http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/ Engadget Comments for OLPC's XO Generation 1.5 Laptop dances from GNOME to Sugar, on video! 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/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Kids in most poor nations don't need a laptop - they need someone to get rid of the corrupt governments that keep the citizens poor while enriching themselves. However, that's too hard and politically incorrect, so a bunch of people will act like giving these kids free laptops will change the world when all it really does is make the people running the program feel better about themselves.]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Do you know it is very offensive that you all state food is the only thing they need? Of course it is the most urgent but it is not the only thing they need.

They need to know there is a better world than the one they live in, and these laptops give a glimpse of that to them, and after that they start to want something better. That is the first stage, to know the sh1t you are into and to want to live a better life.]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
I'm from the UK and most western governments are corrupt and in the pocket of big business, what country are from sounds like a utopia you invented in your mind !]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Yes, I'm sure starving kids in zimbabwe, whose currency is more valuable for kindling and toilet paper than buying food, would be really happy with a new OLPC setup. Until some of mugabe's thugs stole them and gave them out to his followers or sold them on the black market. The few that were able to keep the laptop could look at pictures of food and wonder what it would be like to eat on a regular basis. The most ironic thing is that the people who think they are helping with all this foreign aid and feel-good programs usually end up perpetuating the problem because they aid they send (money, food, etc) ends up in the hands of the dictators instead of the poor, and it gets resold or given away, and the proceeds are used to keep the thugs in power.

Again, it's a nice sentiment, but the real world results are usually 180 degrees away from what is the expressed intent. But most people who do these programs don't care as much about the consequences as they do their intentions.

"They need to know there is a better world than the one they live in, and these laptops give a glimpse of that to them, and after that they start to want something better. That is the first stage, to know the sh1t you are into and to want to live a better life."

Well that's nice and touchy feely, but that's not the real world. They don't need a freaking laptop no matter how good it make you feel. What they need is someone to go in, overthrow people mugabe and their regimes, and institute a system where people actually have property rights and can keep the things they make and have (like land, food, and even laptops once people have land and food). Anything else is meaningless. You may want to think and feel this will make a difference, but it won't. These kids will still be starving and the mechanisms that keep them that way will still be in place no matter how many laptops you throw at the problem.]]>Sep 17th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Of course there are other places where food is a broader concern, but bringing in food doesn't address the long term needs of a population. Still... if people are starving it's a good stop gap.

I'm somewhat concerned about how quickly some people bring this conversation to violent government overthrow. For the most part violent attempts at state building from the outside have proven extremely difficult or disastrous, it needs to come from the people inside the culture (with outside help if necessary).

Is giving laptops out like this going to solve all the world's problems? Of course not. Is it potentially going to make a difference in someone's life and help to spread education? I'm sure that in many places it will.]]>Sep 17th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Here:
http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/software/default.htm]]>Sep 17th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?storeName=storefronts&landing=rts_notebook&category=rts_notebook&orderflow=1&a1=Brand&v1=Compaq+Presario&product_code=NW159UA%23ABA&catLevel=2

I've seen these at Bestbuy it's a rather sexy laptop.]]>Sep 17th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
Apple trolls can take it in the bum!!!]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/
I'm not normally a first-release adopter for any product with such a uncertain future ahead of it.

I just wondered about the laptop because it looked swanky.]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUly6OoS7M]]>Sep 17th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0xsqV3zk1Y]]>Sep 17th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Happy to help.]]>Sep 17th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 17th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/17/olpcs-xo-generation-1-5-laptop-dances-from-gnome-to-sugar-on-v/Sep 19th 2009 10:32AM