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El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 16:23, Grant Edwards escribió: |
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> On 2009-02-05, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> The type of user I don't like is the ignorant type. Innocent |
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>> users are ok, they don't know, but ignorant users choose not to know. |
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> Surely there are things you use without knowing how they work. |
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> You probably use a phone, but do you _really_ know how the |
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> cellular system works? How about the landline phone system? The water |
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> supply system? Sewage treatment? Do you know how a refinery works? A |
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> chemical plant? How about the CPU in your computer. Do you actually know |
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> how it works? |
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>> And so often these ignorant users demand that they should be |
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>> able to do anything on a computer. If you wish to benefit from using |
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>> computers, you should be prepared to spend some time to get to know how |
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>> the stuff works. The more you want to do, the more you need to know. |
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>> Not: "I want amarok without mysql and |
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>> xyz plugin running all silky and smooth, but don't give me any command |
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>> line run-arounds or lots of talk about USE flags". |
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> We're all ignorant about 99% of the things we use. You just |
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> happened to choose a different 1% than some other people. |
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That's completely unfair. |
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If you don't want to know how a fridge work you buy a fridge, |
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not the tools to make a fridge, which is what Gentoo is. |
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If you don't want to make the fridge yourself, go Ubuntu and let |
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us build our fridges ourselves. Why do you want to spoil our fun? |
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Isn't there enough premade distros that are easy to handle around? |
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Jesús Guerrero |