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xo olpc : Give Many Program (xo olpc 送多多 活動）
xo olpc Ｃhina ：： 中國小組
新消息 ： xo olpc
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１００台 以上 ＝２９９us＄
每人一台，xo olpc 送五十台給 第三世界小孩
電腦會從上海發放，上海到別的城市 要各自另加運費，
１０００台 以上 ＝２４９us＄
每人一台，xo olpc 送二百五十台給 第三世界小孩
電腦會從上海發放，上海到別的城市 要各自另加運費，
１０，０００台 以上 ＝２００us＄
每人一台
電腦會從上海發放，上海到別的城市 要各自另加運費，
２００８年底 送貨。
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注意：中國 不在第三世界小孩內，
但看來如果有 １０，０００台以上 就可以沒有限定送誰的問題。
我可以再問問可不可以特別給我們試試？ 要是那個村子以經有意思參與？
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原文
100 laptops at $299 per unit is $29,900
You will need to pay for shipping for these 100 units from Shanghai to your destination. This is an additional cost to you.
OLPC will send 50 additional units to a pilot program designated by OLPC for every 100 you buy.
The countries OLPC is sending these 50 additional units to are Haiti, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Mongolia.
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xo olpc Big close up photos and best review, read comments too, using xo as ebook reader etc. Excellent info for deciding to participate, own an xo olpc or not... wonderful review. :)
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4199
很好的 圖片，有大特寫 ，內部 拆開的 一步步，修理問題，等等
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Saturday, 29 March 2008
Open Ended art work, xo olpc review, Archidemo, phantom objects in rl
Archidemo presented this Japanese video as a Phantom going through walls in rl.
When I looked at it, it reminds me of a "Chaos" game that I set up earlier.
The "Chaos" game is - is there order in a body of randomly selected elements of any set? Based on an experiment set up by James Gleick in his book "Chaos".
Does random events repeat itself anyway? What makes the "ordering" device generate the repetition, or pattern, if any?
So I tested James Gleicks theory with painting using water colors, now, seeing this video, the same randomly selected frames could be gathered to see what pattern occurs? Does it occur in a large scale and a small scale etc. Very interesting. Open ended work.
xo olpc review by pc tests - as a computer compared to Eeepc (it does not look at the innovation, esthetic, educational, or the charm of the xo; mainly a technical comparison. Which is good. We need to see performance, and Charm.
Sometimes we judge something not based on performance, but on something non-quantifiable, which is often fragile but all important - charm.
Charm does not come every day, and there is no formula for reproducing it either. :)
When I looked at it, it reminds me of a "Chaos" game that I set up earlier.
The "Chaos" game is - is there order in a body of randomly selected elements of any set? Based on an experiment set up by James Gleick in his book "Chaos".
Does random events repeat itself anyway? What makes the "ordering" device generate the repetition, or pattern, if any?
So I tested James Gleicks theory with painting using water colors, now, seeing this video, the same randomly selected frames could be gathered to see what pattern occurs? Does it occur in a large scale and a small scale etc. Very interesting. Open ended work.
xo olpc review by pc tests - as a computer compared to Eeepc (it does not look at the innovation, esthetic, educational, or the charm of the xo; mainly a technical comparison. Which is good. We need to see performance, and Charm.
Sometimes we judge something not based on performance, but on something non-quantifiable, which is often fragile but all important - charm.
Charm does not come every day, and there is no formula for reproducing it either. :)
Friday, 28 March 2008
75$us Pixel Qi, 225us$ xo olpc, 0$linden Hobo net computer, art in sl, beanbag, Bambam Sachertorte
Scripted Beanbag by BamBam Sachertorte, our DGM Plum texture
Very nice pre-fab use of futura house - into a Grudge industrial shop. For some reason, its the glamour of grudge, reminds me of Hong Kong.
Inside the shop, very stylish, video screens showing snow flashes, green retro computer day... and the homeless shacks of city dwellers with no place of their own. The "No-Fixed-Address" style of dwelling. (not cheap, unlike the freebie Hobo shacks with bunk beds, these are glamourous overdose carefully treated, rusty places... hahahah)
See the surroundings? All chic expensive shops, 3000linden skins, and make-ups. We see no crowd here, all empty. But stylishly empty, as it should be in rl.
I will put this logo on my xo olpc computer - talk to Swannjie, she will use her keyboard... hahahah
Pixel Qi
75$us Pixel Qi, 225us$ (G1G1=450us min) xo olpc, 0$linden Hobo net computer, and others
sticky keyboard fix
ehow to...
