On Friday 11 March 2011 09:00:03 [email protected] wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > Mike Lxxxxx <[email protected]> > > Tue, 8 Mar 2011 19:28:12 +1100 > > > > Hi, I usually just lurk here, > > Thanks for 'de-cloaking' :)) > > > Basically, these things are a dead end. For educational purposes, they > > fail miserably mostly because they are extremely slow, clumsy to use and > > generally the only use these get are by naiive teachers and by lazy > > teachers who would rather have most of a class playing crappy Flash > > games on crappy laptops instead of teaching a class. > > One of my concerns when my children reach your age. > > > PS I'm a complete noob to mailing lists so I'm probably sending this > > wrong, sorry. > > Nope. Perfectly fine and thanks for giving us your > first hand view. It's similar to that I've heard > from friends who's own children have received > these machines. > > If you ever get the chance, you should see if one > of your parents (or another relative/friend) can > bring you along to a SLUG meeting.
Patrick your response was kind and graceous and I have no doubt whatsoever that it carried no slight. If Mike is a 17yo vs say a 12yo then it is condescending :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
