Compared to tools like Autodesks' Flame (linux native) Adobe©®'s programs are amateur; GIMP and Inkscape even more so. When you can't provide an AI or PSD clients will simply turn elsewhere. Unfortunately, not learning these tools is a career killer. Balsimiq, Inkscape and GIMP are not currently the industry standard and Adobe©® skills remain a must-have in a Web Devs toolkit. Sure you can design directly in the browser, but sometimes having a rough mock-up will help save your most precious resource-- time. I work with a dual monitor setup, one running ubuntu the other OS X.

I don't know if you live in or have visited NZ... but the lack of bandwidth is mind blowing. Seriously, I don't know how you Kiwis have been doing it. Going to NZ is like visiting a very scenic 1998 with the same per megabyte rate and everything!

Unlike all you ancient geeks I graduated highschool in 2004. During that time I was taught xhtml1.0/css 1st thing. No one ever even mentioned tables or inline styles. I only learned about those professionally through designing for email marketing.

I left to never come back to a great paying job of 2 yrs as the sole graphic designer staring at a monitor for 9hrs/day in a room with no windows, with lots of overtime and no chance of me actually getting to take my 2 weeks paid vacation. I got in my truck, drove 4500 miles over 4 months (stopped at 27 different national parks/forests) and finally arrived and landed a job on a whale watching boat in Juneau Alaska for the summer. After the summer, I boarded a jet and traveled to New Zealand where I stayed for 6 months hiking and exploring the South and North Island. Now guess where I am. The owner ended up calling me as soon as I got back to town. They had been through a succession of multiple hires (10+) trying to replace me and couldn't find anyone who had the right combination of skills/state of mind. Their most recent hire had literally stormed out exclaiming, "Bunch of hillbillies!" They called me desperate and offered a very attractive hourly wage. I agreed to come back until I could personally train someone correctly. I traveled an entire world away so I could end up same as when I left. So I guess... I fell into it.

Have you seen 'Office Space'? It's the answer to your question.

WNYCs podcast RadioLab did an excellent segment having to do with the same parasite (and cats) on an episode entitled 'Parasites,' highly recommend.

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - a t-shirt I owned in highschool.

so all the 'friend whores' who have 87239872347+ friends, non of whom actually are real friends... are now locked out of their accounts! Karma's a B*&Ch.

You mean Tit-For-Tat? http://en.wikipedia.org/Prisoners_Dilemma

With USA being in the top 3 most populated, and a relatively low infant mortality rate... (46th of 224 countries). Your solution may work for developing countries, but not for those already developed. With states constantly refusing public school sex ed classes (Legislator's vote down sex ed bill), major politicians supporting absitnence as the only contraceptive and leaders whom also condemn masturbation... Our population is in trouble. My highschool sex ed class was little more than a P.E. Coach talking about how he used to have tons of money and then lost it all.

Have we shipped off Dr. Stanley Goodspeed to 'The Rock' to takeover the rogue commandos and stop them from launching that darn VX gas yet?

there's more cords... and more equipment, without any substantial added benefit.