Beta 8.10 released

[Willy K. Hamra]

Lisi Reisz wrote:
 > No - I hestitate to contradict you, but this mention of actual ages
arose
> because Gene assumed that he was talking to someone who was not his age.  He 
> said in fact that he was 3 times my age.  So his assumption is that everyone 
> else is young - not that everyone else is his age!!  You are almost exactly 
> on the age he clearly wants the rest of us to be. ;-)  (One third of 74 is 
> just under 25.)
> 
> You have knowledge, we have experience.  The one complements the other nicely.  
> Please don't let's turn this into an ageist war. :-)
> 

we can't deny the importance of experience. while i surely have
experience in computers (not too much in linux, though :P) i still lack
the 15+ years of experience a lot of people have.

> Incidently, my local LUG currently has a membership ranging in age from 14 to 
> 76.  (So far as we know.  There may, of course, be the odd closet 9 year old 
> or 85 year old. ;-)  )  Why do groups of people need to be all the same age 
> for people to "belong"??

my problem is that where i live, and most of the countries surrounding
me, people above 30~35 who know how to operate a computer are very very
rare, it's all youngsters like me. this sociological environment around
me, makes ma assume that this condition is everywhere, but as it's
obvious, there are a lot of places around the world, where there is
older people who happen to know computers pretty well.

and no, one can belong to a group of people of different age as long as
they share something, like they use the same OS for example, but due to
the anonymosity of the internet, and certain expectations people might
have in their mind, they tend to get surprised once they realize who
exactly these people they're communicating with are.


-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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