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<DIV>"is the west really that delusional that we think people in "developing
nations" would even have somewhere to plug it in. Give me a break..."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Christopher,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These issues have been considered. The OLPC has a
number of power saving features and runs on 2W. Joel Stanley who is speaking at
the VITTA conference is a young postgrad student who has recently returned from
a research project into a solar charger for the OLPC. There is also a wind up
option.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It also has a mesh wireless network which can allow
it to communicate despite no communications infrastucture.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is not to say that there aren't many issues
that need to be further explored and paper and pencils might be in greater
need.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>wrt Amnesty (and no criticism from me there), the
suppporters of OLPC may argue that Amnesty is attacking a symptom whereas
education is attacking a cause.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tony Forster, <BR>Computer Game Design,
Programming, Multimedia and Mathematics Cluster.<BR><A
href="http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/">http://schoolgamemaker.rupert.id.au/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-olpc-100-laptop.html">http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-olpc-100-laptop.html</A><BR></DIV></FONT>
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