How can a mere mortal give back to the empegbbs user knowledgebase?

Often, I think of questions that I know you all will have answers to. But what do you call a community member who always takes and doesn't give back?

Sometimes, I'll see a question that I hope to answer (ie: about Microsoft Office), but it already has multiple good replies. Curses, foiled again.

Does anyone else feel this way? Haha, help us to help you. Thanks everyone!

I think posting questions is giving to the community. We come here to have discussions and share information so if no one asked a question to start a discussion it would not be a very good bbs.

I must say I always feel a little guilty posting questions. I can't think of a single example where I've been able to give good solid advice.

Does noone here have ambitions to plant an orchard or grow veg (or anything else I might know something about)???

As a top question-poster, I can say that I frequently feel guilty that I can't contribute much in the way of answers to others' questions. I know I've been able to offer genuine assistance a few times, but the number of times that's happened compared to the number of times I've received brilliant assistance from the other folks here is very small.

So, in case I don't thank you good people enough in the many threads of questions I've started, I big thank you goes out to you all.

Those who answer the questions usually do so because they enjoy it, so don't feel guilty.

Not when I'm only a 5 minute walk to the local farmer's market...

Nobody is keeping a tally anyway so just answer if/when you can. Its all good.

You guys are the best.

I do but not until next year I think it's too late to plant anything outside.

It's never too late, and right now is a good time to be ordering fruit and nut trees. Do you know what USDA hardiness zone you're in?

I guess OR means Oregon, I know there are loads of great orchards round there but it's not the same, they'll never be able to sell the ripest possible fruit. If you have room in your garden grow a couple of fruit trees, maybe a Jefferson gage and something that'll pollinate it. If you get the Jefferson at just the right moment, warm from the sun, it'll be just about the best thing you've ever eaten.

tahir, maybe you can explain the label I saw on a watermelon recently. It stated "Fertilized with Honey". Am I to assume someone is out there pouring honey on watermelon plants?

I've heard of people putting vodka into watermelons, never honey. By either definition of fertilisation (pollination or nutrition) I've no idea what that would mean.

I just googled it out of curiosity and found this forum thread-
http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/showthread.php?p=247471
Some interesting angles on honey/sugar as plant food.

I also found this info about bee poop!

Interesting, seems to refer to orchids though which aren't even remotely similar to watermelons

Sure it didn't say fertilized BY Honey?

http://www.harvestmoonranch.net/Honey.html

Now that would be interesting

What I find more amazing about this bbs than the seeming never ending pit of knowledge it contains is how we can take a perfectly normal topic like the start of this one, and turn it into something to do with watermelon and honey. Now that really is genius

I gave up long ago trying to answer any question, I just sit back and enjoy being part of this community even though the numbers do seem to be getting a little thin these days

Three cheers to us!!!!

Cris.

I do worry about that sometimes. This community isn't exactly based around a growing subject matter...

As others have said, participate how you can. It's about community, and not exact tracking with question and answer quotas.

I enjoy my time here, and I hope others do as well. I also don't mind hosting the site, as it's remained a great place to visit for over 10 years now.

Perhaps we need to take the same hint as newspapers. If they want to stop atrophying subscribers and get some new blood, they must give out Amazon Kindles. So maybe we should give out empegs, or some software emulated version?

Wait for it....

The empeg iPhone app.

New thread started

The Ipod/Iphone is a really nice bit of hardware; it's about time somebody wrote a music player for it.

Peter

I'm doing my part. I gave my spare empeg to a friend and even installed it in his Jeep. I know he's seen the bbs, but he's still in lurker mode...

He's loving the empeg.

I guess I'm a bit odd, never owned an empeg but just loved the whole idea and the people behind it seemed pretty cool too, started visiting the boards as soon as I became aware of their existence. Had my name down for a Mk I and a Slimp3 at the same time, I ended up going for the Slimp3 and a really dodgy brick of a portable mp3player (Neo???). Never like the Rio branding on later versions. Think I joined just before I bought my first Karma which, now that Peter's brought it up, is still a way better player than the iPod.

Why is it that companies that really know what they're doing on the product (robust, lightweight apps) like Psion and Empeg fail but Apple and MS with their huge bloated apps succeed?

Marketing.

Is that money to spend on, or an understanding of?

Both.

pca

So why are we such good innovators and poor marketers? And why has government after government failed to address this?

If, as I assume, you're talking about the UK, I think you may be pointing to the problem in your comment.

Why should the government be responsible for addressing a deficiency in a company's marketing department? The UK is practically a giant island-based police state and penal colony already. Increasing the reliance or expectations of the nanny state isn't going to make matters any better.

Besides, neither Rio nor Sonic Blue were UK based, and ultimately they let the ball drop, not the engineers who came up with the goods.

I honestly thought he was joking.