World's first working $100 laptop

[ElFenix]

that crank could be the answer to fat nerds everywhere!

 

[tfinch2]

I'll buy one.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If you can't install Windows 95 or 98 it's pretty useless for what I'd want to do with it.

 

[RossMAN]

I'd like to see some hacks get released for it.

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: NFS4
What about pr0n? Crank then wank?

hahah imagine having to stop wanking because you gotta crank it right in the middle

 

[RaDragon]

I just saw this on the 11PM news. UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan (sp?) broke one of the hand-cranker thingys on the laptop.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: djheater
It's funny how people think putting a computer, ANY computer in the hands of 3rd world contry citizens will suddenly make them part of the 1st world community.

How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.

This argument has been used so many times, but it's a stupid argument.

Do you really think that famine, healthcare and human rights are in no way related to the distribution of information? Maybe, just maybe little minds like you could try to expand your thinking for a moment, and see that the availability of information could have a huge impact.

Right now, AIDS is a huge problem in Africa. Why? Because people lack the INFORMATION to protect themselves from it. Information on disease control, medicine, farming, and politics could be disseminated to the people like never before. But short term thinkers like you will continue to write off the impact that information plays in modern life. Pathetic.

 

[BoberFett]

On another note, don't those hands look like those of a 7 year old? Good god that's a tiny keyboard. Couldn't the keyboard be made just a bit larger so that when the kid is 12 he won't be mashing an entire row of keys with one finger?

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: djheater
It's funny how people think putting a computer, ANY computer in the hands of 3rd world contry citizens will suddenly make them part of the 1st world community.

How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.

This argument has been used so many times, but it's a stupid argument.

Do you really think that famine, healthcare and human rights are in no way related to the distribution of information? Maybe, just maybe little minds like you could try to expand your thinking for a moment, and see that the availability of information could have a huge impact.

Right now, AIDS is a huge problem in Africa. Why? Because people lack the INFORMATION to protect themselves from it. Information on disease control, medicine, farming, and politics could be disseminated to the people like never before. But short term thinkers like you will continue to write off the impact that information plays in modern life. Pathetic.

Wow, what was that about not allowing personal attacks on the forums lifer?

1)ad hominem
2)False Premise, on several points
3)You assume literacy
5)Give a man a fish...
- what use are laptops without the technological context in which to use them. A farmer can understand new farming techniques, what the fvck is he going to do with a laptop? Ever tried to teach your grandfather word processing?

 

[Mik3y]

i wanna buy one, if possible, when they come out.

 

[iamtrout]

Finally, a practical way for our young children to carry around porn at school.

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: NFS4
What about pr0n? Crank then wank?

lol :thumbsup:

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: djheater
It's funny how people think putting a computer, ANY computer in the hands of 3rd world contry citizens will suddenly make them part of the 1st world community.

How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.

This argument has been used so many times, but it's a stupid argument.

Do you really think that famine, healthcare and human rights are in no way related to the distribution of information? Maybe, just maybe little minds like you could try to expand your thinking for a moment, and see that the availability of information could have a huge impact.

Right now, AIDS is a huge problem in Africa. Why? Because people lack the INFORMATION to protect themselves from it. Information on disease control, medicine, farming, and politics could be disseminated to the people like never before. But short term thinkers like you will continue to write off the impact that information plays in modern life. Pathetic.

Wow, what was that about not allowing personal attacks on the forums lifer?

1)ad hominem
2)False Premise, on several points
3)You assume literacy
5)Give a man a fish...
- what use are laptops without the technological context in which to use them. A farmer can understand new farming techniques, what the fvck is he going to do with a laptop? Ever tried to teach your grandfather word processing?

You think that was a personal attack? You are officially one of the world's biggest pussies. Not to mention an idiot.

1. Do you even know what ad hominem means?
2. False premise why? Because you disagree? If you have nothing in rebuttal, then I'd say you're the one with the false premise.
3. Wouldn't a laptop as a learning device be a way to promote literacy?
4. You completely missed number 4, so I have to question your cognitive abilities.
5. What's your point again? You're the one promoting giving fish instead of teaching to fish by saying we should give them food and medicine instead of tools.

