Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!keele!nott-cs!ucl-cs!news From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) Newsgroups: comp.society.development Subject: Re: Who is on the net? Message-ID: <1597@ucl-cs.uucp> Date: 10 Jun 91 10:10:43 GMT Article-I.D.: ucl-cs.1597 Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk Lines: 41 Mike Lawrie writes: > In <1591@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes: > > >What I may be trying to say is that you may be able to put up a solar > >cell, with a $50 (that food for ~100 days in some areas) terminal and > >a modem, to push data down a telehone line "reliable for 3 hours a > >day", but where are you are going to buy or exchange or cannibilise > >spare parts for any part of the equipment that breaks down? > > What you are actually saying is a lot of trash, viz don't let > anyone start because it is conceivable that something might > possibly go wrong with their equipment and this could not get > fixed. > > You have not the slightest idea of what can be done with a "mirrors > and string" approach, and this represents a very disappointing > but not atypical attitude from someone in a high-tech country. If > you encourage something to get off the ground, you'd end up surprised > at what results could be achieved, if you kill it because the sky > might fall on your head, you get nowhere. > > Mike > -- > Mike Lawrie > Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa > ............................................... > Rhodes University condemns racism and racial segregation Hmm... I am lost. I thought I was saying if you did not have bread, having a terminal was not high on the list of priorities. Let them send email? Gordon. ____ Gordon Joly +44 71 387 7050 ext 3716 Internet: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!{uunet,ukc}!ucl-cs!G.Joly Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT