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2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader
waderoush writes "At a conference sponsored by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation this morning, OLPC founder unveiled the design for the foundation's second-generation laptop. It's actually not a laptop at all — it's a dual-screen e-book reader (we've got pictures). Negroponte said the foundation hopes that the cost of the new device, which is scheduled for production by 2010, can be kept to $75, in part by using low-cost displays manufactured for portable DVD players."
It's not the school system's fault that your mom got knocked up at 12 years old.
Nah, man, you want KARMA around here you have to say it was Micro$oft's fault because Bill Gates is in league with the Devil and Bush. Assuming any of them actually exist and this isn't just one big FREAKIN' simulation.
Laptops don't teach how to read.
$100 towards teacher salaries right here in American would go much further than buying into this gammick.
Anyway, is it still $100 or closer to $200? It's becoming confusing all this slow moving story.
There is an enormous glut of Windows based freeware out there specifically tailored to the needs of children, many of which go above and beyond any Linux based edutainment package (and WAY more kid friendly). You're just angry because Microsoft is better at selling their software than you are at proseletyzing your bullshit.
You, also, should go seek mental help, since you're obviously a paranoid shut-in hoping to waste your words of delusion in the hopes of gaining karma.