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From: "Mike Easter" 
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu Linux For Dummies
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:35:55 -0800
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dgk wrote:
> Mike Easter"

>> do you
>> just want something made out of deadtrees [or recycled paper] that
>> you can hold in your hands and smells good like a book?

> Sometimes folks have to kill time on the subway and don't have access
> to internet.

What's a subway?  ;-)

Wait just a minute;  we do have trolleys and busses and freeways around
here, which also have some trouble connecting, because we also have
canyons and other obstructions to wifi connectivity.  :-)

However, with the ubiquitous popularity of laptops;  I think we will
need to say that there are far more laptops than subway riders.  So, if
you have a laptop, whether you are on the subway, trolley, or bus -- you
can read the ub online information which you downloaded for that
purpose.  If you are in a car on the freeway traffic, which is what most
people do around here, then I guess that you would need something
besides a book or a laptop, maybe something to convert text to voice.

-- 
Mike Easter
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