Modded "troll" Heh. Giving mod points to 13 year old children was never going to work. Luckily my Karma is "huge"

Bliss. When I started, you'd write your programme, send it - by sodding post - wait for the punch card operators to type it in. Then you would have to go through all the cards to make sure one had not *become* transposed, then submit & wait for the output. Could take a week. You iPad bods are lucky.........

Comprehension not your strong point then?

You been "polishing" your Bell End?

Your point is?

Stating the bleeding obvious is not making a statement at all.

It merely shows your educational lacking and, frankly, idiocy.

You, on the other hand, have obviously never had a girlfriend.

Reckon you bat for the other side you pooftah.

OP said there are faster & cheaper boards available, which is undeniably true, the article specifically says it's about the community & the provision of support for school children (Kids are the spawn of goats) which makes the Pi a better tool for school children, due to the community support - for teaching programming.

The Arduino may well be cheaper; but the point's moot.

I'm 54 this year. I love playing with my Pi.

But then it's more powerful than the Minicomputers I started on in the late 70's

I think Whoosh applies here for you.
It's not about the sodding hardware, or cost of said hardware. !!

!em kcuF

if attackers where targeting China it woudl be them that I woudl be worried about

Are we speaking the same language?

Our government

Not mine sonny!

"I dunno, but let's free the shit outta it!" :KABOOM!:

Saw this in Vietnam........... You ain't gonna win naff all!!!.

Crawl back under your turd mush.

I have never understood why people would create an account, then post this sort of shite anonymously. Seriously why?

Brain dead I suppose.

* white label tablets. Presumably built and sold in China, elsewhere.

White label tablets are sold in China, but also everywhere else. Rebranded as Aldi / Staples / Wal-Mart or what have you.

We need to recognize that premium android might as well be a different OS than white label android. The apps will be different, the languages will be different, the monetization will be different, the fragmentation will be different.

What are you talking about? I have a white-box Chinese Android tablet. It came with Android 4.2, gmail, Play store, google maps, etc. All of the no-name (Aldi Branded / Walmart / etc) tablets I've seen are the same.

For all intensive purposes premium android is as removed from white label android as it is from kindle.

Totally incorrect. The cheaper manufacturers actually provide a better android experience as they're using 'pure' android rather than putting shitty touch-wiz / sense style overlays & attempting to sign you up for a million stupid Samsung / etc services.

Oh - and you say "for all intents and purposes". Think about it. Intensive purposes makes no sense in the context this phrase is typically used in.

without clicking on a UID, you have to take a person's word for it. I'm a TWO DIGIT ID poster left on Slashdot.
(So you're still right.)

... you simply have to take someone's word for it, unless you click on his UID [yet another thing that Beta gets wrong].