Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:00:16 04/06/04
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On April 03, 2004 at 23:07:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 03, 2004 at 16:55:37, Roberto Nerici wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 23:58:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>I think I begin to see part of your problem. Apparently you live it a pit of >>>ignorance and think that is how all the world looks. >> >>That's nice... >> >>>Not everyone in the world is incompetent. My daughter, a non-computer person, >>>got cable modem working on a self-install, bought a wireless router and got her >>>wireless laptop to share the cable modem connection with her home machine. No >>>help... >> >>No doubt you are telling the truth when you describe your daughter as a >>non-computer person, but I hardly think the daughter of a computer science >>lecturer can be taken as typical. >> >>Roberto/. > > >What about my orthopedic surgeon? Etc... > >Not everyone is incompetent. I can point to music majors running linux, or >running windows/xboard/crafty, all of which says that the typical computer user >is not as stupid as suggested... These people are definitely the exception and not the rule. I expect that a Google search of the archives for news:rec.games.chess.computer will show many times when you yourself explained very patiently and carefully how to install a winboard engine. And yet, the person was unsuccessful. Even referals to Tim Mann's xboard/winboard FAQ prove fruitless. Mark Yatras' extremely detailed instruction set is listed for help and yet they still cannot do it. And yet these are persons who managed to find a usenet newsgroup about computer chess and are therefore highly motivated and smart enough to locate a usenet news group (I am guessing that most people will have no idea where to look, though Google is making that a lot easier now). If they keep trying, they will eventually succeed. But computer skills are unnatural for many people.
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