It still requires a monitor, keyboard, power supply, mouse, sd card for the OS, USB stick so you get reasonable IO... boom, already you're well past the $200 chrome book.
It only looks cheap because you ignore the fact that a RaspberryPI by itself is utterly useless and needs a fuck ton of support hardware before it becomes useful as a general purpose computer.
You need a real computer to make the Raspberry Pi do anything in the first place. Why not just use the real computer and not waste $35 on something that needs a power supply, case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, SD card, OS which is buggy as well?
Stop shoehorning this shit in places it doesn't belong.
This is nothing more than riding the RaspberryPi name for profit.
The retarded part is using a raspberry pi... when you need some other computer to do the actual work of making the raspberry pi useful.
Unless you're buying a raspberry pi with a preloaded SD card, this is stupid because the computer required to setup the RaspPi and make it useful is about... a billion times more powerful and more useful.
This is yet another retarded use of a raspberry pi for the sake of riding the marketing wave.
Still is if you don't want the thin models. They still offer traditional units with user serviceable ram and drives, just like every other laptop thats thick.
Of course, show me the ultra book thats as thin as a MBP with replaceable RAM... hint: You won't, they do the same thing.
Compiling is almost ALWAYS IO bound for a project of any size. Why do you think make -j 4 or make -j 8 makes a noticeable difference on even single core machines? Because the compiler spends most of its time waiting on disk IO, reading and writing all those intermediate files.
VisualStudio also supports parallel compilers for this exact same reason.
As a developer, switching to an SSD was the biggest improvement I've ever made to my workflow. My 2009 machine with an SSD out performs my 2013 i7 machine with a 6 disk raid 1+0 machine with 16GB of ram. (which now has an SSD in it as well)
The time savings of an SSD on source files and compiling is ridiculous.
My time is worth FAR more than an SSD, sorry yours isn't.
I can say with authority that no ISP wants to limit what sites users can visit.
I've started an ISP, and managed 2 others.
I can say with authority that they most certainly DO want to limit what sites users can visit, especially when it means them making more money in some other way.
The shill is you asshole. Bandwidth is ridiculously cheap to everyone EXCEPT end users. Every single instance of an ISP complaining about users that I've ever seen has been crap to avoid paying for more bandwidth because they've so over sold that people are noticing and they aren't coming anywhere near what they claim to offer.
If I buy 5 mb/s from you, you god damn give me 5mb/s. You don't traffic shape it. You give me my fucking bandwidth because I paid for it. You do not pick what gets 5mb and what doesn't, and that is EXACTLY what Verizon wants to do. They want to charge me for my pipe to the Internet, and then charge everyone on the Internet AGAIN to put the data on my which you sold me as access to the Internet.
Its called double dipping, and you can take your opinion and shove it up your greedy ass. I buy 5mb, you can limit my total bandwidth to 5mb, full stop. You have no other right to manage my connection. You have no right to even look at my packets for any purpose other than getting them to their destination. Keep your greedy fucking paws off my payload.
I understand that most of us techies can't do what I'm about to suggest because our jobs depend on good Internet connections, even at home... BUT...
You bite the bullet and go with the less reliable other options. Verizon doesn't control ALL the wires and ALL the spectrum, at least not yet. There ARE options, they are just less appealing. By promoting them, it is possible some of them will get better.
Again, I say this knowing full well that I can not switch providers (I've tried, and it cost me a fortune, and I went back), but not everyone has the same problem we do.
They're a carrier. To expect Verizon or AT&T etc to behave like a wonderful, equitable business partner is to expect the earth to move from orbit on the propulsion of sparrow flatulence.
Technically, if done properly, you can change the orbit of the planet with a sparrow's flatulence. Of course, you can't do it from within the atmosphere, and I'm not sure you would get a detectable before Sol consumes the planet, but it is technically possible, if impractical./pedanticasshole
As someone who writes cryptography software (I'm not a cryptologist, I just implement known algorithms, and verify they produce was I'm told they should produce), the solution for us is to provide software with multiple algorithms and let the user pick. Our core library supports DES, Blowfish, Twofish, and two separate implementations of AES, one of which is from outside the US. We also support a handful of lesser known algorithms, such as variants of the different Russian GOST standards.
Unless everyone is collaborating, some part of the software is secure. I don't think Russia, the USA, Germany... and Bruce Schiener are all in cahoots with each other. Maybe one or two of them, but not all of them.
Its years old now and I haven't updated in in at least 5, so its a bit out of date compared to current UIs and updated cryptography features and such, but functionally, it works. When used with properly long keys, you aren't going to crack its AES implementation, I'm confident of that.
$SERVERURL... really? I wonder what sort of neat sploits I could pull off with that web server, that just screams incompetent developer who left doors wide open.
Voyager(s) were ridiculously overbuilt for the time as we had no real idea what was going to happen. They have redundancies for their redundancies of which are redundant.
Most of their equipment hasn't worked in years.
Our end has been upgraded. There is no way we could communicate with them using technology available when they were launched.
