[Sheflug] Re: Wind up Laptop

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted

> I came upon this some minutes after it had started (owing to
> watching News on BBC1), so missed the beginning.
>
> Was Linux mentioned?

Yes.  There was even a journalistic mention of Bill Gates scrabbling 
to get involved so that he could put winduhs on this hardware 
instead.  That was the BBC interpretation.
 
> I thought the part of the discussion I saw was very disappointing.
> The African gentleman insisting (no doubt with good reason) that
> there's more to providing education than giving every child a
> laptop: a few chairs and desks for schools would be a good start 

Yes.  You always get that with African projects.  But, it's true that 
food and books and chairs and tables can be more useful.  Then again, 
the world has changed and the internet can deliver a lot of education 
when used properly.  Plenty of satellites and Wi-Fi out there at low 
cost.

> -- 
> and the American lady brushing this aside and insisting that once
> they have their laptops they have all they need for learning by
> themselves; and trying unsuccessfully to be charming when she said
> so; neither really listening to the other

Yes

> I tried this morning to "Watch again" from the Newsnight website,
> hoping to fill in background I might have missed from the opening
> minutes, only to learn that last night's program will not be
> available on the Werb "for copyright reasons" (might this be
> because of the item about the Ian Blair lecture?). Bummer.

Hmmm..

Maybe it was just a wind up after all ? :)  

<looks a calendar for April 1st 2006>


-- 
Richard
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