And ride a bike. In LA you can split lanes, so you can get anywhere pretty fast while looking cool. It (almost) never rains and a nice crotch rocket is probably even more environmentally friendly than his current ride.
This soap opera is getting way too confusing. Way too much money, way too many project names. In the end, whatever they come up with to circumvent Oracle, they will just sell to the next highest bidder for another billion, then rinse and repeat.
It seems the only way for us to circumvent all this BS is not to use anything affiliated with Oracle, MySQL, or its creators.
A: Rarely happens.
B: They give you bags of screws for free at IKEA if you find any missing.
C: Can't print metal.
D: The price of Robot, Printer, Metal filament, time spent Designing, Printing, would greatly outweigh any argument against option B.
This is a an example of what Adam Carolla refers to as the pussyfication of America in his book titled In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, just s/America/Whole World/.
Seriously, if assembling IKEA furniture is a "real life problem", then we got much bigger problems. On a side note, wouldn't having to buy a robot defeat the purpose of buying cheap semi-diy semi-permanent furniture?
Uhmmm... yeah. Whatever. Like you would've gone for a jog with a terrorist loose in your neighborhood, with guns, bombs and a suicide vest. Maybe even sip some coffee outside a coffee shop while reading the news on your shiny laptop. Sure.
I live about 5 miles from where this went down. Our city was also on lockdown. And guess what: I was happy to stay inside with the wife and kids. In fact I would've done that even without police calling a lockdown.
Although it _did_ help to have a bunch of SWAT teams a couple streets over. And probably also the cop that put a couple bullets into him the night before. Then there was the agency that got their photos from the security cameras. The attorney general who got those tapes. Maybe even some controversial legislation congress passed. The tax payers who bought the helicopter and thermal imaging system.
Then one day you'll grow up, have kids, maybe even stop smoking drugs (that will help you remember the name of the Republican candidate), and realize that the guys you voted for spent all your kids' and grandkids' money (in the name of your children, nonetheless).
No, it's not. Just google "raspberry pi ethernet" or "raspberry pi usb".
I've tried about a dozen keyboards on mine, most didn't work, the others randomly repeated keystrokes. This was from $5 nonames to Logitech and Microsoft high end keyboards. I also tried it through powered usb hubs, and I even pulled out the soldering iron and bridged the on board fuse. Which helped some, after that I could use a GE keyboard with key repeats only happening once or twice a minute. But that would still be unusable for programming. The USB issue is just bad engineering. 150ma is not gonna cut it.
You might say I got a bad board. But I doubt it, seeing all the posts about the same issues on the internet. Maybe you got a lucky one.
"buy something more powerful"
I did. I sold my rpi, and got an mk802. It's much faster (actually runs Xorg at decent speed), has a lot more memory, onboard storage and works with all the keyboards/mice the rpi didn't. It also has wifi that doesn't drop out. It's even has a case, and is smaller. And when you add this all up, even cheaper than the rpi.
So you don't get the at least once a week slashvertisement, the front page el reg articles, and raspberry pi coming from just about every faucet on the internet?
It was not only advertised, but falsely advertised all over the place. An educational tool. All you need is a keyboard, monitor, power supply. Run scratch, learn programming. It's for the good of our children.
What they didn't tell you was that the USB doesn't work with most of keyboards and mice (I tried about 10 keyboards on mine, some worked better than the other, but none perfectly). They didn't tell you that scratch. while it opens, it's so slow that it's unusable. In fact running an Xorg environment on it is so slow, the only way to use it is as a terminal. Remote terminal because keyboards don't work. Oh, wait. Forgot that the ethernet port drops out all the time also. All well known and documented design issues.
Then the "botched" launch. Or so we thought. Where "the servers went down" and "sold out in minutes". It was all a ploy. Like the "product leaks" and those lines around the Apple stores (well, to Apple's credit, at least their hardware works.).
