On Tue, Sep 04, 2007, Herouth Maoz wrote about "Re: Career advice needed": > by 1992 or so. It was just a matter of being able to work the > interface in a user's environment (when the user didn't have $10,000 > to spend on a workstation), and improve storage capabilities of > clients, and speed of communications with the client (which is > necessary for GPS devices, because the data in them is dynamic).
That's almost like saying that designing better cars is not interesting, because in the 60s, we already flew to the moon, and already had nuclear propulsion of submarines, so what if these technologies are too expensive and haven't been used in cars - it's the same thing :-) Or, it's like saying that the invention of the phonograph record didn't change anything. After all, someone who wanted to hear music could also go to a concert! So what if before an average person could afford to only go to one concert a year, and now he can hear 3 records a day, it's the same thing :-) I remember in the late 80s, when I got access to a computerized list of all US towns (of the kind you can easily get for free today on GNIS et al.) and was absolutely amazed by the easiness in which I could find how many towns in the US were called Bethleham, for example ;-) Nobody even imagined that cheaper storage, cheaper memory, stronger CPUs and of the proliferation of free software and free content would mean that in the 2000s, I would have easy and free access not just to the names of towns, but detailed maps, photos of individual houses, a long description of every town, and so on and so on. The "theoretical" technology was already there - in the late 80s I had already seen a color computer display, had already seen a whopping storage (which at the time seemed almost infinite to me) of 3 GB, and I'm sure that NORAD or whoever already had very good electronic maps. But these technologies were not practical for common use, and therefore not commonly used. > Neither the server nor the flash client are done by web programmers. Then why must you be a "web programmer"? What prevents you from getting a job at one of these "flash programming" or "server programming" outfits? Did someone lead you to believe that you don't have what it takes to do "server programming"? How the f*** is "server programming" that much different from Web programming? > server. All of the interesting stuff is done in the server. Some semi- If this is what you think, then start looking for a job on the server side. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Sep 4 2007, 21 Elul 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |What's the greatest world-wide use of http://nadav.harel.org.il |cowhide? To hold cows together. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
