This is one thing I disagree with. For a small embedded chip targeting arduino et al. settling for a specific form of video output is something I do NOT want. I greatly prefer having a chip that can interface with a video driver of some description. For 99% of the uses for this tiny thing there will not be a display with a standard video input. It will be run via a parallel interface, or SPI, or I2C, or god forbid UART, all of which the chip supports.

Even popular displays for the Beaglebone, and RPi don't use the display capabilities but rather hook to the I/O connectors and communicate with one of the more typical methods.

If you want a display, add one using an interface of your choice.

The Edison is a system on a chip designed to go on a board. The chip itself naively supports a wide votlage range, SD cards. The official breakout board supports USB and USB OTG, and has a DC input jack for power.

Well you work on the demand side of things, and in the mean time I'm glad the company is taking the best possible approach to extracting the worst kind of energy.

This, a thousand times this.

It's a SOCIAL problem. It's amazing how many people simply don't get this. You can't engineer away social problems by applying limits. You can only engineer away social problems by changing social behaviors.

Samsung has trialed this approach with great success with S Drive. Rather than try and prevent people from using their phone, encourage people with incentives for using it safely (voice activation only, limits to phone functionality, text to speech interface), and demerit them for unsafe actions (touching the phone while in use). The idea is quite amazing and something like this could be a game changer.

Once you modify behaviors enough that they become instinctive then you can start rolling back the incentives and you have solved the social problem.

Probably but to what end?

The only reason the oil is being extracted is due to a demand for it. If you cut off the demand then it no longer becomes profitable to extract it. It's not just 3x as costly for CO2 but it's 3x as costly extract and refine too.

It's not green washing, the alternative is not to simply ignore it but rather the alternative is to use non-renewables to perform this process. One way or the other it's coming out of the ground so why not do it with the best footprint possible?

Because one is transportable and the other isn't. Renewables are fantastic in situations where they can be used, and a pointless waste of money everywhere else.

The answer to your question isn't non-renewable+renewable vs only renewable, the answer is either of new-renewable + renewable vs only non-renewable.

... I'm pretty sure I hit reply to the wrong comment... Sorry.

As opposed to an office where someone is watching your every move, you get interrupted every 5 seconds for a worthless meeting, and co-workers do nothing but yell football insults at each other across the open plan?

You are right of course, studying at home is like working at home; in many cases it works just as well if not better than doing it at university / work.

That's funny given my girlfriend got her entire degree from a reputable university doing nothing but online classes, as has everyone else who's ever learnt by correspondence.

I have news for you, just because they came up with a catchy name like MOOC doesn't mean this concept is in any way remotely new. My father did it too, but it was VHS tapes and books flung back and forth across the state in the mail.

Garbage. Different people learn different ways. Some people want to be shown by peers, others are happy figuring things out for themselves. Human interaction is most critical when you're learning about human interaction. You wouldn't have a 3rd grader doing a remote online class as you end up butchering their social skills, however at the university level this is a whole different ballgame.

There's a whole industry based on educating by correspondence which works just fine. I see this as an extension available to everyone. The high drop-out rate? Easily attributable to the fact that most people (including myself) had NOTHING riding on the course at all. I signed up for fun, I ran out of time and didn't finish it. I also didn't need to. On the flip side I put in a shitload of effort into my university degree without ever attending the university because it was an 8 hour drive away, and I slaved my way through a high GPA, and got a degree because I actually had my future (and financial incentives) riding on the result.

It's a load of garbage anyway. There's nothing this technology does to invade privacy that we can't already do.

You're in the open, then use a parabolic mic to pick up the conversation you're clearly already taping.
You're behind some glass, then use a laser microphone to pickup the conversation which while it sounds James Bondish, actually already exists.

As a society we're already too little too late on the privacy side.

Because we as humans weren't even able to do it. Cast your mind back to the 2006 World Cup finals when Zidane head-butted an opposing player.

Lip readers concluded a wide range of possible answers to why he lashed out including calling him a terrorist, insulting his mother, and saying his sister was a prostitute. This may be something specific to the Italian language that the words may sound the same but it highlights the problem. All conclude that he said the Italian for "go fuck yourself" at the end.

The problem with following grammar rules is you assume people follow the grammar rules.

This is just like any project. The electronics projects are the worst. I remember seeing this iPad display adapter. They wanted to raise 15000GBP. Pledge 65GBP and you'll get the circuit board ready to DIY the display.

I wanted that. So I after a quick search I went to abuse mark and ordered an adapter ready to go for 20GBP.

They are kickstarting a product that already exists for 3.5x the price, and it looks like people fell for it.

The largest files you can get from a camera are TIFF not RAW, and thus you'd be looking at 40Mpix * 16bit per pixel per channel (remember a final image is per channel, the RAW has a beyer matrix) * 3 channels = 240MB/picture. That's only 2200 photos on your super memory card now.

Why would you shoot in TIFF? Production ready from the camera. If you shoot at an event you can use the camera to process the image and then save an uncompressed file ready for print / transmission. Kind of important if you want to get the publication out quickly.

But lets pick an example closer to home. I went on holidays last year and snapped away 11000 RAW files. On the D800 that's around 60MB/file or closer to 45MB with NEF compression. At 459GB this would have done away with my need to cart two external harddisks and a laptop with me. I was actually considering buying little memory card copying unit that would have done away with the laptop, just slot in the card and it auto-copies to the harddisk, but they were ludicrously expensive.

I can totally see a use for this. I can actually see a use for 2 of these (my camera can write the same photo to two cards at once). 11000 files are a lot to lose in one go.

Arbitrary means to pick something at random or at whim. In this case the choice of freezing / boiling points of water were NOT arbitrary, but rather consistent with the rest of the units of the SI system which are based around some interlinking thing.

1L = 1000g of water.
0degC is the freezing point of water.
100degC is the boiling point of water.
1 calorie is the energy needed to heat 1g of water by 1degC (though superseded by an SI unit this was the original metric measurement for energy)

Even if you dismiss this, it's still less arbitrary than a measurement system that bases the arbitrary number of 96degC on the temperature of blood in the human body, and has a zero point where the history is not actually known; is it brine mixed with ammonium chloride with a bit of error added in, was it the coldest day of Fahrenheit's home town? The only thing not arbitrary about the Fahrenheit scale is that it was later redefined ... based around the freezing point of water.

A bit more Wikipedia trivia Celsius was originally called centigrade a completely not arbitrary name meaning 100 steps.