16th August 2005, 8:09 PM
Yes, national attention, for exactly 2 hours :D.
Well, everyone needs a computer these days. It doesn't need to play video games for THOSE types :D, it just needs to process words and um... voice comm... voice recording. "Good enough" for what they are using it for. And, let's face it, most of those people are dressed like POOR people. Like, embarressingly poor. Like, supporting 3 children with a job flipping BURGERS poor (well okay that's just not possible). So, if they can run out and get a device that will transform the way they think and work FOREVER (because obviously it's just the lack of portable word processing that is holding them back, as opposed to inherant character flaws), they WILL.
And yes, they will ignore common sense. lazy is correct. Math is power!
Well, everyone needs a computer these days. It doesn't need to play video games for THOSE types :D, it just needs to process words and um... voice comm... voice recording. "Good enough" for what they are using it for. And, let's face it, most of those people are dressed like POOR people. Like, embarressingly poor. Like, supporting 3 children with a job flipping BURGERS poor (well okay that's just not possible). So, if they can run out and get a device that will transform the way they think and work FOREVER (because obviously it's just the lack of portable word processing that is holding them back, as opposed to inherant character flaws), they WILL.
And yes, they will ignore common sense. lazy is correct. Math is power!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)