The main skill you need if you wish to become management has barely anything to do with the fields you have flitted between. I've been in the industry since the late 90s and have only seen one (1) (besides me) under 30 person become management, and that was because a) She was one of the best technologically rounded people I've ever known and b) She knew how to communicate requirements both to the Client (Management) and to the Geeks doing the work in a diplomatic fashion. She was also very organized, driven and able to talk to anyone about the projects she was heading. If you can't bridge that gap between the plebs and the geeks in a graceful, organized and illuminating manner, you won't get anywhere and people will dislike you on both sides of a project.
Sorry if I sound dubious about your question, I'd say 99.999% of the Geeks who want to move up to Management aren't going to be good at it because they are inept at diplomacy (I'm not talking the board game) and the creative thinking that you need to have to deal with interpersonal relationships. You're not only dealing with project requirements and timing, you're dealing with egos (which are wild and varied in the Geek community; much easier to judge someone NOT in the technical field). You need to be very flexible in your thinking about situations (which most Geeks aren't, thank you logical thinking!), and be prepared to change based on someone's bad mood and not take it personally.
I skipped from developer to owner of a company, which is a whole new level of diplomacy (read as insanity). Just know that what you're thinking about doing shouldn't be taken lightly and might not be as easy to jump into with your limited credentials. Take some business classes and see if it is of interest to you still.
nice HAIKU! unfortunately you're writing to slashdotters:P
I LOVE adcritic.com. Being that I don't own a television, I can go watch commercials of my own volition! It is a great place to go for "controversial" ads, for example, the Nike commercial with the world class runner running away from the scary slasher guy. Its setup like a B movie, so all wannabe scary and cheesy. Tres chic!
that's the point...your aunt shirley won't be able to be on the board...only corporations and governments would be allowed to be boardmembers.
Here's ICANN's original mission statement: "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.
Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the following identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to function:
Internet domain names IP address numbers protocol parameter and port numbers In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the Internet's root server system.
As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation of any interested Internet user, business, or organization."
What they're wanting to whack it back to is "We no longer want to be private sector, we want to be government and business sponsored. No more "internet users"." Pretty much selling out to whoever will give them the $$. The "bad" part about this is that this could lead to some serious corruption in terms of domain name disputes, ie. small guy has big guy's "RIGHTFUL DOMAIN NAME!", big guy pays business guy, big guy wins. Right now its fairly democratic...in the future...it may not be.
Even though the whole ICANN thing will have serious repercussions on the internet in the U.S., its not as sexy or fun as JoeSchmoe's latest mod on his bawx of l33tness.
Sorry to disappoint...I'm still thinking about dying my hair blue and posting it as a 5arah mod.
SF2 is all I played from the age of 13 until I grduated from high school. I played Chun Li and managed to beat Ken and Ryu players...The funniest thing I've ever seen was my mom playing one of the better players in our group and watching him get his ass kicked.
So I'm wondering, how many girls played SF2 on a religious basis? I picked up Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct as well...I still play in arcades, mostly for pinball, but its rare to see a girl actually PLAYING a game instead of hanging on to some videogame playing guy.
As for the "gangsta" image the guys in the movie have...well, they look like suburbanite wannabes. The socioeconomics of videogame playing doesn't seem like it would allow for "real" gangstas. There was one seriously looking geek guy in there, that I would imagine rebuilds his kernel every other day.
Not only is it a word-for-word redux of Pulp Fiction with Star Wars characters, it SOUNDS like it was read off of a script. The Darth Maul character was so pathetically nasally I barely made it through the entire thing without wanting to choke him.
ALTHOUGH: The animation and drawings were decent. There were some issues with timing, but in all it was okay. I applauded the character choices as well.
IN CONCLUSION: Getting a better soundman or sound software (sound forge rules!) AND better people who know their lines instead of reading it off a script, would have made the entire thing a ton better.
So he hired three people to create some FTP servers with a fat pipeline and transferred files? They informed each other what the FTP server ip was via AIM and they downloaded at leisure? What constitutes a "College Student"? I would love to know some facts about his "fact finding" mission.
