Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools 159
Grench writes "Search giant Google is providing funding to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to give 15,000 new Raspberry Pi Model B computers to schools all around the United Kingdom. Google Giving's partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a significant investment in UK IT education; it is hoped this will help turn around the decline in UK schoolkids going on to study IT in colleges or universities. The Foundation said, 'CoderDojo, Code Club, Computing at Schools, Generating Genius, Teach First and OCR will each be helping us identify those kids, and will also be helping us work with them. ... Grants like this show us that companies like Google aren’t prepared to wait for government or someone else to fix the problems we’re all discussing, but want to help tackle them themselves.' 15,000 Model B units at $35 each would run $525,000."
Mmm .... Pi (Score:1, Funny)
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yes weebl, we know ... http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pie/ [weebls-stuff.com]
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I guess its cheaper than paying taxes, if G paid their taxes the gov could give every kid a brand new laptop.
$500K is a lot cheaper than Google's tax liability, methinks.
Raspberry or Pork? Raspberry (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess its cheaper than paying taxes, if G paid their taxes the gov could give every kid a brand new laptop.
$500K is a lot cheaper than Google's tax liability, methinks.
How cynical. I prefer money being spent this way as opposed to it going to taxes that gets spent on god knows what.
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> How cynical. I prefer money being spent this way as opposed to
> it going to taxes that gets spent on god knows what.
irony of the week award here -- we have a winner!
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We could have bought 35 cluster bombs at $13,941 each, if this weren't being wasted on education this way.
Honestly, this was initiated by a group at Google UK, and had nothing to do with taxes.
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But Google UK has had a hard time recently in the press and public opinion (along with Amazon and *$$) for paying little or no tax
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I prefer for corporations to pay their share... so I have to pay less
Unless of course you want to pay my share instead? You obviously have money to spare
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I prefer for corporations to pay their share... so I have to pay less
Do you work for a corporation, or are you supported by someone who works for a corporation? Do you buy things from corporations, or made by corporations? If so, you fund whatever taxes the corporations pay. If not, you must live in a shack in the mountains and use someone else's computer and Internet connection.
All taxes are ultimately taxes on individuals, because all money ultimately belongs to individuals -- even money held by corporations, whatever their legal personhood, because corporations have ow
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The idea that all corporate money eventually winds up being spent by a tax-paying consumer somewhere breaks down under these circumstances:
- The corporation just sits on the cash
- The corporation sends the money overseas to a tax haven somewhere
- The corporation outsources jobs.
It seems fair - if a corporation wants to have free speech like a person, have rights like a person, and own assets like a person, it should pay taxes like a person. Otherwise, people would be forming communal corporations ("financia
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1. It doesn't matter if a corporation just sits on the cash, sitting on the cash increases the market value of the corporation, which results in asset value increases for those holding the stock, and capital gains when it's sold. Corporations holding cash and stockholders holding stock can temporarily tie up the income, but eventually the stock changes hand, and eventually the cash is spent.
2. If the corporation sends the money overseas and it gets spent there (e.g. to pay employees), it will be taxed t
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why isn't this income (capital gains) then taxed as high as 'ordinary' income, or, as the comparison is about spot-on, as high as lotto winnings?
The theory is that taxing gains at a lower rate encourages investment and increases tax revenues by increasing GDP growth. I don't personally have a position one way or another on that question. I think that's a question to be answered with data, and I don't know what the data says.
Re:$4,100,000,000 taxes paid last year, 50% of pro (Score:4, Insightful)
I have my own business and I pay nothing close to this 63% tax rate that you mention and I cannot imagine how you can even get there. If you're paying anywhere near that, then you need a new fucking accountant because your current one is stealing from you. FYI...in the US, over half of all companies pay no taxes (other than their payroll tax).
Maybe you can read the numbers if they are in colu (Score:2)
I have my own business and I pay nothing close to this 63% tax rate that you mention and I cannot imagine how you can even get there.
