Ah, but if you read the article, this is where the author says the problem is. Not so much that standards exist, but that companies are getting together to make "false" standards, to make they're product look better and secure IP and with it cash flow.
Your Cell phone example is a perfect example of this, I'm willing to bet cash that every one of those cell phone companies claim their format as a "standard". But isn't the definition of a standard, as something that is widely recognized as being true or correct? So who decides something is standard?
Did you vote on something to make it a standard?
Or do you think some corporate lawyers in a room somewhere decided "Hey if we make a committee of '3rd party represenatives', send them up to the lake and get them some nice things, we'll get them to declair our companies IP as a standard increasing our share-holder confidence! PROFIT!"
See thats where the problem lies, the "standards" aren't really standards and they aren't being established for the good of the people the are being made for the good of the corporations bank accounts.
Nintendo's sales have picked up dramatically in the last 6 months, and you should really look at which systems the top 20 titles belong to and how many units were sold. Nintendo is doing fine and dandy. Xbox is sucking it up the worst of the bunch right now. Please check your numbers before posting fud.::No invite for flames; I've got all 3 systems I just don't like seeing raw hype and biased opinions posted as fact.
1 Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Nintendo GC 826,352 2 Pokemon Ruby Nintendo GBA 652,595 3 Pokemon Sapphire Nintendo GBA 585,098 4 Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven Activision PS2 164,282 5 The Getaway SCEA PS2 139,796 6 Def Jam Vendetta Electronic Arts PS2 135,162
http://www.the-magicbox.com/
from the looks of those numbers of units sold Nintendo has no problems with ideas or selling games.
A lot of virii out there eats up drive space by making a whole lot of small files, ie looking for files of 'plah' size does jack. You analize directory structures and find out which directories contain the most material.
PS this guy couldn't have been too smart, even if he was a prof, if he didn't zip the files and password protect them.
But personally, I'm glad he didn't thats some sick $#!t.
Well actually I'm looking for something to hook my Midi keyboard up and offer a decent range of abilities besides mixing/recording. (at the sub $300 price point)
But I'll keep those suggestions in mind for my wife's game box.
Well since we're bashing Creative, how about listing some alternative sound cards. Cause even if they do suck by your standards, I'd like to know of other cards that are comparable in price and features.
I've been personally looking at getting a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum. But if you are privy to facts that I am unaware of please share rather than leaving just vague accusations.
Not that I'm saying crappy tech support is alright, but lately no matter what company you deal with of late the tech support is crap. That or you end up speaking to some guy who barely speaks english in India... but I'm getting side-tracked into a nother issue.
I was never comparing Mozilla to Opera or IE. I was referring to the point that Mozilla is NOT optimized for the MAC. it was written originally on a PC and ported to the mac, so I assume it lacks a lot of optimizations that a browser written/optimized for a mac would.
With all the features they would have to wade through to update mozilla to their standards it would take years. Not to mention mozilla changes very swiftly. For compatibility reasons its a good idea for them to pick KHTML, because its smaller, would take less time for them to optimize for their platform. Nothing is stopping mac users from continuing to use Mozilla if they are interested in bleeding edge web technology.
The point is choice is good. If people are interested in smaller browsers with less clutter (note, size does not always equal clutter/bloat). My only problem with mozilla is the UI bloat. I could care less if IE or Mozilla eats 50MB of my RAM if it works faster. I have a GB of RAM and the only time I use all of it is when I am rendering large scenes in MAX or editing large images in Photoshop/GIMP. But thats my opinion and like assholes, everyone has one.
Open SOurce is a lot like evolution, there are hundreds of projects out there and a lot of them overlap, the successful ones thrive, mutate, and become bigger. The unsuccessful ones whither and die or become incorporated in the bigger ones to help them grow. Besides if Mozilla was the answer to everyone's needs why would anyone bother making KHTML in the first place? Someone was disatisfied with the browsers available and made their own browser. Lucky for us its open-source and everyone can learn from its technology.
