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Old 10-05-2011, 08:07 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by cHex View Post
That tablet is better than nothing, and I'm guessing those are the two options many Indian students have.

Here in America we take our technology so much for granted, we lose perspective on what technological miracles by which we're surrounded. Our smart cellphones, our dedicated eBook readers--and yes, the Indian tablet under discussion--are all vastly more powerful than computers many of us ourselves owned 15-20 years ago, and smugly considered ourselves lucky to own at that.
Of course, that really isn't an accurate description of America, either. We have a lot of poor people in this country that can't afford an iPad or even a $200 tablet.

Indeed, in America, poor (rural) people are pretty much the only demographic that it's still politically correct to make fun of.
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