No it's not. You just need to learn to accpet that you're not going to have a full desktop up to a modern spec for $20.
There are PLENTY of uses for a $20 raspberry pi with 512M of RAM. They're just not a cheapass full spec desktop system.
For automation, robotics, embedding etc, it's sufficient overkill that you can do a lot of things easily without really thinking too hard. More than enough to run a full sized Linux distro (headless) without having to strip it down.
With a 64-bit processor, why can't they at least standardize on 3-4GB of RAM minimum?
That's what's called a "lie". We both know it isn't true. What I want to know is why your worldview is so centred on making up lies about people you feel you should hate? Does it make hating them easier?
It seems PopeCrapso has forgotten that Assange is the evil man who, before the Russians-stole-the-election meme was the one accused of leaking information inn hillary and causing her loss to Trump.
It may be the Trumpian way to prosecute someone who has committed no crime just because you don't like them but it shouldn't be the American way. The good pontiff hsa most certainly not forgotten that.
My understanding is that the energy output, per cubic meter, is about the same as the human body, 50-100 watts or whatever.
Humans output around 100 watts abut are somewhat less than a meter cubed (we'd weigh about a ton at that size). Human power density is more like 1000-1500W/m^3, so we have about 10x the power density of the sun.
Most structural parts exposed to thermal neutrons are made of zirconium
I couldn't find anything: do you have any info on that (the structural metal part)? Zirconium isn't a common structural metal. Presumably it would have to be alloyed, but then you have to concern yourself with the cross section of the alloying parts as well.
Looks like we have a fuckwit. Disappointingly though he's been modded up.
Also wetter... hotter... colder...
Um yes. It's called "change". The change is not uniform.
The only solution is to send money now to the new church and repent sinners.
I don't like reality therefore you're religious. Uh huh.
Some people were offended by this post...
Offensive? Well offensively stupid perhaps if one is offended by extreme stupidity. On the other hand we're all arguing on the internet here so that's unlikely.
I have very little sympathy for these sorts of people though.
Then you're a sociopath.
This is you just revelling in the fact that you know about tech stuff and other people don't. He even took a cood crack at it for a non expert: he had multiple backups. He just didn't have them in distinct locations.
Having a technical experitse in a particular area doesn't make you a superior person to someone whos expertise lies elsewhere. From your attitude you wouldn't feel sorry for anyone who wasn't a professional system administrator.
And even then if the stars aligned and he lost data you probably wouldn't feel sorry for him because you'd have done it better.
Also, as any freshman business major can tell you, sunk costs should be ignored. You don't fire people because they lost money in the past, you fire them because you think they are going to lose money in the future.
As anyone who's older than freshmen will tell you that never happens in practice. Businesses do not operate in some sort of platonic drive for profit free from emotion. They're made of people and people get really pissed off if you loose a cool half billion.
What the hell is wrong with the Mozilla Foundation? Just focus on making a minimal, high-quality, open source browser. That's it. that's literally all you need to do.
No that's not literally all they need to do. Their goal is an open, non creepy internet for users not corporations. A bit part of that is an open browser. But that's useless if all the services are creepy too. So they have a location service that isn't creepy. And are working on a voice activationservice that's not either.
And now this.
Personally I applaud their efforts since I can see theat the internet and their goals are clearly larger than a single piece of software.
First, some comedian said a while back: "When I'm driving, I hate pedestrians. And when I'm walking, I hate drivers. But no matter what I'm doing, I hate cyclists."
I'm a cyclise and I hate cyclists. Seriously everybody hates those guys. Actually come to think of it when I drive other drivers piss me off. And FFS why do people need to walk 4 abreast at 2 miles an hour on the pavement??
Hm maybe I'm just angry.
Joking aside, while it's possible to kill someone with a collision on a bike (it does happen), it's much harder to do in a car. Drivers are in control of a couple of metal stuff and 75kW of power, compared to a 80kg cyclist with maybe a kW for very short bursts. Drivers have a lot more responsibility than bikes and so their behaviour needs to be much much better.
The other thing that strikes me about driving is how self-defeting the driver lobby is here. They're always boo cyclists MOAR CARS. I live in London where the traffic is marginal at best and room for new roads does not exist. If you really want to drive the best strategy is to advocate for more bikes and pedestrians since that's the only way to reduce the traffic jams.
