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    Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit

    Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO

    OLPC Ad Goes For the Jugular With Child Laborers, Child Prostitutes, Child Warriors

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    Image of tobz1000 tobz1000
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    If it looks like that, I fucking love this already. I'm always using my PSP as a mirror, and a lot of my friends use the backs of their iPods. Why not make one that doesn't horribly warp your face?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/21/09

    @tobz1000: you left that door wide open . . . but i am gonna stay out here.
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    Image of Technogamer1992 Technogamer1992
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    Errr.... weve got these already... i use the back of my ipod as a mirror it can also be done with the back of the ipod touch


    ...so.. how does this topple the apple empire??

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    05/21/09

    @Technogamer1992: Well it was going to topple Apple from behind, but you've cleverly thwarted that idea. I guess it'll just have to use Toastie's idea and attempt to blind Apple. But dude, don't tell Apple!
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    Image of LuckyLakey LuckyLakey
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a.....you can paint a turd gold but its still.... you can put a mirror on a phone but... oh what the hell this thing looks like someone polished a turd.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/21/09

    @LuckyLakey: Keep those ideas to yourself or we will be commenting on a new PMP turd next.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/21/09

    @LuckyLakey: I, for one, would love a polished turd phone. Holding it up to my ear would not only garner me envious stares aplenty, but I could always end each call with a sincere if abrupt, "I can't hear you for shit!"
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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/21/09

    @bosskev: Other than the fact that the person on the other end of the phone conversation would never get the joke - you are correct that it would be worth buying one for that line alone.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    Mark, why would I need this? I use the webcam on my laptop to put on my makeup.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/21/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Ah, now I understand. The lack of a makeup mirror explains your, uh, "interesting" results.


    * rolls eyes *

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/21/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Is this after you tuck yourself back and dance around to Goodbye Horses?


    Might be slightly NSFW?

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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    Warning: Cease and desist pending aka Curves v Newsmy, as avatar usage was not approved.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    05/21/09

    In reply to Finally, a PMP that Accommodates Our Obsessive Makeup Habit
    Curves, is that you?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    Maybe they could reduce costs by having employees use XO computers.


    Actually, the whole OLPC organization is misguided. It would be much more efficient and successful to develop and manufacture them as a commercial product, in partnership rather than in competition with industry leaders, and then create a nonprofit solely to distribute them to impoverished areas.

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    Image of ppeetteeyy ppeetteeyy
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    WHY are they trying to make dual touch screen ones?!?! Why don't they just keep the cost DOWN and make basic well functioning cheep laptops? They could do a lot more good with their donations that way. This is just ridiculous.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    01/07/09

    @ppeetteeyy: The keyboard leaves a little to be desired, and is prone to tearing of the membrane.
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    Image of NotSoSiniSter NotSoSiniSter
    01/07/09

    In reply to Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO
    Not to sound cold, but what if they actually sold those things HERE. In the US? Maybe they could actually make some money. I think a lot of parents would want to buy a $100 computer for there little kid to play with. There is a huge opportunity but there blowing away the chance. THEN when they are sitting on top of a pile of cash they can start sending those things to Africa with there assets and not half hearted donations.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    01/07/09

    @NotSoSiniSter: I agree. I would have jumped at the chance to get something like this for my daughter, heck, I'd have paid quite a bit more than $100. As it is, my daughter is really not old enough to do much more with a computer and my heart jumps every time she uses one of my 1k+ laptops.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    01/07/09

    @Shamoononon has hebetudinous dog ★★★★★: @Andyr2120: @ppeetteeyy: @CrispyAardvark: As one of the first people in the US to order an XO, I have to say that it's not the best laptop in the world. I like it, but at first, the laptop was in need of a lot of help. The OS was terrible, had none of the features they said it would, and was crippled to dis-allow certain programs to be loaded like web browsers and other things. It still needs some work, which is why I don't use it as much as I would like. The community HAS been working on it, which is great. Also add in that I don't know my linux very well, and it was much easier for me to pull a laptop out of a dumpster and add some RAM than it was/is to get this laptop to work very well.

    That being said, I do love the whole idea of the project. I think if I learned on Linux to start, I would easily get the laptop up and running. The screen IS awesome, and once I finally get a OS with a GUI, I will use it more than I do now. I got a lot of attention when I was using it at the Gallery.
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    Image of commentotron commentotron
    12/16/08

    In reply to OLPC Ad Goes For the Jugular With Child Laborers, Child Prostitutes, Child Warriors
    So THAT'S how we solve these horrible problems: with laptops! Just what I'd expect from the shielded western techno-elite.


    If only little suzie had a laptop she'd not have to get pimped out!

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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/16/08

    @commentotron: It's not the laptops that will help solve the problem it's the power they will get from the knowledge they will receive by using the laptops and accessing the internet and the world. Maybe if Suzie knew how to use a computer and get some typing skills, take some online classes she could find a job. Tell me you haven't use the internet to find answers no one else knew. These children will be able to access news, weather for farming, even be able to order the things they need learn and live. We don't need to feed these people, they need to learn how to feed themselves and giving them the tools to so is better then just giving them rations and shoes.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    12/16/08

    In reply to OLPC Ad Goes For the Jugular With Child Laborers, Child Prostitutes, Child Warriors
    Exotic locales, high production values, this thing, and all their other advertising, could not have been cheap... here's an idea, how about putting the money they spent on this towards, you know, actually shipping the damn things.
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    Image of First First
    12/16/08

    In reply to OLPC Ad Goes For the Jugular With Child Laborers, Child Prostitutes, Child Warriors
    Well, what they need is an AK-47 for every child...Just like in the good old US of A
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/16/08

    @winmac: Pfft. Here in the States, we use AR15.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    12/16/08

    @ripfire: Or an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon.
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