PC based Alarm Clock

[slvr_phoenix]

Any body interested in AlarmClock I recently wrote? It asks you how many hours and minutes you wish to sleep, and opens your favorite music (note: sound adjusted by the user) when the time is up. I use it all the time on the road on my laptop.

Price: only $3.99 per license. I accept Visa, Money Orders, personal cheques (must be cleared before downloading). Registration code upon payment. You may try before you buy, but the program without a payment will format yer harddrive for a clean AlarmClock installation.

You're kidding, right? 'Clocky For Windows' was much better than that and I wrote it way back in '97 using VB5 because I was tired of the DOS version's funky clock hands. (They were done in ASCII, so I only had 45 degree angles to work with.)

'Tis a shame that I no longer have the source code, but then I haven't written either Clocky or Bounce (my Pong clone) in Python yet. Pretty much every language I learn I write a version of each in, but I've been slack when it comes to Python. (And you haven't seen anything until you've seen an ASCII version of Pong written in 16-bit x86 Assembly. Geeze tech school was boring.)

It's also a shame that Geocities finally clipped my website. (Gee, only going on three years without a single update.) If they hadn't anyone could have downloaded Clocky For Windows (VB5 version because it was the one that I spent the most time on) or Bounce (on QBasic because, again, it was the one that I spent the most time on) for free. Come to think of it, I wonder what I did with the Bouce 3D code... :\ I have a sinking feeling that the only copy might have been on my Celeron 500 box which I wiped with a clean install of Win98SE for my wife. 🙁 Oh well. Who needs an OpenGL/C++ 3D Pong clone anyway?

<pre><b><font color=red>"Build a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the evening.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Steve Taylor</font color=red></b></pre><p>

 

[blah]

Gee, who needs you ancient NON-existent clocky which was written to be an .exe? This is VERY funny for me that no body out here (even super pooper programmers like yourself!!!) can't figure out the thing that I am doing here: I am selling THE most advanced, THE most smallestest, THE most easiestest to use, THE most robost super waking programme EVER built by the humanz.

Yeah, I have a "Budilnik" programme which is only 666 bites in size and it does turn any program on at certain time, BUT it is a .VBS!!! dummy, you can SEE the code, and you can MODIFY the code, so it will not ask you for the payment or format yer drive or do anything you DON'T want it to. Gee, you are so super pooper smart that you don't even know what CAN be done and what CAN NOT be done in scripting language.

Gee, anyway, my super waking programme is still on sale, so any body interested in super life saving programme that WILL change your waking life may contact my salse departamente to arrange the transaction and payment options. Do not hesitate to be the first one and the only one to have the most smallest and the most advanced super waking programme in the world. Good luck shopping.


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[blah]

and by the way, how can some body like yourself can say that some thing "was better" than my super waking programme if you did not even see/use it? THAT alone tells me your intelligence level, which is ...ehh, about 10 year old's at the most.

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[slvr_phoenix]

Besides the fact that I never said anyone needed Clocky in the first place and only brought it up to prove that your concept is as old as mud and as overdone as beating a dead horse until it actually fits into cans of dog food, there's also the simple fact that .vbs scripts are completely useless to people who have disabled Windows Scripting to avoid the plethora of email worms using that as a base.

But do go on and tell us more about your worthless script. We're all ears. Honest. Don't mind the headphones. Those are just for decoration. Really.

<pre><b><font color=red>"Build a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the evening.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Steve Taylor</font color=red></b></pre><p>

 

[blah]

I don't really like to make my "potential" customers feel bad, yet you are as worthless for the society as my poop (even though that can be made to be a fertilizer which is useful😉 so I will not spend any more time on your brainless comments. Windows are as old as scripting, yet every body is using it till now and want more of it with every update, so your comment about "overdue" is worthless craapz, sord of to say, and you are probably as old as my dead grand grandfather, and yer brain is overdue for the retirement, so hit da dirt old fella and be quiet while I am selling my most super waking programme ever developed by the humanz and it is still on sale for $3.88 per license which can still be used by any one, any time and the only time.

If any body interested in super waking programme ever built by the humanz and for the humanz please do not hezitate to contact my salse departamente and become the most super happy waking customer ever lived on the planet.


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[slvr_phoenix]

Sorry, but until your super waking program can run on my direct neural interface then I say that it's nothing but crap. Even a decrepit from a horrible childhood accident spider monkey on acid could randomly type out better scripts than that, and as already stated, your functionality is actually already built into Windows anyway so no one even needs your pathetic excuse for your life's work. My bellybutton lint can do more than your script.

And I know that I'm an incredibly endowed and fertile man, but come on, mistaking that for fertilizer is like not even knowing the difference between black and white, so to speak.

<pre><b><font color=red>"Build a man a fire and he's warm for the rest of the evening.
Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Steve Taylor</font color=red></b></pre><p>

 

[ksoth]

What's the deal with this guy? Was he first serious about his little program, then when people gave him crap about it, he decided to be all funny, playing it off like he was joking?

He isn't really serious about the $3.99 to only use the program a single time is he?

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[blah]

Read my first post, you'll see that I am DEAD serious about my super waking programme ever builded by the humanz. You are trying to destroy my reputation? You are DEAD wrong, caz my super waking programme is working up to the split second DEAD on, and it is only $3.88 per license right now, and that is a HUGE savings comparing to a lost job, or lost date, or just feeling bad about yourself not being abel to wake up at a certain time. Hurry, get busy and contact my salse departamente to get the most super waking programme ever builded by the humanz for the humanz and you WILL feel happy about you desision. Sattisfunction guerentied.

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[blah]

PS: "<font color=blue>failure is the first step towards trying againg</font color=blue>"

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[slvr_phoenix]

What's the deal with this guy? Was he first serious about his little program, then when people gave him crap about it, he decided to be all funny, playing it off like he was joking?

He isn't really serious about the $3.99 to only use the program a single time is he?

All that I can figure is that he's about as serious about selling his program as George 'Dubya' Bush is about balancing the budget. (Or fighting the war on terror, or hell, pretty much <i>anything</i> that Dubya The Demented Sock Puppet does.)

You know, in other words all talk that sounds almost sincere, but no real intent to do anything useful.

But it's been remarkably entertaining none the less. It's difficult to pretend to be serious with a nutcase like that, so I gave up trying.

Maybe if he'd written it in PERL or something it really would be possible to hide hard drive formatting and per-license usage, at least to people who didn't want to try removing them. As VB Script however even if such code existed, which clearly doesn't, it'd be easy as hell to edit. You don't get much easier code to read than a VB Script. You also don't get much more of an avoided language than VB Script, so hey.

Frankly I seriously doubt that his code even exists. I mean why would anyone bother when you don't even have to write a script to do that little? At least most alarm clock softwares try to do interesting things like offer several alarms, alternate time zone duplications, and/or pretty graphics.

Thinking of useless programs though, I really should get back to working on Bounce 3D. Now there is a useless program.

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Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Steve Taylor</font color=red></b></pre><p>