7 month ago
Linkorama : OLPC Party Trick - Face Juggling Your XO Laptop is easier than your PC
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Linkorama : plasticbag.org: On the OLPC Movement... - I expect them to decry the project as (at best) utopianist folly and (at worst) some form of western naïve semi-colonial oppression. Most of these arguments make no sense to me at all.
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9 month ago
nelson : Bunnie on OLPC XO-1 - Nice breakdown from an expert dissassembler
deusx : bunnie’s blog » Blog Archive » OLPC XO-1 - "If I were to make one general comment about the OLPC XO-1, it’s that its mechanical design is brilliant. It’s a fairly clean-sheet redesign of traditional notebook PC mechanics around the goal of survivability, serviceability, and robustness&quo
Simon Willison : bunnie's blog: OLPC XO-1 - bunnie’s blog: OLPC XO-1. Bunnie Huang critiques the hardware design of the OLPC XO-1. [via]
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10 month ago
deusx : OLPC and the Kindle - "I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed. I was impressed because it is a fully functional computer, with a screen size a tad larger than the Kindle from Amazon."
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11 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News story about the $100 laptop and the political problems that are stifling it - It's not by any means obvious that a laptop per child is the most urgent need in some countries, but it clearly could help some countries dramatically leapfrog their next generation. I for one hope it finds a market.
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11 month ago
nelson : "First word is Google" - Breathtaking arrogance and fabrication from Negroponte. But that's nothing new...
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Jeff Jarvis reports on the fun he had in London - It was really nice to finally meet him. We had a great conversation about future journalism, the web of data, the XO from OLPC and the BBC. Really lovely evening. Never seen Paula squee so much either!
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11 month ago
nelson : Technophilanthropy from a victim - Scathing view of $100 laptop, etc: "They almost always fail, but they satisfy the giver. To the recipients, the things have no context, no relationship to their ideas of themselves or their possibilities"
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11 month ago
nelson : $100 laptop UI - Nice 5 minute movie showing how it works
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : OLPC: Give 1 Get 1 - OLPC: Give 1 Get 1. The long rumoured “buy two OLPCs, donate one to the third world” scheme is actually happening. I plan to get one; the robustness, battery life and WiFi range should make for an excellent conference / outdoor machine.
Rod Begbie : One Laptop Per Child -- XO Giving - OLPC will be running a buy-one-donate-one scheme for the XO laptop: Pay $399 and you'll get a laptop for yourself and pay to send another to the developing world. [via] #
Khoi Vinh : One Laptop Per Child: Give 1 Get 1 - Starting 12 Nov, buy one of these laptops for a child in a developing nation and get one for yourself.
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old - Well-written (for a 12-year-old) review of the OLPC XO laptop. The main concern about how slow it is seems moot to me for the target audience for whom this is their first computer: I accepted three-minute loading times on my ZX Spectrum at that age. (An [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old - One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old: the internet is fast, cpu slow... heh
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14 month ago
43folders : First Encounter with an OLPC XO / A 12-Year-Old’s Review - Joey gets his adult-sized hands on a "One Laptop Per Child" machine.
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15 month ago
deusx : Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops - Yahoo! News - "Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organisation have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported on Thursday."
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18 month ago
adamrg : One Laptop Per Child Begins… - $14 Billion on Easter -- Celebrate the death of Jesus by buying useless crap. --or-- 140 *MILLION* Laptops to improve education around the world.
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Linux Today - Notes From a Senior Editor: A Close Look at the OLPC
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC NEWS | Public can purchase $100 laptop - Fantastic if it pans out -- The great unwashed will be allowed to buy (on eBay?!) an OLPC laptop, so long as they simultaneously pay for a second one to be shipping to the developing world. Sign me up! #
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21 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Technology | Public can purchase $100 laptop - "But customers will have to buy two laptops at once - with the second going to the developing world."
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22 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Technology | $100 laptop project launches 2007 - They totally need to sell these for $250 a pop to techies in the western world, take $100 to sponsor another device for a kid somewhere, use the rest for overhead costs.
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23 month ago
deusx : Edgar Gonzalez weblog ? Emulating the OLPC XO on a Mac (OSX) - "on emulating the One Laptop Per Child operating system, here there are the 3 steps for doing it on a mac running osx."
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24 month ago
deusx : The "View Source" key - "One of the inspirations for OLPC is the powerful ability children have to learn with minimal guidance; an ability which is consistently underestimated by adults."
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29 month ago
Rod Begbie : Negroponte's now $130 PC due in April 2007 - Nigeria is reportedly highly interested in the $100 laptop. Won't it feel good when you know that the "Your relative Larry Begbie has died" spams were produced on one? #
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29 month ago
deusx : OLPC - a photoset on Flickr - "The first working prototype of the $100 Laptop is unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting, 23 May 2006."
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