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OLPC Fork Sugar On a Stick Goes 1.0
Marten writes "It was more than a year ago that Walter Bender left OLPC and started SugarLabs.org. Now, the first version of the new project has been released. Sugar on a Stick is a USB drive that runs on Mac and PC-style hardware. 'The open-source education software developed for the "$100 laptop" can now be loaded onto a $5 USB stick to give aging PCs and Macs a new interface and custom educational software.' Bender said, 'What we are doing is taking a bunch of old machines that barely run Windows 2000, and turning them into something interesting and useful for essentially zero cost. It becomes a whole new computer running off the USB key; we can breathe new life into millions of decrepit old machines.'"
that Obama plans to use Missile Defense Shield technology to intercept a N. Korean missile launch towards Hawaii? This is the same technology which only months ago Obama himself called "unproven," in an attempt to discredit the program as an unnecessary, overpriced toy. This is the same program that Obama recently forced the defense secretary Robert Gates to slash over a billion dollars from. I guess the liberals in Congress and the White House are taking a break from their seething hatred for all things military while the military uses this "unproven" technology to shield all their high-priced condos. Then after the launch and a successful interception, it'll be back to business as usual for them: unilateral disarmament.
This is the same group of liberals, btw, that lambasted Donald Rumsfeld for saying that you go to war with the military you have, not the one you want. Exactly what kind of military will we have when missile defense shield development is stalled and over half of the orders for F-22s are cancelled in favor of the vaporware F-35 which is already known to lose every time in head-to-head combat against the F-35? Think we no longer have a need for conventional air superiority? Then why do we even give a shit about Iran or N. Korea? I swear, liberals' views are so wildly inconsistent on every single issue, it begs the question of whether they all suffer from schizophrenia.
You may have it, however what about a small child in a tribal village in the middle of the Kush? Will they have access to a bunch of floppy disks if their only computer is a donated 286? This item isn't being marketed to you.