Re: intro

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> Date sent:      Tue, 04 Nov 1997 04:53:01 +1000
> From:           wmor1@student.monash.edu.au
> To:             misc
> Subject:        Re: intro
 
And (never start a sentence with and :) my apologies for the 
early morning spelling grammar mistakes.  I shall now pay more 
attention to my next to useless email spell checker.

Wayne

> 

> A funny thing a friend of mine who is a high up in the IT department 
> of my last Uni said.  It went something lie this, that while a 
> person with the experience can do the job people with degrees tend to 
> think beyond the job and can progress further.  He himself was 
> recruited back in the late 70's from senior year at high school to 
> meet a shortage.  He has done well and is very proficent and respected 
> in his job but he definitly does see the advantage of degrees in 
the > computer field at least.  One explanation is that doing the 
> formalised heavy study required expands your minds potential, 
> another is that it shows you new ideas and teaches you how to think 
> differently towards the greater horizon.
> 
> I found that I seem to be able to take things on board much better 
> myself, and I had the ability to think about broader ideas anyway.  
> Now believe it or not I probably would get greater pleasure writing 
> novels, but that dosen't pay the bills.
> 
> > > As for MISC itself, I fear 
> that people at iTV are overworked:
> > they try to do too much with too small funds, i.e. developing
> > a new chip design, a new micro-electronic implementation technology,
> > a new OS, new language, new compilers, new libraries, new documentation,
> > new interface, new everything. They're reinventing computing from almost
> > scratch, with low-level tools and little resources (seems to me
> > that they are far below the point where non-linearity effects prevent
> > progress by spending more ressources, but I'm too far away to be sure).
> > I hope they succeed, but it's too bad we can't see usable results at reac=
> > h.
> 
> Good to here they are doing that.
> 
> Wayne.
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> Wayne Morellini  <wmor1@student.monash.edu.au>
> 
> Former Post Graduate Student Representative.
> Rusden Campus, Deakin University, Vic, Australia.
> 
> GradDip Media Studies (Current), Bach InfoTech (Distinction)
> & AD Business (Computing).
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Wayne Morellini  <wmor1@student.monash.edu.au>

Former Post Graduate Student Representative.
Rusden Campus, Deakin University, Vic, Australia.

GradDip Media Studies (Current), Bach InfoTech (Distinction)
& AD Business (Computing).
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