So I am a Software Engineer with an undergrand in English (Creative Writing emphasys), minor in Spanish, a Masters of Computer Science (well, I have my thesis left). I have worked as a Network Engineer and Level III Support Engineer before becoming a developer. So since my career is the marriage of a humanity (English) and computer science, does that make me the most valuable?

No, I am not saying "believe in God over evolution." I am just saying that looking at DNA without considering the possibility of intelligent design is myopic.

At least some DNA studies should assume intelligent design.

Start looking at DNA and everything that interacts with it as a programming language created by something intelligent.

In a programming language, there is code and data. Code contains all the method and functions to do small amounts of work. Data is used or acted upon by the code. Data can be read only, read/write/delete, etc...

Think of our bodies as a biological artificial intelligence created using this biological programming language.

What if it DNA is code or a database.

Who knows what is used and what isn't?

Don't use one medium, use many.

Use open source codecs and include the codecs and their source on the media

1. An MP4 on an SD Card.
2. A DVD - in a case and shrink-wrapped.
3. A USB thumb drive.
4. Also A shrinkwrapped tablet in a sealed container might last 100 years.

Put the Video on a tablet.
Shut down the tablet.
Remove the battery from the tablet.
Shrink wrap the tablet and place the tablet in a sealed container.

Now all they have to do is add a battery in the future or connect power and turn the tablet on to see the video.

Whenever I create a new install, physical or vm, setting the option to show file extensions is one of the first tasks. If a VM, it is a task to run before the first snapshot.

The GPL isn't as free as the MIT. They made it more free.

Why do you have a problem with "more free"?

Tablets for Work failed! They are consumer devices.

Now, my Surface Pro 3 on the other hand. It rocks. It is a tablet, every bit as awesome as the iPad or Kindle, yet I can do my work on it too. Sure Microsoft missed the Tablet explosion, but now that it is over, everyone but Microsoft, and hardware manufacturers who put Windows on their devices, is missing the hybrid market.

You are blowing smoke with this comment. The exact opposite is happening and in a big way.

Look, I am a FreeBSD guy, but Microsoft is winning whether you think so or not. .NET is rapidly growing in the enterprise!

Why?
1. Because it is a well thought-out language that is easy to write, easy to learn.
2. Because the IDE is second to none. Visual Studio is so far ahead of anything else out there one wonders if any other IDE can catch up ever. It takes dozens of searching and finding plugins to even get Eclipse close to the same functionality and you just can't get there. Eclipse still hasn't reached VS 2008 quality let alone VS 2013 quality.
3. Everyone always says "If only we could rewrite it, it would be better." Well, .NET is basically a rewrite of Java (thanks to the Sun lawsuit). .Net is fully-backed by Microsoft who invests a ton of money into it, as apposed to Java which doesn't have as much investment. Microsoft fixed a ton of the java issues with the rewrite and haven't looked back. Java has been behind for years.
4. Microsoft has been putting out open source for years. WiX, Orchard, Entity Framework, etc...
5. The new generation doesn't hate Microsoft or Apple or anyone (OK some Linux zealots might, but not many), they just love technology and when it comes to development, .NET as a complete package including language, IDE, build tools, etc, is the best out there.
6. NuGet

So there are some misconceptions about .NET vs C#. Sites like tiobe shows a list of popular languages. However, what it doesn't show is that multiple of these languages are .NET languages. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php...

C# 4.3%
VB 1.8%
F# 0.8%
C++ - You can code in .NET with C++. It is hard to know what percent of the C++ tiobe is .NET. I would guess that it is 2%.

That means .NET is really 9% and growing.

Now, because the Surface Pro 3 is the best tablet on the market now, and selling like gangbusters, pretty soon, all those Apple and Google app developers will be moving to create new .NET versions. Well, they will find cross platform tools like Xamarin to meet their needs and suddenly they won't be coding in anything but .NET anymore.

Have you seen the new Yahoo plugin for Chrome. I hate the thing myself but it is ingenious. It turns Chrome into essentially a Yahoo browser. Just by getting a bunch of users who don't know better to install it, they are going to increase their usage of Yahoo.

I am an English Major and a Senior Software Developer.

The best thing I ever did for my career was get a degree in English instead of Computer Science. Some Computer Science course can be learned in their entirety from reading online for a few hours. College is below average at best when it comes to teaching about writing quality code.

If you are an English major, then you understand language syntax and importance. All programming is, is language syntax. I took a couple programming course at a Junior College. I have infinite opportunities to use my English degree.

Now, after learning on my own, I earned (well, I still have a thesis to offically finish) a Masters of Computer Science from Utah State University (The online classes are designed so you remotely participate in the real class they teach on-campus). If your undergrad is not computer science, then there is really only one prereq class you must pass. And USU is pretty cheap, $10-$12 for my in-state Masters of Science in Computer Sciences.

Find a place that will hire you as a coder, and then

This is huge and will take off because there are big companies that would save a lot of money by using it. For example, WordPress.com, which hosts billions of images, does pay for their bandwidth. They have a simple plugin that compresses all uploaded images. All they have to do is change their plugin to use BPG and suddenly the billions of blogs out there using smaller images? That is the majority of their image bandwidth. And it is cut in half.

Sure both storage and bandwidth seem bloated. But on a large scale, such as WordPress.com, this could mean hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in drive space and bandwidth savings each year.

Now, DeviantArt and other image gallery companies will see the same benefit.

Then this moves to WordPress.org and the other half the bloggers on the internet start using it too.

Now that WordPress uses that image type, every consumer who right-clicks and downloads those images now needs to be able to open BPG files.

When there is money to be made or saved, a technology will take off.

Any cert "IS" worth going for. Sorry for the typo.

Are any Certifications Worth Going For? Yes. Any cert if worth going for.

Why? Because HR and Hiring Managers are filtering

If you have 10 resumes, some with 4 years experience, and some with 4 years experience and a cert, and they want to narrow down the candidates, guess what the HR and Hiring managers are going to use? The cert will make the difference.

Also, certs can result in higher pay when the offer comes. Again, this is often just arbitrary bias by HR and the Hiring managers.

If you get certs in areas that you have practical experience, you will probably "really" learn and you won't be a paper cert.
If you get a cert in an area that you don't have practical knowledge, it might be paper, but it might help show you can learn a new product you don't know.

Or It is extremely unlikely that these mechanisms evolved in parallel, so *it's extremely likely that* all lifeforms were created using the same Biological programming language: i.e. DNA.

And there might be other biological programming languages. Would it not be possible for us to detect that instead of DNA, a similar bio-technology would work on a planet with different temperatures and atmosphere.

Our programming language, DNA, works on this planet, but a separate language works on other planets.

Recently the number of earth like palnets was estimated to be 8.8 billion. http://www.nbcnews.com/science...

If different bio-programming languages allow life on other planet types than earth, then the number of possibly inhabited planets becomes nearly infinite.

So you you prove that man can create life in a lab (abiogenesis), what do you think that proves?

Here is all it proves:

Intelligent beings (in this case man) can create life.

Now 100% of your scientific abiogenesis tests required intelligent design (humans). So since in your test, the life didn't begin without intelligent intervention because it required intelligent humans to set up the lab and create the perfect environemnt, did you not just demonstrate that life on earth was also likely created by an intelligent being?

I just got a surface and let me tell you . . .

There will be many, many, many more Surface Pros sold.

It is the only tablet that can be used for "production" as well as "consumption."