RE: 'green screen' not sellable --> WE(?) are the problem

Hey Mark,

FYI: Visual Studio Community Edition is pretty much Pro with Zero cost.

You can probably even save your $700 per year or you can even join Bizspark and get inexpensive software tooling as well.

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message: 2
date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:06:25 -0400
from: Mark D <mdlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: 'green screen' not sellable --> WE(?) are the problem

On 06/08/2015 02:55 PM, DrFranken wrote:

<vendor>
Stop whining, It's YOUR Career. For $50 a month you can have access.
For
$100 you can have your own private partition. Many of you spend more
than that on your Cable or Satellite service!
If your passion is:
Hiking you buy good shoes, yes?
Biking you buy good wheels, tires, and bikes, yes?
Cooking you buy good knives and pans, yes?
Fishing you buy good lures and poles and a BOAT, yes?
IBM i you get access to the new stuff, right?????
So shut up and invest in yourself already!! (Sorry I'm cranky today.)
</vendor>

Whiiiiile I'm inclined to agree with this, it's just one of many costs for an independent consultant. I have to deal with replacing my laptop every year or two because it either is too slow to run 6 vm's or can't handle being moved so much (though my current MSI GS70 is pretty much awesome except the screen), visual studio licenses, insurance and other bits.

Spending $50/mo for experimentation is where I draw the line. And I only spend $30/mo on satellite tv :-P

So where I'm at is that $50 well could be worth it... or not. But that
$700 visual studio license will *definitely* be worth it to me.

If I can tinker on a Linux/Windows VPS for for $8/mo... or do it on EC2 on demand for cents... to play with things I am 100% sure will pay off... Versus $50/mo for something that mayyyyybe will pay off if I encounter an i shop who forces me to work on the i rather than with the i.

Kind of puts you in a crappy position as a hoster who no doubt charges what you need to charge but that is the reality for the little guys. If I was a career RPG dev I'm sure the equation would be a LOT different.

Thanks,
Mark