Linux PC the size of a usb flash drive...

[Condor Cluster]

...and costing only $25.

an interesting article: Raspberry Pi

[Fedz]

Wow! that's amazing

No hard-drive attached yet but astounding beginning ~ impressed

[solitaire]

Wow! that's amazing

No hard-drive attached yet but astounding beginning ~ impressed

it runs off of a sd card on the bottom of the device..

you can always stick on a USB drive for extra storage..

From the guy that brought you the first Free Form unlimited space combat / trading game that was smaller (in file size) than most readme text files in today's modern games... lol

[benc1213]

As soon as they start selling them I am going to buy one.

[Exodist]

I would like to have one just to have one.. hehe
Just a few adapters and a USB hug and can have a full fledge system for on the go.

[ade234uk]

At my wifes school she tells me that IT is one of the easiest subjects to get a certificate in. Secondly the kids don't learn things like programming anymore because it costs too much to buy licences.

For some reason the schools dismiss things like PHP, HTML, JAVA, PYTHON. They don't understand that this is something the kids can learn for nothing without licence costs. Its mainly ignorance.

From what I have seen from the teachers side it is even worse. My wife asked to have Firefox put on her machine and was point blank refused, as she was told it was unsafe. Nothing works properly from home because the stupid portal requires Internet Explorer to work. And even when it does work, it wont let you upload .zip .html any type of images. Just .docx and .doc only.

There is simply no point in having computers in schools if all they are going to do is the lock them down. Its not teaching the kids anything and no one benefits from it at all. They spend more time protecting and worrying about the stupid network.

Its got to the point where my wife does not bother uploading anything to the portal and instead just takes in an external hard drive.

[solitaire]

I remember in school we had to learn how to program a simple program in machine Code, it was to add / subtract or multiply 2 fixed values and display it on screen.

Took about 30 or so lines if I remember,
But try asking some kids in an IT class to do that these days and they would complain that there's no fancy GUI to hold their hands and do it for them.

[aG93IGRvIGkgdWJ1bnR1Pw==]

I'll take 10, where do I sign up?

[forrestcupp]

Just a few adapters and a USB hug and can have a full fledge system for on the go.

If you don't mind carrying around an HDMI monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and having a computer with lower specs than most modern phones.

[frankvdh]

I'll be in when they're available too.

I see this as an awesome embedded system.. add a USB analog/digital IO board and you've got everything you need.