[ Kirby ] --------- | > | For me, the key questions all revolve around how to best take advantage | > of | > | computers, not on whether to use them or not use them. We're going to | > use | > | them -- that's a premise I start from. | >
[ me ] ------ | > "Indeed!"*3 [ Arthur ] ---------- | We are all in agreement .. to the extent that part of the analysis, | experimentation process fully realizes that part of taking advantage of | computers is in putting them aside appropriately. That's the hardest part, | the part that takes the most discipline - especially for geeks, or so it | seems to me. One geek "Indeed!" for you too. ;o) [ Arthur ] ---------- | I think I do in fact get it - get it enough to believe that my | kicking and screaming in opposition/question to where this is taking us is | not a total waste of bandwidth. Myself being a shy-geek and all that jazz I'd like to add that the exposure to computers have expanded my social network cross-country over the seas, it lead me to give speeches to large audiences (mostly about Python) and to become a part-time teacher. All of that goes contrary to my parents expectations regarding the time I spent with computers during my teenage years. Moreover, the OpenSource/FreeSoftware rescued some moral values semi-forgotten by corporations, governments and *perhaps* even the scientific community. So, I do not think that "putting computers aside" should be a major concern from the social nor from the ecological POV. I'll make an exception for those with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome symptons ;o) best regards, Rod Senra -- ,_ | ) Rodrigo Senra <rsenra |at| acm.org> |(______ ----------------------------------------------- _( (|__|] GPr Sistemas http://www.gpr.com.br _ | (|___|] Blog http://rodsenra.blogspot.com ___ (|__|] IC - Unicamp http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 L___(|_|] ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
