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cowhead · 03-15-2005, 01:19 AM

oops sorry.. I keep doing that! I need to read the above posts before I post... gurk! forgive me.

tw · 03-15-2005, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

I've always really disliked the term "computer illiterate".

What does that MEAN? Like, "I can read, except when it's on a computer monitor."

Computer literate was an expresson 'coined' by John Akers of IBM. Ironic because the man could only use a PC for e-mail and text oriented stock quotes. In 1990 (or around then), Bill Gates said it was the most important road trip he had taken. On the desks of these IBM corporate executives and their staff were IBM XTs with CGA monitors. IOW the IBM corporate office computers could not even execute most all software being sold in the malls.

You tell me. How does someone know 'computer literacy' when the head of a computer company does not even know how to use one nor understand what is even current technology. It explained to Bill Gates why IBM fought against Windows and why IBM did not write the critical code shared by Windows and OS/2. Why IBM had to pay Microsoft (I forget how many $millions) for royalties on OS/2 code in copies that IBM gave away by the tens of thousands. How literate was the man who coined the phrase?

The expression 'computer literate' to me really means the person promoting it is the classic MBA - just like John Akers of IBM (and his sidekick Cannavino) who almost destroyed the company.

Happy Monkey · 03-15-2005, 08:05 AM

One of my summer jobs was with a software company at which the CEO had his secretary print out his emails. He would then write a response out in longhand, and she'd type it in and email for him.

OnyxCougar · 03-15-2005, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by cowhead

and oops onyx I left out an 'L' sorry, I will try to be more precise in the future.

No, it was nothing personal, just one of those phrases that drives me INSANE. Really. I'm not a bitch in real life.....

wolf · 03-16-2005, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

One of my summer jobs was with a software company at which the CEO had his secretary print out his emails. He would then write a response out in longhand, and she'd type it in and email for him.

It's a shame that the traditional secretarial skills are falling by the wayside. Nobody takes shorthand anymore.

I hear a really good secretary could take shorthand on a steno pad with her right hand, and give the boss a handjob with her left.

lumberjim · 03-16-2005, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by cowhead

the beatles song... uh sorry maybe I'm old but I thought that was common knowledge... on a side note I have a 'rocky the flying squirrel' hanging from my backpack (as well as a rabies tag

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back pack? are you in school, or is it actually a man-purse?

Catwoman · 03-16-2005, 09:57 AM

Wow that's more complex than my job at the moment. I get paid for postng hre. And m sowly srting to deterirortate. Think I'd rather gve a hnad job.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-16-2005, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

I'm not a bitch in real life.....

Real life? What's a real life?

xoxoxoBruce · 03-16-2005, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Catwoman

Wow that's more complex than my job at the moment. I get paid for postng hre. And m sowly srting to deterirortate. Think I'd rather gve a hnad job.

Uh....just a thought.

Brown Thrasher · 03-16-2005, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I think literate or illiterate refers not to being able to read it but to comprehend or understand it.
I can read Einstein's writings, but God knows what it means.

I think illiterate means not being able to read. I think the correct word would be ignorant. I know alot of people consider ignorant a personal insult if they are called it. However, I am ignorant of performing brain surgery. I am ignorant of doing a dental procedure, etc.......

cowhead · 03-17-2005, 09:29 AM

yeah.. well I prefer to think of it as a backpack..(I have it bad enough with the long hair/coffeeshop/henley wearin' thing..) well it's not a satchel at least! (although I do have one for all my guitar stuff (when we play shows) so I think hauling in a marshall 1/2 stack offsets the murse.. and damn! I walk most everywhere I go (so long as it's within 2 miles and am a horrid packrat.. hmm.. backpackrat?).

and yeah.. okay Ignorant is the better term.. sorry I was going with the 'normal' term I hear from my IT buddies...

that still is not the point though! is Rocky alive or dead? in my opinion it all depends on how you use the term 'revival' wether it's in the conventional sense or in the southern baptist sense.. but then again.. he is from the black mining hills of Dakota.. hmmm

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03-15-2005, 01:19 AM	#16
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	oops sorry.. I keep doing that! I need to read the above posts before I post... gurk! forgive me. __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

03-15-2005, 08:05 AM	#18
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	One of my summer jobs was with a software company at which the CEO had his secretary print out his emails. He would then write a response out in longhand, and she'd type it in and email for him. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

03-16-2005, 09:57 AM	#22
Catwoman stalking a Tom Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: on the edge of the english channel Posts: 1,000	Wow that's more complex than my job at the moment. I get paid for postng hre. And m sowly srting to deterirortate. Think I'd rather gve a hnad job. __________________ I've decided I'm not going to have a signature anymore.

03-17-2005, 09:29 AM	#26
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	yeah.. well I prefer to think of it as a backpack..(I have it bad enough with the long hair/coffeeshop/henley wearin' thing..) well it's not a satchel at least! (although I do have one for all my guitar stuff (when we play shows) so I think hauling in a marshall 1/2 stack offsets the murse.. and damn! I walk most everywhere I go (so long as it's within 2 miles and am a horrid packrat.. hmm.. backpackrat?). and yeah.. okay Ignorant is the better term.. sorry I was going with the 'normal' term I hear from my IT buddies... that still is not the point though! is Rocky alive or dead? in my opinion it all depends on how you use the term 'revival' wether it's in the conventional sense or in the southern baptist sense.. but then again.. he is from the black mining hills of Dakota.. hmmm __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

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