The nuclear generators in them now cause half the nut job anti-nuke protesters to shit bricks now days and would never get off the launchpad if the public found out. Most of the time, they manage to get RTGs into space before anyone knows they are the power source now, otherwise protestors would be strapping themselves to the rockets.
Velcro was made to fill a need. It didn't come from space, it came form an engineer. It went to space, sure, and it certainly came from the money budgeted for space exploration, but space wasn't needed to make it.
The problem with space is the cost per kilo to get there. That makes it extremely uneconomical. This is not debatable.
I'm all for the exploration, and the extra cost now will be worth it long term. Going to the moon for vacation however, is utterly unviable. There has been one man that has done it. Russia will take your money and do it, but it just costs too damn much.
I hope that someone finds a solution so that little people like me can go to space in my life time, but its just not likely unless we make some massive leaps in energy generation and propulsion systems. Earth is just too big of a gravity well.
Yes, 10 times the work from one guy, the other 10,000 will give you crap they don't even known about... and a billion times the opinion and personal bias. Perhaps you've heard of wikipedia and its well known problems.
You people really need to get it through your head that you need to pay people for quality less-biased work.
Not that I'm okay with domestic spying, but lets think for a second. Every person that was involved in 9/11 had been in country for MONTHS, some YEARS. None of them were fresh off the boat.
The last time I flew out of RDU (been a couple years now) the signs simply stated that guns in carry ons must be unloaded and no ammo was allowed regardless of any other conditions. I'm not aware of it being illegal to carry your weapon onboard if you follow the other rules. An unloaded gun is dangerous like a hammer is dangerous.
I've carried a small (2" blade?) knife on flights through body scanners and metal detectors or multiple occasions.
I'd like to see the container that would hold 1 gallon of LIQUID in a 1oz container. I'd seize it just so I can show the world the awesome device you had that could withstand that sort of pressure.
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Its not cheap.
It still requires a monitor, keyboard, power supply, mouse, sd card for the OS, USB stick so you get reasonable IO ... boom, already you're well past the $200 chrome book.
It only looks cheap because you ignore the fact that a RaspberryPI by itself is utterly useless and needs a fuck ton of support hardware before it becomes useful as a general purpose computer.
Oh, and its slow as balls.
You need a real computer to make the Raspberry Pi do anything in the first place. Why not just use the real computer and not waste $35 on something that needs a power supply, case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, SD card, OS which is buggy as well?
Stop shoehorning this shit in places it doesn't belong.
This is nothing more than riding the RaspberryPi name for profit.
The retarded part is using a raspberry pi ... when you need some other computer to do the actual work of making the raspberry pi useful.
Unless you're buying a raspberry pi with a preloaded SD card, this is stupid because the computer required to setup the RaspPi and make it useful is about ... a billion times more powerful and more useful.
This is yet another retarded use of a raspberry pi for the sake of riding the marketing wave.
An altimeter IS a barometer and vice versa.
Still is if you don't want the thin models. They still offer traditional units with user serviceable ram and drives, just like every other laptop thats thick.
Of course, show me the ultra book thats as thin as a MBP with replaceable RAM ... hint: You won't, they do the same thing.
Really? Thats funny because I did.
Perhaps a cluepon would be something you would look into.
Apple will replace them under warranty of course, or you can pay out of warranty.
You can also buy them from OWC if you want an alternative. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC
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Compiling is almost ALWAYS IO bound for a project of any size. Why do you think make -j 4 or make -j 8 makes a noticeable difference on even single core machines? Because the compiler spends most of its time waiting on disk IO, reading and writing all those intermediate files.
VisualStudio also supports parallel compilers for this exact same reason.
Then you're a shitty developer.
As a developer, switching to an SSD was the biggest improvement I've ever made to my workflow. My 2009 machine with an SSD out performs my 2013 i7 machine with a 6 disk raid 1+0 machine with 16GB of ram. (which now has an SSD in it as well)
The time savings of an SSD on source files and compiling is ridiculous.
My time is worth FAR more than an SSD, sorry yours isn't.
I can say with authority that no ISP wants to limit what sites users can visit.
I've started an ISP, and managed 2 others.
I can say with authority that they most certainly DO want to limit what sites users can visit, especially when it means them making more money in some other way.
The shill is you asshole. Bandwidth is ridiculously cheap to everyone EXCEPT end users. Every single instance of an ISP complaining about users that I've ever seen has been crap to avoid paying for more bandwidth because they've so over sold that people are noticing and they aren't coming anywhere near what they claim to offer.
If I buy 5 mb/s from you, you god damn give me 5mb/s. You don't traffic shape it. You give me my fucking bandwidth because I paid for it. You do not pick what gets 5mb and what doesn't, and that is EXACTLY what Verizon wants to do. They want to charge me for my pipe to the Internet, and then charge everyone on the Internet AGAIN to put the data on my which you sold me as access to the Internet.
Its called double dipping, and you can take your opinion and shove it up your greedy ass. I buy 5mb, you can limit my total bandwidth to 5mb, full stop. You have no other right to manage my connection. You have no right to even look at my packets for any purpose other than getting them to their destination. Keep your greedy fucking paws off my payload.
