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Oh come on. The statement below is just so wrong when you see as AT&T has. The phone is the computer. We certainly see 100 buck computing (Internet) phones everywhere. Now that there is VOIP the computer is the phone. I want one of these wind ups for my sail boat. Every vessel on the sea and every life raft should have them - assuming they can work as a satilite phone. Couple this with Internet weather reporting and suddenly uninhabited islands and floating islands are habitable. The statement is...

"History has also shown that bringing PCs to the poor is extremely difficult. Attempts to bring low-cost PCs to Brazil have failed several times. The Simputer, a cheap computer designed in India, fell flat, and AMD has not sold many of its cheap Internet devices for the emerging world, according to sources. "

Lets do look at history. AT&T is the company that brought the world UNIX, of which Linux is a flavor. The company also brought the world CICS (Customer Information Control System?) which is the mainframe version of what folks now think of as .Net, I suspect. Lets also look at history in the form of palmtops. Remember WinCE. Look at Xbox and Dream Cast. Then lets think of 3270 emulation on PCs which was a big thing for running CICS clients.

Heavy computing need not be done on the palm or client device. Google searching and weather predicion can be done on the super computers with Artificial Inteligence. Eventually this computing will be done in space for cooling reasons.

Why pretend. Those without will be ahead of all those vested in Microsoft style computing. Let the wind-ups run free. Let's see them in the US - which - lets face it - is as much the third world as Brazil.

West Marine - put in your million unit order. This is a no brainer.
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There is already enough FREE  bjbrock | 12/13/05
$100 PC  X Marks The Spot | 12/13/05
I'm looking forward to seeing one,  Richard Flude | 12/13/05
Well, sooner or later, we will figure out a cheap computer that sells  DonnieBoy | 12/13/05
Cheap computer  X Marks The Spot | 12/13/05
Right  Real World | 12/14/05
Are you kidding?  Laff | 12/14/05
Nope, not kiding  Real World | 12/14/05
What about iLife and AppleWorks?  Laff | 12/14/05
In the same way  Real World | 12/14/05
Well like I was saying is that since the system prices  Laff | 12/14/05
You misunderstand the program!  ShadeTree | 12/14/05
Where there is a will there is a way.  Laff | 12/14/05
Any other retailer that wanted to sell them, but it would be $200  DonnieBoy | 12/14/05
Let them know  Richard Flude | 12/14/05
From your own link!  ShadeTree | 12/15/05
Where can we sign up.  little_peet | 12/14/05
Where can we sign up.  little_peet | 12/14/05
Re: Where can we sign up  horusfalcon | 12/14/05
Priorities?  DangDaCommonCentz | 12/14/05
Interesting Point of View...  horusfalcon | 12/14/05
DangDaCommonCentz Is Right....  crjunk | 12/14/05
Where's your head?  unoriginal_sin | 12/14/05
Education and basically information  mattman32 | 12/14/05
Can you see the steamroller?  Roger Ramjet | 12/14/05
Meshing is an algorithym.  ShadeTree | 12/14/05
Things change....  Laff | 12/14/05
At MIT they did research on creating a WiFi mesh  DonnieBoy | 12/14/05
This should be something interesting to watch...  Laff | 12/14/05
Hopefully we will elect an intelligent president in 2008!!  DonnieBoy | 12/14/05
This should be something interesting to watch...  Laff | 12/14/05
This should be something interesting to watch...  Laff | 12/14/05
I can see the specs now.  Mr. Roboto | 12/14/05
No windows and I believe the screen is color....  Laff | 12/14/05
Isn't it a B/W LCD?  balsover | 12/14/05
A few details  gsteele531@... | 12/14/05
Windows can't run on it  balsover | 12/14/05
DOS and Windows 3.1 certainly could  mighetto | 12/14/05
Pervasive Computing  mighetto | 12/14/05
SkyTel 2-Way  mighetto | 12/14/05
Oh, they make their way to other countries  Boot_Agnostic | 12/14/05

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