If that article were on./ it'd be modded "Troll" so fast it would make your head spin. Still, it's clearly bringing them some traffic (AdSpeak: "page views"), and perhaps even moving people to register in order to submit letters refuting it.
Look for their editor to encourage more such columns from their contributors in future.
This is not cheaper than a refurbished P90 with a 13" monitor!
Have you any idea how much labor is involved in refurbishing a huge mixed bag of random surplus, antiquated PCs, and in providing appropriate instructions for each to semiskilled volunteers and unskilled users? Each and every one of them would carry its own unique set of challenges -- you couldn't use a cookbook approach, and when you were finished you'd pretty much have to send a guru out into the field with each one.
In contrast to which, PS2s are all alike, you only have to design the system once, and you can support them all in a consistent way. Far easier to train volunteers, and there'd be simple and consistent cookbook support.
What you're suggesting sounds economical until you factor in the phenomenal quantities of sweat.
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Look for their editor to encourage more such columns from their contributors in future.
Could someone point me in the direction of one o' them boatloads of battles what apparently need to be lost? I'm really much better at those.
In contrast to which, PS2s are all alike, you only have to design the system once, and you can support them all in a consistent way. Far easier to train volunteers, and there'd be simple and consistent cookbook support.
What you're suggesting sounds economical until you factor in the phenomenal quantities of sweat.