The thing I see missing in most of the Raspberry Pi competitors is curriculum. It's all fine and well to pop out a cheap single board computer and then port an operating system or two that runs on it. The part of Raspberry Pi that is missing is the curriculum and the value for education, which is what the RPi is all about.
The Raspberry Pi was developed to be a pedagogical tool for education. The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to get acceptance of the RPi devices into schools, and they help educators come up with curriculum to take advantage of the hardware. To get the hardware into the hands of kids who can then hack on it and learn. The Pi wasn't invented so that neckbeards could use it for their Media Center.
Is OSX a Desktop Unix? I thought they deprecated X11.
Furthermore, if they had an open desktop environment like maybe KDE or even Gnome, it would be different. Opaque binary-only windowing environments don't qualify as modern Unix. That's like NeWS or any of the other old proprietary croft.
You have the Minneapolis connection right, but the name is Jimmy Jingle, a defunct vending machine company.
We had Jimmy Jingle vending machines on campus when I was in tech school. A truly horrible rinky-dink operation. Coffee machines that vended absolutely tiny cups, etc.
That's Mexico's money, not 'taxpayers money' though you do have a point, in that Mexico will probably pay it in the form of tariffs and taxes, not voluntary payments.
Can you imagine a truck being able to go 16 hours straight,
I live in an area where the Interstate is a major trucking corridor. It's detestable being surrounded by heavy trucks, often driven by irresponsible drivers who will tailgate tiny passenger cars if they dare go less than 15mph over the speed limit. I can't imagine a route that is '16 hours straight' that wouldn't be better served by rail.
Heavy trucks should be short-destiniation only. They should be used to deliver cargo from railroad depots to local destinations.
I will choose Goodwill. There is some nice hardware out there, if you stalk the carts of stuff as it's brought out. ( The stuff on the shelves has been there long enough that the good stuff is usually already gone.) I have gotten Sennheiser headphones that way.
I bought a Galaxy J3 for $120 at WalMart and am happy with it. I have since seen it priced as low as $80. It has a replaceable battery and obviously a headphone jack. The power and capability of mid-range Android phones has soared to the point where they are great bargains. I looked into getting a case for this phone, but at $20 for the case it didn't really make sense. So it's slim enough to fit well in my jeans pocket and it has good speed and a lot of memory. I bought a 128GB micro-sd card for it on Black Friday for $25 so it has a hell of a lot of storage, too. I have used Handbrake to put multiple entire TV series on it to watch.
Apple could solve a lot of the problems by releasing an iOS development environment that could run on Linux or a BSD operating system.
Using their iOS development environment to leverage Macintosh sales is foolish. They end up with only pro-Mac martinets in their development community.
Kindy GP commenter is just encouraging you to take some swimming lessons.
Be diverse and open minded, and... the dog paddle is almost intuitive. You won't be able to use your cellphone to take selfies while dog paddling, of course.
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The thing I see missing in most of the Raspberry Pi competitors is curriculum. It's all fine and well to pop out a cheap single board computer and then port an operating system or two that runs on it. The part of Raspberry Pi that is missing is the curriculum and the value for education, which is what the RPi is all about.
The Raspberry Pi was developed to be a pedagogical tool for education. The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to get acceptance of the RPi devices into schools, and they help educators come up with curriculum to take advantage of the hardware. To get the hardware into the hands of kids who can then hack on it and learn. The Pi wasn't invented so that neckbeards could use it for their Media Center.
Obama accomplished almost nothing, though, so it's no biggie.
Why would you buy Unix when Multics already has everything you need? Why would you use C when ADA already has everything you need?
Is OSX a Desktop Unix? I thought they deprecated X11.
Furthermore, if they had an open desktop environment like maybe KDE or even Gnome, it would be different. Opaque binary-only windowing environments don't qualify as modern Unix. That's like NeWS or any of the other old proprietary croft.
I switched to NetBSD because of Red Hat 5.0. It was such a disappointment after Red Hat 4.3.
And I will continue to use Version 11 of the X Window System.
I started with X11R5 back when I first ran Linux in 1993. I've upgraded to X11R6.
I almost exclusively use SeaMonkey as my desktop browser.
You're actually a paid troll from Breitbart, aren't you? To make the left look bad in online forums.
Thousands of North Koreans now have Internet access.
That's roughly an equivalence.
Except N.K. is a much more expensive air flight, so gets fewer tourists.
One of the ways to know a comment is from an Apple zealot is when they counterpose Apple vs. Samsung like it's a good vs. evil battle.
Apple and Samsung are not polar opposites. They're just competing gadget makers.
You have the Minneapolis connection right, but the name is Jimmy Jingle, a defunct vending machine company.
We had Jimmy Jingle vending machines on campus when I was in tech school. A truly horrible rinky-dink operation. Coffee machines that vended absolutely tiny cups, etc.
The GPS device has a knife switch on the back that toggles it to use LORAN navigation.
That's Mexico's money, not 'taxpayers money' though you do have a point, in that Mexico will probably pay it in the form of tariffs and taxes, not voluntary payments.
Can you imagine a truck being able to go 16 hours straight,
I live in an area where the Interstate is a major trucking corridor. It's detestable being surrounded by heavy trucks, often driven by irresponsible drivers who will tailgate tiny passenger cars if they dare go less than 15mph over the speed limit. I can't imagine a route that is '16 hours straight' that wouldn't be better served by rail.
Heavy trucks should be short-destiniation only. They should be used to deliver cargo from railroad depots to local destinations.
I will choose Goodwill. There is some nice hardware out there, if you stalk the carts of stuff as it's brought out. ( The stuff on the shelves has been there long enough that the good stuff is usually already gone.) I have gotten Sennheiser headphones that way.
I bought a Galaxy J3 for $120 at WalMart and am happy with it. I have since seen it priced as low as $80. It has a replaceable battery and obviously a headphone jack. The power and capability of mid-range Android phones has soared to the point where they are great bargains. I looked into getting a case for this phone, but at $20 for the case it didn't really make sense. So it's slim enough to fit well in my jeans pocket and it has good speed and a lot of memory. I bought a 128GB micro-sd card for it on Black Friday for $25 so it has a hell of a lot of storage, too. I have used Handbrake to put multiple entire TV series on it to watch.
Apple could solve a lot of the problems by releasing an iOS development environment that could run on Linux or a BSD operating system.
Using their iOS development environment to leverage Macintosh sales is foolish. They end up with only pro-Mac martinets in their development community.
home to cranky old people who hate technology, any big tech companies,
Home to experienced nerds that hate companies that manhandle other technology companies and are controlled by the marketing fucks.
Who is this 'they' you refer to? The stereotypes you laugh at on Tee Vee?
And people like you harp on and on about stereotypes and prejudice.
Not so much about hypocrisy, one would hope. But then that can recurse nicely as long as you just live in denial.
Kindy GP commenter is just encouraging you to take some swimming lessons.
Be diverse and open minded, and... the dog paddle is almost intuitive. You won't be able to use your cellphone to take selfies while dog paddling, of course.
And we don't like people like you who come in here and threaten to kill people.
Is that some sort of 'have you stopped beating your wife' comment? I didn't notice the GP commenter threatening to kill anybody.
"Both ways"???? WTF does that mean? Are you implying this forum is a polar opposite of Breitbart?
Isn't PostScript an Adobe property?
Skype. It's been around a long time.
I had it on my iPod touch before Apple came out with FaceTime.