If you don't know how you end up paying AT LEAST 63% in taxes, this should be educational for you. I guess the numbers in my original post were hard to read because they were mixed with the prose. Maybe better formatting will help you. But first, let's agee on some averge rates to use in our example:
The first tax we'll consider, corporate income tax, ranges from about 24% to 44% in different places. For example, in California, USA, a medium sized business pays 35% federal, 8.84% state, plus local. I
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The first tax we'll consider, corporate income tax, ranges from about 24% to 44% in different places. For example, in California, USA, a medium sized business pays 35% federal, 8.84% state, plus local. In the UK, it's 24% income tax, but then also 20% VAT which compounds to about 35% total VAT.
We'll use a mid-range number - 30% corporate income tax.
Then that same money goes to you, the owner, and you pay tax on the same money again. 28% is the UK rate, and it's about the average of the several US rates.
In t
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yeah, right 'obama is making poor businesses pay for health care of its employees'.
you know, the things our grandfathers fought for (unions in the midst of horrible working conditions) have been forgotton.
business has gotton nearly a free ride for DECADES. now, we are trying to do what's right for people and you assholes complain about money. the business SHOULD take care of its people. we are not animals! at least we strive not to be.
consider this a payment on a bill that went unpaid for a very long ti
Re:$4,100,000,000 taxes paid last year, 50% of pro (Score:5, Insightful)
It's very popular.
The media in the US says that we have death panels.
We don't have death panels. They were lying to you.
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We don't have death panels. They were lying to you.
However, we'd be very keen on death panels if they were considering the fates of politicians.
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Just a few related links here... not sure how credible these news outlets are however!
one "news source" [frontpagemag.com]
another [townhall.com]
and another [lifenews.com]
I think the whole "Death Panel" thing was just a Republican thing to scare people about Obamacare, as opposed to the sensible policy of only providing good health care to those who can afford it.
;)
Also, just for the record, there are no Death Panels in the UK. No, it's called the Ministry of Death!
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'cept we HAD insurance until Obama made us drop it (Score:2)
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I'm in the process of shutting down my businesses. That's what the current 63% total tax rate gets you
Umm, corporation tax only applies to *profits*. That is, money your business couldn't find a way to spend. Excess cash. Surplus.
If you are really in the position of paying 63% corporation tax then CONGRATULATIONS you are running a profitable business. Next year, try ploughing additional funds into R&D or more staff so that you don't have so much net revenue.
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woosh, as the point goes straight past you. You appear to have done all your calculations in dollars. The problem with Google's tax affairs is that they do lots of business in the UK in pounds and pay very very little corporation tax because they use a double irish arrangement to wriggle out of tax on profit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement [wikipedia.org]
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Google pays assloads of taxes, they just pay them to the place they're incorporated in. Either change the laws or STFU, you wouldn't pay more taxes than you're required to, so why should they?
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social responsibility mean anything to you?
guess not.
GIMME MINE AND FARK YOU.
yeah, I got your number.
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Off-topic (Score:3)
if G paid their taxes the gov
The fact that you post it in a belief that your supporting your favourite mega corporation is a little sad, I assume you are posting AC because Apple and Microsoft are equally good [if not better] at avoiding paying tax.
The reality all companies over 100 employees avoid paying any tax, pretending that its *unique* to Google or *new* f**king sickens me, as the problem is the system needs to be fixed.
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the diff is: MS and apple never EVER claimed to 'do no evil'.
one could argue that avoiding social responsibility (and making huge profits on the backs of others) *is* being evil.
we all know that corps are whores. they'll do anything for a buck and not think twice. fine. but when you cry 'we are not evil!' you had better mean it.
and they clearly are just paying lip service.
apple and MS are not dishonest in this regard. they are not ashamed of their profit-based mentality. but google tries to have it bot
Not an excuse (Score:3)
Apple and Microsoft do not get a free pass, and have four times the money off-shore, simply because Google has irrelevant informal corporate motto does not justify your bile.
*All* Corporations should pay tax, and that includes Google, your post is a reflection on yourself not Google.
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I was thinking along the same lines. Kudos and attaboys to Google for doing this, but what this gift unintentionally did was cause the schools to need to buy I/O devices for those machines. Why not 15000 OLPCs, which are 'complete'?
