Look, this is just getting ridiculous now. Why should a game engine be free but the graphics and sounds etc shouldnt? What is it about programmers that everything they write should be free, but everybody else on the planet is okay and free from Stallman's bullshit?
Living costs money. If people aren't willing to pay for software then programming as a career will become pointless. Sure its great if you happen to be a millionaire or a student, but for everyone else its really handy to get paid.
What are we supposed to do to keep this dreamer happy? Work in a factory and knock up a Quake engine on a evening so we can give it away for free?!
I know...its all clear to me now. What I should do is build a go-kart, give it away for free and then hassle Ferrari about it...just give me that Enzo for free you bastards!
I'm glad somebody at least read it. It's pretty disgusting the attitude so many are taking about Russia being "greedy".
What they have done has been flawless, and without them the whole thing would have got messy. Why not appreciate that, and appreciate that it costs big bucks to send up rockets?
Has the U.S. lost all its marbles when it comes to international relationships?
Dude please!!!
Get over yourself, there's a whole world of people who LOVE Microsoft. A lot more than the ever tedious Linux posse I'm sure.
Google really shines because its FREE! Heck, even you linux dorks would give MS a 10 if everything they offered was free apart from a few silly adverts.
I'll be surprised if your informative comment lasts for another hour before being modded down.
There is a significant dollar value being attached to the "professional" versions of Linux, which is only to be expected from the companies that are now producing them.
The simple truth is that it is no longer free, the applications are substandard, there will be expense in support and a huge cost in downtime and user resistance.
Ballmer wasn't wrong in what he was saying.
Maya is fantastic software, no questions. I'm sure it is fantastic on any platform though.
I guess what I meant to say was, are there any *free* corporate applications, because thats what this TCO issue is about.
I dont see how Balmer is wrong when he says there isnt really that much in Linux's favour when it comes to price in the corporate environment.
I really want to like Linux on the desktop its nasty. If Apple could produce MacOS X years ago why cant the Linux community do something similar? A standard desktop "platform" on top of the great Linux foundation.
Hey! That's great, except it isn't really free anymore is it? For a corporate customer your going to want one of the "better" distro's that can run a decent price tag for supposedly being "free".
Do you really think that Novell's and IBM's interest in Linux is to help the "community"? They suckered punched the Linux developers and will no doubt be making a tidy profit from open source.
The apps: are there are any corporate applications at all? Sure there's that nasty office suite, but compared to the MS Office family it sucks balls.
Ballmer has a point, and as much as you Linux fanboys hate to see a successful company make money, Linux just isnt "all that". Not by a long shot.
I kinda get what you are saying, but wasn't it a lot more fun? Didn't it make you a wiser programmer?
I've got stacks of old books and surprisingly most of them are hardware books, spectrum & C64 roms revealed, Amiga Hardware reference guide, VGA & SVGA internals etc. I loved tinkering with hardware...now what do you get? Software layer upon software layer.
I like both. I'm older now and wouldn't the time to learn like before, now everything has to be done yesterday and you dont have the time to research and understand a system - either the language or the hardware itself will have been replaced by the time you get to guru level.:o(
Well I've said before that I think its a good idea to just open the catalogues up and let ANYONE sell music.
There's so much gone underexploited at the moment. I listen a lot to dance music on Radio 1, quite often if I hear a track I would buy it instantly but doing that proves to be a chore.
I'm not sure why you have to have one site or the other, why dont the music companies setup a background site that lets anyone pick and sell.
What exactly is it you do that would cause you to need to run adaware every 2 hours? Do you actually work or surf the most unsafe sites on the web all day?
How people get so many supposed virus and trojans is beyond me. I'm sure half of it is make believe.
I've never ever had IE take down the OS when it crashed. What planet are you on?
And dude, just by accessing a "home page" you aint gonna be getting a trojan installed. Again, I've never had this happen to me, ever. If you go surfing a load of dodgy sites, perhaps.
Check this out - we are http://www.convea.com, a very small company and I've spent years on building the sites, the docs, the apps and everything else that goes into building a company.
These f*sckers - http://www.ingenux.com/onevision wont even return calls or pull our website content, applications and service offerings. They basically ripped our site and software and renamed it, offering it as theirs.
Nice eh? Been asking them since November to take it down.
We've also been getting ripped off all over the place. It's very sad that people can do this, the biggest offenders have been operating out of barbados and other shady places, and we can do little to track them down and stop it.
Makes me sick it does, especially when its hard enough scraping a living as it is, but hearing about people landing $150,000 deals is just a bad joke.
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office.:o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office.:o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office.:o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
No, I'm sorry but "latest hit single" and our "blockbuster movie" signify some history of success that can be extrapolated. This company has done nothing at all so it's impossible to be a market leader.
