Yes the Web development scene is clogged with medocre talent. But what does it take to produce a mediocre web page for local business? I live and work in Milwaukee. This town is deeply segregated. There is little investment in historically "black" neighborhoods. Black kids are shot and killed nearly everyday and most everyone just turns thier heads. The police and the city have had a hands off attitude to many of these neighborhoods for years.
These kids did'nt turned to gangs because its cool there was nothing else for them and ANYTHING that offers and opportunity for the youths in these depressed nieghborhoods legally is excellent.
They way people have responded to this in the messeges displays how IT is NOT color blind. Frankly I'm appalled. Maybe some of you should come out of the comfy burlap playpens in your glass boxes and go look at the real world once in a awhile.
If your so concerned about producing more mediocre web devlopers why not donate some of your talent and time being a mentor.
At 39, I was born at the end of baby boom and many of my memories of early childhood have a poloroid camera in it. My father had a poloroid B&W instant land camera with the folding bellows, the stinky coatings drying and how eager we were to hold the pictures as little kids. That's when you did'nt just take a picture you took a "Poloroid".
My brother had the Swinger camera. One of the first instant cameras acessible everyone. In its cool white plastic case. Not to mention the hip ads from the later...
Growing older in high school and college the SX-70 cameras, through the lens focusing and a new film. The picture spit out the front. It was so cool! I always wanted on....(still do)
A friend from the 80's used to take dozens of pictures at parties with his One-Step and when the picture came out he would draw on the surface while it was developing with a key creating neon like lines on the people. He'd draw hats and beards and all kinds of interesting designs. He'd then leave them laying around on coffe tables, counters where ever they dropped. People loved it.
Last Christmas I bought my daughter (11 years old) a Poloroid that takes those little pictures. the iZone. It was flying off the shelves this past Christmas. She has a little scrap book of her friends and family.
What about those sexy "Joy cam" ads? Suddenly its normal to take the camera to bed...
If there is not a buyer it will be sad to see it go. There are a lot of great memories for all of us around Poloroid. I think I will go buy a camera before they are gone. I'm sure someone will at least keep producing the film.
The impact that Poloroid had on our popular culture will live on even if the company does not.
Just like the porn site cascading popups. Until the sites you used to visit are unsuable. Maybe Microsoft is right by using Smart Links in IE soon.
To protect us from uncontrolled popup windows and ads we will be given a pre-digested set of links to approved vendors. And well all pass through government sponsored Verisign/Passport checkpoints.
Don't foget when the Vulcan rub the goo on his back he turned to the side and was able to display a rather extended unit bulge too....not that I was looking or anything...
For the first time since Sept. 11 I was able to site for nearly two hours and not think about the recent attacks and all the resulting nationalistic emotional vomiting.
On to the show!
The sexual tension between the crew as scene in the vulcan human rubbing/argument was actually rather good. I have always though the Vulcans has stuffy sexually repressed beings. The ear rubbing bit was cool because she slapped his hand away. If I remeber TOS when Spock's Mom stroked Sarac's ear. It was done in such a way as to make the ear thing a big erogenous zone.
As for Tucker I like him. I think hes the right guy for time and we'll see his character develop as time goes one and become more dimensional.
The special effects are good but not overdone. The look and feel of all the controls on the bridge remind me of actual panel and design in airplanes and other viechicles. Not overdone with colors and only the needed to make it useful.
The bridge display was cool to have little text items floating on objects. It remded me of Lucas Arts X-Wing and other flight sim heads up diplays.
WHen I was a kid my whole family would hunker down with TV trays and watch TOS. My then future wife and I watched NG together. We attempted to do DS9 but we lost interest. Voyager as okay to start but we lost interest quickly. Now with my daughter at 11 I think we will be sitting down each wednesday to watch as a family. Considering there is only one other show that my wife and I watch (X-Files) that says something.
Lets see, how many media companies will provide content? 4 maybe...I'll pass on this too.
I want to listen to pre-digested selection from scientifically analyzed and presented in such a manner as to please the described demographic population.
Most commercial broadcast radio sucks across the country and the satellites will not change that. You already can go from city to city and hear the same crap spewing from "official" playlists provided to the station directors by home corporate office. Why does one need this!?!
Anonymity is a from of privacy.
By requiring that the posts from this article not be anonymous. (I could'nt find any from Anonymous Coward. I may be wrong here...)
So somewhere your IP address and e-mail which will trace back to you will be found. Some other sniffer is probably running right now at Slashdot's or your host reading everything....making a huge list of all the "mostly libertarian" crowd here. Tracing the e-mail address back to your account that is a company owned by one of maybe four huge companies who carefully analyze your internet habits to pop just the right ad up to you. Which apparently for almost everyone is for a mini spy camera.....go figure!!
Lets remember 9/11 but let us remember who we are what the generations before us fought and died for.
