OneBusAway works great for that kind of thing in the Seattle / Puget Sound region. Though I still use Google Maps to provide the best transfer schedule, OBA is then good for tracking if the busses are running on time.

Unfortunately, I found that there are some dead ones where the busses aren't able to check in for a while... So the system might start to assume that a bus is running 15 minutes late, but then the bus will suddenly check in as on time just a few minutes before reaching the stop down the road from me. So. Mrrr

We had a lot of good apps back in the PalmOS days. I used to use JPluckX / Sunrise to download a compressed image of the day's Slashdot using the AvantSlash filter. I could even download the front page of any URLs provided as links, so I could even RTFA or see the AC's goatse links if I wanted to. Plucker for palmos was instantaneous on navigating and loading links from compressed data, much faster than using Avantgo at going back and forth between links, which was in turn much faster than downloading crap from 3g networks at the time over a mobile browser, which was in turn so much faster than trying to use the Slashdot beta AJAX / reactive / adaptive / redaptive interface we have now that doesn't even let you use the "open in new tab" feature that modern mobile browsers have.

I could get virtually all of /. on my device each day, ready to entertain me while I was on the subway or even out camping without cell service. And I couldn't make any comments, so everyone wins.

Yeah, I feel badly for you young'uns, we had things so great back in the day.

Actually, the cheaper Olimex A20 boards are cheaper than a RPi and superior in basically every aspect. Go figure.

The emails belong to their customers. What do you think their customers will do when all the their emails disappear? What would you do if your email provider decided to delete all your emails? In some instances it may be moot, that is for customers who make sure to download all email to at least one physical hard drive in their possession. I know I always make sure my emails don't live 100% 'in the cloud' on imap servers. But I am pretty sure most people don't follow my approach. Also, what about backups?

It's not completely Google Maps fault.

A lot of the mapping data it uses is tied to some pretty strict licensing requirements. Of course, now that the open street map data is getting really good in many areas, it's time for Google Maps to filter out the licensed-bound data in favor of the open data, but that's a conflict in the making and Google may suffer some backlash from the third party mapping providers it hasn't purchased yet.

But they'll still get the World Cup because Sepp Blatter is a Douche (with a capital D).

Oh, because it is low cost, and targeted at kids, that makes regarding the customers as stupid o.k. in your book?

Well, first I have not found any "large parts they leave out" so far, and second, the RPi datasheet "excerpts" are missing things as fundamental as the full GPIO specs. TI does no such utter BS.

That is just my point: They FAILED to publish the full GPIO specs! How demented is that?

Anything that has the full MCU datasheet published is significantly superior. Get a Beagle Bone Black for example.

Get a Beagle Bone Black. It is about $10 more, but you get a good design, the full specs and nobody is lying to you and you have none of the reliability issues the RPi suffers from.

Dream on. The Beagle Board, for example is from 2008 and fas fully open from the start. The Cubieboard is from 2012, same time as the RPi.

Enjoy the new cold war and worries of invasion. You deserve it. At least the nuclear scientists will have work rebuilding the nuclear stockpiles. Glad you'll have Russian tactical nukes pointed at you again, and NATO exercises chewing up your farmland. The movie industry will have their old enemy back and authors can start writing more post apocalypse books. I guess I have a more pessimistic outlook if we don't do anything now.

That explains a lot. Really, "targeted at education" and "full datasheet not available" do not go together, except for the most stupid or most corrupt of players. I have been wondering how this incredibly stupid choice was made.