So apart from the sweeping generalisations, would you care to substantiate some of those claims?
I'm not the OP but my experience with Orange Pi is exactly as described. I got one half assed non-standard linux distro working that comes not from the manufacturer but some dudes personal blog, it would not support all my class 10 SD cards and wouldn't boot on any of several monitors (vga, DVI and HDMI 1080) that I owned. Finally found a keyboard monitor and SD card, and distro version that would work. But it seemed hardly worth investing further effort in that since who knows if the software had a path forward.
Orange pi has a poor suit of drivers and linux binaries. When I got mine it would not work with any monitor I owned. I finally got it booted on a TV using HDMI but only at 720p. It didn't like all of the class 10 SD cards I tried making it very confusing to figure out which software version was going to work. Finally it needs 2 amps which means most of the USB connectors that are sold to power it work under dubious circumstances (i..e. they may work but you could do something that would require more power than the connector would supply). It's hardware may be cheap but getting the software to work is hit and miss depending on what gear you have to connect to it.
Surely if you are correct about the singularity being imminent then you almost certainly don't exist and neither do I. It's an old notion that if the human race doesn't go extinct that computers will eventually be able to simulate the 10^16 neural connections of the human mind at which point simulations become perfectly indistinguishable from reality. Intel says the exaflop is coming within the decade. Since you assert the singularity is imminent there really isn't time for us to go extinct. Thus there will be orders of magnitude more simulated humans than have ever existed, making you improbable.
in mobile battery life matters. That not only means efficient code, it also means code that plays nice with the OS to properly minimize mobile resources including memory and keeping apps in main memory. The reason apple iphones get away with smaller batteries and smaller memory sizes is that code bloat of java (dalvek).
Sonny, when netscape navigator was the bomb, and java and javascript were plugins, every one said the same thing then too. This will replace the file system and the applications. Java promised to run on all architectures. But it actually became write once, crash everywhere.
I dislike snap circuits because the block units tend to roll up too much of the complexity making them more magical and less electrical. I liked my ancient electronics kit that had discrete components with springs that clamped the wires you used to make connections. What was good about that was you could make errors or try shorting things out or removing things and see what changed. Plus they included some fun stuff like high voltage shock circuits you could build.
Now the thing is I could be wrong about preferring discrete components. These days no one at all builds analoc circuits from scratch. You want a thermometer, well no worries, no need to bias a themistor or measure the voltage on a reversed biased junction. No just buy a thermometer chip with an SPI data bus and connect 3 wires to your arduino. Simple! And absurdly that hideously complex way of making a thermometer turns out to be cheaper and easier than the discrete component approach. No need ot learn any analog electronics.
SO maybe I'm just old fashioned in liking discrete components. kids won't ever use that stuff, the magic bits will all be rolled up for them into block elements they can snap together on their SPI bus.
Merchant sells exactly what people want, people purchase this, merchant does well. News at 11.
Star wars is something people loved, and giving them more is not a crime. Purchasing the rights to sell it would be a very good idea if you can do it. Letting people know it's for sale seems logical. I don't feel like star wars is forced on me. I certainly love it because things like the cantina band and all the swashbuckling fun of the old serial cliff hangers was made new again in my youth. I just saw the new one and the very best thing about it was that it felt like the orignal. People got angry about the 3 prequels precisely because the orignal was so good they just could not stand these travesties standing on the grave of their fond memories.
I hope disney gets ludicrously wealthy. My $12 was well spent for the amount of enjoyment I got.
What a scrouge story this article is.
I saw the trailer for the new Jungle book which looks kinda scarey for the intended age group. I'm guessing it's probably closer to Kipling's original. But to me Jungle book is the funny cuddly version of the disney animation not the red claw king kong look of the new one. Don't screw with my memories Disney, just give me back the feelings I had when I was a child.
The whole climate change debate worries me. First I'm not a climate change denier nor am I asserting man cant change the climate. What worries me is when the right things get done for the wrong reasons it distorts the policy objectives. Climate change is not a threat to life on the planet. There have been previous brief (1000 year) warming periods with temperatures 3 to7 degrees warmer than today. such as the period 300 to 1100 AD. That period was a time of relative food abundance and population growth and even if it overlaps the dark ages it was a period cultural expansion. The key difference between now and then is how close we are to the resource limits of the planet. Back then we were not using every drop of water, and if crops didn't grow one place one could move. National boundaries were more fluid. So basically the difference with today is fragility.
I utterly discard the idea of some shallow island nations going under water as any sort of logical reason to curtail the economic development of a gazillion more people. Sand bar or reefs have always been an ephemeral place to stake a claim. They are impermenant by nature. If they flood in this modern time it won't have to result in death, just the ending of a nation state. Perhaps a shame culturally yes, but not something that hadn't happened many many many times. The difference today is we know it is happening. But those cultures will integrate into others like has always happened. All that is lost is a microcosm of soverignty. Yes it's emotionally and economincally painful for the families who live there. Would be nice to prevent it if that was possible. But it should not be a driver of the discussion.
