One of the most interesting things about this whole process has been how upfront and transparent they've been
Yes, like when they said they are sitting on 10K units ready to ship, or when they announced official launch and started selling nonexistent boards, or when they said that this time around they _really_ have 2K boards and to prove it they posted a picture of a chinese factory:). Or how now, 2 months after official launch, first people to get their hands on the boards are children in UK and not people who paind for the boards 2 months ago thinking they are buying something and not preordering.
WORST product launch ever. I just hope thats the end of rasppi drama and there wont be any more hurdles (for example lack of mpeg4 hardware acceleration, lack of camera interface documentation and so on)
Dual-focus lenses like do produce sharp images at multiple focal ranges (or, in this case, from multiple sources) -- but they also produce blurred images at every focal range.
those are not dual-focus lenses, they are more of a dual-polarization lenses the second close up focus only works when the light has a certain polarization
determining, by the client device, a displayable set of the other user avatars associated with the client device display; and displaying, on the client device display, the displayable set of the other user avatars associated with the client device display
What's interesting is in that very same claim, the server already removed avatars:
wherein the client device does not receive position information of at least some avatars that fail to satisfy a participant condition imposed on avatars displayable on a client device display of the client device;
So as long as the server removes all of the not-visible avatars or none of the not-visible avatars, it's not infringing. As far as "black box" though, I'd be tempted to guess that the server does some checks but not all... after all, WoW had all those warping loopholes people were using a while back so at least some processing of some kind is done client side. If WoW's server doesn't know where the user's avatar is actually standing, the best it could do is send all the avatars in the general area and the client figures out which it sees based on viewport direction.
Carmack engines use BSP trees, network code will sent player positions for all the players in the same room/branch + safety margin, meaning you will get info about them even if they are behind a wall to minimize popup (players popping up into existence from around the corner instead of just appearing seamlessly)
that is If you insist on ignoring software patent being a total BS and think that patents on software are valid (they are not)
Just look at eSATA, which although its been around since 2004 you'd be hard pressed to even find an eSATA port on any mid to low end (i.e. not enthusiast) motherboard.
Do you realize you can use ANY sata port + $3 Esata bracket?
I've got one Kickstarter backing under my belt. It's the HexBright project that was featured here on/. and is yet to show a result in terms of a product shipped to me.
Do yourself a favor, go to dealextreme, order $12 flashlight and forget about hexbright scammer.
Somehow we have developed this absurd idea that you simply have to place a computer in front of a child and ~POOF~ they are magically educated, with no thought or work required by a teacher or anyone else
Funny you say that, because this is EXACTLY what happened to me. Got access to a home computer in early eighties in post communist country with no IT infrastructure (other than a network of bootleg software on cassette sellers). Had to learn it the hard way.
2 months after official launch, and Rasppi foundation sold exactly TEN (10) boards, each at ~$1000 on Ebay auctions.
No other Raspberry Pi board exchanged hands, NOT A SINGLE ONE.
Computing power is finally getting there. Just imagine a computer with a screen grabber playing the game. We could even make tourneys where AIs fight each other:o
Just thought of something else. Don't the other players have interesting stories too? Commodore and Atari immediately immediately come to mind. I mean, Jobs was an adopted child, call him a waaambulance: Jack Tramiel is a friggin' nazi death camp survivor. That's academy award material!
A few years ago, together with a friend, we reverse engineered a DVB-T usb pen by Hauppauge
link?
It is nice to see that somebody else was capable to reverse engineer these devices, but as you can see from their results, they aren't actually that good.
WAT? It works, someone already posted YT clip decoding APRS. Osmo guys decoded GMR that uses 1634 to 1656 MHz, far above DVB-Ts spec.
According to the DMCA if someone takes-down your video, all you have to do is tell youtube, vimeo, etc that you DO in fact own the video and it should not have been taken down. The video then HAS to be restored per the Congressional Act (otherwise you could sue youtube, vimeo, etc).
Unless its Time Warner or Universal filing DMCA, then you are boned.
