Of course the big game with 5% of their subscribers using 50% of their bandwidth, is funnily enough that includes their own Internet properties and the bandwidth and the laods of data they chew up as well as other commercial Internet companies.
Fun with numbers and statistics, now what do their domestic only subscribers use, I bet it would sound really odd of they say that approximately 0.00001% of their subscribers using 49.99% of their bandwidth.
The cost of training employees is the same as the cost of retraining them with forced upgrades due to document incompatibilities. You do not ever pay M$ 1 licence fee in point of fact Ballmer stated that M$ intends to update windows and office every two years, in the typical working life of an employee that represents 40 licence fees, and 40 retraining sessions, oh sorry I forgot the server 20 more licence fees and exchange 20 more licence fees, and the support kits (the real help files and the manual that you can't download for free) 20 more licence fees. Now add archive document conversion costs, document conversion costs with other companies incompatible format (M$ specifically won't help).
Open office of course is still the cheapest way of producing PDFs, or a document format that you know the person at the other end will be able to access with out being forced to spend any money. So your point about training is that you are complaining that schools do not teach Open Office and force companies to spend the additional cost, hmm, quite a valid complaint and something that should definitely be acted upon. When public schools are clearly favouring one companies product and disadvantaging other companies products something definitely needs to be done, especially when there is a free open source product with a standardised document format, a very interesting point you made.
As for your small software firm, you mustn't be running a very good server perhaps you should switch to Linux, as an Open office install can be automated as a cron job with barely any effort at all, and it would take far far less time than the time lost from receiving just one incompatible document from a client.
Freedom of choice exists in the same way as you are not allowed to attack other people, or damage other peoples property or as in this case show some respect for a least a few minutes every four years for the people that have sacrificed the lives to preserve the democracy you enjoy but are not willing to make even the most minimum effort to support.
Immature, non participation, and simply expecting other people to provide you with democracy and the freedoms it does provide, other people to speak out against injustice and ensure everybody has access to the law, other people to risk their future to ensure equal political representation, that is just cowardly, lazy and apathetic.
Most shopping centres can barely get the shopping carts to have all four wheels to point in the same direction, now you want to add generators and make it even harder for some mother towing a child to push those shopping carts.
This application of technology will be really interesting. Will they allow the customer to wheel those expensive trolleys out to the carpark where kids can get a hold of them. When they lend you a trolley for your use how will they define the extent of your use and your contractual obligations with regards to the use of the trolley and it's return.
If your are clumsy placing items in the cart and break the screen have your bought the shopping trolley. On top of all that, with all those wireless trolleys in the supermarket, it will be radiating a lot of rf energy into the customers and more disturbingly into young children and where will the locate the antenna with regards to child seats in some shopping trolleys.
Of course you also have the hassle of building battery charging facilities into the shopping cart storage facility which now has to be completely under cover and temperature controlled to prevent condensation issues at the charging point. Yeah, it all sounds like a great idea in some marketdroids head, and M$ as always will make all sorts of vacuous promises, but when it comes to the actual implementation that's when all the real problems start.
This is no argument in TCO, one hand you pay a software licence fee and a software licence audit fee and software licence update audits as protection as possible piracy charges, on the other hand you don't pay any of those costs.
Administration is largely identical except of course as regards upgrades and data compatibility issues, which with proprietary closed source proprietary software and forced upgrades always result in substantial additional costs from lost productivity.
Your fabrications just really don't cut it, proof of the pudding is in the eating with FOSS you can publicly demonstrate your skills, with closed source proprietary software you can not (you are just part of an unidentified team) for a start, if you can code it you certainly should be able to administer and support it.
The simple truth to cut past the lies is, M$ pays open source coders far more than they do windrones and they have publicly admitted it.
At the end of the day, FOSS is simply cheaper, so in a recession it becomes more acceptable in order to save costs. Also in a recession there are more software coders not working under conditions of full time employment and with the greater free time they seek to contribute to FOSS, create an skilled coder reputation and become more desirable in terms of employment.
So in recession closed source proprietary code suffers, greater piracy, no upgrades, and if they squeeze to hard people just swap to a FOSS alternative, often easier during a recession as people are not as busy and are in fact actively searching for and implementing more cost efficient solutions.