1) Use this extremely bloated, unoptimized browser or
2) Use this smaller engine that can be optimized with little effort to run like a top on our operating system.
I'm sorry but Apple is doing what any good business would do, its looking out for its own interests. But I fail to see how this hurts Mozilla. So what mac users can use another browser. COMPETITION IS GOOD. maybe this will get those Mozilla monks in gear and start making their browser SMALLER instead of adding X more features that I don't need.
Now if all the browsers would just use the same plugin models....
I agree with you about cheating being wrong on online games, but as a developer I could care less about how people cheat on single player games I make. Sure I put lots of time and effort into that game content but you know what? That's why they pay me for it, if a gamer wants to cheat and shorten his experience, hey its not my $50 he spent...
But also consider the other applications here. I've never owned or created a bootleg of a console game, but I own 2 mod chips, one for my Playstation and one for my Sega Saturn? Know why? I import games. I like playing games enough that I'm willing to sit down with my rudimentary japanese, a good Japanese-English dictionary and puzzle through them.
You should really save your self-righteous fury for an issue that matters, and unless you make video game content please step off the soap box about the moral implications of cheating. Most developers put "cheat codes" in their own games for internal testing because when they want to test a certain aspect of the game they don't want to have to go through the whole damn thing on their own. They also know that people outside the company do indeed get the codes, thats why they make them interesting, like warcraft 2... Ever play that with the "Make it So" code? hell that will give you and an opponent armies like mad in mere minutes. Makes for good fast bruiser battles and a true test of multitasking skills.
Further proof to feed the engine that says the RIAA/MPAA are paranoid and greedy.
Biting the hand that feeds isn't particularly the smartest move they could make, I mean it is retailers that sell their product, and they are the reason that retailers went over to selling used CDs on the side. It allows them to get by the high margins that the RIAA/MPAA set. If the RIAA had reasonable pricing that still allowed for the media retailers to put a comfortable margin on top for their operating costs and keep the prices under $15 (which we all know they could) then there wouldn't be as many shops going the used CD route.
There is plenty of room for everyone to make money, but the RIAA isn't interested in sharing, by keeping prices artificially high the RIAA makes it so that only the very big chains can afford to sell their products and actually make money (through bulk orders). They choke out the smaller stores, and then only have a few large, very sue-able, entities in which to do buisness. THis way they can control the distribution almost as much (if not as much) as they do the production.
but thats just my take on the situation.
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You know what? Everyone has some level of geekiness, because no one is "Normal" when you get to know them. Its part of that evolution thing, we're all a little different so that (supposably) only the most desirable of us reproduce and have offspring with a few of our qualities, now I think we've shot the evolution thing in the foot lately but thats a whole another can of ethical/social worms that can never be debated in text without people getting the wrong idea or misquotation.
Now I do believe that some of us may seem a bit more "geeky" than others because instead of completey conforming to our society we let a few more of our "unique" traits shine a bit more.
Do I collect money every time someone walks across my yard? I'm a big supporter of the "Pay for it once" philosophy. If I buy a book, its mine, I can loan it to whoever I want. The idea can remain the writer's or whoever came up with it and copyrigted it, but the book is mine. I'm pretty sure that a "book" , as in a collection of paper with words on it, cannot be copyrighted, so as long as I don't make money off of it, how is it violating copyright if I let someone else "see" (I'm not talking about copying the book, just one copy). As I see it anything printed on paper can be seen by anyone, and read by anyone because it exsists on prior art.
We never had to pay an author before for trading in a book, why should the model change now? Content should be paid for once. Continual payment to use it is just crap.
You think you can get one of theses marvels for $500?
Hook me up!
My interest in it is as an artist, these things are great for photoshop work on the go. You ever tried to use a laptop for photoshop work? Screw handwriting, just get one of those fold up keyboards if you want to do some serious writing.
