Is it just me or are slashdotters loosing Slashdot Quotient (SQ)? The highest score on this thread is 4! Lots of 0s and 2s... Whatever happened to all the smart aleks out there? #just_saying

Don't let go of what you've got hold of, until you have hold of something else. -- First Rule of Wing Walking

This is what I consider to be the first rule of learning too. So, its not what we learn (a la dumping physical memory to disk), but our ability to learn it, make useful projections based on what we've learnt and then learn something else that's complex.
If not, we'd all be like the scientists in the movie Deep Blue Sea...

Heaven save us from the sharks...