RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Wasnt this a bad TV show when I was growingup?

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > Remember back when HTML developers were respected? Do you 
> hold much respect for the intelegence of someone who just 
> does HTML now, especially considering how many out of that 
> group are actually using Frontpage?
> 
> No. HTML was designed for use by the average schmoo. Though you'd be 
> right in that I look upon 'html developers' with disgust most of the 
> time these days.. they need special Frontpage-like tools to let them 
> work with something easy enough for the average schmoo.

Nothing made for the average schmoo works for the average schmoo. What 'for the average schmoo' developers fail to account for is that the average schmoo still thinks its funny to call up a random stranger and ask if their refrigerator is running.

Only when MS or someone like them comes along and makes something for the complete idiots does it catch on with the average schmoo.

Seriously though, there used to be a mistique about HTML developers. Its going away rapidly, and is already long gone for most of us in the computer industry.

> > I shudder to think what will become of the geek positions of today. 
> 
> Are there any left that aren't gone to India? Though that could be a 
> bonus.. I'd not mind seeing India.

Keep in mind, they are going to India for the same reason Martha Stewart's line of clothes were made in China. At least they have to reasonably air condition a room for computers, so it won't literally be a sweat shop.

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