Hi!
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.
Godfrey, you're being slightly wrong here... Consider this. Find a task
which you cannot possibly do. For me it would be fixing my own car on my
own. Find another person who can do it easily. For me it would be one of
my best friends who is car mechanic by profession. Consider now that him
and someone else is talking about fixing cars and you're watching...
Shall I go on?
Like Tim keeps saying in his signature (with slight modification of my
own) - "Never underestimate the power of stupidity".
In my line of work I've found that great many people that say that they
know how to operate a (Windows based) computer cannot understand the
concept of unzipping a zip file content to a given directory. They are
still very competent otherwise.
Boris