I will *never* buy another CD or DVD. So they sue kids eh? Thats big of em. Cunts. Maybe Marilyn Manson could flog a few more of his $20,000 paintings a pay the kid back eh? Its not like they dont make FAR too much money, just watch MTV cribs for examples of how these bastards live AND PUSH THERE SHIT down kids throats.
Makes me sick, cant somebody start a paypal account and pay the mother back? I would donate. Fuck, actually I think I'll seriously look into setting up a massive piracy group.
Truly sick and shocking.
Slashdot Mirror
And its worked like a charm, I'm hooked, its fantastic. Love the realism and present day (but with spaceships and FTL jumps) feel of it.
Thanks SciFi! Great, great story as well.
Look, this is just getting ridiculous now. Why should a game engine be free but the graphics and sounds etc shouldnt? What is it about programmers that everything they write should be free, but everybody else on the planet is okay and free from Stallman's bullshit? Living costs money. If people aren't willing to pay for software then programming as a career will become pointless. Sure its great if you happen to be a millionaire or a student, but for everyone else its really handy to get paid. What are we supposed to do to keep this dreamer happy? Work in a factory and knock up a Quake engine on a evening so we can give it away for free?! I know...its all clear to me now. What I should do is build a go-kart, give it away for free and then hassle Ferrari about it...just give me that Enzo for free you bastards!
I'm glad somebody at least read it. It's pretty disgusting the attitude so many are taking about Russia being "greedy". What they have done has been flawless, and without them the whole thing would have got messy. Why not appreciate that, and appreciate that it costs big bucks to send up rockets? Has the U.S. lost all its marbles when it comes to international relationships?
Did you actually read the article? It has nothing to do with failure rates or coils in transformers but SPEED.
Everything breaks eventually, thats just how it is.
Message Grouping! Holy wowsers, someone get me the president on the line!
Fuck you, yes we can. I'll continue to make everything IE only just because I'm sick and tired of reading this Firefox FUD.
Dude please!!! Get over yourself, there's a whole world of people who LOVE Microsoft. A lot more than the ever tedious Linux posse I'm sure. Google really shines because its FREE! Heck, even you linux dorks would give MS a 10 if everything they offered was free apart from a few silly adverts.
I'll be surprised if your informative comment lasts for another hour before being modded down. There is a significant dollar value being attached to the "professional" versions of Linux, which is only to be expected from the companies that are now producing them. The simple truth is that it is no longer free, the applications are substandard, there will be expense in support and a huge cost in downtime and user resistance. Ballmer wasn't wrong in what he was saying.
Maya is fantastic software, no questions. I'm sure it is fantastic on any platform though. I guess what I meant to say was, are there any *free* corporate applications, because thats what this TCO issue is about. I dont see how Balmer is wrong when he says there isnt really that much in Linux's favour when it comes to price in the corporate environment. I really want to like Linux on the desktop its nasty. If Apple could produce MacOS X years ago why cant the Linux community do something similar? A standard desktop "platform" on top of the great Linux foundation.
Hey! That's great, except it isn't really free anymore is it? For a corporate customer your going to want one of the "better" distro's that can run a decent price tag for supposedly being "free".
Do you really think that Novell's and IBM's interest in Linux is to help the "community"? They suckered punched the Linux developers and will no doubt be making a tidy profit from open source.
The apps: are there are any corporate applications at all? Sure there's that nasty office suite, but compared to the MS Office family it sucks balls.
Ballmer has a point, and as much as you Linux fanboys hate to see a successful company make money, Linux just isnt "all that". Not by a long shot.
I kinda get what you are saying, but wasn't it a lot more fun? Didn't it make you a wiser programmer?
:o(
I've got stacks of old books and surprisingly most of them are hardware books, spectrum & C64 roms revealed, Amiga Hardware reference guide, VGA & SVGA internals etc. I loved tinkering with hardware...now what do you get? Software layer upon software layer.
I like both. I'm older now and wouldn't the time to learn like before, now everything has to be done yesterday and you dont have the time to research and understand a system - either the language or the hardware itself will have been replaced by the time you get to guru level.
Good lord, that's embarassing. Even for a billionaire. Great piss-take though.
It's far from to late! Have you seen the MS SmartPhones? Very nice tech. MS Keyboards and Mice are first class.
The whole online music thing is just getting kicked off. Apple got in first, but I remember them doing that sometime before too...
Judging by the ice in the black guys teeth, I would guess he spent considerably more than $400.
Well I've said before that I think its a good idea to just open the catalogues up and let ANYONE sell music. There's so much gone underexploited at the moment. I listen a lot to dance music on Radio 1, quite often if I hear a track I would buy it instantly but doing that proves to be a chore. I'm not sure why you have to have one site or the other, why dont the music companies setup a background site that lets anyone pick and sell.
What exactly is it you do that would cause you to need to run adaware every 2 hours? Do you actually work or surf the most unsafe sites on the web all day?
How people get so many supposed virus and trojans is beyond me. I'm sure half of it is make believe.
