So are you saying it is a cultural thing? Not out of necessity, but rooted in some other national or cultural heritage? Like "American arrogance" or "Swiss precision" ??
Acetyl-L-Carnitine plus alpha lypoic acid plus Selegiline (or here). ALC plus ALA is a memory improvement therapy for aging rats. I figure that if it's good enough for our elected "representatives", it's good enough for me.
Selegiline inhibits the breakdown of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is frequently associated with "pleasurable" activities, such as food, sex, or slash-dot. In doses higher than 20mg, Selegiline can have side effects, such as high blood pressure and hypertension (a hypertensive crisis) when certain foods are consumed. The biggest offenders are pickled and fermented items.
If 54% of adults admitted that they regularly used marijuana, or cheated on their taxes, or ran stop signs, you can bet your rusty router rules that the laws (or the "leadership") would be changed - in a hurry. Maybe the laws wouldn't be revoked ("yea, running stop signs is bad..."), but at least relaxed ("...just a warning").
This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain... Hmmm. Sounds like my S.O.
In tests, even the most hardened Marines flee after a few seconds of exposure. It just isn't possible to tough it out. Yep. That's her alright.
The agony the Raytheon gun inflicts is probably equal to anything in a torture chamber Ok! Ok!! Enough already!
In the video, the props both appear to turn CCW (viewed from behind the craft) and turn very slow. I wonder why they didn't go with props that turn in opposite directions?
Out west we have bindweed. It seems to grow best where I don't water. It's invasive and omnipresent, but at least it isn't poisonous, doesn't have thorns, and doesn't stink. On the other hand, it serves no useful purpose, gets in the way and ties up the other plants.... on the whole, kinda like Condoleeza Rice.
If BP changes it's corporate directive, or the Jatropha plant isn't the great biomass solution it's touted to be, then we have millions of acres planted with "ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed" which is "resilient to pests and resistant to drought". Oh, great. While we're at it, let's introduce rabbits like they did into Australia, and kudzu like in the Southern US. Don't get me started on Zebra mussles or sea lampreys in the Great Lakes. Ok, so there's not much in the way of swampland in central Africa, but the point is that Really Bad Things happen wherever mankind does something that drastically alters the native environment. I wonder if global warming and increased CO2 will help the plant grow faster and more obnoxious?
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So let's test that theory....
Yes, I took those pills advertised in the spam, and, WOW, they really work!
What an amazing coincidence... Seagate pres. Watkins mentions that the Chinese have not made an offer to buy the company, which the media morons translate as the Chinese may have made an offer, or might be thinking about it. Then motormouth Jim Cramer climbs on the bandwagon. All this serves as a bump in the price of the stock (cost - nothing). Three days later, chairman Steve Luzco (and presumably the other vulture capitalists, like Texas Pacific & Silver Lake, that own much of the stock) have prearranged stock sale dates. Could the two events possibly be connected? Certainly not. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Give me the freedom to explore new/offbeat ideas, but remind be of the focus of my explorations. Personally, I'd explore just for the sake of exploring.
Communicate. Hold occasional meetings to tell me what the company is up to, what the latest rumors are, and how my job fits in.
Protect me from the many idiots who want to make the target a moving target. And don't tell me about how they're protecting me, or from whom. To constantly tell me how they're protecting me from getting jerked around by upper management is passive-aggressive bulls**t.
Do not attempt in any way, shape, or form to micro-manage me. Ever.
Don't overload me. Two to four "high priority" tasks are all I can handle. My manager's job is to set priorities, give me one or two "ASAP" tasks, a few "think about these in your spare time", and keep me from being overwhelmed. When priorities change, let's talk about it. I can tell you how close I am to finishing tasks and possible consequences of delay, but tell me why priorities are changing, and let me offer options. I want to finish these tasks too.
Keep me focused, but not by checking up on me every hour. I am, like all the good coders I know are, partially ADD. Yea I get distracted, but when I'm focused baby, I've got megawatt laser beam concentration and I can go for a dozen hours without blinking. Yea, I'm gonna go read Slashdot one or twice a day - it's called taking a break. Deal with it.
I'm a friggin' artist, OK? That means all that temperamental, "spoiled baby" right-brain stuff applies most of the time. But I do have to be a cold, dispassionate, analytical, SOB sometimes, particularly when evaluating my own code -- what can stay, what can go (remember ego-less programming?) All that ping-ponging stresses my corpus callosum.
