Soon there will be more Made in the UK Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins. This is wonderful news for us; and it’s great news for Welsh manufacturing.
but last year she told you:
The Union Jack emblazoned, UK-only board for angry lunatics^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpatriots is a charming idea, but it's not remotely realistic.
you told her:
Finally, I'll say only this: if you want to curb the amount of arguments in this forum then you could at least try to tone down the propensity to post passive-agressive and provocative comments. It doesn't look well for a charity dedicated to an educational project to have its PR done by someone who is unable to have a polite and educated conversation. Take care.
So she signed off with:
I've had a better idea. I've removed your posting privileges, along with Sylvain's. My preferred sort of aggression is aggressive-aggression. Take care.
I think we should all take care and put on out tin helmets.
I think what happened was after the foundation complained that it couldn't find a suitable UK manufacturer they were approached by someone at the Sony contract manufacturing plant at Pencoed ( near Bridgend ) who had studied the board and calculated they could make it profitably at the foundation's target price.
The Sony plant ( it used to be one of Europe's biggest TV plants ) takes on small production runs for third party designs. They had to introduce a new POP facility to manufacture the Pi there . There is quite a long article about the factory process here.
Here is the story about the half a million Welsh Pi and a summary about move to Wales.
"The ARM was snuck into 2835 as a bit of skunkworks from Eben, who had these wild ideas about the general public being able to buy a breakout board for our chip and program it themselves. Sounded great to me, but far-fetched."
You are right about the chip, the Roku 2 media players all use the Broadcom BCM2835.
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to make a bridge in front of you.
The Raspberry Pi was only ever supposed to be a fun toy for kids to have in their bedrooms, to learn something about computers or electronics. I don't think it was ever pitched as a fire breathing replacement for you i7 gaming rig. That said it is very capable as an XBMC machine ( Raspbmc ) and plays old games like openarena and Quake 3 very nicely.
The source of the entries in the winnapp2.ini file is AFAIK the many hundreds of postings on the winapp2.ini forum on forum.pririform.com. Piriform includes the following on it's website terms of use
"You may not reproduce or copy the content of our Website in any form without prior permission. We reserve the right to withdraw this permission for any reason without notice and to demand that you immediately remove any copyrighted material."
As a different question they also include the following:
"This terms of use and permissions within and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts."
I believe the OP is based in America, how would jurisdiction work in this case?
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