One interesting issue with the NBN is that while we're going to have plenty of bandwidth, our latency to most services is still terrible. America is 200ms away, and there's not a lot in the English-speaking corner of the Internet that's closer. I hope Google, Amazon, and Microsoft start building data centres locally, or the upgrade will be largely unnoticeable for anything other than video streaming.
na, the most interesting issue with it is download caps. Download caps on ALL the traffic. It would make mild sense to do download caps on traffic that crosses undersea cables, but all the traffic? Sounds like you are getting screwed.
Quote from Element 14 (one of the two distributers) Full FAQs Here
The current situation is: 2000 Raspberry Pi’s are now in the UK. Pictures are posted here for anyone who doubts their existence!
Rasppi Foundation claims boards are in UK, but post pictures from Chinese factory, they claim 2000 boards, but there is ~900 in the pictures just like they claimed they already had 10000 boards READY TO BE SOLD a month ago more lies:(
Worst product launch ever. If they really wanted to launch it quickly all they had to do was give blueprints and access to Broadcom chips to chinese factories. Btw This is why there wont be any third party clones - Broadcom doesnt sell without NDA and high volume commitments, chinese shops wont be able to get their hands on main chips. This is why Farnell will be making sweet money off of Rasppi. Money not on margin, but on all the fresh contacts they will get. Every email address from person interested in electronics is worth its weight in gold to components suppliers. Registering is equal to lifetime supply in Farnell catalogues and spam.
Based on how the EU regulations are worded, to qualify as a "finished end product" the board is supposed to have an enclosure. No enclosure, it's not a "finished end product" and it doesn't require EMC. Personally I think this is a silly way of deciding what needs to be compliant, but that's how it's worded.
I haven't really been following the Raspberry Pi, but it doesn't look like it comes with an enclosure. So it sounds like the distis are just being anal (unless you believe the conspiracy theory discussed above).
Hard to call it conspiracy when you can buy TI boards with no certificates on Farnell.
Launch was in February. Farnell says that EARLIEST date is June. It all stinks. I feel scammed. Its one thing to be incompetent, its another to constantly lie.
I'm curious - what happened when you asked for your money back?
Apparently Farnell didnt charge anyone because they knew they had nothing to ship. They are still waiting till they start shipping. Worst is Rasppi foundation is putting all the blame on Farnell while they are the ones running around in the Media announcing fake launch dates.
gosh this looks like a lot of Raspberry Pi's in shrink wrap, I wonder if maybe you got modded out for some reason other than you make sane reasonable points with evidence in a calm and reasonable manner?
Its 29 or March, there is ~900 boards in the picture, they are still in China. Launch date was 29 February (full 30 days ago), Launch means here you go click and buy. There was nothing to buy.
If you read post that came with that picture you will learn they are talking about 2000 boards, so where did the 8000 go? They never existed in February.
Btw I just checked and they banned me:-) Banned me for saying they "officially launched" with ZERO inventory.
Launch was in February. Farnell says that EARLIEST date is June. It all stinks. I feel scammed. Its one thing to be incompetent, its another to constantly lie.
I expect these devices do need a CE mark for electro magnetic radiation compliance (that it doesn't interfere with other equipment and its own performance isn't degraded by other equipment) and the companies in question are rightfully stating they're not going to start selling something which would land them in the shit if it is out of compliance. The US is no different with devices requiring FCC certification.
that dont meet a single norm, no CE, no FCC nothing. Ti just states in the documentation those boards are DEV experimental stuff and thats it. TI sold >100K of them easily.
“Texas Instruments (TI) provides the enclosed product(s) under the following conditions:
This evaluation board/kit is intended for use for ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION,
EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY and is not considered by TI to be a finished endproduct fit for gene
consumer use. Persons handling the product(s) must have electronics training and observe good engineer
practice standards. As such, the goods being provided are not intended to be complete in terms of requi
design, marketing, and/or manufacturingrelated protective considerations, including product safety a
environmental measures typically found in end products that incorporate such semiconductor components
circuit boards. This evaluation board/kit does not fall within the scope of the European Union directi
regarding electromagnetic compatibility, restricted substances (RoHS), recycling (WEEE), FCC, CE or
and therefore may not meet the technical requirements of these directives or other related directives.”