Treat me with dignity and respect, even though my office is a shambles that looks like a book store that exploded and I wear tee-shirts that are older than half the programmers that work here. Give me an on-the-job sabbatical every year or two where I can learn a new language (computer or human).
.... Solution: double windows Interesting idea, but there's the extra cost of making a standard single or double hung window where the outer glass panel flips off to the side. During the summer the house is a darkroom because all the mirrors are closed, so we turn the lights on, and now we're burning dinosauce. How about some light with minimal UV and IR? Yea, didymium and auralens, but that won't be cheap.
use the most dirt cheap black and white passive matrix LCD panels you can find as shingles Have I stress just how intense the sunlight is? The UV will kill your LCD in a couple months. And I don't know how I'm going to convert the heat to electricity. AFAIK, thermocouple conversion is even more inefficient that PE. Or use active solar? Not cost efficient - the maintenance & replacement costs of active (i.e. water) solar negates any gains made via energy savings.
use a crawler robot to stretch out a reflective Mylar sheet Sounds like StarWars - I'm fighting the Haliburton/Exxon wars. And did I mention that the wind sometimes gusts over 100 MPH? And the pretty mylar film goes to Kansas. In pieces.
pour alcohol on the surface of the lake and ignite it Awwwwright! Now we're talking! Canada, here I come! Um, yes Officer Mounty, I do have a match, but I'm going to need every single one of 'em. I'm here to fix your mosquito problem. Yes sir, that fleet of tanker trucks is with me. Hey! Easy with those handcuffs big boy!
you'd ideally like a solar concentrator Ok, Ok, I get it. You just kidding around.
I think the best solution is to buy a Mr Fusion". I saw one on e-bay a while back....
Although I think Woz was talking about end-to-end efficiency, it's not too much of a challenge to build an energy-efficient house in someplace where the average temp varies between 42 and 82 (nasty flash). How about a more challenging location with a wider range? How about someplace at altitude? Talk to me about energy efficiency when it's butt-cold in the winter, with no sun, and triple-glazed windows are the standard. When summertime is unbearable heat, oppressive humidity, intense solar UV, or giant brain-sucking mosquitos. It's easy to build a show home in paradise.
Wow. Opinion being treated as fact. That's a new one for this administration. But there's certainly some opportunities here. How about a blog describing Alberto Gonzales homosexual adventures with a known Al-Queda operative living in his basement, complete with photoshopped pix? How about blogging the truth behind Dick Cheney's rumored drug addiction and child molestation tendencies? And Condoleezza Rice's three abortions and stem-cell derived facial treatments (funded by Ansar al-Islam)? All these accusations can be proven via anonymous sources whispering pseudo-facts. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, or so it seems.
This is obviously a mis-timed April Fools story. It is all just too weird.
Start with the Iranian police or security forces who have been tasked with intercepting these trained, border-penetrating squirrels. How do you work yourself into that particular job? What are the opportunities for career advancement? Where do you go after serving in Squirrel Patrol?
Just what are the chances of a squirrel surviving in the middle of the desert? I don't care how much training it's had - it just seems like a very non-squirrel-hospitable environment. And they would have to cross it not once, but twice -- once on the way in and again on the way back, because....
"Once the animals return to their place of origin..." So we have GPS equipped homing squirrels? Is it just the good Marine training or is this a new phase in rodent evolution? How long before rats and mice develop this capability? How long before the squirrels themselves start training and equipping the rats?
"...the intelligence gathered by them is then offloaded" . Whoa. Bluetooth rodents! WiFlying Cyber Squirrels! I'd love to see the USB port on that pet.
The Iranians seem to be way ahead of us (since it's an "us" vs. "them" administration) in anti-squirrel interception. This is a serious squirrel tracking gap, probably requiring a major increase in funding for our own squirrel deployment and infiltration branch (think about it... we've already spent money on squirrel tutoring. Your tax dollars at work.)
... "unprotected sex". Yea. And rape. And being born to a mother with AIDS. Stupid kid. Shoulda been born in Sweden, not sub-Saharan Africa, which has 72% of the world's AIDs/HIV cases (HIV & AIDS Africa). It's hard for the light of compassion to shine through the cloak of prejudice.
