30 Aug 2003, 22:59, Charles Angelich (1:106/2000), wrote to Wayne Chirnside:

Hi Charles.
................

 CA> I'm not saying I'm smarter than they are or that I could
 CA> manually install everything myself. I'm only saying this is
 CA> what we have come to and like it or not by the time you could
 CA> really understand a version of Windows or Linux your version
 CA> would be obsolete by several multiples and you would be forced
 CA> to re-learn and start over again. Not 100% but enough that the
 CA> chase is eternal at this point we can only search out just so
 CA> much information per day and since others aren't even trying to
 CA> find the information don't expect a great deal of help either.
 CA> :-\ 

Your comment is so true that it disturbs me to even think of the
consequences and ramifications.  

Consider a child starting school, looking forward to eight years of
elementry school, and being introduced to computers somewhere along that
path.  Then comes four years of high school.  All the computers and
software is now different.  If that high school has funds available, they
might even upgrade their systems every two years.  The child then has to
learn two more ways to do the same things he previously learned.  Then four
or more years of college, and likely more new computers and software.
During all this re-learning, that child also has to learn to read, write,
spell, history, civics, etc., as well as all the other stuff we had to
learn BEFORE computers.  

Granted, their young brains are supposed to have a great capacity for
learning, but I'm sure glad _I_ didn't have to go through all that
re-learning!


     Good luck...  M.

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