Wagner,

 AMEN!!! And the same wishes and happiness in the next decade/
 century/millenium to you and your family.

                                     Regards,

                                       Jim




On Wed, 08 December 1999, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:

>
> It will be a simple new year as usual, and how it passes fast as you get
> old...
>
> It will be a special new year. For several people like me, it still not
> yet the beginning of a new millennium, but what a heck, for almost 99%
> of the 6 billion people it will be, so what matters if we all can enjoy
> and commemorate it as best as we can.
>
> I will be out of the net until January, so I will unsubscribe this list
> for a while but I will be reading my email.
>
> I also want to say that it has being a remarkable gift to share my time
> with you all, and see you doing the same with other piclisters, and
> mostly knowing that we all will cross together this so much important
> event, a new millennium, a door that opens to a complete bright and
> marvelous future.
>
> You can be sure that in this new millennium you can not blink your eyes
> anymore. The new discoveries and technologies will be happening so fast
> that you will be able only to follow a little piece of it.
>
> The Mars Lander experience should be accounted as one more success of
> our technology. It doesn't matter so much if it landed or not, and if we
> can communicate with the device or not, well, it would be great if all
> the mission was a complete success, but we need to remember that our
> knowledge is based in failures.  One can only acquire knowledge from
> failures, there is no other way.  Congratulations to the Jet Propulsion
> Lab and all the technicians and engineers involved in it.  If you feel
> bad when your PIC project doesn't work well, or when things are so bad
> that you think it is better to kick it and take a beer and turn on the
> TV, imagine what those guys are feeling about the Mars Lander, without
> any possible way to find out what is happening... Hey guys, you did
> great, better luck next time.
>
> We need to remember that in less than a single generation time, we went
> from the first documented airplane flight with Mr. Alberto Santos Dumont
> in Paris (by the way another brazilian fellow) up to send robots to
> Mars. It is very few time of evolution, and we did it all.  We should be
> proud of it, and we will do much more, wait and see.
>
> Right now because the information technology, China is consuming 30
> thousand new phone lines *daily*, at this rate, if each family of 3 or 4
> plans to have one phone line, we are talking about 250 Million phone
> lines, and it will take 10 thousand days, or 30 years. Of course it will
> be faster, so they (and we) should be prepared to an astronomic silicon
> and software invasion in our lifes, much more than what is happening
> already.
>
> The word here is:  Be Prepared. Things will change.
>
> I guess that Internet will be one of the most important vehicles that
> will change the world, countries bounderings and money exchange.  It
> will not make sense anymore why I can not pay my bills via Internet, or
> do everything I want, shopping, super market, food, movies, cinema,
> school, working, and things we don't even imagine yet.
>
> I guess that we are just at the dawn of the technology age, and this
> time will be remembered forever.
>
> It is a remarkable gift to be part of it.
>
> See you guys at the next millennium, it is knocking the door already.
> Merry Christmas and Happy new Year.
>
> Wagner Lipnharski & family.

jim@jpes.com