Comments on: decent article on 60 minutes

By: Devine

Devine — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:49:24 +0000

I’m surprised by some of the comments here comparing “American poor” with “other poor”. We’re talking about children who walk barefoot to a school maybe 5 miles away and whose parents need to walk for 1 hour to get water. Many of these families are living hand to mouth. “American poor” have tvs, dvds, a proper home and don’t have to work for food. There is zero comparison.
I’m amazed by Chris Blizzard and his colleagues’ vision in focusing on the kids’ education so they can pull themselves out of poverty and move past the crippling debts their various governments have taken from the West to maintain power. This is a long-term project that won’t see results for decades. He’s making history here . . .

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By: One Laptop Per Child News

One Laptop Per Child News — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:22:56 +0000

The OLPC Pot Calling the Intel Kettle Black

OLPC XO or Intel Classmate PC
Reading the discussions about One Laptop Per Child on 60 Minutes, and the accusations by Nicholas Negroponte that Intel is engaging in “shameless” practices to sell their Classmate PC to his paticiapting countries I am …

By: randomwalker

randomwalker — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:54:45 +0000

Totally echo Pete Zaitcev’s comment above.

Proud to be ignorant and selfish.

By: Omega X

Omega X — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:04:12 +0000

@ Jeremy Bowers

As far as I know, poor is poor. Whether if its “American poor”, “Mali poor” or “Darfur poor”. It doesn’t make a difference in my eyes. The only thing major difference between “American poor” and “Darfur poor” or “Mali poor” is that help can be a lot closer. But it still doesn’t mean that they are going to get that help in any light.

I honestly don’t know why it would make a difference to some people. You are either willing to help people or are not willing to help people. Its as simple as that.

P.S. The poor people that I often see from time to time here are reallllly skinny. No obesity present whatsoever.

By: Wayan

Wayan — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:32:25 +0000

I think its pretty cheeky for anyone who is part of the “$100 laptop” group to talk about others “hiding the true costs of their laptops”. Last time I checked, the $100 laptop wasn’t even close to $100.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:13:18 +0000

Much of the uninformed discussion about OLPC might come from the name of the project – One Laptop Per Child – and people thinking “oh… just a laptop” and bringing into their thoughts their mental model of a standard laptop. Most people haven’t spend 30 seconds finding/reading the masses of innovations and learning-centered developments that the OLPC people have been working on.

So in today’s soundbite-level thinking, you’re dealing with “Linux ppl want to sell cheap laptops, Intel wants to sell cheap laptops”. Maybe calling the project “Children’s Learning Machines” or something would be more appropriate in such a shallow thinking society.

By: Justyn

Justyn — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:17:49 +0000

If you enjoyed the comments on the CBS site and would like to read more impressively misguided reader opinions, checkout the response to this Techdirt piece (itself seems to misunderstand Negropontes problem with Intel’s antics):

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070521/083050.shtml

By: khiraly

khiraly — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:01:52 +0000

Im with Pete Zaitcev(#2), I want a commercial version too.
I onlycare the technical side of things. Its an awesome integrated stuff, there is no other product in the market which has similar features. So excluding the potential developers are really bad idea.

However many times I only need a text editor in the middle of nowhere, and this laptop would be the best choice for me. (and with the stylus I could maybe draw some circuit schematic at place). A normal laptop weights from 2 to 4 times as this, and its really hard to mobilise. (my laptop for example is 3.5kg and 0.8 kg the chargeur)

I could develop some software for it too, so Im highly interested a commercial (but identical) version of the laptop. No modification. Its a tested high volume platform with approximatly no bug. If I find something will be fixed in really short period. No driver issue. Many premade software, etc.

Im for the commercial version.

By: Jeremy Bowers

Jeremy Bowers — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:29:54 +0000

It’s not that “America doesn’t have poor people”, it’s that “American poor” != “Mali poor” or “Darfur poor”.

The idea of an obesity epidemic among the poor would be laughable in most countries.