"Dummies" books (was Re: New 6.0 Features - Sell what you gotfellas)

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Only Courtney would say something like:
> "The problem in reading the magazine and books is you really have to
> know something about the technology to be able to understand what
> the person is saying and to JUDGE whether they know what they are
> talking about."
> 
> Which brings up the questions if you know what you r reading about, why are
> you looking it UP?

This is the old dictionary argument I used to get into with my parents when
I was a kid.  I do distinctly remember being told to look it up -anyway-.
I don't believe I won a single one of those arguments.  :)

Note that it says "something" about the technology, not "everything".
Going in knowing absolutely nothing leaves you entirely open to
disinformation and indoctrination into really bad practices--you won't know
any better.  If you know -something- about the technology, you can gather
more specifics, but you at least have -some- baseline against which you can
guage whether something reads correctly or "doesn't seem quite right".

mark->