Quote: Originally posted by Jaey: Online petitions don't work™ Give it up already.

eBay is not a monopoly. Take your business elsewhere if you don't like the policies. I think Starbuck's is too damned expensive, so I buy my coffee at 7-11. You know what? I'…

Quote: Originally posted by Jaey: Online petitions don't work™

I hear eBay has no feelings.

Quote: Originally posted by ManOfSteal: I hear eBay has no feelings. I hear money has neither. Any connection ? -t

Quote: Originally posted by ManOfSteal: I hear eBay has no feelings. And yet it's been so good to me for finding obscure records. Oh well, back to gemm.com.

ebay is a business, it has to earn money. If you don't feel that you're getting value for your buck, just go somewhere else.

I see that the petition is gathering strength in numbers and posts. Even if it's only a mental exercise for those of us signing it, it's still a small mental victory. I think…

Quote: Originally posted by Cody Dawg: Even if it's only a mental exercise for those of us signing it, it's still a small mental victory. I think it's good. Time a…

Quote: Originally posted by Skip Breakfast: eBay is not a monopoly. Take your business elsewhere if you don't like the policies. I think Starbuck's is too damned exp…

So the guys running the network in our house are being a bunch of @$$holes. they keep shutting my internet off because they say my bittorrents are slowing down the network. i only …

Games use VERY LITTLE bandwidth. Especially compared to BitTorrent. Heck, with a decent torrent (more seeding bandwidth than leeching bandwidth) I believe you could pretty much sat…

Quote: Originally posted by Turnpike: Games use VERY LITTLE bandwidth. Especially compared to BitTorrent. Heck, with a decent torrent (more seeding bandwidth than leechi…

Crap. o well. I'd be willing to cap my bandwidth, if I knew how. I don't need instant files (I watch naruto once a week) and I am never home to begin with, so I could leave it runn…

How's that for an informative subject line? ;-) Anyway, I need to hire an expert RealBasic developer to make a RSS creation and management system for my company. In many ways, it…

Is RealBasic a requirement? I mean, why not Java, or any other language?

Yes, RealBasic is a requirement. I need to use RealBasic for many reasons, including cross-platform compatibility.

What are the reasons? I can't think of a better portable platform than java.

Actually, it's because I need to learn RealBasic for another project -- so I'd like all my apps to be in the same language.

>What are the reasons? I can't think of a better portable platform than java. I can. Java apps feel icky (IMO) the interface is a little off, the way it starts is a little off …

Yeah, same here. To me, Java apps just don't feel like "real" software (no pun intended).

OT (sorry) Are RB apps real compiled apps on all platforms, or are they like old VB apps which are interpreted...? Are they slow?

Quote: Originally posted by Propofol: OT (sorry) Are RB apps real compiled apps on all platforms, or are they like old VB apps which are interpreted...? Are they slow?…

Quote: Originally posted by projos: Yeah, same here. To me, Java apps just don't feel like "real" software (no pun intended). To me (and apparently the good folks …

Quote: Originally posted by osxisfun: they each use some type of JIT compiler unless i am mistaken. I'm pretty sure you are mistaken.