I got a kick out of this quote. I and most of my friends are in our 40's (and really do remember Pong unlike this 29- year old). That makes me an intellectually stunted manchild (never mind that many of us hold Ph.D.s):
>>> The original video game generation is growing up. I know, because I'm one of them...
But I'm almost 30 now, worried with mortgages and job stress and coffin shopping. My peers all have their own children, the household toy budget spent on the offspring, not the adults.
A few of us can still play games at 30, I suppose. You cannot play games at 35 or 40 and seem like anything but an intellectually-stunted manchild, there in your sweater vest, the control pad tangled in your long, gray, drool-soaked beard."
Just because someone can write code does not imply that they know anything about hardware and I mean to the point of knowing if a particular processor is compatible with a particular motherboard. Why should it? And isn't that the point of such languages like Java? Abstraction from the hardware layer. Duh!
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I got a kick out of this quote. I and most of my friends are in our 40's (and really do remember Pong unlike this 29- year old). That makes me an intellectually stunted manchild (never mind that many of us hold Ph.D.s):
>>>
The original video game generation is growing up. I know, because I'm one of them...
But I'm almost 30 now, worried with mortgages and job stress and coffin shopping. My peers all have their own children, the household toy budget spent on the offspring, not the adults.
A few of us can still play games at 30, I suppose. You cannot play games at 35 or 40 and seem like anything but an intellectually-stunted manchild, there in your sweater vest, the control pad tangled in your long, gray, drool-soaked beard."
Just because someone can write code does not imply that they know anything about hardware and I mean to the point of knowing if a particular processor is compatible with a particular motherboard. Why should it? And isn't that the point of such languages like Java? Abstraction from the hardware layer. Duh!