Re: More gnewb questions

[Marshall Price]

Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> I guess the things you can assume have changed as the september rolled
> on :-)

  You can assume most people don't get that.

  (I sorta do, but not quite.  It refers to a famous September when 
lots of newbies arrived on a college campus and didn't know something, 
right? Something like AOL allowing lots of newbies onto the Internet 
without knowing anything about Usenet and etiquette and HTML, etc.?)

  The thing is, "ontology recapitulates phylogeny" (an organism's 
development goes through the same stages evolution took in creating the 
species, a principle all medical students learn in school) in the real 
world, but people are just tossed into technology without any 
preparation at all.

  Computers should start out by teaching people what they need to know 
before offering up huge lists of jargon, such as the names of programs.

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