You should be thankful you're not on the official Raspberry Pi forums, or the moderators would've deleted your criticism and one of the fanboys would have joked about tying you to a lamppost naked or something to punish you (which, unlike any kind of criticism, is entirely A-OK with the Raspberry Pi staff). I am not making this up. You can find the original thread here. You can see that the moderators were aware of and fine with the tying-to-a-lamppost comment because they read and deleted its target's complaint about that comment which is still quoted in the thread.
2.5+ GB? Chrome will hit 25+ GB quite easily if you let it and have enough RAM installed - it's just that each individual process generally uses less than a gigabyte of RAM, so it's very difficult to see how much it's using in a standard task manager or Chrome's integrated task manager. (Chrome does track its total memory usage but that figure is tucked away in the "Stats for nerds" section.)
The Raspberry Pi's actually slower than the iPad 1 at least in terms of CPU - it has an older generation of ARM processor clocked at a lower speed. It's more in the ballpark of the iPhone 3GS. I'm not sure how the GPU compares because they're designed by different companies and there's a lot of marketing BS out there. The older ARM CPU does also mean that it can't run the ARM version of Ubuntu.
These days, there are actually cheap made-in-China ARM tablets with more capable hardware.
Also, Ubuntu doesn't support ARMv6 hardware at all and apparently it took a lot of yelling at the Raspberry Pi Foundation by Shuttleworth before they stopped describing it as being able to run Ubuntu. It seems to be mostly FPU-less chips for embedded applications that are still ARMv6 these days.
Also, notice how all of those posts are in the Off Topic section. That's because their forum moderators have a policy that all discussion of pricing or actually buying the device is off-topic or even outright trolling.
Um, we dont have a forced sterilization program here.
You did until about the start of the eighties. The US was actually one of the first countries to adopt forced sterilization programs and kind of kick-started the whole eugenics movement. (Also, you know who else was in favour of eugenics and forced sterilization? Winston Churchill.)
As it happens, a fairly important part of Apple's Acid3 push actually involved merging in improvements from KHTML that they'd missed out on due to the fork. KHTML is mostly dead now but that's basically a result of all the developers subsequently abandoning it for Webkit in the expectation that their changes would be more widely used, and that process took years...
No, the main reason it's not financially sensible to manufacture mass-appeal items in the UK is that the unemployment benefits are higher than chinese assembly workers' wages.
That probably has a lot to do with the cost of keeping workers alive and healthy and fit for work here in the UK being higher than Chinese assembly workers' wages. It's kind of impossible to get workers for less than the cost of feeding and housing them.
Except in this case Google Chrome's being targeted because Google themselves are offering particularly generous payments to hack it, whereas Safari was a favourite target in prior years because according to the contestants it was the easiest to find and exploit holes in.
Of course this has nothing to do with - to use an entirely hypothetical example - Republicans pressuring DAs into investigating trumped-up electoral fraud claims against Democrats and sacking them if they refuse.
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Not really. Suppose you sneak in a boring-sounding commit from one of the core developers of a project. That developer probably won't notice because it's lost amongst the other commits, and even though no-one else will be able to push changes until they merge the malicious commit into their own copies, that's so common in a multi-user repository that all the developers will probably do it without a moment's hesitation.
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As far as I can tell, the entire point of update_attributes is that it's easy to pass unsanitized data directly from a user request to it and this makes rapid development of Rails applications simpler. Supposedly pretty much no major Rails applications get this right, so it's not surprising the one hosting the Rails Git repository doesn't either.
It's also used for distributed development, which means that usually all the copies of the source and history information have pulled from the upstream GitHub repository and will contain any malicious code that was committed to it.
It'd be even less than that if the US cellphone market didn't suck so much. Here in the UK, pay as you go cellphones are dirt cheap due to competition - if you can afford to feed yourself and keep a roof over your head, you can afford to have a cellphone. In fact, even if you can't you can probably still afford a cellphone.
Einstein was Jewish and therefore had more reason than most to be aware of the Nazis and to get out. Even then I don't think that the Jewish intelligentsia in general took the Nazi party seriously enough or left in time, for various reasons.
In my opinion, the way Bitcoin is implementing multi-signature transactions is scary. They're trying to change the rules of a complicated distributed financial system when it's in active use, which is kind of like trying to rebuild an airplane mid-flight, and it looks like due to some unfortunate oversights by the developers this is going to break stuff like protection against double-spending for the duration of the switch-over period even for users that don't themselves use multi-signature functionality. (It's actually a lot worse than that thread implies; for example it turns out that an attacker can cause the part of the Bitcoin network running newer clients to decide the part running older clients is attacking it by sending invalid transactions and cut off all communications with it.)
In a 2009 study, the data show that women working in construction earn about 92.2% of what men earn, which fits fairly nicely in my guess that "undesirable" jobs will generally hire anyone, and pay them relatively the same.