I could have sworn I left my new micro-super-nano-terahertz-keychain computer on my desk...
I'll go get the flash lights and magnifying glasses!
smaller is not always better. I think its the next trend though, those stupid G-car remote control cars come to mind... I watched some kid lose his to a small dog the other day, thing ran up and choped that car to bits...
Ebay is a vendor, just like any other store they have no power to police, the only power they do have is over your account with them; Everything else product recovery/monetary reimbersement, has to go through the proper law enforcement channels. This gets even hairier when you consider different auctions in different countries quite possibly have a different set of laws that pertain to them. You complain to Ebay, they complain to the government; the government simply doesn't have the resources to pursue the mass counts of Minor fraud that ebay creates.
Remember when dealing with people; they lie, cheat and steal to get what they want, so anything that requires you to trust an unknown party is at your discretion. Work retail once and you will understand the lengths to which people go to steal that 2 dollar pack of baseball cards and the power you don't have to stop them.
Amen, I'm a 3d Artist as welll (or aspiring anyway, trying to breakin the game industry) But I've actually been planning on getting a dual Clawhammer when AMD final releases them... cutting those render times is my number one priority so I can see product fast and work faster. Thats assuming they don't want my firstborn for that kind of power.
Um, you can turn those off in the windows system services tab, also you can change the shell to a cmd prompt if you want (which gets rid of the whole Explorer deal)
If all you want to do is run a webserver then you can do just that. I play with all kinds of systems, linux, windows, macoSX etc... I owe no allegience to any of them and I use the one that is best suited for my needs at the time.
Seriously an OS is a tool, don't treat it like a Country to which you owe your allegience.
I thought it was bad stubbing your toe on all that furniture you don't see in the dark... that is the pinky toe's true purpose... to let you know about all that furniture and door edges.
If you thought the idea behind carnivore was bad.... wow. Where do theses people live? Must be under a rock... they obviously don't remember the backlash there was against carnivore... now they're making an announcement about it?! how smart is that...
Of course Carnivore was pre-9/11 and I'm sure they'll spin this off as "Counter-Terrorism".
Its funny, every time I hear "War on Terrorism" or "to help counter-terrorism" I cringe because thats probably one more civil liberty being dragged off into some room to be beaten and interrogated...
"Is it buggy? I still see crashes in IE, but haven't for a long time in Opera."
Um Check your hardware buddy... I've never seen IE6 crash rendering a webpage. Although I have crashed Explorer a few times doing funky stuff with my file systems... but thats not web-rendering is it, and we aren't compairing it as a shell. by far I think Midnight Commander is the best file browser.
"Is it fast? Not as fast as Opera, I've noticed. Not even a contest--no one is going to argue this."
I believe this is adequately addressed in previous comments, no one cares about the extras.5 of a second.
"Does it have a history of breaking standards? You bet your damned britches."
I believe since it is the dominant browser out there (Like it or not) this is called setting the standard. Thats what a standard is, a widely accepted principle and if 90% of the people use it... its STANDARD.
"Does it only run on two platforms? What do you think, sonny?"
It runs on windows and Mac OS X. MS isn't about to port to Linux because they don't make money of Linux users. They sell lots of office software to Mac users though... Linux users in general are anti-MS which == NO $.
"Can it print web pages? In your dreams. Has anyone ever tried printing out a page in IE? Probably not, because it doesn't scale ANYTHING to fit the page properly, and has been an essentialy worthless feature since whenever--one must rely upon "printer friendly" versions a page to successfully print."
