27 Feb
2013
27 Feb
'13
2:45 p.m.
Tony, look, it is perfectly fine if you personally
choose to live a
1980s existence using 1980s technology.
You could have much newer and more powerful computers if you wanted;
I've offered to give them to you, deliver them and set them up and
show you around them. You refused. You thought about it for a bit,
I'll give you that, but you said no.
Actually, you offered me machinwes that had 'issues' lile they didn't
always work. No thanks. I would mcuih rather have a slow and ancient
machien that I know will work. I can depend on that.
In any cae, a faster PC would not give me fast internet access. I would
also need broadbandmm, surely.
That's fine. It's your choice, your call.
But because you choose not to have broadband, choose to use a 1980s
PC, choose not to have 21st century technology in your life - does not
mean or imply that everyone else should.
Something like 80% of the country has broadband in the home.
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And to suggest that the children should be learning
how to debug a
PDP/11 is as absurd as saying that they should be able to build a
yurt, find some suitable flint, make a stone spear tip and slaughter
and butcher a mammoth.
Yes, our ancestors did that, 10,000Y ago or something, and these were
essential life-skills then. They are not any more.
Yo u may be happy to have j=random-unknown do vrythign for you. I am not.
If you are happy taking ready-made stuff and just using it, then fine.
But I don;t see how that can be said to be educational _about said
ready-made stuff_.
-tony