OK so it is now 22:10 (Peterhead local time).
Now 22:35, I think that is enough for now.
JimB
What is wrong with youngsters listening to old timers experience???.
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Yes, I am from Germany ...and my experience is exactly the same. What went wrong with our youngsters (not all, I know, but too many)?
Perhaps it should read "what went wrong with our education and our social environment" ?
(Please, excuse my bad wording. Unfortunately I cannot express myself in the english language as good as it would be necessary to describe my opinion).
It is really a pitty, but I am afraid that we - as a community of communication engineers - are not quite innocent of this situation.
Didn't we equip our 5-year old children with an own TV set? And what about "Game boy" and similar animated stuff? Didn't we educate our children to a kind of passivity?
Did they ever feel tediousness, which could create creativity? Oh no - there was always a technical "toy" for "entertainment".
Today, young people feel lost if they are not connected with "their world" via Ipod etc. over 24 hours per day.
And they consider this as absolutely important - and they transfer these "experiences" also to other regions of their life.
As quick as they can be informed about a desease of a friend they also expect technical information immediately.
The internet is full of answers! Everything is available, it only must be downloaded.
They do not realize that such a collection of mosaic pieces never can replace a good textbook.
And this attitude is reflected also in their questions. They never have learned to ask a question which contains all the background information necessary to get a substantial answer.
More than that, in many cases they think it would be OK to use these funny SMS abbreviations (4you, thx,...) also in technical forums like this one.
And as a result of this development - the technical libraries are empty (that's my experience during several years of educating engineers in a university).
All for now - I am becoming sad.
W.
its frustrating when people ask you for something, you advise them, and then go and make the exact mistake you warned them about.
Also in SA btw, 11:42 right now
I'm sorry, were you saying something?
I'm sorry, were you saying something?
Hi Mike
I was referring to the political party which is running our beautiful country into the ground.
Cheers
tvtech
I'm sorry, were you saying something?
I cannot help but think that Mike was making a joke, which you have missed, around the title of the thread.
JimB
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