Wonder how much of those broken million devices are actually used instead of gathering dust. While the "foundation" is shamelessly laughing all the way to the bank. For the good of our children. The scam of our lifetime.
Exactly. And I assume you ride a bike, raise animals and grow vegetables and only consume electricity your solar panels produce. You don't use any modern medicine because oil or other finite resource is used to manufacture them. You don't have a retirement account because some of that money could be supporting the wrongdoers. You also don't vote for any politician who drives a car or flies around on airplanes.
Otherwise:
"The sad part is that those who decide where our resources go can't see further than 10 years."
"They are declining because our PCs are so good, they last a lot longer."
True, electronics are much more durable. Although I haven't had any computer hardware fail in the past decade, other than maybe a mouse.
But it also depends on what you use computers for. Browsing the web, updating facebook profiles, some word documents, a PC from 5 years ago does the job great. I also have some older computers, a 10 year old one drives my cnc router, and I have two Atom based servers that are a couple years old.
However my work desktop and laptop, used for compiling large chunks of code, photoshop and cad are upgraded every 12-18 months. Processors and graphics cards do get faster. If I were using a 5 year old computer, what compiles on the i7 with ssd in a minute, would probably take an hour. That's a lot of bang for the buck. For the desktop I just replace the motherboard/cpu/gpu, laptops are new purchases with the old ones going to craigslist.
I didn't obliterate metro. I just don't use it on my laptop, but I see its potential on tablets and touch screen laptops (which mine is not, because I had to have non glossy screen for coding).
My next computer purchase will be a tablet for my daughter who loves to draw and paint. It will be a win8 tablet with pressure sensitive stylus, and that's where win8 wins (no pun intended): it's the same OS running on non touch and touch screen devices. You can use the same programs, not just some feature deprived 99 cent crap from an app store. With a real stylus none the less, the lack of which is a major fail of the idevices and most androids.
Metro is the bridge between touch screen and non touch screen. Best implementation? No. Just like the idevice launch screen and one button interface isn't either. But here's what Microsoft did for you: it gave you the same OS for both, without stripping out the power of desktop programs. How would you have done better?
No, tickle bug. Your/. interpreter blocked you from reading the whole post. You should get a new one.
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Stop this please. You don't need any addons to make win8 work in desktop mode. You don't need to use any of the metro apps either.
My laptop has win8, I only use it in desktop mode and works just like win7 did. All win7 programs work the same way. In fact it's nice to have the extra space from removing the start button on the taskbar. The only difference is that you get a full screen "start menu" when you hit the windows key. You can still type the name of the app or document just like in the star menu in win7. When it comes up, just hit enter to launch it. Same as win7.
I read reviews and scare mongering like your post, and was scared of win8 when when it arrived with my new laptop. But it's all unfounded sillyness. Win8 looks better and is faster than win7 and works in desktop mode just like win7 did.
Exactly. And what I was hinting at is using Windows vs OSX vs Linux doesn't make a difference. There is obviously more social engineering malware for Windows because that's what most people use so it's the biggest bang for the buck. With macs gaining user base, there's malware cropping up there, too. If you count Android as linux, plenty malware to choose from. But if you want to get on a company's intranet, the LAMP stack on a poorly maintained linux server (read: most linux servers) is the ticket.
And what's the first thing an average user does after installing Ubuntu?/etc/sudoers ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL. All of a sudden using Win8 with MS' anti virus and auto software update doesn't look like a bad option at all.
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But those are the very lanes Elon uses.
And ride a bike. In LA you can split lanes, so you can get anywhere pretty fast while looking cool. It (almost) never rains and a nice crotch rocket is probably even more environmentally friendly than his current ride.
Right. Except that LA's broke. The bills are paid from giving out chicken shit parking and traffic tickets.
No. It was always for fanboys.
This soap opera is getting way too confusing. Way too much money, way too many project names. In the end, whatever they come up with to circumvent Oracle, they will just sell to the next highest bidder for another billion, then rinse and repeat.
