lets be real, this site is all about the quality of the submitted links and the quality of the comment system.
I think you should focus on COMMENT system 100% and the quality of the links will improve as a result. For instance, i continue to be downmodded basically because i offer an opposing view to the whatever the current topic is. I try to not insult, and I try to back-up everything i write with facts, or state them as opinion if it is only such. If I was posting off-topic spam, I expect to get downmodded, or if I am shock-jocking just to get noticed (I don't see the point of that one) I would expect to get downmodded, but your 'Point' system is seriously broke.
iphone users are so gullible - when you are all said and done with paying for your iphone and your service contract and your 'redlaser' app, you're over 2k in the hole, and for what? a 'mobile cuecat'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
-Uses it's own special kind of barcode
-Doesn't let people compare prices locally
-Is simply a barcode-encoded URL
/sarcasm
Cuecat was a device that was about a decade too soon. We needed ubiquitous mobile computing (not just mobile phones, you see) before something like this could truly come into its own.
I saw the special barcode for the cuecat in the wikipedia article but I don't remember it being restricted to only those types of barcodes. I'm pretty sure it worked for any barcode. It also says they were trying to avoid patent infringement. I suppose that patent has expired (cuecat was 10years ago! wow), but now that redlaser is worth //evil-voice One Million Dollars!, they may have to pay the piper.
So again - you think it's economical to invest 2k into a device that lets me save 40 cents on Ketchup?
I don't understand your assumption that users are buying iPhones only to use this app and not, say, to also make phone calls and browse the web. In the past, people bought iPhones even when this app was not available, and they paid more.
You should be asking instead if it's economical to invest $2 into an app to save 40 cents on ketchup. (And, if you plan to make more than five such purchases, the answer is "yes".)
I agree. But imagine the outrage when your schema is wiped out. How about a wordpress release which can automatically "disable" the feature/page/plugin/script that express the vulnerability? And throw in an SMS page when an update happens so it wakes them up right away instead of waiting for them to discover it in the morning.
Gattaca is a place that exists because your environment, luck, and habits are all controlled to some extent. Imagine a rat in a cage - stimulated to exercise, rest, learn, eat, exactly what you want, when you want. You can eliminate nearly all of the variables if you wish. Think of Gattaca in this way and Ethan Hawks character is a "Neo". Great movie!
