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गूगल की गूगली को यहाँ पे सभी पोस्ट्स के लिए भी इस्तेमाल किया जा सकता है. जैसे मेरे ब्लॉग पे है. I'd be happy to help if the jatland site owners are interested in the idea.

Yes. And the reason they don't have a lot of the things is precisely mobility. You can do it in 1.5 kg. But not in 3. I mean my shoulder aches at a 3 kg laptop if I have to carry it all day in a conference. (it is a light one) I didn't say they don't have storage. I only said they don't have...

And here is a link for the similar record of the indian school in khairat near mumbai.

Corollary: How many of you would have given a laptop to your own school going child or grand child, had they been available for $10 or Rs. 400 ? Why?

This is some real good news. Now some of the concerns about swadeshi should go away. And if the cost is as low as projected. I am a very happy person. :)

Yes, all those things should be done. If some people think that these should be done before the laptop project, they have to group now and make it happen. Because the OLPC itself is making rapid progress, we will need to hurry up. Because there is no indian company that can make anything even...

While I don't discount the conspiracy theory. Well may be it is an attempt to dupe the poor countries. I only hope the good Prof. Negroponte and his team does not read this bit. For they are trying to do something. And the thing they are trying to do has a nice warm feeling about it. Yes the...

Agree! So, can we afford to miss the opportunity to equip the society in a manner that it can teach it's kids to maintain a balance between conservation of existing richness and new high tech advancement? The parents and teachers, are capable is my assertion. They can pull the internet plug if...

I am unable to deduce what exact part of the west do you mean here. I have personally experienced life in a fair number of locations in the developed world, and I think they are thriving. :)

As promised, here is the link http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay . This does capture some of the aspects of how people's life changed as an effect of the OLPC laptops. The more important part is how they seem to be ready to change based on the feedback from the actual users.

Nicely phrased. :) . But being a robot is independent of whether you touch a computer or not. If you mean personality as the psychologists point out, that does not change after 5 years of age. (Very well established assertion in psychology). If you mean behavior, then that depends on a lot of...

I agree. But there are some open questions: How do the schools decide who gets to use the 5-10 machines. As far as I can see, they will be used by the "master"'s kids. Secondly, even the 5-10 machines is not going to happen. Is there a need to influence it? if so, how? if not should we just...

I don't know. I have myself asked the question and a lot more. see http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/2007-October/000064.html . -Ajay

Who is "you"? I am the community just like everyone else on the website. Not sure if I made it clear enough. I am just a fan of the project. Nothing more nothing less.

Prashant, Really good question. Taking it up to be asked. But there is still a response that I could think of. The laptops don't have a built in optical drive. Actually if you noticed they don't have a hard disk either. :) , or for that matter, any moving part. The two reasons for that are...