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- neel360, on 10/11/2007, -1/+68For a front page story, this has seriously got to be one of the worst comment threads I've ever seen.
- humpy, on 10/11/2007, -5/+57This whole thread makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a soldering iron.
- nutsackninja, on 10/11/2007, -23/+68Why give them to children in Nigeria? All they are going to learn from them is how to send out 419 scams.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -9/+53Am I the only one who didn't really expect this to work out? Feels good to know it's really happening.
- jhub908, on 10/11/2007, -5/+28how long until they find goatse/tubgirl? poor poor kids, they'll never have seen it coming.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22We may are standing before one of the most important events of our times and all you have to say are stories of spamkings and phishing queens? These laptops are going to be used as education tools ALONE they are incapable to play videogames, outside the very basic they have preinstalled. I'm sure kids are going to see them for what they really are, a replacement for their books, they'll study from them, they'll learn from them each and every day and I don't think they'll ever see them as WE see computers, maybe they'll do so only whey they'll introduced on the "big" computers, but before that they have one powerful tool at their disposal.
Instead of looking to ebay for XO laptops better look 15 years in your future when educated people from Africa and Latin America will be taking your jobs.... - dasilva333, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24i think the server is running on one of them $100 laptops:
http://olpc.tv.nyud.net:8080/category/children/
youtube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrODHZe1hs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Folpc%2Etv%2Enyud%2Enet%3A8080%2Fcategory%2Fchildren%2F - bimtott, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19@darkriegn
your old iPod mini didn't cost $100 at the time - redxii, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20> I mean *****, just send the little bastards $100 so they can eat.
Why not "teach them to fish"? Tell the adults to get the sand out of their vagina and stop killing each other or whatever their problem is.
I have fresh water, plenty of food and computers that don't need cranks because this country isn't having a new civil war every week. - catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18When you post on digg, do you reply to the wrong topic?
- elarson, on 10/11/2007, -4/+19ushering in the next-gen porn users.
- MacParrot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16"Cool. Maybe they will start showing up on eBay now. I want one."
The kids or the computer? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17Madness????
THIS. IS. OLPC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Narrator, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18First comment? First Dugg Story? Signed up Today? You are a shill.
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News & Videos Dugg: 1 - Narrator, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15The whole world outside of the U.S is not Liberia, Nigeria or DR Congo. Yes some developing countries are totally fuxxored beyond belief but Brazil, Thailand, and Uruguay have their act together a bit more.
- RedHatMatt, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18...who immediately sell them for $200 to geeks on Digg.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17My old iPod mini holds more than those laptops.
- zadadka, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Agreed neel.
I would far rather hear and read the thoughts of those provided with these laptops and what they mean to them, good and bad (so including chiriuy from Uruguay, below) than the small-minded ramblings of over-privileged teenagers to be seen here. - sovereign3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11All joking aside (especially those in extremely poor taste), these laptops will revolutionize teaching in poorer countries of the world. There is currently a huge information divide between those who are wired and connected to the internet, and those who are completely shut off from the information age. Enter $100 laptops that will provide computer savvy skills, internet access, and completely novel ways of teaching children in lesser developed countries.
In one short generation, these computers will impact these children's lives in ways unimaginable before. They are no longer shut off from the world of information and are competing on a level playing field. In essence, a mere $100 laptop will prove to be an immeasurable investment on their futures. - OropheR, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Send some of these laptops to Lithuania... (Europe). Thank you.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I believe it's based on Fedora Core if I remember right. So yes, Linux.
- slrranma, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Looks like they were hosting there site on one of these too
- fluxion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9something about seeing little kids in 3rd world countries googling and looking at wikipedia just makes the nerd in me tear up
- m3t00, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9yeah, what I thought... But it looks like they might be keeping them at the schools? Not much networking infrastructure in the average neighborhoods?
- Narrator, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9About the selling them in the flea markets. The great thing about an OLPC is because it doesn't run windows and is all custom parts it's resale value to someone who isn't an uber-geek linux hacker is pretty limited and that market is limited in developing countries :). I mean really someone is going to buy it for $50 and do what with it in Uruguay? I think the thing even has software in it to make it turn into a brick eventually if it is stolen.
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I wonder how many edits there had to be to the videos.... I'm sure the kids "accidentally" stumbled upon pr0n in the first 5 minutes.
- CannedMango, on 10/11/2007, -11/+19Finally the children of Thailand can get access to their porn. The suffering is over people.
- calvmari, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Mire mama, mire que puedo hacer con el conejo! *hump* *hump* *hump* Theo noooooooooooo!
