care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)
Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote:
What would you think if a person tells you that he thought his car was
going to be fed "automatically"? Hey, he didn't know there were oil
stations that provide such facilities and he also thought that being year
2011 the cars do not need fuel (nor any other power source) to be started
They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol.
I doubt that most people know more than that.
Well, I would hope they also know that their car needs (at least in the US):
- scheduled maintenance
- an annual inspection
- a registration sticker
- insurance
As well as:
- at some point, they took a driving test, and some of the
rules-of-the-road stuck
- they need to renew their license
- drive somewhere in the vicinity of the speed limit
- stop for red lights and stop signs
- don't drive under the influence
- don't sit in a closed garage with the motor running
- how to change a tire (or at least, how to call AAA)
The analogy to cars is a good one. It seems reasonable to expect a
computer user to acquire a set of skills akin to what one needs to drive
and maintain a car. It's probably not reasonable to require a computer
user to acquire skills akin to obtaining a pilot's license.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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