While i do a lot of google searching for answers to tech questions, http://www.experts-exchange.com/ comes up more often than not with the question i am looking for. But, there is a big ass red button that says view solution here, and asks you to join, and has different payment plans. I can't stand for that. But what i did notice is that if you cleared out your cookies, and went to their site for a question, if you scrolled all the way down past all of the adds, the peoples responses were visible. However, they are only available once, and if you leave the site and go back, the answers will be hidden.

Solution to this: either click the view cached button on the google search, or disable all cookies from the terrible website in your web browser. (In internet explorer, go to tools, internet options, privacy tab, sites, and enter the site into the box and hit block.

Now you have endless answers from a terrible website.

I hate EE. Whenever you visit all you get is a billion popups in your face... and doesn't it cost money to join their group? Why bother? I'm sure it has a lot of pro's, but again, why bother with so many prerequisits and other garbage you have to deal with?

Experts exchange is good, because it seems to have answers to the questions you are looking for. However, if i need anything, I now have DaniWeb

Thats the spirit! We are making daniweb the next experts exchange one post at a time

Plus DaniWeb is the place where the REAL experts are. You can get answers here without being innundated with popus, clever cookie manipulations, fees etc.

I think the truth is clear: DaniWeb is simpler, more practical, easier, and BETTER.

Does anyone know how EE works? From reading a bit on their site, i see that people pay to get points to ask questions, and the person who answers the question gets the amount of points the person specified in the beginning, unless they decide to pay more points for a really good answer. Now, since people pay basically for points, the "experts" are getting paid in form of points. Are these points worth money? So in a sense are they getting paid to answer questions?

I think it would be awesome if we at daniweb got compensated by vendors for helping people with problems. Say for example, you helped a ton of people with problems with their nvidia cards, or recomended them enough times, a nice shiny new one would appear on your doorstep with a thank-you note on it from nvidia. Wouldnt that be nice

Now that would be worth dying for. Hell, I'd quit college for a few months, help ppl out/recommend products and get new computer components.

Lets see...I need

1 AMD Athlon X2 CPU
1 ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo
1 ASUS EN7800GT Dual card GPU
1 Creative X-FI Fata1ity
1 Creative Gigaworks 7.1 surround system


Ahh bliss

lol, it sounds like i would be joining you also if this were true!

EE is a good site. They went commercial a while ago which is sad but understandable given the cost of running a major site like that.