Cheap laptops bring equality to Villa Cardal
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| Maria Fojo echoed that sentiment at her home the day after the
| program's launch. ''Sure they will play computer games. But also,l
| ast night they already read the instructions on how to take photos
| [with the laptops]. At least they will now be forced to read. They
| never read books,'' said the mother of sixth-grade twins, Franco
| and Lucas.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/111829.html
103 Reasons Not to Use a Mobile PC in School
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| 67. It's from Microsoft.
| 68. It's not made by Apple.
| 69. It's Windows.
| 70. It doesn't come with Linux.
| 71. We use Unix at work.
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http://tabletpceducation.blogspot.com/2007/05/103-reasons-not-to-use-mobile-pc-in.html
http://tinyurl.com/33co7b
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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