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   Just as well?

   

   dorpus, Dec 29th, 2003 @ 5:08am

   
   

   The crowd who would send the "virus warnings" to every single damn person in the world, who refuse to understand that what they are doing is unhelpful, only that others must be "in denial".

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   It's more than that...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 29th, 2003 @ 10:58am

   
   

   When I informed my family that I was moving all written communication to e-mail, I was politely informed by my father that my grandfather would never use use a computer because "many years of manual labor have left him with hands and motor skills that prevent him from using a keyboard".
   
   Until really good voice recognition and reasonabley "ubiquitous" operting sytems and devices come along, there will always be a segment of the population (as high as 20% by some estimates) that will never use personal computers on a daily basis.
   
   As for me, I mitigate all the bad stuff out there using knoppix live CD, Virtual PC and keep all of my "production" desktops off the Internet in general. harsh, but it works.

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   Re: It's more than that...

   

   dorpus, Dec 29th, 2003 @ 11:20am

   
   

   Yup. Even a simple innovation like allowing the monitor screen to be used like a touchpad would improve ergonomics, but that technology seems to come and go cyclically.
   
   

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