Skills: the right to education

[shehani0nline]

There is 1500+ student in my school and we have one Piii computer.

Still we didnt get a CD rom. any one pls send us a used CD rom.

If you can do it pls send us a email !! We will send your CD rom back to you as soon as possible

shehani0nline@yahoo.com

send me $0.0001 to my paypal account... I already have $0.07 :)

shehani0nline@yahoo.com

[aman111501]

How weird you buy two laptops for

$369 and get 1 while some one else gets the other such a waste you should get both laptops not one the people reciebving the laptops are so lucky they get it for free or $000.00 I have one of those so not use able you can only download apps that special developers make no YouTube or coumputer game on the other hand you can get a normal laptop for that price and the operating system on the Olpc is horrible and the other laptop runs on windows 7 premium

[just0watch0this]

has this foundation ever considered the Philippines? Cause I've never seen anyone playing with these laptops here.

[btheman11]

00.09 is that a child hooker???

[vfgud]

thats what fps games do to you

[buggfire]

strip an indigenous people from their homeland then fill it with electronic waste. savage!

[articlepk]

good for kids

[irishiwasbrian]

you dont have the right to anything but freedom and liberty. Everything else you have to work your ass off for.

[Hosea22]

Therefore computers ranging from a mobile phone to a supercomputer are all able to perform the same computational tasks, given enough time and storage capacity.

[Hosea22]

The ability to store and execute lists of instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile, distinguishing them from calculators. The Church - Turing thesis is a mathematical statement of this versatility: any computer with a certain minimum capability is, in principle, capable of performing the same tasks that any other computer can perform.

[Hosea22]

Personal computers in their various forms are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as "computers". The embedded computers found in many devices from MP3 players to fighter aircraft and from toys to industrial robots are however the most numerous.

[Hosea22]

Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines, and occupy a fraction of the space. Simple computers are small enough to fit into a wristwatch, and can be powered by a watch battery.

[Hosea22]

A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a set of instructions. Although mechanical examples of computers have existed through much of recorded human history, the first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940 - 1945). These were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).

[Naum830]

Is this some kind of parody about humanitarian hypocrisy like in the style of the onion network news or South Park? I can't believe someone can be so shameless to make this for serious after all what we knew today about such "good" people.

[narisguy]

lol the kid with the gun, that was stupid, the kids with the laptop, that was cool!

[husnain404]

the kid with the gun is SICK!

[kyraocity]

Just to be clear, the mission of OLPC is that we in the US buy one laptop and the OLPC folks provide entire schools laptops and each kid gets to take it home, no one left out. Poor = starving in Africa. Most areas are urban but don't have laptops.

As a professor of anthro I find responses like MonoKulen's curious. With a wireless laptop perhaps a whole school in Nigeria, Uraguay or Bangladesh could change their own world without our DEBT.

[OLPCFoundation]

That's right. actually most of the schools we work with are in rural areas; Uruguay is the big exception, and they are going to give one laptop per child & teacher to every primary school in the country. they don't have many very rural areas.

Thanks for the comment.

[kyraocity]

What I meant was that most people think most Africans live in rural areas and from all accounts that I have heard and read that is no longer becoming the case in Africa. People are poor and urban in many countries.

[eosorion]

thank you for the thought provoking ad.

[MonoKulen]

yeah but we can't change the world by giving child knowledge

child needs to have food & shelter, cause countries like Somalia won't change by giving laptops to poor kids

that's the sad truth

[isforinsects]

I disagree. The /only/ way to change the world is by education. Giving food and shelter? It has to happen, but it doesn't CHANGE anything.

You feed a child, he is fed.

But if you feed a child, and then teach him to grow his own food? Then he feeds himself.

Education is the answer.

[MonoKulen]

Yes but you have to have priorities. First food, then Linux.

It's good, but for some specific countries. Somalia - big NO. Google and you'll see. They have criminals that make people starve for months. There are countries like that in Africa too. Warlords doesn't want to people have food, how they can let people use computers. They are militarizeing childeren cause children are slaves in countries like that. They will never use a computer as the goverment is like one I described.

[isforinsects]

Oh totally. If it's a choice between food and laptops; no question. But education has to be part of it. Otherwise those goverments stay in power.

[gadflyzzz]

But the choice being posed here is not food or laptops, its guns or laptops, sexual abuse or laptops, sweatshop labor or laptops... that a choice not for children, but for adults to make -- any adult who cares one jot for children.

[joshig1983]

Buy a laptop and help a kid become independent through education or buy food for the people so they depend more on more food from charity so they can grow on it, multiply and perpetuate the cycle of dependency. Which one is better? It might be better to show some tough love and stop with the food so they struggle and find their own way to solve their overpopulation. I think handing out food is actually harmful for that reason. Laptops are much more helpful.

[OLPCFoundation]

maybe not the only way, but a central one.