Hang on a sec...
I've never ever had IE take down the OS when it crashed. What planet are you on?
And dude, just by accessing a "home page" you aint gonna be getting a trojan installed. Again, I've never had this happen to me, ever. If you go surfing a load of dodgy sites, perhaps.
Your scare tactics really suck.
Check this out - we are http://www.convea.com, a very small company and I've spent years on building the sites, the docs, the apps and everything else that goes into building a company.
These f*sckers - http://www.ingenux.com/onevision wont even return calls or pull our website content, applications and service offerings. They basically ripped our site and software and renamed it, offering it as theirs.
Nice eh? Been asking them since November to take it down.
We've also been getting ripped off all over the place. It's very sad that people can do this, the biggest offenders have been operating out of barbados and other shady places, and we can do little to track them down and stop it.
Makes me sick it does, especially when its hard enough scraping a living as it is, but hearing about people landing $150,000 deals is just a bad joke.
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office. :o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office. :o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired.
.. yeah that was me! Can you see a trend? I try my damndest because I want to succeed and people just ignore us, we cant get a story on slashdot, journalists are busy, marketing people want $$$ before they even talk. I look at my mother who's worked all her life for pennies, who works 9-5 AND THEN spends more hours there after changing into her cleaning clothes and cleans the office. :o/ I sit here, I just want in my heart to once say yeah mam, yeah its working this time things will be good! But years tick by, she was 50 yesterday and I had a whopping 6 to really lavish on her. What happens when they are gone and I'm still here, how far do you take these things and if you stop, what happens to the wasted years? Want to know another funny thing? I appied for a job putting stuffing on pizza's last week and got rejected. Isn't that just one for the books!
I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com
Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential?
email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I know, I know, it's spam, it ruins your reading pleasure but for God's sake, for once will anybody listen? You know I've personally really tried, *really* tried, I have given it everything but it just feels that nobody wants to give anyone a break these days unless you're connected or have the right family/education. What does it take to get a voice in this so called global village (POP: BILLIONS)?! Why, please, why is it so hard to talk to people with money? I *know* I could do anything with the net, and it's not just me, my partner who I wrote this with has sacrificed as much as I have, we went through hell getting this done, months and months spent sleeping on the floor waking up and hitting the computers and that was just the last stint and this has gone on for years and years. His marriage was a wreck, he never saw his kids, our families fell apart all because of this passion to see something work for once. We looked at the competition and thought yeah surely this time someone will see what we've done, just us two from the little none-existant north-east english village. Did they heck, nobody looks, nobody bats an eyelid at how we could trouce all of the big boys together and they CALL THEMSELVES VISIONARIES!!! What a bunch of jokers.
And no, you know what I'm going to lay it on the line here, we're all adults, we're all professionals, maybe one of you could even just give some good old fashioned advice. I cant know it all, I cant do *everything*, what happened to people helping each other out? I feel you know, I feel the same as other people, when people have a pop at my work I feel it personally- so what it requires IE to run, I mean, that's not that bad is it really? It's just a browser. Given time we would support every browser- I dont have a team of developers, technical authors, artists, UI specialists, marketing gurus or anything else just me. You see that website at Convea? I did that, the boards? I put those up. Convea itself? Yep, me and my friend wrote that, just the two of us. The documentation,
How does it all work guys? I just dont know anymore, they say keep on trying and one day you'll succeed but I can safely say that in 17 years I have not even had the faintest glimmer that anything I do will work. Even was I a "games programmer", just as I got my break Commodore went under and so did sales of Amiga games. Oh how I laughed.
But lets get to the meat of this: money, the almighty dollar. Why is it that some companies get funding easy as pie, hey! Just ask! But us, heheh, us! We get zip, a big no thanks, no buster, not today come back when you have already made it into the bigtime THEN we'll back you. We
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired. I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential? email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
I'm at that point guys, the lowest of the low, been working on my project for three years, no money and I'm just beat, I'm mentally tired. I own 60% of this: http://www.convea.com Does anyone out there want to invest and help us grow? Does anyone want to my buy share a get controlling interest of a nice little dot.com with tons of potential? email me, please, do something, anything. alan.carter@convea.com
No, I'm sorry but "latest hit single" and our "blockbuster movie" signify some history of success that can be extrapolated. This company has done nothing at all so it's impossible to be a market leader.
I will *never* buy another CD or DVD. So they sue kids eh? Thats big of em. Cunts. Maybe Marilyn Manson could flog a few more of his $20,000 paintings a pay the kid back eh? Its not like they dont make FAR too much money, just watch MTV cribs for examples of how these bastards live AND PUSH THERE SHIT down kids throats. Makes me sick, cant somebody start a paypal account and pay the mother back? I would donate. Fuck, actually I think I'll seriously look into setting up a massive piracy group. Truly sick and shocking.