I was complaining more generally. I too don't mind the STEAM security steps much, but my argument stands that providing an email address at all greatly lowers your anonymity. I do love that STEAM will let you install your game on another computer by simply logging in and downloading a new copy. However, Culture20's argument:
"...DRM that prevents me from installing it twenty years from now..."
still stands as after STEAM dies off, all of it's games will cease to activate and allow you to play -unless they're unusually nice and release tools for people to mimic their activation servers. Myst Uru did that. When they shut down the multiplayer servers they released software allowing fans to recreate them. This requires faith in the game's company as well as any company that may buy out that company from the time you buy the game until the time the servers are shut off.
I don't hate the idea of DRM, just the common implementation. For me, it seems a necessary evil in order to ban bad players who hack or exploit the game, however, there's no reason this can't remain anonymous and I don't want to get email about games -EVER. Finally, DRM on the game media itself is a fracking abomination for which it's creators should be drawn and quartered. If I want to make a backup copy of my game because CD media is horrifically fragile, that should be my right.
The design. C'mon, 4 arc shaped buttons around a wheel for volume, around a large center button. Then having a vertical, screen over buttons, layout instead of the side-by-side SanDisk had before. I like SanDisk, but this was clearly intended to be a knockoff and that did always bother me a bit.
Interesting. So you're proposing that this might be an industry conspiracy -similar to the roadblocks automotive manufacturers put up on any new company attempting to enter the market.
MP3 players with SD or MicroSD slots are preferred because it's easier to make cards specific to music genres and swap them out according to the patient's wishes. Also, 4 GiB SD cards are ã3 each.
The/. editor saved space by not summarizing the product in question because IT APPEARS IN 13/. POSTS SINCE JULY. If you read/. often, you would know what Raspberry Pi is, and if not, don't worry about it. If you don't know what a product is, chances are it will never effect you personally so just skip the post and move on.
Haha, nice history footnote. Additionally, many of the iPod knockoffs have and still are FAR SUPERIOR. I have one, the SanDisk Sansa e260 or something like that. Cost me $25 new, has MP4 support, FM radio, 4 GiB internal, MicroSD slot, acts as a storage when connected to any PC, is proven more durable, has a replacable battery, is slimmer, and (with RockBox) it plays Doom! The only thing a 4 GiB iPod does better is boot faster.
I considered the BeagleBone, but not only is the RPi cheaper, but I like to get in on the ground floor of stuff. Also, as far as I can tell those alternatives use more power than the RPi. I could be wrong about that fact, but the RPi clearly states that they use 1 Watt idle and I couldn't find the power spec of the other devices. Finally, I like HDMI. If I'm going to have an onboard computer anyway, might as well make it a media hub too -I promise no videos while driving.
This would be more for during surgeries. Input would be needed only to pick a playlist, then let it run for hours while having as small a footprint as possible. Still, I guess a simple MP3 player with SD slot would just be so much easier on the staff. Personally I would want a central archive, but they would rather stacks of duplicate SD cards.
Good point, but they can't prove in good faith that they reasonably believed large quantities would be available in the future. Raspberry Pi adamantly states that they aren't projecting huge quantities to be available to the public, just that they "hope so" at some undetermined time in the future. Furthermore, they can't guarantee the price will remain the same by that point so pre-orders just aren't viable.
The Raspberry Pi company isn't guaranteeing that they will have huge quantities available for order at all. Furthermore, you have to ask permission to use images from the image owners if you want to use them as a promotional tool. I doubt they did that so the Russian website, as it is right now, is violating international law.
Let me know how that turns out. I'm helping a hospital experiment with sound therapy and making little packages of RPs with headphones sounds like a good way to have only large, networked archive to select various forms of music from.
Oh, but then again I guess I'm not your 'average' computer programmer. Honestly I'm not your average anything and proud of it:P Wait, does what I just said, the fact that I'm in the largest response column for every pole, and my strange hobbies make me an average/.er? crap.
I'm a programmer with over a dozen PCs laying around. I want a Raspberry Pi for data-logging and reporting live readouts on an electric car I'm building. These would also be useful for running low-power web servers and running torrents. I can't think of any other full-function PC that uses 1 Watt. Even when they're not turned on most PC power supplies draw more than that.
The post is taken directly from their website so the quote has no reason to describe the product. The/. editor saw no reason to describe the product because it has been in 13 articles since July.
"particularly gullible"? I don't think anyone finds computer programmers more gullible than the general population. However, any product that has demand with no supply makes people desperate enough to not validate resellers the way they may have otherwise. This is a form of gullibility, but only as much as a square can be called a rectangle.
Trademarks don't matter if a company is taking pre-orders and delivering nothing. If they want to make a product with an identical name and sell it, that might fly in a country that ignores trademarks of other countries, but taking orders for nothing is illegal everywhere -except for companies that pay off the Chinese government.
The bad news is people are getting cheated, but the good news is that con artists see a big enough market to be worth creating fronts for it. It's a strong indicator that the Raspberry Pi will be successful -they just need to step up official press and YouTube releases with links to the real site.
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Oh no, It's the guys they sent to reclaim their prototypes again, RUUUNNNNN!
Yeah, neither is mine, but it's not often that you can make that joke and it be more relevant to the situation than this time.
"Siri, Don't sue. Confirm.", Siri, "I'm afraid I can't do that Dave."
