Screen blacks out midway during boot

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Richard A. Smith wrote:
> jwjarvis wrote:
> 
>> because of my impatience which is a cultural bias.  That's why I
>> still maintain that the target audience for these laptops are groups
>> of children with adult supervision, not persons with a previous
>> windows background who expect too much.
> 
> They are for groups of children without previous computer experience. 
> That was 100% the design goal.  You are correct.  If you have used a 
> windows machine then you have a set of expectations that are 
> _completely_ different than what the XO was designed for.  Having used 
> windows previously puts you at a disadvantage.

However, I find the Sugar interface much like that of, say, the HP-100LX
Palmtop PC, a PDA, or a TI 83 calculator. Everything is in RAM until
closed, you can switch between activities with a keystroke or two, and
so on.

> However, adult supervision is really not necessary.  And we have 2+ 
> years of field data that supports this.

Now that *is* interesting! Where exactly do adults fit in this model?
What's the typical "life cycle" of a group of children and their XOs
over the course of a year?