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When I emailed MIT students they responded with a blow off attitude of kids toward the learning disabilities issues and basically admonished me for even thinking about other students in the US. My point was simply to help both kinds of students. Why can't we help students in the U.S. and students in other countries? Not all school districts are rich and not all parents can provide that kind of support here in the U.S. Let's make this $100 laptop a win-win situation for ALL students.
Bill L.
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When I emailed MIT students they responded with a blow off attitude of kids toward the learning disabilities issues and basically admonished me for even thinking about other students in the US. My point was simply to help both kinds of students. Why can't we help students in the U.S. and students in other countries? Not all school districts are rich and not all parents can provide that kind of support here in the U.S. Let's make this $100 laptop a win-win situation for ALL students.
Bill L.
Computer recycler in NH
"beware of the pengiun"
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years and am growing skeptical about the value of
computers. They might help good studnets do better but
in many cases, weak or poorly motivated students are
so distracted by the play value of computers that they
do even less work and fall even further behind. Cheap
computers might make educating third world children
fall even further behind.
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years and am growing skeptical about the value of
computers. They might help good studnets do better but
in many cases, weak or poorly motivated students are
so distracted by the play value of computers that they
do even less work and fall even further behind. Cheap
computers might make educating third world children
fall even further behind.
When I said a "Kid with limited resources" I am not refering to a kid from Africa or a underdevelop country. It could happen to any country in the world even in the United States. Do you ever think that the Kids who suffered from Katrina will not have the same needs as a starving kid from some poor places in Africa, Asia, South America?
Any kind of non-lucrative initiative to help people is a bless of god. As an Engineer I always try to make things from the most effective and cheapest way. And personally a 100 dollars computer is not the cheapest and effective way.
What is the real need?
Increase education level? Provide internet access to everyone? Or trying to impress undervelop countries with advanced technologies from a "1st world country"? Are the creators of this project thinking that someone who don't know how to read or write will learn how to type on a keyboard of a computer?
I have been living for several years in third world countries as China and Mexico. It is true that not everyone there can affort a computer and a 100 dollars laptop will enrich the education of thousands of middle class kids from primary and secondary schools from some urban areas. Designing a cheap computer is not the solution when there are thousands of companies that are scrapping millions of old computers around the world. Who don't know that a old 486 can run perfectly a modest internet browser or office applications on any operating system. The reality is Who will need to stay at the top of the innovations? When the need of a computer will be satisfied with a old obsolete model(obsolet for us who can buy the news models)
I believe that the person who star with a project of collecting old computers, fix them and install a free operating system and few open source browsers or aplications, even installing a wireless card ($5 dollas now aday) and donate it to a kid who needs a computer for his school. Will be more efective and can star inmediatly without the needs of grouping a bunch of designers and big companies for a project that have been in a designing phase since few years. Its simple. Donate yuour old computer to a needed kid.
Mabey it's because most countries don't use 120vac for their buildings, and a hand crank is kinda universal? What are you republician? You can't give your crappy old comp to a student, and expect them to use it without an outlet. O don't suppose you have a spare generator? And lots and lots of gas to go with it? Because if you got some old gasoline you want to throw out, GIMMIE!
When I said a "Kid with limited resources" I am not refering to a kid from Africa or a underdevelop country. It could happen to any country in the world even in the United States. Do you ever think that the Kids who suffered from Katrina will not have the same needs as a starving kid from some poor places in Africa, Asia, South America?
Any kind of non-lucrative initiative to help people is a bless of god. As an Engineer I always try to make things from the most effective and cheapest way. And personally a 100 dollars computer is not the cheapest and effective way.
What is the real need?
Increase education level? Provide internet access to everyone? Or trying to impress undervelop countries with advanced technologies from a "1st world country"? Are the creators of this project thinking that someone who don't know how to read or write will learn how to type on a keyboard of a computer?
I have been living for several years in third world countries as China and Mexico. It is true that not everyone there can affort a computer and a 100 dollars laptop will enrich the education of thousands of middle class kids from primary and secondary schools from some urban areas. Designing a cheap computer is not the solution when there are thousands of companies that are scrapping millions of old computers around the world. Who don't know that a old 486 can run perfectly a modest internet browser or office applications on any operating system. The reality is Who will need to stay at the top of the innovations? When the need of a computer will be satisfied with a old obsolete model(obsolet for us who can buy the news models)
I believe that the person who star with a project of collecting old computers, fix them and install a free operating system and few open source browsers or aplications, even installing a wireless card ($5 dollas now aday) and donate it to a kid who needs a computer for his school. Will be more efective and can star inmediatly without the needs of grouping a bunch of designers and big companies for a project that have been in a designing phase since few years. Its simple. Donate yuour old computer to a needed kid.
