One that comes to mind was the manuals and bits and pieces that came with Infocom text-based adventure games. They were nice bits of cruft to have alongside the actual game but in certain instances puzzles within the game could only be solved by referring to something on the card, or booklet, supplied with the game. I can't recall if it was The Hitchhiker's Guide, or Leather Goddess of Phobos, but the requirement popped up quite deep into the game.
They weren't license keys, persey, as all the printed material was the same, but a tacit test as to whether you had bought the actual game, or just copied the disk.
Ironically, I can't see your image because Imgur assumes my VPN is malicious and rejects traffic from it. (Instead of saying this, it lies about being over capacity. This situation mysteriously resolves when I disable the VPN.)
Useful idea. I, and many peers, are your target market. However, this looks like it might be US centric, based on searches in the merchant/wallet search on the main page.
Is it? Might be worth mentioning that somewhere so a large international audience doesn't waste time signing up.
My understanding from the paper is there is no difference between 4, 8, 12, and 40Hz frequencies on the neurobiologcial effects, but I found the 8Hz a bit less comfortable than the 12, so I uploaded both.
Paul's animation wasn't playing at an even rate for me, for some reason, so I created two video versions (8Hz and 12Hz) with the 16 second on/off period, starting with an off period, running for 254 seconds, as per the paper. These versions end with an an additional off period, as a 'cool down' from the flicker.
Framerate of 24Hz differs from the 120Hz as presented in the paper, but here there is no 40Hz flicker attempt so it shouldn't be an issue.
Compression may affect the edges of the lines, but downloads are enabled.
The icon is the teal/white circle just in line and to the right of the social media icons at the bottom of the page. I missed it on first glance and would have no idea what it did.
Considering you can fly from London to Chișinău for around £36 at present ($45) on a low cost EU airline, then it probably isn't. The Telegraph is a right leaning newspaper for a wealthy readership, so their travel articles offer luxury. (The details of the holiday provider mention 4 star hotels.)
Plenty of indie travellers potter around in Eastern Europe via flight hops or train, and could spend a similar amount for a whole summer's travel.
Did they refuse to pay actively ("We won't pay you."), or passively (No replies to emails.) The latter might be incompetence.
As others mentioned, specific legal advice depends on respective jurisdictions, but an offical lawyer's letter sometimes wakes up legal when accounting is drifting.
Did you deliver the final access to the code / server / credentials? If not, gently bring servers, DBs, platforms to a halt pending final payments.
Future projects:
Contract, always.
Up-front commencement payments, always.
Price yourself higher in the initial quote, and ask for staged payments, such that by the time your delivery schedule is 50-75% done you are 100% paid.
You control the source code accounts, you control the server credentials, you control the database access credentials, you hand over final access after the final check has cleared.
Eh ... they should focus on customer experience rather than AI.
As a customer unable to remove a credit card from my account, despite the service being inactive and cancelled, because the service is "still active", I'd rather have someone I can contact to resolve it, rather than being pointed to the uncontactable merchant.
Sadly, for us, comparisons are moot, as what was previously a rejection of our phone number for verification has become an instant account suspension when once again attempting to sign up.
We understand this has been a recent issue and Anthropic's community team have stepped in to resolve issues occasionally(1), but it's not an endearing first experience.
So we'll continue to give money to OpenAI, and increasingly MistralAI, for our services, and make do.
I don't have the time to set up Asterisk but this story inspired me to generate a collection of handy random DTMF tones that could semi-automate a mute and mash approach.
Although the actual audio quality seems low on playback (a low bitrate MP3?) the structure and arrangement of the song seem fine.
Yet ... the irony of a song of worship created by an AI surely reverberates through the cosmos like a clap of thunder. Surely?
I'm less interested in the quality of the output and more the motivation of the creator. Was it you? Was it made it good faith? What was its purpose? Was it experimental or intended to inspire?
They weren't license keys, persey, as all the printed material was the same, but a tacit test as to whether you had bought the actual game, or just copied the disk.