And there are known workarounds if you need more power on the onboard USB ports - so you can drive your WiFi adapter without a powered hub.
I've soldered 1-ohm resistors over top of the USB polyfuses. This bypasses the very low current limit on those ports, but they still can't draw more than the main polyfuse will allow (700mA, vs. 140mA on the USB's).
Using a 1-ohm resistor helps prevent current being drawn too low when you hot-plug a USB device. That could cause the Pi to reboot.
I have the new Retina MBP... and it's a fantastic machine. But WHY would you buy it just to install Linux on it anyway? It's a very expensive computer for that - you can get other laptops with similar specs (other than the display, yes) for a lot less. In almost all cases I'd suspect that people want to use both OSX and Linux - and in that case, I'd highly suggest running Linux in a virtual machine anyway (Parallels/VMWare).
Sure it'd be nice to have a pure dual boot for Linux, but until drivers are written and fine tuned for that specific platform it will do just fine.
I use Parallels for that, and for running WinXP (believe it or not) for one old app I need. The new MBP is so fast that I can cold-boot WinXP in 3 seconds! - making it a breeze to get to the one app I need when I need it.
An event big enough to cause the type of problems you're talking about (especially with multiple off-site backups, including different countries) would cause so many problems that getting your source code for Indie GAMES back will be the __least__ of your problems.
I'm continually amazed that people think that because something offends THEM, that they have the right to censor what other people can do/see/say/hear/view/etc. There are a few things that the world DOES agree on - such as kiddie porn and murder being bad - but beyond that, if you're offended then simply censor YOURSELF and don't visit those sites! If the whole country agrees (which I doubt!), then block it in your country.
If ICANN doesn't tell them to go take a flying leap, there should be rebellion.
I'm using the RPi to drive a prototype device that I'm building. Currently it's just driving two real-time stepper motors (or close to real time), and doing a great job of it. For our production device though, we don't need Ethernet, and only want/need one USB - so the $10 savings and lower power consumption is perfect.
As for why we'd use an off-the-shelf board? Why not - it does everything we need, runs an off-the-shelf operating system, and is easy to program/update/use.
Why re-invent the wheel when we have areas where we can get a lot more value out of our time. As you seem to support - it's a great board!
Do you even have a current BB phone? I do, and I hate it with a passion, but I'm stuck with it because it's all my company supports for corporate email.
Battery life? half a day if I'm lucky.
Usability? It freezes for minutes at a time.
Apps? Really? Have you compared to any other platform like Android or iOS?
Talk about astroturfing... you're doing it pretty well.
(no, I have no affiliation with RIM whatsoever, besides being hampered by having one of their crappy devices - the 9960)
Isn't the figure that 1 in 10 people is LGBorT? Including LGBT content won't "turn kids gay"... you either are or aren't. What it does do is accept the reality of our world, and provide acceptance for people that might otherwise still live horridly stressful closeted lives.
It's simple... if you don't agree with homosexuality, then simply DON'T shtoop people of the same sex as you! Denying that LGBT people exist and are part of our culture/norm isn't going to change facts.
I believe if you rub the nylon knittin' needle against the teflon one, one will become positively charged and the other negatively charged. I'm not sure which one is shedding the electrons and which is picking them up, but that's the reason. I'm guessing that the nylon one gains electrons, and teflon donates them.
He's transferring the charge from the needle to the droplets, then they're orbiting the oppositely charged needle due to electrostatic attraction. (the needle wants its electrons back, basically).
Those samples were from an LX1... which suffers from very poor noise. It's the reason I upgraded to the LX5 (plus the wider 24mm lens, vs. 28mm on the LX1)
I'm an ex professional newspaper and sports photographer... and my main camera is the LX5 too... quality is amazing, leica lens, 24mm wide angle, HD video, low noise, good screen.
DSLR is great, but it's a pain in the butt to carry around. Unless you go out SPECIFICALLY to take pictures, something like the Lumix LX5 is more than enough. There's a great blog post on this:
I bought four 2TB Samsung drives from Newegg, just a couple days after the floods started. They had been a few dollars cheaper still, but I got them for $80 each. Since then, they peaked at $249 each, but are back down to $199 now.
