Hi there!
On 31 Oct 99, at 13:35, Thomas Fernandez wrote about
"Re[3]: OT: Computer Philosophy (was":
> MDP> Completely and utterly true. It *is* a just small percentage of the
> MDP> millions of computer owners and users that have actually put any
> MDP> effort or time into training, let alone bothered to RTFM!
>
> I disagree with you very much. You live in the computer world, both of
> you, and don't see what is going on "out here". In our office, we
> have two kinds of regular training for the staff: 1.) Sales Training,
> 2.) Computer Training (which is centered around MS Office <urrg>). No
"Those who can't do, teach":-)) The results of all this training is
less then zero, from my own experience. I've just installed TeX
and WinEdt and all that regular "TeX office" like GhostScript
etc. to a economics professor here. It worked all right. The next
day he phoned me in despair just to tell me that his windows'98
crashed (actually, he installed office'2000 and *then* it
crashed). Before the crash he had 1 primary and 1 extended
partition, 2 logicals on the latter. After the crash, he had only
*one* (primary) partition. The rest of the partitions just
perished. The data lost. On the primary partition that seemed to
survive all the data *but windows and office* was trashed, too.
That's what Billy calls "more robust OS", I presume:-).
All in all, God bless fools! I was just short in money *before* the
accident described above --- but the next day I was almost
rich!
You might tell me that I shouldn't have called that professor an
idiot --- WRONG you are. Idiot he is! In his book one can read,
for example:
"3.02*2=6.03" (from which it apparently follows, that 2*2=3),
and:
"let's write exp(x) as (1+x)^2" (!!!!)
Having typesetted that book, I no longer wonder *why* our
native economics is in that ass:-)
> secretary will be employed unless she has "sufficient" computer
> knowledge, and computer schools open up like crazy. And on it goes.
Just plain idiotism. It's pretty simple to teach a monkey to ride a
car, it's much more complicated to teach a dumb to use a
computer. It reminds me of that excellent and refreshing story
of e tech. support guy and of his words "Go to the shop and tell
them, that you've got a serious problem with computer they've
sold you. This problem is: such IDIOTS cannot have
computers!"
Well, a dumb sitting in front of a PC thinks that the PC should
be as dumb as he is, that's the crux of the matter...
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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