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Negroponte On OLPC's New Path, Plans For XO 3
waderoush writes "After laying off staff and splitting the organization in two, Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Child effort may be hitting their stride again. In an interview with Xconomy, Negroponte says he has a new model for getting XO laptops to kids in Gaza and Afghanistan — and reveals more ideas about the planned XO 3 tablet and the future of books. 'Paper books are really dead — they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,' he says."
It's not just paste.
I have frequent trouble getting the word spelled "r-e-p-l-a-c-e" into posts.
Something in the script is probably doing an eval in a way that considers it a keyword.
Which I'm sure perks up the ears of code-injection sploiters.
The only hardware requirements are eyes and hands, and the only software requirement is a brain, neither of which will go out of style in my lifetime.
Surely you jest - didn't you know that brains are already fast going out of style?
Especially when we have two political parties, one of which has as its base an entrenched, uneducated set of idiots in urban ghettos, the other a base of entrenched, uneducated rural rednecks and each party happy to keep the system set up so that a real, solid, well-rounded education that includes critical thinking processes and actual techniques of learning (as opposed to memorizing stock answers to just barely pass standardized multiple-guess tests) is the last thing they will ever have the opportunity to experience?
Even worse when each of these parties campaigns on the idea that the other side's basically a collection of morons, and that they can have no valid points in any discussion at all?
It would seem the use of a brain has already gone out the window. Instead, we have to have instructions on a box of toothpicks, and warnings about "do not iron clothes while wearing them", lest some brain-donor injure themselves and launch a frivolous lawsuit that somehow winds up with a $millions judgement because they managed to fit 12 other brain-donors into the jury and win the Lawsuit Lottery?