>> I wonder if anyone is up for conducting a large-scale clinical trial to show the low-level employees that these devices are hazardous and that they too should be against them.
Sometimes making something harder or stronger doesn't actually solve the problem. Firstly, you can simply shift the breakage point to something more expensive (the circuit board itself). Often, making something more flexible and forgiving goes a lot further. A "soft" connector that flexes instead of breaks would be much more useful.
I see this with surface coatings all the time. If we have a problem with scratching, making the surface harder actually is counter-productive. Making it softer and more malleable is more likely to solve the problem (the surface deforms around the particle that's scratching it, often resulting in no damage. Even when it still scratches, the resulting defect is much less noticable).
"Bend with the wind"... it's why Bamboo is such a useful material.
>> "We've thought hard about this issue, and we don't believe there is any additional risk to users," a Google spokesman explained.
"Sites marked as potentially harmful by our Safe Browsing technology will not be pre-rendered, nor will sites that Chrome detects as suspicious. We also exclude sites with SSL certificate issues and those that try to download files or display popup alerts."
Google added that search engine poisoning to promote scareware sites and the like is an industry-wide problem. ®
So... the way I read this is that if an infected site is pre-fetched (pre loaded, pre-rendered, or whatnot), then YES it could harm your computer. But, we're supposed to trust that their browser is smart enough to know a trustworthy site from an untrusty one, and only prefetch "safe" sites.
That's all well and good until a "safe" site (that I would never actually visit anyway) is hacked. But that's NEVER happened before, right? Not.
For most users the intuition of "don't click on that link" is the last layer of security between the wild west of the Internet and your computer. Prefetching breaks that barrier, and potentially exposes you to any malware writer that's capable enough and determined enough to get their infected (or pwnd) website into the top search results.
Sorry... although Chrome is decent and maybe more secure than other browsers, until they can promise PERFECT security I don't want to take that chance.
That'll never happen.
If I can survive this far on my company-mandated, outdated IE browser without getting pwnd myself (yet), I think that last layer of security may be the most important one of all.
Actually, I used to skydive and the general rule of thumb was that you'd hit terminal velocity in about 12 seconds, during which time you'd cover 1200 feet and accellerate to about 120mph, if you were "flat flying" (i.e. on your belly). "Free Flying" in a sitting position or head down would take slightly longer (and cover more distance) because you get up as fast as 180mph in those positions.
I'll just add to your comment on India - it's a vegetarian's dream... EVERY restaurant has a veg-only menu (and usually a meat one too), and the food is amazing and varied. I love meat myself, but if I lived in India I could easily be a happy vegetarian.
I agree 100%. I have wound up in security lines for these things several times, and every time I've opted out.
1) they do NOT make it easy to opt out. They don't tell you it's an option. They avoid answering it directly when you ask.
2) recently they've shifted heavily towards making the opt-out as inconvenient and embarassing as possible. They ensure it's a very lengthy, public process.
Acting like you enjoy the search to make them uncomfortable? Heck, if they start prodding my buttocks, the natural reaction is to fart in their face. Sorry - hazard of your job.
These things do NOT solve the core problem - they're for show only. The "sniffer chambers" which sniff for chemical traces of explosives are by far better (at least for the threat of bombs), and are not invasive in the same way as real or electronic strip searches.
This country has given up liberty for nothing in return. Don't you think the terrorists enjoy the inconvenience they've caused millions upon millions of us so far?
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And there are known workarounds if you need more power on the onboard USB ports - so you can drive your WiFi adapter without a powered hub.
I've soldered 1-ohm resistors over top of the USB polyfuses. This bypasses the very low current limit on those ports, but they still can't draw more than the main polyfuse will allow (700mA, vs. 140mA on the USB's).
Using a 1-ohm resistor helps prevent current being drawn too low when you hot-plug a USB device. That could cause the Pi to reboot.
MadCow.
I have the new Retina MBP... and it's a fantastic machine. But WHY would you buy it just to install Linux on it anyway? It's a very expensive computer for that - you can get other laptops with similar specs (other than the display, yes) for a lot less. In almost all cases I'd suspect that people want to use both OSX and Linux - and in that case, I'd highly suggest running Linux in a virtual machine anyway (Parallels/VMWare).