In terms of government, significant pressures build to ensure local employment and that is where FOSS of course shines as it really is all about local services, support and custom localised coding that more accurately fulfils local business and government needs ie for every other government other than, Seattle, Washington, bragging about throwing away money on M$ software licences during a recession would become political suicide.
Illegal immigration is illegal simply because the people attempting to immigrate have not be vetted against standards set by the government to attempt to ensure they will be productive beneficial members of society, which of course is reasonable and understandable (examples, in good health, no criminal record, mentally stable, be employable and willing to become a loyal citizen). Secondly the society they are attempting to emmigrate to must be capable of sustaining the additional population as well as the additional burden of accommodating, supporting and teaching the new immigrants, so they must set and maintain acceptable immigration limits.
Now as for new laws, I would implement. First and foremost would be compulsory voting, it is the absolute minimum effort that any citizen should be into maintaining and supporting a democracy that they are a part of and failure to do so should be penalised and secondly that all voting and vote counting systems should be open and manual, after all it is meant to be a government of the people by the people and for the people so why are machines doing the voting or the vote counting. Hence I would attempt to ensure 'DEMOCRACY' takes what ever course the people define.
Of course the computer geek in me also sees the need for Internet 3, an Internet that connects primary and secondary schools together and access is restricted, monitored and censored, so parents can let children wander a secure controlled children's network and not be subjected to what is basically an adults only world wide web.
What is dangerous about this is, it is not about just email, it is about all you Internet communications. Searching, file download, web sites visited (you download html), so the can create a full, in their interpretation psychological profile of you ie. we think you are guilty hence you are. Want to be a free thinking democratic voter under a republican government, based upon failing a range of pre established filters and data relations, they can ensure you are excluded from society as much as possible, no access to any public transport, no access to any government employment, no access to any 'secure' contracted to government private employment, random destructive searches of your person and property as well as all the members of your family resident at that address.
Want to try to deny you disagree against government policy, or that you wont vote to keep them in power, or that you don't 100% agree with a corporation that supports the current government and your life and the future of your family will be systemically targeted. Unless you publicly support them and their chosen evangelical religion of power and control, you will become the enemy, and will be accused and judged by the 21st century Internet inquisition and potentially targeted for harsh interogation techniques.
Don't fit their current preferred 'mold' of what they define to be a good, white, evangelical, american and honestly how well will you and your family fare under the 21st century Internet inquisition. Conspire to be free and believe in democracy and justice and you will learn how easily conspiracy laws can be abused.
The benefit of local with in the household, is people learn to balance their power usage, when they are own batteries ie. the batteries will only supply average demand not peak, they have to decide which items to leave on. Customers could also decide whether to buy or rent the batteries and what kinds of renewable energy sources they also wish to incorporate in the personal household supply.
A more logical step would be to introduce electrical storage capacity in the typical domestic supply. A home with 24-48 hour battery storage capacity for their typical electrical use. That way the whole electrical system can be more effectively balanced (it would make for a far more efficient electrical generation system), brown outs and black outs would be completely avoided and alternative energy supplies can be more effectively utilised. High capital cost but a real effective long term solution (not too costly if the battery storage packs are mass produced).
Whilst I can understand the frustration, it still most certainly was funny. Of course for some funny there are consequences, so have some fun with gizmodo, calculate the cost of the disruptions and send them a bill for it and until the pay, bad luck, they can't as an organisation attend any more events but do it all with a smile.
Well perhaps more care should have been made in the selection of the title and in the presentation of the website. Most people would immediately take it as an OLPC promoting web site, rather than a critical attacking web site with strong self promotional targets.
It would strongly appear the writer choose the title and designed the site for maximum self promotional goals and to generate as much controversy as possible ie. a self promoting shit stirrer http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/2006/america/blogging_big_leagues.html and the site the author points to clearly reflects that, combined with some extravagant ego boasts, of success, not in improving or working to a achieve better laptop but in making as much noise as possible and being heard. So it all comes done to the goal of generating as much personal profit as possible.
So for him the OLPC does not represent something of interest, or the harm he generates in depriving children of access to modern technology, it is simply a controversial topic he can target for a profit and the more controversy he can stir up the greater his profits. All he comes off as is typical worthless smooth talking slime, with a strong marketing/PR B$ slant, worse even than an intel closet blogger, at least the closet bogger believes in what they are doing, this guy just doesn't give a fuck as long as he is making money.