One of the great blights (IMHO) of American society is the decay of personal reponsibility. "It's not my fault, they should have told me the hot coffee was hot!". This slide was led (again IMHO) by the Democratic leaders of the 80s & 90s, who insisted that crime and other problems were the failure of the system, the failure of the society - individuals were not to blame. The outcome of this is an increase in frivolous lawsuits. Another problem seems to be an increase in "syndromes", where people blame hastily invented, acronymic illnesses or syndromes for the problems cause by poor parenting or minor behavioral deviations. "Oh, you'll have to make special allowances for my son. He's got FCLBMS (Food Consumption Leading to Bowel Movement Syndrome)". People do weird things, theres no need to create a disease for every little tick. I do not mean to discount or diminish actual mental health issues like ADHD, but hey folks, life is tough, get over it.
Sony is just showing what happens when this lack of responsibility reaches the boardroom. They're the first, they won't be the last.
B-ASSES, a loose affiliation of the music content licensing organizations BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC, today announced a world-wide crackdown on the practice of private individuals humming or singing licensed music, especially where the performance could be heard by other people. The B-ASSES group noted that this move was merely a refinement of current copyright law, which stated that "the biggest campaign contributers get to do whatever they want". In a press conference today, B-ASSES group spokesman Dick Reemer explained that "copyrights is copyrights". He noted that even singing in the shower would be considered a crime, but only if there was the possibility of someone else hear the performance. Reemer humorously related that he had recently been forced to make the requisite $650 payment for singing Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" in the bathtub recently "and I'm a really, really awful singer, but the bathroom window was open and passers-by could have heard me, so it counted as a performance". Also subject to fines, imprisonment, and Guantanamollestation will be persons singing in the car while driving. "Even if someone else can only see you moving your lips, it counts as a performance. Mimes get paid for performance and they don't make a sound." said Reemer. In addition, snapping or tapping of fingers and drumming with pencils will be punishable if analysis reveals that the rhythm may be from a copyrighted work. Said Reemer, "We aim to put the American public in their place, which is greased up, bent over, and squealing". MPAA President Glad Dickman indicated that such a position would make the person subject to a $4000 fee for movie performance impersonation.
I just cannot get Miranda to talk to my employer's email disaster -- Lotus Notes 7.0.2 (or previous versions of Notes for that matter). My co-workers who use GAIM? Plug & play baby, plug & play. I haven't the heart to uninstall Miranda because I've invested so much time and effort trying to configure it to work (don't tell my managers...) and because I'm a bit of an anarchist. For now I just limp along with the lamer than lame Notes IM client.
Yea. Nvu. Gotta agree with that, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel. A slab of wet clay and a pointed stick is better than MS Frontpage. A case of tuburcular West Asian Nile bird flu AIDS is better than Frontpage. A bullet to the ear is better than Frontpage. I'm MS-Excel's biggest fan, but any frigging text editor on any computer will do better web sites than Frontpage, or MS Word, or any "Save as web-page" enabled MS-Office application. Granted, you'll need to know HTML. Some knowledge of TCP/IP, XML, CSS and maybe a bit of PHP wouldn't hurt. Trying to create a web page by yourself without a basic knowledge of the underpinnings of the web is like trying to build a skyscraper yourself without knowing about earth, concrete, steel, glass, and construction codes. IM(NS)HO.
Yes folks, step right up and get your own personal piece of StarTrek memorabilia - the ashes of James Doohan, sealed into a glass relica of the starship Enterprise NCC1701, suitable for framing, or Christmas tree ornamentation. Due to technical difficulties, your personal piece of "Scotty" may contain (at no extra charge) ashes from the remains of 400 other people, plus bits of pine-cones, dirt, and a family of squirrels. Be the first on your blogspace to latch onto this limited edition decorative keepsake! Included is an original duplicate of Mr. Doohan's last will and testament, indicating his desire to have his remains placed into orbit around "Sector 0-0-0", also known as Earth! Act before midnight tonight and we will include a full color DVD of the launch of the rocket containing Mr. Doohan's final remains, it's failure to achieve orbit, it's wildly out-of-control plunge to terra-firma, and explosive impact in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico! See spell-binding coverage of SpacePort officials sending emergency "CYA" emails! See heart-wrenching shots of hastily assembled teams of "landing zone technicians" deposited onto difficult terrain, armed only with vacuum cleaners, in a valiant attempt to retrieve the capsule, and it's contents, or something (anything!) that might resemble said contents.
