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"Clear storage" to re-use expensive trial software

I have some 60 day trial medical software that costs a pretty penny. By using the "clear storage" function, the WM6 registry etc should be returned to factory fresh state, right?
I'll use a virtual machine to install the software to my Wing. That should work right?
NS

yes, in theory, it should work.
However, it's like killing babies. Don't do it.
Support the developers, they really need it.
And i'm being nice.

fzzyrn said:
yes, in theory, it should work.
However, it's like killing babies. Don't do it.
Support the developers, they really need it.
And i'm being nice.
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LOL!! That's classic!

what's the softwar in question if you don't mind me asking?

eh i probably shouldn't have said it was possible in the first place. Oh well, now that its been quoted, no changing.

fzzyrn said:
eh i probably shouldn't have said it was possible in the first place. Oh well, now that its been quoted, no changing.
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LOL, its not big deal, commen sense really. I think he already knew it was possible...i guess he(maybe she but I doubt it) was just looking for a little conformation

neptune said:
i guess he(maybe she but I doubt it)
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haha! how true it is
The software in question is at www.epocrates.com
If you want to make yourself feel a little better about helping me to not support this developer (which I DO appreciate, even though I was 99% sure it would work anyway)
1. this program costs $199 per year
2. Over half a million health care professionals use their products (they aren't a struggling, almost-certain-to-fail startup)
3. as a 3rd year medical student, I'm just under $200,000 in debt and before I graduate you can tack another $60k or more onto that
4. I may someday be caring for the medical needs of you or someone in your Monkeysphere
Thanks again, xda rulez!
NS

wow thats quite an expensive subscription...but I guess its worth it for an important up to date database such as this.

NotShorty said:
haha! how true it is
The software in question is at www.epocrates.com
If you want to make yourself feel a little better about helping me to not support this developer (which I DO appreciate, even though I was 99% sure it would work anyway)
1. this program costs $199 per year
2. Over half a million health care professionals use their products (they aren't a struggling, almost-certain-to-fail startup)
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We will remind you of this when you have had a few years of practice under your belt and we don't pay YOUR bill. I mean after all, after a few years and many hundreds of patients, you won't be a struggling start up operation either.

I'm actually gonna quote shakespeare.
Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.

Reminds me of a joke:
Question: What do you call a doctor with a "c" average in med school?
Answer: A doctor.

xavier6303 said:
Reminds me of a joke:
Question: What do you call a doctor with a "c" average in med school?
Answer: A doctor.
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lol
that reminds me of another joke
What's the best job a student with a C average can get in America?
Answer: A President
*cough* [email protected]$$ GeorgeWBush *cough*

Windows Marketplace, will it hurt?

Hey everyone,
I am really concerned about windows marketplace. I suppose it will either help the community here by weeding out certain visitors, or it could lure all the good dev's from here with the promise of getting more than recognition for their work.
Anyone have an opinion?

It always hurts the first time.

necrolytic said:
It always hurts the first time.
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lolz i bet you say that 2 all the boyz

i think it'll be great. no more digging to find useful applications. i think the centralized market will work wonders.

its a shame they will get their are into us for it

tehhoe said:
its a shame they will get their are into us for it
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the who and the what with the huh?

telegraph0000 said:
the who and the what with the huh?
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I was going to try, but there's just no way.

necrolytic said:
It always hurts the first time.
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That's what she said.
And i don't think its going to affect us, i took 1 look at the prices they were charging for the apps and have decided that Marketplace is best left alone.
Sam

Mr. Zach said:
I was going to try, but there's just no way.
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Ahhh....his eloquence...
This mess it all mine
I have Been Looking for a vibrating keypad for a few weeks now
mine still isnt working
the funny thing is i tested it on my girlfriends it worked a treat
i want it even more now
All i know is i want it,
So cant i can wait to give it a go
my brother got one of these (or something like it) it was rubbish and very under powered.
Also it will only make the battery worse, more juice will be needed.
Yeooooooooooo
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1825687
I will be calling later
After reviewing all the past posts on this thread i will offer you a grand total of...
...$100
imagine the smell in that bedroom
A offer is a offer, if he doent like it doesnt need to attack people
Heh heh...I got too much time on my hands being unemployed....

tehhoe said:
its a shame they will get their are into us for it
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its a shame they will get their ARM! into us.
opps my bad i should really proof read.

