts one of which gslp.ps allows the
printing of text files directly to the
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
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Duncan
Neithercut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Hi Roy
I always read your bit in QLToday first, its always about innovation.
I saw two of your clients had a problem with QCDEZE and the QDT CDrom.
You have found a new way of getting software support. You could have
got
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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,
I can confirm that my changes to Pefection are compatability changes ie bigger
screensand greater compatibility with SMSQE and qdos on the amiga. I have not
added any new functionality or changed the basic mother daughter job way of
running the program. I am willing to submit my new version of
On Friday 22 April 2005 21:51, Duncan Neithercut wrote:
Thanks but thats the manual seems to say what I have been using
without success. do you need to specify an output device or font in
the
command line as well?
No to both questions. I have just run it here and as you can see below it
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
I suppose it works in QPC2 because that accesses the files using
Windows.
Thats it
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roy
wood
Sent: 22 April 2005 20:08
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Roy's section in QLToday
In message [EMAIL
Thanks but thats the manual seems to say what I have been using
without success. do you need to specify an output device or font in
the
command line as well?
Duncan Neithercut
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Southern
Sent: 22 April
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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Hi
Anyone an expert on Ghostscript. Have installed it on my Q60, and it
works very well, prints postscript files and text and graphics.
It comes with some utility scripts one of which gslp.ps allows the
printing of text files directly to the printer without conversion to
postscript. This works
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
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From: David Gilham
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection
In the meantime
could any one who has found any bugs or incompatibilities in Perfection
please email them to me at david (at) davidgilham (dot) me (dot)
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