It seems the only way for us to circumvent all this BS is not to use anything affiliated with Oracle, MySQL, or its creators.
A: Rarely happens.
B: They give you bags of screws for free at IKEA if you find any missing.
C: Can't print metal.
D: The price of Robot, Printer, Metal filament, time spent Designing, Printing, would greatly outweigh any argument against option B.
This is a an example of what Adam Carolla refers to as the pussyfication of America in his book titled In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, just s/America/Whole World/.
Seriously, if assembling IKEA furniture is a "real life problem", then we got much bigger problems. On a side note, wouldn't having to buy a robot defeat the purpose of buying cheap semi-diy semi-permanent furniture?
Yeah, right. Just ask this guy about it.
And not only creepy, but possibly illegal.
"The "lockdown" of Boston is a bit disturbing."
Uhmmm... yeah. Whatever. Like you would've gone for a jog with a terrorist loose in your neighborhood, with guns, bombs and a suicide vest. Maybe even sip some coffee outside a coffee shop while reading the news on your shiny laptop. Sure.
I live about 5 miles from where this went down. Our city was also on lockdown. And guess what: I was happy to stay inside with the wife and kids. In fact I would've done that even without police calling a lockdown.
Although it _did_ help to have a bunch of SWAT teams a couple streets over. And probably also the cop that put a couple bullets into him the night before. Then there was the agency that got their photos from the security cameras. The attorney general who got those tapes. Maybe even some controversial legislation congress passed. The tax payers who bought the helicopter and thermal imaging system.
Looks like a group effort to me.
Then one day you'll grow up, have kids, maybe even stop smoking drugs (that will help you remember the name of the Republican candidate), and realize that the guys you voted for spent all your kids' and grandkids' money (in the name of your children, nonetheless).
No it wasn't. I've also tried a bunch of power supplies, some even with 2A output. Also experimented with two powered USB hubs.
The problem with both USB and Ethernet are design issues, well documented on the rpi forums. Even the foundation knows about them.
"This is pure misinformation"
No, it's not. Just google "raspberry pi ethernet" or "raspberry pi usb".
I've tried about a dozen keyboards on mine, most didn't work, the others randomly repeated keystrokes. This was from $5 nonames to Logitech and Microsoft high end keyboards. I also tried it through powered usb hubs, and I even pulled out the soldering iron and bridged the on board fuse. Which helped some, after that I could use a GE keyboard with key repeats only happening once or twice a minute. But that would still be unusable for programming. The USB issue is just bad engineering. 150ma is not gonna cut it.
You might say I got a bad board. But I doubt it, seeing all the posts about the same issues on the internet. Maybe you got a lucky one.
"buy something more powerful"
I did. I sold my rpi, and got an mk802. It's much faster (actually runs Xorg at decent speed), has a lot more memory, onboard storage and works with all the keyboards/mice the rpi didn't. It also has wifi that doesn't drop out. It's even has a case, and is smaller. And when you add this all up, even cheaper than the rpi.
"No hard push advertising required!"
So you don't get the at least once a week slashvertisement, the front page el reg articles, and raspberry pi coming from just about every faucet on the internet?
It was not only advertised, but falsely advertised all over the place. An educational tool. All you need is a keyboard, monitor, power supply. Run scratch, learn programming. It's for the good of our children.
What they didn't tell you was that the USB doesn't work with most of keyboards and mice (I tried about 10 keyboards on mine, some worked better than the other, but none perfectly). They didn't tell you that scratch. while it opens, it's so slow that it's unusable. In fact running an Xorg environment on it is so slow, the only way to use it is as a terminal. Remote terminal because keyboards don't work. Oh, wait. Forgot that the ethernet port drops out all the time also. All well known and documented design issues.
Then the "botched" launch. Or so we thought. Where "the servers went down" and "sold out in minutes". It was all a ploy. Like the "product leaks" and those lines around the Apple stores (well, to Apple's credit, at least their hardware works.).