Sure it'd be nice to have a pure dual boot for Linux, but until drivers are written and fine tuned for that specific platform it will do just fine.
I use Parallels for that, and for running WinXP (believe it or not) for one old app I need. The new MBP is so fast that I can cold-boot WinXP in 3 seconds! - making it a breeze to get to the one app I need when I need it.
MadCow.
An event big enough to cause the type of problems you're talking about (especially with multiple off-site backups, including different countries) would cause so many problems that getting your source code for Indie GAMES back will be the __least__ of your problems.
MadCow.
I'm continually amazed that people think that because something offends THEM, that they have the right to censor what other people can do/see/say/hear/view/etc. There are a few things that the world DOES agree on - such as kiddie porn and murder being bad - but beyond that, if you're offended then simply censor YOURSELF and don't visit those sites! If the whole country agrees (which I doubt!), then block it in your country.
If ICANN doesn't tell them to go take a flying leap, there should be rebellion.
MadCow.
I'm using the RPi to drive a prototype device that I'm building. Currently it's just driving two real-time stepper motors (or close to real time), and doing a great job of it. For our production device though, we don't need Ethernet, and only want/need one USB - so the $10 savings and lower power consumption is perfect.
As for why we'd use an off-the-shelf board? Why not - it does everything we need, runs an off-the-shelf operating system, and is easy to program/update/use.
Why re-invent the wheel when we have areas where we can get a lot more value out of our time. As you seem to support - it's a great board!
MadCow.
RUFKM?
Do you even have a current BB phone? I do, and I hate it with a passion, but I'm stuck with it because it's all my company supports for corporate email.
Battery life? half a day if I'm lucky.
Usability? It freezes for minutes at a time.
Apps? Really? Have you compared to any other platform like Android or iOS?
Talk about astroturfing... you're doing it pretty well.
(no, I have no affiliation with RIM whatsoever, besides being hampered by having one of their crappy devices - the 9960)
Actually, chain mail would probably do pretty well against tasers... Conducting the charge instead of letting it go through your body. :)
Isn't the figure that 1 in 10 people is LGBorT? Including LGBT content won't "turn kids gay"... you either are or aren't. What it does do is accept the reality of our world, and provide acceptance for people that might otherwise still live horridly stressful closeted lives.
It's simple... if you don't agree with homosexuality, then simply DON'T shtoop people of the same sex as you! Denying that LGBT people exist and are part of our culture/norm isn't going to change facts.
>>Then some people flew some planes into some buildings and we all lost our collective shit.
No, it was happening well before that. 9/11 just gave them a reason to accellerate it, and to increase their budget for doing it.
Ever heard of Echelon? http://www.scribd.com/doc/49552147/ECHELON-Surveillance-Program (written in 1999/2000)
I believe if you rub the nylon knittin' needle against the teflon one, one will become positively charged and the other negatively charged. I'm not sure which one is shedding the electrons and which is picking them up, but that's the reason. I'm guessing that the nylon one gains electrons, and teflon donates them.
He's transferring the charge from the needle to the droplets, then they're orbiting the oppositely charged needle due to electrostatic attraction. (the needle wants its electrons back, basically).
Those samples were from an LX1... which suffers from very poor noise. It's the reason I upgraded to the LX5 (plus the wider 24mm lens, vs. 28mm on the LX1)
I'm an ex professional newspaper and sports photographer... and my main camera is the LX5 too... quality is amazing, leica lens, 24mm wide angle, HD video, low noise, good screen.
DSLR is great, but it's a pain in the butt to carry around. Unless you go out SPECIFICALLY to take pictures, something like the Lumix LX5 is more than enough. There's a great blog post on this:
http://1000words.kodak.com/thousandwords/post/?ID=7136485015460840984
MadCow
I bought four 2TB Samsung drives from Newegg, just a couple days after the floods started. They had been a few dollars cheaper still, but I got them for $80 each. Since then, they peaked at $249 each, but are back down to $199 now.
