On 12/3/05, Taran Rampersad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But rice by itself is not a meal, and lentils by itself is not a meal. > When you combine rice and lentils, you have a meal. We are not speaking > of cooking rice, Satish, we are speaking of meals. Technology for it's > own sake is rice - bland, and without flavor.
Well, if we talk about meals, let us talk about meals and not the table we eat on.. and so on.. talk about them at another time, another place, where appropriate.. otherwise you are playing god and will never get started.. All these things lie dormant without infrastructure. And the $100 laptop should be about infrastructure.. Car without a road is no good.. but when you end up having a reasonable number of cars, roads begin improving as well.. we can choose to start from where we can.. of course its better to start with a better road rather than a dusty one.. > > > That's an opinion which you have failed to substantiate here and on the > UN ICT Policy list. In fact, you have pointedly ignored responding to > specific questions, instead relying on rhetor There is no rhetoric here.. In my opinion if a product cannot get 1% market share in twice the product life cycle, its dead or still born.. > Shall I forward your email to the UN ICT Policy list to this list? My > unanswered response? Please do.. And I offer that Bill Gates disagrees with you, Satish. That's why > Microsoft's products are predominantly written in India. That is where you may have a different definition of product and that's is very clear from your observations.. India is a land of first rate masons of information technology.. they do not create solutions, design or architect.. they do what the client tells them.. just compare the projects that are locally accomplished.. exceptions apart, not one measure up to anything the large corporations began doing a decade ago.. Bill gates does not create products in India.. He uses Indians to create product.. the value is not in the Indians.. its in the one who creates value and makes everyone else participate in that process making everyone better off in the end.. > > > > > What saddens me is that you fail to recognize your own country's > abilities. It is no surprise that you have not 'found a product worth > the name in 55 years of independence'; you do not appear interested in > finding one. Perhaps you could point out some things you consider to be > products to allow us some context for your opinions. NAME SOME.. I am saddened we do not have one.. you are saddened that I state the facts.. You have significantly failed to respond to direct questions, Satish. > Perhaps that failure to acknowledge and respond to those questions > indicates that there are truths to them; rhetoric works both ways. And > yet I am heartened that you fail to answer these questions, for it > demonstrates to me that the Emperor, in fact, has What is the direct question? Please restate.. I do not think you are in the business of creating products.. Please let me know if I am wrong.. I must eat now. I shall combine some rice and lentils, with some other > seasoning for a meal. I wish you to enjoy your bland rice. Your meal is simputer and mine is a little 3 pound vaio and you are happy with yours and I am trying to make mine a little better.. Just that you may have paid $250 and I paid $3500 and I want a $100 laptop and you do not want it.. -- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
