Bill Gates Not Enthusiastic Over $100 Laptop Project

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke out against the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) project and vision to place a low level Laptop PC in the hands of all poor people in developing countries around the world. The method for garnering such a low price tag comes from a design that excludes a hard drive and utilizes a “small” display screen. Mr. Gates was unimpressed with the initiative, and also insisted that PC users required a Broadband connection to be productive, something poor countries lack. Here in the US it is estimated that only 24 percent of rural America has Broadband, so I imagine that in poor countries around the world Broadband is something they simply can not fathom, let alone actually acquire.
“The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk … and with a tiny little screen,” Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington.“Hardware is a small part of the cost” of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support.
Puzzling even more was the above quote in reference to a small screen, while Microsoft itself is working on a small screen display PC called Origami which was announced just a few weeks ago and covered here.

Awful Plastic Surgery

what did Naomi Cambell do to the bridge of her nose? That doesn't look like mere shading to me.It looks like the bridge of nose been built up with some sort of implant.furthere more, her nostrils look as if they have changed the shape.

The Urban Witch

Saddam Hussein sat through another day of boring proceedings during his trial on Wednesday. He spent most of the time staring into space daydreaming, and planning how he can look even more like Nick Tortelli from Cheers.

Mel Gibson spent this week promoting the announcement of his new film Apocolypto, and planning how he could look even more like Saddam Hussein.