I wouldn't worry about it. If anything, it should be useful for the platform and, as such, will benefit us all. For people like myself who flash ROMs quite often Marketplace is useless as it doesn't leave the the cabs and I'll have to redownload stuff every time. For those users who can't spend 5 minutes googling it will be a blessing and therefore will grow the market for WM apps.
What does worry me a bit is not users migrating to MP, but developers.

robinsonsam said:
That's what she said.
And i don't think its going to affect us, i took 1 look at the prices they were charging for the apps and have decided that Marketplace is best left alone.
Sam
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Is there anything free on the Windows Maketplace? The iPhone App store has a free section, just wondering if its the same kind of thing?

necrolytic said:
It always hurts the first time.
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this comment makes me feel there is a lack of a comment rating system on this forum. :-D

Android. The theif.

Doesn't anyone find it odd that we are paying out huge sums of cash for a Linux based OS that is free to use?

Because the cost of the handset doesn't factor into it at all :face palms:

I mean they handed us a broken toy and we fixed it for them with no pay and they sold it back to us as an update, now we are fixing it up more. Hopefully when Android 114.6 rolls out some devs. will for a union of some kind and make some cash from big business instead of settling for the 2.99 that their brothers and sisters are downloading.

Next time put the bong down and think before posting.
Here's your basic argument in another context:
The internet is free so why do we spend so much money on computers to browse web pages?
You fail. Thanks for playing.
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chelsea19 said:
I mean they handed us a broken toy and we fixed it for them with no pay and they sold it back to us as an update, now we are fixing it up more. Hopefully when Android 114.6 rolls out some devs. will for a union of some kind and make some cash from big business instead of settling for the 2.99 that their brothers and sisters are downloading.
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But no one asked you to fix it...?

mrbishi said:
Because the cost of the handset doesn't factor into it at all :face palms:
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Oh, no kidding, I had totally forgotten that hardware costs money somewhere on the road to neverland .
Compare prices for free vs paid OS on the same specs. Shouldn't there be a decent difference between the two?

androidlicious said:
But no one asked you to fix it...?
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True but shouldn't the devs. get what they deserve?

And the hurr durr thread of the day goes to-

Kiserai said:
Next time put the bong down and think before posting.
Here's your basic argument in another context:
The internet is free so why do we spend so much money on computers to browse web pages?
You fail. Thanks for playing.
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You fail, pretty damn horribly when you buy computers specifically, I have bought every computer I have ever owned without an OS and it has been cheaper than one with it.

chelsea19 said:
True but shouldn't the devs. get what they deserve?
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OK this whole line of "logic" is just not workin. You might wanna cut bait on this one.

Crotchety said:
OK this whole line of "logic" is just not workin. You might wanna cut bait on this one.
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Ok we whatever, I just got an Android phone and I hate it so I'm gonna get something windows. This is my first experience with Linux on a handset and if the developers wanna get screwed let them, forming union isn't hard we did it where I work, well we joined one but it makes everything a dev does worth money. Good way to make a living.

bcpk said:
And the hurr durr thread of the day goes to-
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And another person is born that we all would have been better of without.

chelsea19 said:
Ok we whatever, I just got an Android phone and I hate it so I'm gonna get something windows. This is my first experience with Linux on a handset and if the developers wanna get screwed let them, forming union isn't hard we did it where I work, well we joined one but it makes everything a dev does worth money. Good way to make a living.
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But who is it that decides the devs have been screwed. Is it you? I think that honor goes to each individual who bought the phone. You don't get to determine that someone else has been screwed just because your panties are in a bunch over something related to your phone.

The cost of a non open source operating system on a phone is going to be so heavily subsidized, I'd be surprised if the additional cost was more than a couple of dollars/pounds/whatever. Bottom line is that you're just paying for the device whichever route you take.
Also consider how long android has been out, it is definitely the quickest maturing mobile platform around. Anyone remember the state wm was in at this age?
Edit: I think the developers would rather be "screwed" as you put it in order to bring about progress in a timely manner. That's what open source is all about!
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mrbishi said:
The cost of a non open source operating system on a phone is going to be so heavily subsidized, I'd be surprised if the additional cost was more than a couple of dollars/pounds/whatever. Bottom line is that you're just paying for the device whichever route you take.
Also consider how long android has been out, it is definitely the quickest maturing mobile platform around. Anyone remember the state wm was in at this age?
Edit: I think the developers would rather be "screwed" as you put it in order to bring about progress in a timely manner. That's what open source is all about!
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Well said, I see and understand your point, thanks.

