When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Michal Pasternak]

Ted Mittelstaedt [Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0700]:
> As an analogy - there's lots of people that know how to pull into
> a service station and add air to their car tires.  But out of all
> those people that have learned how to do this only a tenth of them
> know that tire pressure rises when the tire gets warmer, and of
> those people, only another tenth WOULD ASSUME THAT THIS WOULD BE
> THE CASE IF THEY THOUGHT ABOUT IT because they actually understand 
> what gas pressure is.  And if one of the people in that group had
> never added air in his life to a tire, and you told him to go do it,
> he would not only be able to go do it, he would be able to add 
> exactly the correct amount of air needed for the tire.

I really liked that part about a sciencist! On the other hand, I think it is
too enthusiastic, applying theory to practice needs a few things more... :)

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