Health insurance for my family of 5 is about 7 grand a year, and food is about 6 grand, and utilities are about 3 grand (Internet/water/electric/gas). That's 15 grand before transportation, rent, or any luxuries. I frankly have no idea how a family with children can live on 15-30 grand a year without being in constant stress.
Regarding point 2, I pulled together a boilerplate that my group uses as a template for new apps, and I'm working on creating a file gen in python. We make heavy use of AMD, and rely on a handful of legacy non-RESTful backend apps we need to overwrite sync to use, so I'm not sure an out-of-the-box backbone.app would work for us, anyway. Spine looks interesting, but backbone is working incredibly well for now.
This was a great overview, thanks. One off-topic thing though: I'm browsing on my kindle fire, and unless I turn off javascript, your site crashes the browser after a few seconds.
Not always, and less so in technical fields, but there is a huge difference between a course like "Leveraging Sharepoint for HR Management" (job training) and "Philosophy of the Mind" (pure education). You can only put the former on a resume, but I find the latter to be more meaningful.
It also must be much harder to actually watch reel-to-reels. You can just pop a DVD into any computer at any time without worrying about the additional logistics of space, trained projector operators, and time constraints.
I don't know. I just wanted to add at least one actual source to the conversation... Social norms change, though, and this is actually an excellent example of a huge shift.
I think they teach this game at most business schools, and it seems to be a popular and eye-opening experience. If you hit wikipedia, there are a number of links to online versions you can play (some for free, some not).
I was a highschool student in the late 89s, early 90s, and I encountered some truly awful stuff on local bbs scenes. At first, I must be ugly and a social outcast (they referred to me as "the burly Russian wrestler"). I shrugged it off, because everyone got shit. So what? Then I went to one of the parties; very few people there had met me before. I was a pretty standard looking 16 year old girl, but I felt like meat, just meat. In the space of 20 minutes, two 20something men hit on me, virtually everyone else expressed shock at my lack of hidiousness, or told me they were surprised I was actually a girl. I begged my older brother to drive me home immediately. Then I buried my former alias, and made a new male alter ego. Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Sure, but those people are (by definition) not professional artists. There is a demand for well crafted art, people will certainly pay for it, but the old model (RIAA/MPAA) doesn't work and is counter-productive.
It seems that the question is not "should artists get paid," but "what is the best model for artists to get paid?" For example, if all music everywhere was always free for personal use, musicians would still be able to make money touring and selling merchandise and licensing their songs for commercial use.
What does "local" mean? Does a 501c3 have to be in Ohio to qualify? The Midwest? I'd like to spread the word, but I don't want to target groups that would automatically be out of the running because they're based in the northeast, or Michigan.
The first yelp review I left was a result of serendipity. I was wandering around NYC with my beloved, and we wound up in the worst, most overpriced, awesome-mood-killing bar. It was so bad that I rely on yelp in new cities now. If only I'd looked it up on my phone, I would have saved us some agony. This article makes me sad, because I don't want to miss something great because sn owner is being extorted, but I am also incredibly wary of walking into a place without checking reviews first.