No need to be rude -- I'm only asking what's the draw for Raspberry Pi. So it's the video?
Pretty much, yes.
Using this as any kind of PC replacement would be too painful - look at those benchmarks. Think: You can probably get a second-hand PC for not much more than a Pi. You might even be able to get and old PC for free if you know somebody who's upgrading theirs.
I think the Pi's cool and all....but I just can't imagine disk swapping on an SD card. Does not compute. The reviews I've seen support this - go over the RAM limit and you're toast for the next half hour.
Could you actually find me a smartphone with HDMI out (1080p), ability to use USB peripherals, and cost within 3x as much as the RPi?
Space is something I wouldn't bother comparing because I would stream to my RPi as well.
Restoring firmware on the RPi is a matter of formatting the SD card, most phones are quite easily permanently bricked.
Limiting yourself to 'smartphone' is stupid. A massive part of smartphone cost/compromise is the battery. The Pi doesn't have that.
OTOH if you want a cheap box to run your house then there's quite a few Intel Atom boxes out there which are far more powerful than the Pi. They can accept real hard disks and run a full OS. The ones I've bought come in a plain cardboard box with a wall-wart and literally nothing else. They're sold without an OS so they avoid the Windows Tax and the price will be about 3pi.
How about forcing the game makers to TEST THEIR DAMN GAME before releasing?
This.
Unfortunately, though, a forum full of "It doesn't work on AMD cards! OMG!!!" makes AMD look bad, not the game developer. AMD then have to go about emulating NVIDIA's driver bugs.
But it's possession of illegal material. There are many good reasons why possession of certain stuff can be considered a crime. Toxic/dangerous stuff without a license.
Sure, if they can prove that you *know* you have the stuff in your possession.
eg. If they find the heroin in a baggie in your underpants then it's unlikely you didn't know about it. If they find it taped under your desk in a busy office then there's no way you should be in trouble unless they have more evidence. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
bring a jacket or hoodie, lay it over the basket, carry something around then pretend to be looking through the pockets while you're cutting it open under the jacket.
Or just steal the whole thing and open it at home....
It isn't weird at all if you don't make a point to try and misunderstand what he means. If you are in a lit room, and the next room over is dark, you cannot see that the other room even exists because your pupils constrict to let in only enough light to comfortably see in a lit room.
Ok, let's take it literally... you're in a light place looking into a dark place.
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No need to be rude -- I'm only asking what's the draw for Raspberry Pi. So it's the video?
Pretty much, yes.
Using this as any kind of PC replacement would be too painful - look at those benchmarks. Think: You can probably get a second-hand PC for not much more than a Pi. You might even be able to get and old PC for free if you know somebody who's upgrading theirs.
You can get Intel Atom boxes for not much more than that. Why not have x86 compatibility and a real hard drive too...?
I think the Pi's cool and all....but I just can't imagine disk swapping on an SD card. Does not compute. The reviews I've seen support this - go over the RAM limit and you're toast for the next half hour.
Could you actually find me a smartphone with HDMI out (1080p), ability to use USB peripherals, and cost within 3x as much as the RPi?
Space is something I wouldn't bother comparing because I would stream to my RPi as well.
Restoring firmware on the RPi is a matter of formatting the SD card, most phones are quite easily permanently bricked.
Limiting yourself to 'smartphone' is stupid. A massive part of smartphone cost/compromise is the battery. The Pi doesn't have that.
OTOH if you want a cheap box to run your house then there's quite a few Intel Atom boxes out there which are far more powerful than the Pi. They can accept real hard disks and run a full OS. The ones I've bought come in a plain cardboard box with a wall-wart and literally nothing else. They're sold without an OS so they avoid the Windows Tax and the price will be about 3pi.
16Gb SD card.
...and don't search for 'ejaculation'.
nVidia is so much better at drivers than AMD that your comment looks like the insane rantings of a madman.
Oh, yeah? I program 3D graphics for a living so I have to deal with this stuff on a daily basis. I'm working around a bug right now.
Question: Are occlusion queries supposed to return number of samples or number of pixels in Direct3D?
A certain company's "pro" graphics cards seem to differ from their "consumer" graphics cards over this.
The only way I've found to get my program working is to do a dummy occlusion query when I create the framebuffer and see what happens.
How about forcing the game makers to TEST THEIR DAMN GAME before releasing?
This.
Unfortunately, though, a forum full of "It doesn't work on AMD cards! OMG!!!" makes AMD look bad, not the game developer. AMD then have to go about emulating NVIDIA's driver bugs.
But it's possession of illegal material. There are many good reasons why possession of certain stuff can be considered a crime. Toxic/dangerous stuff without a license.
Sure, if they can prove that you *know* you have the stuff in your possession.
eg. If they find the heroin in a baggie in your underpants then it's unlikely you didn't know about it. If they find it taped under your desk in a busy office then there's no way you should be in trouble unless they have more evidence. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.
Seriously - for an alleged lawyer, not knowing what the DMCA is, how to use it
What's weird about that? The people who drafted the law didn't know much about it and the people who voted to pass it knew even less.
Soon to be changing her name to "Candice Streisand"...
This is why "possession" of something shouldn't be a crime. Anything can be planted in your house/PC/car/whatever without your knowledge.
A country which allows a computer virus to ruin your life and make you forever unemployable has some serious problems with its laws.
PS: I cleaned up a machine with this three or four months ago here in Spain.
Nah, he picked up the nearest phone and shouted "Cleanup in isle 14!"
Scissors work even better. Just cut three edges off and it will fall open.
bring a jacket or hoodie, lay it over the basket, carry something around then pretend to be looking through the pockets while you're cutting it open under the jacket.
Or just steal the whole thing and open it at home....
A single photon with a frequency of 10^98Hz has enough energy to create all the matter in the universe.
Photons are popping in and out of the quantum soup all the time.
If this law goes ahead he could bankrupt you in about half an hour.
It isn't weird at all if you don't make a point to try and misunderstand what he means. If you are in a lit room, and the next room over is dark, you cannot see that the other room even exists because your pupils constrict to let in only enough light to comfortably see in a lit room.
Ok, let's take it literally ... you're in a light place looking into a dark place.
Isn't that like living *outside* a cave...?
Maybe you have night blindness or something. When the door's open enough light escapes for me to see as far as I can see.
Or maybe you have a house with rooms the size of basketball courts. I dunno.
56 minutes of every day of your life to pay for light? You think that's better than, say, I dunno, pressing a button when you go in a room?
I was right. You *are* weird.
Let's hope nobody invited Jim Carrey...
Nice one, Microsoft. Now can we have email encryption on by default, too...?
"You, over there! Stop bobbing your head in time to the music, we haven't paid for head bobbing!"
You feel like you're in a cave if all the lights in the house aren't on?
Weird.
And expensive.
I thought "big gulp" was soda to go.
(disclaimer: I'm not American)