But your SBCs don't have a development community forming around them - the hype and hoopla is exactly what is noteworthy. Just like the Arduino community, couldn't make me yawn any wider, but it's important because help is there for people who need it.
First run was certainly oversubscribed - hope the demand stays high and it evolves a big support community like BeagleBoard. Hopefully in a few years Broadcom will come out with the next gen chip that will enable closer to Core2 performance at a sub $50 price point - and the Pi community will make it a more painless upgrade than Beagle to Panda...
Check the Pi site blogs, I'm not interested in diving that deep, but I've skimmed a few blog posts that talk about better than usual access to the GPU details - not Nirvana, but at least there's a community organizing the scraps that are available.
When I was growing up, I had access to labs full of TRS-80 computers, for a couple of hours a week. One summer, I had access to an HP something or other with a nice 320x240 graphic display for a couple of hours a day for a few weeks.
When I got my own computer, I had access during every hour of free time I cared to spend with it for several years.
It's the difference between exposure and immersion. Lance Armstrong probably wouldn't have developed into as strong a cyclist as he is if he could only ride for one hour once a week during school.
OLPC targeted Africa/India/Brazil, etc. Pi is targeting Bristol/Sussex/North Hertfordshire... no shortages of electricity, or even old cast-off computer junk like keyboards and monitors.
For hobbiest devices we have Arduino on the low end and PandaBoard on the high end. Where does Raspberry Pi fit into the hobbiest space? I suppose I can understand why someone would choose Raspberry Pi over PandaBoard -- the price is over $100 less! Why would I want to build my latest project with a Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino?
I'm thinking of 1080p video out for my next project, how's that work on Arduinos?
I ordered on "launch day" - just got my tracking number. At one point I thought I'd have one by the end of 2011, it's June 2012 and still not here yet.
Back in the day of 16MB flash cards @ $100ea, I did the laptop with external hard drive experience for a 2 week Alaska Vacation, it was pretty miserable. Today, $100 in flash cards buys 80GB that fits in normal envelope. Unless you're shooting lots of 1080p/60fps, 80GB should hold you just fine.
When I was 20, I shot 30 rolls of 36 exposures in approximately 30 days on a Eurail excursion. It's easier to point and shoot 3 fast compositions, then throw 2 away, rather than agonizing about how to carry a little less film. Digital just does this one better.
I'm perfectly happy to drive my 42" 1080p screen with DVD resolution sources for viewing from 12' away... I can see the difference in BluRay discs as you say "when I'm looking for it" standing halfway between the sofa and the screen, but from seated viewing position, it makes little or no difference to me, and I'm happier to have smaller video files on the server.
On the other hand, if you take a nicely rendered and optimized smallish font on a "normal" screen and scale it up 20%, or rotate it 5 degrees, or any other number of transforms, it blurs and degrades tremendously, this doesn't happen with "superlative screen resolution."
Most operating systems, OS-X included, are still struggling a bit with handling super high resolution screens with grace. Windows 7 especially will still throw you micro-print in some places and fonts are not all scaled appropriately throughout. I've had numerous older relatives who would run their high resolution screens in lower settings just to get the fonts at a decent size. Again, you suffer some rendering pixelization quality issues when stepping up showing something like 1280x720 on a 1920x1080 screen, these quality issues are a lot less significant if you're rendering 1280x720 on 4096x2048.
So please, stop with the bullshit ppi race, we can't see it. And instead concentrate on things we actually can see.
"Retina" is a claim for 20/20 at "standard" viewing distance - I'd call that barely acceptable from a specs standpoint.
My vision (used to be) 20/15 in one eye and 20/10 in the other. I'd say the pixel cramming contest can slow down when we've hit about 4x what Apple called "Retina" resolution.
Are you satisfied with audio equipment that can only reproduce 20Hz to 16kHz? That's about all the "average" person can hear.
I don't agree that all startups that need big $$$ are bad ideas - there are lots of very good startup ideas that take 10s of millions to get rolling.
On the other hand, startups principaled by a 19yo sleeping on AOL's couch, yeah, show me where the first 20K went, and a detailed plan of how the $500K is going to be spent. Don't like counting paperclips? Get a real job.