Point taken on that one, but once you start changing the way a page looks (scaling/moving/whatever) you are altering the content in a way the author might not have intended, which the way the law is heading now may very well be illegal in the not so near future. Not to mention I've seen "scaled" pages to fit on a legal paper where the print was so small it couldn't be read. Printer friendly is a standard for websites who wish to make content available for the user to print out. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future the standard HTML set gets a
Anyone else feel a little Roman right now? I think in the next few years we're in for some extreme social reforms. This kind of lifestyle can't hold up with all the abuse of people's trust in their leaders. Unfortunately the little guy will still end up footingh the bill, because in the end, we're the ones who'll have to decide when we've had enough; we're also the ones who'll have to pay for a better way. With our work, our lifestyle, and probably our blood before its done.
:)
I haven't watched TV for nearly a year. Got my Cable Modemn from AT&T and it apparently irritates the piss out of them that I am not paying them $50 more for their cable TV service. I get a new free installation offer about every other week.:P damned if I'll take it. I haven't missed TV a bit. If its not on Slashdot or in the local paper I don't care.
Its a valid point, companies like hiring out of other companies pre-trained stock... saves them the effort of training. Which really pisses me off.
I just got out of school and I have seen next to zero companies willing to take on anyone with less than 2 years experience in the industry (game industry for me). Which puts me further in a jam; how does one get experience and learn more about the job if no one hires them? Hell at this point I'd almost work for peanuts. Its times like these that really make me regret leaving programing to persue game art.
A similar thing happened in the Animation industry back in the 60's and 70s.... all the studios put off hiring new talent (disney, WB, etc.) and as a result when all the old experienced animators retired in the 80s there was no one to take their place. Hence we ended up with shitty animation in the 80s, (aka the Black Cauldron). History does repeat it self. I am sure almost every IT field out there will soon start running into this problem.
Its a lot easier for investors to trust money to someone who has been in buisness than a new guy despite his creds.
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Ah, but if you read the article, this is where the author says the problem is. Not so much that standards exist, but that companies are getting together to make "false" standards, to make they're product look better and secure IP and with it cash flow.
Your Cell phone example is a perfect example of this, I'm willing to bet cash that every one of those cell phone companies claim their format as a "standard". But isn't the definition of a standard, as something that is widely recognized as being true or correct? So who decides something is standard?
Did you vote on something to make it a standard?
Or do you think some corporate lawyers in a room somewhere decided "Hey if we make a committee of '3rd party represenatives', send them up to the lake and get them some nice things, we'll get them to declair our companies IP as a standard increasing our share-holder confidence! PROFIT!"
See thats where the problem lies, the "standards" aren't really standards and they aren't being established for the good of the people the are being made for the good of the corporations bank accounts.
Nintendo's sales have picked up dramatically in the last 6 months, and you should really look at which systems the top 20 titles belong to and how many units were sold. Nintendo is doing fine and dandy. Xbox is sucking it up the worst of the bunch right now. Please check your numbers before posting fud. ::No invite for flames; I've got all 3 systems I just don't like seeing raw hype and biased opinions posted as fact.
1 Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Nintendo GC 826,352
2 Pokemon Ruby Nintendo GBA 652,595
3 Pokemon Sapphire Nintendo GBA 585,098
4 Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven Activision PS2 164,282
5 The Getaway SCEA PS2 139,796
6 Def Jam Vendetta Electronic Arts PS2 135,162
http://www.the-magicbox.com/
from the looks of those numbers of units sold Nintendo has no problems with ideas or selling games.
A lot of virii out there eats up drive space by making a whole lot of small files, ie looking for files of 'plah' size does jack. You analize directory structures and find out which directories contain the most material.
PS this guy couldn't have been too smart, even if he was a prof, if he didn't zip the files and password protect them.
But personally, I'm glad he didn't thats some sick $#!t.
Well actually I'm looking for something to hook my Midi keyboard up and offer a decent range of abilities besides mixing/recording. (at the sub $300 price point)
But I'll keep those suggestions in mind for my wife's game box.
Well since we're bashing Creative, how about listing some alternative sound cards. Cause even if they do suck by your standards, I'd like to know of other cards that are comparable in price and features.
I've been personally looking at getting a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum. But if you are privy to facts that I am unaware of please share rather than leaving just vague accusations.