Because OLPCs have a different focus. OLPC is intended as a general purpose learning tool, while RPi is intended specifically to teach electronics & computer science. Presumably goolgle wanted the latter outcome rather than the former.
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You're looking at it the wrong way. The device works, but like most things man made, it has shortcomings. Imagine the learning experience the kids will have in overcoming these limitations.
What if the next version of the R-Pi contains a fix to these problems developed by a bunch of kids in one of those schools? Wouldn't that be cool?
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You're looking at it the wrong way. The device works, but like most things man made, it has shortcomings. Imagine the learning experience the kids will have in overcoming these limitations.
What if the next version of the R-Pi contains a fix to these problems developed by a bunch of kids in one of those schools? Wouldn't that be cool?
It's not a bug. It's a feature!
You are in marketing, aren't you?
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Yeah, I consult on it. xD
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I think the majority of the problems were due to a bad batch. I ordered 5 last November and 3 were DOA (USB/network issues). The 3 Newark sent as replacements were good; good enough to play 1080p video streamed over the LAN with raspbmc and not reboot yet (months and counting).
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While there have been quality control problems recently which the Raspberry Pi Foundation has downplayed the USB issues are inherently a result of the notorious USB controller in the BCM2835 SoC that the Pi uses. They've actually just hired a Broadcom employee full-time now to address these problems after many months of complaints, see this thread: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=30764&p=270951 [raspberrypi.org]
They are long overdue in taking this issue seriously but better late than never. Hopefully
Kudos to Google for their geeky naivete (Score:4, Insightful)
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When I was in highschool, schools were filled with Macs. Worthless in the realworld, in the buisness world... you know, where you could actually get a job. My senior year physics teacher brought the first PC into the school. Then, those of us that knew PCs came out of the woodwork. The entire school was converted to PC's in less than 2 years.
If even 5% of these make it into the hands of students that give a shit, it's going to make a world of difference in their lives. In my graduating class of 400, I'd gue
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man, you people are all so negative an synical. it's like.. a bummer
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Yes, but not by as much as you'd like, and it's been getting slowly worse over time for a while now.
The government - whichever party is in charge - has attempted to attribute the steady increase in grades to students being better-taught / cleverer, but are failing to hide the main causes of that, which are that the courses are being simplified and the grade boundaries adjusted so that you get higher grades for the same quality of work from the students. Most of this is subjective, but as an objective exampl
Kind of the Point (Score:2)
I don't see this accomplishing much though. If they're given to teachers for classroom use, most of the teachers aren't going to know what the fuck to do with them
The pi was invented to solve the problem of students leaving without computer science skills [only office skills], part of the problem is solved by the raspberry pi, cheap hackable equipment....if the teachers are not capable of teaching as you claim...that is a different problem.
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Teaching is different? (Score:2)
Teaching and maintenance is more labour intensive and expensive
I'm sorry, your wishy washy excuses may work in some circles, but for everyone else in the computing industry [every industry] constant retraining, and reactions to current trends is essential. I cannot remember the last time in my life I wasn't in some form of retaining or other.
As for popularity being a factor. I'm sorry, cutting your nose of to spite your children is a disgrace. As I say everywhere corporations need to pay tax, scapegoating a few corporations, especially when worse offenders like Microso
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Constant retraining in one's field is relatively easy. It would take most developers only a little effort to learn a new programming language, or the latest trend in web-oriented methodologies. Now you may agree that if one moved developers into management, going them to do an MBA is going to require massive efforts and not inconsequential investment from their company. Yet moving a developer into management without this massive retraining is not unlikely to result in a disaster.
Now the teachers in elementa
You should be! (Score:2)
Now the teachers in elementary and high schools' expertise is in education, not computer science. This is a massively different field for most people.
Sorry your talking from an uninformed perspective, most teachers take an *extended* degree, which covers a teaching practice, and a specialist subject. An alternative route into teaching is the teach first which are meant to be *on the job* training for *people exemplary in their field. I'm sorry these are the highest paid *worldwide*, and they are teaching children.