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Yes the Web development scene is clogged with medocre talent. But what does it take to produce a mediocre web page for local business? I live and work in Milwaukee. This town is deeply segregated. There is little investment in historically "black" neighborhoods. Black kids are shot and killed nearly everyday and most everyone just turns thier heads. The police and the city have had a hands off attitude to many of these neighborhoods for years.
These kids did'nt turned to gangs because its cool there was nothing else for them and ANYTHING that offers and opportunity for the youths in these depressed nieghborhoods legally is excellent.
They way people have responded to this in the messeges displays how IT is NOT color blind. Frankly I'm appalled. Maybe some of you should come out of the comfy burlap playpens in your glass boxes and go look at the real world once in a awhile.
If your so concerned about producing more mediocre web devlopers why not donate some of your talent and time being a mentor.
At 39, I was born at the end of baby boom and many of my memories of early childhood have a poloroid camera in it. My father had a poloroid B&W instant land camera with the folding bellows, the stinky coatings drying and how eager we were to hold the pictures as little kids. That's when you did'nt just take a picture you took a "Poloroid".
My brother had the Swinger camera. One of the first instant cameras acessible everyone. In its cool white plastic case. Not to mention the hip ads from the later...
Growing older in high school and college the SX-70 cameras, through the lens focusing and a new film. The picture spit out the front. It was so cool! I always wanted on....(still do)
A friend from the 80's used to take dozens of pictures at parties with his One-Step and when the picture came out he would draw on the surface while it was developing with a key creating neon like lines on the people. He'd draw hats and beards and all kinds of interesting designs. He'd then leave them laying around on coffe tables, counters where ever they dropped. People loved it.
Last Christmas I bought my daughter (11 years old) a Poloroid that takes those little pictures. the iZone. It was flying off the shelves this past Christmas. She has a little scrap book of her friends and family.
What about those sexy "Joy cam" ads? Suddenly its normal to take the camera to bed...
If there is not a buyer it will be sad to see it go. There are a lot of great memories for all of us around Poloroid. I think I will go buy a camera before they are gone. I'm sure someone will at least keep producing the film.
The impact that Poloroid had on our popular culture will live on even if the company does not.
Just like the porn site cascading popups. Until the sites you used to visit are unsuable. Maybe Microsoft is right by using Smart Links in IE soon.
To protect us from uncontrolled popup windows and ads we will be given a pre-digested set of links to approved vendors. And well all pass through government sponsored Verisign/Passport checkpoints.
Don't foget when the Vulcan rub the goo on his back he turned to the side and was able to display a rather extended unit bulge too....not that I was looking or anything...
For the first time since Sept. 11 I was able to site for nearly two hours and not think about the recent attacks and all the resulting nationalistic emotional vomiting.
On to the show! The sexual tension between the crew as scene in the vulcan human rubbing/argument was actually rather good. I have always though the Vulcans has stuffy sexually repressed beings. The ear rubbing bit was cool because she slapped his hand away. If I remeber TOS when Spock's Mom stroked Sarac's ear. It was done in such a way as to make the ear thing a big erogenous zone.
As for Tucker I like him. I think hes the right guy for time and we'll see his character develop as time goes one and become more dimensional.
The special effects are good but not overdone. The look and feel of all the controls on the bridge remind me of actual panel and design in airplanes and other viechicles. Not overdone with colors and only the needed to make it useful.
The bridge display was cool to have little text items floating on objects. It remded me of Lucas Arts X-Wing and other flight sim heads up diplays.
WHen I was a kid my whole family would hunker down with TV trays and watch TOS. My then future wife and I watched NG together. We attempted to do DS9 but we lost interest. Voyager as okay to start but we lost interest quickly. Now with my daughter at 11 I think we will be sitting down each wednesday to watch as a family. Considering there is only one other show that my wife and I watch (X-Files) that says something.
Lets see, how many media companies will provide content? 4 maybe...I'll pass on this too.
I want to listen to pre-digested selection from scientifically analyzed and presented in such a manner as to please the described demographic population.
Most commercial broadcast radio sucks across the country and the satellites will not change that. You already can go from city to city and hear the same crap spewing from "official" playlists provided to the station directors by home corporate office. Why does one need this!?!
Anonymity is a from of privacy. By requiring that the posts from this article not be anonymous. (I could'nt find any from Anonymous Coward. I may be wrong here...) So somewhere your IP address and e-mail which will trace back to you will be found. Some other sniffer is probably running right now at Slashdot's or your host reading everything....making a huge list of all the "mostly libertarian" crowd here. Tracing the e-mail address back to your account that is a company owned by one of maybe four huge companies who carefully analyze your internet habits to pop just the right ad up to you. Which apparently for almost everyone is for a mini spy camera.....go figure!! Lets remember 9/11 but let us remember who we are what the generations before us fought and died for.