Not that I'm saying crappy tech support is alright, but lately no matter what company you deal with of late the tech support is crap. That or you end up speaking to some guy who barely speaks english in India... but I'm getting side-tracked into a nother issue.
err Slashdot Effect?
Damn that one crumpled fast.
Who posted that link, that was probably hoseted on some dudes DSL.
Really there is no reason why Slashdot doesn't mirror a site on this server for a few days. I mean on those obviously home grown sites especially,
I was never comparing Mozilla to Opera or IE. I was referring to the point that Mozilla is NOT optimized for the MAC. it was written originally on a PC and ported to the mac, so I assume it lacks a lot of optimizations that a browser written/optimized for a mac would.
With all the features they would have to wade through to update mozilla to their standards it would take years. Not to mention mozilla changes very swiftly. For compatibility reasons its a good idea for them to pick KHTML, because its smaller, would take less time for them to optimize for their platform. Nothing is stopping mac users from continuing to use Mozilla if they are interested in bleeding edge web technology.
The point is choice is good. If people are interested in smaller browsers with less clutter (note, size does not always equal clutter/bloat). My only problem with mozilla is the UI bloat. I could care less if IE or Mozilla eats 50MB of my RAM if it works faster. I have a GB of RAM and the only time I use all of it is when I am rendering large scenes in MAX or editing large images in Photoshop/GIMP. But thats my opinion and like assholes, everyone has one.
Open SOurce is a lot like evolution, there are hundreds of projects out there and a lot of them overlap, the successful ones thrive, mutate, and become bigger. The unsuccessful ones whither and die or become incorporated in the bigger ones to help them grow. Besides if Mozilla was the answer to everyone's needs why would anyone bother making KHTML in the first place? Someone was disatisfied with the browsers available and made their own browser. Lucky for us its open-source and everyone can learn from its technology.
Open Source needs Open Minds.
I mean come on, look at Apple's choices,
1) Use this extremely bloated, unoptimized browser or
2) Use this smaller engine that can be optimized with little effort to run like a top on our operating system.
I'm sorry but Apple is doing what any good business would do, its looking out for its own interests. But I fail to see how this hurts Mozilla. So what mac users can use another browser. COMPETITION IS GOOD. maybe this will get those Mozilla monks in gear and start making their browser SMALLER instead of adding X more features that I don't need.
Now if all the browsers would just use the same plugin models....
I agree with you about cheating being wrong on online games, but as a developer I could care less about how people cheat on single player games I make. Sure I put lots of time and effort into that game content but you know what? That's why they pay me for it, if a gamer wants to cheat and shorten his experience, hey its not my $50 he spent...
But also consider the other applications here. I've never owned or created a bootleg of a console game, but I own 2 mod chips, one for my Playstation and one for my Sega Saturn? Know why? I import games. I like playing games enough that I'm willing to sit down with my rudimentary japanese, a good Japanese-English dictionary and puzzle through them.
You should really save your self-righteous fury for an issue that matters, and unless you make video game content please step off the soap box about the moral implications of cheating. Most developers put "cheat codes" in their own games for internal testing because when they want to test a certain aspect of the game they don't want to have to go through the whole damn thing on their own. They also know that people outside the company do indeed get the codes, thats why they make them interesting, like warcraft 2... Ever play that with the "Make it So" code? hell that will give you and an opponent armies like mad in mere minutes. Makes for good fast bruiser battles and a true test of multitasking skills.
Further proof to feed the engine that says the RIAA/MPAA are paranoid and greedy.
Biting the hand that feeds isn't particularly the smartest move they could make, I mean it is retailers that sell their product, and they are the reason that retailers went over to selling used CDs on the side. It allows them to get by the high margins that the RIAA/MPAA set. If the RIAA had reasonable pricing that still allowed for the media retailers to put a comfortable margin on top for their operating costs and keep the prices under $15 (which we all know they could) then there wouldn't be as many shops going the used CD route.
