First, to avoid confusion, let's start by getting the analogies straight. Your computer == your vehicle; the Internet == the trailer you tow behind your vehicle. Let's face it, computers existed LONG before the Internet, and just the same as you can operate your car without a trailer, you can operate your computer without the Internet. Before you do attempt to tow a tailer, there are several adjustments to your driving style that you have learn. How to backup, how to park, how to safely change lanes, how to use your extra external mirrors, as well as subtler things like cross-winds affect your driving style, how the trailer affects fuel economy, and your stopping distances change. The same thing applies once connecting to the Internet. You need to KNOW more and not just how to run the applications that connect to the internet. We need to know how to safely connect and interact with the Internet. All this talk about engines and transmissions, that like needing to know how this dll interacts with that one. Patches and service packs however are like learning how you have to adjust your driving style to safely be on the road.

If we are going to use analogies, let's atleast compare apples to apples ....

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