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Feel-goodism
$140 per child will buy a lot of textbooks and a lot of teachers in a third-world country.

People who waste money and pat themselves on the back for being 'forward thinking' are highly annoying.
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Feel-goodism  baggins_z | 06/02/06
Shipping computers and delivering course material electronicly would be  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
Especially when it's not their own money.  mustangj36@... | 06/03/06
130 or 100  hopefulcoder | 06/02/06
Who pays 100 for a Calculator?  mighetto | 06/02/06
Why is it hopeless? Do you suggest they spend $1,000 each instead???  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
Waiting to hear installed pirated Windows on it  Boot_Agnostic | 06/02/06
Pirated Windows won't run, not enought memory and processor power.  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
Oh well, OS X out of the running too  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
It doesn't have a hard drive, just flash memory,  mustangj36@... | 06/03/06
WinCE  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
Original spec said it'd have 1 gig of memory  mustangj36@... | 06/04/06
Plus I said waiting to 'hear"  Boot_Agnostic | 06/04/06
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'  Loverock Davidson | 06/02/06
It is Windows that does not belong on ANY computer due to the security  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
Shutup M$ shareholder, a couple of kid computers...  Nix_0S_Fan | 06/03/06
In Zaire, they earn $700 a year  osreinstall | 06/02/06
They still need computers. Maybe they won't be able to give one to every  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
An old TI-30 calculator wuld be more useful.  osreinstall | 06/02/06
A TI-30 can't be used for computer based course materials, can't connect to  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
I can still remember when we could not afford a calculater for every family  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
And my grandfolks said the same about TVs.  osreinstall | 06/02/06
So maybe the first ones will go to more developed countries that have  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
Don't put the cart before the horse  osreinstall | 06/03/06
THEM vs US (with some spelling police...)  robertm@... | 06/05/06
There are no courses like that over there.  osreinstall | 06/03/06
That's a damn shame  nucrash | 06/03/06
Naw, the money would be better spent elsewhere.  osreinstall | 06/03/06
We need cheap computers even right here in the good old US of A.  DonnieBoy | 06/02/06
So this is not about giving each child...  Qbt | 06/02/06
Pot calling the kettle...  m1-garande-facelift | 06/03/06
We know how it ends.  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
Pirated Windows won't run on these, and you ain't goona make much money  DonnieBoy | 06/03/06
I'm making a personal prediction  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
guerilla's camp?  handydan918 | 06/03/06
Linux guys love the idea because they like  mustangj36@... | 06/03/06
I dual boot WIndows and Linux  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
If MS wants to give away a stripped down version of Window and open the  DonnieBoy | 06/03/06
Linux is perfect for the job  Boot_Agnostic | 06/03/06
Network Computer Part Deux  jogiba@... | 06/03/06
If Intel and MS are pissed it's a winner  support@... | 06/04/06

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