[ale] Sigh. Another Old White Guy hates and fears computers

[Jim Kinney]

On Feb 23, 2016 1:11 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Steve --
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> Sometimes it just takes a minute for me to get cranked up.

And by then it's too late!  :-)
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> -- CHS
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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:
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>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:49:39 -0500
>> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > What ticks me off about this is the general cluelessness.  It bugs me
>> > when people assume that because digital creativity, elegance, and
>> > beauty look a little different they are somehow less valid.  Unix is
>> > now over 40 years old, and many of us still use the original tools
>> > created by Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Alfred Aho, and countless
>> > others. Those tools are still working on the very latest and
>> > spiffiest smartphones. If Mr. Cohen can't be bothered to dig into the
>> > stuff he uses every day, that's a failing on his part.
>> >
>> > I'm not necessarily a techno-utopian, but YouTube now means that even
>> > some kid working with his friends in his divorced dad's basement can
>> > make a hit TV show. Heck, sites like vine.co and imgur.com mean that
>> > it might need to be only a few seconds long. Twitter means that even
>> > a shut-in Palestinian woman might-could have access to millions of
>> > readers. The time when you need to pass some editor's or TV
>> > executive's whim in order to reach an audience is past. Roger Cohen
>> > might think that's bad, but I'm excited about it.
>> >
>> > -- CHS
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>> I wish you'd skipped your first (very offtopic) post and just posted
>> the this one. Rather than trying to make associations based on race,
>> gender and age, this post recognizes the genius of, I guess I'll call
>> it, Unix and POSIX. You know what I mean.
>>
>> And this post makes it very clear that Unix and POSIX are part of
>> something very relevant to society in general.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
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