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Developing Nations To Test New $150 Laptops
New Scientist ^ | 2-13-2007

Posted on 02/13/2007 8:31:42 AM PST by blam

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To: blam
Here it is.....


http://laptop.org

41 posted on 02/13/2007 11:56:16 AM PST by XR7
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To: ASOC
My response to this idea is similar to my response to "affordable housing," which is in turn similar to Winston Churchill's attitude toward a Parliamentary plan for substituting cheap, coal-fired destroyers for the oil-fired modern destroyers the Royal Navy had asked for. Churchill asked, "Who would breed slow race horses?"

Keep building better houses, and let the poor buy the old ones.

Keep building good computers, and driving down the cost of production. While these guys are fussing around making something cheap which has a generator in it, others are making Blackberries and such - and that is what the entry level computer for the poor man will look like.


42 posted on 02/13/2007 1:32:29 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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To: avg_freeper

Just another waste of money. I think that pencils or shoes would be of more use, but we must assauge our guilt over having computers by giving every child on earth one. It is just silly.


43 posted on 02/13/2007 1:44:19 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: blam
and a version of the Linux operating system

It's an efficient OS therefore they can keep the CPU costs low producing an inexpensive and useful tool.

44 posted on 02/13/2007 1:48:18 PM PST by Lexinom (www.gohunter08.com)
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Damn, now I will get 100 of those "I am from Nigeria" emails. My email is practically useless already....


45 posted on 02/13/2007 1:51:01 PM PST by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: blam

I can't help but wonder how soon they will be available on Ebay.


46 posted on 02/13/2007 2:04:51 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: Bob
Not too shabby when you consider that the older 8" floppies held even less. :=)

Yup. I typed college English papers in Wordstar, running on CP/M on a Zenith machine with a wood case and 8" floppy drive. That, and a daisy-wheel printer got the job done.

47 posted on 02/13/2007 2:09:17 PM PST by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: CarrotAndStick

Good find.

Additionally, I can't see this not becoming a boon for the child pron market, as it seeks employees from the third world.

Good grief...


48 posted on 02/13/2007 2:50:06 PM PST by Apogee
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...A string pulley, which Bender likens to a "salad spinner", will soon replace the hand crank. A minute of pulling generates 10 minutes of electricity. The display switches from colour to black and white for viewing in direct sunlight...

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49 posted on 02/13/2007 4:05:53 PM PST by lmr (The answers to life don't involve complex solutions.)
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A minute of pulling generates 10 minutes of electricity.

A minute is a long time to pull. 10 minutes on the computer goes by quickly.

50 posted on 02/13/2007 10:10:31 PM PST by scott7278 (Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men!)
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