The main reason Iran is negotiating on weapons is that the Iranian people elected president Rouhani. They were sick of Ahmadinejad clownish posturing and hostility to just about every other nation. Sanctions are having wearing effect on Iranian families and they didn't see an improvement in future as long as a leader like Ahmadinejad ( although he was not standing again ) was in power. The Iranian people elected a moderate with a mandate to improve Iran's foreign relations and that is what is happening. We will see a lot more of this in the months to come and more of Israel's attempts to derail any agreements.
how many of these people realise that just driving around with a smartphone gives away more information about your movements than a squadron of drones could ever collect. You would be better off shooting your phone instead.
LFB attend all significant incidents as Heathrow, as they did today. LFB has extra appliances and manpower available at all the stations surrounding Heathrow, including Ruislip, Hayes and Hillingdon and can call on appliances from across London and neighbouring fire authorities. The shutdown today was not due to a lack of resources.
Yes but I never thought the Raspberry Pi would make a very good physical computing resource for classrooms, for hackers yes, kids not so much. The Arduino and clones provide analogue in, PWM for servo etc. and most importantly buffered i/o ( I think the Beagle Bone Black also does all this ). Speaking as someone who made magic smoke from a BBC Micro RS232 board while at school, I think it would be just too easy to kill the Raspberry PI with its 3v3 logic ( TTL would kill it, off course ), max 50ma out and i/o unbuffered to the SOC. Just wiring up an LED without a ballast resitor might do it, how many times would that happen in class.
I think what would suit schools even better would be a virtualised x86 version of the Raspberry Pi distribution ( raspbian ). That way they wouldn't need to buy new hardware or replace their PCs windows operating systems. The virtualised Pi would have a low memory, disk and cpu footprint so would sit confortably on the often old PCs I have seen in secondary schools. Programming could be done in the virtualised Pi but the PC would still be available for other classes to run Photoshop or MATLAB, Pro Tools or whatever.
Kids could transfer their work from a Rasperry pi at home to the virtualised one at school. The only sticking points would be anyone starting to use Open GL / open GL ES could run into problems.
I think a lot of the motivation for these changes comes from the criticism of the existing ICT course from Ofsted the education regulator but probably more from the speech Eric Schmidt made about the UK throwing away it's engineering legacy. He said "I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools"
OK, I think they made another appearance in July 2011. This was around two weeks after a report of a NATO missile killing children in Libya. The British public were not keen on another war in the middle east. Then this appeared in the Telegraph. The strange thing is that this village is neither on the Heathrow nor Gatwick flight paths. I know the area quite well and there are no low flying aircraft there, no wonder the villagers were amazed, it was all arranged for the national press. Here is a good analysis of the story.
A few years ago the UK government leaked the story that there was a crack team of Islamic terrorists equipped with surface to air missiles ready to launch a "spectacular" attack. These extremists had based themselves in west London near Heathrow airport and were planning an imminent attack. In response the government sent 400 troops and tanks to the airport. Strangely no arrests were ever made and no missiles were ever recovered and the whole event was quickly forgotten. When did this happen ? about 5 weeks before the invasion of Iraq.
I think I found your comment, it makes for a fun contrast. This week Liz Upton Said:
Soon there will be more Made in the UK Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins.
This is wonderful news for us; and it’s great news for Welsh manufacturing.
but last year she told you:
The Union Jack emblazoned, UK-only board for angry lunatics^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpatriots is a charming idea, but it's not remotely realistic.
you told her:
Finally, I'll say only this: if you want to curb the amount of arguments in this forum then you could at least try to tone down the propensity to post passive-agressive and provocative comments. It doesn't look well for a charity dedicated to an educational project to have its PR done by someone who is unable to have a polite and educated conversation.
Take care.
So she signed off with:
I've had a better idea. I've removed your posting privileges, along with Sylvain's.
My preferred sort of aggression is aggressive-aggression. Take care.
I think we should all take care and put on out tin helmets.
