Arduino has 2k of RAM and people do all sorts of interesting things with it. rpi is definitely not suitable for everything, but is already overkill for many tasks people use it for.
Though i suspect when most people say well documented they mean that pretty much whatever you want to do with a pi you can easily find good tutorials. Want to hook up some electronics to so you can read/control them over a network, raspberrypi is probably the easiest (and cheapest) option.
The popularity of the arduino shows that CPU performance is not everything. rpi is fast enough to do many tasks, it is small, cheap, widely available, well documented and well supported. That's why its popular.
More like we went in and started pressing buttons. Then a light came one. You advocate that we keep mashing the buttons, because it would be dangerous to stop?
The climate is not something that you can wait for particle physics style 5-sigma certainty on. We can't run thousands of parallel earths with different atmosphere to see exactly what will happen. What we have is a growing body of observations. You don't wait for a doctor to be 99.99% sure about the day you will die before accepting any treatment, you trust that they will make a good guess based on limited observations they have.
Pitivi is approaching being a good basic editor. From the pre-releases of 1.0 it is looking good. Gstreamer is getting pretty solid now and picking up things like GPU acceleration. Format support is as wide as the plug-ins you install.
Smart editors use a framework like gstreamer so that they don't have to care about codecs. The user can add what ever codecs from whatever sources (e.g. fully licensed ones from Fluendo or open source ones from ffmpeg/libav).
Having kids that can program at all is a very good thing. I think its good to teach programming concepts in simple languages instead of throwing them in at the deep end with C/C++.
People and programmers have been spoilt by multi-GHz multi-core CPUs. People used to edit video, design space ships, simulate physics, ray trace liquid metal and just about everything else on far weaker machines. It good to see that some people can achieve good performance on limited hardware. The raspberrypi foundation are funding work all over the free software stack, which will benifit plenty of people who have never seen or used a pi.
The Nokia N900 was a pretty nice phone, but the CPU does not really cut it any more. The http://neo900.org/ project is pretty neat idea to put a modern motherboard into it.
You can reduce carbon emission a lot without changing lifestyles. US has carbon intensity of 0.413 (Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide per Thousand Year 2005 U.S. Dollars) France has 0.167 http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdb...
So they make 2.5 times more money for each ton of CO2
Do you have a reference for that? All I see is him pointing out that the linear no threshold model its unproven and inappropriate for low radiation doses.
High doses of radiation (and pretty much anything else) will obviously kill you. I bet the are 10s or hundreds of substances of which there is enough in your house to kill you consumed it all at once.
(Also worth noting that the plutonium in the article was not actually lost)
He was pointing out that we attach irrational levels of fear to some substances, while are completely unconcerned about consuming significant (if not deadly) amounts of other toxins. I don't know what the 'most deadly substance on earth' is, but there are plenty of things that will kill you at the mg level.
If you define 'renewable' to mean it will never run out then there is no such thing as renewable energy.
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Arduino has 2k of RAM and people do all sorts of interesting things with it. rpi is definitely not suitable for everything, but is already overkill for many tasks people use it for.
Actually they have made pretty good progress in this area. Ahead of most (maybe all) other arm boards and most PCs.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ope...
http://www.raspberrypi.org/a-b...
http://www.raspberrypi.org/qua...
Though i suspect when most people say well documented they mean that pretty much whatever you want to do with a pi you can easily find good tutorials. Want to hook up some electronics to so you can read/control them over a network, raspberrypi is probably the easiest (and cheapest) option.
The popularity of the arduino shows that CPU performance is not everything. rpi is fast enough to do many tasks, it is small, cheap, widely available, well documented and well supported. That's why its popular.
If you are in a boat you probably have a good idea about your altitude, so a 2d fix is all you really need.
More like we went in and started pressing buttons. Then a light came one. You advocate that we keep mashing the buttons, because it would be dangerous to stop?
The climate is not something that you can wait for particle physics style 5-sigma certainty on. We can't run thousands of parallel earths with different atmosphere to see exactly what will happen. What we have is a growing body of observations. You don't wait for a doctor to be 99.99% sure about the day you will die before accepting any treatment, you trust that they will make a good guess based on limited observations they have.
As a British nerd my 2 favourite topics of conversation are the weather and super computers, so this is exciting news.
Yes
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ope...
MATE has dumped most of the old libraries, and will soon work with GTK3
If you are in the UK you are covered by distance selling laws, so you can return an un-opened product within 14 days.
High capacity 3.5" disks use 5 or 6 platters.
Pitivi is approaching being a good basic editor. From the pre-releases of 1.0 it is looking good. Gstreamer is getting pretty solid now and picking up things like GPU acceleration. Format support is as wide as the plug-ins you install.
They are also teasing some updates https://twitter.com/Pitivi/sta...
Have you looked at synfig http://www.synfig.org/
Smart editors use a framework like gstreamer so that they don't have to care about codecs. The user can add what ever codecs from whatever sources (e.g. fully licensed ones from Fluendo or open source ones from ffmpeg/libav).
Having kids that can program at all is a very good thing. I think its good to teach programming concepts in simple languages instead of throwing them in at the deep end with C/C++.
People and programmers have been spoilt by multi-GHz multi-core CPUs. People used to edit video, design space ships, simulate physics, ray trace liquid metal and just about everything else on far weaker machines. It good to see that some people can achieve good performance on limited hardware. The raspberrypi foundation are funding work all over the free software stack, which will benifit plenty of people who have never seen or used a pi.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out ...
No, wait. Nobody cares.
If every Firefox user donated $1 they would not need to do this.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/
19.802874743326488 years ago
The Nokia N900 was a pretty nice phone, but the CPU does not really cut it any more. The http://neo900.org/ project is pretty neat idea to put a modern motherboard into it.
better than petrol.
You can reduce carbon emission a lot without changing lifestyles.
US has carbon intensity of 0.413 (Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide per Thousand Year 2005 U.S. Dollars)
France has 0.167
http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdb...
So they make 2.5 times more money for each ton of CO2
Do you have a reference for that? All I see is him pointing out that the linear no threshold model its unproven and inappropriate for low radiation doses.
High doses of radiation (and pretty much anything else) will obviously kill you. I bet the are 10s or hundreds of substances of which there is enough in your house to kill you consumed it all at once.
(Also worth noting that the plutonium in the article was not actually lost)
He was pointing out that we attach irrational levels of fear to some substances, while are completely unconcerned about consuming significant (if not deadly) amounts of other toxins. I don't know what the 'most deadly substance on earth' is, but there are plenty of things that will kill you at the mg level.
If you define 'renewable' to mean it will never run out then there is no such thing as renewable energy.
>deadliest substance on Earth
"I'll eat a as much plutonium as you can eat of caffeine"
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