You neither addressed nor refuted any of my arguments or citations.
Yes I did: you keep referring to the "mainstream media" as some left biased thing completely ignoring Fox News as a right biased on and the most popular news channel.
The mainstream media isn't biased against you. Some of it is, some of it is biased in your direction. But the persecution narrative is much better when that's not the case, so better keep forgetting about Fox.
Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union
Well according to you, "whataboutism" is refuting one of your points with inconvenient facts.
Yes that is what he means. A few times in the entire service life of his car.
Well, that's some mighty fine logic! I mean it would also justify buying a semi. Well, I used it once in the last 15 years to move house. Glad I bought it!
I have Model3 since May. I have saved 10 minutes every week by not going to the gas stations for the daily city driving.
Only 10 minutes? I mean there's the bit filling gas, paying etc. What about actually going to the station in the first place? I guess if it's already on the way...
Till they own it they dont know they are believing self serving propaganda from vested interests.
I don't really get how though. I mean yes, sure if you very regularly drive over 300 miles then sure maybe a Tesla isn't for you. But I don't get the logic of buying a car based on very rare use. You're much better off buying for the common case then renting once in a while. I mean I don't even own a car (common case) and get by renting a van or car as appropriate a few times a year at most. Usually a van.
While CNN and Fox have USians fighting ourselves, China and Mexico are laughing their asses off.
Um... a bit perhaps but they also have their own problems. Mexico has a lot of domestic problems to contend with. And China, they've been doing very well, with careful state planning with very long term goals in mind except as it the problem with such systems, the recent not-quite-dictator decided he's actually rather be ruler for life.
That's the blessing and curse of democracies: they're wildly inefficient. A directed dictatorship can be much more efficient with the right person in charge, but it can very efficiently dig itself into a deep hole when the person in charge simply wants to enrich themselves. Could go either way for China at this point.
2016 was the watershed year when the mainstream media finally dropped the mask and came out as full-throated political partisans. They openly supported the most corrupt candidate for President in American history.
You must be talking about Fox News (the most popular mainstream media channel) supporting Trump. Though I think it's a bit of a stretch t osay they dropped the pretense in 2016, they've been wildly partisan for years.
Not in general it isn't. It depends on many things like intent, the classification level and compartment (if applicable), severity, and the fallout of doing so. People working behind the fence often screw up. It happens, people are human.
Generally the penalties aren't severe because mostly nothing gets leaked and really REALLY importantly if the penalties are severe then it's worth people's time to cover it up and hide it rather than come clean. It turns out that people have been running classified things for a while now and they've actually learned how to do it decently well and how to mitigate the annoying fact that everyone involved is human.
In fact in many cases about the worst that happens is you have to do a training course and all the local rules are tightened a bit.
I used to think it was just trolling until I actually met one of these guys.
Some (many) of them are simply that stupid, arrogant and angry. But there have definitely been trolls in the older, better sense of the word. You have a rather low UID. Perhaps if you were on usenet, you remember this chap, an elegant troll from a more civilised age:
Egg Troll was IMO a master of the art. Possibly one of the finest trolls on the internet. It's delightful, his posts are very very carefully written to wind up people on both sides of several debates (C vs Java, Linux vs Windows, etc) and despite transparently trolling (his name is a bit of a clue), he still got people to rise to the bait like a shoal of little fishes.
I miss that guy and I miss the dulture where that was trolling.
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512MB RAM is a joke
No it's not. You just need to learn to accpet that you're not going to have a full desktop up to a modern spec for $20.
There are PLENTY of uses for a $20 raspberry pi with 512M of RAM. They're just not a cheapass full spec desktop system.
For automation, robotics, embedding etc, it's sufficient overkill that you can do a lot of things easily without really thinking too hard. More than enough to run a full sized Linux distro (headless) without having to strip it down.
With a 64-bit processor, why can't they at least standardize on 3-4GB of RAM minimum?
Cost. Heat. Power.
He's a NAZI collaborator
That's what's called a "lie". We both know it isn't true. What I want to know is why your worldview is so centred on making up lies about people you feel you should hate? Does it make hating them easier?
It seems PopeCrapso has forgotten that Assange is the evil man who, before the Russians-stole-the-election meme was the one accused of leaking information inn hillary and causing her loss to Trump.
