On a side note....here's what's news here in Maine...
Basically, our Independent Governor Angus King (Sounds like the named of a fine steak conglamorate, eh?) wants every 7th grader in Maine to have a Laptop. He's carved aside a big block of tax money to do this.
Well, a few points...
1) The computers he wants all the kids to have are Macs. According to the surveys I've read, 90% of the computing world is using Windows based systems. So, for a few million, he wants to train our kids to use/know an operating system only 10% of the market uses. Perhaps we should teach latin and russian instead of French and Spanish, too?
2) Our schools are in bad shape. Many schools are over 40 years old and need some work done on them to make it, or build new ones. Think any of this money can be diverted in this direction? Nope. Our governor has a vision. Perhaps to be Apple's biggest customer...
This guy is so liberal, he had to change from Democrat to Independent to get on board.
So, when you guys think you've had it with each other here and that common sense is rare...try living here, and watching a state government throw money out the window.
In a Utopian/Perfect society, sure, all our kids could walk around with laptops and be ages ahead of other kids in computer skills. But in the real world, that laptop wont do a lot if the building they are sitting in as falling apart, inefficent to heat, and its operating system caters to a minority of the computing population.
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: LePaul ]
