Give One Get One Redux, OLPC XO-1 Now On Amazon 168
404 Clue Not Found writes "The One Laptop Per Child project's XO-1 laptop is once again available to the general public via its Give One Get One promotion, where $400 will buy two laptops, one for the purchaser and one for 'a child in the emerging world.' Having learned from their delivery and fulfillment headaches the first time around, this time they partnered with Amazon.com to handle shipping. But a year after its initial release, the market has become saturated with Eee-wannabe netbooks from every major manufacturer. Can the XO-1's charitable appeal, unique chassis and dual-mode screen compete with the superior performance and standard operating systems of its newer peers?"
Oh, GREAT timing there. (Score:4, Funny)
Last year I couldn't afford to do this despite the good economy.
This year I can't afford to do this due to the lousy economy.
Maybe next year.
Re:Give one? (Score:4, Funny)
For that matter, how many third-world children can you get for $199? These bobbins aren't going to thread themselves.
Re:Culture shock. (Score:5, Funny)
> I remember back in the day when these cute girls would come to my door and try to sell overpriced cookies.
I remember back in the day selling cookies to fat, middle-aged men who'd answer wearing nothing but boxers and a stained sports t-shirt while my mother waited impatiently in the car. If you ask me, they didn't charge enough.
Re:Give one? (Score:1, Funny)
..."Sex, by Henry Stanton" where it proclaims that masturbation is "self abuse" and causes epilepsy. Nice. Love that up to date information from the internet.
What, it's not? It doesn't?
Hold my calls for the rest of the day.
Re:Culture shock. (Score:3, Funny)
Classic casual wear!
Mix and match with tighty whities and a Cheetos
encrusted Hawaiian shirt for a variety of stylish looks.
Re:Errr No... (Score:3, Funny)
If you rearrange the molecules in a brick you can theoretically produce a computer. Therefore, not even a brick is totally bricked. Furthermore, all computation requires time. Everything frozen in time is bricked, so even supercomputers doing intense computations are bricked when you just consider a moment in time.
Let's say an object A is bricked in a certain time interval T if there is no way to perform a computation using A in time T. Then a 3 GHz computer processor is bricked for T less than 300 ps. Everything is bricked for T=0 and nothing is bricked for T=infinity. Now let Brick(A) be the maximum T such that A is bricked in T. This is the brickness rating of object A. Clearly, Brick(your computer with power plug removed) is less than Brick(computer without a usable OS installed). So your extrapolation is a bit unfounded.