Posted on 09/29/2005 1:54:28 PM PDT by Graybeard58
"connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks and be part of "mesh" networks in which each laptop would relay data to and from other devices, reducing the need for expensive base stations."
I can see the bot makers and SPAM purveyors salivating at that thought. Millions of uncontrolled laptops in a mesh network. That would be one heck of a Zombie network...
Of coarse, I'm a Decepticon......LOL!
HAHAHAHAHA I already got one of those in my closet from hell.
Not a lot of wisdom coming from such a 'smart' guy. :-)
What was that little computer at Radio Shack years ago? Chicklet keyboard, color display, real cheap, for kids.
Not until they get off their lapbottoms.
when they start getting Spam , they'll have plenty to eat.
WAAAAAA-HAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-*BWWWWRRRP*
O Man-O-Man, You owe me a New pair of boxer shorts.
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Engineers work in the real world.
Negroponte is a left-wing ivory tower geek.
Yeah damn it! Engineers uber alles! Sorry, back to my architecture planning.... :^P
It's amazing how the left will come up with 1001 'solutions' that always address giving away other people's money but never address the fact that the real problem is almost always moral and political evil.
I guess that's too unsophisticated.
The $100 laptop computers that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers want to get into the hands of the world's children would be durable, flexible and self-reliant.
Hmmm, does second or third childhood count?
Cool, me, too. Why not $100 laptops for all? I would love a laptop.
That being said, do starving, uneducated children need laptops?
Well, first things first, as UNICEF is likely to be involved. First, for the starving children, it's condoms, contraceptives and reproductive 'care' (abortions), then laptop distribution may begin.
Oh man, I'll bet those are real fast. You ever try to download a porn film with one of those P.C.s that have processors that belong in an ATM? It takes forever. And if this is for kids, how are they going to play Halo or Madden '05 on a machine with 16 megs of ram? This is a total waste. Won't be five minutes before Suvash is tossing it in the trash "It locks up every time I try to open this Anna Nicole Smith jpg."
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
It's amazing how the left will come up with 1001 'solutions' that always address giving away other people's money but never address the fact that the real problem is almost always moral and political evil.
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Agreed. FYI, I don't know if you've seen this story yet (on Oxfam and Sri Lanka):
http://www.neoperspectives.com/charity.htm
Cool. I figured it wouldn't be long until they were available to almost everyone. You think the internet is crazy now, just wait.
Within a year, Negroponte expects his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child to get 5 million to 15 million of the machines in production, when children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, South Africa are due to begin getting them.
Yeah, I am sure there are plenty of poor kids in the good ole USA that would like a laptop too.
This is not engineering, this is social engineering. What better way to broadcast the World Communist Vision Satellite Network to billions of little boxes in front of a future army of fellow travelers.
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