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Why Intel and OLPC Parted Ways
runamock writes "The New York Times has an article that sheds some light on why Intel left the OLPC board: 'A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country's commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization's laptops in favor of Intel PCs. Intel and the group had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the world's poorest children. But the saleswoman's tactic was the final straw for Nicholas Negroponte.'"
I hope it's not really "the poorest children" that are getting the laptops. You can't eat a laptop. Give them to the second poorest.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
Consider yourself lucky. It was unfairly comprehensible to me. O.o
For the rest of them [the other 80%, or thereabouts], they'll just be using their OLPC laptops to download pr0n and text-message their meth dealers [or clients].
Or, in the case of the girls, to upload pr0n.
Ah, yes. That's really what this is all about, isn't it. Negroponte is a threat to US corporations, who want nothing more than to prepare poor children in developing countries for a life of enslavement to US corporations and consumption of their products. How dare he attempt to provide them with a tool that merely educates them, without corralling them into the MS/Intel silo, like their North American counterparts.
He's probably a communist, too.
I don't care why you're posting AC
There was a guy in France who ate a whole bicycle. He powdered it and mixed it into his food for a year.
The laptop is RoHS-compliant, so you don't have to worry about toxic stuff like mercury and lead.
Just Eat It.