40.00 GBP = 63.4156 USD at current exchange rate
I thought you said 80GBP, lol. Are you sure you said 40? 50$ can get a decent computer still, I bet!
Crippled in what sense?
I dunno, it's a tiny little goonbox with crapass specs. That's crippled in my book.
Yes, you make a very VALID and INTERESTING point, idiot.
Whoaaa no name calling dude, people will get angry! Easy. There are crybabies afoot.
Whether you think it's ridiculous or not, the problem exists and isn't going to solve itself.
Right. However, I think there are better solutions. Ignorant parents suck. Especially since most parents suck at computers and screw them up (and then blame the kid who barely uses it)
It supports C++ via the GNU toolchain like any linux system. C# in "any good form?" How about a full language implementation? It's called Mono. You have no clue about Linux, but you sure know how to paint yourself into a corner.
Please, lets drop the condescending HURHUR you dunno nothin' crap. It's getting none of us anywhere.
I use linux daily (Zenwalk and Fedora). I've even got a frigging Minix install still. Mono blows. The good form of C# is all the M$ related nonsense.
Plus this *is* all Linux stuff. Linux is not really user friendly, especially to kids who generally have short attention spans and are impatient.
Again, you are wading through things you don't understand. Since when is Fedora a "hacked up" Linux based OS? There is no "true" linux OS; everything is Linux *based* as Linux is not an operating system in itself. Fedora is a full-blown Linux distribution in every valid sense of the word, though. It's customizable and open down to rewriting and recompiling the kernel if you wish.
I was under the impression these things came with goofy little dumbed down Linux OS's that aren't exactly full of all the features you'd want, out of box. I don't expect a little kid to be savvy enough to start adding things he needs/wants to one of these. Nor do I expect most staff at a school. I drew this conclusion from reading the wikipedia entry AND the RPi wiki. It sounds like they've got Linux going on it, but it isn't full-blown. As expected from some crap running off an SD card.
But, what you are saying then is, these can run the same full blown Fedora install that I have installed right here? With all the fixins?
and still, it's a fairly low powered machine. I sure hope the thing is snappy. I remember putting Fedora on a 1ghz 256mb machine, and even with XFCE, the thing was pretty damn sluggish.
Everyone is approaching this from a seasoned developer standpoint. Try putting yourself in a clueless little kids shoes. These aren't the PROGRAMMING YOUR COMPUTER IN BASIC days where a happy little computer cartoon on the cover tells you all about how to PEEK and POKE and make pacman in a weekend.
This is a cluster****. It's modern computing.
Yes, I am pretty sure. I use both ARM and x86 based linux distributions every day, and since you are asking I might as well mention that I am a professional C programmer. I do know a thing or two about both Linux and programming.
Me too. I also program in asm. and C++ and C# (though C# is pretty annoying.)
Now, onto Mr. Tons of Fun.
how was he supposed to realize that, exactly? maybe throw a few more smileys at the end like Franko used to.
I miss franko. He understands how2forum.
there ya go! smilies make any asinine statement better!
What's wrong with teaching kids assembly and hex? It doesn't seem that farfetched. If they can count in base 10, they can count in base 16. Christ, the kids are stupid, but they aren't that stupid!
You're absolutely right - those british kids should be on the cragslist buying used computers with more oomph and practicality.
Yeah they should be buying these off the internet with their parents bank information! ;3 Parents can go nab used computers for their kids and stop holding them back from the modern world. We don't need some company to develop some little machine to open parents up to the idea of letting little Timmy use the computer.
Who's to say parents will even bite at this? Will it be up to the schools to buy the stuff ? If so, why don't THEY just get real computers too.
No, you haven't. You have been ranting about how stupid the raspberry pi is and how stupid little british children are and berating your fellow board members as stupid.
Who said anything about little british kids? All little kids are stupid. They're kids. It's how it works. Only a kid is stupid enough to put a fork in a wall outlet or to put a pet turtle in his mouth and choke and die.
So, until you decide to actually educate yourself on what the Raspberri Pi is, instead of spreading false information about its cost and its capabilities, or until you actually PROVE what you are saying with actual links, facts, etc.. I am going to stick by my assertion that you are nothing but an idiot with no knowledge concerning the topic at hand.
I'll admit 90% of this has been bored trolling and half cocked googling. It's friday, sucka. Though, I did paste what I grabbed off Wikipedia, but you condensed it down to whaargarbl because you're boring.
When we want to know all about crappy PC Engine ports or god awful homebrew games like Atlantean, we'll be the first in line to hear what you have to say.
Whoaaa now. That was simply uncalled for. I prefer you call them ****ty, and ****ing awful. Don't bring god into this. He didn't do anything to you. Or maybe he did. I don't know.
Besides, people like my games. Play them before you act like a polesmoker.
Or, get better insults.
However, I am touched that you at least clicked my link and cared enough to research your prey. =3 *hug*
Until then, go finish your thesis, drink a coffee, and pound sand.
Getting close, coffee sucks, and I prefer pounding my wang. Or your mom.
Trying to teach programming to kids is a waste of time. The geek kids don't need incompetent teachers to show them the ropes and the non geek kids don't give a damn and won't get anything out of it any way. The raspberry pi doesn't change anything, and kids aren't hurting for computers anyway, they're surrounded by them.
True. Most K-12 teachers don't know **** about computers or programming.
Programming itself isn't all that particularly useful of a skill for the vast majority of people and society isn't suffering from a lack of computer programmers. The raspberry pi is a cool toy for geeks but I think it's usefulness in an educational setting for k-12 is massively overblown.
I do notice that most people getting erect over this are probably planning to keep the thing to play with themselves. While playing with themselves maybe.
