This a great idea, and I hope a lot of people give thier support, but remember that there are lots of other ways to help, too.
My girlfriend's father was recently in the hospital for several months awaiting a heart transplant. He couldn't do any sort of physical activity, and so I brought him one of my old NES systems and a few games.
He told me later that they helped him stay sane since he was stuck in his hospital room all day. He was tired of watching TV, but Mario and Link were great company!
My poor mother has a minimal (but still better than many's) understanding of computers. She has been using a Wintel machine for years, and has given in to much of the anti-Apple propaganda. I, personally, have never owned a Mac, but I bought an iMac for her birthday recently for the sole purpose of her setting up and updating a website. I knew that learning HTML was NOT an option, as she is just not suited to programming. (What is is with doctors and computer illiteracy?:) Anyway, it's coming along great, and hopefully she'll have it ready to go up soon so I can get her some web hosting...
I guess the point is... Macs are easy for newbies.
Something tells me that we won't ever see this in real life. It'll turn out to be just another "perfect world" scenario that'll turn up in some optimist's futuristic fiction.
Living in Iowa, I have had the (mis)fortune of meeting virtually every presidential cantidate since I started voting. In the political arena, the citizens of my state have some power, too bad most of them are elderly farmers who rarely watch anything besides the local news. It will take a state who sees that Open Source and Verifiable are the ONLY way to go. I'd love to see this happen in Iowa, but with all our youth leaving, that might be hard. Thankfully, I live in Iowa City (see previous link). All you fellow Iowans out there! Call your state representative! Let's show the country how great electronic voting can be!
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This a great idea, and I hope a lot of people give thier support, but remember that there are lots of other ways to help, too. My girlfriend's father was recently in the hospital for several months awaiting a heart transplant. He couldn't do any sort of physical activity, and so I brought him one of my old NES systems and a few games. He told me later that they helped him stay sane since he was stuck in his hospital room all day. He was tired of watching TV, but Mario and Link were great company!
My poor mother has a minimal (but still better than many's) understanding of computers. She has been using a Wintel machine for years, and has given in to much of the anti-Apple propaganda. I, personally, have never owned a Mac, but I bought an iMac for her birthday recently for the sole purpose of her setting up and updating a website. I knew that learning HTML was NOT an option, as she is just not suited to programming. (What is is with doctors and computer illiteracy? :) Anyway, it's coming along great, and hopefully she'll have it ready to go up soon so I can get her some web hosting...
I guess the point is... Macs are easy for newbies.
Something tells me that we won't ever see this in real life. It'll turn out to be just another "perfect world" scenario that'll turn up in some optimist's futuristic fiction. Living in Iowa, I have had the (mis)fortune of meeting virtually every presidential cantidate since I started voting. In the political arena, the citizens of my state have some power, too bad most of them are elderly farmers who rarely watch anything besides the local news. It will take a state who sees that Open Source and Verifiable are the ONLY way to go. I'd love to see this happen in Iowa, but with all our youth leaving, that might be hard. Thankfully, I live in Iowa City (see previous link). All you fellow Iowans out there! Call your state representative! Let's show the country how great electronic voting can be!