Re: [9fans] going down a dark alley due to a bad starting point

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

This is a very good idea for poor countries; I've a cousin who's a
missionary in Kenya & I recommended something like this after seeing
it mentioned elsewhere about African computing. It cut their costs
significantly & for enough terminals for all of the students. That
said, there was minimal internet usage (mostly uploading missionary
cost sheets & the like), a minor bible program & abiword. I couldn't
imagine doing this with some low-end PC that most of the businesses I
used to support always end up purchasing.

On 10/27/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
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> Ouch.  1982 all over again.
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> On 27-Oct-06, at 11:38 AM, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
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> > http://userful.com/
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> > this is about the best example I've seen in quite some time of how
> > a bad set of initial conditions can lead you to the dark side.
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> > ron
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