A summary of Art in Secondlife
BamBam Sachertorte made a beanbag that changes poses, and shape.
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Bricklane, Chasseur des dragons, Arthur Qwark, le Cahier, The Savage Family, La Fabrique des sentiments, Redacted,
Chasseurs des dragons 3.5*
a first class beauty in 3D computer graphics. Characters are soooooo cute. There is an under lying Asian tint to it. Knitting needle, the strong man is a mother figure? A big woman warrior? Everything is all mixed into one poetic, cute - but maybe just a little too cute - this is an animation film that i will watch at least anther time. It is precious, like "Dark Cristal" a previous animation film using models - is precious. I noticed a name Arthur Qwark - is the screen writer - Qwark, what a name. Will check it up and write more about this after a second viewing.
Brick-lane 2.5*
Authentic dialogue, story is told in a gentle bitter sweet way. Story of a Bangledash immigrant family who has stayed for 17 years in London, in the tenement housing of Brickland. We see repeatedly an elderly white woman who also live in the same tenement, with a little undershirt and a full back tattoes a la yakusa, and the Bangelash immigrant father, finally, from office worker, to car chauffeur, to soap salesman, and finally going home to be University Professor. That is the familiar inner tears of any immigrant. The young daughters talking back to the father is really funny. But i could relate to that completely. The two types of love experienced by the mother is also correct in tone, human, courage, understated but very measured. Its a docu-drama of a sort - somewhat in the same genre as John John, and I see a slew of films coming. All about bitter sweetness never before told from the inside of the minorities. These stories will not be the unique right of "anthropologist", finally, each minor group can tell their own story without un due outside analysis or drama, or "milk of human kindness - the all too Catholic mist..." maybe it has changed for a while now, its only me, I only see it in cinema! And when its in cinemas, we are in mainstream.
Le Cahier 3.5*
A simple story of Afghan country, the Buddha falls apart out of shame - it opens with the monument collapsing and ends with the same image. A little girl from the moutain cave tries to go to school, with many difficulties that is proper to her situation, she finally got herself a notebook but no money for the pencil - so she took her moms lipstick for use of a pen. On the way, she was kidnapped by children playing war. She does not want to play war. In the end, she could only stop being hassled if she played dead. Then the game ends. Her friend tells her, play dead, if you play dead, they will let you go!
Such a beautiful film, with very primitive means, but what a profound message! Everything in the right place, and the little girl is magnificent. Her predicament, her desire to overcome, bravery. Go see it.
The Savage Family 3*
a fine movie with authentic details, and real life representation. How a dog is sympathetic to a woman making love - without much passion - to a married man boyfriend - a father who is "damaged" and sibling squabbling, jealousy, blocking each other... life is not joli-joli... there are no superbly aesthetic scenes, no dramatic music... but everything is right... the father watches his favorite movie, those old white actors putting on black paint to play black folks - thus antagonizing the whole care taking staff of the retirement home - subtly, we see how things have moved on, and everyone is important - we risk stepping on toes here and there, nobody gets it easy. I wouldnt want to live like the woman in the movie, so hard. But maybe this is very common... so I must thank my lucky stars after seeing this movie. (Not much of a critic today, am I? Dont feel like analysing today. Swann jies day off, I am replacing her - this is Swannjie jie)
Redacted 1.5* (Brian de Palma)
there is a strange after taste of why such a film was made? aside from entertainment business...
La Fabrique des sentiments 2.0*
There is something tight about the performance of the very pretty Elsa Zlyberstein - the character she plays is elegant, good taste, well brought up, but something full of self control that makes you not want to have to go to her house, for fear of disturbing her orderly bcbg apt, and you might get blamed for whatever that comes afterwards... like a muffled sound inside a well formed vase... a display of restrictive emotions - who could undo all this? it took a life time of upbringing to form such a person, how can you undo this, and whats left afterwards? Her happiness would lie in getting someone in her milieu and they share the same context, understand each others vocabulary... but thats no good! She is trying to get out of her world... hmmm.
a first class beauty in 3D computer graphics. Characters are soooooo cute. There is an under lying Asian tint to it. Knitting needle, the strong man is a mother figure? A big woman warrior? Everything is all mixed into one poetic, cute - but maybe just a little too cute - this is an animation film that i will watch at least anther time. It is precious, like "Dark Cristal" a previous animation film using models - is precious. I noticed a name Arthur Qwark - is the screen writer - Qwark, what a name. Will check it up and write more about this after a second viewing.