There is plenty of room for everyone to make money, but the RIAA isn't interested in sharing, by keeping prices artificially high the RIAA makes it so that only the very big chains can afford to sell their products and actually make money (through bulk orders). They choke out the smaller stores, and then only have a few large, very sue-able, entities in which to do buisness. THis way they can control the distribution almost as much (if not as much) as they do the production.
but thats just my take on the situation.
PS> Its really early here and I just got up, sorry if I'm a bit incoherant.
You know what? Everyone has some level of geekiness, because no one is "Normal" when you get to know them. Its part of that evolution thing, we're all a little different so that (supposably) only the most desirable of us reproduce and have offspring with a few of our qualities, now I think we've shot the evolution thing in the foot lately but thats a whole another can of ethical/social worms that can never be debated in text without people getting the wrong idea or misquotation.
Now I do believe that some of us may seem a bit more "geeky" than others because instead of completey conforming to our society we let a few more of our "unique" traits shine a bit more.
Just a thought.
Do I collect money every time someone walks across my yard? I'm a big supporter of the "Pay for it once" philosophy. If I buy a book, its mine, I can loan it to whoever I want. The idea can remain the writer's or whoever came up with it and copyrigted it, but the book is mine. I'm pretty sure that a "book" , as in a collection of paper with words on it, cannot be copyrighted, so as long as I don't make money off of it, how is it violating copyright if I let someone else "see" (I'm not talking about copying the book, just one copy). As I see it anything printed on paper can be seen by anyone, and read by anyone because it exsists on prior art.
We never had to pay an author before for trading in a book, why should the model change now? Content should be paid for once. Continual payment to use it is just crap.
Mr. Shatner, how do you feel about the canceling of the USA Tek War series that was based on the novels you wrote?
Are you writing any more Tek War Novels?
(yeah I know its a bit old, but I kind of liked the series).
You think you can get one of theses marvels for $500?
Hook me up!
My interest in it is as an artist, these things are great for photoshop work on the go. You ever tried to use a laptop for photoshop work?
Screw handwriting, just get one of those fold up keyboards if you want to do some serious writing.
I could have sworn I left my new micro-super-nano-terahertz-keychain computer on my desk...
I'll go get the flash lights and magnifying glasses!
smaller is not always better. I think its the next trend though, those stupid G-car remote control cars come to mind... I watched some kid lose his to a small dog the other day, thing ran up and choped that car to bits...
(nelson voice)HAHAaaaa
Ebay is a vendor, just like any other store they have no power to police, the only power they do have is over your account with them; Everything else product recovery/monetary reimbersement, has to go through the proper law enforcement channels. This gets even hairier when you consider different auctions in different countries quite possibly have a different set of laws that pertain to them. You complain to Ebay, they complain to the government; the government simply doesn't have the resources to pursue the mass counts of Minor fraud that ebay creates.
Remember when dealing with people; they lie, cheat and steal to get what they want, so anything that requires you to trust an unknown party is at your discretion. Work retail once and you will understand the lengths to which people go to steal that 2 dollar pack of baseball cards and the power you don't have to stop them.
Amen, I'm a 3d Artist as welll (or aspiring anyway, trying to breakin the game industry) But I've actually been planning on getting a dual Clawhammer when AMD final releases them... cutting those render times is my number one priority so I can see product fast and work faster. Thats assuming they don't want my firstborn for that kind of power.
They always have such a steep price point.
Um, you can turn those off in the windows system services tab, also you can change the shell to a cmd prompt if you want (which gets rid of the whole Explorer deal)
If all you want to do is run a webserver then you can do just that. I play with all kinds of systems, linux, windows, macoSX etc... I owe no allegience to any of them and I use the one that is best suited for my needs at the time.
Seriously an OS is a tool, don't treat it like a Country to which you owe your allegience.
