Invisible wrote:
> As you probably all know by now, I hold an honours degree in Computer 
> Science. (Upper-second class, no less.)

Yay!

> As far as I can tell, whoever created this cause was of the opinion that 
> "software" is a construct for storing, processing and retreiving 
> business data. In other words, you have a UI at the front (possibly 
> web-based), a large database at the back, and some complex business 
> logic in the middle.

"Welcome to the desert of the real." ;)

> The idea that there might exist "software" which doesn't fit this model 
> appears to have not occurred to anybody here. For example:
> 
> - Embedded software.
> - Device drivers.
> - Computer games.
> - Mathematical moddeling.
> - Signal processing.
> - Artificial intelligence.

You forgot computer graphics. :)

Anyway, those are niches.  90% of IT (which is not the same as compsci) 
is about COBOLs.

> Also... I really ought to get a job where all this stuff is useful! I 
> wonder if such a thing exists?

It only exists within firms providing the infrastructure and research 
everybody else employs to do their things.  I'm talking about Microsoft, 
Adobe, Sun, Autodesk, open source projects etc...

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