Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)

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From: Mark Miles
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00

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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Alistair Mann wrote:
>Angus Creech <creech@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
>news:8gm6ka$ee1$1@kane.dcs.ed.ac.uk...
>
>> 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.
>
>It would be equally true to say students are "McDonalds' crew member
>supervisors of the future". The difference between the one and the other is
>the cause of too many goatees.

I really do take offence to that. My initial complaint, I feel, was quite
valid. Who on earth, if they have the determination, is going to be a
McDonalds' employee when they graduate? Not me, if I work hard.

Mark

Mark A Miles

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From: Mark Miles <maxm@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Linux Expo 2000 (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/LinuxRegistration.htm)
Date: 2000/05/26
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