Almost, but not quite. Who cares if you’ve got a PhD, you’re still putting food on the table unless you have a job which brings you money.

The first step towards helping underdeveloped countries is not feeding the starved nor educating the children, but to ensure a semblance of economical fairness by imposing the creation of fair trade contracts. Think about it; if a farmer has money, he can grow more crops and feed his children and make more money and *then* send them to school. Also, it might force (primitive) governments into less corruption since power would not be in the hands of politicians (who manage the occidental freebies) but those who make the economy go around: the people.

But by all means, let’s keep dumping food to help keep alive people who cannot sustain themselves. At least it makes us feel good about ourselves, m i rite?

1) to melt in the noonday sun!
2) to make you pay for electric/hydro (charging + A/C)!
3) to make you pay for the sins of Micr*s*ft (bugs/viruses/crashes)
4) to make you pay for CD/DVD media (to melt in the sun)
5) to make you lazy + fat (like the rest of the world)!
6) to make you hooked on war*z!
7) NO, I wont ramble on about, NET costs, firewalls + routers!

lol, also like the rest of us, if you really could NOT afford the plastic object to begin with, than you probably can NOT afford all the bonus good stuff you WILL need to use/enjoy it!!!
But hey, let all have a shot at hating the B.GATE to HELL!!!
Financially, it will be costly and ongoing, to be fully appreciated!
But, to some degree, in some settings, could be quite productive!

If it goes for $75 then I will buy two, one for myself and one for the 3rd world country as Prof. Negroponte’s aspirations.

Peace-

the production of paper use upp enormous ammounts of wood every year. by reading with computers we save the woods too.

And although it’ll probably be difficult typing on a touchscreen keypad, the novelty of having an “open book” style PC is great.

You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a liftime.

A person with computer skills in a poor country will be able to find work and feed themselves and their children. To only feed underprivileged people just turns them into beggars.

Second, it’s not like their living in the jungle with no access to electricity. That just shows how ignorant you are.

Third, just send them paper books? WE ARE IN THE 21st CENTURY!!!! In this world, you need more skills then just being able to read. The young-adult who can type and comprehend technology will get the job over the young-adult who can only read.

-nuff said

food aid can actually halt the progress of devoloping countries,since the people become dependant on foregin aid. what they need most is skill.

by helping them we ourseleves get better lives since the bilions sent to the starving every year is spent on more important issues.

First off, how are these children supposed to charge the things when they go dead? Second, why not just send them books that cost a small fraction of the price, and don’t need charging.

If you send every child in a village a book, they can read them and share. This way every child has access to hundreds of books to learn, and there is enough money left over to feed them for a year so that they will be around to read them!