From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4491D2AD.4000508@village.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:35:41 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] A look at the OLPC environment References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6b93ec12-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: >i'm just amazed they think it's possible to have a laptop + 1200x900 dis= play for less than $100. >i want one! > =20 > Every time I see a $79 DVD player at Costco I think, what's the big deal=20 about the OLPC? A hundred bucks? Hey, maybe I can beat that and still=20 make a few sheckels. At $100 OLPC may be overpriced, expecially if there=20 are no retailer margins. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)