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On another note, there are services that are already scraping thousands of websites and testing them for ADA compliance. If the website fails the test, the website or lead is sold off to an attorney. The attorney will then find or hire a straw client to sue the website and the company. Its very prevalent and lucrative because a lot of the law has yet to be written and the companies being sued are settling very quickly.

What an incredible loss on so many levels. 65 is young but look at everything he did and his contributions speak for themselves. R.I.P. Paul and Godspeed

Your not being a jerk, I should have been more concise. Decaf but Black Tea, in general is helpful. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/tea

I respect Rand and give him a lot of credit for vocalizing his challenges. Depression is a challenge and it can be overcome.

I am not a doctor, but I can tell you that a lot of my peers are suffering from depression from business, marriage or just in general.

One thing I do know is that the world has changed a lot in the past decade. The price of everything just keeps going up and we are constantly bombarded by information. Humans are not built that way. There is no badge of honor for being under stress 24/7. It will catch up to you one way or the other.

Humans suffer from the fight or flight responses that we encounter during high stress situations. The challenge is to digest it and make decisions not based on fight or flight emotions.

The body produces cortisol when we are under duress and it is horrible for you. It screws up everything with your body and your mind. One way to counteract this is by working out, getting sunlight, eating the right foods and staying off caffeine. Try some black or green tea instead.

30 minutes of working out will combat cortisol production for about six hours. Even going for a walk helps a lot.

Most of the worlds brightest minds and most successful people suffer from depression and knowing that your ARE NOT ALONE is a huge step forward.

You can beat depression and your life will turn around!

Talking about it and seeking help is definitely a step in the right direction. Keep your chins up.

Years ago I was traveling to Oakland for business. My flight was delayed so I hit the magazine store. Bought some gaming magazines, business magazines and one copy of Havard Business Review. There was an article in it that caught my eye, "Why do dumb people succeed more in business than smart people."

I dont remember exactly the title but it was an 8 to 10 page article that went into detail comparing high IQ people to average or low IQ people and why people with lower average IQ did better in business. The article was filled with graphs and case studies and was very interesting.

But the last paragraph really summarized it best, "Smart people consistently over analyzed risk and talked themselves out of taking risks while someone with a lower IQ didnt even think about the risk and jumped in with both feet and took chances."

It gets back to the saying "No risk / No reward".

I remember that article to this day and always do a gut check when it comes to evaluating new risks. Sometimes I second voice my old European grandfather who was all about hard work in a different industry but his life lessons hold true.

Turning off the brain chatter and clearly evaluating a situation is critical but it s very hard because intelligent people, and humans in general, like to avoid risk and the temporary unpleasant pain that accompanies it.

When I was a wee-toddler, I would freelance in the afternoons and nights. I used the regular job for living expenses and banked my freelance money until it was enough to make the switch. It gave me a big comfortable cushion.

I started small and all jobs were delivered before deadline and the execution is what set me apart from the rest of the competition. Work with less people and really deliver. Once you do that, existing clients will up their spend with you and refer you to other clients. Good work spreads fast.

Once you get a lot of clients, then it is time to hire someone. For me, I hired someone with little experience and trained them from the ground up. My ratio was roughly 10-12 clients per employee.

Small jobs are good when you are starting but they can also generate a lot of noise. Your time and expertise is very valuable. Price it accordingly.

If someone is trying to nickle and dime you walk away. That will most likely to be a customer who is never satisfied and will continually ask you to do things that was not in the scope of work for free or fight you when its time to pay up.

Good luck! :-)

Do you want to be a big fish in a big pond or a big fish in a small pond?

No way! Do you think 9/11 could have been an inside job? :-)

I am really proud of Elon and his crew.

For someone who has made a first pass at making a car he sure has set the bar very high. The performance, quality and safety of this vehicle show that anything is possible.

However, on the flip side, it shows how uncompetitive the U.S. market has become. It takes vast sums of money to compete with the big 3.

I look forward to Elon pushing the limits in space and with the hyperloop.

Also, if you are doing low level graphics Snag It can be a good alternative for minor jobs.

http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html

This might be problematic. Photoshop works for a lot of us because it is a stand alone application.

Curious to see what kind of lag issues will occur on a cloud based solution. As mentioned above, it seems more like an anti-piracy issue solution.

While Photoshop is the standard, several other applications exist that do a good job as well. They might lose market share over this move.

Depression happens for many reasons. We do need to have sympathy because the depth of depression varies from person to person.

Some of it can be genetic and I think it can also be copied from other people or passed on. That is why if you hang around with happy people you have a tendency to be happier.

One of the things I noticed in my successful peers is that they go through a period of depression before great periods of productivity or creativity. The depths of depressions or "pullbacks" vary from person to person but most of them show that trait before periods of greatness.

IMO, depression is increasing because pressure is increasing on the average individual in general. From society, to our peers, from the media, from our own competitive nature we are putting more pressure on ourselves to perform or not perform via rebelling.

I am not a doctor, but I know when one of my friends or peers say they are depressed, it is taken very seriously. We all go out of our way to support that person.

Life does go on. Life does change. Sometimes it is darkest before the dawn. Never give up.

Well, if you are not satisfied with google you can always use bing and yahoo. I do suggest you search for the same thing on each service to see the differences in your rankings.

One thing I did not see mentioned was the new google rollout on adwords and merchant center (google base feed). Google use to allow free submissions of products into the shopping segment, but now all of your product submissions must be linked to an adwords account by which google adwords can charge you. It steps directly on nextags formula.

I doubt it. But I think it would be possible to be living on the moon in that time frame. Plus, we could be shuttling all of our garbage into space and mining the moon. Space 2029 Redo.

Good Stuff. It also important to do the math on your item or idea. Calculate all costs. A lot of people just jump in assuming they are in the green and end up in red.

Most of the names mentioned here are brand name, well known musicians. However, thousands of people use Pro Tools and Ableton to create amazing music.Problem is you do not know about them. Only the heavyweights get the big marketing.

As mentioned, the same can be said for the gaming industry, or any other industry. Technology has pushed the cost lower and created opportunity for the lowest common denominator.

The problem with "audio" in general is that it is taken for granted. MP3's on ipods sound terrible. CD's have replaced vinyl character. High end speakers have been replaced with Bose. Deflation in audio, like many other industries.

Using Pro Tool and/or Ableton is not easy and takes a lifetime to master.

As a career, like most others industries, the bids are going to lowest bidder with mediocre experience.

Audio is so important and often neglected.

Happy Holidays to All!

this is great! thanks for the link. perfect to listen in the background as we hack

This reminds me of "kenneth whats the frequency"

Spitting on someone is wrong and cowardice. However, I would not lose sleep over it.

Dostoevsky Hunger

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/

you need a work space and the understanding that no one can disturb you when the door is closed or your headphones are on.

i forgot the exact number but they owe creditors something like 180 million so they are going to charge as much as they can get away with.

wait until the last day for any true rock bottom pricing

5000 very talented people...MS has enough cash they could have sponsored all of them in a new venture. what a waste