Comment Re:An ARM is a good option, but.. (Score 1) 274
That may be so for ordinary development, but the XO-2 started life as a series of bullet point features and a price tag.
They said they'd have an $85 dual touchscreen system with wi-fi.
Comment An ARM is a good option, but.. (Score 1) 274
How the hell can they expect people to take them seriously on the shipping price of a unit when they say how much it is going to cost _before_ they have even chosen the CPU.
Comment Perhaps this would be the first film where (Score 1) 585
...they use product placement as a threat.
Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled 282
AnonCow sends in a peculiar story from TorrentFreak, which describes the plight of a free-download music site that has been summarily evicted from the Internet for violating its own copyright. The problem seems to revolve around the host's insistence that proof of copyright be snail-mailed to them. Kind of difficult when your copyright takes the form of a Creative Commons license that cannot be verified unless its site is up. "The website of an Internet-based record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself 'The First Ever Donation Based Record Label,' but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug."
Comment Re:... and AMD wouldn't even touch the info (Score 1) 212
even if it meant sacrificing margins.
I think they tried that already.
Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee 343
Relin writes "Out of the millions eligible, less than 3,000 have come forward to collect their money in the 'Hot Coffee' settlement. While the plaintiffs' lawyer is surprised by the development, Theodore Frank of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute seems convinced that the lawsuit was 'meritless' and will result in no payment for the legal counsel opposing Take-Two."
Why OLPC Struggles Against Educators, Big Business 261
afabbro writes "The current issue of BusinessWeek has an expansive article of the history of OLPC and why it has, to date, been a flop. Among the reasons: no preparation for the educational systems expected to use it, uncertain pedagogical theories, poor business management, competition from Microsoft/Intel, and no input from education professionals in designing the software. As BusinessWeek quotes one educational expert, 'The hackers took over,' and the applications are too complex for children to use. To date, 370,000 laptops have been shipped — a far cry from the original 150 million planned to be shipped by end of 2008."
Submission + - Walter Bender Resigns From OLPC
westlake writes: Walter Bender, the former executive director of MIT's Media Lab, and, in many ways, the tireless workhorse and public face of OLPC, has resigned from OLPC after being reorganized and sidetracked into insignificance. The rumor mill would have it that "constructionism as children learning learning" is being replaced by a much less romantic view of the XO's place in the classroom and XO's tech in the marketplace. Top OLPC Executive Resigns After Restructuring, Walter Bender Resigned from One Laptop Per Child!!
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