26 Jan
2012
26 Jan
'12
4:40 p.m.
On 26 January 2012 02:13, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Yup again. It's grim out there. :?(
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On 25/01/12 7:44 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yup.
On 26 January 2012 00:27, Fred Cisin<cisin at xenosoft.com> ?wrote:
Yes indeed.
Meanwhile, university tuition just tripled, did it not? If it happened
anywhere else, there would be rioting in the streets!
"ICT studies" at school now appears to mean how to send an email and
write a letter in Word. This seems like a very sick joke to me.
Job-training for the digital sweatshop. And yet
British politicians fret about why design and technology is
going abroad. I guess American ones might well do the same.
Meanwhile, a dot-comrade of mine, a chap who's doing CompSci at the U
of Missouri, had never heard of Lisp Machines and has never used
anything that isn't a member of the C family. Seems like a sad thing
to me, that.
From what I see in the industry - it's the overwhelmingly common condition.