As the world's largest repository of BitTorrent files I'll admit I'm 79% clueless on BitTorrent, but aren't "the files" distributed among the peers (seeders and leachers)? Are they talking about the torrent metadata files or the torrents?
[TBP] helps millions of users around the world share copyrighted movies, music and other files--without paying for them... TPB serves as a massive worldwide hub for copyright infringement... sites like [TPB] show that the Web will always offer safe harbors for clever copyright violators... the growing guerrilla army of YouTube clones... a simpler business model: Base your company in Russia, steal music from American labels and sell it cheaply Wow. Tough crowd. Andy Greenburg, the author, seems pretty hard-nosed about indicting file sharers, and standing up for the media companies who guard their abysmal content like dung beatles defending their turd balls. Understandable, since Forbes itself is a media company. No danger of slanted opinions, conflict of interest, or journalistic integrity issues here folks; move along, move along.
Reform #3: If a plaintiff has had 3 lawsuits deemed frivolous, they are barred from suing for one year. A fourth is 5 years. A fifth is 10 years. Amendment to Reform # 3: If a plaintiff has had 3 lawsuits deemed frivolous, the plaintiff is to be divvied up.
Reform #4: A lawyer who's had 3 or more lawsuits dismissed for frivolity is suspended for one year. A fourth is grounds for disbarment. A fifth is automatic disbarment. Amendment to Reform # 4: If the lawyer walks upright or breathes oxygen, the lawyer is to be divvied up.
Martha! Fetch up the chainsaw! We got us a legal problem needs fixin.
To have worked for 40 years on something, to believe in it, and dedicate a life to it, to collect samples of sound, or smell, or taste from across an entire planet, then along comes a tool that makes it easy to share the results with other people, to disperse the cumulative knowledge and experience of a lifetime, only to have some bored slasher dis it off after a click and a couple seconds of listening; I'm hurt just thinking about it.
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So are you saying it is a cultural thing? Not out of necessity, but rooted in some other national or cultural heritage? Like "American arrogance" or "Swiss precision" ??
Acetyl-L-Carnitine plus alpha lypoic acid plus Selegiline (or here). ALC plus ALA is a memory improvement therapy for aging rats. I figure that if it's good enough for our elected "representatives", it's good enough for me. Selegiline inhibits the breakdown of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is frequently associated with "pleasurable" activities, such as food, sex, or slash-dot. In doses higher than 20mg, Selegiline can have side effects, such as high blood pressure and hypertension (a hypertensive crisis) when certain foods are consumed. The biggest offenders are pickled and fermented items.
If 54% of adults admitted that they regularly used marijuana, or cheated on their taxes, or ran stop signs, you can bet your rusty router rules that the laws (or the "leadership") would be changed - in a hurry. Maybe the laws wouldn't be revoked ("yea, running stop signs is bad..."), but at least relaxed ("...just a warning").
Free, unlimited usenet access for one and all would be a good alternative. It's more of a client-server piracy system.
Sorry dude, but with fast-flux DNS capability, they're not around (IP address-wise) for long.
In the video, the props both appear to turn CCW (viewed from behind the craft) and turn very slow. I wonder why they didn't go with props that turn in opposite directions?
Out west we have bindweed. It seems to grow best where I don't water. It's invasive and omnipresent, but at least it isn't poisonous, doesn't have thorns, and doesn't stink. On the other hand, it serves no useful purpose, gets in the way and ties up the other plants .... on the whole, kinda like Condoleeza Rice.
If BP changes it's corporate directive, or the Jatropha plant isn't the great biomass solution it's touted to be, then we have millions of acres planted with "ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed" which is "resilient to pests and resistant to drought". Oh, great. While we're at it, let's introduce rabbits like they did into Australia, and kudzu like in the Southern US. Don't get me started on Zebra mussles or sea lampreys in the Great Lakes. Ok, so there's not much in the way of swampland in central Africa, but the point is that Really Bad Things happen wherever mankind does something that drastically alters the native environment. I wonder if global warming and increased CO2 will help the plant grow faster and more obnoxious?
So let's test that theory ....
Yes, I took those pills advertised in the spam, and, WOW, they really work!
