2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader 286
waderoush writes "At a conference sponsored by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation this morning, OLPC founder unveiled the design for the foundation's second-generation laptop. It's actually not a laptop at all — it's a dual-screen e-book reader (we've got pictures). Negroponte said the foundation hopes that the cost of the new device, which is scheduled for production by 2010, can be kept to $75, in part by using low-cost displays manufactured for portable DVD players."
Bye bye books (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe schools in the states can get these and stop spending my hard earned cash on books. Oh wait, they already paid for them. I used the same book my mom used in high school (her name was on it!).
laptop is an e-book reader? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mass Production (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bye bye books (Score:5, Funny)
or Bush's... whichever option is worth more karma.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
right, so? (Score:5, Funny)
Negroponte said the foundation hopes that the cost of the new device, which is scheduled for production by 2010, can be kept to $75
Is that 75 Real Dollars, or $75 Negroponte Distortion Field Dollars? And it'd be nice if the press actually took a stab at how realistic those "hopes" are- I mean, I hope that someday I'll shit strawberry-flavored lollipops while driving in my flying car, on autopilot while I bonk my supermodel wife...
OLPC has to change its name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bye bye books (Score:5, Funny)
You've got to look at the bright side of life.
Abstinence-only education tends to encourage casual oral sex (frequent, one would hope) as a substitute for losing one's virginity. Or making babies.
Who could be against more blowjobs? Not me.
Wiki-TextBooks is an old idea (Score:1, Funny)
barking up the wrong tree (Score:4, Funny)
Like it or not, good textbooks cost a lot of money because few people can write them and students are willing and able to pay those prices.
Why are few people able to write them? Because tenure committees and university boards demand publications and grant money and that's what professors have to spend their time on. Writing a textbook is a career limiting move, and professors simply don't have the time to create their own teaching materials from scratch, given all the other obligations imposed on them.
If you don't like that, go to a teaching oriented school, and/or complain to your university and state legislators that they should set different priorities.