I agree that the donation helps the kids, but what gets to me is the choice of Massachussetts. It seems to me that any donation would be far more useful for states like New Mexico or Mississippi, which have consistently underperformed when compared to wealthy New England states, such as Massachussetts or Vermont.
I think I'd have modded you insightful instead of funny.
At the end of the article, I was left wondering where the actual article was. It seemed like everything they were giving was background information leading up to an actual article. They worked their way up to Warcraft and Diablo and just left it at "...and they lived happily ever after". No mention of Starcraft, no mention of Warcraft III, nothing concrete.
I personally find it spookier to contemplate the world he grew up in.
Can you imagine how someone who is sixteen years old today would deal with going back to 1936, when your wife's grandfather was that age? No television, no computers, no electricity in a lot of places, no phones in a lot of places. For that matter, there were still places in the United States without indoor plumbing.
We don't know what the future will hold. We do know what the present holds, though we don't think about it as much.
I'm not going to tell you that it's a high percentage, but it is there. Even if you call it 5% unconnected computers, that's still another 2% to remove from the dial-up users.
Most people I know with computers have broadband. It's not that much more expensive anymore. Most of the ones that use dial-up (again, in my experience) are people that rarely use their computer and probably wouldn't be willing to invest $150 in a product they don't need in the first place.
Your math is fuzzy...
Assuming we agree that 26% of american households are using broadband, that doesn't mean the remaining 74% have dial-up.
After all, only 42.1% have a computer in the first place. Subtract that from the 74% and you end up with closer to 32%. Even that number is likely high, since not everyone who owns a computer has an internet connection.
While still a lot of people, it's by no means 3/4 of the country.
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I agree that the donation helps the kids, but what gets to me is the choice of Massachussetts. It seems to me that any donation would be far more useful for states like New Mexico or Mississippi, which have consistently underperformed when compared to wealthy New England states, such as Massachussetts or Vermont.
Even Warcraft II is still fun. I played that one earlier this year.
I think I'd have modded you insightful instead of funny. At the end of the article, I was left wondering where the actual article was. It seemed like everything they were giving was background information leading up to an actual article. They worked their way up to Warcraft and Diablo and just left it at "...and they lived happily ever after". No mention of Starcraft, no mention of Warcraft III, nothing concrete.
I personally find it spookier to contemplate the world he grew up in. Can you imagine how someone who is sixteen years old today would deal with going back to 1936, when your wife's grandfather was that age? No television, no computers, no electricity in a lot of places, no phones in a lot of places. For that matter, there were still places in the United States without indoor plumbing. We don't know what the future will hold. We do know what the present holds, though we don't think about it as much.
Not completely impossible, no, but (at least at this point) based entirely on speculation.
I'm not going to tell you that it's a high percentage, but it is there. Even if you call it 5% unconnected computers, that's still another 2% to remove from the dial-up users.
Most people I know with computers have broadband. It's not that much more expensive anymore. Most of the ones that use dial-up (again, in my experience) are people that rarely use their computer and probably wouldn't be willing to invest $150 in a product they don't need in the first place.
Your math is fuzzy... Assuming we agree that 26% of american households are using broadband, that doesn't mean the remaining 74% have dial-up. After all, only 42.1% have a computer in the first place. Subtract that from the 74% and you end up with closer to 32%. Even that number is likely high, since not everyone who owns a computer has an internet connection.
While still a lot of people, it's by no means 3/4 of the country.