Finally, for the same actual delivered price, you can get something else. For barely more you can get a VIA APC from Newegg. For the same price, you can get one of these sticks that run ICS.
You do realize that those do not offer the same kind of modifiability as the RPi? The VIA APC has very few extra ports and the sticks have literally none. In other words, they cater to entirely different audience and if you bought an RPi but actually wanted a VIA APC or similar then you hadn't really thought about what you actually want. Yes, it is sad that the RPi doesn't seem to suit you, but blaming them for that is just shifting blame for your bad purchase from yourself.
the memory upgrade had to be coming but they didn't want people to wait so they didn't tell us.
I quite doubt it's like that. Most likely they couldn't secure a deal for larger memory chips at the same price because the manufacturer of those chips wasn't convinced that there'd be enough demand for the RPi. Now that the demand has been proven the deal could be closed. It's just basic business practices, mate.
The reason they were able to upgrade the Pi to 512MB is exactly because the 256MB - version was so popular. If there had not been such demand there still wouldn't be 512MB - version. So basically, you're annoyed because it is popular and therefore managed to get a discount -- rather illogical from your part.
You're going to employ someone with a history of hiring prostitutes, and risk a sexual harassment suit (real or made up) where they'll claim that it's all your fault because you hired this man knowing he had dubious morals and therefore you should pay them millions of dollars in damages?
Dubious morals? Why would someone have dubious morals for paying someone to have sex with them? Sexual urges are a natural thing and don't just go away, and well, paying someone to relieve those urges is a very straightforward way of doing something about it. In fact it might actually be productive if not even somewhat healthy, like e.g. if the person in question has been under some serious stress at work lately and does not have someone at home whom to have sex with -- a prolonged stress reduces productivity quite sharply and stress is also known to raise the risk of heart-related issues.
Personally I wouldn't care either way if I knew a candidate visited prostitutes on a regular basis or not.
it is a system that is tied in with the internet instead. Just have a look at Vista with Aero for an example of this done right.
Aero has nothing to do with the Internet.
You need the outlook to connect in with the mass of email flowing around us every day.
Why would you need Outlook for that? There's hundreds of different e-mail clients and services.
Voice over IP, internet enabled 'surface' computing, and voice command interfaces - all tied together with.NET and the Aero interface.
VoIP, Internet, voice-enabled applications etc. are all perfectly possible without.NET and in fact most of them ARE done without.NET. Also, again, Aero has nothing to do with that.
And so, we will see more and vendors of the Linux remit their legal obligations to Microsoft, and then benefit by getting onboard the.NET revolution
Windows 8 is far more powerful than windows 7, and runs twice as fast.
According to who? All the benchmarks I've seen indicate that Windows 8 actually runs the same as Windows 7, or sometimes even slower. It boots faster, but then again, that's hardly terribly important unless you boot your machine a dozen times a day.
It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.
Why would they panic over that? What relevance does that have to Linux or why would Linux-users care?
Linux will have to find a way to work under Windows 8 from here on, since it wont be able to rely on Windows 7 being readily available anymore.
Huh? Linux doesn't use Windows for anything, so why would this have any relevancy either?
Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office
Linux is an OS, Office is an application. The proper comparison would be e.g. LibreOffice vs. Office.
It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.
I have no idea where you've gotten that idea. Linux doesn't use Windows, Linux doesn't use Windows-drivers, Linux doesn't use Windows-services, and Linux works just fine on a computer without Windows on it at all.
Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows 7 in place of Windows 8 surely has a hidden agenda.. and you will surely be caught out.
Atleast in my case the agenda is simple: Windows 8 doesn't do anything that I can't already do with Windows 7 and therefore I can just keep using Windows 7 and save the money.
I use GIMP almost on a daily basis. That's irrelevant, however, as I never said anything about the quality of GIMP or Inkscape. I said there is no push for an alternative to the Adobe software-stack.
And there are plenty of games for the GNU/Linux operating system.
Yes, if you're into crappy clones, Indie-games, or decades old games. Linux is a great server-OS, but it definitely isn't a gaming-OS yet.
What? Never heard of the GIMP for bitmap drawing or Inkscape for vectorial drawing? IMO Inkscape is superior to Illustrator. I even use it in Windows.
