Yeah, FB jumped the shark a long time ago, and look for it to become even more careless about user privacy now that it's publicly traded. No other network, not even Google+, has been able to knock it down yet though. Myspace died because Facebook was 'cooler'. You can't put that in a bottle. Or, if you think you know how, billions of dollars await you.
I have an old (2004-era) laptop that I still use for a testbed. It's a 1GHz Athlon-M with 1GB of RAM. I formatted it asext2 to save some CPU cycles, so yes, the old ways can come in handy.
I'm not as up to speed on filesystems as I probably should be, but I agree. I tried it and the speed difference is noticeable. Like, you, I went back to ext4.
Right? isn't that what American schools and TV have been teaching for the last 30 years? Nerds aren't cool - facts are open to interpretation - everyone is special - you can eat more than you grow... When you have a society rewarding irrationality, what do you expect? Rigorous science?
You're talking to a man whose first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81:-) You don't have to explain to me how a little hardware can go a long way. I can think of a thousand uses for the RPi-- just not in schools. The costs don't add up.
You've just explained in patient detail why the RPi is a dandy hobbyist machine. Everything you've said is true. But back to schools: If you're going to put them into classrooms, you'll also want to devise some sort of standardized cirriculum around them, and that'll be harder to do if each whole computer is a mishmash of new RPi and old I/O devices that the school may or may not have lying around. Look, I'm not saying it's a bad machine, but schools would be better off getting a larger & more powerful computer. This reminds me of the BBC Acorn thing back in the day. I'm not British, but the principle is the same. Hats off to the team for creating the Pi; I'm not trying to detract from that accomplishment, only saying that it's more suited to geeks, hobbyists, and tinkerers than schools.
Congratulation the Raspberry Pi team for getting it made and out the door, but I don't get how it's going to penetrate schools. The unit's only $35, yes, but by the time you buy cables, a mouse & KB, and a monitor you've spent $150-$200 more. That's ~$230 for a seriously underpowered computer-- you may as well spend about a third more and get a very low end PC. These little machines would be great as embedded devices, but general-purpose computing?
TFA states it was pulled "after a complaint" (note singular). I have trouble believing this is the only reason. They pulled all of them from all of their stores in America? I have trouble believing that a single complaint was the only reason. "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity," goes the quote, and I think it applies here. If M$ were the reason then they'd pull *all* Linux stuff. Likewise if they wanted to pull every example of "how to do bad things" off their shelves they'd have to take a LOT of books down.
I've seen people's computers with that crappy vertical resolution who had so many malware browser bars installed they only had about two inches of usable screen. 768 is not enough, and may the damned souls of the powers-that-be who decided to force glossy displays on the world rot in Hell forever. I bought a new laptop over the summer and it was like pulling pulling teeth to find one with a matte screen; forget about a decent display res unless you double the price.
I use KDE. With Linux, there's choice at least. I feel like going off on a 2000-word rant about desktops and tablets how they with their different scales demand different interfaces. Consumers will slowly adopt this shit because new computers will ship with Win-Hate preinstalled, but businesses are gonna skip it the same way they did Vista. There. How many words was that? Sorry.
MS isn't terribly worried about the browser wars any more. They're far more afraid of Apple and Google; witness the abortion that is Metro on W8 and their mad rush to 'converge' the desktop with the tablet. Idiocy? Perhaps. It's certainly a slap in the face to every desktop user.
Aside from the fact that it has a miniscule chance of hitting us, I think many people in the US (I can't speak for other nations) are thinking that even if there was a high danger, that space technology will have advanced enough by then for us to easily deal with it. "Kick it down the road to the next administration," goes the unofficial position of the politicians. "We've got socialism to implement & votes to buy." That attitude will ensure no advances occur.
The failure of Win8 is gonna make Bob, Millenium, and Vista look like nothing. Firefox is doing this because they have to, though. I'm not sure even the yahoos in charge of FF's interface over the past few releases wanted things dumbed down to such a level as Metro.
Humans are a social species evolutionarily produced to work together
They're also programmed to compete. You can apply theory to this all day long. The bottom line is that blaming Facebook (which isn't lily-white by any measure) for this particular incident is wrong. Those people have been fighting since time imemmorial and will only quit I suspect when one side gets wiped out.
I was an OS/2 fanatic from the time Warp came out to the end of 2000. Technically it was far superior to W95, yes, but I think NT eclipsed it because of OS/2's single input queue; if an app wasn't responding it could hold up the entire system. Third-party utils like Watchcat were written that helped with this though. Also, NT 3.5 would run OS/2 console programs and the mechanism it used to do so (pinball.sys) could be copied to an NT 4 installation to provide the same thing. Ahhhh, the memories. I still have a screenshot of my desktop from ca. 1998. IBM really mishandled it from day one if you ask me. They blew a good chance to topple Microsoft; just utterly shot themselves in the foot.
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That wasn't a manned launch
Mod up Funny! Amazing how in 2012 the USA has no capability of its own any more to even send up spam in a can.
Or maybe it was my dinner last night
Yeah, FB jumped the shark a long time ago, and look for it to become even more careless about user privacy now that it's publicly traded. No other network, not even Google+, has been able to knock it down yet though. Myspace died because Facebook was 'cooler'. You can't put that in a bottle. Or, if you think you know how, billions of dollars await you.
