baybreeze

It will be big, but there will be so many other programmers that our worth will go down. It seems that our Silicon Valley salaries are extremely high compared to other professions, and only recently went up (what was a 90s programmer paid?). It seems like a flash in the pan, but on the order of decades.

For 10 years programming has been my thing, but for a while now I have been getting the feeling that programming won't be big in 30 years. If all my eggs are in the programming basket and I can't keep a programming job in the future, I would be out of luck. (presumably because it's a blue collar profession by that point).

With that fear in mind, becoming a M.D. actually seems like it would be a good decision. Even this late in the process, doctors have been well paid and relatively rare for thousands of years; a tried and true profession. Plus it will sate my curiosity about the function of the human body.

Also expensive is using CABAC, which is much slower (for better compression ratio). H.264 allowed used a faster coder called CAVLC.

There are two ways to interpret this: either low-powered devices have become much stronger, or h.264 is just not supporting some classes of devices.