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Re: [News] $100 Linux Laptop (OLPC Project) -- a Marvel

  • Subject: Re: [News] $100 Linux Laptop (OLPC Project) -- a Marvel
  • From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:48:49 +0200
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> __/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Thursday 10 August 2006 23:02 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> __/ [ Jerry McBride ] on Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:40 \__
>>> 
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Low-Tech OLPC Laptop Still a Marvel
>>>>> 
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | By picking small-fry chip fabricators instead of Intel for the 500
>>>>> | megahertz central microprocessor, the OLPC project has shunned the
>>>>> | American industrial establishment, as it has since the project was
>>>>> | introduced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Summit in
>>>>> | Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28, 2005.
>>>>> `----
>>>>> 
>>>>>                         http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/52283.html
>>>> 
>>>> You know... this is fantastic stuff and I hope it goes well. But I can't
>>>> help but wonder if the money could be spent better on stuff like, food,
>>>> medicine or security.
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I'm jaded. But I can't help  but imagining the image of some
>>>> starving kid, in a place with no electricity, running water or food busy
>>>> hacking his new laptop... It just doesn't fit...
>>>> 
>>>> But that said, it's whay cool. I wonder how long it will be, before the
>>>> laptops start turning up elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> I guess it's a matter of teaching a man to fish so he can feed himself,
>>> for life. It's a long-term investment. Think, for example, about giving
>>> pennies to a homeless man rather than offering the guy a job and some
>>> shelter.
>>> 
>> 
>> That's how I was taught... a parabole... My mom was great with an "old
>> saying" and a "short switch"... :')
>> 
>>> The laptop is intended to bring education that increases one's product
>>> from the crops, helps birth control and so forth. As a first step, that
>>> is.
>>> 
>>> Don't forget that the OLPC project is aimed at countries and continents
>>> other than Africa. Hunger is not the pressing issue everywhere.
>>> 
>> 
>> That, I did not know. Thanks. And thank you, Roy, for all the linux posts.
>> I appreciate each and everyone of them.
>
> Thanks. You said something else that was flattering in another thread. It
> keeps me going...

How about something to stop : PLEASE GROUP THEM ALL TOGETHER in ONE
POST, Thanks. Its a pain in the butt to deal with all the individual
posts : post a fucking digest - then if we are interested we can look at
the digest. As it is, it seems you're just interested in the sound of
your own voice. Personally I have your NEWS posts killfiled : but I
*would* be interested in a digest. The % of your posts which get replied
too is insanely low. This should tell you something.




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