Kurt Buff さんは書きました: > > Uh, paranoia is not mitigated by ignorance. Remember the earlier > description of her friend: retired and partially disabled. This > probably means older and not nearly as educated as we are about > computers, and set in his/her ways. This, augmented by scare stories > in the mass media, probably contribute to the difficulty. >
A lot of older people still believe that giving the PC the wrong command will cause it to explode in a shower of sparks, thanks to Hollywood. It seems that Hollywood is still doing that. I can't count how many times my boss's boss would yell at me when a PC quit working, afraid I'd given it some command that would cause it to explode. -- jd
