Vinyl is hissy and wears down over time and tapes distorted the hell out of music. The quality of the new higher quality mp3s is one of the biggest reasons I tend to buy more music these days than ever. I think nostalgia has tainted their hearing.

Because it sure doesn't read that way to me.

Really that's what it boils down to, knowing a guilty face just by looking at it??? Statistically you might be right most of the time, but the rest of the time you are mistreating innocent people. Not OK in my book.

Many excellent coders are self taught, however, most education systems require teaching degrees, or at the very least a degree.

Also, Since it is an ever-changing technology, only someone who is 'actively' and successfully coding and keeping up with the latest trends, can offer truly valuable info. Too long out of the trenches and you risk becoming only good for teaching the 'history of' computing.

Give us your cheese of be assimilated!

So long as it is easy for a person to be anonymous, it won't be safe for them to use your wifi.

When we got them was based on their becoming available and affordable, rather than when we would have wanted to have one.

It's about time, almost a bit too late to matter. This is because dish box, cable box, and tv manufacturers have reached the point that they are phasing in volume spike control options on their devices on their own.

China has no advantage, robotics is likely to even the labor cost playing field a little bit at a time, and eventually it won't be worth the labor savings to have your products made halfway around the world by somebody who will ultimately steal your Intellectual Property and compete with you later.

As a whole our ability to attain, preserve, and exchange knowledge is growing at an fantastic rate, so what if our 'individual' ability to do so has plateaued.

Agreed, I'm 43 with 20 years of development behind my belt, but I'm always studying something. To choose what to study I actually look at hiring trends and salary amounts for particular skill-sets to help me decide what is worth my time to learn.

I'm still a code machine but fear perhaps the day will come when I'm no longer in my prime, but I'm going to hope I'm one of those old guys that stay sharp until the end.

Zug Zug

Funnier, than when the disease exploit hit.

I'm a 43 year old programmer, and I love programming. My problem is that my strongest expertise is Lotus Notes / Domino development and administration, which is loosing market share faster than the Titanic lost passengers. So now for my work I'm learning to master the Microsoft suite. But the reality is, best practices, techniques, understanding of the business needs, workflow, and design all transcend the languages you write in.

In other words, I'm only re-learning teeny tiny bit

If you were ever excellent at those things, it will take little time for it to click again. If you weren't, then you probably don't love it, and if you don't love it you will never be able to compete with outsourced guys who also don't love it, but will work for peanuts.

So .. If you do you love it, practice and play with object oriented programming techniques, update your understanding of the available tools, AND start with Visual Basic .NET since it's closest to what you are already familiar with. Anything you learn in VB.net will easily translate to any of the other .net languages when the need arises.

Again though, if you don't love it, it's never too late to find your passion, try something else.

Think about it, the danger of earthquakes is when enormous amounts of pressure are released at once. If something can 'lubricate' the plates in a way that the shifts would be more frequent and less powerful. The end result would be lots of harmless quakes and fewer massive killer quakes. Sounds like a public service rather than a threat of any kind.