[ale] In case you thought we _weren't_ living in a William Gibson novel...

[Ned Williams]

Navigating Windows...Not a good article for the Sugar crowd.

Ned




2008/10/9 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>

> A quote from the OLPC mailing list...
>
> ***
> Oh, some more observations slightly off-topic:
>
> Here in Manila, internet cafe rates are now cheap due to extreme
> popularity and proliferation. You can go surfing or playing LAN games
> for 20 Pesos/hour which is about 42 cents. Going home, I pass through
> a depressed area and there are 5 internet cafes in there.
>
> I've seen 6-8 year old street children in groups of about 3, pooling
> together money to play 3D realtime strategy games like the newest
> command and conquer or counterstrike and take turns at the seat
> playing in cafes playing. They have absolutely no problem navigating
> windows.
>
> Hole in the Wall project all over again.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally_Invasive_Education
> http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm
>
> Only this time they're playing counterstrike and blowing up tanks in
> complex 3D RTS games :-/
>
> ****
>
> Kids today, they grow up in a Different World.
>
> -- CHS
>
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