** Reply to message from "Todd Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:04 -0500
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Doug LaRue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am amazed at how many want someone to give them answers instead of > > doing even the basic of a search to find it themselves. > > Googling is just as one-shot worthy as asking for the answer. > > The real benefit to doing your own search is when it helps you to > discover context that either helps you to understand what you're doing > or serendipitously tells you something you didn't know. I like man > pages and other documentation because of these two reasons. The ntpd > page is of particularly high quality. > > But if it comes to Google, I'd just as soon as ask the mailing list, > because that's what a search is going to produce: someone else's > asking on a list or a forum. It's just that Google is a little faster > to get to that answer. > I think that kind of thinking is what gets peoples goat. You find it easier to have someone else take the time to explain or describe something which is available for you to find for yourself since it has already been asked before. How easy for you. Sure it takes some skill to know how to find the answers on the internet search engines but while you learn that, you also learn more about the area you are interested in. Heck, I've built my own coffee bean roaster as a result of a search for information on coffee brewing temperatures. I not only learned about what temp is the best but how to handle the beans and grinds and how quickly the beans lose flavor once roasted. This is not uncommon with computer tech issues either. But most just want someone else to do the work and hand them the answer. And if you were on the other end of that stick, you'd probably bark once in a while too. IMO, the SIG is a place for people to help each other not do everything for those who don't want to do it them selves. They should hire someone if that is how they want it done. Atleast that is how I view the SIG, any SIG. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
