A more interesting benchmark for me at the moment is performance per $, which is where Raspberry Pi is going to have a big impact soon I think.

Don't expect any replies from the German readership.

Granted. However, the idea of:
1) using (presumably renewable) electricity to generate hydrogen instead of directly using that electricity in an electric vehicle, and then
2) converting that hydrogen to fertilizer instead of powering a hydrogen-cell vehicle, then
3) using farmland/water/solar to grow biofuel crops instead of food, trees or grazing land and finally
4) dropping the EROEI of the crops even further in the process of converting them into the final fuel
is so convoluted, inefficient, wasteful and messed up that it hurts my head.

Also, the Haber-Bosch process does not consume natural gas, it consumes hydrogen...

Was going to mod, but have to reply to this.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process:

By far the major source of the hydrogen required for the Haber-Bosch process is methane from natural gas.

Just to be pedantic, 4K is between 4 and 6 times the pixel count of 1080p, depending on the definition of '4K' being used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

Nothing for you to be concerned about at all - it's going to be hard enough time getting hold of one of these for Christmas already I think.

Posting because this piece of code deserves eternal Kudos:

1K ZX Chess

Full chess game implemented in 672 bytes.

Not really - every flat-screen TV made in the last couple of years has HDMI in, and every recent flat-screen monitor has DVI-D (basically HDMI). You have to think ahead, HDMI is the future and we're talking about a device that isn't even in production yet.

Um, from what I've seen so far, the reason they can sell the Raspberry Pi model A for $25 is that it's basically a single Broadcom BCM2835 SoC (with embedded RAM) mounted on a PCB with some I/O connectors and not much else. (the model B just adds one other chip to provide a USB hub and ethernet).

Pretty sure I saw this in Blade Runner, where the street vendor reads the serial number embedded in a snake scale.

"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. "

Heh, reminds me of the ending of Sales Guy vs Web Dude

IBM produces first 'brain chips'

Bonus geek points for spotting the error on this page.

Peak Oil mostly.

Well, that's the world we live in just now I'm afraid. You are an American on Slashdot and that pretty much makes you rich (certainly in the top 5% globally). The vast majority of the world doesn't, and never will, have the kind of personal transportation you enjoy.