Of course I have heard of those, you misunderstood my point. I even use GIMP on Windows on almost a daily basis. But as I said, there is no actual PUSH to provide alternatives to the Adobe software stack, and even many GIMP developers themselves don't view GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop so much as an entirely different thing altogether. Also, GIMP, Inkscape et.al. are totally separate applications; there is no interplay between them like there is between Adobe's own products.
The interesting thing is the best library for multimedia is probably libavcodec and its open source.
I personally am partial to GStreamer and FFMpeg. But alas, I guess it's mostly a taste-thing as they all are pretty good feature-wise.
Unfortunately I still am pretty dependent on the Adobe package for graphic tools in my line of work, but I hope to see the alternatives get there fast now that Adobe has consistently been pissing on its own leg for a longer period of time.
There has been no strong push to provide alternatives for the Adobe-applications, so why would there be anything such now all of a sudden? I do not see the situation changing for years to come.
And then there are the games. Pray tell this situation will improve.
With Steam arriving on Linux things may slowly start turning for the better, but that too will take years. Basically if the game you want to play hasn't already been ported over or doesn't work satisfactorily via Wine then be prepared to wait for a good, long while more, and do not expect old games to be ported over, only completely new releases.
I see this mistake being made all the damn time and, well, it's STILL "sneak peek." A peak is e.g. the top of a mountain or a sudden, high jump in a graph whereas peek is about taking a quick look at something.
You also need the right materials. Not just anything can be a gun barrel. I'm not a fan of bans, but perhaps the best compromise in this situation is to ban the 3D printable materials that could be formed into guns, not the printers, plans, and other 3D printable materials.
They weren't printing gun barrels, plus your plan would outrule aluminum, steel, iron, carbon, any hard plastics and so on. Guess how well that would fly?
I was just thinking the same: Anonymous have time and again lied about stuff, but so has the FBI and the FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame or made some other deal with them. Can't know, really, and with that in mind I'll just assume maliciousness from both parties.
Laptops are being lost all the god damn time and Anon is a very, very large group of people -- I'd say the chances are actually darn good. Also, I'd say the chances are darn good for FBI to lie whenever something like this happens, just for the sake of looking good in the eyes of the general public and for painting anyone who disagrees in bad light.
As for unverifiability: apparently some of those UDIDs have already been verified.
How many times over the years have you had to tell your antivirus software to ignore a false positive?
A grand total of zero. Also, the reason why AV software produce false positives is mostly because of heuristics. If you disable heuristics you'll only get warnings when the AV is 100% certain. Similarly, this system could be designed to only issue these things when there is a 100% certainty of malware and not use heuristics, something that would prevent most false positives. Oh, and it's not like a false positive would be the end of the world: you could just contact your ISP's tech support.
However, since "more" and "less" are opposites, if "a few more excuses" is valid English, why shouldn't "a few less excuses" be valid too?
Because there is no single-word substitute for "more." "More" is used both for describing increase in arbitrary amount and for describing increase in count. It'd be a different situation if there was a suitable substitute.
In traditional English "less" is about amount whereas "fewer" is about count, ie. the correct sentence fragment would be "fewer excuses." You can have less water, but you can't have fewer water, for example. However, "less" is these days used as a substitute for "fewer" in many cases in American English so whether or not the traditional way matters anymore is subject to debate.
I have an old N900 lying around that I occasionally use as a small BitTorrent-server, SSH-server, for Wifi-penetration testing on-the-go and so on. Extremely handy for that.
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Finally, for the same actual delivered price, you can get something else. For barely more you can get a VIA APC from Newegg. For the same price, you can get one of these sticks that run ICS.
You do realize that those do not offer the same kind of modifiability as the RPi? The VIA APC has very few extra ports and the sticks have literally none. In other words, they cater to entirely different audience and if you bought an RPi but actually wanted a VIA APC or similar then you hadn't really thought about what you actually want. Yes, it is sad that the RPi doesn't seem to suit you, but blaming them for that is just shifting blame for your bad purchase from yourself.
the memory upgrade had to be coming but they didn't want people to wait so they didn't tell us.