“FCC WARNING
This evaluation board/kit is intended for use for ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, OR
EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY and is not considered by TI to be a finished enproduct fit for general
consumer use. It generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and has not been tested for compli-
ance with the limits of computing devices pursuant to part 15 of FCC rules, which are designed to provide
reasonable protection against radio frequency interference. Operation of this equipment in other environ-
ments may cause interference with radio communications, in which case the user at his own expense will be
required to take whatever measures may be required to correct this interference.”
The initial 10k batch was made on behalf of the Foundation at some factory in China. That batch of 10k are being resold by Farnell and RS. Further production of the Pi will be handled by RS and Farnell.
So "we're making a batch, they're at the factory being made, bear with us" and "here these companies will now make them!" are both true.
Thats the thing - RS and Farnell DIDNT SELL A SINGLE BOARD because THEY NEVER HAD ANY to begin with. That 10K batch was a LIE. RS and Farnell took orders for the boards they are going to make _in the future_. Latest mail from Farnell informed me my order will be completed in July...
btw. Rasppi doesnt like when you say thay they SCAMMED you, mods deleted all my comments from their site when I pointed out there never was a 10K batch and my "launch day" order turned out to be preorder for something Farnell is going to make in HALF A YEAR.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khWE-GYccRg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMd1kqKlN0
One of the most interesting things about this whole process has been how upfront and transparent they've been
Yes, like when they said they are sitting on 10K units ready to ship, or when they announced official launch and started selling nonexistent boards, or when they said that this time around they _really_ have 2K boards and to prove it they posted a picture of a chinese factory :). Or how now, 2 months after official launch, first people to get their hands on the boards are children in UK and not people who paind for the boards 2 months ago thinking they are buying something and not preordering.
WORST product launch ever. I just hope thats the end of rasppi drama and there wont be any more hurdles (for example lack of mpeg4 hardware acceleration, lack of camera interface documentation and so on)
Dual-focus lenses like do produce sharp images at multiple focal ranges (or, in this case, from multiple sources) -- but they also produce blurred images at every focal range.
those are not dual-focus lenses, they are more of a dual-polarization lenses
the second close up focus only works when the light has a certain polarization
What's interesting is in that very same claim, the server already removed avatars:
So as long as the server removes all of the not-visible avatars or none of the not-visible avatars, it's not infringing. As far as "black box" though, I'd be tempted to guess that the server does some checks but not all... after all, WoW had all those warping loopholes people were using a while back so at least some processing of some kind is done client side. If WoW's server doesn't know where the user's avatar is actually standing, the best it could do is send all the avatars in the general area and the client figures out which it sees based on viewport direction.
Carmack engines use BSP trees, network code will sent player positions for all the players in the same room/branch + safety margin, meaning you will get info about them even if they are behind a wall to minimize popup (players popping up into existence from around the corner instead of just appearing seamlessly)
that is If you insist on ignoring software patent being a total BS and think that patents on software are valid (they are not)
Just look at eSATA, which although its been around since 2004 you'd be hard pressed to even find an eSATA port on any mid to low end (i.e. not enthusiast) motherboard.
Do you realize you can use ANY sata port + $3 Esata bracket?
A $12 dollar flashlight from dealextreme won't do that.
imaginary one from a scam artist won't either
I've got one Kickstarter backing under my belt. It's the HexBright project that was featured here on /. and is yet to show a result in terms of a product shipped to me.
Do yourself a favor, go to dealextreme, order $12 flashlight and forget about hexbright scammer.
Somehow we have developed this absurd idea that you simply have to place a computer in front of a child and ~POOF~ they are magically educated, with no thought or work required by a teacher or anyone else
Funny you say that, because this is EXACTLY what happened to me. Got access to a home computer in early eighties in post communist country with no IT infrastructure (other than a network of bootleg software on cassette sellers). Had to learn it the hard way.
