Just buy the game, put it somewhere out of the way and download the ripped version. Or you could even rip it yourself. Little extra effort, but you get to do what you want with something you bought.
You're missing the point. If you install Android on it, you are effectively making it not a PSP gaming system anymore. You would not be able to play the games on it. You could however use all the hardware for Android based games, and do whatever it is that Android does. Installing custom firmware is not as delicate a process as you seem to think either, I've been using it since 2.52 with no problems at all. I also do not think that it would be all that hard to do this either, there are several PSP firmwares out there that are completely custom with minimal to no Sony code in them. Check PSP hacks if you would like to learn a little more about it.
Origin 3000 series servers did this a long time ago. The bricks in the system were just fans on the front and a base plate to mount the hardware onto. They were pretty easy to work on in this configuration, you could pull the brick out and replace anything inside within a couple minutes. IRIX on the other hand.........
You know what's interesting about that? I work for a Fortune 50 company engineering all things *nix, so I'm a big supporter of your idea. I recently was talking to our IT department and found out that the majority of perfectly good desktops that get replaced on a regular cycle are just thrown out. To me this is unacceptable, so I went to a couple of schools in rough neighborhoods and talked to the superintendents. What I wanted to do was take these computers and put Edubuntu on them for the kids and work with the schools to put them in homes that need them. All I needed from the schools was a tax code so my company could write off the computers and a list of kids that needed them. I was given an emphatic no from every one of the schools I talked to. Some gave reasons, mostly borne out of ignorance and others didn't. It just astounded me how narrow minded these people were when I was offering my time and a pile of computers to kids that need them. I'm currently looking into doing something like Helios and just working with teachers directly. Still, it just blows my mind that they don't want these kids to succeed like I did. Even when presented with a former free lunch kid who has come up through the world and wants to help other kids do the same they resist having these kids aspire to something different.
Let's see here. The guy that invented a good security system (nerd) is hired by a large corporation (news). So far we have nerd and news covered. Now let's see, how does this matter? As macs gain popularity they also garner the interest of people looking to make exploits for them. Apple is trying to head off the tide a little so they can still market as being more secure than their main competitor. Personally I'm a Freebsd/Linux fan, but for all the mac users out there I think that it matters. So there you have it, News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. Or maybe News about a Nerd, Stuff that Matters.
You know, you just have to make the time. I work 40-70 hours a week depending and sometimes I'll work stretches of nights, but I still make the time to grow a large garden. Part of it is that I make it educational and fun for the kids so it's something to do other than go to the movies, parks, etc.
That's where Microsoft's greatest strength becomes its greatest weakness. They are strongly entrenched in the business side of the house which is great for their profits. However since they do not have an incremental upgrade path and, in the case of Vista, a several year gap between OS upgrades XP is too pervasive in business. IT can still upgrade everything, but it's going to take more time and more resources to upgrade than it's worth. So the IT department is only going to upgrade as far as they have to and Microsoft isn't going to make as much money, just look at their earnings this last year. That boys and girls is why a diversified network built on open standards is great. Users can use what they want and are comfortable with and upgrades can happen at a regular gradual pace.
Yeah, given the choice I'll take Solaris on the server over linux. We have Sun boxes in our shop that I'm almost scared to look at the uptime. I don't know anyone in my shop that even remembers the last time they were rebooted, hell I'm not even sure any of us really know what they do anymore.
It'll also be great on the battlefield. We lost a lot of soldiers just do to the fact that they were being pumped full of saline and by the time they made it to the base their blood looked like pink koolaid.
Sadly this has even moved on into books. For instance, The Wheel of Time dragged on so long that the author died before he finished it. It is sad, and he was too sick to really write. I feel for Robert's family, but there are other examples. Another one is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire, he's not a young man keeps pushing dates back. Authors have lives, as do any content producers, but I think that they may need to look at maybe limiting their scope a little more so their projects can be finished in their lifetimes.
