How To Win At Negotiation

In case you can't read the text: there are two separate news stories within two hours of each other.

The first headline is:

OLPC... seeks a truce with Intel [1]

and the second, two hours later reads:

OLPC says Intel is a backstabber[2]

Okay i'm not sure what the lesson is. Here's three possibilities:

1. Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child, makes so many tangential statements that you can interpret him any way you want
2. Journalists aren't exactly straight shooters
3. Breakups are messy.

Anyway I saw an XO in the flesh today [note, an XO is the first model of laptop built for the One Laptop Per Child project], thanks to JCooney (or one of the Cooneys). Nifty gadget, let me tell ya! I was suprised at how tiny it is.

'AndyJ' on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:23:14 GMT, sez:

uhhh isn't it that first, OLPC says Intel is a backstabber

then 2 hours later, OLPC... seeks a truce with Intel

??

'AndyJ' on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:27:28 GMT, sez:

AndyJ:

No, "two hours ago" is definitely later than "four hours ago".

;)

'lb' on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:44:32 GMT, sez:

don't worry AndyJ -- it had me confused for a while too. I guess the 'news results' are ordered by relevance not time.

'AndyJ' on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:20:26 GMT, sez:

Doh! Bah well it made sense in my head :P

'Matt Casto' on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:25:38 GMT, sez:

I saw a couple of these at the CodeMash conference over the weekend. I didn't get much time to play with it, but I was confused by the three touchpad surfaces since only the middle one seemed to do anything.

'lb' on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:55:20 GMT, sez:

yeh apparently the outer two are 'Stylus Areas'

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