I think the point quite clearly is that you can not own the space above your own country. Anything you put up there is in orbit and will travel above many other countries. Let alone extrapolating space above your country as the earth rotates and orbits about the sun, by logical extrapolation you are now attempting to claim Chinese ownership of the entire galaxy. So space remains a shared resource and should be treated as such.
That's right, provide the identity thieves with even more reason to hack peoples computers, steal a copy of their MP3s along with their credit card details. You logic makes as much sence as M$'s warranty on the operating system. Have you not been paying attention, to all the security issues of the windows operating system or lost and stolen mobile phones.
Watermarking still is still stuck with the final point, no one can be held legally responsible for how far a copyrighted work has spread when it is watermarked in their name, unless of course some one is willing to warrant computer operating systems, media playing software as secure, stable, reliable and at a minimum delivered to the owner virus free.
Consider the software warranty like a car warranty, how can anybody hold you responsible for what your car does when the manufacturer explicitly excludes from the warranty the ability to steer the vehicle, use the breaks, look out of the windows, that the wheels wont randomly fall off, that you can turn off the motor, or that the vehicle can be taken over and operated by remote control by some passing stranger whether you are in the vehicle or not (consider a government that would accept that warranty as legal).
I bectha that Native Americans also wish that a certain columbas ass hat was also given the same, do it with your own money, short shrift.
Public funding for claiming ownership of international territory, cool, a new crappy excuse for even more wars, not that it is really all that desirable as the worlds oceans are currently being treated as the worlds sewers.
The endless mindless argument of define the invention prior to the invention logic. If the research into space exploration is not done, then no one can know what could been done. If you do not pay people to work hard and invent and experiment, then you will have no results to discuss, let alone expand upon. That of course is your goal, no advancement, no achievement, just it's mine, mine, mine, greed for it's own sake. Interesting choice of words, research and thought is just mental masturbation.
Of course the benefit with that, is all the idiots who ate (bat grease, shark lung etc...) would be long dead and they would not be experimenting on us. The modern era is not driven by quality, it is driven by greed, addictive, cheap ingredients and bugger the medium or long term consequences. How ever many die or suffer makes no differences as long as some corporate ass hat can walks away with a ton of profits now and they will grease as many political hands as they need to get away with it.
Perhaps a more modern test for new ingredients might be to feed them to corporate executives, leading share holders, politicians and their families for several years before the ass hats tried to mislabel it and sneak it into our foods.
No that actually makes threatened blackmail threats by RIAA/MPAA lawyers far worse. Best to get it out in public and when the RIAA/MPAA start threatening to send peoples children to jail for copying some trashy bit of content that the parents wouldn't want their children to have anyhow, then the stinking mess off copyright/wrong laws can be reviewed by the public and brought into the 21st century.
Honestly, I mean really honestly, it does not take all that much skill, to hire people to hire other people to run your company, to manage your staff or of course to do the actual work, whilst of course you take credit for everything including being the offspring of the creator of the company and his pretty but stupid spouse (even then, a lot of them are pretty hopeless at that and need to hire PR people to do it for them).
Most of those companies do pretty well, up until the point where the boss convinces them self that they are 'THE DECIDER', and then, well, they are pretty much fucked;).
For most companies if it ain't broke don't fix, so they will use IE until they have a major stuff up then they will switch to firefox. Add into the mix a whole lot of tech staff who don't want to retrain and only got into computers because of the money not because of any real interest and simultaneous to the major stuff up and the swap to firefox, those people end up looking for another job.
Let's not be too wide open with that invitation, when it comes to colour there should be some discrimination, I mean to say you can be any colour that comes natural (or even unnatural in the case of tattoos), but if you like to dress in white with a pointy hat, you are most definitely not welcome not even for a visit;).
Perhaps adding neuro stimulants into junk food might also not be that good a idea, unless you want to create a whole lot of junk food addicts. It isn't just sugar or fats or carbohydrates, the reality is, it is the junk additives and saturation mass media marketing that does the most harm.
Perhaps that McDonald's ass hat corporate executive should go out and get himself a Wii.
They know the harm they have caused they are even trying to get legislation passed to absent them from the legal liabilities of knowingly targeting addictive chemicals at children. The more junk food in the market the greater the problem, the greater the list of undecipherable or misleading ingredients on the label, the greater the problem, the more often lying slimly corporate executives stand up and blatantly lie about the real causes the greater the problem.