Wonder how much of those broken million devices are actually used instead of gathering dust. While the "foundation" is shamelessly laughing all the way to the bank. For the good of our children. The scam of our lifetime.
Exactly. And I assume you ride a bike, raise animals and grow vegetables and only consume electricity your solar panels produce. You don't use any modern medicine because oil or other finite resource is used to manufacture them. You don't have a retirement account because some of that money could be supporting the wrongdoers. You also don't vote for any politician who drives a car or flies around on airplanes.
Otherwise:
"The sad part is that those who decide where our resources go can't see further than 10 years."
The kettle is just calling the pot black.
"They are declining because our PCs are so good, they last a lot longer."
True, electronics are much more durable. Although I haven't had any computer hardware fail in the past decade, other than maybe a mouse.
But it also depends on what you use computers for. Browsing the web, updating facebook profiles, some word documents, a PC from 5 years ago does the job great. I also have some older computers, a 10 year old one drives my cnc router, and I have two Atom based servers that are a couple years old.
However my work desktop and laptop, used for compiling large chunks of code, photoshop and cad are upgraded every 12-18 months. Processors and graphics cards do get faster. If I were using a 5 year old computer, what compiles on the i7 with ssd in a minute, would probably take an hour. That's a lot of bang for the buck. For the desktop I just replace the motherboard/cpu/gpu, laptops are new purchases with the old ones going to craigslist.
Sure. But we were talking about upgrading a laptop with an SSD.
I didn't obliterate metro. I just don't use it on my laptop, but I see its potential on tablets and touch screen laptops (which mine is not, because I had to have non glossy screen for coding).
My next computer purchase will be a tablet for my daughter who loves to draw and paint. It will be a win8 tablet with pressure sensitive stylus, and that's where win8 wins (no pun intended): it's the same OS running on non touch and touch screen devices. You can use the same programs, not just some feature deprived 99 cent crap from an app store. With a real stylus none the less, the lack of which is a major fail of the idevices and most androids.
Metro is the bridge between touch screen and non touch screen. Best implementation? No. Just like the idevice launch screen and one button interface isn't either. But here's what Microsoft did for you: it gave you the same OS for both, without stripping out the power of desktop programs. How would you have done better?
No, tickle bug. Your /. interpreter blocked you from reading the whole post. You should get a new one.
Stop this please. You don't need any addons to make win8 work in desktop mode. You don't need to use any of the metro apps either.
My laptop has win8, I only use it in desktop mode and works just like win7 did. All win7 programs work the same way. In fact it's nice to have the extra space from removing the start button on the taskbar. The only difference is that you get a full screen "start menu" when you hit the windows key. You can still type the name of the app or document just like in the star menu in win7. When it comes up, just hit enter to launch it. Same as win7.
I read reviews and scare mongering like your post, and was scared of win8 when when it arrived with my new laptop. But it's all unfounded sillyness. Win8 looks better and is faster than win7 and works in desktop mode just like win7 did.
You had 15k rpm scsi striped drives in a laptop? Even if you did, you should have noticed these benefits:
- much faster random access
- improved battery life
- zero noise
- no mechanical failure
My mother in law, because 70 is the new 17.
Have you thought about getting the family do something TOGETHER? Maybe even something that doesn't require an internet connection?
Exactly. And what I was hinting at is using Windows vs OSX vs Linux doesn't make a difference. There is obviously more social engineering malware for Windows because that's what most people use so it's the biggest bang for the buck. With macs gaining user base, there's malware cropping up there, too. If you count Android as linux, plenty malware to choose from. But if you want to get on a company's intranet, the LAMP stack on a poorly maintained linux server (read: most linux servers) is the ticket.
/etc/sudoers ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL. All of a sudden using Win8 with MS' anti virus and auto software update doesn't look like a bad option at all.
And what's the first thing an average user does after installing Ubuntu?