I think they have the right idea. First you allow the people who use the public access to knowledge to expand their horizons. You are rewarding the people who go out of their way to LEARN. When is the last time someone who could afford a broadband connection like most of us went to the public library. Maybe, often but I think most of us use the net or order books online. I enjoy my public library to keep up on current fiction but I rarely need to go there for information anymore. I think this is a good use of public money BUT, the best way to execute this program would be to use "free" or software that doesn't require a public license. This is why linux is so popular and why it could be the standard for browsers. We just need the great browsers to compete with IE.
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this seems to be the thing we need to fix our ENGINEERS arithmetic vagaries.
I think they have the right idea. First you allow the people who use the public access to knowledge to expand their horizons. You are rewarding the people who go out of their way to LEARN. When is the last time someone who could afford a broadband connection like most of us went to the public library. Maybe, often but I think most of us use the net or order books online. I enjoy my public library to keep up on current fiction but I rarely need to go there for information anymore. I think this is a good use of public money BUT, the best way to execute this program would be to use "free" or software that doesn't require a public license. This is why linux is so popular and why it could be the standard for browsers. We just need the great browsers to compete with IE.