Read the announcements on the official Raspberry Pi site - they have NOT made any deals with any resellers. Also on the forum thread discussing this particular scam - the phone number given it's disconnected and the address of the presumed shop it's for an appartment complex.
Next time you try to scam people, at least be more beliveable.
Remember, the 1st batch of 10000 Raspberry Pi boards will ONLY be available from http://www.raspberrypi.com/ (you can order some nice stickers in the meantime)
What about the early adopters who bought the original Google TV boxes - is there a firmware update available to bring the new features to them ? Or they are supposed to chuck them to the garbage bin and buy new ones ?
parent = AC = troll. But i'll bite: http://opensource.apple.com/ And Bonjour = Zeroconf, Avahi which also gets installed by the Linux distros and they are amazing tools - just yesterday did some Avahi magic and made a 15year old network Laser printer (DEC LN14) discoverable. Also Chrome & the Android browser are using Apple's WebKit (forked from KHTML, open source and downloadable from the above link).
In EU stores, the Samsung tablets are advertised by the floor sales people as "The Samsung iPad, it's better because it has flash" - part of the Samsung sales training. Seen it in multiple places in a couple of countries.
Features: - Lightweight (size measured in Kb, not Mb) - Unobtrusive. Uncluttered appereance (we need no friggin' icons on our desktop) - Left-side titlebar preserves space on wide-screen displays - Multiple desktops - Root menu for quick launch of applications (just put scripts/symlinks in a directory, the contens will be displayed as a menu)
Which "everyone else" ? It's different on Motif, NeXTStep/OpenStep, Win 3.x, MacOS Classic & MacOS X. Microsoft just copied OS/2 (and switched the buttons around)
Let me tell you a reason: "Cascading" Windows. If you have a lot of them, if you want to select one of the windows in the middle of the stack, you're likely to push the "Close Window" [X] button. Never happens when the close window button is on the left.
As all the displays are now Wide Screen, something like WM2, with the window controls on the side would be more appropriate.
The Council of Elders has declared a planet-wide celebration in the light of the latest victory of our special forces team.
K'breel, speaker for the Council, declared:
Oh, what a joyous day, our special forces, from their forward base in orbit around the Evil Blue Planet has scored another victory against the enemy. Their plan of sending a mechanized invader on our holly moon Z'treem was foiled - eight of our best warriors have sacrificed themselves and blocked the invader's reactive engine with their bodies, drowning the mechanized monster in their own ichor. Let's forever praise the courage of our warriors.
As it turns out, the Broadcom BCM2835 SoC they have chosen for the project has only HDMI, Composite & DSI-LCD outputs. No VGA, no Component, no S-Video.
And it seems that there are no SoC's with VGA output available that: - are cheap enough; - are low-power enough; or - have all the other required interfaces (USB, Ethernet, sound, SDIO...)
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Do NOT click the 2nd link, people !
Mr. Andrew Lamb (trading as Systems Of Hull),
Read the announcements on the official Raspberry Pi site - they have NOT made any deals with any resellers.
Also on the forum thread discussing this particular scam - the phone number given it's disconnected and the address of the presumed shop it's for an appartment complex.
Next time you try to scam people, at least be more beliveable.
Well, For UK it will be $25 + VAT + Royal Mail =~ £25 :-)
US buyers will not pay VAT and only slightly more for P&P so they will get it cheaper
Remember, the 1st batch of 10000 Raspberry Pi boards will ONLY be available from http://www.raspberrypi.com/ (you can order some nice stickers in the meantime)
Be aware that scam sites (like http://www.systemsofhull.co.uk/raspberry-model-p-261.html) have begun to pop-up. :-(
Most TVs now have a USB port (used for firmware update on "non-smart" TVs) - just use a micro-USB cable to power the RPi from the TV itself.
That's the last year update - also mentioned in the beginning of TFA. But all the bells & whistles are described for "upcoming hardware in 2012".
apt-get update
apt-get install latest-tv-show
Then to get the latest episodes:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
I already know brainfuck
>++.>+.+++++++..+++.
What about the early adopters who bought the original Google TV boxes - is there a firmware update available to bring the new features to them ? Or they are supposed to chuck them to the garbage bin and buy new ones ?
You're free to come on the Raspberry Pi forum and help Gert to make the board better - he's open to constructive comments & ideas.
On RPi you will be just able to:
echo "value" > /sys/class/gpio/...
parent = AC = troll.
But i'll bite:
http://opensource.apple.com/
And Bonjour = Zeroconf, Avahi which also gets installed by the Linux distros and they are amazing tools - just yesterday did some Avahi magic and made a 15year old network Laser printer (DEC LN14) discoverable.
Also Chrome & the Android browser are using Apple's WebKit (forked from KHTML, open source and downloadable from the above link).
To add:
In EU stores, the Samsung tablets are advertised by the floor sales people as "The Samsung iPad, it's better because it has flash" - part of the Samsung sales training. Seen it in multiple places in a couple of countries.
Samsung is betting of the same marketing principles used by the following "well known" bands: Powasonic, Panascanic, Sunny, SQNY, Nokla & Adibas and let's not forget the "famous" aPad & ePad Android tablets. Their frigging lawyers could not tell apart a iPad and a Galaxy Tab. http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/judge-holds-up-ipad-2-and-galaxy-tab-in-court-samsung-lawyers-cant-tell-the-difference-20111014/
Bill Atkinson
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt
WMX
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx/
Features:
- Lightweight (size measured in Kb, not Mb)
- Unobtrusive. Uncluttered appereance (we need no friggin' icons on our desktop)
- Left-side titlebar preserves space on wide-screen displays
- Multiple desktops
- Root menu for quick launch of applications (just put scripts/symlinks in a directory, the contens will be displayed as a menu)
Which "everyone else" ?
It's different on Motif, NeXTStep/OpenStep, Win 3.x, MacOS Classic & MacOS X.
Microsoft just copied OS/2 (and switched the buttons around)
Let me tell you a reason: "Cascading" Windows. If you have a lot of them, if you want to select one of the windows in the middle of the stack, you're likely to push the "Close Window" [X] button. Never happens when the close window button is on the left.
As all the displays are now Wide Screen, something like WM2, with the window controls on the side would be more appropriate.
Why the heck all the Linux Window managers are copying Windows 95-XP with the placement of the window close/minimize/maximize buttons ?
Also - why are all the GUI shortcuts With Ctrl and not Alt or Meta ?
Is Windows THAT GOOD so the purpose of all those GUIs are to become a perfect copy of it ?
So that's why they will no longer sell the XServes - they need them to fill up those datacenters :-)
Yes, as long as it compiles on arm and it's happy running in 128Mb (model A) or 256Mb (model B) RAM.
OS X, Linux & *BSD are not affected.
Whoever uses Windows by it's own will it's asking for it.
The Council of Elders has declared a planet-wide celebration in the light of the latest victory of our special forces team.
K'breel, speaker for the Council, declared:
http://siriouslyweird.tumblr.com/
http://sirisaysthedarndestthings.com/
http://opensource.apple.com/
You have the sources, have the go at porting it.
"... that will meet 6/kWh cost targets by the end of the decade ..."
6 what ? 6 panels/kWh ? 6 technologies/kWh ?
As it turns out, the Broadcom BCM2835 SoC they have chosen for the project has only HDMI, Composite & DSI-LCD outputs. No VGA, no Component, no S-Video.
And it seems that there are no SoC's with VGA output available that: ...)
- are cheap enough;
- are low-power enough;
or
- have all the other required interfaces (USB, Ethernet, sound, SDIO