On Mon, 01 May 2006 14:38:45 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On May 1, 2006, at 2:45 AM, John Forbes wrote:
They say that tight-rope walking over Niagara isn't that difficult -
once you pass a certain threshold of resources
and understanding.
Tightrope walking over Niagra Falls is just as difficult as tightrope
walking anywhere else. Once you have the skill to walk a tightrope high
up in open air, you can do it anywhere. All it takes beyond that is
"courage", "insanity" or "stupidity", depending upon the perspective of
the person judging you. Few can develop the skill.
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and knowing
what to do to move data, which simply takes storage devices, a little
time with a book, and a plan to do what is required. Nearly anyone can
do it, except for the very incompetent.
And the very busy, who don't have time to learn computer programming from
scratch just in order to keep their images updated. Developing your
argument, we should all go off like Linus Torvalds and create our own
operating systems. And grow our own vegetables, bake our own bread, drill
for our own oil.
That's fine for geeks, market gardners, bakers and wild-catters. But not
for the rest of us.
John
Godfrey
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