[oclug] [Flamebait caution] Re: OCLUG Digest, Vol 46, Issue 5

[jamesisaacjames]

oclug-request at lists.oclug.on.ca wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:41:02 -0500
> From: Mike <kenziem at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Pat Suwalski's talk on the Asus EeePC
> To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> Message-ID: <200712221841.03008.kenziem at sympatico.ca>
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> On November 7, 2007 12:19 pm, William Case wrote:
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>> Thanks Pat;
>>
>> That talk last night was extremely interesting.  Went to Asus EeePC site
>> last night after the OCLUG meeting.  The 8G modal coming out at the end
>> of November seemed to have everything I could want.  Wikipedia has a
>> full description.
>>
>> It is going to be interesting to watch the sales on this machine over
>> the next few months.  There could be something revolutionary here.
>>     
>
> Just visited the PC Cyber web site and they are now listing 2 , 4 and 8 G 
> models ranging from 299  499, in several colors too.
>  
> http://www.pccyber.com/?v=Search&SearchField=sku&SearchText=eee
>
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<tongue in cheek>
Where have all the charitable and non-commercial people gone?

<silly cheap and evocative call to walk away from a commercial product>
You should
</silly cheap and evocative call to walk away from a commercial product>

be advocating another linux product: The One laptop Per Child computer.
It does not matter that the product was designed for the third world.
</tongue in cheek>

The One Laptop Per Child machine.
It is a non-commercial choice.

You donate either U.S.$400.00 or U.S.200.00 at
www.laptopgiving.org
This buys a laptop for a third world child.
The $400 choice gives you a laptop.
The $200 choice only gives a laptop to a third world child.
The third world computer gets reused at the end of the year to teach 
another child, until it wears out.
A caution: One Laptop Per Child is a U.S. charity. Ontario residents 
need U.S. income if they want to deduct the U.S. charitable donation 
from their income.

(Another opinion: John C. Dvorak 
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2227850,00.asp#>, at 
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2227850,00.asp,
says donating money to a charity so the charity can buy a bag of rice 
does the same thing).


<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2227850,00.asp#>Is the One Laptop 
Per Child thing real? Well, if it is not, they are going to a lot of 
trouble to fake it.
See www.olpcnews.com


<the Follow Me call - you knew it was coming>
I shelled out for a $400.00 donation.
The laptops to Canada will be shipped in January or February.
</the Follow Me call - you knew it was coming>


James Isaac.