Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 06:06 am

Chris Sonnack wrote:

> Richard Heathfield writes:
> 
>>>>> Well what would your two choices be?  You get 12 months off work, full
>>>>> funding and the entry requirements waived.  Where would you go?
>>>>
>>>> Mars.
>>>>
>>>> For my weight allowance I'd take a really, really nice camera,
>>>> shedloads of batteries, and an amazingly capacious memory card.
>>> 
>>> I'd also include a memory card reader, a laptop, and some CD-RW or
>>> DVD-RW disks to backup the contents of the memory card.
>> 
>> Which means you won't have a weight allowance for your camera. But that's
>> okay - you can have a borrow of my camera if I can have a borrow of your
>> laptop. :-)
> 
> Why not just a nice regular camera and tons of film?

Because Dixons stopped selling them. :-)

> I mean, what if the sand storms messed up your electronics?

You're kind of assuming that I'd get out onto the planet's surface, which 
sounds a touch risky to me. On the other hand, I suppose it'd be a shame to 
travel tens of millions of miles to the solar system's biggest sandpit and 
then fail to build a sandcastle when I get there.

Anyway, it's well known that sand is silicon-based, and so are electronic 
circuits, so I don't see any major problems here. ;-)

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Richard Heathfield
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