(Look Mom, look what I can do with the rabbit!) - GIJosh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Are these built on linux or some other proprietary OS?
- calvmari, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7The funds toward these laptops is mutually exclusive from funds that would contribute to protecting the streets. Even if they were from the same sources, research into helping children is well spent.
- daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Kinda ironic that bill and melinda give out vaccine and medicine on one hand while oppose to the OLPC on the other.
Regardless, since bill and melinda is already sending them vaccines, should we send more vaccines or help them in other ways? Like education?
Furthermore, where do you think bill get the money to be so charitable? - shibz, on 10/11/2007, -10/+17nah. they're all going to be sending spam
- Charbax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7If you are a Linux developper and want to develop some nice apps for it, you can contact http://laptop.org and they will send you one if you promise you need it to test the stuff that you want to develop for it. You can also develop for OLPC without having one by just downloading the source codes and emulators of the OS at http://wiki.laptop.org
- DonPMitchell, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12Let's keep sending those poor children bibles and cheapo laptops. Meanwhile, Bill and Melinda Gates are sending them vacines and medicine, which must just be an evil Microsoft plot.
- daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6like what? These laptops are sent out only to countries that can already feed its people, with shelters and bare basic education.
These kids are not the same kids you see advertised on christian tv standing behind a fat missionary. - saifatlast, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It really seems like the comment threads have gone downhill lately.
- Charbax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6If you don't want Uruguay to try and get itself out of the standard its in, then spend 20 years distributing books and building other infrastructure. OLPC is all about trying to jump several phases of development all at once. A laptop potentially gives every child a personal window into the whole world of knowledge, information, news, video, pictures, music and people. When you have that kind of tool you can in principle do anything with your life, all opportunities are suddently reachable. Cause if you stay ignorant, you have no chance at all to have ambition to change things for the better, request a more just society where you live and look for using the digital Internet tool to improve your chances for a better life.
Think about all the Web 2.0 apps which you could try and build for directly addressing the situation of those kids and their families in Uruguay. - nytel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6pretty damn amazing..
- had3l, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6LOL, for those who don't understand portuguese, I'll translate something I thought was somewhat enlightening:
In the "Quinto dia com o XO" video, one of the boys near the end says (with a "hey, what you looking at, I'm not doing anything wrong" face): "Yeah, we gonna use it to learn more about the human body..." "The human body?" "The human body."
Figure out what that means. - dasilva333, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6didn't have time to update heres some more links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=034k6WPZVwc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Folpc%2Etv%2Enyud%2Enet%3A8080%2Fcategory%2Fchildren%2F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcw0PtYTaA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Folpc%2Etv%2Enyud%2Enet%3A8080%2Fcategory%2Fchildren%2F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzsp5EaKngc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Folpc%2Etv%2Enyud%2Enet%3A8080%2Fcategory%2Fchildren%2F
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrODHZe1hs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Folpc%2Etv%2Enyud%2Enet%3A8080%2Fcategory%2Fchildren%2F - nadeau, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4In the 3 video : A kid showing the classic "Robots" game to his friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_(computer_game)
I liked that game so much !!! - rebopper, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9Sorry about that. I feel partly responsible.
- eleventybillion, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5From a corporate viewpoint, I'm guessing it is more attractive to donate to foreign children, so that once they become well-educated, the same corporate donors can then farm out work to those nations for pennies that would have formerly gone to an American worker for a real salary. In the meantime, at least there will be more gold farmers in WoW.
- nachotronics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Totally agree, it's a matter of giving as many kids as possible better chances by education. They see this from a different perspective, they are happy for having a computer to learn stuff, not worrying about the storage capacity, specifications or porn, as most of the people here seems to be...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yeah, most of us been knowing of this project for a while...Since its on the frontpage every other week!
- XTX7X, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@ Pezza
That's a good point, but the market for these in developing countries is going to be a lot larger than in the US. I'll bet we'll start to see them in some schools here too, sooner or later. - sovereign3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Bravo. My sentiments exactly.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+11Oh wow, already on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/KIDS-TALKING-LAPTOP-COMPUTER-child-notebook-toy-desktop_W0QQitemZ290116835963QQihZ019QQcategoryZ11732QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting - daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3ok, tell me how YOU would improve education?
SInce you don't live in a third world country you wouldn't know that the majority of adult there work so that their children can have a better education. This is a great boost for the children education and it free some of the economic finance on education from the parents.
Keep laughing because no one except your monitor will really care. - fredclown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Anyone know what OS these things are running?
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