On 1/5/07, Thomas Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that these will not be gifts "from the people of the US". They will be sold to the governments for use as textbooks in schools. That changes the dynamic considerably.
Hmm, instead of the receiving governments getting them for free from the US, they're paying for them. Other than the need to charge a higher price to get their money back, I'm not sure I see how the dynamic is changed.
Tom On 1/5/07, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 09:38, m h wrote: > > I'm not sure I get your point. Are you saying that the interface > > should be the same as "grown up" computers? Or are you saying that if > > you were traveling through Africa you wouldn't stoop down low enough > > to use said computer created by "Americans"? > > I think he's saying that the laptops may not actually make it to the kids > they're intended to serve. I can see the point, but I'm hopeful that the > design is sufficiently kid-oriented that most of them will. > > I fiddled with the VMWare image a bit, too, and found it to be very, very > different, and hard for me to use. That's not to say that it's a bad > interface, in fact I think the logic behind it makes a lot of sense. It's > just not what I'm used to. > > Shawn. > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > -- Tom Haws Have a beautiful day. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
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