Slashdot: Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01

An internet-draft published this month calls for an IPv6 transition plan which would require all Internet-facing servers to have IPv6 connectivity on or before January 1, 2011. 'Engineer and author John Curran proposes that migration to IPv6 happen in three stages.

Stage 1: Require millions of companies to spend millions of dollars switching over to IPv6 even though there's no ROI for doing so.
Stage 2: ???
Stage 3: Profit.

Comp.lang.lisp: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."

Computer Science is a field that shows some danger signs of not evolving. Each and every Bright Idea is a revolution, and the primary purpose of a revolution is to throw away everything everybody had done up to some point in time. Revolutions sometimes do work, but their cost in human terms is /enormous/. Time and again we see that that which moves slowly from here to there win and that which tries to make it across the incompatibility abyss in one leap usually fall into it, instead.

The Novice has been the focus of an alarming amount of attention in the computer field. It is not just that the preferred user is unskilled, it is that the whole field in its application rewards novices and punishes experts. What you learn today will be useless a few years hence, so why bother to study and know anything well?

I have to disagree with this assertion by Erik Naggum. After all, some of what you learn today is useless immediately.

NetworkWorld: Cisco Networkers: Gyrating dancers, rollerbladers and some guy named John Chambers

These greeters then made their way to the stage for one final synchronized rollerblading group gyration while "Cisco Inferno" - yep, that same disco tune cleverly adapted for the host company's conference - blared from the loudspeakers.

Cisco Inferno? *groan*