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Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop
QuietLagoon writes 'Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. 'The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen,' Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington. 'Hardware is a small part of the cost' of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support. 'If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,' Gates said.'
Slashdot is not a "diversity of opinion". He's right. This laptop wass roasted by /., and now Gates will get roasted for holding a similar opinion.
I similarly will get roasted for the comment in the form of bad karma.
un burrito me trampeó.
It's fascinating where the generous and charitable Bill Gates ends, and the ruthless businessman Bill Gates begins.
One serves the other, without a doubt. The malevolent pig fantasizes about slinging Origami and M$ bloatware to the starving in Chad.
an ill wind that blows no good
Where did you say you were an honour student?