What an amazing coincidence ... Seagate pres. Watkins mentions that the Chinese have not made an offer to buy the company, which the media morons translate as the Chinese may have made an offer, or might be thinking about it. Then motormouth Jim Cramer climbs on the bandwagon. All this serves as a bump in the price of the stock (cost - nothing). Three days later, chairman Steve Luzco (and presumably the other vulture capitalists, like Texas Pacific & Silver Lake, that own much of the stock) have prearranged stock sale dates. Could the two events possibly be connected? Certainly not. Nothing to see here. Move along.
- Give me the freedom to explore new/offbeat ideas, but remind be of the focus of my explorations. Personally, I'd explore just for the sake of exploring.
- Communicate. Hold occasional meetings to tell me what the company is up to, what the latest rumors are, and how my job fits in.
- Protect me from the many idiots who want to make the target a moving target. And don't tell me about how they're protecting me, or from whom. To constantly tell me how they're protecting me from getting jerked around by upper management is passive-aggressive bulls**t.
- Do not attempt in any way, shape, or form to micro-manage me. Ever.
- Don't overload me. Two to four "high priority" tasks are all I can handle. My manager's job is to set priorities, give me one or two "ASAP" tasks, a few "think about these in your spare time", and keep me from being overwhelmed. When priorities change, let's talk about it. I can tell you how close I am to finishing tasks and possible consequences of delay, but tell me why priorities are changing, and let me offer options. I want to finish these tasks too.
- Keep me focused, but not by checking up on me every hour. I am, like all the good coders I know are, partially ADD. Yea I get distracted, but when I'm focused baby, I've got megawatt laser beam concentration and I can go for a dozen hours without blinking. Yea, I'm gonna go read Slashdot one or twice a day - it's called taking a break. Deal with it.
- I'm a friggin' artist, OK? That means all that temperamental, "spoiled baby" right-brain stuff applies most of the time. But I do have to be a cold, dispassionate, analytical, SOB sometimes, particularly when evaluating my own code -- what can stay, what can go (remember ego-less programming?) All that ping-ponging stresses my corpus callosum.
- Treat me with dignity and respect, even though my office is a shambles that looks like a book store that exploded and I wear tee-shirts that are older than half the programmers that work here. Give me an on-the-job sabbatical every year or two where I can learn a new language (computer or human).
Caveat: I've been writing s/w since 1977.I think the best solution is to buy a Mr Fusion". I saw one on e-bay a while back....
Although I think Woz was talking about end-to-end efficiency, it's not too much of a challenge to build an energy-efficient house in someplace where the average temp varies between 42 and 82 (nasty flash). How about a more challenging location with a wider range? How about someplace at altitude? Talk to me about energy efficiency when it's butt-cold in the winter, with no sun, and triple-glazed windows are the standard. When summertime is unbearable heat, oppressive humidity, intense solar UV, or giant brain-sucking mosquitos. It's easy to build a show home in paradise.
Wow. Opinion being treated as fact. That's a new one for this administration. But there's certainly some opportunities here. How about a blog describing Alberto Gonzales homosexual adventures with a known Al-Queda operative living in his basement, complete with photoshopped pix? How about blogging the truth behind Dick Cheney's rumored drug addiction and child molestation tendencies? And Condoleezza Rice's three abortions and stem-cell derived facial treatments (funded by Ansar al-Islam)? All these accusations can be proven via anonymous sources whispering pseudo-facts. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, or so it seems.
- Start with the Iranian police or security forces who have been tasked with intercepting these trained, border-penetrating squirrels. How do you work yourself into that particular job? What are the opportunities for career advancement? Where do you go after serving in Squirrel Patrol?
- Just what are the chances of a squirrel surviving in the middle of the desert? I don't care how much training it's had - it just seems like a very non-squirrel-hospitable environment. And they would have to cross it not once, but twice -- once on the way in and again on the way back, because....
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"Once the animals return to their place of origin
..." So we have GPS equipped homing squirrels? Is it just the good Marine training or is this a new phase in rodent evolution? How long before rats and mice develop this capability? How long before the squirrels themselves start training and equipping the rats?
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"...the intelligence gathered by them is then offloaded" . Whoa. Bluetooth rodents! WiFlying Cyber Squirrels! I'd love to see the USB port on that pet.