10 minutes of transactions at a grocery store... not a big deal, at a chain of 1000 grocery stores.... possible, but 10 minutes of transactions through a company like Amex, Visa, MasterCard, etc. would be a scary large chunk of data, especially if you're talking about worldwide.
Is it clear yet that this is an imaginary benefit? That that I'm not all for poorly run corporations runnign poorly - that's just fine by me.
Favorite quote of the President of the first company I worked for:
"Perception is all there is."
Truth, proof, reality? yeah whatever - what matters is what people think, feel in their gut, trust with their instincts, believe other people want them to do - that's what drives their decisions. It's a rare homo sapiens that actually makes their choices based on ground truth proven verifiable facts.
I used to not understand how double spending was prevented in Bitcoin, but I finally got it - there's a cloud of P2P servers that keep a signature trail of every transaction everywhere... o.k., so, now I believe that double spending is prevented, but I'm having a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that this could scale to handle any kind of transaction volume.
what about coming up with those open source IDE's?? I understand that they have never matched Visual Studio...
You know what this story actually tells? That even FOSS users don't like their IDE's. They want to use Visual Studio from Microsoft because frankly, it is much better than the open source alternatives.
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If Microsoft is so bad then why the hell there isn't better open source versions of these things??
I have recently migrated off of Visual Studio, onto Qt Creator because Creator has matured to be clearly better than Studio.
Everyone has their own needs and preferences, I have copies of Studio, Eclipse and Creator on all of my machines at work and home - Eclipse is a necessary evil for some targets, but for the desktop, I was using Studio because it was the better environment - until the last six months or so.
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If we didn't feed the trolls, they might wander off and bother people who don't know how to handle them.
But your SBCs don't have a development community forming around them - the hype and hoopla is exactly what is noteworthy. Just like the Arduino community, couldn't make me yawn any wider, but it's important because help is there for people who need it.
I don't feel scammed... this is pretty typical early release delay - could have gone faster, almost never does.
First run was certainly oversubscribed - hope the demand stays high and it evolves a big support community like BeagleBoard. Hopefully in a few years Broadcom will come out with the next gen chip that will enable closer to Core2 performance at a sub $50 price point - and the Pi community will make it a more painless upgrade than Beagle to Panda...
Check the Pi site blogs, I'm not interested in diving that deep, but I've skimmed a few blog posts that talk about better than usual access to the GPU details - not Nirvana, but at least there's a community organizing the scraps that are available.
When I was growing up, I had access to labs full of TRS-80 computers, for a couple of hours a week. One summer, I had access to an HP something or other with a nice 320x240 graphic display for a couple of hours a day for a few weeks.
When I got my own computer, I had access during every hour of free time I cared to spend with it for several years.
It's the difference between exposure and immersion. Lance Armstrong probably wouldn't have developed into as strong a cyclist as he is if he could only ride for one hour once a week during school.
Alarm clock - plays a night sky, maybe with very quiet crickets, and progressively turns up the audio/visual stimulation as time to get up approaches.
Stick a Pi into a spare port on a TV... for the deluxe model, the Pi could also switch the TV on and off.
Please, make one for me and save me the trouble... guys like this can probably source the video content:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r8NE4osAYA
OLPC targeted Africa/India/Brazil, etc. Pi is targeting Bristol/Sussex/North Hertfordshire... no shortages of electricity, or even old cast-off computer junk like keyboards and monitors.
For hobbiest devices we have Arduino on the low end and PandaBoard on the high end. Where does Raspberry Pi fit into the hobbiest space? I suppose I can understand why someone would choose Raspberry Pi over PandaBoard -- the price is over $100 less! Why would I want to build my latest project with a Raspberry Pi instead of Arduino?
I'm thinking of 1080p video out for my next project, how's that work on Arduinos?
I ordered on "launch day" - just got my tracking number. At one point I thought I'd have one by the end of 2011, it's June 2012 and still not here yet.
Your experience probably doesn't include the Pi, then. Broadcom has been pretty decent with the Pi developers.
A flavor of Android 2.3 is better then Debian???
If you only speak Java.
Back in the day of 16MB flash cards @ $100ea, I did the laptop with external hard drive experience for a 2 week Alaska Vacation, it was pretty miserable. Today, $100 in flash cards buys 80GB that fits in normal envelope. Unless you're shooting lots of 1080p/60fps, 80GB should hold you just fine.
