A simple thank you

[Arryn]

Gandalf Parker said:
Really? It shouldnt be. No longer than it took for the other packages to appear. Shorter if any.

I disagree for the simple reason that there is far less demand for electronic media distribution systems than for general-purpose shopping carts (which are used mainly for snail-mail shipments). It's mainly only needed for the software industry, whose products are already in electronic format, while shopping carts are used for all sorts of products and services sold via the Web. More importantly, though, the big companies that want to make their software available for download already have systems in place. And that includes big game companies like EA and Sony, since you can download full working betas of their games in this fashion. That leaves just the "small fry" game companies (small in comparison to EA, Sony, Symantec, etc.) to have to either develop their own systems, license someone else's, pay someone else to do it for them, or wait for your eventual GPL system.

[Zen]

Now I'm anxiously awaiting Arryn to jump out of a cake and say "Hello, I'm Derek Smart!"

[Arryn]

Zen said:
Now I'm anxiously awaiting Arryn to jump out of a cake and say "Hello, I'm Derek Smart!"

Dammit, Zen, you didn't need to go so far out of your way to be so obnoxiously and gratuitously insulting as to compare me to that unrepentant, egomaniacal, lying blowhard. And just when you were beginning to have me fooled into thinking you'd gone all soft and sweet. I should've known better. hmmph!

[Zen]

I still think you've got ravishing elbows and cute toes!
I thought this thread needed it. For only that reaction.

So choice.

[Arryn]

Zen said:
I thought this thread needed it. For only that reaction.

I know way more about programming than Derek does in his dreams. Heck, I probably know more about everything than Derek. (Not really, but Gandalf thinks so when it's that time of the month for him. ) I'm more charming than Derek (and more modest, too). And I'm way sexier than he is. BTW, elbows and toes aren't the parts of a gal that you should go out of your way to flatter (though toes do count). In addition to the usual spots foremost on you boy's minds, try hips, thighs, ankles, neck, and ears.

So if you're going to compare me to an unrepentant egomaniacal deceiver who thinks they know everything, the least you could do is compare me to Brother Gates.

[Zen]

Arryn said:
So if you're going to compare me to an unrepentant egomaniacal deceiver who thinks they know everything, the least you could do is compare me to Brother Gates.

I wasn't comparing, I was nudging in a jovial manner to get those pie in the sky foaming shaving cream dreams back down to flood plain level

[deccan]

You know I'm curious what the technical issue with digital downloads are. It seems to be fairly straightforward, unless you want to have very sophisticated anti-piracy measures, so that a certain downloaded copy of a game can only run on a specific machine or something.

FYI, I'm a regular buyer of e-books, mostly from Fictionwise.com, so I'm used to measures of this kind.