Beta 8.10 released
Nigel Ridley
nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Sat Oct 11 19:22:48 UTC 2008
Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> 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, where are you located?
Nigel
--
More information about the kubuntu-users
mailing list