“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type.” — Bill Gates
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To think he’s normally on about spaces.
Bill: “Its all about spaces”
Journalist: “What spaces?”
B: “you know, spaces!”
J: “Oh, you mean the space in your head where your brain should be”
I know he’s supposedly intelligent but he does come up with an awful lot of crap
The OLPC boxes are not “air guitars” that impose an artificial programmer/user barrier. They’re tools for citizens, not for consumers.
Children hate Bill Gates too
“‘Hardware is a small part of the cost’ of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support.”
Correct, as long as it comes from Microsoft and affiliates.
That’s funny, but it seems more like a common case of someone being so wealthy as to have lost touch.
ahaha that’s funny
Interestingly, if you look at the countries, corporates and individuals who have critisized the OLPC project, they all loose something through the making and propagation of the OLPC laptop.
Intel critisized the project because it does not use an Intel chip, rather an AMD one. Mali critisized the project: “African women who do most of the work in the countryside don’t have time to sit with their children and research what crops they should be planting…What is needed is clean water and real schools.” Another representative from Mali suggested that this project was just a disguise to allow western influence and a new customer base there.
Now Bill Gates has a go at this project (couldn’t see that one coming). My guesses are because his suggestion was turned down by Negroponte to use Windows on the $100 laptops. If they were to run Windows they would not be $100 laptops, but rather $350-450 laptops.
I hate this sort of thing. People who do not necessarily gain anything out of something that is good for a whole lot of other people want to ruin it for them. This sort of crap has happened so many times before and it’s just useless and a pain in the ass. Gates should just shut his trap.
Cheers,
Pascal
But honestly, I hope Google and MIT’s final product doesn’t require a crank to operate.
By the way, any details on what processor it has, what OS the thing’s going to run, etc.?
bi: The hand-crank is used when the C cell batteries are dead. It’s very practical. Read all about it on the OLPC website - it’s an open project.
The hand crank makes a lot of sense if you are familiar with rugged the wind up radios a British inventor developed and has been a real benefit (don’t under estiamte the value of a good weather forecast). The project may be called One Laptop per Child but I could see adults running micro businesses making great use of them too. Indeed if this project really works as intended it will empower users to thing the designers never though of.
Alan: Definitely. Actually, I would not be surprised to see something along the lines of a $300 laptop afterwards for adults. I could feature a big screen some more processing power and whatnot. I certainly would use it.
Bill Gates hates children #2
http://flickr.com/photos/simosx/113922767/
Bill Gates is one of the biggest benefactors, donators today. I have been a penguin riding geek for 8 years now and develop for a living mainly on solaris, and linux now. I don’t really like windows, but i think its really quite wrong to put things like this up. The guy (BG) does not hate children.
Sure this is humorous, but imagine your face there instead of his. This is a bit low…lets keep it real. stop slinging the mud and do something to make opensource competitive…
Well, Tom, I’m glad that the founder of one of the monopolies with the hugest number of crushed competitors (read as in “people losing their jobs as a consequence of illegal practices”) is thought of as a great benefactor (while still keeping his rank as the richest individual in the world).
So instead of using his public persona for a bit of harmless fun I’ll start to perform some more socially productive tasks. Like getting into conversations that joke about things like the general suckyness of Chrysler SUVs and tell them to stop making fun of a company that employs many people that otherwise would be freezing in the street.
Political correctness ad nauseam.
Good one Jeff. Sounds like Gates and Ballmer are getting into a spot of bother over Vista. Hypercapitalist Forbes magazine is suggesting Linux as a possible alternative:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/03/22/vista-microsoft-ballmer_cz_dl_0322microsoft.html
Will 2007 be the year of desktop Linux?
fct, he was talking about the fact that BG gives millions of dollars in development aid, his foundation does not give food to poor people, but tries to get rid of some factors that make survival quite hard in those countries (such as disseases that could have been cured if pharmaceutical companies would research them)
And its quite right: its his job to criticize everything that can be a threat to him. Check out how anti Steve Jobs (Apple) was against Flash memory before his iPods used them, or the anti-Intell publicities when the G4 came out.
Ignore them and keep innovating linux. Even if microsoft copies other innovations, the innovation will be introduced in the world.
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Si vas a tener gente compartiendo la computadora, conseguite una conexión de banda ancha y poné a alguien que pueda dar soporte al usuario, por favor, conseguà una computadora decente(…)†Acá hay un lindocomentario sobre esto de parte de uno de los chicos de ubuntu. Ah, la computadora esta va a llevar sofware libre.
March 17, 2006 08:41 PM
Simos Xenitellis masterfully combines a bit of silly Ubuntu Fridge humour withBill Gates hating on the children: [IMG]
[IMG alt] It has been suggested that the parodies of Bill Gates in recent posts are unfair. I have been asked to imagine my face on such images. Why imagine, when we have The GIMP?[IMG Jeff Waugh Loves Dumb Jokes] It has also been suggested that I go and “do something to make opensource competitiveâ€. So, stay tuned for an interesting announcement from the GNOME Foundation in the coming weeks. [IMG -)]
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