Not so dead an end. I have 35 years as a "coder" and am still loving it. I make good money by anyone's standards, and look forward to each new challenge. The field is always evolving. I'll be speaking at my daughter's school next week to share my perspective with middle school kids. Bottom line? Figure out what you love and do it. It just might be programming.

Talent is what you are born with. Skill is what you work to develop. It seems obvious that a talented person can reach higher skill levels than a lesser talented person .... If they work at it. Ah! There's the rub.

If you argue with idiots they will bring you down to their own level and beat you with experience.

Barak's not here, man.

Someone had in their sig, "The English language was invented by Norman soldiers to seduce Saxon barmaids".

Exactly! Like questioning evolution or the value of PI.

i guess e. e. cummings just won't survive the 21 st century.

I, for one, welcome our new voracious worm robot under lords.

I, for one, support our new Paul overlords Ron, Rand, and Ru.

So I rewired myself!

Godwin! I called it first!

It means the cat is dead.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html Basically, pump sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The science sounds right.

Combine this cracking technology with the Japanese flying sphere (http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=flying+sphere ) for very flexible snooping.

The press release boils down to an analysis that the atmosphere is more efficient at shucking off heat than current models account for. Conclusion: ramp up the output. We can bust this sucker yet!