02 January 2012, 16:25 | #21 |
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i'll be getting three or four of the £22 ones... I notice XBMC are on the bandwagon which is great as both my original xboxes are getting old and can't play HD movies, while the Pi will be able to through HDMI which is awesome
I'll have one running as a NAS server for all the other tv's in the house can't believe they're only 2.5 watts! |
02 January 2012, 16:42 | #22 |
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I will certainly be getting one, and enjoying it I'm sure
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02 January 2012, 19:02 | #24 |
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Actually IT wages are still quite decent outside of the usual claptrap that gets called "IT" these days. Programmers (real programmers) can still command a good wage as the number of people capable of certain tasks are in short supply, and in pretty heavy demand. This is a part of what this incentive is trying to address. Personally Id like my kids to excercise thier brains as much as thier bodies. @thread Anyone know when they go on sale? I'd like to buy one |
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Have been following it for a while and, agreed, there's a whole load of kids nowadays who don't give a toss there are a load that do. Wasn't that the same "back on the day"? You had those that just wanted to play games, in fact the majority just wanted to do that or not have an interest at all and the back bedroom developers that went on to be pioneers. Admittedly it takes a whole lot more to become a pioneer these days but that doesn't mean you can't become a damn good earner from learning on something like this. I need to find a reason to buy one of these. Even at £25 though, it's going to be little more than a toy. |
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04 January 2012, 12:05 | #27 |
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You seen they have auctioned off the first 10 boards and they went for crazy amounts. I wonder what is happening to that money (I haven't read any of the blogs etc)
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04 January 2012, 12:40 | #28 |
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They are set up as a charity and that money is going to go into the charity to produce boards for schools. Board number 10 was over £2000 last time I looked, good to see people getting behind them like that - if only we could do the same thing for Amiga!
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04 January 2012, 12:47 | #29 |
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Well I think I will be picking one up when the come out . Personally I think this sort of thing is great
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11 January 2012, 15:29 | #30 |
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Manufacturing of the first batch has begun, so hopefully not long now...
I wonder how well UAE / E-UAE will run on these? Pocket-sized amiga sounds fun |
11 January 2012, 16:09 | #31 |
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and this from the BBC today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929
fits in nicely with the Raspberry pi plan to be the BBC Micro of a new generation... for some reason whilst reading that article I remembered making "teletext" pages on the Beebs in Computer Science at school - anyone else have to do that? lol |
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I'm definitely having at least 2 :-) sounds fun. Especially when RISC os works on them. :-)
Edit: Hey maybe we should port os4. Last edited by musojon74; 11 January 2012 at 20:05. Reason: Idea :-) |
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11 January 2012, 22:36 | #34 |
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I'll be getting one as soon as they're sold boxed up.
At £25 or whatever that is it's be rude not to! |
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In the meantime its looking like Debian gnu/linux is the OS of choice. Ive used debian for 10 years in business for low cost servers. Its stable and has a huge amount of pre-compiled apps available, id highly recommend giving it a try while waiting for a RISCos port. For those considering buying a Pi, but are unfimiliar with linux,theres a tutorial channel with the basics of setting up debian (in a Virtual machine on windows) ... well worth a look. http://www.youtube.com/user/RaspberryPiTutorials |
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That's the biggest load of shit I've heard in a long time, along with your other comments above. Tons of kids are into programming. I work in the games industry and you see them coming through all the time. You think just because the Amiga is dead that no-one under the age of 30 tinkers with their computer anymore? Jesus. I've just read your other comments whilst typing this. I think I'll weigh out of this until you've taken your medication. |
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I'll be interested to see what they offer regarding development tools. Perhaps a complete system with documentation to tutor the user through their first program, and so on.
Much like in the 'golden-age' that someone described above. Not my words though |
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Here's a hint for you - they were so popular because they were cheap enough for anyone to buy their kid for christmas. Back when computers were thousands of pounds for a machine that could barely struggle to draw graphics, they were available for a couple of hundred pounds and did more than most people ever dreamed that a computer could do. Quote:
Actually, all joking aside, if the first language that kids come across with one of these is "C", we're getting it wrong. I started coding in Sinclair BASIC at age 7, and there is no way on earth I would have been able to code in something as convoluted and complex as C or C++ at that age, and what we really need to do is to capture their imaginations as early as possible. Once their minds mature somewhat at age 11-13 then they can upgrade to the higher (or lower) languages, just as we did with the transition from BASIC to 6502 or z80. D. Last edited by prowler; 12 January 2012 at 22:56. Reason: Back-to-back posts merged. |
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12 January 2012, 18:34 | #39 |
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I'm still not exactly sure what this is. It's essentially a cheap enough computer right? so those unable to afford a computer, get to do so or are even just given one from the school? And it has it's lite based os
The idea to to encourage people that might otherwise be turned off using computers, in the hope of growing potential talent some? And i do agree with you Dunny, i'm understanding of language in the form of basic from C64 etc but putting C in front of me back then wouldn't have helped my understanding of logic much. There are probably countless people that love the idea of programming but just don't bother when they see the likes of C. Mind you it seems this isn't the point of the device? Last edited by Adropac2; 12 January 2012 at 18:41. |
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I saw this news today, I shall buy the LAN version just to see what it can do.
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