Well, no, but a pocket calculator would serve an educational purpose too. All I'm suggesting is that I think the OLPC could offer much more value with a bit more work. Currently the OS is bizarre and half-baked, and various features (like the keyboard) are extremely awkward to use in a way that they shouldn't have to be.
The mesh wifi is fantastically done (the UI for that part is pretty great too) but it's only one part of a rather incoherent whole.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Well, no, but a pocket calculator would serve an educational purpose too. All I'm suggesting is that I think the OLPC could offer much more value with a bit more work. Currently the OS is bizarre and half-baked, and various features (like the keyboard) are extremely awkward to use in a way that they shouldn't have to be.
The mesh wifi is fantastically done (the UI for that part is pretty great too) but it's only one part of a rather incoherent whole.