You sound to me like a real designer who understands real-world requirements. I would imagine the people who use a site like 99designs are fly-by-night entrepeneurs who are going to abandon the logo after a few months anyway. I'm in IT myself, but having worked at an ad agency early in my career, and working closely with designers after moving to management and collaborating with designers on websites, etc. I understand your pain.
Let's apply the same thing to every highly paid job. We're going to let thousands of doctors offer their diagnosis, but only one of them will get paid. Eventually we can get the cost of everything to almost zero!
I get tired of arguing with stupidity, but here we go again.
Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarians believe in responsibility for one's actions. The right to swing your fist ends at my nose. If those actions are dumping toxic chemicals into a river and poisoning everything in the surrounding environment, then the person responsible has to pay the consequences, be it cleanup, fines, incarceration, or whatever is deemed necessary.
Regulations have a tendency to grow far bigger than necessary, and in the long run are self defeating. Regulations that have built up over a period of decades as they have in the US are now to the point where they crush those too small to keep up with regulations, and prevent new players from entering a market. This cements the massive corporations dominance, and gives us companies who are "too big to fail" and "big enough to buy the regulation from here on out." Regulation need not be complicated, except that politicians and people like yourself think that if one law is good, then two laws are better, and a million laws must be better yet.
Sometimes simplicity is the answer. This is what libertarians such as myself believe.
You said it yourself, steganography is used when trying to conceal that communication is taking place. Isn't that what botnet operators want?
Assuming that access to Facebook, etc. isn't already blocked, a network admin isn't going to notice image downloads from Facebook as quickly as they would repeated hits to http://botnetsite.ru/ and there is a lesser chance of the botnet being detected at all.
Executive salaries are such a miniscule percentage of the oil industries revenue you could cut them to NOTHING and it would barely make a dent.
Likewise, if you knew what the hell you were talking about you'd know that the health care industries profit margin isn't really all that high. The problem is not profit, it's that top quality healthcare is expensive to provide. Everybody wants the best but nobody wants to pay for it.
The police do not give a shit about your laptop. If they find it in the course of some other work, and they cross reference the serial and find out it belongs to you, they'll return it. But they're not going to go looking for it. Hell, they don't give a shit about stolen cars either and those are worth quite a bit more than a laptop.
If you have been violently assaulted, the police do not care about you.
How many bands get airtime at all? When I listen to the radio, it's the same handful of songs playing over and over and over. Any small band who signs with a RIAA label hoping to get big might as well sell their instruments and buy lottery tickets. They've got about the same chances of striking it rich.
If you don't like fucking capitalism you can move, asshole. There are plenty of centrally planned economies you could choose to live in. I hear North Korea is nice.
Tokyo's infrastructure is downright modern compared to New York. Europe had to rebuild entire cities after WW2. Much of the US is still stuck on copper we installed 100 years ago.
I used to live very close to downtown Minneapolis and the best I could get was 1.5Mbps DSL. I moved twenty miles out to the suburbs and now I'm on 20Mbps DSL for about the same price. The difference? New infrastructure.
Those organizations are shit filters? Oh, you mean that they strain out lots of good work and then dump the shit that's left over in the strainer onto the public. I agree.
I hate to break it to you, but the American movie industry is crap too. Unless remakes of movies ever few years is your idea of creativity, I don't think we're winning anything there.
You do realize, I hope, that Activision is one of those middlemen. They don't create anything, they're a publisher. And a ruthless one at that. If Activision became the top dog in gaming you may find yourself longing for the days of openness that MS and Sony provided.
So rather than spend that $2K on advertising, you'd rather spend it on tools when you have the option of free? I'd say it's you who have no business sense, and no business in a start up.
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You sound to me like a real designer who understands real-world requirements. I would imagine the people who use a site like 99designs are fly-by-night entrepeneurs who are going to abandon the logo after a few months anyway. I'm in IT myself, but having worked at an ad agency early in my career, and working closely with designers after moving to management and collaborating with designers on websites, etc. I understand your pain.
http://clientsfromhell.net/
Let's apply the same thing to every highly paid job. We're going to let thousands of doctors offer their diagnosis, but only one of them will get paid. Eventually we can get the cost of everything to almost zero!
