[olug] [OT] $100 computer pledge bank

[Rob Townley]

awesome - more Latina Colombians for me

 Take it your thesis is on Super Computing / Parallel  computing?

A Delgado from Peru was the host.


On 11/1/06, Cesar Delgado <cdelgad2 at bigred.unl.edu> wrote:
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> Rob Townley wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, Cesar Delgado <cdelgad2 at bigred.unl.edu> wrote:
> >> Well, I guess the pledge time is over and the 100,000 pledges needed
> >> never arrived.  Most of you might have heard about the $100 laptop
> >> that's being developed (http://laptop.media.mit.edu/).  There was a
> >> pledge drive where they were asking $300 for 1 laptop where the rest of
> >> the money would play for 2 more to be sent to the areas that have been
> >> decided upon.  Well, sadly it didn't work.  And reading the posts on /.
> >> about it just made me even sadder.  Most people are bitchin' and moanin'
> >> about the cost and how they wouldn't pay 3x for something.  I did, I
> >> pledge for 2 actually and I'm still a broke college student.  Most
> >> people on /., I'm quite sure, wouldn't even think twice about spending
> >> ~$300 on ThinkGeek stuff the first time they went to the website!  But I
> >> guess I have a different view.  As most of you know I'm from Colombia in
> >> South America (not one of the countries that are going to get these
> >> laptops any time soon BTW).  And I guess I've seen the need down there
> >> so I can imagine quite easily the need somewhere else.  Maybe it's
> >> harder for some people used to a prety decent public school system to
> >> imagine a need that big.  Maybe I should hire Sally Struthers to make a
> >> commertial about it.
> >>
> >> I'm disappointed at the community in general right now.  I know, for
> >> sure, there's more than 100,000 geeks out there.  And I'm sure most of
> >> them spend way more than $300 on stuff that ends up in a closet.  But
> >> when asked to help, well.. same as the pledge bank, fell short.  It's
> >> quite sad.
> >>
> >> -Cesar
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> > i am with yor bro. i was bummed about the notice as well. Only 1300 or
> > so people signed up out of 100,000.    Would really like to experience
> > performance on a 500 Mhz Geode designed system with a very well tuned
> > O.S.  i am very serious. The computer industry thrives on wasting
> > yesterdays hw.   A 300MhZ CPU can add, subtract, or multiply two
> > numbers in the time it takes a beam of light to travel 1 meter.  How
> > did systems get so bloated and inefficient that this is not fast
> > enough.
> >
> >
> > Hey, did you have a Halloween party Friday night?   If so, that was an
> > awesome party.
>
> Nope, not me, but it's nice to hear that there were parties.  I'm trying
> to write my thesis to get out of here, soooo my social life is close to
> non-existent. ;).
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