They do have about 2000 in their hands now.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/945
So they "have" 2000 boards 2 months after "official launch", during which they claimed they already gave 10000 boards to distributors? Nice.
2 months after official launch, and Rasppi foundation sold exactly TEN (10) boards, each at ~$1000 on Ebay auctions.
No other Raspberry Pi board exchanged hands, NOT A SINGLE ONE.
insulates .. until it cracks and all of a sudden there IS a surface between 2 previously insulated wires.
Computing power is finally getting there. :o
Just imagine a computer with a screen grabber playing the game. We could even make tourneys where AIs fight each other
Just thought of something else. Don't the other players have interesting stories too? Commodore and Atari immediately immediately come to mind. I mean, Jobs was an adopted child, call him a waaambulance: Jack Tramiel is a friggin' nazi death camp survivor. That's academy award material!
This clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPeHExUbqs
has some interesting stories from the Commodore 64 days told by Bil Herd.
A few years ago, together with a friend, we reverse engineered a DVB-T usb pen by Hauppauge
link?
It is nice to see that somebody else was capable to reverse engineer these devices, but as you can see from their results, they aren't actually that good.
WAT?
It works, someone already posted YT clip decoding APRS. Osmo guys decoded GMR that uses 1634 to 1656 MHz, far above DVB-Ts spec.
http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR
has all the info, list of tuners that work, tutorials and more.
False.
According to the DMCA if someone takes-down your video, all you have to do is tell youtube, vimeo, etc that you DO in fact own the video and it should not have been taken down. The video then HAS to be restored per the Congressional Act (otherwise you could sue youtube, vimeo, etc).
Unless its Time Warner or Universal filing DMCA, then you are boned.
cancel your preorder
How can you preorder something when you are BUYING IT ON LAUNCH DATE?????
Dont you see a problem there?
One interesting issue with the NBN is that while we're going to have plenty of bandwidth, our latency to most services is still terrible. America is 200ms away, and there's not a lot in the English-speaking corner of the Internet that's closer. I hope Google, Amazon, and Microsoft start building data centres locally, or the upgrade will be largely unnoticeable for anything other than video streaming.
na, the most interesting issue with it is download caps. Download caps on ALL the traffic. It would make mild sense to do download caps on traffic that crosses undersea cables, but all the traffic? Sounds like you are getting screwed.
Quote from Element 14 (one of the two distributers) Full FAQs Here
The current situation is:
2000 Raspberry Pi’s are now in the UK. Pictures are posted here for anyone who doubts their existence!
Rasppi Foundation claims boards are in UK, but post pictures from Chinese factory, they claim 2000 boards, but there is ~900 in the pictures :(
just like they claimed they already had 10000 boards READY TO BE SOLD a month ago
more lies
Worst product launch ever. If they really wanted to launch it quickly all they had to do was give blueprints and access to Broadcom chips to chinese factories. Btw This is why there wont be any third party clones - Broadcom doesnt sell without NDA and high volume commitments, chinese shops wont be able to get their hands on main chips. This is why Farnell will be making sweet money off of Rasppi. Money not on margin, but on all the fresh contacts they will get. Every email address from person interested in electronics is worth its weight in gold to components suppliers. Registering is equal to lifetime supply in Farnell catalogues and spam.
Based on how the EU regulations are worded, to qualify as a "finished end product" the board is supposed to have an enclosure. No enclosure, it's not a "finished end product" and it doesn't require EMC. Personally I think this is a silly way of deciding what needs to be compliant, but that's how it's worded.
I haven't really been following the Raspberry Pi, but it doesn't look like it comes with an enclosure. So it sounds like the distis are just being anal (unless you believe the conspiracy theory discussed above).
Hard to call it conspiracy when you can buy TI boards with no certificates on Farnell.
Launch was in February. Farnell says that EARLIEST date is June. It all stinks. I feel scammed.
