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Working Model of MIT $100 Laptop a Hit
capt turnpike writes "The One Laptop per Child association and its chairman, MIT Media Labs's Nicholas Negroponte, unvelied a working model of their $100 laptop at the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) show, and the little laptop that might was a hit. It's got a version of Fedora Linux, is rugged, and each unit will work as part of a wireless mesh automatically. From the article: "However, as Negroponte put it in his address, One Laptop per Child isn't all about the laptops. The main goal is to tap into the ability of every child to toss away a manual and figure out how to make gadgets work on their own, thus helping children help themselves to learn." eWEEK.com also has photos."
From Negroponte's address in TFA:
Negroponte then went on to say:
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I know it's meant for children, but damn that thing screams Fisher-Price ugliness!
Seriously, aren't bright reds and oranges supposed to make you a little nuts if you're surrounded by them too much? The orange would make me ill after a while. Are we trying to make the users hyper-active or something?
Everything else is great, but PLEASE TONE DOWN THE COLOR.
This will all be worthwhile when we have first African child get first post on Slashdot (and then gets modded down. Welcome to the interweb, n00b!).
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
We need to encourage this sort of thing overseas, so these kids can grow up into the next generation of outsourced tech support reps serving the next generation of American pointy-haired bosses who can barely work a can opener.
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>The main goal is to tap into the ability of every child to toss away a manual
>and figure out how to make gadgets work on their own, thus helping children help themselves to learn.
So in other words, a global pandemic of people who don't know how to RTFM.
What is 400 / 20 ?
The student is supposed to guess
The frickin' school system pisses me off.
It's cute! It's almost kitsch!
It'll be a hit with the /. crowd which will drive up the price through demand.
Heck, I already want one for the kitchen!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I think you're confusing this with the Amish laptop.
... so that by age 18 they can change their professional name to "Bob" and tell Americans weaned on PlayStations that "WiFi connections do not involve 'gremlins,' sir;" "any software company offering free pornography for each install probably should not be trusted" and "there is no 'feng shui' component on your iPod, and if there were it would not be defective, and if it were defective then no, it would not be covered by AppleCare."
Yay capitalism ;->
Yeah, I agree with you because I grew up in a third world county in South Carolina... ;-)
Actually, the crank idea seems to be trashed now. Plans seem to be for a foot-pedal device. I will of course do the hamster-in-a-wheel mod.
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
Oh, you're speaking of the laptops. I thought you were speaking about Slashdot.
I love seeing poor grammar in a post about education. It's a hoot. :)
You are not the customer.
Yay, now that Nigerian prince can email me directly!
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Fuck yeah!
Actually the laptop comes with its own fold-out dance pad power adapter. The more you boogie, the more the battery is powered! If you want to use one of these babies, you best get to steppin!
-Aedon
(rolls fist out a la Breakin 2, Electric Boogaloo)
I think a better system is to click on a control and hit F1, which can explain to you everything you need to know about that input.
"This is a checkbox. It is used for selecting one or more options from among a number of choices".
Yeah, real fucking helpful that is.