Re: The Aero about-turn is an Apple-bashing exercise, perhaps

Personally I miss buttons that look like glossy liquid gel-caps and brushed aluminum backgrounds but I guess I'm the only one.

Re: It's not cheap.

At our company here in the US which is traded on NASDAQ VPs are part of the "executive team."

Re: Seems a little implausible

A 300ml bladder? I can speak from experience in an emergency my bladder holds more than 32 ounces (946ml.) That 32oz Taco Bell cup couldn't hold everything I had.

Re: Atari 800 series ???

Yeah the Atari 800 and later the XL series were my fans back then. Never could get past the 400's membrane keyboard.

I didn't realize they weren't as popular in the UK as the US. I guess the C64 outsold them but in my programming circle in the US the Atari 800 was very popular.

Re: No place for politics IMO

I suppose Green Day shouldn't sing about politics either? In what venue is politics allowed?

Re: @Peter2 - Thick eh?

AC says: Naturally, there are no small number of parents who want their children enrolled in these special programs, as they have a better chance of getting a decent education than the children stuck in the underfunded "ordinary children" school system.

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Really? You really wished you were in a remedial reading class. Or a "how to tie your shoe" and "eat food by yourself" class? While they may take 25% of the budget and get more attention I assure you the education these kids get covered areas you didn't need to be spending time on. You make it sound like they got into AP Physics while you were stuck in Trig. It's more like they spent extra time learning things you learned years before. No advantage given.

Referring to your remark about special needs kids costing more than regular kids, it is true that in society those more in need will consume more of the resources, but what's the alternative? Killing off anyone who doesn't get straight A's?

It's an interesting world you live in.

Conversely here in Arizona we have a voucher program. It means we can have private charter schools get public school funding for every kid they take in. The problem is, they don't have the oversight that public schools are required to have. So they do not provide proper education to disabled children (they must claim they do but they will discourage disabled children from attending or only provide day care instead of instruction) but they take the same amount of money away from public schools that due to strict oversight must provide much more expensive (often one on one) education to those same students. It means the public schools are left with a higher percentage of disabled children yet with a smaller percentage of funding.

Re: Great

Wish I had the same experience as you. Tell me how a printer driver can have low enough level memory access to cause BSODs in Windows 7? Someday Windows should adopt protected memory. I also found Outlook still has the ability to halt the entire system even in Windows 7. Someday Windows should adopt symmetrical multitasking. And lets not discuss the slow file copies to network drives...

I know MS claims they have both protected memory and symmetrical multitasking but my experience shows otherwise.

Re: I don't even want ethernet

Ok thanks for the 23 thumbs down. I learned it doesn't come with WiFi so my bad. Yes I'm willing to admit I made a mistake. I swear I read an earlier article that claimed both models A and B would have WiFi but model B would also include a wired Ethernet jack. I suppose what the article meant was that A or B could have WiFi through a dongle or that old specification changed. I've been following this exciting project from the beginning but since I only cared about wired Ethernet I didn't look too closely at WiFi options.

Verified there is NO WiFi included via their FAQ here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

video out?

I just shopped for an Arduino at the same price as the Raspberry Pi and it didn't appear to even include video output.

So to answer your question... price!

Re: I don't even want ethernet

It comes with WiFi on board so why would you do that?

Re: Battery problem

You're explanation shows you don't understand about generations of chipsets. Waiting for the next generation of 3G chipsets allowed them to use ones that are more power efficient. Similar to 4G today. Android owners get about 5 hours of 4G use today before their battery dies. The next generation 4G chipset will be smaller and more power efficient and will no doubt make it into the next iPhone.

But the real indicator that you are some sort of juvenile with personal issues is how you spelled iPhone. Did you think that was clever? I assume you spell Obama as "Nobama" because that also makes you sound so damn clever.

That was helpful

So this article is the equivalent of steering the kid away from the red light district, at a more appropriate time, and placing clothes on them.

I think this article already assumes that...

You are stating the obvious. I think with reading the article all you said went without saying. What the author (and us parents that do talk with their children) are trying to avoid is the accidental exposure.

You lost all credibility...

You lost all credibility when you claim the Whopper is better than what McDonald's offers. Yes there are many burgers better than McD's but Burger King doesn't have one of them.

Seems like a passcode would stop that...

Of course, if you are with friends you would think that wasn't necessary.

It's clear it's not free in the title

The title says Kindle. It costs money to buy things from the Kindle store. If not, it would've said PDF and figured if you had a Kindle you could put it on there yourself for free. I think it was clear enough and is fine. I like that Ars Technica and The Register are both experimenting with ways to add to their bottom line this way. Less chance I'll find a 404 message the next time I come over here for a bit of free reading.

The Fail is for you Failing to understand that they were selling this for "actual money" as you say. Maybe they should've taken bitcoins?

So you haven't heard of this then?

Perform This Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M

Keep it balanced?

I don't come to El Reg for balance! I doubt anyone does.

Huh?

Why exactly?

So both of you joined today and have 1 post

Said in the voice of Zoidberg: "So both the Astro headset peeps joined the Reg forums today and each have one post. Probably the same person and probably PR for Astro."

[No one reacts.] "I don't hear any gasping."

Everyone else: "We all figured that out already."

You use Linux but you use RDP?

If you use Linux as you say it would make more sense for you to use VNC. If you do use RDP as you also say, I would argue you use Windows.

Not by your standards it isn't

You say: pronography *is* protected by the 1st amendment. Which is why the worlds porn capital is in California.

Actually by your definition of protected it isn't. Anyone under 18 cannot buy a Playboy in the US. Thanks to the SCOTUS they can however purchase any violent video game or movie or book they want. But perish the thought of them seeing a topless female.

I don't see how restricting the sale of something violent to someone under 18 is a violation of the first amendment but restricting them buying a Playboy isn't.