Unfortunately the public won't see this as Mr. Greene's pathetic attempt to manipulate public opinion. Oh yes, and he is breaking the laws that his company helped push through, I hope someone takes him to court:)
I appreciate everyone on Slashdot chiming in that "Flash doesn't do crap! It's ugly", because I agree. Flash is bulky and mostly unwarranted in most cases. What should be taken into consideration is that for every ONE geek opinion there's at least one thousand Joe Schmoes who love their backgrounds that are the same color as their text. They're the same people who used BLINK tags on their site before it was deprecated. They're also the same people who click on the Shock The Monkey banner ads.
The internet is becoming exactly what everything that's creative and stimulating becomes: a marketroid and businessperson's paradise. I know geeks don't get off on bright shiny swirly things (hell, most of them like blue and metal coloured websites), but the perogative of capitalism isn't to cater to a niche group when you can take on the whole world.
Its not a thing of "This doesn't belong here" its a thing of "When did a news service become Show-N-Tell for the everyday geek". Although I respect the mods that these guys have built, its kind of like some AOLer saying "I am a leet hax0r. j0." I'm all for keeping the integrity of Slashdot by having quality articles, not Show-N-Tell.
For instance, the guy that did the mod on the harddrive so that a person can see the disk spinning. That was intelligent and taught you something. These other sites are "LOOK AT ME! I AM COOL!" geek ego-stroking funness.
I was pretty sure the universal "We The People of Slashdot" are the editors at this level. We don't get a chance to pick the articles, but we can moderate things down.
I'd like to point out that I have never complained about an article until now...and to me, this isn't an article.
Although I did do a "mod" to my case. I painted Van Gogh's "Irises" on the left face, "Starry Night" on the top face and "The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night" on the right face. Its a piece of crap pII 400 IBM Aptiva. That's MY fly mod...and it sure as hell doesn't make the thing run any faster.
okay, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but WHY IS EVERYONE SHOWING OFF THEIR MODS?? The mod where the guy built his own case with the laser cut logos, etc. was at least semi-innovative/creative. All this guy did was core out an old computer and stick new crap in it. C'mon, I want NEWS people, not Show-n-Tell.
Well, this rant by Piro doesn't surprise me in the least. Besides, it will help condition all slashdot users into believing that its a good thing they're going to start charging for a "premium" version of this site. The weird thing is, I LIKE the banner ads that are here. They pertain to my daily life. I'd rather just do donations to/., and am actually kind of surprised that there isn't a donations link (yes, I see the supporters link, but that's way too many clicks to spend my money) in main navigation.
Why did a free ecard site decide to go to a pay service when every other site has free ecards? I give Blue Mountain Arts three months to live out the dotcom death thrash. Fucked Company anyone?
I find it highly ironic that they're going to charge you to "recycle" your computer...which could possibly mean sending it to Asia to be taken apart, selling some of the parts and thrown onto riverbanks. What's even funnier is that this report about e-trash was posted on CNN yesterday.
Doing a search on Google for "recycling computers" takes a person to a lot of "we'll take your old computer and shuffle it off to little kids at 4-H for reuse". Nothing about actual recycling in the sense of "What happens when the computer can no longer be used and needs to be thrown away?" I shudder to think about the cathode tubes exploding in garbage dumps.
There's this game that lawyers play called "See What We Can Get Out of Them". This letter is the first round of this game. During this round, lawyer does a very small amount of data collection to see if there's a posssibility of a lawsuit. Lawyer then sends nasty sounding letter to the evil person supposedly violating whatever laws demanding as many outlandish things as possible.
This first round makes receiver of letter feel uncomfortable, and most law-abiding citizens feel obligated to cough up their gonads right then and there for fear of being prosecuted/embroiled in controversy. This part is psychological and more for shock effect and seeing what Lawyer can get out of you.