The solution, run a series of publicly funded, publicly open investigations into the junk additive industry, and hold the junk additive and junk food executives criminally liable for their murderous and destructive actions.
I would hesitate to ask what your preferred mass media news as entertainment and marketing you would deem to be a reliable/profitable source.
For once and for all, evolution does not mean you evolve to a higher life form, you just evolve to be a more effective breeder with in that particular environmental niche.
So in Florida and many other red neck US states you are seeing evolution in action, as more enlightened and intelligent people immigrate to more advanced US states (socially, economically and scientifically) and even to other countries, it leaves ignorant, bible bashing, single mothers to breed up and create the US military and police force of the future (and in a lot of cases of the present), good luck guys;D.
Perhaps the RIAA become more about making money for the RIAA, it's executives and it's lawyers and the RIAA members and the members customers where all just targets to squeezed for as much money as possible.
It is obvious that the RIAA has caused a considerable amount of harm to the image of the recording industry, as well as affiliated organisations like the MPAA and the motion picture industry.
The most damaging thing of all, it has brought a new 'public' focus on the whole principle of copyright, on how long it should last, what should the penalties be for infringing it, how copyright protection is obtained and most interestingly on what should or should not have copyright protection. Now that has been by far the most significant thing the RIAA has actually managed to achieve as damaging as it may be to their mass media suckers 'er' masters.
Caves are there, caves will always be there. Why would anybody want to live in anything but a cave. You do not need those new newfangled houses built of timber or bricks, the cave is good enough, so continue to rent space in the M$ hole in the ground.
Perhaps you have never heard of the term innovation or maybe they way M$ keeps using perhaps they don't really understand what it means.
I heard exact the same sort of nonsense about DOS or Unix and even for, fuck sack, about low res green screen monitors, gees, we don't need no stinking GUI.
Times change and it is only appropriate that teachers teach what will be used and not what was used. Education is about the future save history lessons for the history classroom not computer lab. Not to far off and every school child will have a durable cheap laptop computer that will cost a couple of hundred dollars and it will be far cheaper than the text books it replaces and one thing it absolutely will not have, is software on it that costs many times more than the hardware especially when you never ever can stop paying for that inevitable proprietary forced upgrade.
Yes, we are sick of the corporate B$ marketed Real World (TM), we want the real world (people) back.
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Fun with numbers and statistics, now what do their domestic only subscribers use, I bet it would sound really odd of they say that approximately 0.00001% of their subscribers using 49.99% of their bandwidth.
Cool, water boarding in 365 different languages, one for each day of the year, just what the US military needs.
Open office of course is still the cheapest way of producing PDFs, or a document format that you know the person at the other end will be able to access with out being forced to spend any money. So your point about training is that you are complaining that schools do not teach Open Office and force companies to spend the additional cost, hmm, quite a valid complaint and something that should definitely be acted upon. When public schools are clearly favouring one companies product and disadvantaging other companies products something definitely needs to be done, especially when there is a free open source product with a standardised document format, a very interesting point you made.
As for your small software firm, you mustn't be running a very good server perhaps you should switch to Linux, as an Open office install can be automated as a cron job with barely any effort at all, and it would take far far less time than the time lost from receiving just one incompatible document from a client.
Immature, non participation, and simply expecting other people to provide you with democracy and the freedoms it does provide, other people to speak out against injustice and ensure everybody has access to the law, other people to risk their future to ensure equal political representation, that is just cowardly, lazy and apathetic.
Most shopping centres can barely get the shopping carts to have all four wheels to point in the same direction, now you want to add generators and make it even harder for some mother towing a child to push those shopping carts.
If your are clumsy placing items in the cart and break the screen have your bought the shopping trolley. On top of all that, with all those wireless trolleys in the supermarket, it will be radiating a lot of rf energy into the customers and more disturbingly into young children and where will the locate the antenna with regards to child seats in some shopping trolleys.
Of course you also have the hassle of building battery charging facilities into the shopping cart storage facility which now has to be completely under cover and temperature controlled to prevent condensation issues at the charging point. Yeah, it all sounds like a great idea in some marketdroids head, and M$ as always will make all sorts of vacuous promises, but when it comes to the actual implementation that's when all the real problems start.
Administration is largely identical except of course as regards upgrades and data compatibility issues, which with proprietary closed source proprietary software and forced upgrades always result in substantial additional costs from lost productivity.