This was fine up until about 70 years ago. People felt better about having a stodgy old politician in office before then because the times really didn't change as much as they have in recent years. That's one unfortunate side effect of the tech explosion of the last few decades, people just cannot keep up, so you have politicians in office that are only vaguely aware that this thing made of tubes called the intarwebs even exists. Most of them do not realize just how much of a game changer it is. The Internet is just one example, look at things like stem cell research, nuclear energy, or other forms of energy and you see a trend.
One use I can think of for this thing is to build something that I have wanted for a while. An easy drop down kitchen computer. Load up krecipes on it, migrate my cookbooks in and I have a nice little machine perfect for cooking. Another nice thing is that while I'm cooking I can stream in music or podcasts with it. I could put qbrew on it for my beermaking needs. Of course all this is convenience, but I still like the idea of having an upgradeable computer in my kitchen that could grow with my culinary needs.
You're at the crux of the matter. The surveillance is very one sided, if these people want to make a surveillance society it needs to be both ways. From the constable walking the street to the highest politicians it needs to be transparent. I think that CCTV is a horrible idea, I'm not going to rehash as many people have pointed out exactly what it doesn't do.
Having met, talked to, and worked with people from various three letter agencies I will argue the fact about them hiring the best and brightest. Some of the people that work for the government are scary intelligent. The best data recovery tools I have ever seen or used came out of one of said agencies, the same that came up with SELinux. So I'm going to say that lost email in this instance, while certainly inside the realm of possibility and more than likely, is borderline criminal negligence.
The hard part is proving that person is the one tha uploaded the file. How do you know it wasn't a sibling, friend, or other family member. Are you sure the computer isn't rooted and someone else uploaded the files? This really doesn't prove anything other than you're the person that bought the file.
You, me, and anybody else on this forum really don't matter though. We're minuscule compared to the rest of the population that have no idea where to get that or how to install it.
There is some truth to that. I was recently in a conversation with a manager about that, he said "I wouldn't hire anyone with a felony, you just can't trust them.". I wondered about that a little as I personally know several felons that are actually pretty good people, one who borders on sainthood. That guy is amazing, true story follows: He broke down outside my parents house, does not know the first thing about cars and asks my dad for help. My dad flushes the cooling system and does a couple other repairs right there by the road, turns out this guy started a business in hardwood flooring and was extremely good at it. Well my parents hardwood floor is cut from the cherry trees that were on the property when my grandfather built it, he went out and matched the wood as close as he could then completely repaired and finished this floor for them. Then he found out about a friend of theirs that had to choose between food and presents for their kids on Christmas, so he went out and filled top to bottom, front to back his jeep grand cherokee with food, clothing, toys and drove it 300 miles to give to them. He's also a violent felon, who would have thought huh? If he does this for random people, I wonder what else he does?
I bet he's on the watch list as well, not that he cares though as he has to drive his work truck wherever he needs to go. Not all ex-cons are like this guy, but damn people like him give you hope.
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Batteries to give it the electricity it needs maybe?
Just buy the game, put it somewhere out of the way and download the ripped version. Or you could even rip it yourself. Little extra effort, but you get to do what you want with something you bought.
You're missing the point. If you install Android on it, you are effectively making it not a PSP gaming system anymore. You would not be able to play the games on it. You could however use all the hardware for Android based games, and do whatever it is that Android does. Installing custom firmware is not as delicate a process as you seem to think either, I've been using it since 2.52 with no problems at all. I also do not think that it would be all that hard to do this either, there are several PSP firmwares out there that are completely custom with minimal to no Sony code in them. Check PSP hacks if you would like to learn a little more about it.
Origin 3000 series servers did this a long time ago. The bricks in the system were just fans on the front and a base plate to mount the hardware onto. They were pretty easy to work on in this configuration, you could pull the brick out and replace anything inside within a couple minutes. IRIX on the other hand.........