Mabey it's because most countries don't use 120vac for their buildings, and a hand crank is kinda universal? What are you republician? You can't give your crappy old comp to a student, and expect them to use it without an outlet. O don't suppose you have a spare generator? And lots and lots of gas to go with it? Because if you got some old gasoline you want to throw out, GIMMIE!
choosing a cause like, "third world childen" is bound to get attention, but when you look a tiny bit deeper you see all it is is a cheap and nasty way to push open source on those who once again will have NO choice in what they get.
OS X was offered on the system for free, but as its *NOT* open source, it was rejected, its not whats best of the customer, its what is best to promote Open Source. and linux.
the money could be spent on many much more valuable and benifical uses, like schools or libraries. but that would not push Open Source, so its a non runner.
Brazil for example has a huge child labour problem, and its government has a very poor human right record, so you will entrust the government to hand out laptop, AND PAY FOR THEM, the money will have to come from somewhere, and its ALOT of money,
its a joke, and only goes to show what low level OSS will stoop down too to achieve their fanatical goals.
its really disgusting, and i hope everyone sees what your up too, and that NO ONE takes up your stupid and cynical "deal".. SCAM..
choosing a cause like, "third world childen" is bound to get attention, but when you look a tiny bit deeper you see all it is is a cheap and nasty way to push open source on those who once again will have NO choice in what they get.
OS X was offered on the system for free, but as its *NOT* open source, it was rejected, its not whats best of the customer, its what is best to promote Open Source. and linux.
the money could be spent on many much more valuable and benifical uses, like schools or libraries. but that would not push Open Source, so its a non runner.
Brazil for example has a huge child labour problem, and its government has a very poor human right record, so you will entrust the government to hand out laptop, AND PAY FOR THEM, the money will have to come from somewhere, and its ALOT of money,
its a joke, and only goes to show what low level OSS will stoop down too to achieve their fanatical goals.
its really disgusting, and i hope everyone sees what your up too, and that NO ONE takes up your stupid and cynical "deal".. SCAM..
why doesnt the FOSS people devise a scheme to enable programmers to get PAID for their code, and innovation.
this would allow people from the third world to WORK their OWN way out of povity, by learning new skills and becoming expert programmers.
the quiality of the code would vastly increase, and it would allow ANYONE, in the world to get out of the povity trap.
its clear everyone is willing to pay for software that is high quality and usefull, its also clean Linux/FOSS does not meet the grade in terms of commercial quality.
so make it so, improve the quality of software, AND the quality of life FOR ANYONE who chooses to learn and use there knowledge to earn MONEY.
there is no better way to get someone out of povity than to enable them to get themselves OUT of povity.
Not by giving them "handouts". it might be a good way for FOSS to recruit third world child labour for FOSS development, but is that something FOSS wants to do ??
if you want to help people, poor people from ANY country, PAY them to code for you,
pay them, they will become experts, they will produce code that people will be willig to PAY for,
everyone wins,, we get better code, and we help world povity.
but dont try to promote government sanctioned, child labour in third world countries for FOSS, its not a good look.. !!!
why doesnt the FOSS people devise a scheme to enable programmers to get PAID for their code, and innovation.
this would allow people from the third world to WORK their OWN way out of povity, by learning new skills and becoming expert programmers.
the quiality of the code would vastly increase, and it would allow ANYONE, in the world to get out of the povity trap.
its clear everyone is willing to pay for software that is high quality and usefull, its also clean Linux/FOSS does not meet the grade in terms of commercial quality.
so make it so, improve the quality of software, AND the quality of life FOR ANYONE who chooses to learn and use there knowledge to earn MONEY.
there is no better way to get someone out of povity than to enable them to get themselves OUT of povity.
Not by giving them "handouts". it might be a good way for FOSS to recruit third world child labour for FOSS development, but is that something FOSS wants to do ??
if you want to help people, poor people from ANY country, PAY them to code for you,
pay them, they will become experts, they will produce code that people will be willig to PAY for,
everyone wins,, we get better code, and we help world povity.
but dont try to promote government sanctioned, child labour in third world countries for FOSS, its not a good look.. !!!
- $100 Laptop For All
- by mahjestik May 21, 2007 5:15 PM PDT
- Why not make this for all children worldwide? Should it matter if the country is a poor one, or not? Either way the laptop is $100 still. Infact in the richer countries there can even be like a ten percent increase in the price which could help expand manufactoring faster. Imagine replacing all the text books with ebooks in developed countries because now there students have a laptop either the school can afford or that the parents can afford.
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