http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/ Engadget Comments for Uruguay youngsters receive batch of OLPC XOs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
They'd have been better off with the food that the cost of the dumb thing could have bought them]]>May 14th 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay

Right here!

]]>May 14th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
About being better off w/ food... You know that saying where it's better to teach someone how to fish rather than to feed them fish or some shit like that? Yeah, that applies here.]]>May 14th 2007 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Computer based learning is much cheaper and more accessible to third world countries than paper based (ie. books that you have to buy, paper, materials).

Second, have you even tried to use the release of the operating system? It allows for e-book reading, art, and other software. Not to mention it's Linux based, so future software upgrades will be free, and accessible.

Third, while I agree that food is an important thing to provide, we should provide these countries with a hand up, not a hand out. These OLPCs help to build an infrastructure for an educated population, not just one that waits in food lines waiting for their next meal.]]>May 14th 2007 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/ Then they will be able to read and follow Hugo Chavez's efforts to bring his country into the modern age, and they will dream. This dream will be viral and explode across the nation,until the power supply dwindles and they have to pull the cord again.
]]>May 14th 2007 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
but its cool to see countries receiving the OLPC
i think the whole concept of the OLPC is great it gives the opportunity of teaching a child from a third world nation to get proper education]]>May 14th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Go get some buk lerning.]]>May 14th 2007 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Nice to see OLPC finally being filtered to the real world.]]>May 14th 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
95% literacy, #1, by far, in per capita exports of software in Latin America, least number of people living in poverty in Latin America in proposrtion to population, I could go on.

The laptops are welcome and yes Internet connections are relatively costly, but it is a start.

Your homework is to report back with useful info about Uruguay.]]>May 15th 2007 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
unfortunately, this is how the rest of the world see Americans, who seemingly have no knowledge whatsoever of anything outside of their state lines :(
]]>May 15th 2007 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 18th 2007 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/Uruguay's telephone system is 100% digital (go check those stats for the rest of the world, including you're country) and I cant't get DSL in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city.
Uruguay will soon be the first country in South America to offer nation-wide UMTS-HSDPA wireless access - I'm talking about 3G data conectivity speeds for cellular phones, do you follow? If not, just google it.
Now you can go out and brag a little bit about Uruguay, and don't forget to write to your congressman demanding that the richest nation on earth provide the same services as the "lesser world".]]>Jul 3rd 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Now about educating some adults...]]>May 14th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
this is really a great thing.]]>May 14th 2007 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/i hope this can help to give better education to those kids. :)
]]>May 14th 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Don't judge someone by the looks, you don't believe me, go and take a look by yourself, they got great mathematicians, technicians, doctors, artists, etc.

"Second, wait until they realize that they have to crank it, and that they surely can't afford to pay for the internet."

You do realize that you are paying for a piece of hardware that didn't cost to make nearly as much as what you paid and that was made/assembled by people for nearly a few bucks an hour.

You are the kind of people that make the US look worse everyday...(I should have included George Bush, but o' well :) )]]>May 14th 2007 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Because /b/ is down due to...uhh....well it's been colored over. And moot is very, very slow at fixing things.

But that has nothing to do with anon getting lulz from a dumb hand-crank operated junk box being force fed to children from Uruguay.

T-Minus 10 days until Uruguay finds 4chan, and then /b/, and the entire country will join our legion. ]]>May 14th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/Before writing like you did, please get informed. ]]>May 14th 2007 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
*note: I do not condone homophobia or gay bashing, just figured someone out there would have said it...]]>May 14th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/In my countrie most of the public schools lacks from books, notebooks (paper), or even pencil. I know that some of the schools dont have BATHROOMS!
But our IDIOTIC President Think's it's a good idea to give Laptops... mh...
He's a moron!

]]>May 14th 2007 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 15th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/And... when one of these gets broken... Mh??! How much time will a student be withouth his laptop???
]]>May 15th 2007 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Which is why the laptops have a hardware-based authentication system. If the laptops are stolen, or taken out of range of the wireless authorization server at the school for a period of time (ie: a couple of weeks), they'll automatically lock themselves, and not unlock until they're returned to the school. Makes them sort of pointless to steal.

And before someone starts, yes, it's probably possible to crack it. And no, I don't think your average thief will be able to (or have the incentive to), and the computes can always be (automatically?) updated with new firmware if the existing security is ever broken.]]>May 14th 2007 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/With that money he could have done lots of great things.
But i insist, the average american doesnt have general culture, they only know the basic things about the world. The U.S.A. is no the world, is just another country. I cant believe the things i've read about my country here.
And they are not selling the pc's on ebay, only YOU think all the time about money, here we value another things. ]]>May 14th 2007 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/May 14th 2007 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/
Sorry kids, but the US (Other than the south, boy are people dumb in the south) has one of the best schooling systems in the world. Not to mention that it's one of (if not the) highest volume schooling systems in the world. The United States puts out a higher volume of well-educated students than any other country on earth. But go ahead, compare us to a country with 1% of our population (Like some European countries) and tell us that our schooling system is a failure and that as a whole, we are a nation of uneducated dolts. ]]>May 14th 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/Sep 3rd 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/http://www.portableuniverse.co.uk]]>Jun 3rd 2007 7:06PM