Raspberry PI
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It's not just schools either. A good friend of mine has a degree in computer science, yet has never programmed a line of code in his life. He can use SQL query syntax, and that's it.
I was also quite surprised once when I needed some Unix help, to learn that he's never seen an Unix box in his life. Even whilst doing a degree in computer science.
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Lol, even I manage a bit of SQL query!
Albeit with a good old google before hand, but I'd like to think I'm ok at it!
my lil bro is doing a computing degree, it seems that you can actually complete the degree almost without touching any sort of programming... it just depends which modules you decide to take!
As long as you get the correct number of credits and do the 'mandatory' modules, they don't really care!0 -
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And yet you still decide to take part. Funny that eh?IcarusGreen wrote:This is now officially the most boring thread in the world (outside of the commuting forum)
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I'm gonna buy an ipad. Way cooler.0
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IcarusGreen wrote:This is now officially the most boring thread in the world (outside of the commuting forum)
Do you keep forgetting what the raspberry pi is, get hungry, and think it's a thread about food only to be disappointed so post stupid cat pictures?
I don't care what any of you say, i've ordered one. It'll arrive in about 6 months time I think...but it's for charity so I'm not allowed to complain.Out with the old, in with the new here.0 -
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Ah they have the proper website working again now, as on the release week man were they having issues with traffic
http://www.raspberrypi.org/0 -
mmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnhhhhhhhh:- Raspberry Pie0
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Andy wrote:I'm gonna buy an ipad. Way cooler.
Got one, they make great chopping boards, other than that, they aren't of much use...0 -
Raymondavalon wrote:Andy wrote:I'm gonna buy an ipad. Way cooler.
Got one, they make great chopping boards, other than that, they aren't of much use...
Not true. They are great for winding stupid people up about
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Andy wrote:Raymondavalon wrote:Andy wrote:I'm gonna buy an ipad. Way cooler.
Got one, they make great chopping boards, other than that, they aren't of much use...
Not true. They are great for winding stupid people up about
What the idiotic people that buy them
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one of the main points of feedback the pi foundation heard was that 'they didn't want to break mum and dad's computer' as they were afraid of making a mistake on a home pc that renders it unuseable - with the pi they can try, fail, try again"I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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The other thing is nice to see us moving away a little from Intel and amd's awful amount of emulation that lies over there processors, the architecture is very old and not very efficient anything that starts us moving away from this can only be a positive in computer terms.0
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Andy wrote:Raymondavalon wrote:Andy wrote:I'm gonna buy an ipad. Way cooler.
Got one, they make great chopping boards, other than that, they aren't of much use...
Not true. They are great for winding stupid people up about
yep, I genuinelyed 0 -
I see the local chincanese circuit board builders pulled a fast one and populated the pcb's with a lesser ethernet connector, muhaha! Looks like we'll all be waiting even longer now. I really must buy the revolutionary new iPad so i can watch glorious retina HD porn while waiting for my Pi.Out with the old, in with the new here.0
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crazy88 wrote:I see the local chincanese circuit board builders pulled a fast one and populated the pcb's with a lesser ethernet connector, muhaha! Looks like we'll all be waiting even longer now. I really must buy the revolutionary new iPad so i can watch glorious retina HD porn while waiting for my Pi.
You can try lol, but unless the apps are specifically set up for it on teh new I-pad you get is up-scaling which is nothing special... and since there are virtually no apps, and most developers can't be bothered to develop multiple versions of the apps, most things wont even use that marelous screen.
bit of a disapointment really, as its a nice screen.0 -
Surely looking at pictures will use the full resolution though, so pr0n will work just fine.Thewaylander wrote:crazy88 wrote:I see the local chincanese circuit board builders pulled a fast one and populated the pcb's with a lesser ethernet connector, muhaha! Looks like we'll all be waiting even longer now. I really must buy the revolutionary new iPad so i can watch glorious retina HD porn while waiting for my Pi.
You can try lol, but unless the apps are specifically set up for it on teh new I-pad you get is up-scaling which is nothing special... and since there are virtually no apps, and most developers can't be bothered to develop multiple versions of the apps, most things wont even use that marelous screen.
bit of a disapointment really, as its a nice screen.
The new screen does make it a genuinely viable thing for showing a photography portfolio. It's almost enough to make me save up for one. But then, I'm not cool enough, since apple people don't need to "save up" for things. They're cool enough to afford it, or to just suck up the credit debt.0 -
Well upscaling doesn't really take advantage of the resolution a crap picture will still be a crap picture, but image veiwing and work, also anything designed to work with it will look fantastic!
Internet veiwing should be great too pin sharp text, but sadly in comparison to some android tablets connectivity is still awful unless you pay through the nose for the apple connectors, so the price you pay is no where near the price you actuall need to fork out to use it which is a shame.0 -
But if you've got huge images, then you have huge images. And the only way to see them fullscreen pixel for pixel is high resolution screens, the likes of which simply haven't been available before.Thewaylander wrote:Well upscaling doesn't really take advantage of the resolution a crap picture will still be a crap picture,0 -
Two markets really for this.
The geeks (us), especially those with nostalgia coming from the old BBC micro days (the Pi is even sold as Model A and B !).
Kids. The only ones who will be interested in programming with it will be the geeks. The attraction is a small cheap device that provides a focus on the raw elements of a computer, including what they look like inside. Though if schools decide they're cheap enough to buy themselves and do courses involving an understanding of how computers work, how to program them, then that's a good thing. A bank of PCs running Word & Excel doesn't appear to be enough.
Bonus if they get programming with them is they may focus on making efficient rather than bloated code to get the best out of a small device. Currently we have a run away situation with gadgets (mobile phones especially) where more power and memory is being chucked at the things to deal with the bloat rather than making the software efficient. Fix this and we'd have phones with better battery life for a start!
Oh, and for kids, they can buy them and plug them into a telly. They may not have a monitor, just a games console, and the parents or family PC may not be accessible when they want.
Anyway, it's a geek thing. That's why I'll buy one 0