I think what happened was after the foundation complained that it couldn't find a suitable UK manufacturer they were approached by someone at the Sony contract manufacturing plant at Pencoed ( near Bridgend ) who had studied the board and calculated they could make it profitably at the foundation's target price.
The Sony plant ( it used to be one of Europe's biggest TV plants ) takes on small production runs for third party designs. They had to introduce a new POP facility to manufacture the Pi there . There is quite a long article about the factory process here.
Here is something surprising I read on the Raspberry PI blog yesterday, according to a Broadcom engineer called Dom Cobley, talking about Eben Upton the originator of the Raspberry Pi project:
"The ARM was snuck into 2835 as a bit of skunkworks from Eben, who had these wild ideas about the general public being able to buy a breakout board for our chip and program it themselves. Sounded great to me, but far-fetched."
You are right about the chip, the Roku 2 media players all use the Broadcom BCM2835.
I thought the point of this release was to support the teaching of python to children on the Raspberry Pi. My son and his friends are big minecraft fans and he is quite excited about the possibilities of the new programming interface. I don't know if it will be possible but he wants to have wars with his friends, where they program each other into traps. I have only had a few minutes to look at it but it looks like fun, you can do stuff like
for myblks in range(10): world.setBlock(1,1,0+myblks,3)
to make a bridge in front of you.
The Raspberry Pi was only ever supposed to be a fun toy for kids to have in their bedrooms, to learn something about computers or electronics. I don't think it was ever pitched as a fire breathing replacement for you i7 gaming rig. That said it is very capable as an XBMC machine ( Raspbmc ) and plays old games like openarena and Quake 3 very nicely.
The file that Bleachbit users are being encouraged to import is the winapp2.ini file hosted on www.winapp2.com. The original winapp.ini file which is copyright piriform is not involved in this question.
The source of the entries in the winnapp2.ini file is AFAIK the many hundreds of postings on the winapp2.ini forum on forum.pririform.com. Piriform includes the following on it's website terms of use
"You may not reproduce or copy the content of our Website in any form without prior permission. We reserve the right to withdraw this permission for any reason without notice and to demand that you immediately remove any copyrighted material."
As a different question they also include the following:
"This terms of use and permissions within and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts."
I believe the OP is based in America, how would jurisdiction work in this case?
Yes this is clearly for people editing Facebook Turkey. Notice they remove messages supporting Abdullah Ocalan and the PKK but allow messages attacking Ocalan and the PKK.
Well their site seams totally slashdotted and the page text won't load. At least the sounds loaded, I can clearly hear the whining, grinding noise of a dying drive array. Oh wait I left the server room door open, I'll just close it, that's funny the sound stopped............. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo !
Just one more example, if we needed one as to how inept the UK government is at major IT projects. Yet again, when it comes to building anything on a grand scale we have to look to our cousins across the channel to get a clue. Our big brother database will be late, over budget and they will end up leaving their assassination list data in a toilet cubicle in Waterloo station.
At Heathrow visitor centre there is ( or was until recently ) a functioning security arch. If you are so inclined you and a friend ( to watch the number of bars on the readout ) can play a game of see what I can get through an airport security arch, before boarding your flight.
There is a good article here covering DRM issues and the decision, since revoked, to shut down the MSN music store licence server. It boils down to:
So the trail leads back to the licence server - which Microsoft is turning off for its customers. Why is it doing that? According to Rob Bennett, who wrote the shock email, it was too complicated to support. "Every time there is an OS upgrade, you saw support issues. People would call in because they couldn't download licences. We had to write new code, new configurations each time,"
So it was too much hassle to support, and as for the customers who had purchased music, they thought forever - they could take a running jump.
Carphone Warehouse, a large UK ISP that operates the TalkTalk and AOl(uk) brands doesn't seem entirely enthusiastic about this In their response they say: We will continue to fight to protect your privacy and your right to freedom of use of the Internet. What we will not do is:
* disconnect your service or slow the speed of your connection
* monitor your traffic
* divulge your details to content companies (unless forced to do so by a court)
Some content companies are pushing for changes in the law to force us to do these things - we will vigorously fight any such changes in the law. and they list some helpful excuses:
Q: What would cause me to receive a letter?
