Hi Art,
that's why I said if they just made it a card that you could plug into your computer they could make it cheaper, by utilizing the hard drive, USB ports, video ports etc. that your computer already has.
And they could keep the CPU processing power on their board so it does not interfere with the CPU processor in the computer, and I do wonder about their lifetime software upgrade?
Do they consider EmoSPARK to be alive until they develop and build EmoSPARK 2? Like most companies do! Even Windows eventually stops supporting their operating systems over time.
In most cases is just another way of making more money, just like Denise, I spent all that money to help the company further their endeavors and now they're thinking about charging everyone when they come out with Denise version 2.
But I have not heard if they are going to are not, I have not been to their website since they have stopped upgrading my Denise, I guess they think it's working okay, I think it needs a lot of improvement.
But it's just another way of making more money, if they can't make the money they can't stay in business, is just a shame that when companies like Dragon NaturallySpeaking, (don't get me wrong I think Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an excellent piece of software.)
But it seems that they only come out with a patch one time, like they did with version 11 they patched it and now it is version 11.5 but since when does has changed there are many aspects that do not work correctly and there are bugs that need to be fixed but they are no longer doing this.
What they did was come out with version 12 and for those people that had version 11 was only charged $100 for the upgrade? Why am I spending $100 on something that is nothing more than an upgrade all that's right because they need to stay in business.
It's all about the money, honey, and thinking about upgrades, I will be spending all day testing my version 2.0 today and I will be releasing it sometime between 8 and 9:00 PM.
I'm sure there will still be some bugs that I will have to fix afterwards, anyone that would like to participate as a beta tester would be greatly appreciated.
So let's see I guess I need to charge everyone for the upgrade, so for this new upgrade it will cost you the same amount of money it cost you to get the original version. LOL.
Here is a brief summary of some of the things that I have done to the free will plus plug-in 2.0:
fixed hundreds of bugs! And I'm sure there's more but I will continue working on it for as long as I am connected to the Internet.
I have tried to make it smaller, so I can add to it so it does more, which I did, and it made it bigger again.
I have streamlined it with some coding that snowman help me with, and I made it more accurate in the determining whether or not ultra Hal likes or dislikes something.
I was hoping to be able to have the yes no situation resolved by the release for this weekend but I was then able to get it to work properly. Still waiting on snowman's response.
My next big project will be to get the free will to have a more interesting response when you ask why, or why do you like, or why don't you like, or what do you think about etc. and blend them all together so you would get more of a human style response.
Sincerely, from a data munching cruncher.
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