Wednesday, February 05, 2003

The facilitating gets more 'interesting'. I am beggining to discover every single computer lab in the country restricts the users of their computers so much that they become little more than net browsing machines, which you can also write M$ Word documents on. No wonder city governments moan about supplying technology to their particular masses.....


"Hey lets get people empowered, by using computers."


"Sounds great! Then everyone will be happier in our town."


"It should only cost a few hundred thousand, but think of what people will be able to do"


"Yes, they will all be computer literate, and be better placed in today's world of ever complicating technology"


Months later.....


"Hey where is everyone?"


"Dunno, but that lab cost us a fortune!"


Would it have something to do with the small fact that the computers in these places are so restricted (in the name of vandalism) that nobody can get any real use out of them? Never even come close to simulating what a real computing experience is like. Some people still believe computers are too complicated and expensive to deal with. This way I think they will for ever more!



But there is a cunning plan in the works.... cue evil laugh and swishing black cape, while exiting stage left at the end of act I

And that evil plan has something to do with letting people in a lab know that there actually IS a right mouse button, and a file directory, that they CAN access.

Oo I am so annoyed I almost exceeded my measly bandwidth then for a moment..

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