I work with a lawyer on a daily basis. Said lawyer does this kind of crap just for fun to see how much said lawyer can get away with. People will do anything not to be sued, etc. and it seems that lawyers just like to watch people squirm.
I do believe that NOA has no right to ask you for the merchandise without a judgement of some kind. Quoting the DMCA is great and all, but there hasn't been litigation of any kind and they can't make up terms for your innocence/guilt. You haven't been charged with anything, this isn't a case that's gone to court yet.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients can be reassured that short sleep and insomnia seem associated with little risk distinct from comorbidities. Slight risks associated with 8 or more hours of sleep and sleeping pill use need further study. Causality is unproven.
for those who need the definition for causality:
Pronunciation: ko-'za-l&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Date: 1603
1 : a causal quality or agency
2 : the relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena
There are no facts, only interpretations. Frederick Nietzsche
All of these business trolls that claim that the Internet doesn't follow normal business practices are the same that exclaim the greatness of Microsoft to upper management who then force their IT department to use inferior products. Why are people still interested in Windows architecture when its been proven so unstable?
People need to realize they're shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of bitching about the hippies that built the Internet and how poorly it is put together (I STILL don't understand that), buy good infrastructure. Maybe then your network won't be down because some script kiddies VB Scripted you to death and you won't be slowing up the 'net.
Knowledge = Power = Money, so why the hell is everyone bitching if the Internet is a free exchange of knowledge? If you're so damned savy... "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX". It doesn't take a new buzzword to figure this one out.
It amazes me that so many business people have flailed about trying to figure out this new media. All I've seen "business" people add to the internet are "shock the monkey" banner ads and use of the media as a flat static catalog. So its great to see business pointing its finger this way and that as a manner of misdirection for their own failings. Maybe we need New Business not a New Internet.
how many marketing people does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I think I lost count...
I'm taking a vacation this summer from my high tech job to spend two weeks in Colorado teaching my great grandmother how to use email and how to surf.
The key point you have to get past:
DTIYBI (Don't Touch It You'll Break It) Syndrome
I plan to boot up the machine and login and pound on the keys (literally) for a good minute or so. This will get her past the "don't touch it, you'll break it" phase of things. If it doesn't work, I will proceed to take the keyboard apart (key by key) and if THAT doesn't work, I'll progress (regress?) to the CPU and proceed to take out assorted hardware.
I will change mouse sensitivity settings for her (without her watching) so that the mouse is more apt to double click when a hesitant finger is involved. I will remove all unnecessary icons from the desktop. I will show her how a browser works and I will set her up with Yahoo! or Lycos as her home page. I will have her browser set to dial up upon opening of the browser.
I will then proceed to breathe softly, close my eyes, and imagine a world without George W. Bush. I will then proceed to give an oration the likes of have never been heard by mortal ears and she will instantly GROK...
...and monkeys will fly out of my ass at 3pm.
All I have to say is: Good luck and patience is a virtue. These people have seen and done things you've never dreamed of...you're just some crazed whipper-snapper who might show them how to use something they don't particularly care for (read as: they're afraid of). Show them respect and remember that they ask the questions they ask because they really don't know why that damned arrow thing keeps moving around on their screen.
I personally love working with older people because once you have their respect, they'll listen to you. Good luck! (have fun explaining banner ads)
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The main skill you need if you wish to become management has barely anything to do with the fields you have flitted between. I've been in the industry since the late 90s and have only seen one (1) (besides me) under 30 person become management, and that was because a) She was one of the best technologically rounded people I've ever known and b) She knew how to communicate requirements both to the Client (Management) and to the Geeks doing the work in a diplomatic fashion. She was also very organized, driven and able to talk to anyone about the projects she was heading. If you can't bridge that gap between the plebs and the geeks in a graceful, organized and illuminating manner, you won't get anywhere and people will dislike you on both sides of a project.
