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lordshipmayhemI'm getting a little cabin fever: I'm supposed to be off to Newmarket, but no way do I want to be stuck on Highway 404 in this weather, probably in whiteout conditions. I've been home all day, and quite frankly, I'm staying here. The farthest I've gone is the recycling bins by the furniture doors downstairs.
So, instead, I'll post about the latest news with One Laptop per Child project. Production cost was hoped to be around $100 per unit, but they're still coming in at $200 per unit. They've started their "Get One Give One" (G1G1) project, and so far it seems to be a roaring success: buy one laptop for $400, and a second laptop gets donated to a participating third-world country. At present, Peru has signed up for 260,000 units, and that noted third-world nation, Burmingham, Alabama, has ordered 15,000 units - enough for every kid in their system from Grade One to Eight.
There's a review of the OLPC laptop here. Suffice it to say, it is one cool piece of hardware. Go ahead and look: pretty pictures. Kawaii. Perfect for kids. Sealed as it is, with the battery power/dinky power consumption it's got, and with the display able to be viewed in direct sunlight, it's perfect for beach web surfing.
And of course this scares the willies out of Redmond, Washington. The OLPC computer, the XO, does not at present run any Windows operating system, relying on a well-tweaked version of Red Hat's flavour of Linux. The Convicted Monopolists are trying to get their version of XP to work on it, but it's just too dinky for them to even get just the basic XP operating system functioning without serious memory upgrades. (This is as opposed to the current Red Hat Linux OS, which also comes with - and has enough memory to handle - tons of applications.) They've asked for a change to the specifications, but have been told it's not on. That's the hardware, make the OS work with it.
Of course if the third world, including Alabama and the other third-world states rumoured to be sniffing at the project (Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virgina), have their kids get used to working with Linux, we may just see them not bothering with the restrictive proprietary operating systems and applications.
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And in addition, I've got a link to a review of the new Windows operating system, called "XP", and how much an improvement it is over the current outdated operating system, Vista. They're recommending everyone upgrade to this wonderful new OS. ^_^
So, instead, I'll post about the latest news with One Laptop per Child project. Production cost was hoped to be around $100 per unit, but they're still coming in at $200 per unit. They've started their "Get One Give One" (G1G1) project, and so far it seems to be a roaring success: buy one laptop for $400, and a second laptop gets donated to a participating third-world country. At present, Peru has signed up for 260,000 units, and that noted third-world nation, Burmingham, Alabama, has ordered 15,000 units - enough for every kid in their system from Grade One to Eight.
There's a review of the OLPC laptop here. Suffice it to say, it is one cool piece of hardware. Go ahead and look: pretty pictures. Kawaii. Perfect for kids. Sealed as it is, with the battery power/dinky power consumption it's got, and with the display able to be viewed in direct sunlight, it's perfect for beach web surfing.
And of course this scares the willies out of Redmond, Washington. The OLPC computer, the XO, does not at present run any Windows operating system, relying on a well-tweaked version of Red Hat's flavour of Linux. The Convicted Monopolists are trying to get their version of XP to work on it, but it's just too dinky for them to even get just the basic XP operating system functioning without serious memory upgrades. (This is as opposed to the current Red Hat Linux OS, which also comes with - and has enough memory to handle - tons of applications.) They've asked for a change to the specifications, but have been told it's not on. That's the hardware, make the OS work with it.
Of course if the third world, including Alabama and the other third-world states rumoured to be sniffing at the project (Mississippi, Kentucky and West Virgina), have their kids get used to working with Linux, we may just see them not bothering with the restrictive proprietary operating systems and applications.
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And in addition, I've got a link to a review of the new Windows operating system, called "XP", and how much an improvement it is over the current outdated operating system, Vista. They're recommending everyone upgrade to this wonderful new OS. ^_^
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Date: 2007-12-17 01:28 am (UTC)Love the XP article. XD
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Date: 2007-12-17 05:27 am (UTC)If I had a kid or knew a kid in elementary school, I'd get them one. The device is quite useful for teaching them in quite a variety of ways.
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Date: 2007-12-17 08:05 pm (UTC)