On the other hand, that paragraph made me cringe more than laugh lol! My first thought was “so, if you can’t grasp the Net, you get sent to the technophobic’s gulag?”; on the other hand, I believe that not getting the Net *is* limiting for people…the future is on the electronic world, and if you can’t get there, you’ll lose a lot of opportunities for growth.

As for PHDs…hell yes, square as square can be, most of them…tend to drive me crazy lol!

“It might also be argued that the problem will solve itself as new users progress to become experienced ones. However, to take this approach would be to condemn new Internet users to years of unproductive effort. It also risks widening the Digital Divide if frustrated users, unable to use the Internet effectively to obtain desirable outcomes, abandon its use or fail to strive for new levels of attainment.”

Competely fails to take into account that someone that learns will guide their childen through the pit falls and advances them through a before mention problem. I mean it’s not like we have to use boot disks to play a different game any more in DOS. Things have improved. Did I read that part right? “fail to strive for new levels of attainment” Like there is some kind of mark branded on those that use and those that don’t and we are then thrust into a segregated world? Yeah pretty dry and need to reread, my attention span for that blather has gone the way of the telegraph. … _ _ _ …

PHD’s ahh god love em. I never ran into a more dedicated group in a structured constricted way of thinking in my life and I’m not speaking of the scientific method. It was a real shock how few of them could or would think out of the box. I loved to get in their face. I had one that I swear was stalking me apologizing for blowing off a prehistoric site as unimportant, in central Florida. Christ there was no settlement pattern that even took into account the sites location, it was hugely important. His arguement was, well we saved it, because of the turtles that lived there, what an ass hole. But back then I was picking the mentors and I choose those with the open minds, not easy to find.

I got a hoot out of one of the other pieces from this ones home page about online game friendship. Good lord, they used MUDs and they did it in 2000. I didn’t see a single referance to PvP either. I didn’t even think MUD’s were even around anymore, had gone the way of UseNet.

Damn depressing I tell you ;p
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And yes, I bet that was a linux user’s creation lol! Except he forgot the Vista logo on the glove :)

I’m half-way through writing a review, should be posted tomorrow some time, hopefully…monday at the latest.

So… internet depressing eh?
http://www2.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.htm

Poke the penguin until he responds. You linux users are behind this I’m sure.

So, you quit reading? Or just quit reviewing? :P