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The Hundred-Buck PC
skreuzer writes "MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte has a plan to build a $100 PC for the developing world, which is supposedly going to have a 14-inch color screen and run on Linux, has the backing of AMD, Google, Motorola, Samsung, and News Corp. Apparently they're all getting mixed up in a joint-venture to produce the PC, which will be sold directly to governments only."
I recall AMD wanting to do such a thing a few months ago. Have they given up? Are they instead focusing on this one? I haven't RTFA, so don't flame me.
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God bless America, eh? If you cant find a reason to be agressive to them, or a reason to invade, try selling them cheap stuff they don't need at prices they can't afford? It seems history is one thing that the US doesn't teach, or at least not very well.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
Yeah, you're right. That must be why we have so many people from all over the world trying to come and live, work, and learn in the U.S.
Convenient of you to forget that the US people have given up more of their own blood, money, and goods to people all over the world that any other group of people in history. Check in with the French, perhaps, on how it is they're not speaking German right now. Or with the people of, say, Taiwan - who would have been gobbled up by communist China years ago if not for US protection. Or, check with the UN to see where the largest portion of their funding originates.
So, your country obviously has an even less expensive way to provide governments with workable technology for the kids in developing nations?
stuff they don't need
Oh, I see. Very progressive of you. Those poor ignorant slobs in the third world aren't ready to do what you're doing right now on a computer, right?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.