--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> Do you see anything about QuickTime here? Do you really > >> know anything about video programming? Have you ever > >> written a demuxer or muxer? Do you know the MPEG format, > >> sequence headers, etc? Have you ever written > >> a stream parser? > >> > > > > It seems to me that Lawson's relationship to the > > "superiority" of Quicktime and Apple and what they > > have to do with international standards such as > > MPEG-4 is exactly the same as his relationship > > to the "superiority" of TM to other forms of > > meditation. > > > > In both cases, he was told by the people who sold > > him the higher priced product that it was "superior." > > That's the only "fact" he ever needs to know. > Indeed. >
Yep, the fact that I took my first programming class while still in high school in 1973 (though I dropped it), and worked as a computer operator for 5 years in the USAF in the late 70s/early 80's, and that my first boss on a programming project was Dave McClain (he wrote HyperC object-oriented C compiler for Apple //e and Mac, AmigaDOS 1.0, operating system for the multi-mirror telescope on Mt Hopkins) about 20 years ago when he was doing programming support for the first Mac accelerator card with external monitor support, means I don't know squat about computers. Now, I'll admit that I'm unemployable in the computer industry these days, but that's not due to a lack of technical knowledge or even raw ability. I stll gots da chops--just not for the long haul due to the adhd and OCD interactions.
