From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's an even easier explanation how to setup gnus ... Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5497e98c-f889-49dd-acd4-7327d89d87e1@googlegroups.com> References: <5i61va9u7p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376451013 7747 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2013 03:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:30:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 14 05:30:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Rmr-0008Jg-CY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39077 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Rmq-0007kt-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:30:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.169.1 with SMTP id w1mr8120698qay.4.1376450942711; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:29:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.8.105 with SMTP id q9mr31439iga.4.1376450942668; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fx3no2406930qab.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni1415qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no2406922qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.12.19; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.12.19 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:29:02 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200597 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92864 Archived-At: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:47:44 AM UTC+5:30, W. Greenhouse wrote: > Also, please consider > http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/ > when you assume (a) that it's grandparents who are the ignorant users, > when they may have more experience than their grandkids with general > purpose computing, and (b) that it is a wise long-term strategy to cater > to user ignorance. Ha Ha! V Funny, though a bit harsh. A view from the other side: http://www.proxios.net/pdf/ITDoesn%27tMatter.pdf Also related to Bell's law: > Roughly every decade a new, lower priced computer class forms based on a new > programming platform, network, and interface resulting in new usage and the > establishment of a new industry. Combined with generation gaps we get these effects. eg I know how to use a computer better than the average kid of today, whereas they usually know how to use a phone better than me. emacs belongs to the generation in which people assumed that to use an artifact -- maybe software or hard -- one had to read a manual. Today's kids dont know whats a manual and dont know how to read