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software engineering;  was: Is this official blog article intended as a joke?

e14 Contributor

http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2013/05/24/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi--part-1

 

"With a  Raspberry Pi in hand, robotics is no more a fancy imaginary world of big and serious people but a real and authentic one."

 

"big and serious people"  Really???

"fancy imaginary world"  Really???

 

"With a normal computer that has a monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer and modem connected, hardly anything can be done, except the intended use."

 

"printer port"  Really???   have you heard of USB?  We're up to USB 3.0 now.

"modem port"  Really??? have you heard of ethernet?  We're up to 1 and 10 Gbit now.

Have you heard of the PCI Express bus on PC's?  (or formerly ISA and PCI)

 

"non-availability of an easy programming environment"  Really?!?!?

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    In academia, there's a joke the goes: "The instructor says A, writes B on the blackboard, meant C, the students write down D in their notebooks, and it really was E."

     

    image I would suggest that our salesman might only have a foggy idea what was being talked about and might remember a few buzzwords.  When he meets with prospects, they'll ask "can your box do X?"  He'll answer: "Absolutely.  We were just talking about X the other day."  With luck, he'll write down or remember which X the prospects were talking about so when he gets back we'll know how much damage was done. image

     

    I jest.  I've worked with many salespeople who knew their products well and realized that you can sell more if your product matches your prospect's actual needs.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hmmm, I don't think I'm in the market for Bridesmaid Dresses at this time. image

     

    Element 14 seems to be doing very effective spam control, as we virtually never see spam in the browser.  The fact that it's available still in the web service but not on the website is perfectly fine.  It even allows researchers to quantify spam volumes if they're into that, or to monitor censorship.  That's a good thing, a part of openness.

     

    That's not the point I was making though.  wget reads URLs as passive data, and that is always safe.  It cannot run embedded code.