Sorry if I sound dubious about your question, I'd say 99.999% of the Geeks who want to move up to Management aren't going to be good at it because they are inept at diplomacy (I'm not talking the board game) and the creative thinking that you need to have to deal with interpersonal relationships. You're not only dealing with project requirements and timing, you're dealing with egos (which are wild and varied in the Geek community; much easier to judge someone NOT in the technical field). You need to be very flexible in your thinking about situations (which most Geeks aren't, thank you logical thinking!), and be prepared to change based on someone's bad mood and not take it personally.
I skipped from developer to owner of a company, which is a whole new level of diplomacy (read as insanity). Just know that what you're thinking about doing shouldn't be taken lightly and might not be as easy to jump into with your limited credentials. Take some business classes and see if it is of interest to you still.
I'm looking forward to painting cars with this...then EVERYONE can have flames on their SUV.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/ - A form to find out who your representatives are.
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.htm - U.S. Representatives by State
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html - Representative's Websites
I don't know anyone that can write as fast as someone types, unless the person typing is a typing newbie.
How about a keyboard like this that can be projected onto any surface.
Or perhaps the senseboard?
I think these are much more plausible than a pen. Perhaps a pen with voice recognition would be faster...
I use a wacom tablet (which uses a pen) to play Unreal Tournament. You can place your shots much more accurately.
nice HAIKU! :P
unfortunately you're writing to slashdotters
I LOVE adcritic.com. Being that I don't own a television, I can go watch commercials of my own volition! It is a great place to go for "controversial" ads, for example, the Nike commercial with the world class runner running away from the scary slasher guy. Its setup like a B movie, so all wannabe scary and cheesy. Tres chic!
that's the point...your aunt shirley won't be able to be on the board...only corporations and governments would be allowed to be boardmembers.
Here's ICANN's original mission statement:
"The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for the Internet. Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups.
Specifically, ICANN coordinates the assignment of the following identifiers that must be globally unique for the Internet to function:
Internet domain names
IP address numbers
protocol parameter and port numbers
In addition, ICANN coordinates the stable operation of the Internet's root server system.
As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. ICANN welcomes the participation of any interested Internet user, business, or organization."
What they're wanting to whack it back to is "We no longer want to be private sector, we want to be government and business sponsored. No more "internet users"." Pretty much selling out to whoever will give them the $$. The "bad" part about this is that this could lead to some serious corruption in terms of domain name disputes, ie. small guy has big guy's "RIGHTFUL DOMAIN NAME!", big guy pays business guy, big guy wins. Right now its fairly democratic...in the future...it may not be.
Even though the whole ICANN thing will have serious repercussions on the internet in the U.S., its not as sexy or fun as JoeSchmoe's latest mod on his bawx of l33tness.
Sorry to disappoint...I'm still thinking about dying my hair blue and posting it as a 5arah mod.
SF2 is all I played from the age of 13 until I grduated from high school. I played Chun Li and managed to beat Ken and Ryu players...The funniest thing I've ever seen was my mom playing one of the better players in our group and watching him get his ass kicked.
So I'm wondering, how many girls played SF2 on a religious basis? I picked up Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct as well...I still play in arcades, mostly for pinball, but its rare to see a girl actually PLAYING a game instead of hanging on to some videogame playing guy.
As for the "gangsta" image the guys in the movie have...well, they look like suburbanite wannabes. The socioeconomics of videogame playing doesn't seem like it would allow for "real" gangstas. There was one seriously looking geek guy in there, that I would imagine rebuilds his kernel every other day.
Not only is it a word-for-word redux of Pulp Fiction with Star Wars characters, it SOUNDS like it was read off of a script. The Darth Maul character was so pathetically nasally I barely made it through the entire thing without wanting to choke him.
ALTHOUGH:
The animation and drawings were decent. There were some issues with timing, but in all it was okay. I applauded the character choices as well.
IN CONCLUSION:
Getting a better soundman or sound software (sound forge rules!) AND better people who know their lines instead of reading it off a script, would have made the entire thing a ton better.
I'd give it 1.5 stars out of 4.
