Is this it?
Posted on 09/29/2005 1:54:28 PM PDT by Graybeard58
porn, pirated movies, and free mp3's for the children of the world!
Far out, I want one. That being said, do starving, uneducated children need laptops?
Heaven forbid they start by doing it right here in the US.
But will they do Grand Theft Auto?
Really? I would be more than satisfied with "practically indestructible".
In the second year -- when Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hopes to start buying them for all 500,000 middle and high-school students in this state -- Negroponte envisions 100 million to 150 million being made. (He boasts that these humble $100 notebooks would surpass the world's existing annual production of laptops, which is about 50 million.)
Yeah, but can you send it down the slide w/out killing it? And anything with a handcrank can be broken by a child no matter how much rubber you wrap around it.
And let's not forget how little people care for stuff they are given for free.
This is an engineer's dream because it looks so great on paper.
Another liberal wet dream...(the most prominent one is West Wing, closely followed by Commander-in-Chief, with an aside real-story backdrop of GW getting caught with a 12 year old boy, enflagrante, mais qui!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!
Heheh, made me laugh at THAT one!
Several years ago I worked with the now-defunct Teledesic project, which billed itself as "the internet in space." One of their biggest goals -- pursued with an almost religious fervor -- was to provide cheap internet access to places where there were no phones. They had a very pleasant-looking market model showing how much money they could make off of this huge "un-served market."
Somehow they never stopped to realize that if there was really a market in those places, there'd already be phones and internet access..... (Iridium and Globalstar went bankrupt for much the same reason.)
Mr. Negraponte's got a great idea here -- but the real market would be people like us.
What's a computer?
I think it's a great idea. I agreed 100% with Newt Gingrich when he suggested like 10 years ago that it would be a hell of a lot more effective (and not much more expensive) for the government to buy a computer for each child in America than to buy computers for each classroom and then watch as the computer doesn't add a damn thing to classroom instruction.
You're an evil robot. I'm sure you edited the thread.
this is a liberal at work here. conservatives are not this stupid. nor are they this deluded about whether a computer will change these people's lives.
That being said, do starving, uneducated children need laptops?
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They need political reform.
You give every kid in the world a laptop with access to the Internet and I can guarantee you that you won’t have a problem with a lack of “hank cranking”.
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