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| Elements Of A Good Design |
| by Robert Bell |
| 06/21/2009 |
| One resoundingly negative consequence of the amazing advances in computing power over the last 25 or so years is the notion, still popular despite constant debunking, that all you need to be a designer today is to buy a computer (usually a Macintosh). When over-caffeinated pundits were first promoting the term "desktop publishing- in the mid-1980s, many said the new technology would result in so many great new print publications (this was before the Internet boom) that it would "put the First Amendment into overdrive.- What really happened, of course, is that entirely unqualified, untrained and untalented people got hold of a Mac, a LaserWriter and some software and proceeded to crank out a few metric tons of 300dpi landfill. My, how judgmental, you may think. Oddly enough, for all the counterculture tendencies of some, artists in general are among the most judgmental and elitist folks around, and have no problem observing (and saying) that people are not "equal- when it comes |
| Dealers Get the Axe, Buyers Pick up Rewarding Deals |
| by Robert Bell |
| 06/22/2009 |
| This past Thursday, Chrysler asked a New York bankruptcy court to end its franchise agreements with 789 dealerships across the country and informed them that they would no longer be receiving stock, basically closing them. These 789 dealerships will soon be going out of business. Like any business that has just lost all life support, you will find numerous going out of business sales, even while these dealerships are not actually calling them such. The dealers have just a a small number of weeks to sell out their hoard of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep or run the risk of losing thousands of dollars on them and their only option is to offer current car buyers a significant deal. You have got some very good negotiating power, said Dave Champion, director of automobile testing for Consumer Reports magazine. [Dealers are] certainly looking to shift this inventory. It is just stacking up all around them. Champion said that it is vital to find out about incentives and hold backs, w |
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