life's a beach

nu kas yra 'tikras kompas'.. zx spectrum'ai ar BTshkes irgi prie teliku jungesi.. net ir floppiku ar cdromo nereikejo pirkti galejai tiesiog savo audio kaseciu maga pajungti ir uzkisti visa savo 64kb rama.

shitas zaislas pries pora metu cia biski triuksmo buvo pridares kai MIT hebra pakele ideja, kad reikia duoti afrikos vaikams laptopus kurie sunkiai luzta, nereikalauja elektros saltinio ir tarpusavy sunesti i kruva pasigamintu wifi tinkla.. na ir turejo kaina buti <100$

While it's far from the runaway success they've been hoping for, they actually did start deploying them in Uruguay and Peru just committed to buying a quarter million.

I had been thinking of picking one up in the buy-one-get-one thing, but figured that if I were to get a toy sub-notebook, my money might be better spent on an Asus eeepc. While there are a lot of innovative features going into the OLPC, I probably wouldn't be able to take full advantage of owning one; being the only person I know with one, I'd miss out on the mesh networking, collaboration features, etc. Charity's great and all, but the success of the project truly doesn't hinge on getting ordinary people to donate one at a time.

(BTW, the picture you have here is a bit outdated. They, unfortunately, dropped the hand crank, and the models going out now look considerably different...)

The hand crank was replaced with a different kind of hand-powered generator... I think mechanically it's similar to the pull start on a lawnmower.

Which of the delivery windows is yours supposed to be in, Pez?

I'm currently wrestling with whether to order one pair, or two. I know I want to get one to send to my daughter because her hand-me-down iBook went the way of all glossy white things... the question is whether I want (and can afford, and can justify) one to play with (and quite possibly ultimately give to some other random kid) as well.

I take it back. I just caved. :)