Your fabrications just really don't cut it, proof of the pudding is in the eating with FOSS you can publicly demonstrate your skills, with closed source proprietary software you can not (you are just part of an unidentified team) for a start, if you can code it you certainly should be able to administer and support it.
The simple truth to cut past the lies is, M$ pays open source coders far more than they do windrones and they have publicly admitted it.
So in recession closed source proprietary code suffers, greater piracy, no upgrades, and if they squeeze to hard people just swap to a FOSS alternative, often easier during a recession as people are not as busy and are in fact actively searching for and implementing more cost efficient solutions.
In terms of government, significant pressures build to ensure local employment and that is where FOSS of course shines as it really is all about local services, support and custom localised coding that more accurately fulfils local business and government needs ie for every other government other than, Seattle, Washington, bragging about throwing away money on M$ software licences during a recession would become political suicide.
Now as for new laws, I would implement. First and foremost would be compulsory voting, it is the absolute minimum effort that any citizen should be into maintaining and supporting a democracy that they are a part of and failure to do so should be penalised and secondly that all voting and vote counting systems should be open and manual, after all it is meant to be a government of the people by the people and for the people so why are machines doing the voting or the vote counting. Hence I would attempt to ensure 'DEMOCRACY' takes what ever course the people define.
Of course the computer geek in me also sees the need for Internet 3, an Internet that connects primary and secondary schools together and access is restricted, monitored and censored, so parents can let children wander a secure controlled children's network and not be subjected to what is basically an adults only world wide web.
Want to try to deny you disagree against government policy, or that you wont vote to keep them in power, or that you don't 100% agree with a corporation that supports the current government and your life and the future of your family will be systemically targeted. Unless you publicly support them and their chosen evangelical religion of power and control, you will become the enemy, and will be accused and judged by the 21st century Internet inquisition and potentially targeted for harsh interogation techniques.
Don't fit their current preferred 'mold' of what they define to be a good, white, evangelical, american and honestly how well will you and your family fare under the 21st century Internet inquisition. Conspire to be free and believe in democracy and justice and you will learn how easily conspiracy laws can be abused.
The benefit of local with in the household, is people learn to balance their power usage, when they are own batteries ie. the batteries will only supply average demand not peak, they have to decide which items to leave on. Customers could also decide whether to buy or rent the batteries and what kinds of renewable energy sources they also wish to incorporate in the personal household supply.
A more logical step would be to introduce electrical storage capacity in the typical domestic supply. A home with 24-48 hour battery storage capacity for their typical electrical use. That way the whole electrical system can be more effectively balanced (it would make for a far more efficient electrical generation system), brown outs and black outs would be completely avoided and alternative energy supplies can be more effectively utilised. High capital cost but a real effective long term solution (not too costly if the battery storage packs are mass produced).
Whilst I can understand the frustration, it still most certainly was funny. Of course for some funny there are consequences, so have some fun with gizmodo, calculate the cost of the disruptions and send them a bill for it and until the pay, bad luck, they can't as an organisation attend any more events but do it all with a smile.
It would strongly appear the writer choose the title and designed the site for maximum self promotional goals and to generate as much controversy as possible ie. a self promoting shit stirrer http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/2006/america/blogging_big_leagues.html and the site the author points to clearly reflects that, combined with some extravagant ego boasts, of success, not in improving or working to a achieve better laptop but in making as much noise as possible and being heard. So it all comes done to the goal of generating as much personal profit as possible.
So for him the OLPC does not represent something of interest, or the harm he generates in depriving children of access to modern technology, it is simply a controversial topic he can target for a profit and the more controversy he can stir up the greater his profits. All he comes off as is typical worthless smooth talking slime, with a strong marketing/PR B$ slant, worse even than an intel closet blogger, at least the closet bogger believes in what they are doing, this guy just doesn't give a fuck as long as he is making money.
I think the point quite clearly is that you can not own the space above your own country. Anything you put up there is in orbit and will travel above many other countries. Let alone extrapolating space above your country as the earth rotates and orbits about the sun, by logical extrapolation you are now attempting to claim Chinese ownership of the entire galaxy. So space remains a shared resource and should be treated as such.
Watermarking still is still stuck with the final point, no one can be held legally responsible for how far a copyrighted work has spread when it is watermarked in their name, unless of course some one is willing to warrant computer operating systems, media playing software as secure, stable, reliable and at a minimum delivered to the owner virus free.
