HP awarded $83Million Contract by KAMLA

[wagonrunner]

hang on....that was PP decision eh....not a PNM one....PP chsoe not to persue it....pick up yuh pampers and head back out the door...

ahhmmm duhhhh...
but i guess because 565M was already spent we should of just gone ahead and spend another 30M per kilometer eh? Which was just for the infrastructure mind you.
Another brainfart from imbert.....

Rather than look at Mexico city with the Bus rapid transport system and look into that instead it was decided to go with the much more expensive rapid rail i guess higher the price tag higher the cut...
The commuting public would have seen benefits in amuch shorter space of time too..
But noooo six page no seven page thread bout support about laptop....

Rover is pursue eh...

now this could very well deserve its own thread.
IMO, THE IDEA is a good one, the implementation thus far............... poohar, but is it that the PP lacks the ability to continue it PROPERLY, thus not making all of the initial groundwork a waste? they couldn't improve on it? They're so afraid of not being able to take full credit for it, that they prefer it be a wastage?

for the record, i know nothing.
but with the DREAM of day trips around the island, employment both through service and maintenance, education into that sector which in my mind applies internationally (monorails / european railways), you're certain it couldn't be worthwhile if done PROPERLY?

[wagonrunner]

Tunnel FTMFW
for too long have the people of this country been forced to endure that cool scenic drive, which required some driving skill, and presence of mind, to get to their bake and shark. This tunnel will aide the nation's traffic problems significantly.

Yuh think it will have white oak rest-stops?

[16 cycles]

steups @ tunnel

de-centralize POS - make diff cities hubs for certain activities...planning / agriculture / manufacturing etc

might help boost the activity within a city, and reduce the traffic....

have a licensing dept at each city as well as passport office / gov't satellite offices for the smaller matters

last govt built buildings....this one gone dig tunnel? tax money jus wasting

[RASC]

Any update on this Laptop issue???

[K74T]

Yeah...They ain't gettin them by the end of this month for sure...

And a new trend has been started by female parlimentarians of having to fall down or as it has been put 'taking a tumble' after it was commenced by Kamla

Lord bless they foot and hand

[wagonrunner]

Yeah...They ain't gettin them by the end of this month for sure...

And a new trend has been started by female parlimentarians of having to fall down or as it has been put 'taking a tumble' after it was commenced by Kamla

Lord bless they foot and hand and glass of white oak.

[Stephon.]

3458.33 per laptop? SMH!

[biggy82]

horrible, horrible plan by the government. This system is going to be abused SO BAD EH. Our problem is the backwards mentality of the parents in this country. Children at the age of twelve SHOULD NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS. There are books that have all the relevant information they would need to do their assignment.

Most of these kids will not have proper supervision while using these machines as they would be allowed to take them off school grounds. Most parents and even kids will not see it as a big deal but using internet and not knowing the inherent dangers of the internet can cause serious damage.

It will also create space for abuse. Kids will now be studying each other business on facebook and making/watching porn rather than sitting behind a book and studying. There have been studies that show people who use facebook have 20% lower scores during exam time (DURR!!!). So hey, let's just give a bunch of 12 year olds some computers, they are obviously responsible enough to handle $3000+ pieces of equipment and are obviously all going straight home to loving, responsible parents who will keep the laptops in the family room while ensuring proper supervision.

I MEAN WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG AMIRIGHT!!!

i disagree. my daughter is 7 and is very internet savvy already, tho its mostly only for games and Disney stuff. she is VERY well supervised tho. and my plan is to give her a laptop of her own; configured in such a way that all sites with content 14+ and higher are automatically blocked, keylogger to check to see if any hacking is going on and a web page historian with PW access that only me and the wife can access. you cant begin to imagine how important it is to introduce them to technology early in the game. but it must be done correctly and safely.

[Humes]

I agree completely with biggy.

I real laugh when N3M3SIS criticized parents for having backwards mentalities and then write big and bold that 12-year-old children should not have internet access.

That's about as back-asswards an attitude as I can think of in this situation. Children should have access and exposure to the internet (and all media) from as early an age as possible. Just supervise and guide them. Educate them and always encourage them to think about the medium.

I already surf the net and play online games with my 10-month-old.

