A Child's View of the OLPC

Finallyjoined!!! sends us a BBC account of a dad who traveled to Nigeria and brought back an XO laptop for his 9-year-old, Rufus. Here is Rufus's review, a child's view of OLPC. "Because it looks rather like a simple plastic toy, I had thought it might suffer the same fate as the radio-controlled dinosaur or the roller-skates he got last Christmas - enjoyed for a day or two, then ignored. Instead, it seems to provide enduring fascination... With no help from his Dad, he has learned far more about computers than he knew a couple of weeks ago, and the XO appears to be a more creative tool than the games consoles which occupy rather too much of his time."

Comments

In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

America scams Nigeria!

Re:Something smells...and it aint my pants

[Mr. Underbridge]

Something smells...and it aint my pants

It's your pants. Totally.

Re:Already?

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> I returned from Nigeria with a sample of the XO laptop

That's nothin'. I returned from Nigeria with my late uncle's ashes and 30% of his $20,000,000 estate.

419

[NoPantsJim]

"a BBC account of a dad who traveled to Nigeria and brought back an XO laptop"

So...did he scam a Nigerian?

Re:419

[technomom]

Dear Sirs,

The Central Bank of Nigeria is now in possession of 500 "One Laptop Per Child" that is earmarked for our schools. Unfortunately, our minister of education recently died in a tragic car accident. You have been named as his beneficiary and will be responsible for their distribution. As one of the benefits, you will be able to keep one for your own child. To release those laptops, we will need your credit card number and personal details concerning your children so that we may chat with him on our Jabber server.

Please respond to 1-888-OLP-CCON with your information.

Regards,
M'Bol Zarhari
Esteemeed Grand Puba, Central Bank of NIgeria.

Re:Smart kid

[Anonymous Coward]

The kid has made such a fast advancement that he has already been offered a job by Chris Hansen. Better than being offered a 'job' by Michael Jackson.

Re:Different languages

[MPAB]

Marge: Lisa, you got a letter.
  Lisa: It's from my pen-pal Anya! [reads]
  Anya: [voice over] Dear Lisa, as I write this, I am very sad. Our
              president has been overthrown and
                [voice changes to that of a man]
              replaced by the benevolent general Krull. All hail Krull and his
              glorious new regime! Sincerely, Little Girl.

Re:Already?

[somersault]

Hahahahahaaa.. look at this country.. U R GAY!!!

[/obligatory Simpsons quote]

Re:How long will that one work?

[somersault]

Well, of course it reports all of your credit card details, fingerprints, blood type (those sharp corners aren't just due to low production costs you know!), and also all your thoughts using the built in brainwave scanner. Better not let your firstborn near it either, because they're programmed to fire out CDs to decapitate firstborns as a proper sacrifice (to help amortise costs).

Re:How about the kids in Iraq? Any OLPCs there yet

[default luser]

South Africa, The Iraq, and the Asian countries still need a lot of help from our education over here before they're ready to get XOs and build up our future.

Actually, I think they just need more maps.

Re:Already?

[elrous0]

You expected a Brit to go to Africa and NOT exploit the local population and natural resources?