It may be the Trumpian way to prosecute someone who has committed no crime just because you don't like them but it shouldn't be the American way. The good pontiff hsa most certainly not forgotten that.
Do they still have all IO on 1 usb 2.0 bus?
They've never had all the I/O on one USB 2.0 bus. The GPIO port is native.
Some of the researchers still felt it was too cold in the office and would prefer to bump up the thermostat a little more
Actually they tried to make it too cold, but the temperature was an unsigned int and it wrapped.
My understanding is that the energy output, per cubic meter, is about the same as the human body, 50-100 watts or whatever.
Humans output around 100 watts abut are somewhat less than a meter cubed (we'd weigh about a ton at that size). Human power density is more like 1000-1500W/m^3, so we have about 10x the power density of the sun.
Most structural parts exposed to thermal neutrons are made of zirconium
I couldn't find anything: do you have any info on that (the structural metal part)? Zirconium isn't a common structural metal. Presumably it would have to be alloyed, but then you have to concern yourself with the cross section of the alloying parts as well.
All in all a very interestig engineering problem.
I wouldn't go either - sitting around, looking like a dick.
It's Zuckerberg: he looks like a dick whatever he does. So I guess it's the sitting around he objects to?
A hyperbolic association between holocaust deniers and people that poke fun at the obvious over the top climate change alarmists.
That's one of the quickes and most irrelevant way I think I've ever seen someone brng up the Nazis. Well done!
Looks like we have a fuckwit. Disappointingly though he's been modded up.
Also wetter... hotter... colder...
Um yes. It's called "change". The change is not uniform.
The only solution is to send money now to the new church and repent sinners.
I don't like reality therefore you're religious. Uh huh.
Some people were offended by this post...
Offensive? Well offensively stupid perhaps if one is offended by extreme stupidity. On the other hand we're all arguing on the internet here so that's unlikely.
You probably didn't give Al Gore enough money
u wot m8?
Oh Good Lord, what a massive overreaction. I certainly did not "revel" in the bloke's misfortune.
That's how your email read. You sounded pretty smug about it as if it reflects well on you.
No-one needs to be a systems admin or even any sort of expert at all to consider the possibilities.
That is pretty self contradictory. It's the job of sysadmins to think of those possibilities.
I have very little sympathy for these sorts of people though.
Then you're a sociopath.
This is you just revelling in the fact that you know about tech stuff and other people don't. He even took a cood crack at it for a non expert: he had multiple backups. He just didn't have them in distinct locations.
Having a technical experitse in a particular area doesn't make you a superior person to someone whos expertise lies elsewhere. From your attitude you wouldn't feel sorry for anyone who wasn't a professional system administrator.
And even then if the stars aligned and he lost data you probably wouldn't feel sorry for him because you'd have done it better.
'What is and is not art' is as unanswerable a question as 'what is and is not pornography' [...] It is entirely subjective.
Entirely subjective? There's big grey area in the middle but the ends of the spectrum are usually clear.
Also, as any freshman business major can tell you, sunk costs should be ignored. You don't fire people because they lost money in the past, you fire them because you think they are going to lose money in the future.
As anyone who's older than freshmen will tell you that never happens in practice. Businesses do not operate in some sort of platonic drive for profit free from emotion. They're made of people and people get really pissed off if you loose a cool half billion.
What the hell is wrong with the Mozilla Foundation? Just focus on making a minimal, high-quality, open source browser. That's it. that's literally all you need to do.
No that's not literally all they need to do. Their goal is an open, non creepy internet for users not corporations. A bit part of that is an open browser. But that's useless if all the services are creepy too. So they have a location service that isn't creepy. And are working on a voice activationservice that's not either.
And now this.
Personally I applaud their efforts since I can see theat the internet and their goals are clearly larger than a single piece of software.
I despair sometimes, I really do. ...
On city bypasses and fast lanes cars are way faster
Only if they're not stuck in a traffic jam.
First, some comedian said a while back: "When I'm driving, I hate pedestrians. And when I'm walking, I hate drivers. But no matter what I'm doing, I hate cyclists."
I'm a cyclise and I hate cyclists. Seriously everybody hates those guys. Actually come to think of it when I drive other drivers piss me off. And FFS why do people need to walk 4 abreast at 2 miles an hour on the pavement??
Hm maybe I'm just angry.
