After the epic-ness of the spiderman movie series the games that follow just feel so tacky that I don't really have the urge to play them. I was engrossed with the comics and in part the TV series but the games just made me feel like I was looking at a game designer's spare time project. After the experience I had with the gamecube version I decided that I'd leave spiderman where he belonged, far away from my gaming rigs.
Maybe when gaming gets more cinematic I might consider playing a spiderman game but for now, I'd rather not be disappointed again.
That's true, but if you're running Dark Alex's firmware then you're getting all the lovely new features of the firmware whilst still maintaining a homebrew friendly platform.
I'm currently running 3.10 OE and I can play the latest games and homebrew without incident.
There are many government agencies working around the world that are dealing with the problems of preserving national records that are born digital. In America one of the biggest players in the world of preservation of electronic records is the Library of Congress: ahref=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.htm lrel=url2html-18187http://www.digitalpreservation. gov/index.html>.
Additionally there are many groups dedicated to creating standards for the preservation of digital records as well as a framework for setting up digital repositories (read: OAIS Reference Model for Digital Repositories, which just underwent its 5 year review). Although this idea is still in its infancy it is far from being neglected, and pretty much every national archive around the world has either implemented or is currently researching a way to preserve digital records for many years to come.
I keep hearing that the PSP doesn't have as good Homebrew as the DS. Well that's just plain not true, for example here's my source for all things PSP and homebrew:
http://forums.qj.net/f-qjnet-sony-psp-forums-48.ht ml/
There are at least 180 people on this forum at any given time and there are THOUSANDS of homebrew applications in the files section. I'm sorry but all this DS fanfare about a less than lively homebrew scene just don't have their facts straight.
Personally I bought my PSP early and got straight into the hacking scene as soon as I could. I've never been left feeling that I wasn't getting my moneys worth, and I've even bought a couple UMD movies (a 4 hour bus trip to Sydney can get mighty boring and sometimes ripping isn't an option). In fact I don't think I've ever come across something that I've wanted to do with my PSP and haven't been able to do. Here's just a short list of things I've done over the past couple of years using homebrew:
- NES/SNES/N64 emulators
- Universal IR Remote Controller
- Remote access of my desktop at home over wireless or the internet
- Streaming video and audio in real time over my wireless network and over the internet
- Personal Organizer and calendar
This is in addition to all the stuff that comes default these days with the base firmware. The PSP is a great platform and it's really worth every dollar you'll spend on it. Problem is it's not as cheap as a DS and the proprietary-ness of the platform seems to irk all the slashdotters. The DS might be selling more but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better platform.
Since we write platform independent software where I work (well try to at least) we had to get at least 1 computer here with Vista on it for testing. After having the machine up and running for 10 minutes we'd basically gotten over every feature that is supposed to make Vista a necessity to upgrade.
Being the system admin around these parts I recommended that we not upgrade to vista for a long time just because there was nothing really to be gained from any part of it. I will admit though the drive encryption would be great for our laptops that are constantly out of the office but even the most recent ones (bought about a year ago) don't have the required hardware (TPM) to run it.
Sure it is the best version of windows out there, but it's such a small incremental upgrade that it's really not worth it unless you're getting it with a computer pre-installed or you friend gave it to you as a christmas present.
That AUD$750 on Vista Ultimate was money well spent to not have to spend $10,000 on upgrading our machines.
That may be true, but there was strong opposition to the OOXML standard by many countries. In fact, when the standard went up for comment the ISO received more participation from commenting countries then it has seen with previous standards.
Although Microsoft has actually created a competitor to ODF (which from an archival viewpoint is a good thing, the more ways we have of doing the same thing means a bigger safety net for our data) it's done so in a pretty ass backwards sort of way. This move to fast track it makes me uneasy, as there are some huge glaring holes in the standard which need to be fixed before it can really be declared as a good standard.
I graduated recently from the University of Canberra here in Australia. I must say that I found the teachings that I got from there to be both practical (I.E. tradesmen like in qualification) and theoretical (taught me to think outside the box as it where).
The reason I got such a great experience was that the majority of my lecturers where people who had either left the industry or recently retired. In fact our head of engineering was a physicist turned engineer, and he had some great examples of practical applications of the theory he was teaching us.
It really all comes down to the philosophy of engineering, which is creating solutions to complicated problems. We need people who are able to look at a problem, see a fix for it and then dive right into implementing it.
You're not going to get that kind of response from a pure thinker or tradesman. A good engineer balances both his theoretical skills with a sound grasp of pratical implementations.
