I remember when 2 cores was considered dumb or even 2 cpus with their own dedicated ram. Those were specialty devices. I remember when 12 or 16mhz was fast. Who would need that speed? I remember when 32bit was unheard of, for that matter 16bit. No one would need that much power. And then hyperthreading, and multitasking and multithreading (well maybe we still haven't done much with that).

The fact is that necessity is the mother of invention.

We will also fill the void. I am not impressed with this Qualcomm exec's views. You can't take 4 cores and make a Corvette either, however we still have 4 cores in our phones and desktops. Think of Intel's multi-pentium core processor that beat the pants off anything anyone had produced to date. That had a very large number of cores. It's all in how you design and implement them. I understand the lessening return, however, if we had held that view the whole computer industry would have stagnated and dried up.

Eh, not a Windows company? They've had products out for Mac for a long time.

The man lied to Congress and is participating in illegal unconstitutional mass surveillance and seizure of every American's private data, all for the very limited success of saving less lives than that lost by slipping in the tub during a bath/shower. He's a criminal. He's abused the people's trust and has flat out lied to every American as well as those American's that sit in Congress. He needs to be in jail for a very long time along with all his compatriots.

You can't debate the goodness of violating the Constitution. We can't have our government (and the associated military) making decisions of what part, and when, to uphold the Constitution. No, the Executive Branch is not responsible for determining what should or should not be upheld nor are they even responsible for defending the American people. The President's primary duty is to defend and uphold the Constitution.

I don't know that I'd say they are loyal. With the 60% failure rate everyone should have abandoned them. That's an amazing failure rate.

I believe what keeps people onboard is that they already had this major investment in games. It isn't as if they could take those games to another platform and play them. If you own an Xbox 360 and it fails you buy another because your games are worthless without one.

With the potentiality of having the new version of the Xbox not play used games I would think that any loyalty factor would begin to go down. And, with the Kinect watching you (for the benefit of advertisers) I would conclude that as well.

Why is he still in office? He should have been driven out of town.

The article title should read "Richard Branson plans".

I have read the article that you reference. It is not a problem unless you overload the chain and even then it isn't because of the USB chip it's because of the CPU.

I don't agree. The product has been out for a good long time. They've had long periods where we couldn't get any. Then they opened up to mass purchases leaving those that couldn't get any before still out in the cold. It is rare that you'll actually find a Pi for sale in the US. When they are they are gone just as fast as they showed up.

It also has an RCA video out built into the board. You can also get an HDMI to VGA adapter.

My buddy is always trying to build the cheapest most flexible and powerful car computer he can. This would seem to be a good solution for him. Even if it is just a project always in the works he could learn a lot. I'm thinking about doing something similar just to work the project. That just got me wondering whether I could run that off my truck's stereo USB ports.

An old android cell phone isn't a general purpose device. Thus it has limits that the Pi was designed to eliminate. Please don't buy a Pi because that means there's one more available for the rest of us.

I also bought several SD cards to swap out but only during the test phase to determine which distro was right for me. I chose against and speak out against openelec primarily due to their bullshit security policy which prohibits installation of other programs while at the same time activating the root account. It also won't recognize my drobobox that I have connected to it. Technically it sees it but reports that it is a huge huge device and then fails to mount the volume. The Raspbmc distro sees my drobobox and works properly with it, though the raspbmc guys made it so that you can't update the files as a regular user even though the shares are set up to allow that. You have to open a file manager window as root to do it (as root on a workstation accessing the shares).

Your way of doing things has brought yet another slew of ideas about how this little device can be used. A low cost print server is a neat idea as I have 4 printers set up near one another that all could be run off that device thus allowing me to turn off one or more computers.

At this point I have a Drobobox, an external USB CD/DVD writer and my mouse connected to one powered 5v 2.6a hub. I have a G15 keyboard and the hub connected to the USB ports on the Pi.

I've had it a bit more complex in that I had taken a PC case fan and spliced it to a USB cable and had that plugged into the hub as well. On top of that I had an ATI RF USB adapter plugged into either the keyboard or the hub. All of this without any adverse or abnormal behavior. I do have my Pi overclocked and the voltage upped (which likely has nothing to do with the power supplied to the USB ports, but likely does impact the ability of the CPU to provide a realtime response).

In my case I rarely am in front of the keyboard or using the mouse as I use XBMC and hence use the remote control software on my Android devices. I also SSH in most of the time to do various tasks such as install new software, compile programs, etc. Amazingly while compiling programs and playing a HD video on the TV the Pi didn't balk once.

The USB port is not broken. It works fine with everything that I have thrown at it. If anything it is the amount of power available to the devices that you plug in. This is common on all PCs.

The device itself is the killer app.