When I was 20, I shot 30 rolls of 36 exposures in approximately 30 days on a Eurail excursion. It's easier to point and shoot 3 fast compositions, then throw 2 away, rather than agonizing about how to carry a little less film. Digital just does this one better.
300 photos, ~10meg each = 3GB/day... 32GB flash card, problem solved?
All the internet is one giant Troll - the secret is in extracting value from it. Some people succeed.
I'm perfectly happy to drive my 42" 1080p screen with DVD resolution sources for viewing from 12' away... I can see the difference in BluRay discs as you say "when I'm looking for it" standing halfway between the sofa and the screen, but from seated viewing position, it makes little or no difference to me, and I'm happier to have smaller video files on the server.
On the other hand, if you take a nicely rendered and optimized smallish font on a "normal" screen and scale it up 20%, or rotate it 5 degrees, or any other number of transforms, it blurs and degrades tremendously, this doesn't happen with "superlative screen resolution."
Most operating systems, OS-X included, are still struggling a bit with handling super high resolution screens with grace. Windows 7 especially will still throw you micro-print in some places and fonts are not all scaled appropriately throughout. I've had numerous older relatives who would run their high resolution screens in lower settings just to get the fonts at a decent size. Again, you suffer some rendering pixelization quality issues when stepping up showing something like 1280x720 on a 1920x1080 screen, these quality issues are a lot less significant if you're rendering 1280x720 on 4096x2048.
Depends on your "lifestyle":
PS3 + 50" plasma screen > 0.5kW/h
Fancy bitcoin mining parallel GPU setup can be > 1kW/h
4 ton A/C unit running full tilt > 2kW/h
So please, stop with the bullshit ppi race, we can't see it. And instead concentrate on things we actually can see.
"Retina" is a claim for 20/20 at "standard" viewing distance - I'd call that barely acceptable from a specs standpoint.
My vision (used to be) 20/15 in one eye and 20/10 in the other. I'd say the pixel cramming contest can slow down when we've hit about 4x what Apple called "Retina" resolution.
Are you satisfied with audio equipment that can only reproduce 20Hz to 16kHz? That's about all the "average" person can hear.
I don't agree that all startups that need big $$$ are bad ideas - there are lots of very good startup ideas that take 10s of millions to get rolling.
On the other hand, startups principaled by a 19yo sleeping on AOL's couch, yeah, show me where the first 20K went, and a detailed plan of how the $500K is going to be spent. Don't like counting paperclips? Get a real job.
10 minutes of transactions at a grocery store... not a big deal, at a chain of 1000 grocery stores.... possible, but 10 minutes of transactions through a company like Amex, Visa, MasterCard, etc. would be a scary large chunk of data, especially if you're talking about worldwide.
Is it clear yet that this is an imaginary benefit? That that I'm not all for poorly run corporations runnign poorly - that's just fine by me.
Favorite quote of the President of the first company I worked for:
"Perception is all there is."
Truth, proof, reality? yeah whatever - what matters is what people think, feel in their gut, trust with their instincts, believe other people want them to do - that's what drives their decisions. It's a rare homo sapiens that actually makes their choices based on ground truth proven verifiable facts.
I used to not understand how double spending was prevented in Bitcoin, but I finally got it - there's a cloud of P2P servers that keep a signature trail of every transaction everywhere... o.k., so, now I believe that double spending is prevented, but I'm having a very hard time wrapping my head around the idea that this could scale to handle any kind of transaction volume.
Isn't that the ultimate goal of the incubators: to get young kids to spend their whole life working on their startup...
what about coming up with those open source IDE's?? I understand that they have never matched Visual Studio...
You know what this story actually tells? That even FOSS users don't like their IDE's. They want to use Visual Studio from Microsoft because frankly, it is much better than the open source alternatives.
If Microsoft is so bad then why the hell there isn't better open source versions of these things??
I have recently migrated off of Visual Studio, onto Qt Creator because Creator has matured to be clearly better than Studio.
Everyone has their own needs and preferences, I have copies of Studio, Eclipse and Creator on all of my machines at work and home - Eclipse is a necessary evil for some targets, but for the desktop, I was using Studio because it was the better environment - until the last six months or so.