Comments for "One Laptop per child" Video at VideoSift.com

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:51:19 -0800

Tags for this video have been changed from 'XO, reuters, international, wireless, computer, third world, children' to 'XO, OLPC, reuters, international, wireless, computer, third world, children' - edited by kronosposeidon

By fissionchips

fissionchips (http://fissionchips.videosift.com) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:46:41 -0800

Has anyone bought one through their 'give one get one' program? Can it play flash video?

If so, there could be 1 billion new sifters in no time!

By dgandhi

dgandhi (http://www.videosift.com/member/dgandhi) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:22:30 -0800

I did G1G1, it has not arrived yet, but it does come with a flash player in the browser(stripped down firefox), it has flash-block, so it's an extra click to run, but it should be no problem, except for bandwidth.

The countries that the machines are going to now have net infrastructure, so they will be, by and large, online, but many of the countries that this is targeted at will have a local, or a request/cache system which will allow web pages, and e-mail, but no ajax or streaming.

I don't think they have 1 Billion orders yet.

If you are interested you can run the system software, called sugar, there are a few live boot CDs with the whole XO sugar system installed, so that you can check it out without an XO, or installing anything on your machine.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveCd

By 9647

9647 (http://www.videosift.com/member/9647) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:37:17 -0800

So you give a laptop then you get another laptop in return? Doesnt make sense.

By dgandhi

dgandhi (http://www.videosift.com/member/dgandhi) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:08:18 -0800

megadeth666: you send them $400 as a "donation", which buys 2. They send one to a developing nation, and send you one, mostly for PR and geekery, though some people give them to their kids. The XO is not designed to be a first world consumer gadget, but does have some interesting tech innovations, what olpc fanboys call "clock stopping hot technology".