Microsoft & Intel Evil People - You Are Going To Hell..

[Aharami]

I dont necessarily see this as a bad thing. It's not like Intel and MS are trying to keep children in poor countries from getting a laptop. They are competing with their own products. As long as the idea of "children in developing countries growing up with technology" is fulfilled, I dont really care how it is fulfilled - either OLPC laptops, or Intel's Classmate.

And it seems like the only loser here is AMD

Mr. Negroponte says he complained to Intel's chief executive two weeks ago, then "made peace." Intel and the One Laptop project, he says, have agreed to work together to design by early January a new "Intel-based" One Laptop device. An Intel spokeswoman confirmed Mr. Negroponte's account, but said any comment would be "premature." AMD, whose chips are used in One Laptop's current machines, declined to comment.

 

[JackMDS]

Mark my word you heard it here first.

In about 5 to 7 years, you would have a new category in the DSM 301.x definitions. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...al_of_Mental_Disorders )

It would be ?Borderline Personality Disorder, manifesting itself by caring for the common Good?.

Which means, people who have Borderline Personality Disorder and managed to sublimate it to appear as though they are caring for the common good as long as it makes them feel good about themselves, and keep them the center of the light?
Some ?Green? politicitions flying in their Jets, using Gas Guzzling cars, and GigaWatts Home might be a good example.

Providing the funds for schools, teachers, teaching material, and one good meal a day, would be thousands of times more helpful than ?Silly? computer idea.

The people that conceived the idea are Not ?stupid? they are very smart, but also very self-centered with myopic view of the right solution to complicated issues.

They turn the project to be like a sort of ?Holy Grail?.

Yap, seeing through the Internet a picture of the inside of an Acre size of the typical American Supermarket is going to solve the hunger problem in many 3rd world countries.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
if it wasn't for a laptop that a time traveler delivered to me in 1968, i would never have learned to talk/read/write

thank goodness for Mr. Peabody and the wayback machine

They visited you too?????

 

[KMFJD]

I am happy to have donated to OLPC and it should be neat to see that laptop when it arrives.

 

[intogamer]

What about the children that don't get the laptops? Yay... over zealous kids will start fights