Brick-lane 2.5*
Authentic dialogue, story is told in a gentle bitter sweet way. Story of a Bangledash immigrant family who has stayed for 17 years in London, in the tenement housing of Brickland. We see repeatedly an elderly white woman who also live in the same tenement, with a little undershirt and a full back tattoes a la yakusa, and the Bangelash immigrant father, finally, from office worker, to car chauffeur, to soap salesman, and finally going home to be University Professor. That is the familiar inner tears of any immigrant. The young daughters talking back to the father is really funny. But i could relate to that completely. The two types of love experienced by the mother is also correct in tone, human, courage, understated but very measured. Its a docu-drama of a sort - somewhat in the same genre as John John, and I see a slew of films coming. All about bitter sweetness never before told from the inside of the minorities. These stories will not be the unique right of "anthropologist", finally, each minor group can tell their own story without un due outside analysis or drama, or "milk of human kindness - the all too Catholic mist..." maybe it has changed for a while now, its only me, I only see it in cinema! And when its in cinemas, we are in mainstream.
Le Cahier 3.5*
A simple story of Afghan country, the Buddha falls apart out of shame - it opens with the monument collapsing and ends with the same image. A little girl from the moutain cave tries to go to school, with many difficulties that is proper to her situation, she finally got herself a notebook but no money for the pencil - so she took her moms lipstick for use of a pen. On the way, she was kidnapped by children playing war. She does not want to play war. In the end, she could only stop being hassled if she played dead. Then the game ends. Her friend tells her, play dead, if you play dead, they will let you go!
Such a beautiful film, with very primitive means, but what a profound message! Everything in the right place, and the little girl is magnificent. Her predicament, her desire to overcome, bravery. Go see it.
The Savage Family 3*
a fine movie with authentic details, and real life representation. How a dog is sympathetic to a woman making love - without much passion - to a married man boyfriend - a father who is "damaged" and sibling squabbling, jealousy, blocking each other... life is not joli-joli... there are no superbly aesthetic scenes, no dramatic music... but everything is right... the father watches his favorite movie, those old white actors putting on black paint to play black folks - thus antagonizing the whole care taking staff of the retirement home - subtly, we see how things have moved on, and everyone is important - we risk stepping on toes here and there, nobody gets it easy. I wouldnt want to live like the woman in the movie, so hard. But maybe this is very common... so I must thank my lucky stars after seeing this movie. (Not much of a critic today, am I? Dont feel like analysing today. Swann jies day off, I am replacing her - this is Swannjie jie)
Redacted 1.5* (Brian de Palma)
there is a strange after taste of why such a film was made? aside from entertainment business...
La Fabrique des sentiments 2.0*
There is something tight about the performance of the very pretty Elsa Zlyberstein - the character she plays is elegant, good taste, well brought up, but something full of self control that makes you not want to have to go to her house, for fear of disturbing her orderly bcbg apt, and you might get blamed for whatever that comes afterwards... like a muffled sound inside a well formed vase... a display of restrictive emotions - who could undo all this? it took a life time of upbringing to form such a person, how can you undo this, and whats left afterwards? Her happiness would lie in getting someone in her milieu and they share the same context, understand each others vocabulary... but thats no good! She is trying to get out of her world... hmmm.
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
xo olpc, olpp, mouse powered olpc, intel pc, and others
I was trying out my guqin at this Neptune place... famous for the lighting
suddenly, i saw at on the counter, an amazing laptop computer, no electricity, beautiful, my favorite keyboard ... and and telex. plus all these other inventions all put into work.
I started to call my friend using my new freebie - OLPP : one laptop per person (real name is Hobo laptop Computer - but I am not too crazy about the smell of it, so i call it the latest current in-name - OLPP - powered by a dear friend with work ethics, better than a handcrank, unrestricted by day light hours, and very very energy conscious machine - Swannjiejie was there, and she is witness to our dedication, good idea, she said.
Actually the discovery really happpened this morning, I tried to rezz it at home, but had to go to a 1000 prim sandbox instead.
The real story:
This computer maybe energy efficient, but its 94 prims - not rezzable on my land - so I had to re-stage the photo session in the Iron Fist bar, because it looks more dramatic. I wanted to show you the star and soul of this machine our the tireless Mouse - the source of power.
I love computers.
Show you my personal collection.
Computer designed by Arcadia - mouse powered
Monday, 24 March 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Passion Fruit directly from the shell
Today I discovered a blog on a subject in sl - text reads like Passion Fruit, sharp and sweet, we want more... cut open, spoon out the sloshy excellent pulp with fragrance and citrony taste... one mouthful will make the ends of all your appendages - fingers and toes - tingle with vitamin C.
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