[olug] [OT] $100 computer pledge bank

[Cesar Delgado]

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. ;).