That seems to be a problem nowadays, on this Continent. People know one thing, and one thing only. They have never learnt to be inquisitive or try to learn something new under their own steam. A fine example I remember is the complaint by a friend from the European Space Agency about NASA. Quote: those people are brilliant. They know exactly one step each, one item, one procedure. They have no idea what the fellow beside them is doing, and they are not in the least interested to find out. It is agonizing. No wonder there are problems...
Oh, they are able to rattle down even the most obscure statistics about baseball, though... "Chad Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/8/06, Mixu Lauronen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a friend who works on computers 40 hours a week. He has a techie kind of job - he creates PDFs using Adobe Acrobat - organizes them according to a complex numbering system, places them on a secure server, and then updates the corporate website to reflect the changes he has made. He is a college graduate, and pretty smart. He's also young - 25 years old. Now - this guy doesn't know anything about MSO or Adobe or web design or servers beyond what he has to do for work. They did some upgrades from MSO XP to MSO 2003 in his office last year (yeah, they're a bit behind), and he couldn't stop talking about how much better 2003 was than XP. I asked him what was so improved about it. He stopped talking. After a pause he said "I really like the new color!" I wanted to cry. Here is an intelligent, educated, highly-paid (at least much more than me), young guy with a computer job - and he doesn't know jack about computers beyond what he has to know. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