mrbishi said:
I think the developers would rather be "screwed" as you put it in order to bring about progress in a timely manner. That's what open source is all about!
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First off, that's a toaster I want.
Second off, you're absolutely right. It's not about the money, it's about taking your phone to the next level and being able to say you were the one who got it there first. I and thousands of others have nothing but respect for these developers and a lot of us give them both props and donations for their work. I'm sure the donations are nice, but I doubt there are many devs on XDA who started writing ROMs and compiling kernels because they thought it would make them rich.
Don't understate the motivational power of random people coming into your thread to say "Your work is awesome, keep it up, and how cool would it be if it did this too?" For some people the respect is all they need, since genuine respect can't be bought, it can only be earned.

chelsea19 said:
And another person is born that we all would have been better of without.
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Wow, someone is either grumpy or cant take a joke...
You'd expect to pay money for a computer with no OS wouldnt you...
Well the same goes in this case my guessing.
Id rather have 1000's of people thanking me for my work than a few £100 in the bank if i was a dev....

chelsea19 said:
Ok we whatever, I just got an Android phone and I hate it so I'm gonna get something windows. This is my first experience with Linux on a handset and if the developers wanna get screwed let them, forming union isn't hard we did it where I work, well we joined one but it makes everything a dev does worth money. Good way to make a living.
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WOW. if you think unions are the answer, you have bigger problems than just android.

OMG guys I was scrolling and I thought I saw Llama's picture. ='[

Original Android <3ers! said:
OMG guys I was scrolling and I thought I saw Llama's picture. ='[
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Lol..same here

I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”

http://skattertech.com/2012/03/i-won-the-windows-phone-challenge-but-lost-just-because/
Note: This is also posted on Reddit. Just wanted to get the word out. May be an isolated incident, but in all likelihood, it probably is not.
EDIT: woah dudes, was not me , though I doubt they could beat my epic touch. Found the story and though more people would like to know.

Like WTF dude ?
MS people are in general some arrogant kids (my opinion).
I smoked the Lumnia 800 with my SGS2 at work, and the lumnia 800 owner got cocky and started accusing me of cheating and hacking, he actually got totally "off-topic" with me, I guess it was "just-because"
That confirmed, once again to me, that most MS Phone owners are narrow minded, not open to other possibilities, and well, don't want to hear about other platforms, not even try them out, even if there are hard proof of the other platform being better
And yeah, MS challenges, they make their own rules as-they-go it seems, I've been in a similar contest, won it by the rules, but lost because my phone was rooted (ran stock 2.3.5 rom on SGS2 with root wich was laggy compared to 4.0.3)
Just my thoughts out loud

Bad ploy by that location and I hope that manager gets in trouble for breaking policy. That was a stupid challenge for them to use honestly. I love wp7 but I'm not afraid to admit that they are wrong here.

Honestly they should have given you the prize, or even a second shot at it. They cannot leave it at "just because"....
They're a global brand and their reasoning is that of a 5 year old....

Goes right along with some biased, anti-android PR MS has been spreading over the past few months. Their plan was stack the odds as they obviously couldn't just give out laptops left and right, but as you won by their own rules the refusal to pay out is ridiculous.
You're a nicer guy than I am though; I would have called up the local news channels consumer reporters and gotten a crew down there asap, or at least tried, just loudly enough that all the customers in the store can hear. They could give me my prize then, or they could do it later after their store gets some bad press that I'm sure would make its way up the chain until someone a bit higher found out. Heck, maybe the manager decides to call the cops because you're making a "scene." "Customer Arrested at Microsoft Store for Trying to Claim Prize;" would have been worth it
Any, as someone mentioned on the blog the $1000 they saved on the laptop--less considering its value versus price--will not be offsetting the negative press this generates by word of mouth. Sucks you got the shaft like that.

I felt like I struck gold since I knew I already had two weather widgets on my home screen
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I don't know if thats was allowed or not. The MS people could also put live Tiles at the Home screen but they didn't.
Well, I have mixed opinions here. In a way, you actually won as no one mentioned about the home screen widgets and if they (either you or MS) have already put it in the home screen but on the other hand, this contest should be like display weather of 2 GIVEN cities, more like searching it.

Engadget picked up on it.
http://m.engadget.com/default/class...e-for-galaxy-nexus-owner/&icid=eng_latest_art

My brother did the same with the 4s, he technically won
But im going to
Go using my nexus

I read the story earlier today on twitter. You are famous dude!

85gallon said:
Engadget picked up on it.
http://m.engadget.com/default/class...e-for-galaxy-nexus-owner/&icid=eng_latest_art
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Every site on the frigging net has picked up on it, which really is too bad, because WP is actually a good OS and deserves some of the credit. This whole challenge is just stupid to begin with.