Voters DO have poor long term memory. That's why politicians get away with this kind of thing.
I get tired of arguing with stupidity, but here we go again.
Libertarians are not anarchists. Libertarians believe in responsibility for one's actions. The right to swing your fist ends at my nose. If those actions are dumping toxic chemicals into a river and poisoning everything in the surrounding environment, then the person responsible has to pay the consequences, be it cleanup, fines, incarceration, or whatever is deemed necessary.
Regulations have a tendency to grow far bigger than necessary, and in the long run are self defeating. Regulations that have built up over a period of decades as they have in the US are now to the point where they crush those too small to keep up with regulations, and prevent new players from entering a market. This cements the massive corporations dominance, and gives us companies who are "too big to fail" and "big enough to buy the regulation from here on out." Regulation need not be complicated, except that politicians and people like yourself think that if one law is good, then two laws are better, and a million laws must be better yet.
Sometimes simplicity is the answer. This is what libertarians such as myself believe.
You said it yourself, steganography is used when trying to conceal that communication is taking place. Isn't that what botnet operators want?
Assuming that access to Facebook, etc. isn't already blocked, a network admin isn't going to notice image downloads from Facebook as quickly as they would repeated hits to http://botnetsite.ru/ and there is a lesser chance of the botnet being detected at all.
Executive salaries are such a miniscule percentage of the oil industries revenue you could cut them to NOTHING and it would barely make a dent.
Likewise, if you knew what the hell you were talking about you'd know that the health care industries profit margin isn't really all that high. The problem is not profit, it's that top quality healthcare is expensive to provide. Everybody wants the best but nobody wants to pay for it.
The police do not give a shit about your laptop. If they find it in the course of some other work, and they cross reference the serial and find out it belongs to you, they'll return it. But they're not going to go looking for it. Hell, they don't give a shit about stolen cars either and those are worth quite a bit more than a laptop.
If you have been violently assaulted, the police do not care about you.
Sweet, so if we can eliminate dioxins, then we live forever?
Bill Gates is rich too. I guess that means all nerds get rich?
"the chances of making it anywhere without them are pretty slim"
The chances of making it anywhere WITH them are pretty slim too. So what have you go to lose by doing it without them?
Yes, I would imagine it is defined by the behavior of the politicians themselves.
How many bands get airtime at all? When I listen to the radio, it's the same handful of songs playing over and over and over. Any small band who signs with a RIAA label hoping to get big might as well sell their instruments and buy lottery tickets. They've got about the same chances of striking it rich.
If you don't like fucking capitalism you can move, asshole. There are plenty of centrally planned economies you could choose to live in. I hear North Korea is nice.
Tokyo's infrastructure is downright modern compared to New York. Europe had to rebuild entire cities after WW2. Much of the US is still stuck on copper we installed 100 years ago.
I used to live very close to downtown Minneapolis and the best I could get was 1.5Mbps DSL. I moved twenty miles out to the suburbs and now I'm on 20Mbps DSL for about the same price. The difference? New infrastructure.
Those organizations are shit filters? Oh, you mean that they strain out lots of good work and then dump the shit that's left over in the strainer onto the public. I agree.
I hate to break it to you, but the American movie industry is crap too. Unless remakes of movies ever few years is your idea of creativity, I don't think we're winning anything there.
I guess I should clarify "a non-raster display that can compete with today's high quality, full-color high-resolution monitors."
Fantastic. I can see how that would replace modern displays.
/facepalm
You do realize, I hope, that Activision is one of those middlemen. They don't create anything, they're a publisher. And a ruthless one at that. If Activision became the top dog in gaming you may find yourself longing for the days of openness that MS and Sony provided.
Actually he is. He wants to duplicate what they have with WoW in other markets. If they could charge $15/mo for Modern Warfare, they would.
When you've invented a non-raster display, get back to us.
When I RTFA, that's the first thing I thought of. He appears to be attempting to create a format somewhere between raster and vector.
Still, you'd probably be better off just using higher resolutions.
So rather than spend that $2K on advertising, you'd rather spend it on tools when you have the option of free? I'd say it's you who have no business sense, and no business in a start up.
You're still in service to royalty thanks to infinite copyright.
And you're deluded enough to think there is a difference.