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simple. A ship with a platform. Or an old drilling rig like the one they use for the SeaLaunch.
Yes it would be tricker than a nice big chunk of land and possibly more expensive but it should work.
Maybe they can fix it for the next rev. Frankly I would just use it for a boot and then go with a NAS myself.
True but no need to put a launch complex in Texas just use the one in Florida. AKA We need the jobs since NASA got gutted.
Ah, I found the relevant wikipedia article. I remember now that we never shipped a 6.0 (another marketing ploy since no one runs the
Wait, AIX is up to version 7.1 already? When I started in '01 I think they'd just shipped 5.0 or 5.1. When I left in '08 we were just shipping 6.0 (renumbered from the planned 5.4). What happened to 6.2, 6.3, etc? IBM was usually so conservative in bumping up the version numbers.
A real computer can crush a human like a grape if it fell over.
Dammit, I've been using facebook too long. The first thing I looked for after reading your comment was the "like" button. I've gotten used to seeing what comments people think are funny with that kind of upvoting.
It's a lot now.
This isn't counting the iPad or iPhone since Apple has a single CoreOS team that is at the root of all their products. This also doesn't count Windows XP; I have a VM I boot a few times a month for handling corporate BS that won't work on my Linux desktop. It also doesn't count the embedded OS that is inside my car stereo, the Wii, etc.
I think that the Pi was supposed to be a desktop system. It has a HDMI port and can decode 1080p video. That is a desktop device. Flash is a none starter for sure but YouTube should have worked.
The Pi is really cool but I think it has real issues at this time.
1. The GPU is not being used well. From what I hear X is not yet using the GPU for acceleration.
2. Limited RAM.
3. Slow IO. SD cards are not very speedy.
The first they can fix. The third might be fixable with using a USB Hard drive or a NAS.
It would be great if this could run say OpenOffice and play videos well. Schools and libraries could have whole labs of them all running form an inexpensive NAS and with a print server.
As a hacking tool this is great. For a general education tool it could also be really good but limited right now. As a programing education tool it could be really good, Do they have Squeak running on it yet? I know Python is up and working and they have a BBC Basic for it.
The thing is that this is a developers release. It isn't soup yet. It is really cool and full of potential but Endgadet was reviewing it as a finished product which it really isn't yet. I do think it is good that it showed it's curent limitations so the developers can work on eliminating them.
You are incorrect. Let's take the fracking case for example.
Judge A is a geologist.
Judge B is a lawyer.
I am not talking about an oilfield worker but someone educated in the field. Without at least some significant knowledge on the subject it becomes nothing more than who is the better speaker.
Think of all the idiots on slashdot that will still repeat the BS that low level EM causes health issues or that the many supposed causes of autism.
Or lets take the more cynical view. A Judge that didn't understand geology might just be less accepting of positive data and and will want to take the route of "better safe than sorry". Of course that is also the cause of so many other rulings involving science and technology that drives people on Slashdot crazy. Like "People use proxies for kiddie porn" which is true but they use it for other reasons as well but we should ban them just to be sure. Or Torrents are used for piracy.....
Bet you want a judge that might have actually used torrents to download an ISO then don't you?
"Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize half the people are stupider than that!" -- George Carlin
Think how much more true that is now that Carlin has died.
Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?