be ready to pay dearer prices for oil changes, tiers, etc.
If I only need to get my electric car (no oil!) serviced once every 100,000 miles then I am happy to pay more than I am paying now for 25,000 mile services.
cars are much more reliable today, in the past people had to do stuff like dry out distributor caps and spray carb cleaner just to get their cars to start in the morning.
today there is a lovely computer to tweak a hundred engine settings simultaneously and my car starts instantly in 100F weather and -40F weather on the first turn of the key
manufacturers intentionally making it harder to work on them. Any car is modular - you have individual components that make a whole, and there is no reason why any of these components couldn't be taken out and replaced..
you really don't know the first thing about mechanical engineering. Shafts that rotate at high speed, like turbocharger shafts and drive axles, cannot be manufactured economically with the tolerances required for interchangability. These parts must be carefully matched to each other in order to avoid vibration and early failure.
Consumers helped to make this decision a long time ago
consumers purchase what is shoved in front of them. let's look at cars. people in the 1960s were happy to buy unsafe, unreliable cars that got terrible gas mileage. they didn't know any better and they didn't care. now the government comes along and tells the car makers that they must improve gas mileage and they must improve safety. now suddenly safety and gas mileage are important to consumers! why? because they were programmed to like safety and gas mileage
"ABS brakes are HIGH PRESSURE & should only be worked on by Authorized mechanics!"
"Saabs are specifically designed to have axles that weigh a certain amount & they should be certain lengths for balance reasons and most rebuilt axles are done without taking this into consideration. We have seen issues with these rebuilt axles flying out of the inner driver causing transmissions to get torn up as well as other severe damage."
In many cases it's really irrelevant as to whether or not you can fix your car yourself legally, because stupid things like physics make it impossible to do it yourself.
I would love the Raspberry Pi to have a better processor that's comparable to modern tablets or the Intel Compute Stick.
The new quad-core system is totally usable when running debian, even on an enormous monitor. Disk IO is sluggish but the processor and display are rocking. It's much snappier than the old pentium systems that I used for years.
Instead they use the rpi's GPIOs (using spi or something ) to interface with the display.
The display update rate is awful, useless for video and marginal for scrolling. Also it consumes the SPI port which is usually why one gets a raspberry pi in the first place.
And I thought the hardware grew on the vine? This is not cheap by any means. Wrong way.
for low volume prototyping you are not going to find much cheaper
consumer manufacturing does indeed produce very inexpensive devices, but for experimenting you need computers with GPIO headers and the software to use them and you are not going to find such things for cheap
so total price is about the same as the $99 amazon tablet things which does support 1280x600 60Hz.
amazon tablet things don't have a GPIO header with signals broken out and a mature user libraries in many languages for using them. Nobody is saying that a raspberry pi is the same as a tablet.
There's already been PLENTY of RPi compatible touchscreens (PiTFT).
unlike all the others, this one uses the DSI interface so you can get good performance (unlike SPI displays) and you can also plug another monitor into the HDMI port.
My fully loaded Macbook Pro cost a little more than $3K. If it gets stolen, I would like to be able to get it back.
Buy a used cheapie for the road and leave the good stuff at home. Dings and dents are your friends, they decrease resale value and maybe the thief will pass over junk that he can't sell.
If I was going to port just one piece of software to Linux, it would be the Windows 7 Desktop Environment.
I know, right? I love it how you double click on an application in Windows explorer and the whole computer becomes unusable for several seconds. No other desktop environment has this feature.
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be ready to pay dearer prices for oil changes, tiers, etc.
If I only need to get my electric car (no oil!) serviced once every 100,000 miles then I am happy to pay more than I am paying now for 25,000 mile services.
cars are much more reliable today, in the past people had to do stuff like dry out distributor caps and spray carb cleaner just to get their cars to start in the morning.
today there is a lovely computer to tweak a hundred engine settings simultaneously and my car starts instantly in 100F weather and -40F weather on the first turn of the key
manufacturers intentionally making it harder to work on them. Any car is modular - you have individual components that make a whole, and there is no reason why any of these components couldn't be taken out and replaced. .
you really don't know the first thing about mechanical engineering. Shafts that rotate at high speed, like turbocharger shafts and drive axles, cannot be manufactured economically with the tolerances required for interchangability. These parts must be carefully matched to each other in order to avoid vibration and early failure.
or they can deliberately design products so that you will inevitably destroy them if you attempt to fix them yourself:
https://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/01/20/apples-diabolical-plan-to-screw-your-iphone/
Consumers helped to make this decision a long time ago
consumers purchase what is shoved in front of them. let's look at cars. people in the 1960s were happy to buy unsafe, unreliable cars that got terrible gas mileage. they didn't know any better and they didn't care. now the government comes along and tells the car makers that they must improve gas mileage and they must improve safety. now suddenly safety and gas mileage are important to consumers! why? because they were programmed to like safety and gas mileage
Washing machines are not low tech. They include circuit boards now for controlling the cycles.
washing machines from the 1960s have circuit boards in them
Cars are fucking modular! You can take them apart and you can service them. They are not sealed.
yeah let's look at a web site that tells you many ways to fix your own car
http://www.thesaabsite.com/faqs/9-5%20%289600%29/FAQs.html
Do you see where it says:
"ABS brakes are HIGH PRESSURE & should only be worked on by Authorized mechanics!"
