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Bernd "Bernie" Meyer (root@wombat.hanse.de) wrote:
: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) writes:
: 
: >You just do not know me well enough to make an assertion such as this.
: >I had an end-user walk into a computer lab once and say,
: >"How come the computer is not doing anything?"
: >I said, "Well it has to be powered up first."
: 
: Now, does the computer that user referred to usually stay up all the time? I
: mean, I consider myself to be pretty computer-clever (I should, being a
: BCS :-), and I sometimes need some time to realize that a machine is
: switched off.... The machines I use are _never_ switched off, so first I hit
: a key, then check whether the monitor has power, then hit some other key,
: then wait some more, then hit some other key.... you get the idea?
The computers were regularly turned off.  I really do not have trouble
telling if a computer is on or off.  I mean they usually have a hard disk
spinning or a fan or a power light or something.  Unless you are talking
about mini computers or mainframes where, the users are shielded from
the cpu(s).  But unless there is a power outage or a scheduled maintenance
or a hardware failure they are always up.
: 
: Now if some user (and _just_ user) has the same experience, without the
: background knowledge, how do you expect the poor soul to realize that a
: computer _could_ be switched off?
Computers, like most eletrical appliances or tools or whatever you want to
refer to a Personal Computer as, need to have the power switch turned on.
Now perhaps it is unfair to expect, people to understand that electrical
appliances need to have the power on.
: 
: Well, what would _you_ say if all the cars you had seen so far did start
: once you hit the gas pedal, and your driving instructor had specifically
: told you not to mess with that thing behind the steering wheel, and suddenly
: you sit downin one and nothing happens?
: 
: P.S.: Be careful when calling someone stupid --- how would you like to come
: to your doctor and being called stupid just because noone ever told you that
: eating marshmallows and shrimps together causes stomach aches?

I do not follow how these have merit, but to each their own.

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