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Message: [QUOTE="JSH, post: 3615046"] Sorry, no. What counts in the real world is use. Putting something out there that's yours that other people use, like Google has their search engine, Microsoft has Windows. I have to admit I don't know how many people around the world are using Class Viewer and I don't know why Google and Yahoo! agree that my webpage should come up #1 when you search on Class Viewer. But reality of our world today is that does mean something even if you think it doesn't, and I have some statistics to know that, say, my blog related to the project this year so far has hits from 73 countries, though not a lot of hits, and I'd give you the country count for my Class Viewer webpage but I didn't bother putting analytics software on it. My blogs across the board have hits so far according to Google Analytics from 86 countries. I've seen my little blurb about my project I wrote years ago when I put it on SourceForge, never knowing it'd be it, translated into languages around the world. I get people from newsgroups who push the idea that I'm a crackpot as I've bothered to argue on newsgroups for years and it's an easy thing for people to do who can't comprehend the world I live in as I'm some guy they reply to on newsgroups. You think you know you're on my level. But you're not. You don't want to hear about other people who listen to me and in what places or know what in your world has to do with me, or what you might not have if I hadn't done certain things years ago. All I have to do is argue with you and you see yourself as above me, not even my equal, but above me, so people like that Erik Max Francis page without even knowing who he is. Nope. You don't get credit in the real world for anything but demonstrable results where you can say, yeah, people use what you made, and it's not about recognition either. Do you know who the people who engineered LCD TV's? Maybe you do. I don't. Know who came up with that new lightbulb that saves energy? I don't. Thomas Edison may have been the last really known inventor. Our brave new world doesn't care about the people who invent things. It only cares about the inventions and you don't need the inventor once you have the invention, now do you? You have no idea how much of your world has been impacted by me. No clue, and that is the reality of the new world. So yeah people. There are no accolades for you down the line. No great prize for building things. Your best bet is to build something you can sell to some big company like Google or Microsoft (and no I haven't) as you will never be famous from what you make. Never. Those days have died. Society has evolved beyond celebrating inventors and discoverers. James Harris [/QUOTE]

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