On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Michael E. Webster wrote: > While we're wondering... I wonder why people are quick to post > straight forward questions without taking time to research > their "problem". Google is a great resource for finding answers. > > I'm certainly not trying to be pretentious, but come on now... I'd > like to think that linux users are smarter than the average end-user. > How do I print? How do I exit vim? How do I play my mp3 files? > Most likely many of these questions have been answered before. > Search the web, search the newsgroups, search the fedora-list archives. > For many of these simple questions, the answer is just a search away. > > Seriously, I'd like to know. Is it easier to send an email asking for > an answer than it is to find the answer yourself? Sure it is. Will you > remember what you did to fix the problem two months from now? Probably > not. Is it laziness? Most likely. Sometimes that is true. Sometimes Google gives you back a bunch of useless information. Depends on the problem and how you specify the search term.