If the content companies send TalkTalk an IP address that matches to your broadband connection then they may send you a letter. However, there are many reasons why you might have done anything wrong and the claim unfounded:
* The content that is being offered for upload may actually be being shared legally
* The content company may have made a mistake in identifying the IP address
* It may be someone else in the household that offered the content for upload
* It may be that someone 'hijacked' or 'piggybacked' on your wi-fi connection and add: Q: Does the content company have my details to pursue me?
If a copyright infringement has actually occurred content company have some legal powers to attempt to prosecute you. To do this they would need to know your details (e.g. name, address), which they do not currently have. TalkTalk have and we will continue to refuse to divulge your details to them or any other content companies. However, a content company may seek a court order requiring them to divulge your details. TalkTalk will vigorously fight on your behalf to resist this, but they feel they should let you know that they cannot guarantee that they will be successful in protecting your details. A least they look like they are trying.
Not the biggest problem with flash memory. Typical MLC NAND flash is rated at 10k write cycles. This is the sort of flash you find in older cheaper usb keys, sd cards etc. For a typical application like a camera or an mp3 player if you completely filled and emptied the storage once a week they could, in theory, last 200 years.
High performance SLC NAND flash that you find in SSD drives and higher end flash cards and keys is typically rated at 100k write cycles. These devices usually have bad block management and wear levelling to maximise the life of the device.
A "netbook" with a half full 8gb nand flash drive that wrote 4gb of swap, tmp files, logs and data to disk every day could last, in theory, over 200 years although the bad block management would have shrunk the size of the device by then. Even if these figures were only 20 years that's more than enough for most uses. HD manufacturers usually recommend you retire your HD after six or seven years. If you have an application that needs to be nv but has a huge number of write cycles then battery backed SDRAM is available now.
I think the problems with flash storage are size, cost and throughput. With SLC NAND wear is not such a big issue any more.
It was the commercialization of the web, that happened early in its history, that drove the importance of presentation over content. Technologies like Flash and Silverlight fit in well with the corporate desire to present a slick image to the public. Old style information based sites stated to look out of place. Adding flash and tweaking CSS doesn't usually add much to the users value of a site but for corporate marketing, it's essential.
Slashdot Mirror
The main reason Iran is negotiating on weapons is that the Iranian people elected president Rouhani. They were sick of Ahmadinejad clownish posturing and hostility to just about every other nation. Sanctions are having wearing effect on Iranian families and they didn't see an improvement in future as long as a leader like Ahmadinejad ( although he was not standing again ) was in power. The Iranian people elected a moderate with a mandate to improve Iran's foreign relations and that is what is happening. We will see a lot more of this in the months to come and more of Israel's attempts to derail any agreements.
how many of these people realise that just driving around with a smartphone gives away more information about your movements than a squadron of drones could ever collect. You would be better off shooting your phone instead.
LFB attend all significant incidents as Heathrow, as they did today. LFB has extra appliances and manpower available at all the stations surrounding Heathrow, including Ruislip, Hayes and Hillingdon and can call on appliances from across London and neighbouring fire authorities. The shutdown today was not due to a lack of resources.
This one would be embarrassed but it can't remember what it idid last night.
Yes but I never thought the Raspberry Pi would make a very good physical computing resource for classrooms, for hackers yes, kids not so much. The Arduino and clones provide analogue in, PWM for servo etc. and most importantly buffered i/o ( I think the Beagle Bone Black also does all this ). Speaking as someone who made magic smoke from a BBC Micro RS232 board while at school, I think it would be just too easy to kill the Raspberry PI with its 3v3 logic ( TTL would kill it, off course ), max 50ma out and i/o unbuffered to the SOC. Just wiring up an LED without a ballast resitor might do it, how many times would that happen in class.
Kids could transfer their work from a Rasperry pi at home to the virtualised one at school. The only sticking points would be anyone starting to use Open GL / open GL ES could run into problems.
