Comment Re:"Cleard them of wrongdoing" (Score 1) 277
Erm...no.... scientists didn't give you gravity, they just found it...lying about the place and spent a lot of time working out its properties.
Before you rant, I am a physicist.
Submission + - Record-setting 500 trillion-watt laser shot achieved (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) have achieved a laser shot which boggles the mind: 192 beams delivered an excess of 500 trillion-watts (TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to a target of just two millimeters in diameter. To put those numbers into perspective, 500 TW is more than one thousand times the power that the entire United States uses at any instant in time. Pew-Pew indeed ...
Comment Re:Partially a lack of interest by users (Score 2) 663
Try four, its a bloody nightmare.
Comment Re:Ubuntu is dead to me (Score 2) 543
Have you tried xubuntu? It uses XFCE.
Comment Re:Cool, but... (Score 5, Informative) 280
Apple is responsible for the products it supplies. It is up to Apple to seek damages from Nvidia, not the consumers.
Comment Re:Obsolete on arrival (Score 2) 148
If you can't see how useful a commodity, tiny form factor computer (with great connectivity) that costs throw away money is then I really pity you.
Comment Re:The First Hurdle (Score 1) 148
Are you trying to be deliberately dim? The section removed only contains the registers to control the gfx chip as there are restrictions on their release, everything else is there. Hardly very restrictive.
Comment Re:The First Hurdle (Score 1) 148
They have provided the spec sheet for the RPi SoC, it just has the gfx chip section removed (see the RPi blog). So hardly very different to the chip on the board you just wrote about.
Comment Re:This has gone far too well (Score 3, Insightful) 148
Anyone who can't think of a use for these boards is lacking a serious amount of imagination.
1) Educational tool
2) Media center
3) Robotics controller (CNC tools, experimental robots)
4) Homebrew NAS
5) Cheap linux box
6) Point of sale machines
7) Disposable computer for test industries
and that was 1 minutes thought.
So many uses it's stupid...and the reason it is so damn useful is that it will be have good support and it is so damn cheap for the power you get.
Comment Re:Obsolete on arrival (Score 1) 148
Actually if you have ever ordered from Farnell and RS, you'll find that the shipping charge is about typical, especially for orders that require airfreight. Our company has accounts with both of them.
Comment Re:Obsolete on arrival (Score 1) 148
Wow, so bitter...did they bugger up a business plan of yours Mr AC?
Comment Re:no (Score 3, Informative) 148
Re item 1) the tax is on individual components in the EU, but apparently excludes assembled PCBs. Hence (ignore also higher labour rates etc) it is more expensive to assemble the RPIs in the EU then get them made in china and shipped back. They spelled this out clearly on the blog. Its a stupid situation and one they have taken up with the UK minister for business.
Comment Easy solution (Score 1) 458
Well the solution is rather obvious, just keep turning it on and off again. You don't need to travel in one jump. No build up, no problem.
Submission + - Raspberry Pi to be permenantly available from April onwards (techrepublic.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If you missed out on the first batch of Raspberry Pi boards they are expected to be continuously available from April onwards, according to Raspberry Pi Foundation director Eben Upton.
Submission + - Upcoming GNOME 3.4 Previewed (ostatic.com)
Thinkcloud writes: Lots of nifty UI changes in the new release.