So he hired three people to create some FTP servers with a fat pipeline and transferred files? They informed each other what the FTP server ip was via AIM and they downloaded at leisure? What constitutes a "College Student"? I would love to know some facts about his "fact finding" mission.
:)
Unfortunately the public won't see this as Mr. Greene's pathetic attempt to manipulate public opinion. Oh yes, and he is breaking the laws that his company helped push through, I hope someone takes him to court
I appreciate everyone on Slashdot chiming in that "Flash doesn't do crap! It's ugly", because I agree. Flash is bulky and mostly unwarranted in most cases. What should be taken into consideration is that for every ONE geek opinion there's at least one thousand Joe Schmoes who love their backgrounds that are the same color as their text. They're the same people who used BLINK tags on their site before it was deprecated. They're also the same people who click on the Shock The Monkey banner ads.
The internet is becoming exactly what everything that's creative and stimulating becomes: a marketroid and businessperson's paradise. I know geeks don't get off on bright shiny swirly things (hell, most of them like blue and metal coloured websites), but the perogative of capitalism isn't to cater to a niche group when you can take on the whole world.
Sorry guys, its a market driven Internet.
Think of it this way:
Xybernaut just paid their CEO's yearly salary!
cha-ching!
As for a morality check...well, companies in the U.S. don't have much in terms of morals. I blame it on Ayn Rand.
(by the way, that's A BLANTANT OPINION)
bahaha, someone really gave me a Troll!!! I've never been a Troll either. Do I get cool hair? Would that be considered a 5arah mod??
Its not a thing of "This doesn't belong here" its a thing of "When did a news service become Show-N-Tell for the everyday geek". Although I respect the mods that these guys have built, its kind of like some AOLer saying "I am a leet hax0r. j0." I'm all for keeping the integrity of Slashdot by having quality articles, not Show-N-Tell.
For instance, the guy that did the mod on the harddrive so that a person can see the disk spinning. That was intelligent and taught you something. These other sites are "LOOK AT ME! I AM COOL!" geek ego-stroking funness.
I was pretty sure the universal "We The People of Slashdot" are the editors at this level. We don't get a chance to pick the articles, but we can moderate things down.
I'd like to point out that I have never complained about an article until now...and to me, this isn't an article.
bahahaha, nice :)
Although I did do a "mod" to my case. I painted Van Gogh's "Irises" on the left face, "Starry Night" on the top face and "The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night" on the right face. Its a piece of crap pII 400 IBM Aptiva. That's MY fly mod...and it sure as hell doesn't make the thing run any faster.
okay, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but WHY IS EVERYONE SHOWING OFF THEIR MODS?? The mod where the guy built his own case with the laser cut logos, etc. was at least semi-innovative/creative. All this guy did was core out an old computer and stick new crap in it. C'mon, I want NEWS people, not Show-n-Tell.
please feel the need to give me a Troll rating.
Well, this rant by Piro doesn't surprise me in the least. Besides, it will help condition all slashdot users into believing that its a good thing they're going to start charging for a "premium" version of this site. The weird thing is, I LIKE the banner ads that are here. They pertain to my daily life. I'd rather just do donations to /., and am actually kind of surprised that there isn't a donations link (yes, I see the supporters link, but that's way too many clicks to spend my money) in main navigation.
Why did a free ecard site decide to go to a pay service when every other site has free ecards? I give Blue Mountain Arts three months to live out the dotcom death thrash. Fucked Company anyone?
I find it highly ironic that they're going to charge you to "recycle" your computer...which could possibly mean sending it to Asia to be taken apart, selling some of the parts and thrown onto riverbanks. What's even funnier is that this report about e-trash was posted on CNN yesterday.
Doing a search on Google for "recycling computers" takes a person to a lot of "we'll take your old computer and shuffle it off to little kids at 4-H for reuse". Nothing about actual recycling in the sense of "What happens when the computer can no longer be used and needs to be thrown away?" I shudder to think about the cathode tubes exploding in garbage dumps.