WHile any one microcosm may not be important, at a larger scale there a very related issue is the driver. If crop growing regions and water supplies shift they may shift across national borders and that will create all sorts of strife. Crops may not evolve quickly enough. FLooding coatal cities doesn't mean we lose the shoreline it just means the shoreline moves inland. The problem is the time scale. Many large cities have evolved in place for centuries (millenia). uprroting these is going to be terrifically economically and resource intensive. Depending on terrain and fresh water and harbors they may have to go elsewhere not just shift. There will be tremendous upheaval world wide. Not all of it will be equally distributed pain. Some nations will benefit others will utterly fail. If all this happens in the space of a century it's going to be catastrophic in terns of world civilization.
Carbon fuels are the easy way to raise standards of living for all pre-industrila nations. The problem with using less carbon fuel unilaterally is that if everyone is not on board then as the price falls it becomes even easier for developing nations to import it. SO in the end it all gets burnt. We can quibble about if this makes it get burnt more slowly but I'd be surprised if were talking orders of magnitude in rates.
At the present time we see so many alternative energy projects labeled failures in the US. The DOE is ridiculed for funding Solyndra and the Spanish company that built the Mojva solar thermal. We see the Solar-PV industry gutted by cheap imported PV. Wind isn't working well with our current Grid, and with fracking there's little incentive to build grids in the boonies. The price point of Alagal or Cellulosic biofuels can't compere with $36/barrel. So we can expect every gov't investment in alternative energy to look terrible if you just look at it as a return on investment. Sadly that's how some politicians do. That's why the DOE gets beat up.
Yet we need these alternative fuels and energy sources if were going to stop using coal and gas.
Thus to avoid one has to use these even if they are not the cheapest. That's probably an easy sell in rich nations. But it's a sell based more on clean air, or not fighting wars for oil, and access to fresh water: e.g. your nuclear plan and your electric c
Some force has to be the weakest. And perhaps there's some other force 40 orders of magnitude smaller yet. maybe there's some inter multiverse quantum repulsion that causes multiverses to diverge. We just don't know about it.
Likewise it's possible there's some force 40 orders of magnitude stronger than the strongest forces we know of. perhaps quarks have sub particles that are held together by this but it's so string we've never seen them unbounded.
I was trying to figure out where I can use the language. I found something that looked like a portal for about $5 a month. is that the intended way to use this. Is the a free junior version of this somewhere? $5 isn't bad at all if you use it frequently but I'd rather learn it and see if I actually use it for free.
I always get confused with the realtioship between OS updates and the software update mechanisms in linux. Is there a way to update my install in-place using something like apt-get or the Linix mint software manager or is that a separate process. If it's a separate process, what precautions do I need to use to make sure I don't nuke my installed software yet at the same time replace all the cruft. Finally on apples OSX there is a permissions and ownership tune up one can run. Since this very often finds some unsafe permission settings that creep in over time I'm wondering if there's something analogous to that for various distros to reset things to their preferred permission and ownderships. Cruft and permission accidents are sort of linux voodoo for me that I always wish there was an easy canned management solution for.
Consciousness consists of frequencies of quantum energy. “Quantum” means a summoning of the perennial. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is inseparability. Potential requires exploration. The goal of a resonance cascade is to plant the seeds of self-actualization rather than desire.
As you reflect, you will enter into infinite spacetime that transcends understanding. Feng shui may be the solution to what’s holding you back from an unfathomable quantum leap of self-actualization. You will soon be awakened by a power deep within yourself — a power that is consciousness-expanding, interstellar.
The value of a $5 computer is embedded project development. Now a class in tinkering can have dozens of ongoing unfinished multi day experiments and in debugged projects ongoing. No need to tear apart a rig for another class to use a more expensive and bulky raspberry pi. Your smart doorbell or pet door cat recognition system can stay wired up unfinished for weeks. You don't need high value projects to justify using the board. It's small so dozens can fit in a box. A school can afford to let students take home their projects.
One thing that bugs me about the pi is the lack of analog IO. Why does this seem to be consistently omitted. It limits the use as a sensor.
Please show your calculation. My calculation was shown. Did I make an error? By my calculation the straight line Sagitta is 600 feet deep for 400 miles.
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Orange Pi PC model to be exact.
So apart from the sweeping generalisations, would you care to substantiate some of those claims?
I'm not the OP but my experience with Orange Pi is exactly as described. I got one half assed non-standard linux distro working that comes not from the manufacturer but some dudes personal blog, it would not support all my class 10 SD cards and wouldn't boot on any of several monitors (vga, DVI and HDMI 1080) that I owned. Finally found a keyboard monitor and SD card, and distro version that would work. But it seemed hardly worth investing further effort in that since who knows if the software had a path forward.
