Most TVs show 60fps quite well. Some of them pretend to go way higher, but the afterglow from LCD typically limits effective frame rate to something in the 60fps range.
Most professional bicycle racing has a minimum weight in the rules, along with all sorts of other restrictions. Unlimited pedal-powered racing would be an entirely different sport.
I didn't reference an article. Try the forum threads "USB - the elephant in our room" and "USB redux". Of course they only cover what the Raspberry foundation allows people to write on their forum.
Go read the forums then. The USB controller is unfixable; it simply cannot work correctly as a host controller. It can get by with retransmissions when it comes to bulk transfers, that "only" costs performance (except when it doesn't, notice all the issues with serial port adapters running all of 115kbps). Isochronous transfers cannot resend, so they will never work.
The USB controller was meant to be used in device mode, not in host mode. Notice that the vendor that provided the USB controller "intellectual property" has functional USB host controllers available, but the Raspberry Pi people were not aware that there was a difference. Now they are stuck with broken silicon for the foreseeable future.
The Pi's 2 USB ports are standard USB that you would find on any personal computer.
Except most devices you would want to use with a Raspberry Pi don't actually work. The ports themselves are fine. The USB controller is a joke.
Well all right, the ports themselves aren't actually fine, there are lots of problems with how they deliver power (or fail to) and hot plugging has issues as well.
They have the same general shape as a standard USB that you would find on any personal computer, I'll give you that.
Insurance depends on how much the government requires. AFAIK no nuclear power plant has a commercial insurance policy which would cover a Fukushima-size accident; they all rely on the government. Tepco was covered for third party liability for only $1.5 billion. Just to add to the fun, the coverage did not extend to accidents caused by natural disasters... Tepco estimates that the cost of cleaning up and paying compensation is 10 trillion yen, $125 billion. I am not sure the entire insurance industry is up for handling a $125 billion policy, and who can guarantee that $125 billion will be enough another time? In that way, you could say that the cost of insurance is infinite.
Then again, if we go with $125 billion and estimate a Fukushima-size disaster somewhere in the world every 30 years, it only adds $0.002/kWh to the cost of nuclear power. I am doubting my math here, 2558 TWh produced per year (from 2009), 125 * 10^9 USD/disaster / (2558 * 10^9 kWh/year) / (30 years/disaster). If the math is right and the assumptions are correct, then government backing nuclear insurance is a good idea.
Citation needed for $0.80/kWh for wind. Even ridiculously overpriced wind farms elsewhere are at $0.20/kWh. Anholt Sea Wind Farm, widely criticized for having its proposal structured in such a way that there could only be a single bidder and therefore monopoly pricing, is at 1.05DKK/kWh or 0.19USD/kWh for the first 20TWh. 20TWh should be reached in approximately 13 years.
$0.03/kWh is only possible for nuclear reactors which have paid off their capital investment already and are only paying for maintenance. Wind power under the same conditions can produce at lower cost than that.
Yes, there is no really practical way to avoid that handling fee. You can collude with a friend outside the EU and get lucky sometimes, but that gets expensive in delivery costs.
The price is 50-60$ including shipping, which is not a lot more than 35$+shipping
Except in the EU where you get raped by the shipping company having to handle import duties. The duties themselves are practically nothing, but the handling fees are nasty.
From the article "[..] average annual temperatures in the center of the ice sheet that are nearly 50 degrees Fahrenheit below freezing." What is that, -50F or -18F?
"Celcius below freezing" I can understand, but not Fahrenheit or Kelvin. Well I suppose Kelvin could make sense, "Kelvin below freezing" would mean exactly the same as "Celcius below freezing".
My push to the movement is very very small, but I can assure you that I am not a Luddite. Except when it comes to coal fired power plants and electronic voting.
Feel free to build as many nuclear or solar or wind power plants as you want. Solar will hopefully make electricity so cheap that we won't have to worry about wasting it. If rain forest has to be destroyed to make room for people, then so be it, the Earth is not a museum.