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After the epic-ness of the spiderman movie series the games that follow just feel so tacky that I don't really have the urge to play them. I was engrossed with the comics and in part the TV series but the games just made me feel like I was looking at a game designer's spare time project. After the experience I had with the gamecube version I decided that I'd leave spiderman where he belonged, far away from my gaming rigs.
Maybe when gaming gets more cinematic I might consider playing a spiderman game but for now, I'd rather not be disappointed again.
That's true, but if you're running Dark Alex's firmware then you're getting all the lovely new features of the firmware whilst still maintaining a homebrew friendly platform. I'm currently running 3.10 OE and I can play the latest games and homebrew without incident.
There are many government agencies working around the world that are dealing with the problems of preserving national records that are born digital. In America one of the biggest players in the world of preservation of electronic records is the Library of Congress: ahref=http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.htm lrel=url2html-18187http://www.digitalpreservation. gov/index.html>.
Additionally there are many groups dedicated to creating standards for the preservation of digital records as well as a framework for setting up digital repositories (read: OAIS Reference Model for Digital Repositories, which just underwent its 5 year review). Although this idea is still in its infancy it is far from being neglected, and pretty much every national archive around the world has either implemented or is currently researching a way to preserve digital records for many years to come.
I keep hearing that the PSP doesn't have as good Homebrew as the DS. Well that's just plain not true, for example here's my source for all things PSP and homebrew: http://forums.qj.net/f-qjnet-sony-psp-forums-48.ht ml/
There are at least 180 people on this forum at any given time and there are THOUSANDS of homebrew applications in the files section. I'm sorry but all this DS fanfare about a less than lively homebrew scene just don't have their facts straight.
Personally I bought my PSP early and got straight into the hacking scene as soon as I could. I've never been left feeling that I wasn't getting my moneys worth, and I've even bought a couple UMD movies (a 4 hour bus trip to Sydney can get mighty boring and sometimes ripping isn't an option). In fact I don't think I've ever come across something that I've wanted to do with my PSP and haven't been able to do. Here's just a short list of things I've done over the past couple of years using homebrew:
- NES/SNES/N64 emulators
- Universal IR Remote Controller
- Remote access of my desktop at home over wireless or the internet
- Streaming video and audio in real time over my wireless network and over the internet
- Personal Organizer and calendar
This is in addition to all the stuff that comes default these days with the base firmware. The PSP is a great platform and it's really worth every dollar you'll spend on it. Problem is it's not as cheap as a DS and the proprietary-ness of the platform seems to irk all the slashdotters. The DS might be selling more but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better platform.
Since we write platform independent software where I work (well try to at least) we had to get at least 1 computer here with Vista on it for testing. After having the machine up and running for 10 minutes we'd basically gotten over every feature that is supposed to make Vista a necessity to upgrade. Being the system admin around these parts I recommended that we not upgrade to vista for a long time just because there was nothing really to be gained from any part of it. I will admit though the drive encryption would be great for our laptops that are constantly out of the office but even the most recent ones (bought about a year ago) don't have the required hardware (TPM) to run it. Sure it is the best version of windows out there, but it's such a small incremental upgrade that it's really not worth it unless you're getting it with a computer pre-installed or you friend gave it to you as a christmas present. That AUD$750 on Vista Ultimate was money well spent to not have to spend $10,000 on upgrading our machines.
So now I have to have to make up for the lack of avatar interaction with much hotter sexes chat? Geeze Sony way to move more work onto the consumer!
Well if we're going to go that far I'm sure a HP HALO system would be far more appropriate.
That may be true, but there was strong opposition to the OOXML standard by many countries. In fact, when the standard went up for comment the ISO received more participation from commenting countries then it has seen with previous standards. Although Microsoft has actually created a competitor to ODF (which from an archival viewpoint is a good thing, the more ways we have of doing the same thing means a bigger safety net for our data) it's done so in a pretty ass backwards sort of way. This move to fast track it makes me uneasy, as there are some huge glaring holes in the standard which need to be fixed before it can really be declared as a good standard.
Playing games AND getting paid for it!
I graduated recently from the University of Canberra here in Australia. I must say that I found the teachings that I got from there to be both practical (I.E. tradesmen like in qualification) and theoretical (taught me to think outside the box as it where). The reason I got such a great experience was that the majority of my lecturers where people who had either left the industry or recently retired. In fact our head of engineering was a physicist turned engineer, and he had some great examples of practical applications of the theory he was teaching us. It really all comes down to the philosophy of engineering, which is creating solutions to complicated problems. We need people who are able to look at a problem, see a fix for it and then dive right into implementing it. You're not going to get that kind of response from a pure thinker or tradesman. A good engineer balances both his theoretical skills with a sound grasp of pratical implementations.