I have an old (2004-era) laptop that I still use for a testbed. It's a 1GHz Athlon-M with 1GB of RAM. I formatted it asext2 to save some CPU cycles, so yes, the old ways can come in handy.
I'm not as up to speed on filesystems as I probably should be, but I agree. I tried it and the speed difference is noticeable. Like, you, I went back to ext4.
Right? isn't that what American schools and TV have been teaching for the last 30 years? Nerds aren't cool - facts are open to interpretation - everyone is special - you can eat more than you grow... When you have a society rewarding irrationality, what do you expect? Rigorous science?
Shit, and me with no mod points. Well said.
Indeed. How many planes has he flown into buildings? How many schoolbuses full of kids has he bombed?
You're talking to a man whose first computer was a Sinclair ZX-81 :-) You don't have to explain to me how a little hardware can go a long way. I can think of a thousand uses for the RPi-- just not in schools. The costs don't add up.
You've just explained in patient detail why the RPi is a dandy hobbyist machine. Everything you've said is true. But back to schools: If you're going to put them into classrooms, you'll also want to devise some sort of standardized cirriculum around them, and that'll be harder to do if each whole computer is a mishmash of new RPi and old I/O devices that the school may or may not have lying around. Look, I'm not saying it's a bad machine, but schools would be better off getting a larger & more powerful computer. This reminds me of the BBC Acorn thing back in the day. I'm not British, but the principle is the same. Hats off to the team for creating the Pi; I'm not trying to detract from that accomplishment, only saying that it's more suited to geeks, hobbyists, and tinkerers than schools.
Congratulation the Raspberry Pi team for getting it made and out the door, but I don't get how it's going to penetrate schools. The unit's only $35, yes, but by the time you buy cables, a mouse & KB, and a monitor you've spent $150-$200 more. That's ~$230 for a seriously underpowered computer-- you may as well spend about a third more and get a very low end PC. These little machines would be great as embedded devices, but general-purpose computing?
TFA states it was pulled "after a complaint" (note singular). I have trouble believing this is the only reason. They pulled all of them from all of their stores in America? I have trouble believing that a single complaint was the only reason. "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity," goes the quote, and I think it applies here. If M$ were the reason then they'd pull *all* Linux stuff. Likewise if they wanted to pull every example of "how to do bad things" off their shelves they'd have to take a LOT of books down.
Indeed, what about embracing desktop functionality? I'd've modded you up but you were already at 5.
I parsed it as Marijuana Particle too.
I've seen people's computers with that crappy vertical resolution who had so many malware browser bars installed they only had about two inches of usable screen. 768 is not enough, and may the damned souls of the powers-that-be who decided to force glossy displays on the world rot in Hell forever. I bought a new laptop over the summer and it was like pulling pulling teeth to find one with a matte screen; forget about a decent display res unless you double the price.
I use KDE. With Linux, there's choice at least. I feel like going off on a 2000-word rant about desktops and tablets how they with their different scales demand different interfaces. Consumers will slowly adopt this shit because new computers will ship with Win-Hate preinstalled, but businesses are gonna skip it the same way they did Vista. There. How many words was that? Sorry.
MS isn't terribly worried about the browser wars any more. They're far more afraid of Apple and Google; witness the abortion that is Metro on W8 and their mad rush to 'converge' the desktop with the tablet. Idiocy? Perhaps. It's certainly a slap in the face to every desktop user.
Agreed. Blizzard can rot for all I care. Also, as I have learned repeatedly here on /. your sig is right on the money.
No, that would be Americans themselves...
Aside from the fact that it has a miniscule chance of hitting us, I think many people in the US (I can't speak for other nations) are thinking that even if there was a high danger, that space technology will have advanced enough by then for us to easily deal with it. "Kick it down the road to the next administration," goes the unofficial position of the politicians. "We've got socialism to implement & votes to buy." That attitude will ensure no advances occur.
The failure of Win8 is gonna make Bob, Millenium, and Vista look like nothing. Firefox is doing this because they have to, though. I'm not sure even the yahoos in charge of FF's interface over the past few releases wanted things dumbed down to such a level as Metro.
Humans are a social species evolutionarily produced to work together
They're also programmed to compete. You can apply theory to this all day long. The bottom line is that blaming Facebook (which isn't lily-white by any measure) for this particular incident is wrong. Those people have been fighting since time imemmorial and will only quit I suspect when one side gets wiped out.
any particular reason why you posted as an "Anonymous Coward"?
Emphasis on the second word perhaps...
May I ask what hardware you're using?
I was an OS/2 fanatic from the time Warp came out to the end of 2000. Technically it was far superior to W95, yes, but I think NT eclipsed it because of OS/2's single input queue; if an app wasn't responding it could hold up the entire system. Third-party utils like Watchcat were written that helped with this though. Also, NT 3.5 would run OS/2 console programs and the mechanism it used to do so (pinball.sys) could be copied to an NT 4 installation to provide the same thing. Ahhhh, the memories. I still have a screenshot of my desktop from ca. 1998. IBM really mishandled it from day one if you ask me. They blew a good chance to topple Microsoft; just utterly shot themselves in the foot.