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David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop
Maximum Prophet writes "David Pogue, technology reviewer at the New York Times, has taken a first-hand look at the XO laptop, also known as the 'One Laptop Per Child' project, or the '$100 Laptop'. His reaction is very favorable, having tested it out via several criteria. And ultimately, he writes, the laptop is about more than just technology for the people. 'The biggest obstacle to the XO's success is not technology -- it's already a wonder -- but fear. Overseas ministers of education fear that changing the status quo might risk their jobs. Big-name computer makers fear that the XO will steal away an overlooked two-billion-person market. Critics fear that the poorest countries need food, malaria protection and clean water far more than computers. But the XO deserves to overcome those fears. Despite all the obstacles and doubters, O.L.P.C. has come up with a laptop that's tough and simple enough for hot, humid, dusty locales; cool enough to keep young minds engaged, both at school and at home; and open, flexible and collaborative enough to support a million different teaching and learning styles.'"
...welcome our new laptop using child hacker overlords.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
...and let lose the dogs of war!
What does this have to do with tits/ boobs, exactly?
FTFA: "The laptop is now called the XO, because if you turn the logo 90 degrees, it looks like a child."
90 degrees in which direction? If you turn it the other way it looks like a skull and crossbones.
I read Slashdot for the headlines, because the headlines, unlike the articles, are usually original and never duplicated
Nah, an ideal "change the world" computer should come with self-replicating nanoassemblers so it can then produce more copies of itself from garbage as well as provide food, shelter, electricity generation and anything else the user might need.
Price has been nearly constant in Euros since the project was conceived :-)
It could be worse. They could be using MySpace.
... and then they built the supercollider.