Hobbies are the answer if you ask me. I'm studying Computer Science, and I try to spend my liesure time doing stuff that really interests me - in my case writing music, which is great because I get to mess around with computers (Cubase, MIDI etc.) as well. Keep life varied, and don't think of CS as who you are, merely something that you do.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I'm coding HTML, whether it's for my job or for myself, I make sure it works in practically every browser I can get my hands on - in fact I might go so far as to say I have to - mainly because the majority of the people where I work use Netscape. 9 times out of 10, I go so far as to make sure than even Lynx users get something of value. It causes a lot more headaches, but if 3 or 4 more people are able to see this or that site because of it then I consider the effort to be with it.
I'd like to think that anyone out there who's serious about web development, or runs a site that is widely used, would have the same attitude.
So Microsoft add these new tags. So what? It only becomes an issue when people start using them, and if people have any sense then they wont.
I just hope I'm around to laugh if ever IE ceases to be backward-compatible. Wouldn't that be something....
I mean, why are so many people so very against the idea of taking the Amiga in new directions? I loved my little Amiga, as much as I loved the C64 I had before that, but I'll be first in line to admit that the system is getting out of date now. Even so, I really see no harm in people developing new systems. Variety rocks. No-one's saying you have to use it, and it seems really stupid to knock it before it even exists. I'm going to reserve judgement until we see something.
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Hobbies are the answer if you ask me. I'm studying Computer Science, and I try to spend my liesure time doing stuff that really interests me - in my case writing music, which is great because I get to mess around with computers (Cubase, MIDI etc.) as well. Keep life varied, and don't think of CS as who you are, merely something that you do.
.....that some things in this world are a science and others are an art, but programming is neither - it's a craft.
I don't know about anyone else, but if I'm coding HTML, whether it's for my job or for myself, I make sure it works in practically every browser I can get my hands on - in fact I might go so far as to say I have to - mainly because the majority of the people where I work use Netscape. 9 times out of 10, I go so far as to make sure than even Lynx users get something of value. It causes a lot more headaches, but if 3 or 4 more people are able to see this or that site because of it then I consider the effort to be with it.
I'd like to think that anyone out there who's serious about web development, or runs a site that is widely used, would have the same attitude.
So Microsoft add these new tags. So what? It only becomes an issue when people start using them, and if people have any sense then they wont.
I just hope I'm around to laugh if ever IE ceases to be backward-compatible. Wouldn't that be something....
I mean, why are so many people so very against the idea of taking the Amiga in new directions? I loved my little Amiga, as much as I loved the C64 I had before that, but I'll be first in line to admit that the system is getting out of date now. Even so, I really see no harm in people developing new systems. Variety rocks. No-one's saying you have to use it, and it seems really stupid to knock it before it even exists. I'm going to reserve judgement until we see something.