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One of my relatives are teachers. First thing is, she is absolutely petrified of computers, scared if she presses the wrong key, something will break especially if it is school property and affect her promotion prospects. Can use email but detests using spreadsheets to manage the prescribed teaching objectives of her classes. If she is expected to use or teach any technology related equipment, she expects to be put on the training course, have course and teaching materials provided for her to make sure ther
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You need to learn the difference between 'scapegoating' and 'boycott' too and some logic too, the fact that one is not boycotting all of them at once doesn't invalidate the process of boycotting one of them.
I hope it works out for you.
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Perhaps you don't remember the BBC Micro. Most of the teachers didn't really know how to use it, but it was a fantastic tool for students willing to learn. You turned it on and started programming. It had lots of I/O for connecting stuff. Lots of supporting material for teachers and students. Lots of companies producing compatible hardware, complete with documentation on how to operate it.
That's the point of the Pi. It isn't for everyone, but if some students are interested in, say, controlling a robot or d
Google's Philanthropy program is PR genius (Score:1)
They get amazing PR from the geek press for contributing spare change in Larry and Sergei's coin jar, and they don't even have to open source their code except for some stray "neat hacks" that have zero business relevance. "Summer of Code" was another example.
What about the USA (Score:2)
Google, where are the Raspberry Pi for the kids in the United States???
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Maybe if it was a US initiative. (Score:4, Insightful)
Google, where are the Raspberry Pi for the kids in the United States???
Maybe because the Raspberry Pi is...an UK project started at the University of Cambridge to solve a UK problem. Computing becoming less about computer science...and more about web design and office.
Its not a bias thing. The UK is not getting Google Fiber. ;)
From the website. (Score:2)
How is plugging a bunch of peripherals into an antiquated ARM board "about computer science"? If that's computer science then your average sweatshop peon must be Alan Turing.
From the About us on the raspberry pi website. http://www.raspberrypi.org/about [raspberrypi.org]
"The idea behind a tiny and cheap computer for kids came in 2006, when Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, including Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science in each academic year. From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applyi
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The boards are built in the UK (Score:3)
Which mens that there are no additional import/export issues, if they are sold and distributed in the UK.
If you are in some other location in the world, design your own damn board, or just manufacture the Raspberry Pi boards locally from the UK circuit diagrams and get your local equivalent of UL and FCC certifications, and money might materialize for your local schools as well ... or not. This happened in the UK because some UK Googlers were excited enough about it to push up their management chain. You;
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Isn't R-pi a UK company? That could be a factor. Shuffling £ from one british org to another and all the money stays in the country.
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I'd prefer Google to focus on third world countries before any of those... I might be biased though, considering I'm living in one. :P
You keep posting this, but you're wrong (Score:3)
The USB problem is not intrinsic to the chip, it's intrinsic to the board design with a loopback on the power rail. Because of this it wasn't possible to do high speed USB because you couldn't raise the voltage out of the PMU with the other rail effectively holding it to the lower voltage.
You can ECN it yourself, if you have a microscope soldering station and know how to manually solder BGA devices, or you can just damn well by the new revision of the board instead, it's not like they cost that much. I kn
I gave my teachers (Score:2)
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plenty of raspberry ' s in my time, they gave me caning ' s.
I'm assuming it was mainly English teachers.
Why? (Score:1, Insightful)
I have one question: why?
They could have easily invested in a dozen existing programs, or made their own. They could have gotten everyone a wicked deal on second-generation laptops or something. Hell, Google could have setup a giant VM farm on their end ("in the cloud") and given everyone free access to their own tiny private networks running whatever it is you're studying about (Exchange, Active Directory, etc). They've certainly got the hardware and the resources to do something like that if they wanted t
Re:Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why the fuck would anybody be "studying" about Exchange or Active Directory? This is intended to lay the groundwork for interest in REAL computing.
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Why the fuck would anybody be "studying" about Exchange or Active Directory? This is intended to lay the groundwork for interest in REAL computing.
OP is an obvious troll pretending to be a shill pretending to be a troll
RTFA that's whole point, not more cubicle drones (Score:5, Insightful)
running whatever it is you're studying about (Exchange, Active Directory, etc).