Its one thing to be incompetent, its another to constantly lie.
I'm curious - what happened when you asked for your money back?
Apparently Farnell didnt charge anyone because they knew they had nothing to ship. They are still waiting till they start shipping.
Worst is Rasppi foundation is putting all the blame on Farnell while they are the ones running around in the Media announcing fake launch dates.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/1seaofpis.png
gosh this looks like a lot of Raspberry Pi's in shrink wrap, I wonder if maybe you got modded out for some reason other than you make sane reasonable points with evidence in a calm and reasonable manner?
Its 29 or March, there is ~900 boards in the picture, they are still in China.
Launch date was 29 February (full 30 days ago), Launch means here you go click and buy. There was nothing to buy.
If you read post that came with that picture you will learn they are talking about 2000 boards, so where did the 8000 go? They never existed in February.
Btw I just checked and they banned me :-) Banned me for saying they "officially launched" with ZERO inventory.
Launch was in February. Farnell says that EARLIEST date is June. It all stinks. I feel scammed.
Its one thing to be incompetent, its another to constantly lie.
I expect these devices do need a CE mark for electro magnetic radiation compliance (that it doesn't interfere with other equipment and its own performance isn't degraded by other equipment) and the companies in question are rightfully stating they're not going to start selling something which would land them in the shit if it is out of compliance. The US is no different with devices requiring FCC certification.
No. Farnell is quite happy selling $4 msp430 Launchpads
http://uk.farnell.com/texas-instruments/msp-exp430g2/kit-dev-msp430-launchpad/dp/1853793
that dont meet a single norm, no CE, no FCC nothing. Ti just states in the documentation those boards are DEV experimental stuff and thats it. TI sold >100K of them easily.
http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slac432a/slac432a.pdf
“Texas Instruments (TI) provides the enclosed product(s) under the following conditions:
This evaluation board/kit is intended for use for ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION,
EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY and is not considered by TI to be a finished endproduct fit for gene
consumer use. Persons handling the product(s) must have electronics training and observe good engineer
practice standards. As such, the goods being provided are not intended to be complete in terms of requi
design, marketing, and/or manufacturingrelated protective considerations, including product safety a
environmental measures typically found in end products that incorporate such semiconductor components
circuit boards. This evaluation board/kit does not fall within the scope of the European Union directi
regarding electromagnetic compatibility, restricted substances (RoHS), recycling (WEEE), FCC, CE or
and therefore may not meet the technical requirements of these directives or other related directives.”
“FCC WARNING
This evaluation board/kit is intended for use for ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT, DEMONSTRATION, OR
EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY and is not considered by TI to be a finished enproduct fit for general
consumer use. It generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and has not been tested for compli-
ance with the limits of computing devices pursuant to part 15 of FCC rules, which are designed to provide
reasonable protection against radio frequency interference. Operation of this equipment in other environ-
ments may cause interference with radio communications, in which case the user at his own expense will be
required to take whatever measures may be required to correct this interference.”
The initial 10k batch was made on behalf of the Foundation at some factory in China. That batch of 10k are being resold by Farnell and RS. Further production of the Pi will be handled by RS and Farnell.
So "we're making a batch, they're at the factory being made, bear with us" and "here these companies will now make them!" are both true.
Thats the thing - RS and Farnell DIDNT SELL A SINGLE BOARD because THEY NEVER HAD ANY to begin with. That 10K batch was a LIE. ...
RS and Farnell took orders for the boards they are going to make _in the future_. Latest mail from Farnell informed me my order will be completed in July
btw. Rasppi doesnt like when you say thay they SCAMMED you, mods deleted all my comments from their site when I pointed out there never was a 10K batch and my "launch day" order turned out to be preorder for something Farnell is going to make in HALF A YEAR.
Does not work in Safari, unlike youtube and 99% of all other online video sites which work fine in Safari (Mac OS X)
also doesnt work in Opera
clip embedded in this post works, but all the clips under tv.slash... just dont show up