I thought it was bad stubbing your toe on all that furniture you don't see in the dark...
that is the pinky toe's true purpose... to let you know about all that furniture and door edges.
If you thought the idea behind carnivore was bad.... wow. Where do theses people live? Must be under a rock... they obviously don't remember the backlash there was against carnivore... now they're making an announcement about it?! how smart is that...
Of course Carnivore was pre-9/11 and I'm sure they'll spin this off as "Counter-Terrorism".
Its funny, every time I hear "War on Terrorism" or "to help counter-terrorism" I cringe because thats probably one more civil liberty being dragged off into some room to be beaten and interrogated...
but thats just my 2 cents on it.
Um Check your hardware buddy... I've never seen IE6 crash rendering a webpage. Although I have crashed Explorer a few times doing funky stuff with my file systems... but thats not web-rendering is it, and we aren't compairing it as a shell. by far I think Midnight Commander is the best file browser.
"Is it fast? Not as fast as Opera, I've noticed. Not even a contest--no one is going to argue this."
I believe this is adequately addressed in previous comments, no one cares about the extras
"Does it have a history of breaking standards? You bet your damned britches."
I believe since it is the dominant browser out there (Like it or not) this is called setting the standard. Thats what a standard is, a widely accepted principle and if 90% of the people use it... its STANDARD.
"Does it only run on two platforms? What do you think, sonny?"
It runs on windows and Mac OS X. MS isn't about to port to Linux because they don't make money of Linux users. They sell lots of office software to Mac users though... Linux users in general are anti-MS which == NO $.
"Can it print web pages? In your dreams. Has anyone ever tried printing out a page in IE? Probably not, because it doesn't scale ANYTHING to fit the page properly, and has been an essentialy worthless feature since whenever--one must rely upon "printer friendly" versions a page to successfully print."
Point taken on that one, but once you start changing the way a page looks (scaling/moving/whatever) you are altering the content in a way the author might not have intended, which the way the law is heading now may very well be illegal in the not so near future. Not to mention I've seen "scaled" pages to fit on a legal paper where the print was so small it couldn't be read. Printer friendly is a standard for websites who wish to make content available for the user to print out. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future the standard HTML set gets a . It is their intellectual property after all....
Yeah I know its a link to an evil empire controlled site but hey its information that wants to be FREE!
http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/webquote.dl
Anyone else feel a little Roman right now? I think in the next few years we're in for some extreme social reforms. This kind of lifestyle can't hold up with all the abuse of people's trust in their leaders. Unfortunately the little guy will still end up footingh the bill, because in the end, we're the ones who'll have to decide when we've had enough; we're also the ones who'll have to pay for a better way. With our work, our lifestyle, and probably our blood before its done.
:) I haven't watched TV for nearly a year. Got my Cable Modemn from AT&T and it apparently irritates the piss out of them that I am not paying them $50 more for their cable TV service. I get a new free installation offer about every other week. :P damned if I'll take it. I haven't missed TV a bit. If its not on Slashdot or in the local paper I don't care.
Its a valid point, companies like hiring out of other companies pre-trained stock... saves them the effort of training. Which really pisses me off.
/. rant
I just got out of school and I have seen next to zero companies willing to take on anyone with less than 2 years experience in the industry (game industry for me). Which puts me further in a jam; how does one get experience and learn more about the job if no one hires them? Hell at this point I'd almost work for peanuts. Its times like these that really make me regret leaving programing to persue game art.
A similar thing happened in the Animation industry back in the 60's and 70s.... all the studios put off hiring new talent (disney, WB, etc.) and as a result when all the old experienced animators retired in the 80s there was no one to take their place. Hence we ended up with shitty animation in the 80s, (aka the Black Cauldron). History does repeat it self. I am sure almost every IT field out there will soon start running into this problem.
Its a lot easier for investors to trust money to someone who has been in buisness than a new guy despite his creds.
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