-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Watlington wrote: | On May 22, 2008, at 11:01 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: |> GPS enables a lot of mapping and geography-related educational |> activities, which is why it was originally considered for the XO-1. |> It would probably (like the camera) only be powered on when being used |> (although the long lock-on time might make this user-unfriendly).
Long lock-on times have been reduced considerably in the latest generation of cheap GPS hardware. Initializing with a good guess makes it even faster, just a few seconds. |> Google Earth-like applications are fantastic for giving students a |> sense of their place on the earth, and there's a lot of economic |> possibility inherent in allowing kids to create better maps for their |> local neighborhoods. But, the time/cost was not ripe for Gen 1, and |> it may not be for Gen 2 either. | | Probably not. Remember the accusations that we already | HAVE a GPS unit in the XO, and are using it to track everybody... | Would we have to have a hardware-only light that indicates that | the GPS unit has been used to locate the laptop ? A hardware light sounds like a good idea to me. Nonetheless, we should not allow the conspiracy theorists to design our hardware. We are of course speaking about GPS receivers, not location transponders. OLPC may not be able to include GPS, but we should not deny useful technologies to children merely because we expect a backlash from uninformed armchair critics. - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkg1lVsACgkQUJT6e6HFtqTLogCeJBzgPPInc2+f9swNVbrB+R4S kCEAoIdvqsBAQQaKJeJ83LRS1vqzBxCi =jfDG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