Consider the software warranty like a car warranty, how can anybody hold you responsible for what your car does when the manufacturer explicitly excludes from the warranty the ability to steer the vehicle, use the breaks, look out of the windows, that the wheels wont randomly fall off, that you can turn off the motor, or that the vehicle can be taken over and operated by remote control by some passing stranger whether you are in the vehicle or not (consider a government that would accept that warranty as legal).
Public funding for claiming ownership of international territory, cool, a new crappy excuse for even more wars, not that it is really all that desirable as the worlds oceans are currently being treated as the worlds sewers.
The endless mindless argument of define the invention prior to the invention logic. If the research into space exploration is not done, then no one can know what could been done. If you do not pay people to work hard and invent and experiment, then you will have no results to discuss, let alone expand upon. That of course is your goal, no advancement, no achievement, just it's mine, mine, mine, greed for it's own sake. Interesting choice of words, research and thought is just mental masturbation.
Perhaps a more modern test for new ingredients might be to feed them to corporate executives, leading share holders, politicians and their families for several years before the ass hats tried to mislabel it and sneak it into our foods.
No that actually makes threatened blackmail threats by RIAA/MPAA lawyers far worse. Best to get it out in public and when the RIAA/MPAA start threatening to send peoples children to jail for copying some trashy bit of content that the parents wouldn't want their children to have anyhow, then the stinking mess off copyright/wrong laws can be reviewed by the public and brought into the 21st century.
Most of those companies do pretty well, up until the point where the boss convinces them self that they are 'THE DECIDER', and then, well, they are pretty much fucked ;).
For most companies if it ain't broke don't fix, so they will use IE until they have a major stuff up then they will switch to firefox. Add into the mix a whole lot of tech staff who don't want to retrain and only got into computers because of the money not because of any real interest and simultaneous to the major stuff up and the swap to firefox, those people end up looking for another job.
Let's not be too wide open with that invitation, when it comes to colour there should be some discrimination, I mean to say you can be any colour that comes natural (or even unnatural in the case of tattoos), but if you like to dress in white with a pointy hat, you are most definitely not welcome not even for a visit ;).
Perhaps that McDonald's ass hat corporate executive should go out and get himself a Wii.
They know the harm they have caused they are even trying to get legislation passed to absent them from the legal liabilities of knowingly targeting addictive chemicals at children. The more junk food in the market the greater the problem, the greater the list of undecipherable or misleading ingredients on the label, the greater the problem, the more often lying slimly corporate executives stand up and blatantly lie about the real causes the greater the problem.
The solution, run a series of publicly funded, publicly open investigations into the junk additive industry, and hold the junk additive and junk food executives criminally liable for their murderous and destructive actions.
For once and for all, evolution does not mean you evolve to a higher life form, you just evolve to be a more effective breeder with in that particular environmental niche.
So in Florida and many other red neck US states you are seeing evolution in action, as more enlightened and intelligent people immigrate to more advanced US states (socially, economically and scientifically) and even to other countries, it leaves ignorant, bible bashing, single mothers to breed up and create the US military and police force of the future (and in a lot of cases of the present), good luck guys ;D.
It is obvious that the RIAA has caused a considerable amount of harm to the image of the recording industry, as well as affiliated organisations like the MPAA and the motion picture industry.
The most damaging thing of all, it has brought a new 'public' focus on the whole principle of copyright, on how long it should last, what should the penalties be for infringing it, how copyright protection is obtained and most interestingly on what should or should not have copyright protection. Now that has been by far the most significant thing the RIAA has actually managed to achieve as damaging as it may be to their mass media suckers 'er' masters.
Perhaps you have never heard of the term innovation or maybe they way M$ keeps using perhaps they don't really understand what it means.
I heard exact the same sort of nonsense about DOS or Unix and even for, fuck sack, about low res green screen monitors, gees, we don't need no stinking GUI.
Times change and it is only appropriate that teachers teach what will be used and not what was used. Education is about the future save history lessons for the history classroom not computer lab. Not to far off and every school child will have a durable cheap laptop computer that will cost a couple of hundred dollars and it will be far cheaper than the text books it replaces and one thing it absolutely will not have, is software on it that costs many times more than the hardware especially when you never ever can stop paying for that inevitable proprietary forced upgrade.
Yes, we are sick of the corporate B$ marketed Real World (TM), we want the real world (people) back.