<![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:13:56 EDT Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:13:56 EDT http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4922950 @HeartBurnKid: Them African kids, who probably already work, know the value of whatever currency they earn. The shit will get kicked out of them if those things broke.

twreckx

]]> 4:373124:c4922950 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:13:56 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4918900 The people whining about the lack of durability in the OLPC keyboards on the linked forum are giving them to... wait for it... 2-4-year-olds. Yes, they're bitching because these pieces of highly-engineered $200 consumer electronics don't have the toddler-proof qualities of a Speak-and-Spell. Put me in the category that believes that kids in developing countries will probably take better care of their stuff than the spoiled progeny of the SUV/McMansion set.

halloweenjack

]]> 4:373124:c4918900 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:52:04 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4916147 "Don't worry! Kids swallow "enter" keys all the time. If she craps out the "" and "b" "r" keys, then you can start worrying, eh?"

discounteggroll

]]> 4:373124:c4916147 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:14:47 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4915702 I'd say that they will fare pretty well in the harsh enviroments they're meant for... as those kids won't be totally spoiled and destroy everything they get their hands on whenever they can't get an other pony... just my opinion yet again

Bash_

]]> 4:373124:c4915702 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:56:50 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4912285 @jonahman2003: Come back when you grow up, baby.

infmom

]]> 4:373124:c4912285 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:19:46 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4911384 @exobite:
and wat r u, 13, addicted 2 gay porn?

cuz u sure r obsessing over ur predictions of a 12 yr old

jonahman2003

]]> 4:373124:c4911384 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:27:56 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4911364 @exobite:
ummmm, u must have had sum SERIOUS problems wen u wer 12. And u must b retarded to now know what ADD is u dumb shit

jonahman2003

]]> 4:373124:c4911364 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:24:19 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4911355 Maybe they shouldn't have made the keyboards so minty and chewy.

faust1200

]]> 4:373124:c4911355 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:23:15 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4911339 Seriously though, the SPAM they'll be generating out of those third-world countries with these will be their families main source of income -- they wouldn't dare tear them up.

jetexas

]]> 4:373124:c4911339 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:19:07 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910705 @What dreams may come: We're talking about children here. Children don't really know the value of a dollar, and don't always think too rationally. They just want to see how things work.

Besides which, I wasn't taking offense to that part, I was taking offense to you deriding the first-world kids who "play for something for a day, get bored and then try to take it apart." As if it's a BAD thing to be curious about how stuff works...

HeartBurnKid

]]> 4:373124:c4910705 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:37:57 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910699 Sorry kids, too bad. The deal is ONE laptop per child. You tear yours up, you don't get another one.

Shush! No whining!

SuppleMonkey

]]> 4:373124:c4910699 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:37:26 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910522 I have one and my Nephew is not having any issues with the physical structure. but the software is less than ideal especially the inability to use a wireless connection with a non broadcasting SSID. if someone has an idea of how to make that work I would be interested.

SFVExec

]]> 4:373124:c4910522 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:12:20 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910404 @HeartBurnKid: assume that your laptop costed about 40-50 grand (which is probably how much in terms of family income a laptop like this would cost for a third world child), would you try to take it apart and put it back together? I don't think so.

What dreams may come

]]> 4:373124:c4910404 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:58:27 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910284 @jonahman2003

ADD??? what is that ur addiction to porn?
but yes i love taking stuff apart... and have gotten prity good at bein able to take something make it spill its guts and put it back together.... ive done it with all kinds of stuff.... a phone garage opener pcs old zip drives and a bunch more stuff... aside from a few things they all still work or could work if i decided that they didnt need to be "recycled".....
yea and i still think ur a porn addict cause i mean 12 year old kid presumably a boy... i can do the math/ i was 12 once/...........

better to get over ur addictions now cause they get worse the longer you do em, like smoking, so dont smoke

exobite

]]> 4:373124:c4910284 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:45:00 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910228 @jetexas:
HAHHAHAHA
@HeartBurnKid:
i tottaly agree with you, although i am only 12 and i am sure i have not taken apart as much things as you, but i would not be where i am at in my tech life without taking things apart. Whenever someone needs tech help, they look 4 me. Now my ADD is taking me places that has nothing to do with this lol

jonahman2003

]]> 4:373124:c4910228 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:46 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4910107 @What dreams may come: Hey, getting bored with things and trying to take them apart is how I became a geek!

And yes, I did break quite a few things along the way...

HeartBurnKid

]]> 4:373124:c4910107 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:22:50 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909844 @jetexas: They're African, not Amish

MasterJoefus

]]> 4:373124:c4909844 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:52:10 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909792 kids that are meant to have this will treat this with respect, they are not like kids in first world countries nowadays that play for something for a day, get bored and then try to take it apart.

What dreams may come

]]> 4:373124:c4909792 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:45:06 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909687 African kids wouldn't do this. They'd be afraid the spirits trapped inside the laptop would escape!

jetexas

]]> 4:373124:c4909687 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:34:19 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909670 In the conditions they were designed for, children aren't spoiled brats who take expensive things for granted.

Hiphopopotamus

]]> 4:373124:c4909670 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:32:20 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909611 Maybe when they aren't in the hands of spoiled rotten US kids, they won't get destroyed?

hatrick208

]]> 4:373124:c4909611 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:26:55 EDT <![CDATA[Kids Are Tearing Apart The OLPC Laptop's Keyboard Rather Easily]]> http://gizmodo.com/373124/kids-are-tearing-apart-the-olpc-laptops-keyboard-rather-easily#c4909600 Maybe when they aren't in the hands of spoiled rotten US kids they won't be torn apart and destroyed?

hatrick208

]]> 4:373124:c4909600 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:25:48 EDT