No. I think what he meant was that let's say people are willing to trade X ISK or whaever it's called for 1 USD, and the spaceship is 9000X ISK therefore it might cost 9000 USD.

The conversion/trade I suppose doesn't always work that way.

The game devs sell game time for real cash. When you buy some, you get an in-game item called "PLEX", which you can either convert to 30 days of playing, or, sell for anyone in the game in the in-game market for in-game currency, at whatever price you both agree to. This creates a floating exchange rate from $ to ISK, by which count the Revenant was $9K. However, since the conversion is one way, it's questioned whether this means the ship can be said to be worth $9k.

That theory sounds bad, man. I'm an bi-lingual Asian from a relatively older age compared to you (10+) and have been living in the US for quite some time.

The 'imagine' part only happens when one is still relatively bad at the language that person is trying to speak. I wouldn't say that I 'imagine' or have any intermediate representation when I speak in English.

Sure... But then 20 minutes for a 100 miles even with not much things to do is good to me!

The problem is less likely the distance but availability of charging stations.

Did anyone notice that the first link on ... "Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery." ... was actually linking to flick.com, but not flickr.com?

Edit: In fact the second link also links to flick.com.

I need my balls not to be cooked by the power-hungry processors.

I need a light shit because I walk with my backpack a lot.

I need the key layout on the keyboard not a pain in the ass.

I need my palm to be like little Fonzie. What Fonzie like? It's cool.

I need standard linux, because I don't care enough to learn about all the quirks of Apple.

I need to have a thing that is light, 3G-capable, has good key layout, cool, and I forget to mention, I'm cheap too. So ask me why do I need to spend 5 times as much for your Macbook again?

To be fair a Macbook is going to support Linux much better and longer term than the Chromebook.

Seen as it's an actual computer and all not a locked down Google product that needs to be rooted to install an OS in the first place.

Last time I tried installing Linux (/Ubuntu) on a Macbook it was a balls cooking experience with the combination of NVidia and Intel. Pure intel HD might be better, but why do I want to solve those problems in the first place?

Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)

Do you have a power meter by any miracle? The main advantage I see to this over the Raspberry Pi (for my application) is its spartan power usage.

The spec sheet[1] says power consumption is 210-460mA@5V (the rpi-B in comparison is specced at 700mA right?)

[1] http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack

No I don't have a power meter. I know the Black works on a USB 2.0 port of my laptop and my desktop too, so it uses less than 500mA. From my experience working with Ti's stuff, they are often pretty good about power consumption though.

My main problem with the Pi is that it is very finicky... plug a USB device in, and it dies/connection drops and all kinds of weird things happen. I have seen none so far on the Black.

Isn't the finickiness related to power consumption? USB is only rated up to 500mA, so drawing too much power from the Raspberry Pi's own USB port will cause all sorts of havoc especially when the RPi itself is powered off another computer's USB port.

In fact technically RPi model B's official spec is that it requires 700mA. You can often get away with less, but you'll definitely start to hit 500mA+ under stress and with peripherals, which is above what USB can officially supply.

Your best bet is to get a nice solid cellphone wall-wart type charger, preferably rated 2A and up. With enough juice powering the Pi, all the issues relating to USB disconnects, freezing, and ethernet dropping stop happening.

Gonna guess that the stability you're seeing with the beaglebone is just from its much lower power requirement.

I can vouch for this. I use a Blackberry wall-wart type charger for my Pi, and it's been rock solid. I only power it down it when I'm off travelling someplace for more than a day.

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uptime
     10:58:03 up 17 days, 13:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $

Of course if you never plug anything in, it will stay up for a long time. The problem arises when there are things being plugged in and out.

Many USB devices don't work with the Pi. It's pretty picky.

    pi@mia ~ $ uptime 
     15:40:15 up 94 days, 23:03,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

I have a 1 TB USB HDD plugged in at all times (separately powered though), which acts as my NAS.

The USB implementation in the rpi's chip is rather... odd.

I've seen that flakiness as well - thanks for that report that it doesn't happen on the Black.

if you haven't found an answer to this by monday, send me an email (notatoad-gmail) and i'll let you know. doing a power consumption test between beaglebone and beaglebone black is on my to-do list.

Sure enough... It might be possible to host the site on the Pi itself. However, I think that's probably risky.

My main concern is that the Pi is powered by an Ethernet controller that is connected to the USB bus, and it might drop out in special circumstances

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3...

Thanks for your comment. Will fix the title.

>I believe Wayland window managers [1] will replace most of X11 for most users in a couple of years, but X11 will still be around to run legacy apps (similar to the way you can run X11 applications in

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