I quite doubt it's like that. Most likely they couldn't secure a deal for larger memory chips at the same price because the manufacturer of those chips wasn't convinced that there'd be enough demand for the RPi. Now that the demand has been proven the deal could be closed. It's just basic business practices, mate.
The reason they were able to upgrade the Pi to 512MB is exactly because the 256MB - version was so popular. If there had not been such demand there still wouldn't be 512MB - version. So basically, you're annoyed because it is popular and therefore managed to get a discount -- rather illogical from your part.
You're going to employ someone with a history of hiring prostitutes, and risk a sexual harassment suit (real or made up) where they'll claim that it's all your fault because you hired this man knowing he had dubious morals and therefore you should pay them millions of dollars in damages?
Dubious morals? Why would someone have dubious morals for paying someone to have sex with them? Sexual urges are a natural thing and don't just go away, and well, paying someone to relieve those urges is a very straightforward way of doing something about it. In fact it might actually be productive if not even somewhat healthy, like e.g. if the person in question has been under some serious stress at work lately and does not have someone at home whom to have sex with -- a prolonged stress reduces productivity quite sharply and stress is also known to raise the risk of heart-related issues.
Personally I wouldn't care either way if I knew a candidate visited prostitutes on a regular basis or not.
Oh, stop complaining and come see how things are outside major cities: you'll be lucky if the lanes are plowed once a week!
It's healthier and it's more fun
It being fun is a matter of taste. Personally I enjoy driving a car much more.
it is a system that is tied in with the internet instead. Just have a look at Vista with Aero for an example of this done right.
Aero has nothing to do with the Internet.
You need the outlook to connect in with the mass of email flowing around us every day.
Why would you need Outlook for that? There's hundreds of different e-mail clients and services.
Voice over IP, internet enabled 'surface' computing, and voice command interfaces - all tied together with .NET and the Aero interface.
VoIP, Internet, voice-enabled applications etc. are all perfectly possible without .NET and in fact most of them ARE done without .NET. Also, again, Aero has nothing to do with that.
And so, we will see more and vendors of the Linux remit their legal obligations to Microsoft, and then benefit by getting onboard the .NET revolution
Hah.
Windows 8 is far more powerful than windows 7, and runs twice as fast.
According to who? All the benchmarks I've seen indicate that Windows 8 actually runs the same as Windows 7, or sometimes even slower. It boots faster, but then again, that's hardly terribly important unless you boot your machine a dozen times a day.
See e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-vs-windows-7-benchmarked-7000002671/
It is also much harder to pirate, and this point more than anything else has the Linux crowd in a panic.
Why would they panic over that? What relevance does that have to Linux or why would Linux-users care?
Linux will have to find a way to work under Windows 8 from here on, since it wont be able to rely on Windows 7 being readily available anymore.
Huh? Linux doesn't use Windows for anything, so why would this have any relevancy either?
Linux may seem like a good alternative to Office
Linux is an OS, Office is an application. The proper comparison would be e.g. LibreOffice vs. Office.
It still needs the drivers and software services in order to run, and in most cases - that happens WITHOUT a valid windows licence.
I have no idea where you've gotten that idea. Linux doesn't use Windows, Linux doesn't use Windows-drivers, Linux doesn't use Windows-services, and Linux works just fine on a computer without Windows on it at all.
Anyone that supports the continuation of Windows 7 in place of Windows 8 surely has a hidden agenda .. and you will surely be caught out.
Atleast in my case the agenda is simple: Windows 8 doesn't do anything that I can't already do with Windows 7 and therefore I can just keep using Windows 7 and save the money.
When did you last time try the GIMP or Inkscape?
I use GIMP almost on a daily basis. That's irrelevant, however, as I never said anything about the quality of GIMP or Inkscape. I said there is no push for an alternative to the Adobe software-stack.
And there are plenty of games for the GNU/Linux operating system.
Yes, if you're into crappy clones, Indie-games, or decades old games. Linux is a great server-OS, but it definitely isn't a gaming-OS yet.
What? Never heard of the GIMP for bitmap drawing or Inkscape for vectorial drawing? IMO Inkscape is superior to Illustrator. I even use it in Windows.
