unfortunately I think that it will most likely be added to content before it is broadcast. I would think that broadcasting the ads on a separate channel would requre a redesign in existing tuners to overlay 2 different channels. Thats my 2 cents anyway.
Ok. perhaps you misunderstood me somewhat. I wasn't trying to imply that most of india is illiterate, however looking at the 1991 census data literacy rate was 73.08% overall. The literacy rates in some of the poorer states such as Bihar were much lower. Bihar for example had a literacy rate of only 38.5% . In some specific districts it was even lower. Now if you want to sit there and tell me that literacy will not be a factor in the adoption of a computer for the poor, I would say you are missing some important facts.
you actually bring up a good point. While the creators seem to have put in a lot of thought into how to get funding and distrubute it to rural locations, what about literacy? I know it is supposed to have an intuitive user interface, but what if the users are entirely illiterate? While the computer might be cheap and give them access to the web it won't do them much good if they can't read it
freeloading?? How is it freeloading if I sign a contract with an ISP for a specified amount of bandwidth per month? If I find out that I was thrown back to dial up speeds for using the service at the level of performance that it was advertised at, I would be pissed off. At least if they switch to that kind of plan I would be expecting it to be cheaper, because they kicked all those 'freeloaders' off the network... yeah right. Like that would happen.
while it very well might be easier to just use a fax modem, I just don't think it would provide the same level of satisfaction that you would get from watching the black paper loop through the machine over and over again until you are disconnected. It also beats pasting that same black tiff into a document till it 1000 pages long
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I'm sure Enron, worldcom, and xerox are saying the exact same thing
unfortunately I think that it will most likely be added to content before it is broadcast. I would think that broadcasting the ads on a separate channel would requre a redesign in existing tuners to overlay 2 different channels. Thats my 2 cents anyway.
Ok. perhaps you misunderstood me somewhat. I wasn't trying to imply that most of india is illiterate, however looking at the 1991 census data literacy rate was 73.08% overall. The literacy rates in some of the poorer states such as Bihar were much lower. Bihar for example had a literacy rate of only 38.5% . In some specific districts it was even lower. Now if you want to sit there and tell me that literacy will not be a factor in the adoption of a computer for the poor, I would say you are missing some important facts.
now wouldn't that be a new low
you actually bring up a good point. While the creators seem to have put in a lot of thought into how to get funding and distrubute it to rural locations, what about literacy? I know it is supposed to have an intuitive user interface, but what if the users are entirely illiterate? While the computer might be cheap and give them access to the web it won't do them much good if they can't read it
freeloading?? How is it freeloading if I sign a contract with an ISP for a specified amount of bandwidth per month? If I find out that I was thrown back to dial up speeds for using the service at the level of performance that it was advertised at, I would be pissed off. At least if they switch to that kind of plan I would be expecting it to be cheaper, because they kicked all those 'freeloaders' off the network... yeah right. Like that would happen.
Now that would be a great feat of social engineering. Thousands of /.ers on hold for 4.95 a minute...
Why not just krazy glue the bricks together? I remember a post a long while back on some guy who built a lego desk through this method
while it very well might be easier to just use a fax modem, I just don't think it would provide the same level of satisfaction that you would get from watching the black paper loop through the machine over and over again until you are disconnected. It also beats pasting that same black tiff into a document till it 1000 pages long