olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com— The One Laptop Per Child project became a reality in Uruguay, as the 160 children of school #24 in the humble town of Cardal received their XO computers.
May 12, 2007View in Crawl 4
Why exert yourself to the extent of answering those specious objections? Whatever the shortcomings of OLPC, Negroponte and all the folks involved have created something that may make a difference in the lives of poor people. That's yet to be seen. But the advice-spewing windbags on Digg have lots of *advice* for Negroponte. I'm sure all that advice'll make, oh, just a whole lot of difference in any poor person's life.Hey you loud-mouthed jerks, why don't haul your sorry asses down to a local soup kitchen or St. Vincent de Paul Society, maybe deliver some meals to poor geezers, or man-up at any outfit that's trying to help people with something other then their mouths. Once you have to break a sweat helping someone who needs help you'll have a whole different take on free advice.
not cynical..... but you need to live in a country to know what its like...heres an example... you put a band aide on a burn, but dont treat it... sure your helping the burn, but your not giving it the right type of treatment... theres better and more helpful ways to fix the problem...
guttertrash, OLPC made the correct choice to use free open source as much as possible. If you bothered to read the laptop weekly news you'd see the strides they've made in power management by tweaking the code in the firmware, BIOS, drivers, kernel, libraries and apps simultaneously, you'd understand the benefits even apart from the philosophical payoff.Also since the Sugar UI isn't a conventional desktop UI, none of the Mac's benefits apply.
themastersb, you can flip the screen over and still operate it (e.g. an e-book reader with that amazing screen tech), thus you need some control buttons on the front.
arpadMay 13, 2007
Why exert yourself to the extent of answering those specious objections? Whatever the shortcomings of OLPC, Negroponte and all the folks involved have created something that may make a difference in the lives of poor people. That's yet to be seen. But the advice-spewing windbags on Digg have lots of *advice* for Negroponte. I'm sure all that advice'll make, oh, just a whole lot of difference in any poor person's life.Hey you loud-mouthed jerks, why don't haul your sorry asses down to a local soup kitchen or St. Vincent de Paul Society, maybe deliver some meals to poor geezers, or man-up at any outfit that's trying to help people with something other then their mouths. Once you have to break a sweat helping someone who needs help you'll have a whole different take on free advice.
timo1023May 13, 2007
Wait, if this thing can read eBooks, it actually might be worth buying...
afx1May 13, 2007
...school #25 is gonna be pretty pissed about this.
ka2errMay 13, 2007
and they have some great bands, for example my favorite "La vela puerca" ( <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vela_Puerca">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vela_Puerca</a> )
ixneonxiMay 13, 2007
LOL U-R-SAY
lltn1May 13, 2007
not cynical..... but you need to live in a country to know what its like...heres an example... you put a band aide on a burn, but dont treat it... sure your helping the burn, but your not giving it the right type of treatment... theres better and more helpful ways to fix the problem...
Closed AccountMay 14, 2007
@urusai: lol, dugg for the homer quote.
skierpageMay 16, 2007
guttertrash, OLPC made the correct choice to use free open source as much as possible. If you bothered to read the laptop weekly news you'd see the strides they've made in power management by tweaking the code in the firmware, BIOS, drivers, kernel, libraries and apps simultaneously, you'd understand the benefits even apart from the philosophical payoff.Also since the Sugar UI isn't a conventional desktop UI, none of the Mac's benefits apply.
skierpageMay 16, 2007
themastersb, you can flip the screen over and still operate it (e.g. an e-book reader with that amazing screen tech), thus you need some control buttons on the front.