On Thursday 18 December 2008 12:34, Erach wrote: > My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM.
Are you sure?. That would be the ancient 640k + 256 K XT / AT Mobos. you cant use that. Well you can, but only if Kasab is standing behind you. > Now, what can a KIOSK do ---- why should cultural book depot or a > college put a kiosk. How can you enhance the marketing appeal of a > LINUX kiosk in any book-store (educational). Book depot to attract customers with freebees. Colleges to stimulate learning. > Well, how about training courses English (from Hindi/Marathi/local > Indian language) followed by online testing (a cybercafe would love > this) followed by in-person testing or (in-camera testing in the > cybercafe). Who is the certifying authority? why would anyone accept your certification. > The training course could be scheduled for 1 hour of adult training > or 30 minutes of adult training daily and distributed via DVD / CD > ---- computer should not be needed if you want to reach the very > poor --- but if you wish initially computer could be needed. > > What are the consequences of boosting English, More correctly biased people? > boosting Education, > boosting even skill-based training and knowledge-based training ? You can never have more education. It is never enough. > Well, Google language tools translates web-pages into Hindi > (written) and shows original Wikipedia pages in English. > The IIT's have courses they distribute online. Why are you > focusing on KIOSK and LINUX (Linux is merely a tool, Windows works > just fine/see Wikipedia) I suppose you are sponsoring the licence fee for windows XPee professional. No that is not being sold right?. so you have to sponsor Window$$ Vista AND the hardware that works with it. I humbly submit my application for the hardware you are so keen to sponsor. > I asked an old woman (67) whether she would put an Italian-Hindi cd > (author it, she teaches Italian when she has students), she > promptly said, what is in it for me ? The fun of distributing knowledge. And maybe fame, riches and sainthood. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