Of course I have heard of those, you misunderstood my point. I even use GIMP on Windows on almost a daily basis. But as I said, there is no actual PUSH to provide alternatives to the Adobe software stack, and even many GIMP developers themselves don't view GIMP as an alternative to Photoshop so much as an entirely different thing altogether. Also, GIMP, Inkscape et.al. are totally separate applications; there is no interplay between them like there is between Adobe's own products.
The interesting thing is the best library for multimedia is probably libavcodec and its open source.
I personally am partial to GStreamer and FFMpeg. But alas, I guess it's mostly a taste-thing as they all are pretty good feature-wise.
Unfortunately I still am pretty dependent on the Adobe package for graphic tools in my line of work, but I hope to see the alternatives get there fast now that Adobe has consistently been pissing on its own leg for a longer period of time.
There has been no strong push to provide alternatives for the Adobe-applications, so why would there be anything such now all of a sudden? I do not see the situation changing for years to come.
And then there are the games. Pray tell this situation will improve.
With Steam arriving on Linux things may slowly start turning for the better, but that too will take years. Basically if the game you want to play hasn't already been ported over or doesn't work satisfactorily via Wine then be prepared to wait for a good, long while more, and do not expect old games to be ported over, only completely new releases.
Still not as good as a linux desktop or a pure android tablet
Indeed. Good thing I'm not forced to use any of those, I'll just stick to Windows 7!
I see this mistake being made all the damn time and, well, it's STILL "sneak peek." A peak is e.g. the top of a mountain or a sudden, high jump in a graph whereas peek is about taking a quick look at something.
You also need the right materials. Not just anything can be a gun barrel. I'm not a fan of bans, but perhaps the best compromise in this situation is to ban the 3D printable materials that could be formed into guns, not the printers, plans, and other 3D printable materials.
They weren't printing gun barrels, plus your plan would outrule aluminum, steel, iron, carbon, any hard plastics and so on. Guess how well that would fly?
I wonder about this, too: what exactly is an "open-source artist?"
It's 2012, we have the bandwidth and storage to go to lossless.
Do tell us when you come back to the real world where storage ain't infinite and 256kbps bandwidth is still common.
I was just thinking the same: Anonymous have time and again lied about stuff, but so has the FBI and the FBI could just have paid Blue Toad to take the blame or made some other deal with them. Can't know, really, and with that in mind I'll just assume maliciousness from both parties.
Vitamin C may be good against the common cold and such viruses, but it does nothing to prevent e.g. the hantavirus, no matter how much you inject it.
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Why would anyone want to use Java anyway?
The more important question is why would anyone want to use a Mac anyway? ;)
Laptops are being lost all the god damn time and Anon is a very, very large group of people -- I'd say the chances are actually darn good. Also, I'd say the chances are darn good for FBI to lie whenever something like this happens, just for the sake of looking good in the eyes of the general public and for painting anyone who disagrees in bad light.
As for unverifiability: apparently some of those UDIDs have already been verified.
So, you admit that false positives are produced, but you've never gotten one?
Yes, that's correct.
And if a video file without copyright information is considered malware?
If that was the case then it would bad and not how I'd support it. I'd support the system only if it was used for actual malware.
How many times over the years have you had to tell your antivirus software to ignore a false positive?
A grand total of zero. Also, the reason why AV software produce false positives is mostly because of heuristics. If you disable heuristics you'll only get warnings when the AV is 100% certain. Similarly, this system could be designed to only issue these things when there is a 100% certainty of malware and not use heuristics, something that would prevent most false positives. Oh, and it's not like a false positive would be the end of the world: you could just contact your ISP's tech support.
However, since "more" and "less" are opposites, if "a few more excuses" is valid English, why shouldn't "a few less excuses" be valid too?
Because there is no single-word substitute for "more." "More" is used both for describing increase in arbitrary amount and for describing increase in count. It'd be a different situation if there was a suitable substitute.
In traditional English "less" is about amount whereas "fewer" is about count, ie. the correct sentence fragment would be "fewer excuses." You can have less water, but you can't have fewer water, for example. However, "less" is these days used as a substitute for "fewer" in many cases in American English so whether or not the traditional way matters anymore is subject to debate.
I have an old N900 lying around that I occasionally use as a small BitTorrent-server, SSH-server, for Wifi-penetration testing on-the-go and so on. Extremely handy for that.