RTFA. The point of the thing is that the young generation knows how to RUN software, but who is going to design quantum CPUs in 2030, or invent the next revolution like the Internet? You don't learn to build new technologies by practicing being an MS cubicle drone running Exchange.
Hell, with the prodicts you mentioned you're not even ALLOWED to try to figure out how they work. That's called reverse engineering and it's against the license. The whole point of the Pi is to first learn how things work, then use that knowledge to build entirely new and better things.
Re:RTFA that's whole point, not more cubicle drone (Score:5, Insightful)
Hell, with the prodicts you mentioned you're not even ALLOWED to try to figure out how they work. That's called reverse engineering and it's against the license.
Here in the UK, the right to reverse engineer is legally mandated by statute, so they can't take it away with license terms.
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are both parts of our statutes.
Similarly in Italy... (Score:2)
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Yes. The whole point of statute, and the ensuing statutory rights, is that the rights they confer upon you can't be negated by a license, EULA, or even a contract signed in blood. The UK has a fairly good history of customer-friendly policies in this regard, frequently to the annoyance of foreign companies.
http://whatconsumer.co.uk/what-are-my-statutory-rights/ [whatconsumer.co.uk]
It gets a bit more nebulous as you describe the "rented device and service" scenari
No user serviceable parts inside--NOT! (Score:3)
I'm currently reading Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End, and one of the chapters is entitled "No User Serviceable Parts Inside." That's something that you see a lot in today's electronics (and even software), and it is extremely frustrating for a would-be tinkerer who wants to learn how things work, the way I was when I was a kid. About thirty years ago an aunt of mine got me a C-64, and it was on such a platform that I first learned how to program, first in BASIC, and then later 6502 machine language (by peeks a
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This still worked 10 years ago. Admittedly, 6502-based computers were quite rare by then, but also very cheap because most people considered them junk. (And my machine code reference manual was a book, rather than photocopied.)
The putting hand-soldered circuitry into the printer ports came later for me, with Windows (back then I hadn't more than vaguely heard of Linux) and an RS232 port. That's still possible nowadays, although you probably need to get a USB to RS232 convertor (i.e. an RS232 port that's dri
Which means another .... (Score:1)
Lets buy a Pi (Score:3)
I quick two second search on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_3?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=raspberry+pi&sprefix=ras%2Caps%2C366 [amazon.co.uk] shows they have them in stock.
Google gives 15,000 Raspberry Pi to schools (Score:3)
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Don't worry, they're backordered for the next 3.14159 weeks.
Ahhh that's why delivery was delayed (Score:1)
How about taxes? (Score:2)
Donations never replace real funding. (Score:1)
Great. 500000$ are maybe 20 teachers (without infrastructure) for 1 year. It is indeed great that Google donates money to schools and I do not want to belittle that fact. However phrases like these leave me baffled:
Google aren't prepared to wait for government or someone else to fix the problems...
Not Google, nor any other private company or entity is going to fix the education system. That is the whole point of having public schools. Without the state committing to education you are screwed. There
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Are you kidding, the majority of MP's in the UK went to Public Schools, Public Schools are in fact privately funded.
Privately funded education for the masses well that is a different matter, just how much education is needed if the end result is working on a simple production line...
The situation is a bit different these days in order to be competitive most production needs to be automated and to maintain and create these automated facilities needs a well educated and trained work force. It also needs a cre
Ridiculous (Score:2, Funny)
What's that, Google running out of money? This sum is so low for the search giant that is comes close to being an insult.
OFFS! (Score:2)
there will be 14,000 in the rubbish bin within a week. Sorry, I just can't imagine 15,000 kids interested in a device that requires serious interaction. I know it sound like trolling, but they will be used in some contrived 'computer hardware and programming' course which will actually appeal to 1% of the people that participate.
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That's like the early home computers and the era of DOS programming. You just needed some RS-232 ports or analog-to-digital ports and you could plug anything into your computer - light sensors, pressure pads, thermistors. With DOS programming you set up a couple of interrupt handlers for the mouse and keyboard, one more for the video screen and the rest was up to your imagination.
ROTFL "the private sector is doing fine". (Score:2)
Plenty of businesses are doing fine, so I suspect the problem is not with the taxes, but rather with you.
