<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Yamaplos . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Because they do not like the Intel Classmate computers the City<br>
Government of La Paz gave them, on Tuesday Sept 27 the La Paz union of<br>
parents of schoolchildren blockaded the main highway between La Paz<br>
and El Alto, with one woman injured due to the tires being burned.<br>
<br>
"they are made in China and designed to last only one year", is said<br>
about these laptops in the linked article, with a picture of one of<br>
the Classmate units.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://eldiario.net/noticias/2011/2011_09/nt110928/5_03nal.php" target="_blank">http://eldiario.net/noticias/2011/2011_09/nt110928/5_03nal.php</a><br>
<br>
(some of us don't like the Classmates, but to go out and riot because<br>
of that, I believe is a first)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wow I think there are a lot of pressure by the union who see technology as more extra work to teach teachers in the device, probably without extra pay.</div>
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(of course things are a bit more complex, because it mostly has to do<br>
with who got "bought" by Wintel and who didn't get the sweet - no one<br>
in the debate, on either side, cares much about deeper issues of<br>
reliability, relevance, responsibility - I've met personally the<br>
people in the City Government, and can vouch of this, alas)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So this is just a wintel strategy like in Chile or will the classmates have a Linux OS like in Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru and/or Argentina.</div>
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(the mention of China as country of origin proves how much knowledge<br>
is owned - at my last meeting there what seemed to be the biggest<br>
argument against the XO by the BO Ministry of Education was that in<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what that means, anything against china? Do they know everything else including Iphone, Macs, Dell, blackberry and every other computer is made in china as well?</div>
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Rwanda they are used as home lights by people who have no electricity<br>
at home - why that is an argument against, really beats me)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought that was the argument for it, since there is no electricity that's why the XO was a better unit since it was designed with that in mind.</div>
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