I expect people arguing for the equalization of the pay to downplay the safety concerns, and the people arguing against the equalization of the pay to exaggerate the safety concerns, but then, I'm a cynic...
Don't think I managed to get any figures on safety here in the UK, but in the US roadside trash collection is somewhere between the 3rd and 8th most dangerous job in the country depending on which year's stats you use.
So, this cuts a fair amount against your argument, that the gap is only there because women aren't working in the undesirable but high-paying jobs... no, even when breaking it up into respective fields, women are statistically earning less than male counterparts.
I don't think it's the only reason but it certainly seems to be an important one. This is particularly true when we're talking specifically about the gender pay gap in blue collar and semi-skilled/unskilled work, which is kind of a big deal in some feminist circles; as I recall there's a certain amount of controversy over feminism's failure to address this. It's also used as a justification for why the fact more women than men are attending higher education isn't a problem for men.
(For what it's worth, a lot of the remaining gender pay gap - though not all - can be traced to less women entering certain industries in the past due to historic sexism.)
The FDA stand a far better chance of making the correct decision because they have personal access to a whole bunch of experts and the entire medical research community is watching them. It's just not possible to give the same level of support to an individual patient in making the right decisions - there aren't enough experts to go around - which is why we need to delegate the decision-making to the FDA.
The Government doesn't intervene to stop people hurting themselves, though, does it? It intervenes to try and make sure that snake oil salesmen don't have a financial incentive to con people into paying money for treatments that are ineffective or even harmful. You can make all the badly-informed, irrational decisions about your own healthcare that you want to, the Government just won't let others misinform you for their own gain.
They're no pro-life or pro-baby, they're anti-woman. Most of them seem to want to outlaw contraception and are quite happy to strip women of unrelated healthcare as part of their mission too.
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There are still many women alive today in the US who were forcibly sterilized as part of these programs.
You should be thankful you're not on the official Raspberry Pi forums, or the moderators would've deleted your criticism and one of the fanboys would have joked about tying you to a lamppost naked or something to punish you (which, unlike any kind of criticism, is entirely A-OK with the Raspberry Pi staff). I am not making this up. You can find the original thread here. You can see that the moderators were aware of and fine with the tying-to-a-lamppost comment because they read and deleted its target's complaint about that comment which is still quoted in the thread.
2.5+ GB? Chrome will hit 25+ GB quite easily if you let it and have enough RAM installed - it's just that each individual process generally uses less than a gigabyte of RAM, so it's very difficult to see how much it's using in a standard task manager or Chrome's integrated task manager. (Chrome does track its total memory usage but that figure is tucked away in the "Stats for nerds" section.)
Google/eBay/whatever the Allwinner A10. On paper at least, it's a really quite impressive chip powering some really cheap hardware.
The Raspberry Pi's actually slower than the iPad 1 at least in terms of CPU - it has an older generation of ARM processor clocked at a lower speed. It's more in the ballpark of the iPhone 3GS. I'm not sure how the GPU compares because they're designed by different companies and there's a lot of marketing BS out there. The older ARM CPU does also mean that it can't run the ARM version of Ubuntu.
These days, there are actually cheap made-in-China ARM tablets with more capable hardware.
Also, Ubuntu doesn't support ARMv6 hardware at all and apparently it took a lot of yelling at the Raspberry Pi Foundation by Shuttleworth before they stopped describing it as being able to run Ubuntu. It seems to be mostly FPU-less chips for embedded applications that are still ARMv6 these days.
Actually, people have been reporting prices as high as 57 euros including shipping in France (about $75, and I'm pretty sure the comment about import duty in that thread is BS because there's no import duty when shipping between EU member states), and a similar price when ordering from Israel. Apparently Farnell were originally wanting $20 for shipping to the US too. Then there's Farnell's minimum value for credit card orders in some countries. In others they refuse to sell to non-business customers full stop.
Also, notice how all of those posts are in the Off Topic section. That's because their forum moderators have a policy that all discussion of pricing or actually buying the device is off-topic or even outright trolling.
Um, we dont have a forced sterilization program here.
You did until about the start of the eighties. The US was actually one of the first countries to adopt forced sterilization programs and kind of kick-started the whole eugenics movement. (Also, you know who else was in favour of eugenics and forced sterilization? Winston Churchill.)
As it happens, a fairly important part of Apple's Acid3 push actually involved merging in improvements from KHTML that they'd missed out on due to the fork. KHTML is mostly dead now but that's basically a result of all the developers subsequently abandoning it for Webkit in the expectation that their changes would be more widely used, and that process took years...
Yep, that should do the job. Certainly a lot easier to get hold of than an X-Ray machine...
No, the main reason it's not financially sensible to manufacture mass-appeal items in the UK is that the unemployment benefits are higher than chinese assembly workers' wages.