- The Iranians seem to be way ahead of us (since it's an "us" vs. "them" administration) in anti-squirrel interception. This is a serious squirrel tracking gap, probably requiring a major increase in funding for our own squirrel deployment and infiltration branch (think about it
... we've already spent money on squirrel tutoring. Your tax dollars at work.)
Alvin!!!!!!!... "unprotected sex". Yea. And rape. And being born to a mother with AIDS. Stupid kid. Shoulda been born in Sweden, not sub-Saharan Africa, which has 72% of the world's AIDs/HIV cases (HIV & AIDS Africa). It's hard for the light of compassion to shine through the cloak of prejudice.
One of the great blights (IMHO) of American society is the decay of personal reponsibility. "It's not my fault, they should have told me the hot coffee was hot!". This slide was led (again IMHO) by the Democratic leaders of the 80s & 90s, who insisted that crime and other problems were the failure of the system, the failure of the society - individuals were not to blame. The outcome of this is an increase in frivolous lawsuits. Another problem seems to be an increase in "syndromes", where people blame hastily invented, acronymic illnesses or syndromes for the problems cause by poor parenting or minor behavioral deviations. "Oh, you'll have to make special allowances for my son. He's got FCLBMS (Food Consumption Leading to Bowel Movement Syndrome)". People do weird things, theres no need to create a disease for every little tick. I do not mean to discount or diminish actual mental health issues like ADHD, but hey folks, life is tough, get over it.
Sony is just showing what happens when this lack of responsibility reaches the boardroom. They're the first, they won't be the last.
B-ASSES, a loose affiliation of the music content licensing organizations BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC, today announced a world-wide crackdown on the practice of private individuals humming or singing licensed music, especially where the performance could be heard by other people. The B-ASSES group noted that this move was merely a refinement of current copyright law, which stated that "the biggest campaign contributers get to do whatever they want". In a press conference today, B-ASSES group spokesman Dick Reemer explained that "copyrights is copyrights". He noted that even singing in the shower would be considered a crime, but only if there was the possibility of someone else hear the performance. Reemer humorously related that he had recently been forced to make the requisite $650 payment for singing Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" in the bathtub recently "and I'm a really, really awful singer, but the bathroom window was open and passers-by could have heard me, so it counted as a performance". Also subject to fines, imprisonment, and Guantanamollestation will be persons singing in the car while driving. "Even if someone else can only see you moving your lips, it counts as a performance. Mimes get paid for performance and they don't make a sound." said Reemer. In addition, snapping or tapping of fingers and drumming with pencils will be punishable if analysis reveals that the rhythm may be from a copyrighted work. Said Reemer, "We aim to put the American public in their place, which is greased up, bent over, and squealing". MPAA President Glad Dickman indicated that such a position would make the person subject to a $4000 fee for movie performance impersonation.
I just cannot get Miranda to talk to my employer's email disaster -- Lotus Notes 7.0.2 (or previous versions of Notes for that matter). My co-workers who use GAIM? Plug & play baby, plug & play. I haven't the heart to uninstall Miranda because I've invested so much time and effort trying to configure it to work (don't tell my managers...) and because I'm a bit of an anarchist. For now I just limp along with the lamer than lame Notes IM client.
Yea. Nvu. Gotta agree with that, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel. A slab of wet clay and a pointed stick is better than MS Frontpage. A case of tuburcular West Asian Nile bird flu AIDS is better than Frontpage. A bullet to the ear is better than Frontpage. I'm MS-Excel's biggest fan, but any frigging text editor on any computer will do better web sites than Frontpage, or MS Word, or any "Save as web-page" enabled MS-Office application. Granted, you'll need to know HTML. Some knowledge of TCP/IP, XML, CSS and maybe a bit of PHP wouldn't hurt. Trying to create a web page by yourself without a basic knowledge of the underpinnings of the web is like trying to build a skyscraper yourself without knowing about earth, concrete, steel, glass, and construction codes. IM(NS)HO.
Opening bids start at $4000.
Martha! Fetch up the chainsaw! We got us a legal problem needs fixin.
To have worked for 40 years on something, to believe in it, and dedicate a life to it, to collect samples of sound, or smell, or taste from across an entire planet, then along comes a tool that makes it easy to share the results with other people, to disperse the cumulative knowledge and experience of a lifetime, only to have some bored slasher dis it off after a click and a couple seconds of listening; I'm hurt just thinking about it.