Paul Lussier writes:
Right. Benson, crazy though he is, was foolish enough to think we
should take care of people in our country before helping other
countries people who can't read and write. That whole Charity begins
at home thing is just so, well, un-PC :)
Gosh, when you put it that
Bill Sconce entertained 5 attendees with a great presentation
explaining generators in Python. Comparisons of FOR clauses in a
dozen languages, discussions of the the classic gotchas with
iterators (off-by-one, picket-fence and infinite loops) were
discussed and inadvertently demonstrated.
Bill McGonigle wrote:
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to
buy a $100 OLPC laptop:
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
I've been told that this pledge project is not directly affiliated with
the OLPC project, and that the OLPC laptops are not available in the
Here is the scoop for BLU and GNHLUG:
We have a limited number of tables available for vendors and User
Groups like yours during the Poster Session and Happy Hour on
Thursday June 1st from 6-7:30pm.
Please arrive to set up at 5:30.
I'll plan on being here are 5:30. When you get here ask to
On Thursday 25 May 2006 21:04, Paul Lussier uttered thusly:
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Yep. Getting computers to people in third world countries.
Right. Benson, crazy though he is, was foolish enough to think we
should take care of people in our country before helping other
countries people who can't read and
difference -- unless it can connect to the Internet.
The MIT folks realize that. They designed them with the 3rd world environment in mind.
Each laptop shares it's wireless connection with other laptops in
range, so the laptops nearest the one network link at the school repeat
it down the street
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:01:52PM -0400, Fred wrote:
Anyway, just to add my own $0.02, I don't see the $100 PC making much f a
difference -- unless it can connect to the Internet. Otherwise the third
world will be limited to whatever content and software their respective
governments will
