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Re: [SLE] Odd (to me) addressing question
- From: <jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:48:15 -0500
- Message-id: <20040921184905.VGCN1718.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[192.168.1.100]>
*** Reply to message from Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:57:57 -0500 One more candle and a trip around the
Sun***
> > > Yes, with my education, manuals are *necessary*.
> >
> > How come? Because you're a late linux bloomer?
I think manuals are necessery no matter the education level, simply
because, even Einstein couldn't remember every single thing in his
head. And it is easier to access info via index than to search every
nook and cranny of any person's brain.
It's been obvious for a great deal of time now that no two humans seem
to store information in the identical way, nor learn it in identical
fashion. If it were so, that all people used one method, schools whould
be much more successfull , at least cramming in facts and how to access
same. And as most of us know they just aren't very good at even that.
Learning is an individualized activity, the pity is , not enough people
have any longer access to good help in learning.
But anyone who can read and comprehend can get information needed to
execute some command or program or do some job, even if only the
ironing and washing by following along the instructions in the manuals
that come w/ any appliance. ( Even those so dumbed down as to be
basically pictorials )
> Late?? not really, *old* cp/m -> dos -> os/2 -> linux
yeah, my path w/ the little boxes , as well. Did you ever get to play
w/ the big iron? <G> It still amazes me that people insist there was no
"internet" before Berners-Lee invented the weg organization of it...
<Sigh>
( not to in anyway denigrate that gentleman's contribution, we would
very likely still be a small community of geeks rather than the
current world wide conglomerate of computer users. Even some few w/
real knowledge of the power we weild. <g>)
--
j
--
nemo me impune lacessit
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:57:57 -0500 One more candle and a trip around the
Sun***
> > > Yes, with my education, manuals are *necessary*.
> >
> > How come? Because you're a late linux bloomer?
I think manuals are necessery no matter the education level, simply
because, even Einstein couldn't remember every single thing in his
head. And it is easier to access info via index than to search every
nook and cranny of any person's brain.
It's been obvious for a great deal of time now that no two humans seem
to store information in the identical way, nor learn it in identical
fashion. If it were so, that all people used one method, schools whould
be much more successfull , at least cramming in facts and how to access
same. And as most of us know they just aren't very good at even that.
Learning is an individualized activity, the pity is , not enough people
have any longer access to good help in learning.
But anyone who can read and comprehend can get information needed to
execute some command or program or do some job, even if only the
ironing and washing by following along the instructions in the manuals
that come w/ any appliance. ( Even those so dumbed down as to be
basically pictorials )
> Late?? not really, *old* cp/m -> dos -> os/2 -> linux
yeah, my path w/ the little boxes , as well. Did you ever get to play
w/ the big iron? <G> It still amazes me that people insist there was no
"internet" before Berners-Lee invented the weg organization of it...
<Sigh>
( not to in anyway denigrate that gentleman's contribution, we would
very likely still be a small community of geeks rather than the
current world wide conglomerate of computer users. Even some few w/
real knowledge of the power we weild. <g>)
--
j
--
nemo me impune lacessit
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