On Thursday 18 December 2008 12:34, Erach wrote:
My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM.
Are you sure?. That would be the ancient 640k + 256 K XT / AT Mobos. you cant use that. Well you can, but only if Kasab is standing behind you.
Now, what can a KIOSK do ---- why should cultural book depot or a college put a kiosk. How can you enhance the marketing appeal of a LINUX kiosk in any book-store (educational).
Book depot to attract customers with freebees. Colleges to stimulate learning.
Well, how about training courses English (from Hindi/Marathi/local Indian language) followed by online testing (a cybercafe would love this) followed by in-person testing or (in-camera testing in the cybercafe).
Who is the certifying authority? why would anyone accept your certification.
The training course could be scheduled for 1 hour of adult training or 30 minutes of adult training daily and distributed via DVD / CD ---- computer should not be needed if you want to reach the very poor --- but if you wish initially computer could be needed.
What are the consequences of boosting English,
More correctly biased people?
boosting Education, boosting even skill-based training and knowledge-based training ?
You can never have more education. It is never enough.
Well, Google language tools translates web-pages into Hindi (written) and shows original Wikipedia pages in English.
The IIT's have courses they distribute online. Why are you focusing on KIOSK and LINUX (Linux is merely a tool, Windows works just fine/see Wikipedia)
I suppose you are sponsoring the licence fee for windows XPee professional. No that is not being sold right?. so you have to sponsor Window$$ Vista AND the hardware that works with it. I humbly submit my application for the hardware you are so keen to sponsor.
I asked an old woman (67) whether she would put an Italian-Hindi cd (author it, she teaches Italian when she has students), she promptly said, what is in it for me ?
The fun of distributing knowledge. And maybe fame, riches and sainthood.