Madcow
>> I wonder if anyone is up for conducting a large-scale clinical trial to show the low-level employees that these devices are hazardous and that they too should be against them.
You mean based on reports like this?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2012226/Cancer-Cluster-Possibly-Found-Among-TSA-Workers
Apparently I have issues creating valid acronyms too... :) Still, the description is accurate even if the acronym isn't.
Department of Rights Termination.
Ever see Logan's Run?
Sometimes making something harder or stronger doesn't actually solve the problem. Firstly, you can simply shift the breakage point to something more expensive (the circuit board itself). Often, making something more flexible and forgiving goes a lot further. A "soft" connector that flexes instead of breaks would be much more useful.
I see this with surface coatings all the time. If we have a problem with scratching, making the surface harder actually is counter-productive. Making it softer and more malleable is more likely to solve the problem (the surface deforms around the particle that's scratching it, often resulting in no damage. Even when it still scratches, the resulting defect is much less noticable).
"Bend with the wind"... it's why Bamboo is such a useful material.
I hear ya... I was almost embarassed that my son thought I was amazing because I knew how to boost my wife's car. "You can DO that? Wow!"
(and this from a kid that knows I'm already a Mr. Fixit type guy around the house)
Hmmm... that's hardly re-assuring.
>> "We've thought hard about this issue, and we don't believe there is any additional risk to users," a Google spokesman explained.
"Sites marked as potentially harmful by our Safe Browsing technology will not be pre-rendered, nor will sites that Chrome detects as suspicious. We also exclude sites with SSL certificate issues and those that try to download files or display popup alerts."
Google added that search engine poisoning to promote scareware sites and the like is an industry-wide problem. ®
So... the way I read this is that if an infected site is pre-fetched (pre loaded, pre-rendered, or whatnot), then YES it could harm your computer. But, we're supposed to trust that their browser is smart enough to know a trustworthy site from an untrusty one, and only prefetch "safe" sites.
That's all well and good until a "safe" site (that I would never actually visit anyway) is hacked. But that's NEVER happened before, right? Not.
For most users the intuition of "don't click on that link" is the last layer of security between the wild west of the Internet and your computer. Prefetching breaks that barrier, and potentially exposes you to any malware writer that's capable enough and determined enough to get their infected (or pwnd) website into the top search results.
Sorry... although Chrome is decent and maybe more secure than other browsers, until they can promise PERFECT security I don't want to take that chance.
That'll never happen.
If I can survive this far on my company-mandated, outdated IE browser without getting pwnd myself (yet), I think that last layer of security may be the most important one of all.
Actually, I used to skydive and the general rule of thumb was that you'd hit terminal velocity in about 12 seconds, during which time you'd cover 1200 feet and accellerate to about 120mph, if you were "flat flying" (i.e. on your belly). "Free Flying" in a sitting position or head down would take slightly longer (and cover more distance) because you get up as fast as 180mph in those positions.
You are Facebook's PRODUCT... not their customer. Their customer is the advertisers. Their only motive is to not piss you off enough to go away.
I guess he hasn't ever been outside the USA...
I'll just add to your comment on India - it's a vegetarian's dream... EVERY restaurant has a veg-only menu (and usually a meat one too), and the food is amazing and varied. I love meat myself, but if I lived in India I could easily be a happy vegetarian.
MadCow.
I agree 100%. I have wound up in security lines for these things several times, and every time I've opted out.
1) they do NOT make it easy to opt out. They don't tell you it's an option. They avoid answering it directly when you ask.
2) recently they've shifted heavily towards making the opt-out as inconvenient and embarassing as possible. They ensure it's a very lengthy, public process.
Acting like you enjoy the search to make them uncomfortable? Heck, if they start prodding my buttocks, the natural reaction is to fart in their face. Sorry - hazard of your job.
These things do NOT solve the core problem - they're for show only. The "sniffer chambers" which sniff for chemical traces of explosives are by far better (at least for the threat of bombs), and are not invasive in the same way as real or electronic strip searches.
This country has given up liberty for nothing in return. Don't you think the terrorists enjoy the inconvenience they've caused millions upon millions of us so far?
MadCow.