Orange pi has a poor suit of drivers and linux binaries. When I got mine it would not work with any monitor I owned. I finally got it booted on a TV using HDMI but only at 720p. It didn't like all of the class 10 SD cards I tried making it very confusing to figure out which software version was going to work. Finally it needs 2 amps which means most of the USB connectors that are sold to power it work under dubious circumstances (i..e. they may work but you could do something that would require more power than the connector would supply). It's hardware may be cheap but getting the software to work is hit and miss depending on what gear you have to connect to it.
Surely if you are correct about the singularity being imminent then you almost certainly don't exist and neither do I. It's an old notion that if the human race doesn't go extinct that computers will eventually be able to simulate the 10^16 neural connections of the human mind at which point simulations become perfectly indistinguishable from reality. Intel says the exaflop is coming within the decade. Since you assert the singularity is imminent there really isn't time for us to go extinct. Thus there will be orders of magnitude more simulated humans than have ever existed, making you improbable.
in mobile battery life matters. That not only means efficient code, it also means code that plays nice with the OS to properly minimize mobile resources including memory and keeping apps in main memory. The reason apple iphones get away with smaller batteries and smaller memory sizes is that code bloat of java (dalvek).
Sonny, when netscape navigator was the bomb, and java and javascript were plugins, every one said the same thing then too. This will replace the file system and the applications. Java promised to run on all architectures. But it actually became write once, crash everywhere.
I dislike snap circuits because the block units tend to roll up too much of the complexity making them more magical and less electrical. I liked my ancient electronics kit that had discrete components with springs that clamped the wires you used to make connections. What was good about that was you could make errors or try shorting things out or removing things and see what changed. Plus they included some fun stuff like high voltage shock circuits you could build.
Now the thing is I could be wrong about preferring discrete components. These days no one at all builds analoc circuits from scratch. You want a thermometer, well no worries, no need to bias a themistor or measure the voltage on a reversed biased junction. No just buy a thermometer chip with an SPI data bus and connect 3 wires to your arduino. Simple! And absurdly that hideously complex way of making a thermometer turns out to be cheaper and easier than the discrete component approach. No need ot learn any analog electronics.
SO maybe I'm just old fashioned in liking discrete components. kids won't ever use that stuff, the magic bits will all be rolled up for them into block elements they can snap together on their SPI bus.
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Merchant sells exactly what people want, people purchase this, merchant does well. News at 11.
Star wars is something people loved, and giving them more is not a crime. Purchasing the rights to sell it would be a very good idea if you can do it. Letting people know it's for sale seems logical. I don't feel like star wars is forced on me. I certainly love it because things like the cantina band and all the swashbuckling fun of the old serial cliff hangers was made new again in my youth. I just saw the new one and the very best thing about it was that it felt like the orignal. People got angry about the 3 prequels precisely because the orignal was so good they just could not stand these travesties standing on the grave of their fond memories.
I hope disney gets ludicrously wealthy. My $12 was well spent for the amount of enjoyment I got.
What a scrouge story this article is.
I saw the trailer for the new Jungle book which looks kinda scarey for the intended age group. I'm guessing it's probably closer to Kipling's original. But to me Jungle book is the funny cuddly version of the disney animation not the red claw king kong look of the new one. Don't screw with my memories Disney, just give me back the feelings I had when I was a child.
I stand corrected. The source I was reading was wrong I've now learned.
The whole climate change debate worries me. First I'm not a climate change denier nor am I asserting man cant change the climate. What worries me is when the right things get done for the wrong reasons it distorts the policy objectives. Climate change is not a threat to life on the planet. There have been previous brief (1000 year) warming periods with temperatures 3 to7 degrees warmer than today. such as the period 300 to 1100 AD. That period was a time of relative food abundance and population growth and even if it overlaps the dark ages it was a period cultural expansion. The key difference between now and then is how close we are to the resource limits of the planet. Back then we were not using every drop of water, and if crops didn't grow one place one could move. National boundaries were more fluid. So basically the difference with today is fragility.
I utterly discard the idea of some shallow island nations going under water as any sort of logical reason to curtail the economic development of a gazillion more people. Sand bar or reefs have always been an ephemeral place to stake a claim. They are impermenant by nature. If they flood in this modern time it won't have to result in death, just the ending of a nation state. Perhaps a shame culturally yes, but not something that hadn't happened many many many times. The difference today is we know it is happening. But those cultures will integrate into others like has always happened. All that is lost is a microcosm of soverignty. Yes it's emotionally and economincally painful for the families who live there. Would be nice to prevent it if that was possible. But it should not be a driver of the discussion.