[Swisha]

Govt receives 3,000 of promised laptops

The first batch of laptops intended for Form One students has arrived in the country. The computers, 3,000 out of the 20,300, complete with their carrying cases, arrived yesterday aboard an Amerijet flight. Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh and other officials were on hand at Piarco International Airport to receive the computers. At a media conference in August, Gopeesingh had stated that the total cost of the laptops would be $83 million. The distribution of the laptops would begin sometime next week, starting at a school to be selected by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

The confirmation of the arrival of the laptops was made in a release yesterday from the Ministry of Education. The statement said Gopeesingh telephoned Persad-Bissessar, who is in New York on official business, to inform her that the laptops had arrived. It quoted the Prime Minister as saying: “Prideful best wishes on Republic Day, especially for the children of the nation, whose quality of life is destined to be further uplifted with the presence of the laptops.” Gopeesingh said the Government was fulfilling its 120-day plan. “The Government’s laptop project is one of the promises made in the ruling party’s manifesto for the May 24, 2010, general election, pledging that this administration would begin providing every Form One student with a laptop from the September, 2010,resumption of classes.”

Meanwhile, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Association (T&TUTA) Roustan Job, reacted to the arrival of the laptops by saying that his association was still awaiting details from the Government on how it is to be operationalised as there had been no consultation with them. He said: “Now that the laptops are here, how will they carry out this project? When this project hits the ground there will be fires for some time to come. “There has been no comprehensive plan on what the Government and Ministry of Education intend to do with the laptops,” he added. He said one of the main challenges would be security and storage. “The Government still has not said whether the computers would be kept in schools or the students would be allowed to take them home,” Job said.

“If the laptops are to be taken home, then that raises another set of problems for security.” He also raised questions about teacher- training and the student-to-teacher ratio in the class. He said: “There are teachers who are computer literate and teachers who are not. Will there be further teacher training? Would they be providing a technological training environment? “Also, when the computers are introduced will there be smaller classes? If they are going to be doing this then it would not be reasonable for there to be one teacher for 25 students. “An environment like that would not be effective for learning. The classes need to be smaller,” Job said.

http://goo.gl/ghpq

[hustla_ambition101]

calls up the homies.....

[Skanky]

I agree completely with biggy.

I real laugh when N3M3SIS criticized parents for having backwards mentalities and then write big and bold that 12-year-old children should not have internet access.

That's about as back-asswards an attitude as I can think of in this situation. Children should have access and exposure to the internet (and all media) from as early an age as possible. Just supervise and guide them. Educate them and always encourage them to think about the medium.

I already surf the net and play online games with my 10-month-old.

Excellent stuff there Humes.Personally common entrance is too old to be introducing children to computers and the internet.I know some very intelligent 5 year olds who have computers,internet access and email addresses and are at the top of their class.
Trinis want to be first world but want to keep third world mentalities to get there.
Children should be read to before they are born and computers should be as second nature as tv to children.
My cousin recently had a baby and he is around 5 months and hopefully I can convince her to take him swimming so he doesn't become one of those trinis "I could swim to save meh life"

[Shango_13]

Trinidad Tops the WORLD in Porn Searches
http://undisputedtruth.net/2008/12/02/t ... -searches/
look out for a rerun

[Swisha]

Success Laventille, South East get SEA laptops today

The distribution of laptops would begin today, with 327 of them being handed out to form one students of Success Laventille Secondary School, Eastern Main Road in Laventille and South East Port-of-Spain Secondary School on Nelson Street in Port-of-Spain.

The Ministry of Education stated in a release that the distribution process would continue through November.

Today’s distribution would launch Government’s eConnect and Learn, Student Laptop programme.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who returned from the 65th United Nation’s General Assembly’s Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York earlier this morning, and Minister of Education Dr Tim Gopeesingh would make the official presentation of the laptops to the students at about 1 pm.

Last Friday, 3,000 Hewlett Packard (HP) HP425 laptops, the first batch of laptops promised to successful students of the 2010 Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination by the People’s Partnership Government, arrived in the country.

Gopeesingh said a second batch of laptops would arrive in two weeks.

HP was awarded an $83 million contract to supply 24,000 fully loaded laptops. Out of eight bids, HP, Acer and Fujitsu were selected as the top three.