I think a lot of the motivation for these changes comes from the criticism of the existing ICT course from Ofsted the education regulator but probably more from the speech Eric Schmidt made about the UK throwing away it's engineering legacy. He said "I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools"
OK, I think they made another appearance in July 2011. This was around two weeks after a report of a NATO missile killing children in Libya. The British public were not keen on another war in the middle east. Then this appeared in the Telegraph. The strange thing is that this village is neither on the Heathrow nor Gatwick flight paths. I know the area quite well and there are no low flying aircraft there, no wonder the villagers were amazed, it was all arranged for the national press. Here is a good analysis of the story.
A few years ago the UK government leaked the story that there was a crack team of Islamic terrorists equipped with surface to air missiles ready to launch a "spectacular" attack. These extremists had based themselves in west London near Heathrow airport and were planning an imminent attack. In response the government sent 400 troops and tanks to the airport. Strangely no arrests were ever made and no missiles were ever recovered and the whole event was quickly forgotten. When did this happen ? about 5 weeks before the invasion of Iraq.
Soon there will be more Made in the UK Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins. This is wonderful news for us; and it’s great news for Welsh manufacturing.
but last year she told you:
The Union Jack emblazoned, UK-only board for angry lunatics^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpatriots is a charming idea, but it's not remotely realistic.
you told her:
Finally, I'll say only this: if you want to curb the amount of arguments in this forum then you could at least try to tone down the propensity to post passive-agressive and provocative comments. It doesn't look well for a charity dedicated to an educational project to have its PR done by someone who is unable to have a polite and educated conversation. Take care.
So she signed off with:
I've had a better idea. I've removed your posting privileges, along with Sylvain's. My preferred sort of aggression is aggressive-aggression. Take care.
I think we should all take care and put on out tin helmets.
I think what happened was after the foundation complained that it couldn't find a suitable UK manufacturer they were approached by someone at the Sony contract manufacturing plant at Pencoed ( near Bridgend ) who had studied the board and calculated they could make it profitably at the foundation's target price.
The Sony plant ( it used to be one of Europe's biggest TV plants ) takes on small production runs for third party designs. They had to introduce a new POP facility to manufacture the Pi there . There is quite a long article about the factory process here.
Here is the story about the half a million Welsh Pi and a summary about move to Wales.
"The ARM was snuck into 2835 as a bit of skunkworks from Eben, who had these wild ideas about the general public being able to buy a breakout board for our chip and program it themselves. Sounded great to me, but far-fetched."
You are right about the chip, the Roku 2 media players all use the Broadcom BCM2835.
for myblks in range(10): world.setBlock(1,1,0+myblks,3)
to make a bridge in front of you.
The Raspberry Pi was only ever supposed to be a fun toy for kids to have in their bedrooms, to learn something about computers or electronics. I don't think it was ever pitched as a fire breathing replacement for you i7 gaming rig. That said it is very capable as an XBMC machine ( Raspbmc ) and plays old games like openarena and Quake 3 very nicely.
The source of the entries in the winnapp2.ini file is AFAIK the many hundreds of postings on the winapp2.ini forum on forum.pririform.com. Piriform includes the following on it's website terms of use
"You may not reproduce or copy the content of our Website in any form without prior permission. We reserve the right to withdraw this permission for any reason without notice and to demand that you immediately remove any copyrighted material."
As a different question they also include the following:
"This terms of use and permissions within and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts."
I believe the OP is based in America, how would jurisdiction work in this case?
Yes this is clearly for people editing Facebook Turkey. Notice they remove messages supporting Abdullah Ocalan and the PKK but allow messages attacking Ocalan and the PKK.
Well their site seams totally slashdotted and the page text won't load. At least the sounds loaded, I can clearly hear the whining, grinding noise of a dying drive array. Oh wait I left the server room door open, I'll just close it, that's funny the sound stopped. ............ NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo !
Cheetah speed. Fifty, sixty miles an hour if they ever got out into the open, and they're astonishing jumpers...
