For the newbies (book question)

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:59:14 EST
Jon maddog Hall said:

>>Though it frustrates me to no  end how many people enjoy wallowing in
>>ignorance with a refusal to to learn because it's too much work.
>
>I too am frustrated by this....but there are people who use tools without
>knowing how they work, even when a little knowledge would help them use the
>tools a lot better.
>
>We call these people "task oriented".

Yep.  One my college professors, the head of the CS department no 
less, who was otherwise brilliant, was rather 'task oriented' outside 
of computers.  As a result, he cut his hand off with a chainsaw...

A little knowledge can go quite a long way to making life just a 
little better :)
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