On Friday, 8 October 2004 22.32, Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:55:29 +0200
Anders Johansson
wrote: One of my teachers once asked us what we thought the most important thing we had learned (or would learn) at university was. The answer (very correct) wasn't some obscure piece of information, or even some very useful piece of information, it was *how to search* for information.
If you don't know how to look for information, google can be your worst nightmare
If you can't tell a good answer from a bad one (and there are some very bad ones out there), google can be your worst enemy
Careful here, Anders, you may upset the new PC on this list....
The points you are making are solid, but should not be restricted- there are info, man and countless other sources of information available to those who are able (read "willing") to check them out before loading the list with their "instant gratification" questions. Those who don't want to aren't and will.
You seem to have missed my point. If you don't have a certain amount of base knowledge, you will have a very hard time reading and understanding the often terse and poorly written man/info pages, and googling around when you can't tell the difference between a correct answer and an incompetent, dangerous answer is very difficult as well Being a newbie is hard