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Most older people I know barely know how to turn a computer on and the last thing they want to do is learn how to program. If they wanted to learn they would have started a hell of a lot earlier in life.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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"Learning" isn't enough. I have a lot of knowledge that I am just no good at putting into practice (chess, tennis, swimming).
StatementTerminator wrote: save the economy
Right, that's not going to happen. Let's consider that one million of us teach our one million grannies to code and we each produce a great new app -- and sell it for a dollar each, to each of the others. We each spend a million dollars and we each earn a million dollars -- we're all still exactly even. But the guv'mint takes twenty percent (for example). We pay granny half the net -- and the guv'mint takes twenty percent of that. When granny dies, she leaves us what's left -- and the guv'mint takes twenty percent yet again.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: But the guv'mint takes twenty percent
And the title was SAVE THE ECONOMY, not save the peoples, you seem to be under the impression the economy is somehow related to people. 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I was going to add something like "so unless 'save the economy' means 'pay off the national debt...' ".
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I was planning on teaching Grandma open heart surgery over the weekend but I guess this could work too
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"and many can excel"
Yes we know many can excell, older people can barely excell 
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And there is another problem: which Granny? Most people start with two...
And both of mine are no longer with us, so they are gonna be really hard to teach. 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Most people start with two...
Not anymore, they tend to have at least three.
I have one (remaining), she threw away her first mobile phone after the battery ran out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Three grandmothers? 
How many chromosomes are normal in your neck of the woods?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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My daughter has three grandfathers, my brother's kids have three grandfathers and three grandmothers.
OK, one of each should have step- in front of them, but as far as the kids are concerned they are the real thing.
For my part I had one grandfather, the other buggered off in 1960 and I've only heard him mentioned a couple of times my whole life.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Ah! "Step-" makes a big difference: I was assuming you were from Norfolk, or worse - Luton...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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That would definitely be a cool job. Flying in a fighter style jet is on my bucket list.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Wow, and I can't read while driving without being sick...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: read while driving
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Some people feel that being either arrested or killed in a terrible accident is their calling in life.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nevermind, I actually meant "reading while sitting in a car and someone else is driving".
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Now, that was too obvious from your original statement, wasn't it? Good one!  
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I am sure the photographer in the OP does not pilot while taking pictures, so I'D thought this would be obvious enough...
Sorry, the traffic light just turned green, have to go.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
modified 19-Aug-14 4:25am.
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Cool! And I thought I was doing good moonlighting as towel boy for the Swedish Women's Ski Team.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Cool! And I thought I was doing good moonlighting as towel boy for the Swedish Women's Ski bikini Team.
FTFY 
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I'm envious of #3, #10 and #20[^]! 
And J Lo's nipple tweaker[^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Got an E-Mail from an auto-bot from CodeProject.
It had a link to a survey question.
I clicked.
I have approximately zero knowledge on the topic.
How do I answer ?
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Surveys don't need you to be an expert in that particular environment. You just need to share your opinion brother. That's all!
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The question is...
"...Check all the things you think SAP does (no cheating and looking up wikipedia!)
Please choose 1 or more options..."
That acronym just never crosses my line of work. I have no need of SAP, never have, it's just something for other people to worry about.
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