Robert Muldoon - Jurrasic Park
Just one more example, if we needed one as to how inept the UK government is at major IT projects. Yet again, when it comes to building anything on a grand scale we have to look to our cousins across the channel to get a clue. Our big brother database will be late, over budget and they will end up leaving their assassination list data in a toilet cubicle in Waterloo station.
At Heathrow visitor centre there is ( or was until recently ) a functioning security arch. If you are so inclined you and a friend ( to watch the number of bars on the readout ) can play a game of see what I can get through an airport security arch, before boarding your flight.
to see Microsoft embracing Apache, oh no, wait a minute I know how this is going ....
Unlike the crash two weeks ago that affected all Oyster readers and even corrupted the cards of people making top up payments, this seems to just have affected London Underground barriers this morning for pay as you go customers. "Oyster card readers on London Buses and on the Tram network have been unaffected."
So the trail leads back to the licence server - which Microsoft is turning off for its customers. Why is it doing that? According to Rob Bennett, who wrote the shock email, it was too complicated to support. "Every time there is an OS upgrade, you saw support issues. People would call in because they couldn't download licences. We had to write new code, new configurations each time,"
So it was too much hassle to support, and as for the customers who had purchased music, they thought forever - they could take a running jump.
Carphone Warehouse, a large UK ISP that operates the TalkTalk and AOl(uk) brands doesn't seem entirely enthusiastic about this
In their response they say:
We will continue to fight to protect your privacy and your right to freedom of use of the Internet. What we will not do is:
* disconnect your service or slow the speed of your connection
* monitor your traffic
* divulge your details to content companies (unless forced to do so by a court)
Some content companies are pushing for changes in the law to force us to do these things - we will vigorously fight any such changes in the law.
and they list some helpful excuses:
Q: What would cause me to receive a letter?
If the content companies send TalkTalk an IP address that matches to your broadband connection then they may send you a letter. However, there are many reasons why you might have done anything wrong and the claim unfounded:
* The content that is being offered for upload may actually be being shared legally
* The content company may have made a mistake in identifying the IP address
* It may be someone else in the household that offered the content for upload
* It may be that someone 'hijacked' or 'piggybacked' on your wi-fi connection
and add:
Q: Does the content company have my details to pursue me?
If a copyright infringement has actually occurred content company have some legal powers to attempt to prosecute you. To do this they would need to know your details (e.g. name, address), which they do not currently have. TalkTalk have and we will continue to refuse to divulge your details to them or any other content companies. However, a content company may seek a court order requiring them to divulge your details. TalkTalk will vigorously fight on your behalf to resist this, but they feel they should let you know that they cannot guarantee that they will be successful in protecting your details.
A least they look like they are trying.
Not the biggest problem with flash memory. Typical MLC NAND flash is rated at 10k write cycles. This is the sort of flash you find in older cheaper usb keys, sd cards etc. For a typical application like a camera or an mp3 player if you completely filled and emptied the storage once a week they could, in theory, last 200 years.
High performance SLC NAND flash that you find in SSD drives and higher end flash cards and keys is typically rated at 100k write cycles. These devices usually have bad block management and wear levelling to maximise the life of the device.
A "netbook" with a half full 8gb nand flash drive that wrote 4gb of swap, tmp files, logs and data to disk every day could last, in theory, over 200 years although the bad block management would have shrunk the size of the device by then. Even if these figures were only 20 years that's more than enough for most uses. HD manufacturers usually recommend you retire your HD after six or seven years. If you have an application that needs to be nv but has a huge number of write cycles then battery backed SDRAM is available now.
I think the problems with flash storage are size, cost and throughput. With SLC NAND wear is not such a big issue any more.
It was the commercialization of the web, that happened early in its history, that drove the importance of presentation over content. Technologies like Flash and Silverlight fit in well with the corporate desire to present a slick image to the public. Old style information based sites stated to look out of place. Adding flash and tweaking CSS doesn't usually add much to the users value of a site but for corporate marketing, it's essential.