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Man, I haven’t posted here in a while. /c:
Surely, many of you have run into the infamous site ‘experts-exchange.com’ when trying to fix your computer. You know, it’s that one that has all those people who ask tough computer problems (uncanny the way they seem to always be same ones that you run into) , so that file-dweller super-geniuses can scurry into the picture and give them some helpful and informed answers to their (your) problems.
Yeah, too bad you have to set up payware/trial account thing to see any of the answers.
Really?
No, it’s a gyp.
Really. Try it yourself. See how long that webpage is? Yep, just scroll all the way down to the bottom of it to get to any of the stuff that matters. These chumps try to hide their information behind (below) a whole lot of nagverts and ’sitemaps’ to try and get ‘grandma-who-accidentaly-just-broke-the-Yahoos’ to subtract $12+ from her monthly income so that she can see something she could have probably gotten for free. Apparently, there is such thing as a free (Crippled) account for the site, but you get so much smoke blown in your face that you can’t get to it without looking hard. I know that people have to make a living, but they probably don’t have to stab the computer-illiterate in the back first.
Experts exchange does give solid advice, I can give it that. Unfortunately, it’s presentation makes it hard for regular end-users to find the information. ( Pretty creative gimmick, though. I bet they have sucked the money out of dozens of hapless blockheads. )
Somehow, exp/exch.com doesn’t seem like the website I would want to be stuck alone on a desert island with.
http://www.teamorca.org/eyeinthesea.htm| This is cool. I haven’t seen anything yet, but maybe you guys will get lucky!
http://celtx.com/overview.html| Could be very useful! I think I will be using it extensively in the future…
I’ve got two things for you:
1. If you view Google’s cache of an Experts Exchange page (click the “Cached” link in the search results next to “Similar pages”) and scroll down past all of the fluff toward the top of the page, you get the answers that are hidden when not viewing the cache.
2. I’ve found Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/) to be a worthy alternative to Experts Exchange. It uses points instead of money and when posting on it, I’ve gotten answers in as little as half an hour.
Hey Cristian, Our Farmer’s Market just started, There’s not many farmers there though, it’s mostly old ladies, selling soap.
‘ bye