Food for thought:
There's this game that lawyers play called "See What We Can Get Out of Them". This letter is the first round of this game. During this round, lawyer does a very small amount of data collection to see if there's a posssibility of a lawsuit. Lawyer then sends nasty sounding letter to the evil person supposedly violating whatever laws demanding as many outlandish things as possible.
This first round makes receiver of letter feel uncomfortable, and most law-abiding citizens feel obligated to cough up their gonads right then and there for fear of being prosecuted/embroiled in controversy. This part is psychological and more for shock effect and seeing what Lawyer can get out of you.
I work with a lawyer on a daily basis. Said lawyer does this kind of crap just for fun to see how much said lawyer can get away with. People will do anything not to be sued, etc. and it seems that lawyers just like to watch people squirm.
I do believe that NOA has no right to ask you for the merchandise without a judgement of some kind. Quoting the DMCA is great and all, but there hasn't been litigation of any kind and they can't make up terms for your innocence/guilt. You haven't been charged with anything, this isn't a case that's gone to court yet.
Good luck.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients can be reassured that short sleep and insomnia seem associated with little risk distinct from comorbidities. Slight risks associated with 8 or more hours of sleep and sleeping pill use need further study. Causality is unproven.
for those who need the definition for causality:
Pronunciation: ko-'za-l&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Date: 1603
1 : a causal quality or agency
2 : the relation between a cause and its effect or between regularly correlated events or phenomena
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Frederick Nietzsche
They should get together with the Sliiiiiiiiiiiiinky guy. Although there might be issues with reception..."HEY MAN! Quit shaking it!"
All of these business trolls that claim that the Internet doesn't follow normal business practices are the same that exclaim the greatness of Microsoft to upper management who then force their IT department to use inferior products. Why are people still interested in Windows architecture when its been proven so unstable? ... "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX". It doesn't take a new buzzword to figure this one out.
People need to realize they're shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of bitching about the hippies that built the Internet and how poorly it is put together (I STILL don't understand that), buy good infrastructure. Maybe then your network won't be down because some script kiddies VB Scripted you to death and you won't be slowing up the 'net.
Knowledge = Power = Money, so why the hell is everyone bitching if the Internet is a free exchange of knowledge? If you're so damned savy
It amazes me that so many business people have flailed about trying to figure out this new media. All I've seen "business" people add to the internet are "shock the monkey" banner ads and use of the media as a flat static catalog. So its great to see business pointing its finger this way and that as a manner of misdirection for their own failings. Maybe we need New Business not a New Internet.
how many marketing people does it take to screw in a lightbulb? I think I lost count...
I'm taking a vacation this summer from my high tech job to spend two weeks in Colorado teaching my great grandmother how to use email and how to surf.
The key point you have to get past:
DTIYBI (Don't Touch It You'll Break It) Syndrome
I plan to boot up the machine and login and pound on the keys (literally) for a good minute or so. This will get her past the "don't touch it, you'll break it" phase of things. If it doesn't work, I will proceed to take the keyboard apart (key by key) and if THAT doesn't work, I'll progress (regress?) to the CPU and proceed to take out assorted hardware.
I will change mouse sensitivity settings for her (without her watching) so that the mouse is more apt to double click when a hesitant finger is involved. I will remove all unnecessary icons from the desktop. I will show her how a browser works and I will set her up with Yahoo! or Lycos as her home page. I will have her browser set to dial up upon opening of the browser.
I will then proceed to breathe softly, close my eyes, and imagine a world without George W. Bush. I will then proceed to give an oration the likes of have never been heard by mortal ears and she will instantly GROK...
...and monkeys will fly out of my ass at 3pm.
All I have to say is: Good luck and patience is a virtue. These people have seen and done things you've never dreamed of...you're just some crazed whipper-snapper who might show them how to use something they don't particularly care for (read as: they're afraid of). Show them respect and remember that they ask the questions they ask because they really don't know why that damned arrow thing keeps moving around on their screen.
I personally love working with older people because once you have their respect, they'll listen to you. Good luck! (have fun explaining banner ads)