On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:50:36 +0100, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On May 1, 2006, at 7:22 AM, John Forbes wrote:
It is not comparable to learning how to operate a computer and knowing
what to do to move data, which simply takes storage devices, a little
time with a book, and a plan to do what is required. Nearly anyone can
do it, except for the very incompetent.
And the very busy, who don't have time to learn computer programming
from scratch just in order to keep their images updated. Developing
your argument, we should all go off like Linus Torvalds and create our
own operating systems. And grow our own vegetables, bake our own
bread, drill for our own oil.
Learning how to operate a computer has virtually nothing to do with
learning how to build and/or program one.
Do you, John, know how to drive an automobile or choose a television
broadcast?
You must also, then, have mastered the art of designing and
manufacturing these devices.
Oh yes:
You took/take pictures on film with a camera. Therefore, you know how to
design and manufacture a camera, film, chemicals, enlarger, printing
paper, etc etc.
That is what the hyperbole in your logic is saying. That logic is
flawed, and is not a development of my argument.
Using a computer and programming a computer are two very different things,
as you well know. Writing scripts is programming, and to somebody who has
never done it, it represents a major obstacle.
Saying that somebody who can't write a script is "very incompetent" is
both arrogant and absurd. Of course nearly everybody COULD do it, but
just because people have the capacity to do something doesn't mean that
they MUST do it just in order to convince the geeky few that they are not
"very incompetent".
John
Godfrey
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