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Let me put it this way: just before I went down with C-19, I bought some 2.8mm strimmer wire for my petrol strimmer. And I got to use it on Monday (it's a moped-on-a-stick, 52cc engine at one end and a strimmer head at the other, so it's heavy). And it was useless. Every couple of moments it would wind itself round the strimmer head an lock it solid, so I'd spend 10 minutes getting it out, fixing it, and starting again. After the third try, I threw all 50m in the bin and bought genuine Stihl wire (even though my strimmer isn't Stihl) from Amazon.
It arrived yesterday, so I loaded it up today and it worked perfectly for an hour or so.
Yes, it cost more. Yes, it looks the same. Yes, it has a nice reel with the Stihl logo on to hold it.
But ... it works. I learned once again that buying cheap can get expensive! 
Cheap screens may not have oil resistant layers, are probably PETG which is prone to scratches and cracks.
I'd assume the phone wasn't cheap: so why put a cheap protector on? Maybe you don't need a $40 one, but you'd be relying on a $1-including-profit,-shipping,-cost-of-sales,-taxes,-... to protect probably the most important part ...
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What do want a protector for? The sooner your ficking smartphone becomes unusable, the sooner you will be free.
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I have been happy with the ArmorSuit MilitaryShield Screen Protector I purchased for my phone a while back, if you are looking for options. For a film protector, it went on real nicely with some patience, and hasn't peeled anywhere over the past 1.5 years. That is especially remarkable, since the phone is a Samsung with rounded edges.
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you buy a phone with the most damage resistant glass known to man then put a layer of scratch prone plastic over it to "protect" it. Bloody idjits.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Glass is strong - but fragile - but it is easily scratched by stuff like keys, grit, sand, and such like. Heck, toothpaste can scratch glass, which is why it's used as a polish to remove scratches from some watch crowns!
Adding a screen protector means you can easily replace it when it does get scratched up and blurred, without replacing the expensive screen.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Glass is strong - but fragile - but it is easily scratched by stuff like keys, grit, sand, and such like. Heck, toothpaste can scratch glass,
I think he is referring to Gorilla glass and other types of synthetic sapphire 'glass'.
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yes, my watch crown is synthetic sapphire - and it's scratched!
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Well,
Of the 'many hats' that I wear... two of them are rock hounding[^] and amateur lapidarist[^]. For the past 5 years the building behind my house has two rock tumblers that are operating 24 hours a day polishing my precious/semi-precious stones. I have an amazing collection of gemstones. OriginalGriff wrote: yes, my watch crown is synthetic sapphire - and it's scratched!
Synthetic sapphire is over a 9 on the MOHS scale[^]... you're going to need a something harder[^] to scratch it. You have most likely scratched the anti-reflective coating.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Hint: Sprint doesn't manufacture...well...anything.
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Around the world, as activists tear down slave-owner statues, some statues are fighting back[^] 
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Let me risk the borders of Soapbox here:
The movement had a valid and just basis, initially - cold blooded murder.
But their leadership, ceasing the moment and observing the gutless wonders in management (both corporate and governmental) are cowing to each demand and thus the demands escalate. The net result is - as has happened before - a backlash is sure to follow.
Meanwhile, some of their leadership is guilty of overt bigotry of their own (like Al Sharpton and Jessy Jackson). Why do they get an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing pass ?
So - when the dust settles and more people are back to work (without time to just march) there will be a rollback of some of what was accomplished done (not all of that bad) and a galvanizing the those in (or now in) opposition giving what will be net political support for their nemesis.
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This is a straight-forward question about software pricing and all is legal and above board.
I have a coworker/friend who has produced a software package that can perform date-conversions on the fly, changing one date format to another form via a function call. But he does not know what to sell these key routines for. He will not give them away nor sell them cheap. He has put a lot of time and effort into this software package development. And they do work! I've played with them. He is currently making his presence known on the internet, via a fairly new website. Any ideas on what the selling price should be for these key routines and others?? My friend would like some help and suggestions on pricing.
I hope this question/request passes the moderators requirements and for not being in the programming question area.
Why can't this question be submitted. Resolve the 1 issue(s) before posting. Where is the issue?
Thanks,
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Um.
Generally speaking, your friend is on a loser. It will take an experienced developer a couple of minutes to convert date formats, it's not at all complicated: a couple of lines of code.
So why would they pay for them? Particularly when more complex data manipulation software is available for free? For example: DateTime Extensions to Make Some Simple Tasks a Little More Readable[^] - you can probably find "date format conversion" packages with a simple google as well.
So "he won't sell them cheap" sounds to me like he is going to sell a total of zero copies, unless they do something really complicated and different, but your description does not sound like that is true.
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samtoad wrote: I hope this question/request passes the moderators requirements and for not being in the programming question area.
I think this is exactly where you should be posting such questions.
Although I agree with OG your friend is extremely hopeful if he expects to even give such a package away let alone sell it.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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samtoad wrote: date-conversions
I misread as Data conversion, as in unstructured to structured, etc. Maybe that would be more useful, again, depending on specifics.
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Just to add a comment on your approach: when you say "I have a coworker/friend who has produced a ..." and "he does not know what to sell these key routines for" that doesn't inspire any confidence in his abilities: if he can't work out how to find a site, sign up, and post a message then in all probability his computer knowledge and skills are extremely poor.
That's not saying your skills are poor, or your friends skills are poor - but that's the impression that divorcing yourself from the request gives.
Generally speaking, you need to come over as professional and knowledgeable to sell software: if you want to sell to professionals at least. If you want to sell to student then forget it: they will pirate it or copy'n'paste from SO anyway ...
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It almost always is ...
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That message is from 2004! 
Cheers,
विक्रम
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Oops. 
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He should keep his day job.
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To be of value it needs to fix an existing problem.
IMO, date conversion is not really a problem.
so, not much value.
put it on github.
I'd rather be phishing!
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samtoad wrote: changing one date format to another form via a function call
What function, DateTime.ToString?
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Maybe if it's for some language/framework which doesn't have anything like that built-in.
Certainly not for .net, which has good date/time parsing and formatting support already.
Or are you talking about converting between different calendars? Which is of very little use in the modern business world.
The main shortcoming with such a plan is that while you can sell applications, you really can't sell utility/library functions which form the foundations of applications.
Those sorts of things are given away freely so others can build applications.
Furthermore, consider I bought a library of functions from you for $10. Then I reverse-engineer them, using your library to help validate the correctness of mine (or finding bugs in yours). Maybe I could even do bench-mark testing to show that mine is faster. Then I offer copies of my version for $5 each, on the same platform you use, maybe even with source code. I'd need to sell only two copies to get my money back and the rest is gravy.
I think the more profitable model continues to be the "if you like it, please consider donating a few bucks to a poor starving developer in his mother's basement" model.
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