aeilkema opened this issue on Sep 05, 2009 · 142 posts
cspear posted Tue, 08 September 2009 at 9:45 AM
Quote - Fuck. I disaprove of 98% of this forum.
LOL Join the fucking club. None of us are going to be perfectly happy with any collection of discussions. If I were king I would bonk a lot of fucking heads for wasting my fucking time.
Indeed.
How's the hangover?
I SAID HOW'S THE HANGOVER? (Sorry. I couldn't resist 'shouting'.)
There are two things that have been going through my mind while reading this, and other threads.
Windows is not for hobbyists, no matter what Microsoft would have you believe. It needs to be managed properly: maintained and cared for. Not only do most 'hobbyist' users do zero maintenance, they're the ones most likely to fill their systems with crapware. They should be on Macs - the ones that 'just work'.
The four stages of learning:
Unconscious incompetence: you have no idea how much you do not know
Conscious incompetence: it dawns on you how much you do not know
Unconscious competence: you've learned a lot, you just don't realise it
Conscious competence: you realise that you've become pretty good at whatever-it-is
Most of the stupidest and most negative posts are coming from people who, I suspect, don't really know how to use Windows. The trouble is, because they can launch programs, surf the web and send emails, they think they know what they're doing. They are unconsciously incompetent. Note that this state can persist for years, decades, lifetimes.
Anyone who has progressed from the first state to any of the others tends not to have the know-it-all, arrogant, whining, whingeing, petulant attitude that we've all seen here. Their egos have no problem admitting that they're wrong or that they don't know something, and their attitude is one of wanting to learn and to engage with new concepts and ideas.
Just my thoughts, folks, and aimed at no one in particular.
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