Just don't ruin it all so that the next generation has an impossible clean up task to do. We have enough trouble today with dealing with the land fills of the last generation; just a little more forethought then would have saved a lot of effort now. Forcing the next generation to extract coal from the air so they can stick it back into mines is really stupid.
In that case, can I take some GPL code and add it to my device to make it interoperate with some other thing, and make the code closed source. Oh, licences? Forget that. I don;t need to ask permission or anything like that!
Your straw man is ridiculous. What you CAN do, legally mandated, is reverse engineer software for the purpose of interoperability. You cannot just copy the code, but you can reverse engineer it and reimplement something with the same functionality.
If there is only one way to code a specific task, you are even allowed to have your code match the original code exactly. See Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components. In that case you can precisely "take some GPL code and add it to my device to make it interoperate with some other thing, and make the code closed source."
You forgot to mention that the EU and Chinese version of the iPhone comes with the microUSB adapter free. Only the US customers have to pay $19 for the microUSB adapter.
Not mentioning a lie is not called "forgetting", it is called "being truthful".
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Most TVs show 60fps quite well. Some of them pretend to go way higher, but the afterglow from LCD typically limits effective frame rate to something in the 60fps range.
Most professional bicycle racing has a minimum weight in the rules, along with all sorts of other restrictions. Unlimited pedal-powered racing would be an entirely different sport.
That doesn't follow. Bicycle racing is innovation-resistant. If it worked, it would be banned by next season.
This isn't meant to imply that the Interdrive works, because it doesn't.
I didn't reference an article. Try the forum threads "USB - the elephant in our room" and "USB redux". Of course they only cover what the Raspberry foundation allows people to write on their forum.
Go read the forums then. The USB controller is unfixable; it simply cannot work correctly as a host controller. It can get by with retransmissions when it comes to bulk transfers, that "only" costs performance (except when it doesn't, notice all the issues with serial port adapters running all of 115kbps). Isochronous transfers cannot resend, so they will never work.
The USB controller was meant to be used in device mode, not in host mode. Notice that the vendor that provided the USB controller "intellectual property" has functional USB host controllers available, but the Raspberry Pi people were not aware that there was a difference. Now they are stuck with broken silicon for the foreseeable future.
The power issue is a minor problem. The terminally broken USB controller is not.
If the Raspberry Pi had been a product marketed by a regular company, the class action suits would have started already.
The Pi's 2 USB ports are standard USB that you would find on any personal computer.
Except most devices you would want to use with a Raspberry Pi don't actually work. The ports themselves are fine. The USB controller is a joke.
Well all right, the ports themselves aren't actually fine, there are lots of problems with how they deliver power (or fail to) and hot plugging has issues as well.
They have the same general shape as a standard USB that you would find on any personal computer, I'll give you that.
Something routes the calls that are behind sufficiently vicious firewalls at both ends. If not the supernodes, then what?
AppleTV doesn't have a chipset to host USB clients... That's the end of it. You can't add any USB devices to it.
So it's very much like a Raspberry Pi then.
Skype is a Distributed Network similar to Bit torrent.
Not anymore it isn't. Microsoft runs all the ultraservers now.
Buddhism? I think not.
There is the slight matter of the Tamil genocide.
Insurance depends on how much the government requires. AFAIK no nuclear power plant has a commercial insurance policy which would cover a Fukushima-size accident; they all rely on the government. Tepco was covered for third party liability for only $1.5 billion. Just to add to the fun, the coverage did not extend to accidents caused by natural disasters... Tepco estimates that the cost of cleaning up and paying compensation is 10 trillion yen, $125 billion. I am not sure the entire insurance industry is up for handling a $125 billion policy, and who can guarantee that $125 billion will be enough another time? In that way, you could say that the cost of insurance is infinite.
