That is very true, but I was thinking more of someone like yourself pulling out a laptop for a quick 5 minutes and saying "look at this [om nom nom explain here]"
But yes, I can understand - It was more of a "its there if you need it" rather than a "we have to use it". As you said yourself, it's just my 2p Joe O'Dell 9M ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Year 9 G&T Student at Samuel Whitbread Community College 09jod...@samwhit.org.uk samwhit.org.uk On 24 Mar 2010, at 14:08, Alan Pope wrote: > On 24 March 2010 13:55, Joseph O'Dell <09jod...@samwhit.org.uk> wrote: >> Alan - I can understand, but i'm sure there is going to be something that >> makes us go "I wish we'd bought laptops", so it's just a safe guard! >> > > Sure, I just have experience of attending a fair few events. At 'geek' > events where computers are intended to be used such as install-fests > or Bug Jams it's common to see people with their heads-down not > talking to each other because they're on IRC/IM/twitter on their > laptop. Indeed at many geek fests people sit _next_ to eachother and > talk on IRC rather than talk in real life. It's quite sad. > > At social gatherings - such as this - it makes less sense to provision > such facilities because it stops people talking to each other. Part of > the whole idea behind social gatherings is to get to know each other > and socially interact. > > Just my 2p. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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