Toss3 said:
Every site on the frigging net has picked up on it, which really is too bad, because WP is actually a good OS and deserves some of the credit. This whole challenge is just stupid to begin with.
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Either way Both Windows and Android are getting publicity.
I think this issue doesnt necessarily reflect badly on the Windows Phone OS, it does reflect badly on the employees.

So, did they "make it right"?
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inteller said:
oh yes you won, by reducing the security of your device that even Google says is a bad idea (stock OS option or not). Great for you dude.
MS should give you the prize so they can brag that it takes reducing your security to defeat Windows Phone.
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When the rules are not clear there is always room for interpretation.
I dont think he did anything wrong by reducing the security if it wasnt stated that as a specific requirement.
I do agree with you that MS can capitalise on this by saying that you need to reduce your security in order to beat their phone.
As I said, both OSs are getting publicity, what they make of it depends on how they turn it around and yours is a good idea actually!

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"Update: Looks like the gent got an apology, a laptop and a phone out of the deal. And suddenly, all was well in the world."
From the Engadget article.

inteller said:
headline: Microsoft Security team issues prize for showing how NOT to secure your android device
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Would be funny, but I still think the OP should get the prize, since he actually beat WP fair and square (even if he removed a security feature). It is actually MS's fault if they didnt lay down the rules to begin with
It would be a win-win
He gets the phone and the bragging rights (which he already has anyway) and MS/WP gets lots of publicity.
You cant go wrong
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"Update: Looks like the gent got an apology, a laptop and a phone out of the deal. And suddenly, all was well in the world."
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And so everyone is happy

Toss3 said:
Every site on the frigging net has picked up on it, which really is too bad, because WP is actually a good OS and deserves some of the credit. This whole challenge is just stupid to begin with.
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The OS may be good, but the contest is a joke if they aren't going to play fair.
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inteller said:
oh yes you won, by reducing the security of your device that even Google says is a bad idea (stock OS option or not). Great for you dude.
MS should give you the prize so they can brag that it takes reducing your security to defeat Windows Phone.
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How much more secure is having a lockscreen that you touch or slide to unlock vs simply having to power on the phone? It's not as though the Windows phone was password or Pin secured.

Wow fanboys of all OS's, stfu and gtfo. Simple fact is he won.
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[REQUEST]Apple vs. All timeline?

Hey all,
Recently I have been researching the big hub-bub going on where Apple is suing everyone in sight (my poor attempt at humor). Next thing you know, the guy that invented the Slinky will be getting a subpoena to testify for Apple. I have been VERY busy with the crazed thing I call a life and need a little help here. I am not very delved deep into this massive debate going on between Apple and Google, Samsung, HTC. The thing I request is a "timeline" to loosely term it. Don't automatically discount me as some "lazy" person. I just need the expertise of someone with their nose in this doggy doodoo pile, so to speak. I don't really ask for much, but I haven't followed the battle since the start so my ability to effectively chronologically order the major lawsuits and actions taken by all sides is next to nil. I don't need anything fancy, hell a text file written with Notepad will do, as long as the information is FACTUAL and ordered correctly. If you feel like composing a flashy Powerpoint then by all means do so, but it's not needed. The major points will be elaborated upon and condensed in a 15-20 page Powerpoint by me. Anyways, back to work since my professors getting on my a** about being on XDA.
Thanks, worldindo1.

Edit: Actually, I'll let you find out for yourself

There's this cool website that has all this information.
http://www.google.com
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Here is a link that should help you.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+lawsuit+timeline

Archer said:
Edit: Actually, I'll let you find out for yourself
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Wow! I'm surprised this thread survived, or was a Mod actually hoping for a mini flame war to break out

Simon.TS.HTC said:
Wow! I'm surprised this thread survived, or was a Mod actually hoping for a mini flame war to break out
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Mods have a "thread closing quota" and I'm nearing my TCQ for the week. I have to slow down or I won't be able to close the really important ones

85gallon said:
Here is a link that should help you.
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=apple+lawsuit+timeline
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And from this we get:
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/apple-vs-the-world
Tada!

MissionImprobable said:
And from this we get:
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/apple-vs-the-world
Tada!
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There's way more than that, way way more

Well of course, but that thing is a pretty good overview for those who are too lazy to compile on their own.

That might be the suits in the state of Georgia. I know for sure it's not worldwide.

Well since the OP hasn't come back to see if any donkeys would do his work for him, I'll post my original response.
Me said:
So, basically, you're asking someone to do your homework for you and you'd prefer a nice flashy presentation if that's possible.
Would you like fries with that?
Sorry - Google and research. That's why they call it research. (I'm also doing you a favour because this thread has troll-bait smeared all over it!!)
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