On March 2, 2005 11:27 am, Steven Critchfield wrote: > As a person who spent 9 hours in traffic last winter just to drive 15 > miles due to idiots who should have just stayed home, I think your > analogy breaks down. > > At some point, you either need to learn to drive or you pay someone else > to transport you or your stuff. Same applies to computer work, either > you can do the work yourself or you pay someone else to do it. Even your > snow driver analogy works here, you either get yourself out of the ditch > or you pay someone to do it for you. > > The payment is not always monetary. Sometimes the payment is just a > showing of sufficient effort. Back to your snow driver analogy, if the > driver in the ditch is just waiting in the car for you to come over and > push them out without even attempting anything on their own, you would > be less inclined to bother. You would be even less inclined to continue > exerting your own effort if the driver was not cooperating or wasn't > even interested in getting out to help push.
/me cheers I could not have said it better myself. This needs to go in the FRONT PAGE of the Wiki and the archive link needs to be put in the topic of #asterisk. Hell Olle's weekly newbie reminder email needs this put in it, too. AMEN, brother, AMEN!!! -A. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
