On Tue, Jul 23, 2002, Alex Chudnovsky wrote about "Re: Cracking lessons for teenagers": > But do you argue that 18 hours a day at a computer is a royal exaggeration > even for an adult? Think about the eyes of the 13 year old kid - 18 hours at
Sure, 18 hours a day is ridiculous. It would barely leave the kid any time to eat or sleep, not to mention do other things that kids do. And where does school fit into this schedule? When I was a kid, I seem to remember school taking up at least 6 hours of each day (very little, but still doesn't leave 18 hours). Anyway, even 12 hours a day by the computer (something that I do as an adult regularly, adding up work and my home computer :( ) is probably a lot for a kid. Even "geeks" can find other things to do, such as read books, or god forbid watch TV :) > And generally they don't have one. And "computeroholics" who spend plenty of > time at a computer, usually do that for two or three things - gaming, > browsing, maybe cracking. Maybe I don't know the "kids of today", but when I was a kid, I did play games, "browsing" did not exist yet, but most of all I enjoyed the programming. I never took my programming to the area of "cracking". I strongly disagree that kids cannot find fun things to program in areas not involving cracking. And playing games 18 hours a day doesn't really have anything with computers - you don't become a computer expert from such experience (unless you count someone who's always blabbering on about his super-duper-video-card as a computer expert). -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Jul 24 2002, 15 Av 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Welcome to the Church of the Holy http://nadav.harel.org.il |Cabbage. Lettuce pray... ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
