From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <283f5df10610271210n1ea91e7q27405af1f4e6cdaf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:10:59 -0400 From: "LiteStar numnums" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] going down a dark alley due to a bad starting point In-Reply-To: <2CDAA326-16DE-4FA6-9FC0-F6A700BFB18B@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <45425229.7090807@lanl.gov> <2CDAA326-16DE-4FA6-9FC0-F6A700BFB18B@telus.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: d8366d2c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ouch. 1982 all over again. > > On 27-Oct-06, at 11:38 AM, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > > http://userful.com/ > > > > > > 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. > > > > ron > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFFQlUWpJeHo/Fbu1wRAkXeAJ9jPw/SpNgDWn61LLKI3/z4ynv2VACgusng > O68aY8pYYZX2Jh/f3ggLfAo=3D > =3DjJgv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --=20 If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness. -- G=FCnter Grass