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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (289)	12/4/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: William Epstein	Respond to of 1989

Robert Douglas; The world is full of anomalies, isn't it? Your question about the Chinese being shoeless struck my funny bone. They have a very good educational system for a third world country for the brightest and most privileged kids. However, their living standard isn't Western or anything near Western for all but the most privileged. So we see these interesting anomalies. They seem to put a larger portion of their money where it counts, in education, especially, math and science while we are brain dead. It would seem natural that they don't have Gucci accessories but they are all plugged into the internet. I understand that they don't use toilet paper either. Its not important to them. God help us if they ever decide they need it. PHOTOMAN

To: Robert Douglas who wrote (289)	12/4/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: manohar kanuri	Respond to of 1989

But the conclusion I drew is that there are a lot of geeks and nerds in this world. And takes some chutzpah to say it on SI? :) Don't know if you caught the FT Marketing series a couple of months ago but the first issue (or maybe the second) had an excellent write-up by a German prof. who outlined the Asian version of Maslow's hierarchy. The shoeless buying PIIs makes sense.... sort of. mano

To: Robert Douglas who wrote (289)	12/4/1998 4:00:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1989

I guess I'm a contrarian. A month ago I upgraded from a Pentium 133 notebook computer to the 300 Pentium II. I am very pleased with the change. Maybe I am a geek. I use my computer for speech recognition and art work. Both of these applications are like night and day running on the more powerful system. Naturally, I also spend a lot of time on the Internet. One could argue the faster machine offers little advantage for browsing, but again I find more memory and power allows me freedom to run six browsers, dictation and any other project I might be playing with at the same time. The new laptop also has a 15 in. screen which is very nice. Also, my hard drive is five times bigger and the graphics are better. Do I need it? I think so. Regards, Mark PS Once you start using voice dictation it gets hard to type. It is undoubtedly a great new application. Surprisingly enough, this is not Off Topic. I'm using Dragon Systems NaturallySpeaking which is majority owned by Seagate.