Subj : Only artists need apply? (was: How much should I charge for fix...) To : comp.programming From : rem642b Date : Fri Aug 26 2005 11:20 pm > From: Chris Sonnack > It's been "fun" watching the artists and marketers take over the > original concept, which was to provide marked up *content*. ... > while I appreciate the whole content-based approach, the artist in me > likes the idea of giving you MY vision of a webpage. Frankly, I > think style sheets are way cool. If somebody's talent is primarily artistic, they should be allowed to make a painting or other work of art, and not criticized for it not displaying a Ph.D. level of understanding of science or mathematics. (But still I cringe at cheap cartoonists such as in The Simpson's who draw a crescent moon, in an otherwise dark starry sky, in an orientation which is impossible except when the Sun is high in the sky. Is Homer not a fiction, but an accurate representation of his artist, with an intelligence level somewhere between Dan Quayle and GWBush?) If somebody's talent is primarily psychology and persuasion, and so they are in politics, the natural place for con artists who are very good at conning their victims, hundreds of millions of their victims in some cases, am I surprised that they are neither artistic nor intelligent?) For somebody like me, with great aptitude in science math and computer programming, and lots of knowledge in those areas, why should I be denied a job just because I'm not also good at art and persuasion?? Why should my Web pages be constantly maligned just because they don't show professional artistic qualities, and I don't have the money to hire an artistic expert to make my WebPages "pretty"?? The person who should be tarred and feathered is the cretin who fixed the Yahoo! Mail home page to have an annoying animated cartoon in the upper-right portion of the page, a terribly distracting cartoon that makes it very difficult for me to use Yahoo! Mail when I'm at the public library where I have IE available to see that crap. Hmm, maybe next time I'm there I'll ask the reference librarian if I can borrow a Post-It to cover up that portion of the screen. > The older I get, the pickier I get about which battles are worth > getting my dander up about. What do you think about discriminating against people with good computer programming and math and science skills, just because they aren't super-equipped in athletics and art, while at the same time glorifying complete idiots and paying them millions of dollars per year just to play a game such as football or baseball? Would that be worth fighting over? .