Console-wise I'm considerably more interested in the Ouya.
If it comes out soon. I had previously put my interest behind Pandora and the nD, but Pandora was delayed to irrelevance, and the nD has had no news in the past year.
We'll know by March next year. With the amount of money they've raised via Kickstarter and the big names in support it would be a absolute travesty if the Ouya turns out to be vapour. I'm confident it won't be. I wish they did status updates more frequently though.
Console-wise I'm considerably more interested in the Ouya. I think the Wii U will be completely forgotten once the next Xbox and Playstation are out. I doubt I will purchase any of them, although I think the Ouya could turn out to be very useful for non-gaming related stuff. Hopefully it will be something like a Raspberry Pi done right as I'm somewhat fed up with all of the Pi's problems. As for gaming, PC gaming has never looked better to me.
I submitted that. No, the problems with the USB drivers have not been fixed but software modifications subsequent to that post have improved the situation slightly for all Raspberry Pi's. Also, the revision 2 boards can supply more current to USB devices which means more of them will work when plugged in directly to the Pi. Unfortunately USB will most likely never work well on the Raspberry Pi due to the sheer difficulty of fixing the vendor-supplied drivers for the Synopsys USB controller which remain very buggy. I doubt the Raspberry Pi Foundation will ever acknowledge this.
I may be a twat, but if so I'm a twat who's in the right, whereas you sound like just another Raspberry Pi apologist who didn't even have the courage to post non-anonymously. There appears to be a few people like you who've responded to this story, then again it might be just you.
However, being right doesn't make some of what you came up with in that thread helpful or constructive.
It might be helpful for people deciding whether or not to purchase a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has yet to formally acknowledge the existence of these problems with the Pi, something I find unacceptable. Sure, they've commented on these problems in their forums but not everyone will see those posts.
The power supply issues the Raspberry Pi has are mostly a red herring. The Pi is certainly unusually sensitive to power and can only supply a stupidly low amount of current to USB devices no matter what power supply is used, but these issues have been used as a catch-all to explain away every problem people have been having with USB and Ethernet on the Pi. This has obscured the more pressing issue of buggy drivers which I believe are the root cause of the majority of problems Pi users have been having.
There are multiple Raspberry Pi users on the official Troubleshooting forum experiencing hardware problems with their Pi. It appears the Raspberry Pi has problems with USB, specifically with powering peripherals that require 140 mA or more. Look here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5830
This situation causes a voltage drop that results in the USB voltage becoming out of specification. This has resulted in malfunctions with USB devices such as Wi-Fi dongles, even when connected to the Pi via a powered hub. Also, there appears to be Ethernet problems caused by this "excessive" (but well within USB specifications) current draw: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6037
I think people are just waiting for George Lucas to die so they can have the original trilogy back, unmodified and in Hi-Def. It saddens me that Peter Jackson and others who should know better supported this greedy legal crusade.
I have two 45 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP drives, aka the Deathstar because of their reputation for unreliability. I've never used mine heavily but they both still work fine in what is now my backup system, despite being very nearly ten years old! I did upgrade their firmware as IBM recommended though which could've helped.
Doesn't Anakin have to impregnate Amidala at some point in Ep. 2 for Luke and Leia to be born in Ep. 3? Personally i'm hoping for Lucas to one-up "Titanic" and have a Natalie Portman split beaver shot.
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Console-wise I'm considerably more interested in the Ouya.
If it comes out soon. I had previously put my interest behind Pandora and the nD, but Pandora was delayed to irrelevance, and the nD has had no news in the past year.
We'll know by March next year. With the amount of money they've raised via Kickstarter and the big names in support it would be a absolute travesty if the Ouya turns out to be vapour. I'm confident it won't be. I wish they did status updates more frequently though.
Console-wise I'm considerably more interested in the Ouya. I think the Wii U will be completely forgotten once the next Xbox and Playstation are out. I doubt I will purchase any of them, although I think the Ouya could turn out to be very useful for non-gaming related stuff. Hopefully it will be something like a Raspberry Pi done right as I'm somewhat fed up with all of the Pi's problems. As for gaming, PC gaming has never looked better to me.
This was modded as a troll? I don't think so.
I submitted that. No, the problems with the USB drivers have not been fixed but software modifications subsequent to that post have improved the situation slightly for all Raspberry Pi's. Also, the revision 2 boards can supply more current to USB devices which means more of them will work when plugged in directly to the Pi. Unfortunately USB will most likely never work well on the Raspberry Pi due to the sheer difficulty of fixing the vendor-supplied drivers for the Synopsys USB controller which remain very buggy. I doubt the Raspberry Pi Foundation will ever acknowledge this.
I may be a twat, but if so I'm a twat who's in the right, whereas you sound like just another Raspberry Pi apologist who didn't even have the courage to post non-anonymously. There appears to be a few people like you who've responded to this story, then again it might be just you.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I get the following when writing to a USB stick, commands run simultaneously and output slightly edited for clarity:
root@raspberrypi:/media/usb# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.raw bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 37.525 s, 14.3 MB/s
root@raspberrypi:~# ps -eo pcpu,args
33.0 dd if=/dev/zero of=test.raw bs=1M count=512
However, being right doesn't make some of what you came up with in that thread helpful or constructive.
It might be helpful for people deciding whether or not to purchase a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has yet to formally acknowledge the existence of these problems with the Pi, something I find unacceptable. Sure, they've commented on these problems in their forums but not everyone will see those posts.
I am the submitter of this story. I posted as "lostintime" on the Raspberry Pi forums before I was banned for the post I made in this thread: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=15320
The power supply issues the Raspberry Pi has are mostly a red herring. The Pi is certainly unusually sensitive to power and can only supply a stupidly low amount of current to USB devices no matter what power supply is used, but these issues have been used as a catch-all to explain away every problem people have been having with USB and Ethernet on the Pi. This has obscured the more pressing issue of buggy drivers which I believe are the root cause of the majority of problems Pi users have been having.
There are multiple Raspberry Pi users on the official Troubleshooting forum experiencing hardware problems with their Pi. It appears the Raspberry Pi has problems with USB, specifically with powering peripherals that require 140 mA or more. Look here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5830
This situation causes a voltage drop that results in the USB voltage becoming out of specification. This has resulted in malfunctions with USB devices such as Wi-Fi dongles, even when connected to the Pi via a powered hub. Also, there appears to be Ethernet problems caused by this "excessive" (but well within USB specifications) current draw: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6037
I think people are just waiting for George Lucas to die so they can have the original trilogy back, unmodified and in Hi-Def. It saddens me that Peter Jackson and others who should know better supported this greedy legal crusade.
I have two 45 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP drives, aka the Deathstar because of their reputation for unreliability. I've never used mine heavily but they both still work fine in what is now my backup system, despite being very nearly ten years old! I did upgrade their firmware as IBM recommended though which could've helped.
Doesn't Anakin have to impregnate Amidala at some point in Ep. 2 for Luke and Leia to be born in Ep. 3? Personally i'm hoping for Lucas to one-up "Titanic" and have a Natalie Portman split beaver shot.