Joking aside, while it's possible to kill someone with a collision on a bike (it does happen), it's much harder to do in a car. Drivers are in control of a couple of metal stuff and 75kW of power, compared to a 80kg cyclist with maybe a kW for very short bursts. Drivers have a lot more responsibility than bikes and so their behaviour needs to be much much better.
The other thing that strikes me about driving is how self-defeting the driver lobby is here. They're always boo cyclists MOAR CARS. I live in London where the traffic is marginal at best and room for new roads does not exist. If you really want to drive the best strategy is to advocate for more bikes and pedestrians since that's the only way to reduce the traffic jams.
You neither addressed nor refuted any of my arguments or citations.
Yes I did: you keep referring to the "mainstream media" as some left biased thing completely ignoring Fox News as a right biased on and the most popular news channel.
The mainstream media isn't biased against you. Some of it is, some of it is biased in your direction. But the persecution narrative is much better when that's not the case, so better keep forgetting about Fox.
Whataboutism is a propaganda technique first used by the Soviet Union
Well according to you, "whataboutism" is refuting one of your points with inconvenient facts.
They're surrounded by a metric fuckton of worthless shit.
For reference that's about 1.102 imperial fuckloads (or 0.98 long fuckloads).
Yes that is what he means. A few times in the entire service life of his car.
Well, that's some mighty fine logic! I mean it would also justify buying a semi. Well, I used it once in the last 15 years to move house. Glad I bought it!
I have Model3 since May. I have saved 10 minutes every week by not going to the gas stations for the daily city driving.
Only 10 minutes? I mean there's the bit filling gas, paying etc. What about actually going to the station in the first place? I guess if it's already on the way...
Till they own it they dont know they are believing self serving propaganda from vested interests.
I don't really get how though. I mean yes, sure if you very regularly drive over 300 miles then sure maybe a Tesla isn't for you. But I don't get the logic of buying a car based on very rare use. You're much better off buying for the common case then renting once in a while. I mean I don't even own a car (common case) and get by renting a van or car as appropriate a few times a year at most. Usually a van.
Unfortunately due to the price it attracts the kind of arseholes who normally buy a BMW or Audi.
I love this one about BMW drivers:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/200...
While CNN and Fox have USians fighting ourselves, China and Mexico are laughing their asses off.
Um... a bit perhaps but they also have their own problems. Mexico has a lot of domestic problems to contend with. And China, they've been doing very well, with careful state planning with very long term goals in mind except as it the problem with such systems, the recent not-quite-dictator decided he's actually rather be ruler for life.
That's the blessing and curse of democracies: they're wildly inefficient. A directed dictatorship can be much more efficient with the right person in charge, but it can very efficiently dig itself into a deep hole when the person in charge simply wants to enrich themselves. Could go either way for China at this point.
2016 was the watershed year when the mainstream media finally dropped the mask and came out as full-throated political partisans. They openly supported the most corrupt candidate for President in American history.
You must be talking about Fox News (the most popular mainstream media channel) supporting Trump. Though I think it's a bit of a stretch t osay they dropped the pretense in 2016, they've been wildly partisan for years.
Mishandling secret documents is a grave offense,
Not in general it isn't. It depends on many things like intent, the classification level and compartment (if applicable), severity, and the fallout of doing so. People working behind the fence often screw up. It happens, people are human.
Generally the penalties aren't severe because mostly nothing gets leaked and really REALLY importantly if the penalties are severe then it's worth people's time to cover it up and hide it rather than come clean. It turns out that people have been running classified things for a while now and they've actually learned how to do it decently well and how to mitigate the annoying fact that everyone involved is human.
In fact in many cases about the worst that happens is you have to do a training course and all the local rules are tightened a bit.
I used to think it was just trolling until I actually met one of these guys.
Some (many) of them are simply that stupid, arrogant and angry. But there have definitely been trolls in the older, better sense of the word. You have a rather low UID. Perhaps if you were on usenet, you remember this chap, an elegant troll from a more civilised age:
https://groups.google.com/foru...
Egg Troll was IMO a master of the art. Possibly one of the finest trolls on the internet. It's delightful, his posts are very very carefully written to wind up people on both sides of several debates (C vs Java, Linux vs Windows, etc) and despite transparently trolling (his name is a bit of a clue), he still got people to rise to the bait like a shoal of little fishes.
I miss that guy and I miss the dulture where that was trolling.