I understand that most of us techies can't do what I'm about to suggest because our jobs depend on good Internet connections, even at home ... BUT ...
You bite the bullet and go with the less reliable other options. Verizon doesn't control ALL the wires and ALL the spectrum, at least not yet. There ARE options, they are just less appealing. By promoting them, it is possible some of them will get better.
Again, I say this knowing full well that I can not switch providers (I've tried, and it cost me a fortune, and I went back), but not everyone has the same problem we do.
They're a carrier. To expect Verizon or AT&T etc to behave like a wonderful, equitable business partner is to expect the earth to move from orbit on the propulsion of sparrow flatulence.
Technically, if done properly, you can change the orbit of the planet with a sparrow's flatulence. Of course, you can't do it from within the atmosphere, and I'm not sure you would get a detectable before Sol consumes the planet, but it is technically possible, if impractical. /pedanticasshole
Note: The software can't protect you from a broken OS.
As someone who writes cryptography software (I'm not a cryptologist, I just implement known algorithms, and verify they produce was I'm told they should produce), the solution for us is to provide software with multiple algorithms and let the user pick. Our core library supports DES, Blowfish, Twofish, and two separate implementations of AES, one of which is from outside the US. We also support a handful of lesser known algorithms, such as variants of the different Russian GOST standards.
Unless everyone is collaborating, some part of the software is secure. I don't think Russia, the USA, Germany ... and Bruce Schiener are all in cahoots with each other. Maybe one or two of them, but not all of them.
I don't know that, but thats my theory.
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Its years old now and I haven't updated in in at least 5, so its a bit out of date compared to current UIs and updated cryptography features and such, but functionally, it works. When used with properly long keys, you aren't going to crack its AES implementation, I'm confident of that.
$SERVERURL ... really? I wonder what sort of neat sploits I could pull off with that web server, that just screams incompetent developer who left doors wide open.
The problem is that the estimation is so wrong even when doing nothing else on the system.
Its one thing to get the estimation wrong when the user is doing things that cause random bits of disk access.
There is absolutely NO reason to get it even marginally wrong when the machine is otherwise idle. Disk IO is fairly consistent when copying one file.
Voyager(s) were ridiculously overbuilt for the time as we had no real idea what was going to happen. They have redundancies for their redundancies of which are redundant.
Most of their equipment hasn't worked in years.
Our end has been upgraded. There is no way we could communicate with them using technology available when they were launched.
The nuclear generators in them now cause half the nut job anti-nuke protesters to shit bricks now days and would never get off the launchpad if the public found out. Most of the time, they manage to get RTGs into space before anyone knows they are the power source now, otherwise protestors would be strapping themselves to the rockets.
Velcro was made to fill a need. It didn't come from space, it came form an engineer. It went to space, sure, and it certainly came from the money budgeted for space exploration, but space wasn't needed to make it.
The problem with space is the cost per kilo to get there. That makes it extremely uneconomical. This is not debatable.
I'm all for the exploration, and the extra cost now will be worth it long term. Going to the moon for vacation however, is utterly unviable. There has been one man that has done it. Russia will take your money and do it, but it just costs too damn much.
I hope that someone finds a solution so that little people like me can go to space in my life time, but its just not likely unless we make some massive leaps in energy generation and propulsion systems. Earth is just too big of a gravity well.
The reactor in question was built to produce weapons grade materials. There's no reason to do so unless you plan to make weapons.
The tech to make much cleaner, no weapons grade material output was just as available to them. If they wanted power, they wouldn't be using it.
Gone from the easily accessible ... sure. Deleted? No way.
Facebook doesn't delete anything. Ever.
They can put it back anytime they want.
$10 says that once enough people bitch, we'll here some BS excuse about an accident or bug and it suddenly re-appear.
Heh, having had to develop code for some logistics systems ... Horror is very fitting.
Yes, 10 times the work from one guy, the other 10,000 will give you crap they don't even known about ... and a billion times the opinion and personal bias. Perhaps you've heard of wikipedia and its well known problems.
You people really need to get it through your head that you need to pay people for quality less-biased work.
Good job, at least marketing isn't going to pick up these code names and use them for crap they shouldn't.
Not that I'm okay with domestic spying, but lets think for a second. Every person that was involved in 9/11 had been in country for MONTHS, some YEARS. None of them were fresh off the boat.
The last time I flew out of RDU (been a couple years now) the signs simply stated that guns in carry ons must be unloaded and no ammo was allowed regardless of any other conditions. I'm not aware of it being illegal to carry your weapon onboard if you follow the other rules. An unloaded gun is dangerous like a hammer is dangerous.
I've carried a small (2" blade?) knife on flights through body scanners and metal detectors or multiple occasions.
I'd like to see the container that would hold 1 gallon of LIQUID in a 1oz container. I'd seize it just so I can show the world the awesome device you had that could withstand that sort of pressure.
Where'd you get it from, a neutron star?