sparaig wrote:
> --- 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.
You have to find something that grabs your interest and will drive your
through the project. Something that you have the passion to work on.
Programming is an artform not a science. You are probably too right
brained to be doing maintenance programming.
