tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197349632011-04-21T13:06:44.222-07:00Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19734963.post-1138065450065989952006-01-23T17:16:00.000-08:002006-01-23T17:17:30.080-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/144/660/1600/Mexican_wall.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/144/660/320/Mexican_wall.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19734963-113806545006598995?l=infotech-babe.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19734963.post-1134178274004705092005-12-09T16:30:00.000-08:002005-12-09T17:31:14.010-08:00The Negroponte (nɛgroʊˈpɑnti) brothers, sons of a Greek shipping magnate, have a Dark and a Light side: John Negroponte, the London-born godfather of right-wing paramilitary death squads and his younger brother, Nicholas Negroponte, Upper West Side-born founder of MIT's Media Lab.<br /><br />In a bid to repurchase the respect for his family pawned by John, Nicholas announced a $100 computer to edumacate the third world. E-Week <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1899835,00.asp?">reports </a>that Nicolas' computer is merely a Tonka Toy --that even the poorest nations in the world are uninterested in a crank-up gadget.<br /><br />Intel Chairman Criag Barrett is probably correct in his assessment:<blockquote>"It turns out what people are looking for is something is something that has the full functionality of a PC," he said. "Reprogrammable to run all the applications of a grown up PC ... not dependent on servers in the sky to deliver content and capability to them, not dependent for hand cranks for power."</blockquote><br /><br />As if to prove a point, Intel is involved in a project in Sri Lanka to "set up south Asia's first long-range WIMAX wireless network."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19734963-113417827400470509?l=infotech-babe.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.com1