On 4 Jul 2005 10:51:37 -0700, wrote:

Doesn't anyone even bother to read some of the recent postings or do a
Google Groups search before asking the same question?

This happens ALL the time. Take the recent Sony low volume sound
issue. There has been a thread going for a couple of days with all the
information for the common problem, and someone posts the exact same
question for an almost identical model number today. A quick Google
search for "Sony low volume" brings up lots of hits as well.

Either people are too dumb or lazy to read recent posting, or they
simply do not know how to use a computer search engine. I am not sure
I would want anyone trying to fix a tv set that cannot figure out how
to read or use a search engine. It does take some basic minimal
technical skill to use a search engine, far less than actually working
on a tv set.

I also would suggest that, especially in this stressed day-and-age,
people have insufficient time on their hands to do much research. I
have been forced time and time again to post before Googling...no time
to wait, son's baseball game in 15 minutes, check back later quickly
for an answer. Dumb may be a bit strong too; I, for example, wasn't
born knowing about Search Engines (obviously, having been born in
1956). I did learn about how to use them, am almost 49, and have seen
people successfully learn this stuff in their 70's. :-)

It really wouldn't hurt anyone either new to computers, or who don't
feel they are as adept as they should be, to take a course in PC's and
the Internet. The Internet is a huge library, but it doesn't use the
Dewey Decimal Classification System that some of us middle-age and
older folks are much more familiar with. :-)

Tom