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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by tkahn6 on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @09:34AM (#1454852)
It would help me a lot if you defined what you mean by 'holistic' since you use it frequently in your article. I'm not familiar with this term used in other contexts besides medicine. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/holistic isn't very helpful and the term remains rather opaque.
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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by ThomPete on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @09:39AM (#1454866)
Hmm thought that expression was well known also outside medicine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism

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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by tkahn6 on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @09:44AM (#1454880)
I guess that would make me ignorant in that respect. The first paragraph of the wiki article clears it up for me. Thanks.
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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by elblanco on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @10:08AM (#1454946)
holistic is generally used to mean "in its entirety" or "across the whole".
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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by adambard on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @03:52PM (#1456089)
If it was spelled "wholistic" it would be a bit more intuitive, if more confusing phonetically.
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Re:Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers by someone_here on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @09:39AM (#1454864)
I think someone did a find-and-replace for the word "Naturally".
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