On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Merrill, Jason < [email protected]> wrote:
> You sure you're not just some long time list guru messing with us? > In my dreams! > If > not, I do feel bad for your situation, but you need to be realistic. > Eating is realistic. I have to eat. God only knows how I've managed to survive 6 months as I have...I haven't even tried to sign up business for at least 5 months. Why? Because I discovered, much to my shock and dismay, that the entire world of computing had changed in the 5 years I was busy farming the side of a mountain by hand with a machete in the backwoods of the Dominican Republic and cleansing my soul. I expected the technology to have changed. What I didn't expect was (1) server farms' equipment had degraded so badly that the hardware itself broke code and of course they didn't tell you that was the problem, you had to figure it out for yourself; and (2) the outsourcing world had changed entirely. To make a long story short, I suddenly found myself committed to project I thought I'd be outsourcing only to discover I'd have to do them myself. They included (1) building a shopping cart, and; (2) designing Flash sites. Being the kind of person I am, I believe in doing things right the first time no matter what the personal cost, so I spent 4 months developing a fully automated shopping cart in Python (about 12000 lines of code). Now I need to pump out a couple of Flash sites at least to the point where I can go back and talk to all those clients I was ready to sign up 6 months ago. I really don't know how I've been eating all this time. I have $117 on me and I imagine I'm about a month away from being able to pick up new clients. I don't know how that's going to last me nor where any other money is coming from. Nor am I worried about it. If I starve, I starve. I'm moving on as quickly as I can. I'm too principled to ask the clients I took money from for Flash sites to help me eat. Besides, their next payments have to go to buying $7K worth of photographic equipment, since I promised video. But by then I can sign up other clients. I'll need to do that to afford the equipment. But it won't be a problem. I'm one hell of a salesman, and there's tons of money in the Virgin Islands. I really didn't want to go into this level of detail. The only way I was able to afford the one book that's coming is by (intelligently) hitting up one of my Flash clients, explaining to him that it was in his best interest to buy me the book with his CC and I'd pay for it from what he'll owe me. (I wish I'd thought of that a month ago instead of this past Saturday.) I apologize for being a slow learner. I'm actually an artist, so I think out of my right hemisphere. It takes me a while to catch on. I find myself reading the books you read 3 times to understand it as well as you do on the first read. So, I apologize for not getting things like traces the first time around. My brain literally isn't wired like you scientists. But I'm motivated. Wouldn't you be in my position? >>"I copied a bunch of code from flashandmath.com. The above is my own > addition. It doesn't do anything. What I'd like it to do is, when the > movie enters frame 10, > >>activate the code I copied from flashandmath. If I pull out and > replace my above-quoted line of code in the init with the same, > everything works. But I'd like to > >>delay this action for so many frames." > > That's a perfect example where, you're trying to copy work others have > done, without understanding the underlying principles. Really, you need > some more basic help understanding how Flash works first. > No. Wrong. This is how I learn. It's a valid way to learn. You should recognize that. beno _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
