India unveils $35 computer

Now that is neat.

I wouldn't buy one however I can see the real value behind this, expecially for developing nations where kids could use these for school. The Canadian Government should buy a bunch with the solar power option and ship them to Afghanistan. Have some available for some Afghani schools.

Wasn't there a computer kinda like this a while back? One Computer For all or something?

Right after we ensure that our own children are provided with them here.

Right after we ensure that our own children are provided with them here.

We can do better then a glorified web browser for our students. I'm sure I've sent computers with better performance to their fiery and molten deaths in the furnaces of recycling.

Right after we ensure that our own children are provided with them here.

We can do better then a glorified web browser for our students. I'm sure I've sent computers with better performance to their fiery and molten deaths in the furnaces of recycling.
Evidently you are not familiar with the resources available within the public school system. There are thousands of students (and teachers) that would be very grateful to have a tool like this to get by on.

We pay a annual fee for the kids to have access to really old computers in school. Schools would be very happy to have those, and they can spend the money they use now on schoolyard maintenance. Healthy trees to provide some shade would be nice. And I am only talking elementary school.

They're I've downloaded MSN messenger hundreds of times and it doesn't work.
My Facebook page is too small to see!
I can't text the girl in the next seat.
I can't get on PokerStars, there's no Flash player!
I have to 'save as' .doc, that's bullshit.

And teachers and school districts? OMG!
Lay off the music and French teachers we need 10,000 more techs.
How can we teach them "real skills" like (boring a whole boardroom with) Powerpoint?

You can't use Linux here. They'd have to triple the cost and shittify those with Windoze Crippled Edition licenses first. Turn them into $200 computers that work like a $10 one. Like they did with Netbooks

Solar Net One

OLPC XO-1

Right after we ensure that our own children are provided with them here.

Except for the fact most children here already do have one or can get one. Considering the fact pretty much every kid here has there own personal cellphone. Hell, they are even marketing cellphones for 5 year olds. Kids here need laptops for school as well, the difference however is that if they wanted one. They can easily buy them. Afghani Children cannot.

$35 for that for school, practicly any parent in Canada could afford that. I was simply proposing our GOVERNMENT. You know, those people who wish to make a better place in Afghanistan. Use this CHEAP tool to give to KIDS who NEED them but CANNOT afford them.

How many kids do you have and do you know what kids cost? How can it be up to you to decide what parents can or will afford?

I think kids in Afghan could do with pencils, books, hell, buildings??


Oh, in addition... Schools close because of lack of funding. I think Canadian children have a right to education at "walking distance" (at least in the city) or bussing distance (rural), don't you? And I don't mean being on a bus for hours one way.

OLPC should have an XO-3 prototype ready by the end of the year

My High School had 200 working computers networked and with Internet access in 1999.

I have disposed of 8 Pallets of monitors 4 pallets of computers wrapped to a 5 ft height on behalf of the local school district. I even Verified that the majority of them still worked.

You don't need computers worth 100's of dollars to surf the web, type up documents, do spread sheets and program duplicate of Pong with C++.

Somehow I think this will flop, just like the Nano in North America, which wasn't allowed to be sold in the U.S. then Canada because it would be blown away by a breeze, it made of cheap materials, and failed several safety tests.

Let India buy their own goods, and keep that shit away from here.

-J.