Clarence Verge wrote:
> Too much.
Hi All;
This is me feeling guilty because no one felt it was worth wasting their time
to rip a strip off me for my post about Windows users. :-\
Since I can't really do that to myself believably, I shall try to add some
detail here that might have been better included in the original post.
First, anyone on this list, whether an occasional or fulltime Windows user
is hardly your average Windows user. If you were to suggest to the average
Windows user that they might like to try or at least hear about a DOS based
web browser, they would probably suggest that you might be crazy.
So, although each of you when reading the post would surely have said to
yourself, "I'm special, so I'm not in the group he's talking about," I'm
back here now to agree and say exactly that !
Second, it's possible that my examples and experience were taken as unlikely.
Not the case. I wrote about Windows users close to me.
My "X", who has an IQ of 130 and has taken 5 computer courses over the last
10 years (and is a very good friend) CANNOT do anything with a computer that
she hasn't been explicitly taught to do. In fact, that's why she keeps taking
the courses.
To see why she can't find a use for the new computer she bought. :-((
My son, a Mensa member. Uses Windows 100% in his work environment where he
does mechanical design for a new internet company. He belongs to the lazy
group. He forwards jokes to me containing headers from 10 or 15 previous
forwarders - all people that use Windows at work. He's not too lazy to cut
the headers. He's too lazy to find out how to do it !
My stock broker. Jeez. When he sends me jokes, he also sends me his entire
client list. :-/
My associate. A G**damn PROFESSOR of Engineering Physics. He uses Windows
because he says: "I need it to run the latest software". He didn't use the
OLDER software. "You never know when I might need it", he says. "And anyway,
I need it to get the University email or download something new."
So, in his case, it's a matter of if it's newer it's got to be better.
Does he clean up the mail before he sends it ? Not likely. He hasn't any
idea what his computer emits and doesn't care. "Everybody does it that way."
Too much again. <G>
- Clarence Verge
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