On Sat, Jan 21, 2006, guy keren wrote about "Re: OSDC is not interesting?":
> my original comment was reffered to nadav, not to you - about thinking
> like a cheap israeli "oh, i payed for a 3 days conference, so if i only
> come to 2 days, i get screwed" - and i don't think nadav is a cheap
> israeli, nor is he a broke student or someone having hard time "finishing
> the month" - he merely got caught in a israeli concept due to bad israeli
> education - i know how hard it is to take this out of your system, because
> i had the same israeli education too when i was young ("ma, ani fraier?
> shilamti avur haglida, az afilu im hi mag'la ani ochal ota ad hasof, rak
> kedei lo lizrok kesef lapach") ;)Guy, if anybody not Israeli would have said what you just said and repeated (so it is obviously not a slip of the pen, but something you really believe), his head would have been chewed off by everybody hearing this. It doesn't sound any more pleasant when coming from you... That being said, my problem is not "being an Israeli", and certainly not the money (although I don't appreciate you trying to estimate how much of that I have) - but quite the contrary - it's the sense of responsibility. What if I registered to three days and only come to one? What if *everyone* did that? What happens if the day Larry Wall speaks get 200 participants, and the following day gets 5? I am sure you are familiar with this situation (e.g., does "Welcome to Linux 2004" ring a bell?). The way *you* suggest is the Israeli way: register to a 3 day conference and "la'asot tova" and come to one day of lectures, and spend the other two days skiing (in case this is a conference abroad paid by your company). I'm not like that - when I commit to being somewhere for 3 days, I try to be there the whole 3 days. It's just that this time, I may not have a choice, and indeed I may register but come for fewer days (and I already said that in my first mail!). Not that whether I personally come is of any interest to the whole group... I just wanted to wholeheartly recommend to others to go to the conference (because I liked the previous conferences), and say what was my problem with registering. -- Nadav Har'El | Friday, Jan 20 2006, 20 Tevet 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If Windows is the answer, you didn't http://nadav.harel.org.il |understand the question. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
