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| Thread ID: 81480 | 2007-07-28 23:23:00 | $100 laptop. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 573703 | 2007-07-28 23:23:00 | This will be of interest I think ex Economist. www.economist.com |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 573704 | 2007-07-28 23:47:00 | Those things are surprisingly good. But I can't see how it would get people into "programming" as inferred by its comparison to the Sinclair ZX. Maybe they should have chucked Python (http://python.org/) in there. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 573705 | 2007-07-29 00:47:00 | I think it is more to do with getting kids from improverished African nations into computers. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 573706 | 2007-07-29 00:52:00 | Thats right, so that in 5 years time the jobs that were taken from people in their own countries and farmed out to India will now be taken from them and farmed out to some third world dust bowl where the children have not only been conditioned to live without food but between bouts of war,malaria and burying their siblings they managed to develop some mad computer skills. Requiring payment of only 3 cents a year the multi-nationals will make even more millions. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 573707 | 2007-07-29 00:59:00 | I think it is more to do with getting kids from improverished African nations into computers. Why not donate any left over Apple II computers? Money, for most people, is spent on food and shelter. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 573708 | 2007-07-29 01:02:00 | I don't think technology from 1977 would be that much use to them. Steve Jobs did actually offer to don't a substantial amount of copies of OS X for the project but I believe he was turned down in favour of Linux. Besides, the Apple II was a desktop not a laptop. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 573709 | 2007-07-29 01:23:00 | I don't think technology from 1977 would be that much use to them. Steve Jobs did actually offer to don't a substantial amount of copies of OS X for the project but I believe he was turned down in favour of Linux. Besides, the Apple II was a desktop not a laptop. I take it you mean donate as compared to don't? Take the time to read. I assume you have moved from a certain view to Auckland? Keep pushing your barrow. And of course we all know that parts of Africa have power and some do not. Even Auckland does not have power at times. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 573710 | 2007-07-29 01:31:00 | The OLPC machines were to run fully open source (as defined by the FSF) software. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 573711 | 2007-07-29 01:48:00 | I take it you mean donate as compared to don't? Take the time to read. I assume you have moved from a certain view to Auckland? Keep pushing your barrow. And of course we all know that parts of Africa have power and some do not. Even Auckland does not have power at times. I have "certain view" from Auckland. ;) My point was that the $100 laptops that are powered by hand cranking would be more use and probably more powerful than the 2nd ever personal desktop computer from 1977 that needs to be plugged in to work. Auckland does have its share of power supply woes which I was not debating. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 573712 | 2007-07-29 02:29:00 | Thats right, so that in 5 years time the jobs that were taken from people in their own countries and farmed out to India will now be taken from them and farmed out to some third world dust bowl where the children have not only been conditioned to live without food but between bouts of war,malaria and burying their siblings they managed to develop some mad computer skills. Requiring payment of only 3 cents a year the multi-nationals will make even more millions. So thats what it's all about,thanks for that Met,would never have thought of that. |
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