linux seems to average a release about every 2 months. Which would mean a series every 40 months. To fill up series 4 through 19 inclusive would take about 16*40=640 months = ~ 53 years. According to google linus is currently 45 so that would make him 98.

I would expect him to be at the very least retired and quite possiblly dead by then.

Thanks for the link.

So as usual /. links to a crappy news article rather than a source with real information.........

Can anyone explain why this is needed? why are more connections/a different type of docking port needed to support crewed pods than cargo pods? why can't they use the same docking ports the shuttle used?

Becuase faithfully following it is not possible.

You don't know what will go up in price, you can only make more or less educated guesses. If those guesses are right you make money, if your guesses are wrong you lose money.

You took a rather roundabout route to a somewhat inaccurate value of what 40dB meant.

The definition is that +10dB is 10 times the power. So +40dB is by definition 10000 times the power. 3dB is only approximately a doubling.

But that doesn't explain the figure you gave. A "third of a doubling" would mean multiplying by the cube root of 2 which would give an answer of about 10321, still somewhat off from the correct answer but substantially closer than the figure you gave.

Umm no a full cycle at 1GHz is a nanosecond not a picosecond.

yeah, i've been greatful for maplin getting me out of a bind several times, but the high prices and crap selection mean that the vast majority of my component purchasing (both personal and work) happens online.

but comparing it to those isn't really fair. Assuming it will be somewhere between $100-$200 that would put it in the same price bracket as the higher end options from the likes of wandboard, solidrun and odriod or even the atom based minnowboard.

And viewed in amongst that pack it doesn't seem especially exciting. I guess if you really must have both A15 cores (but only 2 of them) and native SATA then it may be a good option

The "videocore" is a bunch of modules including a processor (the "VPU"), a 3D core, various video related stuff etc. The SoC is booted by the VPU, the arm is inactive until the VPU starts it.

specs for the 3D core were released but specs for the rest of the videocore including the VPU remain closed :(. There have been some attempts at reverse engineering but with limited success.

I suspect "free for the maker community" translates as "free for personal use but if you use this in a product you are going to have to pay". How much you have to pay will probablly depend on the details of the product.

The core of phone networks has moved from physical circuit switching to virtual circuit switching to packet switching with priority but at least here in the UK normal phone lines are still delivered from the phone exchnage as analog pots over a pair of copper wires (which may or may not also carry DSL). I beleive the situation in the US is similar.

Were you thinking of some other place (and if so where) or were you using a pedantically narrow defintion of "dedicated pots line"?

Apparrently it's coming "in the medium term".

They started off copying BBC micro naming but they broke from it when they released the A+ and continued to break from it when they released the Pi 2 (the succsessor to the BBC B+ was the BBC master series)

The register broke a press embargo then put the misinformation about the core in a reply to a comment. Everyone who knew better was forbidden from commenting to correct them for another 7 hours or so.

Theres plenty of demand for mathematicians but most of it is going to be applying existing mathemical theorems/techiques or minor developments of existing theorems/techiques to someone's problem.

Top mathematicians don't want to be doing that. They want to be developing new theorems/techiques which may or may not turn out to have practical applications and that generally means working in a university under government grants.