"Saabs are specifically designed to have axles that weigh a certain amount & they should be certain lengths for balance reasons and most rebuilt axles are done without taking this into consideration. We have seen issues with these rebuilt axles flying out of the inner driver causing transmissions to get torn up as well as other severe damage."
In many cases it's really irrelevant as to whether or not you can fix your car yourself legally, because stupid things like physics make it impossible to do it yourself.
new hampshire residents also prefer sitting in traffic for hours to public transportation
new hampshire residents think that a few hicks in their northernmost town are the most qualified people to choose the president
new hampshire residents like their booze socialist style, sold exclusively by the state
Is there anyone in Boston that is not a cheater, liar, or supporter of either?
In Boston the crooks and thieves and conspirators are exposed, in other places they continue to run amok.
I would love the Raspberry Pi to have a better processor that's comparable to modern tablets or the Intel Compute Stick.
The new quad-core system is totally usable when running debian, even on an enormous monitor. Disk IO is sluggish but the processor and display are rocking. It's much snappier than the old pentium systems that I used for years.
Instead they use the rpi's GPIOs (using spi or something ) to interface with the display.
The display update rate is awful, useless for video and marginal for scrolling. Also it consumes the SPI port which is usually why one gets a raspberry pi in the first place.
And I thought the hardware grew on the vine? This is not cheap by any means. Wrong way.
for low volume prototyping you are not going to find much cheaper
consumer manufacturing does indeed produce very inexpensive devices, but for experimenting you need computers with GPIO headers and the software to use them and you are not going to find such things for cheap
so total price is about the same as the $99 amazon tablet things which does support 1280x600 60Hz.
amazon tablet things don't have a GPIO header with signals broken out and a mature user libraries in many languages for using them. Nobody is saying that a raspberry pi is the same as a tablet.
There's already been PLENTY of RPi compatible touchscreens (PiTFT).
unlike all the others, this one uses the DSI interface so you can get good performance (unlike SPI displays) and you can also plug another monitor into the HDMI port.
most of them looking more customized for the rpi than this one.
RTFA:
"Using DSI keeps the Pi's HDMI port free, so people can use both the small touchscreen display and a big monitor or TV simultaneously."
maybe you can provide a list of other touchscreen vendors that are using the DSI interface?
this wont work anyway, you have to ask for the "hardware address of the wireless card"
the mac address for the ethernet interface is not going to be very useful here
My fully loaded Macbook Pro cost a little more than $3K. If it gets stolen, I would like to be able to get it back.
Buy a used cheapie for the road and leave the good stuff at home. Dings and dents are your friends, they decrease resale value and maybe the thief will pass over junk that he can't sell.
The cops called him up to "buy" it back and busted him.
if you read the other stories here you will see that your experience is fairly unique, the cops don't seem to care about petty larceny very much
This is nothing but the equivalent of scanning the license plate of cars parked on the street.
it's perfectly legal when the scanning is done by human eyes and the information is recorded on paper, so what's wrong with doing it with a machine?
There are cameras all over the roads and the police cars and you can't drive a mile without your license plate being scanned.
The cops have been scanning license plates for decades, in case you haven't been noticing. And now you think it's a problem?
keep the good stuff at home, buy cheap junk for going out and about. stop worrying about theft, enjoy life.
When it happened to me I told the thief's landlord. He retrieved my stuff for me and threw her out in the street.
The real intent is probably to build up a database of MAC addresses and their locations at any given time.
with fake mac addresses the whole thing is just a stupid game of collecting useless information that won't be any good to anyone
if you gather EVERYTHING all the time.
if you buy from newegg or target or such, they keep records of these things
we have these powerful devices called computers that are really good at remembering things like numbers
If I was going to port just one piece of software to Linux, it would be the Windows 7 Desktop Environment.
I know, right? I love it how you double click on an application in Windows explorer and the whole computer becomes unusable for several seconds. No other desktop environment has this feature.
When it comes to professional submissions to journals and other business uses, close isn't good enough...
you are correct, LaTeX is really the only choice here