I like the concept of this idea (that just sounds confusing, but it works in my head). Kinda heart warming commercialism. I'm gonna see how it works out before doing anything.
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quote:Aren't those OLPC laptops so cool? Don't you wish you could get your hands on without having to move to a developing country? Well, now you can buy, not one but two nifty laptops, according to the BBC News.
Although the focus of the One Laptop Per Child project is mainly on delivering five million laptops to developing nations, one idea for commercial viability is for Western citizens to sponsor a machine for a developing world child.
That does sound kind of cool. I like the idea of it.
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quote: It will be a very interesting experiment to see what will happen when we deploy a million laptops in Brazil and a million laptops in Namibia."
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Well, I wouldn't need the laptop. However, I do unsderstand that there are a lot of people out there willing to help others as long as they get something in return. I know that sounds harsh, but I don't know of any other way to say it right now.
I would donate the laptop if I did this. I have enough stuff, I don't need to lug this thing around.
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Laptops to educate people is certainly a good idea. However, if people are starving to death a laptop doesn't help all that much. First food, then education.
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There are groups already doing that. Not that it is helping that much. However, they have a side of the market. If they improve the education, then maybe they can start helping themselves. Far fetched, I know, but just maybe.
Besides, just giving them food isn't going to get them out of what they are in. They are dependant upon what is given them. They need to move past that. It might be called a way of multitasking, that they not only get nurishment, but also learn and develop.
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quote: Well actually they use flash memory, so they'll just have to store the pr0n in their minds.
Great Scott! I just looked at the hardware specs and there's, like, no way to store stuff on these suckers at all. Looks like everything is going to be stored in their mind.
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Hmm, I don't know much about African languages, but how specialized would the keyboard need to be? Would that be a potential problem?
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Anything that hasta be stored can be uploaded from the OLPC via WiFi into the school computer's hard drive, then redownloaded to the OLPC via WiFi from the school computer.
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quote: Well actually they use flash memory, so they'll just have to store the pr0n in their minds.
Great Scott! I just looked at the hardware specs and there's, like, no way to store stuff on these suckers at all. Looks like everything is going to be stored in their mind.
Well, these laptops will be going to kids that are probably already equipped with carving tools and are in areas surrounded by trees, so...
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When this thread was first made, I have to admit I looked to see if The Onion had an old 'modem in Africa' article they did stashed on the net somewhere.
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