What use are laptops? Digital textbooks. Learning aids. Access to fresh information. Even in the US by the time a textbook is given to students, it's already far out of date. How far out of date do you think a textbook would be by the time it got to a little schoolhouse in the middle of Africa? Do you even realize that most major shifts in standards of living were due in large part to changes in information dissemination? From the printing press to the internet, it's information that has been one of the major contributors to massive social change.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Interesting... but quite possibly the ugliest colour scheme in the history of computing, I guess those dye colours were cheapest?

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Interesting... but quite possibly the ugliest colour scheme in the history of computing, I guess those dye colours were cheapest?

I've read that they want to keep this device out of the hands of profiteers. They're hoping the low purchase price, near ubiquity, garish colors, and the fact that it would be associated with school children would deter thieves.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Super56K
I think it's amazing. Something that cheap could open up a lot of doors for people across the world.

What about the Geo?

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: BoberFett

Originally posted by: djheater
It's funny how people think putting a computer, ANY computer in the hands of 3rd world contry citizens will suddenly make them part of the 1st world community.

How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.

This argument has been used so many times, but it's a stupid argument.

Do you really think that famine, healthcare and human rights are in no way related to the distribution of information? Maybe, just maybe little minds like you could try to expand your thinking for a moment, and see that the availability of information could have a huge impact.

Right now, AIDS is a huge problem in Africa. Why? Because people lack the INFORMATION to protect themselves from it. Information on disease control, medicine, farming, and politics could be disseminated to the people like never before. But short term thinkers like you will continue to write off the impact that information plays in modern life. Pathetic.

Wow, what was that about not allowing personal attacks on the forums lifer?

1)ad hominem
2)False Premise, on several points
3)You assume literacy
5)Give a man a fish...
- what use are laptops without the technological context in which to use them. A farmer can understand new farming techniques, what the fvck is he going to do with a laptop? Ever tried to teach your grandfather word processing?

You think that was a personal attack? You are officially one of the world's biggest pussies. Not to mention an idiot.

1. Do you even know what ad hominem means?
2. False premise why? Because you disagree? If you have nothing in rebuttal, then I'd say you're the one with the false premise.
3. Wouldn't a laptop as a learning device be a way to promote literacy?
4. You completely missed number 4, so I have to question your cognitive abilities.
5. What's your point again? You're the one promoting giving fish instead of teaching to fish by saying we should give them food and medicine instead of tools.

What use are laptops? Digital textbooks. Learning aids. Access to fresh information. Even in the US by the time a textbook is given to students, it's already far out of date. How far out of date do you think a textbook would be by the time it got to a little schoolhouse in the middle of Africa? Do you even realize that most major shifts in standards of living were due in large part to changes in information dissemination? From the printing press to the internet, it's information that has been one of the major contributors to massive social change.

Do you hang out in P/N a lot? I have to wonder where all this piss and vinegar is coming from.
Now, I'm not personally offended or injured that you attacked me, but it was never an argument, you took an offended and incendiary tone, and in your reply you used language which is specifically disallowed here. I did miss four, but I was drunk, it was a point about the device not including information networks, but I reread the article and it does so I removed it but did not renumber the list, whoops.
Stop freaking out in reply to my posts, I want to give you an opportunity to calm down and continue the conversation peaceably, but the derogatory tone you took initially, and continue to take, make it hard.

There is an argument to be made in favor of the device, but the articles I read make it seem to be a dream without the fundamental structures that willl enable real social change, but hey I could be wrong.

See, my initial post did not say, "THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA, I'M COMPLETELY AGAINST IT!" If it works great, but I'll bet you it won't. Programs like this rarely work out, that's just my perspective, you're welcome to yours.

 

[ultimatebob]

Does it REALLY work, though? I thought that it was just a prototype

 

[Conky]

I wonder if it plays Quake. The original Quake only required a 75 MHz processor or better.