On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 1:27 pm, Lanman wrote: > > You might be surprised to learn how many people think computers are > intelligent, simply because > they are so hard to learn ! I get that very often ! Once I explain > that a significant amount of the > complexity is due to the fact that computers are essentially > stupid, things usually go better! > I'll own that for a long time I told people that computers were logical, and could not do whatever it was that was totally illogical. Eventually I came to see that we had passed a point of complexity at which apparently illogical things do happen because of interactions that we may be totally ignorant or unaware of. Now I just say that they are supposed to be logical, but accompany it with a wry grin.
> I've recently hired someone who may be able to help with the Twiki > pages. He actually starts > tomorrow morning, and I'm thinking that this would be a good > exercise for him. I know Tango > Echo personally, so I'll contact him to get things started. Chances > are he's already seeing this > post anyways. > I'm going to be away for a few days, but I'll look forward to seeing things appearing soon <g> Another ally is always welcome. > By the by, I've already turned off the Reply-To. Assuming that me > DNS gets fully propogated by > tomorrow, I'll be back on the list with my original email account. > Sounds good. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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