That probably has a lot to do with the cost of keeping workers alive and healthy and fit for work here in the UK being higher than Chinese assembly workers' wages. It's kind of impossible to get workers for less than the cost of feeding and housing them.
Except in this case Google Chrome's being targeted because Google themselves are offering particularly generous payments to hack it, whereas Safari was a favourite target in prior years because according to the contestants it was the easiest to find and exploit holes in.
Don't worry, there won't be any of those soon. The Government is rounding them all up and forcing them to leave in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.
Sounds about right too - Chrome is incredibly memory-hungry in my experience.
Of course this has nothing to do with - to use an entirely hypothetical example - Republicans pressuring DAs into investigating trumped-up electoral fraud claims against Democrats and sacking them if they refuse.
Not really. Suppose you sneak in a boring-sounding commit from one of the core developers of a project. That developer probably won't notice because it's lost amongst the other commits, and even though no-one else will be able to push changes until they merge the malicious commit into their own copies, that's so common in a multi-user repository that all the developers will probably do it without a moment's hesitation.
As far as I can tell, the entire point of update_attributes is that it's easy to pass unsanitized data directly from a user request to it and this makes rapid development of Rails applications simpler. Supposedly pretty much no major Rails applications get this right, so it's not surprising the one hosting the Rails Git repository doesn't either.
It's also used for distributed development, which means that usually all the copies of the source and history information have pulled from the upstream GitHub repository and will contain any malicious code that was committed to it.
It'd be even less than that if the US cellphone market didn't suck so much. Here in the UK, pay as you go cellphones are dirt cheap due to competition - if you can afford to feed yourself and keep a roof over your head, you can afford to have a cellphone. In fact, even if you can't you can probably still afford a cellphone.
Einstein was Jewish and therefore had more reason than most to be aware of the Nazis and to get out. Even then I don't think that the Jewish intelligentsia in general took the Nazi party seriously enough or left in time, for various reasons.
In my opinion, the way Bitcoin is implementing multi-signature transactions is scary. They're trying to change the rules of a complicated distributed financial system when it's in active use, which is kind of like trying to rebuild an airplane mid-flight, and it looks like due to some unfortunate oversights by the developers this is going to break stuff like protection against double-spending for the duration of the switch-over period even for users that don't themselves use multi-signature functionality. (It's actually a lot worse than that thread implies; for example it turns out that an attacker can cause the part of the Bitcoin network running newer clients to decide the part running older clients is attacking it by sending invalid transactions and cut off all communications with it.)
In a 2009 study, the data show that women working in construction earn about 92.2% of what men earn, which fits fairly nicely in my guess that "undesirable" jobs will generally hire anyone, and pay them relatively the same.
They may pay them relatively the same, but very few women are actually employed in construction and apparently even fewer are actually construction workers.
I expect people arguing for the equalization of the pay to downplay the safety concerns, and the people arguing against the equalization of the pay to exaggerate the safety concerns, but then, I'm a cynic...
Don't think I managed to get any figures on safety here in the UK, but in the US roadside trash collection is somewhere between the 3rd and 8th most dangerous job in the country depending on which year's stats you use.
Also, apparently even if you just look at the job of cleaner by itself "Although women represent the largest part of employees in the cleaning sector, the figures indicate that more men suffer an occupational accident than women. This may be explained by the gender distribution of the work where men are employed more often in higher-risk cleaning activities such as industrial cleaning, refuse cleaning and window cleaning."
So, this cuts a fair amount against your argument, that the gap is only there because women aren't working in the undesirable but high-paying jobs... no, even when breaking it up into respective fields, women are statistically earning less than male counterparts.
I don't think it's the only reason but it certainly seems to be an important one. This is particularly true when we're talking specifically about the gender pay gap in blue collar and semi-skilled/unskilled work, which is kind of a big deal in some feminist circles; as I recall there's a certain amount of controversy over feminism's failure to address this. It's also used as a justification for why the fact more women than men are attending higher education isn't a problem for men.
(For what it's worth, a lot of the remaining gender pay gap - though not all - can be traced to less women entering certain industries in the past due to historic sexism.)
The FDA stand a far better chance of making the correct decision because they have personal access to a whole bunch of experts and the entire medical research community is watching them. It's just not possible to give the same level of support to an individual patient in making the right decisions - there aren't enough experts to go around - which is why we need to delegate the decision-making to the FDA.
The Government doesn't intervene to stop people hurting themselves, though, does it? It intervenes to try and make sure that snake oil salesmen don't have a financial incentive to con people into paying money for treatments that are ineffective or even harmful. You can make all the badly-informed, irrational decisions about your own healthcare that you want to, the Government just won't let others misinform you for their own gain.
They're no pro-life or pro-baby, they're anti-woman. Most of them seem to want to outlaw contraception and are quite happy to strip women of unrelated healthcare as part of their mission too.