Comments on: Even During Christmas, the Multiple-times Convicted Monopolists Spur Attacks on OLPC Charity

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:55:43 +0000

GNOME is still the most widely used desktop environment and Linus uses it. Let’s not knock it.

By: NotZed

NotZed — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:54:18 +0000

Well i’m a sceptic too. Not because that form factor is an impossible dream, it’s just mediocre as a teaching device. Passively reading or even playing games with your finger can only teach up to a point. What happened to the real ‘hands on’ approach? Pointing a finger is hardly ‘hands on’.

It needs a real keyboard. Otherwise these kids will only be taught how to use other people’s software and ‘content’, not make their own – or even realise they could make their own. Imagine an IPhone in all of their pockets instead for example.

The XO-1 even had an emphasis on field maintenance using FRU’s a child could work with. Where in these newer designs is that hands on learning aspect? It shows you a computer is just a machine like any other, rather than a magic electrical box you mustn’t look inside of for fear of letting the magic out.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:37:28 +0000

It is exceptionally hard to find contemporary photos of people (that are also in the public domain).

Are faces a form of art?

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:54:12 +0000

Permissions note: the photo of Nicholas Negroponte is CC by-sa 3.0 and the photographer is Gin Kai, U.S. Naval Academy, Photographic Studio. (Apparently it’s not US Government Public Domain, which is odd.) Image page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NNegoponte_USNA_20090415_.jpg