On 9/11/2013 10:17 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:14:24 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> True enough.. and, this is a perfect example imo of why, after the Apple
>> II line, the whole thing went to shit - you no longer had to know how
>> any of it worked, or, even on a hardware level, could find out (where
>> Apple gave you a built in language, which you could boot to even without
>> an OS, and a complete circuit diagram). The whole, "It will work if I
>> reboot." thing is just.. gah! But, yeah, most people won't even try to
>> comprehend the basics, and treat a PC likes is a big cell phone (and
>> have done so since before cell phones).
>
> Well, for most people, PCs are tools.  It's like driving a car - most
> people don't know how to fix them, but most people also know how to drive
> them (allegedly).
>
> There are always those of us who want to see what's "under the hood", but
> most people don't really give a shit - they just want to do their job,
> and the tool they use helps them do it.
>
> That's a lot of why Windows works the way it does.
>
> Jim
>
True, some people, like a certain niece of mine, can't even figure out 
that, "You need to change the oil once in a while."

But, cars you at least "can" do maintenance on, or have other people do 
so, and you don't generally, on having them do that, find that 90% of 
the "experts" you might want to take them to are going to either a) be 
unable to fix a broken taillight wire, or b) do so without stealing 
every single things you had in the trunk, and throwing it in a dumpster, 
because it was "unfixable" with all your shit still in the vehicle. PCs, 
especially, tend to exhibit both traits....

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