WHile any one microcosm may not be important, at a larger scale there a very related issue is the driver. If crop growing regions and water supplies shift they may shift across national borders and that will create all sorts of strife. Crops may not evolve quickly enough. FLooding coatal cities doesn't mean we lose the shoreline it just means the shoreline moves inland. The problem is the time scale. Many large cities have evolved in place for centuries (millenia). uprroting these is going to be terrifically economically and resource intensive. Depending on terrain and fresh water and harbors they may have to go elsewhere not just shift. There will be tremendous upheaval world wide. Not all of it will be equally distributed pain. Some nations will benefit others will utterly fail. If all this happens in the space of a century it's going to be catastrophic in terns of world civilization.
Carbon fuels are the easy way to raise standards of living for all pre-industrila nations. The problem with using less carbon fuel unilaterally is that if everyone is not on board then as the price falls it becomes even easier for developing nations to import it. SO in the end it all gets burnt. We can quibble about if this makes it get burnt more slowly but I'd be surprised if were talking orders of magnitude in rates.
At the present time we see so many alternative energy projects labeled failures in the US. The DOE is ridiculed for funding Solyndra and the Spanish company that built the Mojva solar thermal. We see the Solar-PV industry gutted by cheap imported PV. Wind isn't working well with our current Grid, and with fracking there's little incentive to build grids in the boonies. The price point of Alagal or Cellulosic biofuels can't compere with $36/barrel. So we can expect every gov't investment in alternative energy to look terrible if you just look at it as a return on investment. Sadly that's how some politicians do. That's why the DOE gets beat up.
Yet we need these alternative fuels and energy sources if were going to stop using coal and gas.
Thus to avoid one has to use these even if they are not the cheapest. That's probably an easy sell in rich nations. But it's a sell based more on clean air, or not fighting wars for oil, and access to fresh water: e.g. your nuclear plan and your electric c
Some force has to be the weakest. And perhaps there's some other force 40 orders of magnitude smaller yet. maybe there's some inter multiverse quantum repulsion that causes multiverses to diverge. We just don't know about it.
Likewise it's possible there's some force 40 orders of magnitude stronger than the strongest forces we know of. perhaps quarks have sub particles that are held together by this but it's so string we've never seen them unbounded.
I was trying to figure out where I can use the language. I found something that looked like a portal for about $5 a month. is that the intended way to use this. Is the a free junior version of this somewhere? $5 isn't bad at all if you use it frequently but I'd rather learn it and see if I actually use it for free.
YahooBaba cries out for 'YeahBaby' or YaBaby
The Company Formerly Known as Yahoo
YaHole or maybe YaHolio
Yarbles (as in a kick in the Yarbles during a little ultraviolence).
YaFoo
YooHoo (to acknowledge the google plant Marisa mayer's undermining strategy"
suggest your own below
PC double speak enforced by the minders' electronic eye.
thanks! perfect answer and great site.
is there a good place to read more about what you just told me?
I always get confused with the realtioship between OS updates and the software update mechanisms in linux. Is there a way to update my install in-place using something like apt-get or the Linix mint software manager or is that a separate process. If it's a separate process, what precautions do I need to use to make sure I don't nuke my installed software yet at the same time replace all the cruft. Finally on apples OSX there is a permissions and ownership tune up one can run. Since this very often finds some unsafe permission settings that creep in over time I'm wondering if there's something analogous to that for various distros to reset things to their preferred permission and ownderships.
Cruft and permission accidents are sort of linux voodoo for me that I always wish there was an easy canned management solution for.
Consciousness consists of frequencies of quantum energy. “Quantum” means a summoning of the perennial. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is inseparability. Potential requires exploration. The goal of a resonance cascade is to plant the seeds of self-actualization rather than desire.
As you reflect, you will enter into infinite spacetime that transcends understanding. Feng shui may be the solution to what’s holding you back from an unfathomable quantum leap of self-actualization. You will soon be awakened by a power deep within yourself — a power that is consciousness-expanding, interstellar.
All languages start out cute and fuzzy then become smelly adolescents. By the time they hit 7.0 there should be a logan's run for languages.
The value of a $5 computer is embedded project development. Now a class in tinkering can have dozens of ongoing unfinished multi day experiments and in debugged projects ongoing. No need to tear apart a rig for another class to use a more expensive and bulky raspberry pi. Your smart doorbell or pet door cat recognition system can stay wired up unfinished for weeks. You don't need high value projects to justify using the board. It's small so dozens can fit in a box. A school can afford to let students take home their projects.
One thing that bugs me about the pi is the lack of analog IO. Why does this seem to be consistently omitted. It limits the use as a sensor.
Oops I did indeed drop a factor of two pi in the arc distance calculation. Correcting that it is more than 5 or so miles at the deepest point.
Please show your calculation. My calculation was shown. Did I make an error? By my calculation the straight line Sagitta is 600 feet deep for 400 miles.