Gopeesingh previously said HP was selected on the basis of pricing and the assurance of the machines’ relevance and applicability.

The laptops were outfitted with faster processing speeds, improved wireless capability, Bluetooth (wireless) connectivity, larger internal storage, faster hard drive speed, extended battery life, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 and Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office.

When calculated, the average cost of one laptop worked out to be $4,068.

http://goo.gl/p5Vj

wonder how much would be reported as stolen by the end of the week

[RASC]

I feeling it for those children in high-risk areas.

Fix the fcking crime situation before issuing the laptops nuh?

They really didn't think this one out AT ALL...kids musta been quakin their first day ...SMFH

[hustla_ambition101]

I feeling it for those children in high-risk areas.

Fix the fcking crime situation before issuing the laptops nuh?

They really didn't think this one out AT ALL...kids musta been quakin their first day ...SMFH

Ent, the amount of cutarse, bullying and robberies....oh well

[W2J]

Digidata handing over the notebooks as we speak to much security detail there to take pics

[Bezman]

the laptops have gps and wifi triangulation software/hardware from HP, a bandit would be a fool to steal it, they would be caught so fast

[wagonrunner]

the laptops have gps and wifi triangulation software/hardware from HP, a bandit would be a fool to steal it, they would be caught so fast

unless they come with independent internet access. , how will that information be relayed?

[AllTrac]

the laptops have gps and wifi triangulation software/hardware from HP, a bandit would be a fool to steal it, they would be caught so fast

unless they come with independent internet access. , how will that information be relayed?

im guessing they would use some type of GSM sim card, in RHA we use it for vehicle monitoring and baby monitoring.

[pete]

y'all put a sim card in the babies? wtf

[bushwakka]

unless the GPS is built into the motherboard itself as a failsafe, then the laptops can still be stolen and modded.....nothing is foolproof

[Captainzaak]

Digidata handing over the notebooks as we speak to much security detail there to take pics

Saw a truck going east this morning with huge cargo covered by a tarpaulin, had a digidata panel van behind following with hazard lights on, no police escort or anything like that tho surprisingly.

[Bezman]

HP builds the GPS tracking and Wifi Triangulation into the hardware (there are actually local companies that can set this up for you too), i posted the link about the HP stuff somewhere in this thread..

and them gunta that stealing that aint going to mod anything, they trying to pipe that off for a $500 one time..

[AllTrac]

y'all put a sim card in the babies? wtf

on their id bands, if the id band is broken or tampered with it sends a notification also

[AllTrac]

unless the GPS is built into the motherboard itself as a failsafe, then the laptops can still be stolen and modded.....nothing is foolproof

u think them guntas gonna mod de laptops? im sure they have something in place to send a notification even when the case is opened or tampered with

[W2J]

[quote="Bezman"]HP builds the GPS tracking and Wifi Triangulation into the hardware (there are actually local companies that can set this up for you too)quote]

correct the Bios also checks Hardware ID to verify all components are the same since the last good administrative startup.

[SR]

i know one guy who possibly "wipes" stolen laptops and re installs os etc worst case he replaces the hd


he doesnt even look like he knows anything about computers but he does
dont have proof but in just overhearing some convo's u can tell he may actually be doing it

so dont underestimate the gunta some do know how to make money off of this by chargin a fee to "clean up" yuh laptop

[Bezman]

i know one guy who possibly "wipes" stolen laptops and re installs os etc worst case he replaces the hd


he doesnt even look like he knows anything about computers but he does
dont have proof but in just overhearing some convo's u can tell he may actually be doing it

so dont underestimate the gunta some do know how to make money off of this by chargin a fee to "clean up" yuh laptop

correct the Bios also checks Hardware ID to verify all components are the same since the last good administrative startup.

your gunta partner may have some skills, but i really doubt he that sick...

[wagonrunner]

correct the Bios also checks Hardware ID to verify all components are the same since the last good administrative startup.

your gunta partner may have some skills, but i really doubt he that sick...

The BIOS transits that information before, say, It boots from USB right?
roight............ it's software driven, and therefore OS dependant.

we'll see the success in the media. They will be misappropriated / misplaced / etc.
So the countdown is on to see if toyota Prado's or HP Minis, are more recoverable.