Another testament about POV-Ray users being a culture rather than ordinary
citizens, the way I see it.

Bob

"Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> wrote in message
news:385901f5@news.povray.org...
> OK, I was just wondering where the taste for battering a keyboard came
> from...
>
> And it's true: when I look around to see how some friends and family
members
> my age perform, I find very little that is interesting. Of the 15, 7of
them
> own a PC, 3 do have a reasonable recent model, none has ever done any
> programming, and 1 is very happy with my first 8MHz 286AT, now 10 years
> old.... Most use it as a typewriter. None have any basic skills (DOS,
> Windows, etc.) Only 2 have an internet connection, and no one uses it
> regularly. In vain I tried to explain to them why POV-Ray, for one thing,
> fascinates me!
>
> When my son was about 11 years old, I could still tell him about things
like
> Fortran, Pascal, and assembler. Somewhat later, suddenly he started to
move
> very quickly : he is now, at 28, a programmer by profession and I am way
too
> dumb to understand how he does it all! I suppose he looks upon me as you
do
> upon your parents (in this respect). BTW: POV-Ray doesn't interest him one
> bit: he thinks I'm mad.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sander
>
>
> omniVERSE <inv### [at] aolcom> schreef in berichtnieuws
> 38564b8c@news.povray.org...
> > Oh, no, never.  You are a true POVer, guess I could say anyhow.
> >  I was getting a mental image of my parents pecking at the keyboard
trying
> > desparately to render just a basic example scene file or do a sphere
{0,1
> > pigment {color red 1}}  (they would no doubt never get the camera or a
> light
> > in there to see a self-made scene).
> > They just happen to be born around mid-1930's is all.
> > To be fair though my mother manages to do plenty enough on a computer
> (after
> > a couple years of my teaching her), just nothing like POV-Ray ever done.
> My
> > father... well, he can just get by running a Poker card game himself and
> get
> > signed onto AOL and lose himself on the internet once there.
> > So, yes, there's something quite laughable going on at my parents place
> when
> > it comes to the PC      :-D
> >
> > Bob
>
>
>

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