Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:51:50 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Sergio Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The OX laptop... Message-ID: <20070416205150.GA90612@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <1176745242.2453.11.camel@localhost> References: <17949.54850.460169.717849@whale.home-net> <1568562575.20070413025045@ghirai.com> <17951.8134.821939.357082@whale.home-net> <1176662623.13267.2.camel@localhost> <20070416034744.GA83862@thought.org> <1176745242.2453.11.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:40:42PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: > > > > > Comments pleaase???? > > > > > > I heard/read that these will be "networked" by transceiver going > > peer-to-peer. With a range of a few miles. The school or > > university would serve at the link with the Internet. Yes? > > If other, please explain. > > Yes they are networked using WI-FI in ibcss... really works... does not > need any access > point and can communicate at about 50 meters away each other... in a > kind of "mersh" > network... really simple and functional. > 50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) > > > > I think this kind of universally affordable and endlessly > > useful computer will give us countless thousands of wizards > > and other scholars who would be wedged in a hopeless situation. > > In a word:: Yes! > > > > gary > > > > The point is that will start a new world where things will be > "reinvented" in new > ways. without proprietary software. With all open architeture will be > able > to make the "children" work together in preparing for a new world > where > the need of "group" working will be more and more important... Yes, to both points! > > Just imagine about 5 milion consumers... Or 5 million people being producers; having them not only consume bbut contribute to the greater good of thw world! I think 5 million is just the beginning; in a few years, 50 millions, and then 500m. Maybe in another generation it'll bring at least a couple of billions (thousand millions) into the cooperative world-force. > > Here my nepheys are already in college and they now have to work and do > all work using Linux at school and FreeBSD at home... That is a good > point for > the govern that by forcing them to use open source, makes them think and > overcome problems that otherwise would be solved by pressing a button in > the > screen. This really makes my day. Thanks for the story. gary > > Sergio > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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