Then again, if we go with $125 billion and estimate a Fukushima-size disaster somewhere in the world every 30 years, it only adds $0.002/kWh to the cost of nuclear power. I am doubting my math here, 2558 TWh produced per year (from 2009), 125 * 10^9 USD/disaster / (2558 * 10^9 kWh/year) / (30 years/disaster). If the math is right and the assumptions are correct, then government backing nuclear insurance is a good idea.
Citation needed for $0.80/kWh for wind. Even ridiculously overpriced wind farms elsewhere are at $0.20/kWh. Anholt Sea Wind Farm, widely criticized for having its proposal structured in such a way that there could only be a single bidder and therefore monopoly pricing, is at 1.05DKK/kWh or 0.19USD/kWh for the first 20TWh. 20TWh should be reached in approximately 13 years.
$0.03/kWh is only possible for nuclear reactors which have paid off their capital investment already and are only paying for maintenance. Wind power under the same conditions can produce at lower cost than that.
Yes, there is no really practical way to avoid that handling fee. You can collude with a friend outside the EU and get lucky sometimes, but that gets expensive in delivery costs.
The price is 50-60$ including shipping, which is not a lot more than 35$+shipping
Except in the EU where you get raped by the shipping company having to handle import duties. The duties themselves are practically nothing, but the handling fees are nasty.
From the article "[..] average annual temperatures in the center of the ice sheet that are nearly 50 degrees Fahrenheit below freezing." What is that, -50F or -18F?
"Celcius below freezing" I can understand, but not Fahrenheit or Kelvin. Well I suppose Kelvin could make sense, "Kelvin below freezing" would mean exactly the same as "Celcius below freezing".
Nobody stops anyone from making cheap boxes for everyone everywhere.
Lego is successful despite the competition from Mega Bloks and Best-Lock. What do you lose from Lego still being around?
My push to the movement is very very small, but I can assure you that I am not a Luddite. Except when it comes to coal fired power plants and electronic voting.
Feel free to build as many nuclear or solar or wind power plants as you want. Solar will hopefully make electricity so cheap that we won't have to worry about wasting it. If rain forest has to be destroyed to make room for people, then so be it, the Earth is not a museum.
Just don't ruin it all so that the next generation has an impossible clean up task to do. We have enough trouble today with dealing with the land fills of the last generation; just a little more forethought then would have saved a lot of effort now. Forcing the next generation to extract coal from the air so they can stick it back into mines is really stupid.
In the marketing world, you're always supposed to at least PRETEND that your products are superior.
Only to be refuted by a bunch of reviewers all at once. Do you really believe that is the better outcome?
It would be a bit silly of AMD to let the CPU division sink the GPU division.
EU consumer protection laws are generally no help if the product is older than 2 years.
In that case, can I take some GPL code and add it to my device to make it interoperate with some other thing, and make the code closed source. Oh, licences? Forget that. I don;t need to ask permission or anything like that!
Your straw man is ridiculous. What you CAN do, legally mandated, is reverse engineer software for the purpose of interoperability. You cannot just copy the code, but you can reverse engineer it and reimplement something with the same functionality.
If there is only one way to code a specific task, you are even allowed to have your code match the original code exactly. See Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components. In that case you can precisely "take some GPL code and add it to my device to make it interoperate with some other thing, and make the code closed source."
Simply assuming Apple will be reasonable is a risky proposition.
That does not stop the rest of us from complaining about them being unreasonable assholes.
You forgot to mention that the EU and Chinese version of the iPhone comes with the microUSB adapter free. Only the US customers have to pay $19 for the microUSB adapter.
Not mentioning a lie is not called "forgetting", it is called "being truthful".
in direct compliance with the EU agreement the micro USB connector is inclued with every relevent European sale for free.
This misunderstanding is extremely widespread. No micro USB connector is included in the EU (or indeed anywhere, AFAIK).
They did not provide a free converter Lightning-Micro USB for all EU purchases, or indeed for any EU purchases.