[ale] Hardening of the brain

[Bruce Jones]

Magical Floppy Man,

I went thru a similar scenario with my in laws several years ago, to no availe. There is a fairly recent discovery that the brain uses a fat called myolin to "sheather" neuron pathways that we use frequently. These sheathed pathways pass information at a much faster rate thatn normal neuron connections, thus the phrase, "You can't teach an old dog, new tricks" has some basis in brain chemistry, as you get older, you literally get "set" (in myolin) in your ways, and loose the option to change (or at least it gets really hard).

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Philips <briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net>
>Sent: Aug 1, 2006 7:07 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] Converting someone with AOL to use Linux?
>
>On the AOL side, it might help to let them know that AOL will soon cease 
>to be an ISP and will become more of a portal (see the new netscape.com 
>page to get a preview). So, soon, all of the content they're used to 
>will be accessible from a plain old Web site. Once that's the case, it 
>shouldn't matter what operating system they use. Just get them on 
>Firefox to ease the transition and you're most of the way there. I find 
>that users who just see a computer as a way to access content on the 
>Internet don't go far beyond the browser anyway.
>
>fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man wrote:
>> So, I just ran across something rather interesting.  I went to my 
>> parents in Toledo, OH, last week.  My parents are still (after over 10 
>> years of trying to get them away from it) using Windows? and AOL.  Up 
>> until six months ago, they were using a dial-up connection through 
>> AOL, and now they have DSL and use AOL over that.  *shakes head*.
>>
>> I have attempted to get them to move away from AOL, and Windows?, 
>> too?though I am not sure that I was successful in convincing my 
>> mother.  My dad seems really happy with it, he likes the fact that the 
>> software under Linux seems to have more features and be more 
>> versatile.  My mother, while acknowledging these traits, is scared of 
>> change, or so she says.
>>
>> Has anyone ever managed to get people to move away from both AOL and 
>> Windows? at the same time?  Or should they try to take smaller steps 
>> than that?
>>
>> Just curious to see with others think about it.
>
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