Playing Adventure on a PDP-11 at the local library was the primary reason I got into computers. Now, as a Software Architect with 20 years experience, I can safely say that computer games did me good.
I just saw a great sig on another thread:
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
The stupid ARS should be happy Miro got all that attention. What exactly do they expect? I guess we can add ARS to the same list as RIAA and MPAA - self-defeating, money-grubbing idiots.
Yes, AJAX is great. Of course, the XML bit of it gets in the way, it's simpler to just grab the appropriate HTML or Javascript code directly from the server. Why write something that outputs in XML, then write client-side Javascript to re-interpret it and run javascript code or create HTML? XML is just a complication for most tasks.
For legacy sites, your argument is valid. However, given that HTML is just a rule-breaking XML, I don't quite see what the fuss is about.
If I'm using AJAX for something useful, like streaming data that fills a table in a web page, I think well-formatted XML is useful.
With that said, I think XML is far too overrated and far too often glibly suggested as a solution to a problem. XML is just a useful data format.
I generally agree with what you are saying, but your comments could lead an unwary person to believe that one walks into a Software Architect position. You even imply, they might have to get their hands dirty by learning a programming language. I hope and pray I have misinterpreted your comments.
IMHO, one cannot be a Software Architect without first being a grunt builder. Anything else would be pretentious and dangerous.
So, contrary to what Lou Dobbs would have you believe, IT and High Tech jobs are not leaving the US for India and China. IT and High Tech is alive and well in the US and will be for some time.
So my words to you: go for it! You will have a blast and will be able to feed your family.
Well said. To put it another way, the really good IT workers will always have jobs. During the dot-com heyday I saw far too many people that had no business working in software. If you are only in it for the money, then you have already failed.
Stallman probably deserves more credit than he gets among most Linux users for basically founding the Free Software movement, but his relevance to what the movement has become since then is fading.
Well said. Linux stands on the shoulders of his work - especially GNU/C.
Happily, I've nearly purged emacs from my blood. Although I can still navigate a bash comnand line with those funky ctrl-keys.
I am American, and ashamed of it. Our date scheme is so annoying.
I share code with an India team (don't we all), so I've just adopted the sensible ordering. For sorting purposes, I find 2006-03-26 to be most useful, such as suffixes on daily log files.
am i the only one who sees the transition to HDDVD as being unnecessary?
They are prolly pushing this out in attempt to get back copy protection after the de-css debacle. Unnecessary for consumers. Necessary for the money-hungry studios and distributors.
I'm sure the copy protection will be cracked soon enough. What a waste of time.
You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.
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I'm glad to see at least one game franchise is focused on quality technology and content.
I wish I could say the same for the Quake franchise.
Yeah, it lost the "<". :-(
Ain't HTML fun?
Thx
for (int i = 0; i 10; i++) println("The " + i + " rule of fight club is, you don't talk about Fight Club");
(I know, I should use a static array of "first", "second", etc., but I left it out for brevity)
Did you actually intend to eat a 6-pattie burger? Just the thought makes my arties clog up.
Adventure PDP 11 20 years? You sure you aren't missing a decade in there somewhere? Mid 80's is Infocom is starting to fade Scott Adams is long gone.
You are correct sir. I got started with PDP 11's in Junior High circa 1978. The twenty years refers to my career.
Kudos to you. Good QA engineers are very hard to come by. I've only worked directly with one. It is not a popular career path.
:-)
I used to have FORTRAN printouts of DUNGEON (eventually Zork). It was the first open source game.
Playing Adventure on a PDP-11 at the local library was the primary reason I got into computers. Now, as a Software Architect with 20 years experience, I can safely say that computer games did me good.
I just saw a great sig on another thread:
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
Great sig!
"Lighten up Francis!"
The stupid ARS should be happy Miro got all that attention. What exactly do they expect? I guess we can add ARS to the same list as RIAA and MPAA - self-defeating, money-grubbing idiots.
Yes, AJAX is great. Of course, the XML bit of it gets in the way, it's simpler to just grab the appropriate HTML or Javascript code directly from the server. Why write something that outputs in XML, then write client-side Javascript to re-interpret it and run javascript code or create HTML? XML is just a complication for most tasks.
For legacy sites, your argument is valid. However, given that HTML is just a rule-breaking XML, I don't quite see what the fuss is about.
If I'm using AJAX for something useful, like streaming data that fills a table in a web page, I think well-formatted XML is useful.
With that said, I think XML is far too overrated and far too often glibly suggested as a solution to a problem. XML is just a useful data format.
I generally agree with what you are saying, but your comments could lead an unwary person to believe that one walks into a Software Architect position. You even imply, they might have to get their hands dirty by learning a programming language. I hope and pray I have misinterpreted your comments.
IMHO, one cannot be a Software Architect without first being a grunt builder. Anything else would be pretentious and dangerous.
So, contrary to what Lou Dobbs would have you believe, IT and High Tech jobs are not leaving the US for India and China. IT and High Tech is alive and well in the US and will be for some time.
So my words to you: go for it! You will have a blast and will be able to feed your family.
Well said. To put it another way, the really good IT workers will always have jobs. During the dot-com heyday I saw far too many people that had no business working in software. If you are only in it for the money, then you have already failed.
Ahhh! He said IT... Now I`ve said it. I`ve said IT again. I`ve said IT again.
Ni. Ni! Ni!
Raise your hand if you've ever bought a PC game from WalMart.
Not for myself, but for my (pre-teen) kids. But then again, those games would not suffer the wrath of Wal-Mart.
Stallman probably deserves more credit than he gets among most Linux users for basically founding the Free Software movement, but his relevance to what the movement has become since then is fading.
Well said. Linux stands on the shoulders of his work - especially GNU/C.
Happily, I've nearly purged emacs from my blood. Although I can still navigate a bash comnand line with those funky ctrl-keys.
Give me a shout if you hear of any [women] wanting the "early but quick" one, will ya?
I hear that costs about $500. The faster you are, the more $$/hr.
Looks a good application for cloning.
Rinse. Repeat.
Ok, extrapolating forward a bit, how soon before simulated life forms create their own religion? Won't they be surprised when they meet their masters?
ech tee tee pee colon slash org dot slash dot dot org - Not as cool to say.
(ROFL!)^10
-like the way most Americans write dates.
I am American, and ashamed of it. Our date scheme is so annoying.
I share code with an India team (don't we all), so I've just adopted the sensible ordering. For sorting purposes, I find 2006-03-26 to be most useful, such as suffixes on daily log files.
He could do anything differently and he would drop a slash?
Didn't you RTFA? He said he would drop two slashes.
WTF? Do they do a license check after reading each bit?
am i the only one who sees the transition to HDDVD as being unnecessary?
They are prolly pushing this out in attempt to get back copy protection after the de-css debacle. Unnecessary for consumers. Necessary for the money-hungry studios and distributors.
I'm sure the copy protection will be cracked soon enough. What a waste of time.
I am sick and tired of these format wars. Consumers suffer the brunt of the cycle of corporate fighting. Beta vs. VHS anyone?
Like Richard Pryor, I choose "None of the above!"
You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.
:-)
You mean the Windows Game Advisor, right? Warning - IE required.
I scored in the top 1%. Pbbbbbbtttt.
AMD X2 3800+, 2GB OCZ PC3200 RAM, Seagate 7200.9 (SATA2) 120GB, Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI, GeForce 7800GT