Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]
On Tuesday 05 March 2013 15:37:31 Martin McCormick wrote:
> Miles Fidelman writes:
> > Which leads me to take just a little issue with your comment that
> > "younger people have more useful experience." I'm actually not entirely
> > sure that's true. If anything, younger people have narrower (or at least
> > different) experience.
>
> I tend to agree. Lisi is right that the experience of
> younger people is more relevant to today's world
That is neither what I said nor what I meant. I said: " But ***many*** much
younger people have more useful
experience." Stars added this time.
I do not think that age is relevant to whether one's opinion is worth having
or not, nor to whether a person has relevant experience or not. Some people
have relevant experience, some do not. And age has little to do with it.
Except in so far as my age group did not grow up with computers.
So I do not think that "the experience of younger people is more relevant to
today's world". Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
> but I also
> think of that old quotation which says that those who do not
> learn from history are doomed to keep repeating the same
> mistakes and that is so, so true.
In my experience, human beings rarely in fact learn from history. Sadly.
Lisi
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