Re: Re OT Standalone defrag for Win98

["Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 11:07 06.12.2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Jordan's saga, though, calls to mind a further aspect of the generation
>gap in education (I'll leave Harry and Robert to slug that one out;
>they've both made some good points, IMHO). The view is prevalent, esp. in
>my generation, that "kids have grown up with computers; they all know
>everything about them." Well, yes, they know how to point and click, drag
>and drop. But I suspect the proportion of youths who really know what's
>going on inside is pretty much the same as it is in their parents'
>(though probably not their grandparents') generation.

I can confirm that from our house. For our kids, computers are commodities like VCRs, and they have
just as little knowledge of or interest in the underlying function. They just want to point and
click and get done with. They expect to follow graphical babysitting instructions when doing
anything new.
Maybe we are the dinosaurs.



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