Mint and chocolate combinations seem pretty common in the UK too. Personally I like them...

So at times of high demand the price of using the freeway will rise to the point it's discouraging people from using the freeway.

and you think this will help with the problem of people chosing to use local streets instead of the freeway?!

AIUI suppliers in general don't formally accept orders until they ship them. .

AIUI in many muslim majority countries children of muslim parents are automatically deemed to be muslim and abandoning islam to take up another religion or just because you don't belive in religion at allis a serious crime (punishable by death in at least some cases).

While in christian majority countries you are generally free to chose whatever religion you like.

And then theres places like the ISIS territories where they go even further and force people of other faiths to convert to islam on penalty of death.

Yes we have some christian fundamentalist nutjobs but by and large they don't have much power.

Easier said than done.

Firstly it's difficult to prove who is intentionally disrupting traffic and who is just caught up in the disruption. Especially if the disruption strategy is to focus a large number of vehicles on a small area but otherwise drive normally. Secondly if the roads are gridlocked getting the cop cars and tow trucks in and out is going to be difficult.

I remember reading an EPE article that claimed tha tthe difference in sound between valve amps and most modern transistor amps was caused by driving the speaker differently with the valve amps being effectively controlled current sources while the modern transistor amps are effectively controlled voltage sources. Thus causing the speaker to respond differently.

Said article also gave a design for a FET based amp which used the topology of and supposedly sounded like a valve amp.

I suspect they do have a backup soloution (paper based or otherwise) but using it results in a much lower capacity than the main system. After all why would you build a new computer system if their wasn't a significant benefit to doing so?

If you have an incident that reduces capacity significantly in a system that is close to capacity then you have to prioritise. The priority for ATC is going to be to get planes already in the air safely onto the ground before they run out of fuel. Planes on the ground can wait.

I don't see anything in his post saying he was dumb enough to try and power the whole rack with such a power cord.

In my experiance (living in the UK) most IEC cords are 0.75mm. 0.75mm flex is supposed to be good for 6A (and is probablly in practice good for substantially more, the current ratings on the small flex sizes are very conservative). That should be sufficient for most servers.

I do find it very misleading that the moulded IEC connectors seem to always be stamped with 10A even when connected to 0.75mm flex but if his flex melted either it was a very big server or the 0.75mm printed on the flex was a lie.

The JPEG originals from the camera are generally far too large for reasonable web use anyway. Nearly all photos you see on the web will have been downscaled and recompressed since they left the camera.

the difference is there is a virtually unlimited number of function names most of which do not have a pre-existing meaning. There is a very limited number of overloadable operators all of which do have a pre-existing meaning. So the temptation to abuse is much higher and ideas of what constitutes abuse much fuzzier..

Update: now i've managed to get on odriod's site and get some answers to the question. It seems they now offer a $9 shipping option for low value orders and they are using the postal service which tends to have marginally lower brokerage charges than couriurs. That makes the updated estimate.

$35 (board) + $9 (shipping) + ~£10 (brokerage) + ~£5.60 VAT = ~£43.6.

They also link to a store in germany that sells their products but said store doesn't have the C1 listed yet.

Do you know anyone who has actually achived this on a Pi or are you just speculating.

The final cost will depend on both where you live and what if any distributor arrangements odriod set up. I would be very wary of considering a board cheaper based on headline price alone as the difference between headline price and final cost varies massively.

AIUI ipods are meant to play two classes of media files, non-drm files and files protected with apple drm*.

AIUI circumventing protections on access to a copyrighted work is illegal in the US but that isn't what real did. They found a way to put their own DRM media on ipods without undrming it by convincing the ipod that the file was using apple drm.

* Yes I know apple no longer uses drm for music sold on itunes but afaict they still use it for videos, previously purchased music that was not upgraded and some audiobooks. At one stage they were also still using it for music giveaways after they stopped using it for music sales, not sure if that is still the case.

The big question with this is what will the actual cost be? last time I bought an odriod product I had to pay the price of a fairly steep delivery charge to odriod and the dreaded courier VAT collection fee and of course the VAT itself. I don't remember exactly what it was in my case but according to http://forum.odroid.com/viewto... the final cost of of an "$89" U2 plus a "$9" HDMI cable shipped to the UK was £108.83.

If we assume the same delivery charge for the new board as for the U2* and that it still ships from outside the EU on a regular courier service**, and that they tell the truth on the customs form then the final price will be about $35 (board) + $30 (shipping) + ~£10.5 (brokerage) + ~£9.5 VAT = ~£68.

Whereas with a rasperry pi I pay the distributors listed price for the Pi itself (which is marginally higher than the raspberry pi foundations nominal price) and the VAT (delivery is "free") final cost of a "$35" raspberry pi B+ is £27.44.

Of course i'm in the UK which skews things a bit in the Pi's favour, other places the calculation may work out different but still comparing nominal prices is only a very rough way to compare the cost of SBCs.

* I can't check easilly if odriod's delivery charges have changed or even if this board is actually available yet because odriod's main site seems to have been /.ed
** Some couriers are now offering all-inclusive services where the seller handles collecting the VAT and brokerage costs are consolidated across multiple shipments, but in my experiance only a handful of vendors use them.