I was complaining more generally. I too don't mind the STEAM security steps much, but my argument stands that providing an email address at all greatly lowers your anonymity. I do love that STEAM will let you install your game on another computer by simply logging in and downloading a new copy. However, Culture20's argument: "...DRM that prevents me from installing it twenty years from now..." still stands as after STEAM dies off, all of it's games will cease to activate and allow you to play -unless they're unusually nice and release tools for people to mimic their activation servers. Myst Uru did that. When they shut down the multiplayer servers they released software allowing fans to recreate them. This requires faith in the game's company as well as any company that may buy out that company from the time you buy the game until the time the servers are shut off.
I don't hate the idea of DRM, just the common implementation. For me, it seems a necessary evil in order to ban bad players who hack or exploit the game, however, there's no reason this can't remain anonymous and I don't want to get email about games -EVER. Finally, DRM on the game media itself is a fracking abomination for which it's creators should be drawn and quartered. If I want to make a backup copy of my game because CD media is horrifically fragile, that should be my right.
Or using a discussion about international trade to be a troll.
The design. C'mon, 4 arc shaped buttons around a wheel for volume, around a large center button. Then having a vertical, screen over buttons, layout instead of the side-by-side SanDisk had before. I like SanDisk, but this was clearly intended to be a knockoff and that did always bother me a bit.
Interesting. So you're proposing that this might be an industry conspiracy -similar to the roadblocks automotive manufacturers put up on any new company attempting to enter the market.
MP3 players with SD or MicroSD slots are preferred because it's easier to make cards specific to music genres and swap them out according to the patient's wishes. Also, 4 GiB SD cards are ã3 each.
The /. editor saved space by not summarizing the product in question because IT APPEARS IN 13 /. POSTS SINCE JULY. If you read /. often, you would know what Raspberry Pi is, and if not, don't worry about it. If you don't know what a product is, chances are it will never effect you personally so just skip the post and move on.
Haha, nice history footnote. Additionally, many of the iPod knockoffs have and still are FAR SUPERIOR. I have one, the SanDisk Sansa e260 or something like that. Cost me $25 new, has MP4 support, FM radio, 4 GiB internal, MicroSD slot, acts as a storage when connected to any PC, is proven more durable, has a replacable battery, is slimmer, and (with RockBox) it plays Doom! The only thing a 4 GiB iPod does better is boot faster.
I considered the BeagleBone, but not only is the RPi cheaper, but I like to get in on the ground floor of stuff. Also, as far as I can tell those alternatives use more power than the RPi. I could be wrong about that fact, but the RPi clearly states that they use 1 Watt idle and I couldn't find the power spec of the other devices. Finally, I like HDMI. If I'm going to have an onboard computer anyway, might as well make it a media hub too -I promise no videos while driving.
This would be more for during surgeries. Input would be needed only to pick a playlist, then let it run for hours while having as small a footprint as possible. Still, I guess a simple MP3 player with SD slot would just be so much easier on the staff. Personally I would want a central archive, but they would rather stacks of duplicate SD cards.
Good point, but they can't prove in good faith that they reasonably believed large quantities would be available in the future. Raspberry Pi adamantly states that they aren't projecting huge quantities to be available to the public, just that they "hope so" at some undetermined time in the future. Furthermore, they can't guarantee the price will remain the same by that point so pre-orders just aren't viable.
The Raspberry Pi company isn't guaranteeing that they will have huge quantities available for order at all. Furthermore, you have to ask permission to use images from the image owners if you want to use them as a promotional tool. I doubt they did that so the Russian website, as it is right now, is violating international law.
Let me know how that turns out. I'm helping a hospital experiment with sound therapy and making little packages of RPs with headphones sounds like a good way to have only large, networked archive to select various forms of music from.
Oh, but then again I guess I'm not your 'average' computer programmer. Honestly I'm not your average anything and proud of it :P Wait, does what I just said, the fact that I'm in the largest response column for every pole, and my strange hobbies make me an average /.er? crap.
I'm a programmer with over a dozen PCs laying around. I want a Raspberry Pi for data-logging and reporting live readouts on an electric car I'm building. These would also be useful for running low-power web servers and running torrents. I can't think of any other full-function PC that uses 1 Watt. Even when they're not turned on most PC power supplies draw more than that.
I'm pretty sure they didn't ask permission to use that picture of the Raspberry Pi, so I bet that's enough to issue a take down request alone.
The post is taken directly from their website so the quote has no reason to describe the product. The /. editor saw no reason to describe the product because it has been in 13 articles since July.
"particularly gullible"? I don't think anyone finds computer programmers more gullible than the general population. However, any product that has demand with no supply makes people desperate enough to not validate resellers the way they may have otherwise. This is a form of gullibility, but only as much as a square can be called a rectangle.
Trademarks don't matter if a company is taking pre-orders and delivering nothing. If they want to make a product with an identical name and sell it, that might fly in a country that ignores trademarks of other countries, but taking orders for nothing is illegal everywhere -except for companies that pay off the Chinese government.
The bad news is people are getting cheated, but the good news is that con artists see a big enough market to be worth creating fronts for it. It's a strong indicator that the Raspberry Pi will be successful -they just need to step up official press and YouTube releases with links to the real site.
There is no age limit for acting like a child.