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2. My friend Laura Marés Serra sent me a link to the plot summary of a movie from 2002 of which I had was unaware: ''The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest''.
 
2. My friend Laura Marés Serra sent me a link to the plot summary of a movie from 2002 of which I had was unaware: ''The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest''.
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:Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, because he feels disconnected with the values about work he learned from his father. He gets a new job at a top notch research facility, where he quickly makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 Personal Computer. He recruits the only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths. Together they really compile a revolutionary PC for $99, but then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe from the research lab. Can he and his new friends find a way to overcome the problems? ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280674/plotsummary Plot summary by kaeng[)
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:Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, because he feels disconnected with the values about work he learned from his father. He gets a new job at a top notch research facility, where he quickly makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 Personal Computer. He recruits the only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths. Together they really compile a revolutionary PC for $99, but then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe from the research lab. Can he and his new friends find a way to overcome the problems? ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280674/plotsummary Plot summary by kaeng])
    
No mention of the learning software that runs on the laptop. We'll have to have a screening to see if it is a harbinger of Sugar as well as OLPC.
 
No mention of the learning software that runs on the laptop. We'll have to have a screening to see if it is a harbinger of Sugar as well as OLPC.

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