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Article #52Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)
From: Angus Creech
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00
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Alistair Mann (vianews@lgeezer.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Now you could either indignantly bleat that you are (and I needed a sick bag : here) "Computer scientists of the future", or you could start practicing : some of the skills you will need in future, and get creative with the form. : Try lying. Or do you think that they'll send someone round to check? If you : honestly believe that you need to be there, then put yourself down as : something -- anything -- and go. Or stump up the public admissions fee. But : FFS get out of your ivory tower and quit thinking that students are special : cases. Here we have someone of the (self) righteous "pah, students, what do they know about the real word" brigade. That might be true, but that statement about "computer scientists of the future" still stands. Students: you can love them or hate them, but you can't ignore them. -- Angus
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,180acf167389a665 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10e553,180acf167389a665 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e553,public X-Google-Thread: 102562,180acf167389a665 X-Google-Attributes: gid102562,public X-Google-Thread: 10e6b0,180acf167389a665 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e6b0,public X-Google-Thread: 1107b1,180acf167389a665 X-Google-Attributes: gid1107b1,public From: creech@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Angus Creech) Subject: Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm) Date: 2000/05/26 Message-ID: <8gm6ka$ee1$1@kane.dcs.ed.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 627628839 References: <Pine.SOL.3.94.1000526152252.5895A-100000@samphrey.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.94.1000526154357.6181A-100000@samphrey.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <959354457.6293.0.nnrp-10.c3adc064@news.demon.co.uk> Followup-To: eduni.dcs.linux,ed.linux,eduni.general,eduni.dcs.misc,uk.comp.os.linux X-Complaints-To: abuse@dcs.ed.ac.uk X-Trace: kane.dcs.ed.ac.uk 959356362 14785 193.62.81.1 (26 May 2000 15:52:42 GMT) Organization: The Tardis Project Newsgroups: eduni.dcs.linux,ed.linux,eduni.general,eduni.dcs.misc,uk.comp.os.linux