What rock have you been living under for the past year? These PC's are paid for by governments, not individual families.
That's too bad about the price hike, but it's still going to help educate kids in developing countries for less money than buying books, supplies, etc.
Now I'll just sit back and wait for ignorant comments like "But kids in developing countries don't need computers, they need food!"
Indeed they need food. But education is the most valuable product and resource on the planet. Digital information is much cheaper than paper^^.
But now Im waiting for the educational laptop for the more well developed countrys (like the G8 ;-)). Because we seriously need them too. The best would be a 8.5" by 8.5" multitouchscreen tablet (made by an abstraction of TFIR, messuring how much light is gone at the other end, not how much went down) used as a terminal (so you can buy one expensive server but have very cheap flat clients).
actually, its only 100 dollars for the poor people, but if families in the us want to buy one, they have to buy one for a poor kid in some other country, so technecly, they are 100, but you have to buy another one thats shipped to a poor kid. which is why this is getting so much praise.
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USD $200 is just WAY WAY too much money for poor families in developing countries.
What rock have you been living under for the past year? These PC's are paid for by governments, not individual families.
That's too bad about the price hike, but it's still going to help educate kids in developing countries for less money than buying books, supplies, etc.
Now I'll just sit back and wait for ignorant comments like "But kids in developing countries don't need computers, they need food!"
But poor kids in Nigeria need porn too.
Indeed they need food. But education is the most valuable product and resource on the planet.
Digital information is much cheaper than paper^^.
But now Im waiting for the educational laptop for the more well developed countrys (like the G8 ;-)). Because we seriously need them too.
The best would be a 8.5" by 8.5" multitouchscreen tablet (made by an abstraction of TFIR, messuring how much light is gone at the other end, not how much went down) used as a terminal (so you can buy one expensive server but have very cheap flat clients).
Greets from Germany
@ Jan
You mean like the desks in Ender's Game?
actually, its only 100 dollars for the poor people, but if families in the us want to buy one, they have to buy one for a poor kid in some other country, so technecly, they are 100, but you have to buy another one thats shipped to a poor kid. which is why this is getting so much praise.