ROTFL. The private sector is doing fine, right? Even you President Kardashian couldn't say that with a straight face. When he tried to say it, he had to come back out and retract that statement, saying "It is absolutely clear that the economy is NOT doing fine."
I've been in business twenty years. (or 25 if you count part time businesses). I've launched four completely different companies. Our business, and thousands of others, was taken down when Obama launched his attack on business. We were fine u
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In the two years following Obama's election, business failures increased by 40%. 40% man. If you like Obama, fine. Maybe you like his smile. Maybe you think he smells nice, whatever. But don't lie to yourself - he's radically anti-business.
Which Obama's policy led to your loss? What do you mean by "business failures"?
Business failures are defined as creditor loss (Score:2)
What do you mean by "business failures"?
In economics, "business failures" is defined as discontinuation of operations resulting in losses to creditors. In other words, companies that went out of business AND couldn't pay their outstanding bills when they did. That's easier to measure than just "companies that stopped doing business" because the creditors report the loss, whereas a company that just stops may not report anything.
Which Obama's policy led to your loss?
I'd say it was 70% indirect, but I'll give a few examples of direct effects of his policies. We'll limit it to just h
...but they didn't (Score:2)
all you fairies would be whining all day.
if anybody actually wanted one of those raspberry turds they could just buy one...
Ignoring your anger issues, They have given *cheap* *open* *hackable* devices, to build platform independent computer *science* skills, which can only be considered wonderful. If they had given out [locked] Chromebooks [or Google Docs] to lock children into their ecosystem, I'd be looking at this the same as the whole Discounted *cough* Apple/Microsoft products for schools we have seen for years, like crack.
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Ignoring your anger issues, They have given *cheap* *open* *hackable* devices, to build platform independent computer *science* skills, which can only be considered wonderful. If they had given out [locked] Chromebooks [or Google Docs] to lock children into their ecosystem, I'd be looking at this the same as the whole Discounted *cough* Apple/Microsoft products for schools we have seen for years, like crack.
There's a switch in all Chromebooks to unlock them. There's a boot warning screen when booting unlocked devices, and a delay while the things actually unlock on first boot after the switch is flipped, but after that, they are fully unlocked. You'll get the boot warning screen each time, but you can hit a key to get around that, or just wait the 30 seconds - either way: the thing's fully unlocked.
One of the OS's that can run on a Raspberry Pi is ChromeOS, sans the hardware key escrow, since a TPM would hav
Wow off topic again (Score:2)
They killed Youtube. No amount of PR campaigns will win me back after killing the last free voice people like us had.
Their is still a website where you can look up all the gems of yesteryear :) http://stupid-youtube-comments.blogspot.co.uk/ [blogspot.co.uk]
I leave this quote from the The Guardian in 2009 described users' comments on YouTube as:
"Juvenile, aggressive, misspelled, sexist, homophobic, swinging from raging at the contents of a video to providing a pointlessly detailed description followed by a LOL, YouTube comments are a hotbed of infantile debate and unashamed ignorance – with the occasional burst of wit shining through
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They killed Youtube. No amount of PR campaigns will win me back after killing the last free voice people like us had.
Look on the bright side, you can still troll /.
Poor returns (Score:2)
maybe if Google woud pay their f***ing taxes as they should, the schools could afford the Pi's for themselves....
They would be better catching up with Apple or Microsoft for Tax avoidence as they have more money squirreled offshore http://www.businessinsider.com/tax-loophole-congress-google-apple-microsoft-2012-12 [businessinsider.com] four times as much as Google.
I suspect your being a little disingenuous. :)
Seriously? (Score:2)
And in one swoop all other manufacturers of hobby board was put out of buissness. "Free" can really hurt the economy and "ecosystem" quite a lot if it is done wrong...
...or start a trend, devices like the raspberry pi, are nothing new, but right now, because [not in spite of] the success of the raspberry pi there is a whole host of new boards out there, and in reality like every other market companies have to compete on there own merits, personally the raspberry pi does not interest me. It does not have enough memory or processing power or sata, and I am far from being the only one.