Constructionism is a western philosophy?
Seymour Papert was from South Africa, and was the strongest influence on educational philosophy on the project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert
Actually that's not quite correct. Yes, one must connect to the activation server to get a dev key, but this is a theft deterrant issue for deployment countries. The machines sold in the US did a small section of the security turned on. To get the dev key to deactivate it, one must connect to an *automated* activation server. There is no arbitrary yes or no involved. In no case but a provable theft of a child's laptop in a deployment country would OLPC actually refuse a request.
My parents are convinced that they are watching HD in their very rural home town. But then again these are the people who were equally convinced that letterbox cuts off the top and bottom of the picture.
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Debian running on the XO-1 Relevant link: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DebXO
Constructionism is a western philosophy? Seymour Papert was from South Africa, and was the strongest influence on educational philosophy on the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert
You mean all 250 of them? http://gregdek.livejournal.com/38775.html
If you weren't an anonymous coward I would tell you to email help@laptop.org with [/.] in the subject and I would help you with your order. But alas.
Actually that's not quite correct. Yes, one must connect to the activation server to get a dev key, but this is a theft deterrant issue for deployment countries. The machines sold in the US did a small section of the security turned on. To get the dev key to deactivate it, one must connect to an *automated* activation server. There is no arbitrary yes or no involved. In no case but a provable theft of a child's laptop in a deployment country would OLPC actually refuse a request.
He is referring to the Marvell wireless card. It uses a closed source firmware to run it's independent sub processor.
My parents are convinced that they are watching HD in their very rural home town. But then again these are the people who were equally convinced that letterbox cuts off the top and bottom of the picture.