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One Laptop Per Child Gets 4 Million Laptop Order
An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com is reporting that four countries have together ordered 4 million low-cost, Linux-based laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each placed the 1 million unit orders."
"The countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each placed the 1 million unit orders."
Dear Mike,
Thank you once again for finalizing the order. You will know that this transaction is 100% Guaranteed.
We will send our certified funds after the customs are paid by you. Please send the customs fee of $37,000,000 ($37*1 Million Units) via wire transfer to:
Barrister MUGO Gy PAN Oguami
419 Scam DEC
Lagos, Nigeria
>>Hi Mugo,
>>We have approved your order and are ready to ship. You mentioned a custom's fee that we are very ready to pay. Please let me know how much per unit we will need to send.
>>Thanks again for the business!!!
>>Mike Undundrum
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
What's next? Outsource to malnourished kids. All they get is a little cookie (or several, depending on their privacy settings.) You can pay them even less than the Indian & Chinese programmers since these kids don't need money for food. They can just eat the cookies without getting any cache.
Bill Gates has just announced a whirlwind 4 nation third-world tour. Currently in Africa, supposedly on a safari . . . . .
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
When we were their age we installed Ubuntu just to look at Goatse, and we were glad to get it!
Each of those countries has more than 1 million children. In order to fit their "one laptop per child" criteria, there will be a lottery. The winners get the laptops. The losers get to choose a method of execution.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
The laptops are part of Nigeria's "leave no scammer behind" initiative.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
If the designers of these systems have done their work well, I hope these kids won't see any Linux (ls, vi, etc.) at all. I expect that that's all hidden below an appropriate GUI. What remains a winning point of course is that they are not confronted with a green-hill-blue-sky landscape during their first computer experiences.
Browsers shouldn't have a back button!! It's all about going forward...
Now how long before someone starts a "be the first to install Mac OS x86 on this machine" competition?
Four million kids, some of whom might never get a chance to see a computer, are going to grow up with marketable skills for the 21st century.
What are you talking about? They will probably be forced to use OO.o and the Gimp.
Joke! Joke! I'm totally kidding!
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I don't have a handy link from the CIA Factbook, but (using the time honored tradition of pulling a number out of my ass), I'd say that the literacy rate here on slashdot was around 47%.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
I don't think Negroponte or any other "owner" is going to be exploiting starving children or their poor governments in order to buy shiny red Ferraris.
Me neither. I think he'll go for yellow.
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I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say, but if it involves cutting off David Spade's balls and sending him to a third-world hellhole, I'm all for it.
Ehhh, 1M computers for 1M dollars??? Forget about the factor 1.5x built cost. I guess you forgot some zeroes here and there. On my little calculator 1 million $100 computers is still 100,000,000 dollars. :-)
Actually is't oooone huuuundred meeeeeellion dollars!
* how easy is it for geeks meet women? Were trying to spread geekdom, right?
* how much longer will it take these people to meet the opposite sex if they are laptop obsessed ?
* now we just need some really involved mesh network games.
* if they get educated, they will want to stay in school longer, and again delay reproductive activity.
ITs win, win, win...
Reduce, reuse, cycle
for some reason I don't expect "every child shot into space" would be very popular. . .
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
My government spends 100 million dollars in notebooks and there isn't even a mention in the newspaper? WTF?
Yeah. Would you choose a neurosurgeon who pokes around people's brains in his spare time? I wouldn't.
Why buy $100 laptops when you can buy UMPCs? They do twice as much at six times the cost!!!
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
"Didn't realize the pentagon had anything to do with Qana." Where do u think those GBU's come from? Also, what do u think they mean by opposing cease fire and instead advocating for sustainable peace, while the whole infrastructure (including power plants, roads, hospitals, damns etc) of 3 million ppl nation is turned into ashes and while 800 civilians die under rubbles. You my friend need to seek for a news source other than Faux news, fair and balanced (TM)