>On Sep 7, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Ernest L. Gunerius wrote: > >>> >>>At 7:43 PM -0400 9/7/2009, Len Gerstel wrote: >>>>On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:09 PM, dorayme wrote: >>>> > How do you find out on Google, if you don't have inside knowledge, >>> >> why some models were called "smurfs"? >>>> >>>>This is a good example of what we need to make sure we are teaching >>> >the next generation of students, how to search, combine ideas and what >>> >to look for. Snip: >>>- Dan. >>>-- >>>- Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
>> >>A search with Clusty using "Mac model smurf" has the first three >>hits the Mac G3. >>Point the search to "Mac" first then "model" then "smurf". At least >>it seems to work this way. I would imagine the same results would >>be returned but farther down the return list with a different order >>of the search terms. Snip: >>ErnieG >> > >Only one of those links even comes close to the explanation of >Smurf, and that is the lowendmac that includes a picture of smurfs >with no label saying that this is a smurf on the page. Others just >say something to the effect of Nickname: Smurf with no explanation >if you did not know what a smurf is. > >While smurfs were pretty ingrained in the US (and I believe >European) culture of the 1970's and 80's there are many cultures >that have never heard of them. > >Len Sorry: I thought the questions were: >> why some models were called "smurfs"? and then: >how to search, combine ideas and whatto look for. All other reported searches seemed to say they only found the description of the little Blue and White figures with no connection to Macs. The example I gave answered two of the questions. That leaves: >combine ideas and whatto look for. Which are beyond my teaching skills. :-( As i said my assumptions are usually in error. :-[ ErnieG --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
