How will they recharge the batteries?

Original article headline was better.

gopher321: "They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!"

+1 to subby and +1 to you.

LuRkeR25: How will they recharge the batteries?

How do I know you dnrtfa? They've been fitted with solar chargers.

Come back in a year and they're all wanting more Angry Birds levels.

Dumbest idea ever. These will just be horded by whomever is in power (warlords etc.) and sold for whatever they can get. Same as any other aid (food, medical, etc.) that is ill distributed in Africa. The likelihood that they'll be used for education is slim. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

As for the recharging I thought there was some sort of human powered generator? I assume they'll drop those as well.

The_Homeless_Guy: Dumbest idea ever. These will just be horded by whomever is in power (warlords etc.) and sold for whatever they can get. Same as any other aid (food, medical, etc.) that is ill distributed in Africa. The likelihood that they'll be used for education is slim. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

As for the recharging I thought there was some sort of human powered generator? I assume they'll drop those as well.

Yeah, why try anything at all ever? This guy's got the right idea. Human advancement is for the birds.

LasersHurt: Yeah, why try anything at all ever? This guy's got the right idea. Human advancement is for the birds.

we need to para-drop teachers, not computers. computers cannot teach by themselves.

LasersHurt: Yeah, why try anything at all ever? This guy's got the right idea. Human advancement is for the birds.

When something is virtually guaranteed to work entirely against what you want to have happen, and will in fact greatly embolden and assist the entities that are in exact opposition to your goals, is it not completely self destructive to pursue said line of action?

At that point, isn't inaction itself, at the very least, far more productive than counter-productive action?

Man On Fire: we need to para-drop teachers, not computers. computers cannot teach by themselves.

Don't be ridiculous. Everybody knows teachers can't fly.

The_Homeless_Guy: Dumbest idea ever. These will just be horded by whomever is in power (warlords etc.) and sold for whatever they can get. Same as any other aid (food, medical, etc.) that is ill distributed in Africa. The likelihood that they'll be used for education is slim. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

As for the recharging I thought there was some sort of human powered generator? I assume they'll drop those as well.

The human or the generator?

The_Homeless_Guy: As for the recharging I thought there was some sort of human powered generator? I assume they'll drop those as well.

I'm pretty sure the machines had a hand-crank that charged the batteries on them, or something like that.

tomcatadam: LasersHurt: Yeah, why try anything at all ever? This guy's got the right idea. Human advancement is for the birds.

When something is virtually guaranteed to work entirely against what you want to have happen, and will in fact greatly embolden and assist the entities that are in exact opposition to your goals, is it not completely self destructive to pursue said line of action?

At that point, isn't inaction itself, at the very least, far more productive than counter-productive action?

I'm sure you have solid evidence that leads you to say they're not just likely to go to the wrong people, but "virtually guaranteed" to produce the opposite effect (make people dumber?)

I'm picturing a computer with flies all over it.

LasersHurt: I'm sure you have solid evidence that leads you to say they're not just likely to go to the wrong people, but "virtually guaranteed" to produce the opposite effect (make people dumber?)

The effect of overall "progress" which would be instantiated by a more-educated populace.

Instead, you get regimes gathering the resources and selling them to gain more usable resources (i.e. guns) to further cement their control over a region and let it stagnate or even depreciate for an even longer period of time.

Of which there are innumerable cases of occurring, albeit not with PCs so much as food.

"We'll take tablets and drop them out of helicopters into villages that have no electricity and school, then go aback a year later and see if the kids can read.."

If they are anything like tablet users in the rest of the world, when we go back in a year they will be pre-diabetic and addicted to Angry Birds.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: The human or the generator?

Depends on the country.

Well his is a case of getting the hoverbike before the horse.

There we go. We gave them the tools, now they can fix their own problems.

Anyone up for some coffee? STARBUCKS RUN!

Phil Moskowitz: Well his is a case of getting the hoverbike before the horse.

They'd just eat the horse. Maybe this way they can learn to farm their dry, barren dirt. Probably not though.

Solar chargers? Great, now some evil turd farmer is going to bodge together a death ray and take over Goatfarkibunstunburner with it.

RolandGunner: gopher321: "They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!"

+1 to subby and +1 to you.

This

"Negroponte described the helicopter drop plan at the Open Mobile Summit event in San Francisco. According to a PC Magazine report, he compared the project to the classic 1980 film, The Gods Must Be Crazy, which depicted how an isolated tribe in the Kalahari Desert might react to discovering a Coca-Cola bottle that fell from an airplane."

Specifically, they threw it off a cliff. Why should this go any better?

Has anyone mentioned that Bailey was hotter than Jennifer yet?

Hate to see one of these threads go by without including that affirmation

tomcatadam:
I'm pretty sure the machines had a hand-crank that charged the batteries on them, or something like that.

That was planned early on, but dropped as unfeasible before the first public release.

Some day, there will be no one left who understands that joke. And that will be a sad day indeed.

Keep the flame alive, you young farks!

YouTube can save us!

TheMaskedArmadillo: RolandGunner: gopher321: "They're hitting the ground like bags of wet cement!"

+1 to subby and +1 to you.

This

THIS

The motion is seconded, affirmed and carried.

This will just result in some little tribal dude trekking across the country trying to return it to the Gods that gave it to his tribe. And a bumbling microbiologist trying to get laid.


/not obscure, right?

You know who else liked to drop tables.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: This will just result in some little tribal dude trekking across the country trying to return it to the Gods that gave it to his tribe. And a bumbling microbiologist trying to get laid.

A modern day sequel/remake/pastiche of it would be awesome.

So how did this plan work out when they dropped regular books?

llamalarity: tomcatadam:
I'm pretty sure the machines had a hand-crank that charged the batteries on them, or something like that.

That was planned early on, but dropped as unfeasible before the first public release.

It'll be available on the olpcTablet2.

As long as this:

happens at least once, I'm good

The OLPC is tremendously clever technology married to underdeveloped pedagogy and sociological incapacity.

poot_rootbeer: The OLPC is tremendously clever technology married to underdeveloped pedagogy and sociological incapacity.

You use words that tell me you don't understand them.

I thought ewaste dumping in the 3rd world was frowned upon?
They publicize their plans to dump these crappy things nobody wants in Africa and nobodies outraged?

Haven't they suffered enough?

poot_rootbeer: The OLPC is tremendously clever technology married to underdeveloped pedagogy and sociological incapacity.

STEP AWAY FROM THE THESAURUS.

Smeggy Smurf: Solar chargers? Great, now some evil turd farmer is going to bodge together a death ray and take over Goatfarkibunstunburner with it.

actually, if they could get the parts, I'm sure the farmers would fashion electric fences for their livestock out of solar chargers. Livestock is very valuable. For example, an epidemiologist was telling me how its important to figure out how many goats/cows/etc (in addition to children) someone has when handing out mosquito nets for malaria prevention. Otherwise the goats end up with mosquito netting and the children get none.