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|    Re: Science fiction    |
|    13 Sep 13 00:35:30    |
      XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books       From: snidely.too@gmail.com              J. Clarke explained :       > A       > friend of mine has an earned PhD, speaks a half a dozen languages, and       > despite using computers for going on 40 years still can't stick a CD in       > the drive and run setup without somebody holding his hand.              I don't have the PhD, but I've been in the computer industry for 30+       years, and there's still plenty of times I want somebody guiding me       through a setup. There are sysadm tasks on Windows that I ask my son       for help with.              Of course, IT people breathe a different sort of air than driver       writers do.              /dps              --       I have always been glad we weren't killed that night. I do not know       any particular reason, but I have always been glad.        _Roughing It_, Mark Twain              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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