On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:28:26 +0100, "dennis@home"
wrote:



"Java Jive" wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:16:24 +0100, geoff wrote:

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And *WHAT* were your thoughts on 'oldies' when you were in your teens,
twenties, thirties - and possibly forties when you were showing them how
to
use that new fangled invention called the video recorder - or even early
mobile phones? ;-)

Actually, in my day it was hifi, but, while they needed some advice on
what technical specifications (remember them?) constituted hifi, none
of my parents had any difficulty at all in using such things.

HiFi is something the youth of today fail to understand.
They wouldn't buy mp3 players if they knew anything about HiFi.

From my experience the youth of today understands very little technical
stuff, the majority know next to nothing about how computers, TV, radio,
cars, (insert what you like) work.

Almost all the "kids know computers" comes from their better thumb control
on games consoles, give them a game that requires knowledge/strategy and
they are hopeless and get bored.


Thus leading to the absurdity of a (late) female nominee cabinet
minister saying that IT was "Just a simple manual skill", presumably
like packing veggies in boxes in the fields.

8-(

Derek