You know what's interesting about that? I work for a Fortune 50 company engineering all things *nix, so I'm a big supporter of your idea. I recently was talking to our IT department and found out that the majority of perfectly good desktops that get replaced on a regular cycle are just thrown out. To me this is unacceptable, so I went to a couple of schools in rough neighborhoods and talked to the superintendents. What I wanted to do was take these computers and put Edubuntu on them for the kids and work with the schools to put them in homes that need them. All I needed from the schools was a tax code so my company could write off the computers and a list of kids that needed them. I was given an emphatic no from every one of the schools I talked to. Some gave reasons, mostly borne out of ignorance and others didn't. It just astounded me how narrow minded these people were when I was offering my time and a pile of computers to kids that need them. I'm currently looking into doing something like Helios and just working with teachers directly. Still, it just blows my mind that they don't want these kids to succeed like I did. Even when presented with a former free lunch kid who has come up through the world and wants to help other kids do the same they resist having these kids aspire to something different.
Well, they do have android. I think that it would be pretty trivial for them to make an app for it that is an ebook reader.
Were you in the Army? While not injured I had shit get really weird after a few days without sleep in 2003 during the roll in to Iraq.
Let's see here. The guy that invented a good security system (nerd) is hired by a large corporation (news). So far we have nerd and news covered. Now let's see, how does this matter? As macs gain popularity they also garner the interest of people looking to make exploits for them. Apple is trying to head off the tide a little so they can still market as being more secure than their main competitor. Personally I'm a Freebsd/Linux fan, but for all the mac users out there I think that it matters. So there you have it, News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. Or maybe News about a Nerd, Stuff that Matters.
You know, you just have to make the time. I work 40-70 hours a week depending and sometimes I'll work stretches of nights, but I still make the time to grow a large garden. Part of it is that I make it educational and fun for the kids so it's something to do other than go to the movies, parks, etc.
You have a good point, but remember the boy who cried wolf.
That's where Microsoft's greatest strength becomes its greatest weakness. They are strongly entrenched in the business side of the house which is great for their profits. However since they do not have an incremental upgrade path and, in the case of Vista, a several year gap between OS upgrades XP is too pervasive in business. IT can still upgrade everything, but it's going to take more time and more resources to upgrade than it's worth. So the IT department is only going to upgrade as far as they have to and Microsoft isn't going to make as much money, just look at their earnings this last year. That boys and girls is why a diversified network built on open standards is great. Users can use what they want and are comfortable with and upgrades can happen at a regular gradual pace.
Yeah, given the choice I'll take Solaris on the server over linux. We have Sun boxes in our shop that I'm almost scared to look at the uptime. I don't know anyone in my shop that even remembers the last time they were rebooted, hell I'm not even sure any of us really know what they do anymore.
It'll also be great on the battlefield. We lost a lot of soldiers just do to the fact that they were being pumped full of saline and by the time they made it to the base their blood looked like pink koolaid.
Sadly this has even moved on into books. For instance, The Wheel of Time dragged on so long that the author died before he finished it. It is sad, and he was too sick to really write. I feel for Robert's family, but there are other examples. Another one is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire, he's not a young man keeps pushing dates back. Authors have lives, as do any content producers, but I think that they may need to look at maybe limiting their scope a little more so their projects can be finished in their lifetimes.
This was fine up until about 70 years ago. People felt better about having a stodgy old politician in office before then because the times really didn't change as much as they have in recent years. That's one unfortunate side effect of the tech explosion of the last few decades, people just cannot keep up, so you have politicians in office that are only vaguely aware that this thing made of tubes called the intarwebs even exists. Most of them do not realize just how much of a game changer it is. The Internet is just one example, look at things like stem cell research, nuclear energy, or other forms of energy and you see a trend.
One use I can think of for this thing is to build something that I have wanted for a while. An easy drop down kitchen computer. Load up krecipes on it, migrate my cookbooks in and I have a nice little machine perfect for cooking. Another nice thing is that while I'm cooking I can stream in music or podcasts with it. I could put qbrew on it for my beermaking needs. Of course all this is convenience, but I still like the idea of having an upgradeable computer in my kitchen that could grow with my culinary needs.
You owe me a Gnu keyboard.
You're at the crux of the matter. The surveillance is very one sided, if these people want to make a surveillance society it needs to be both ways. From the constable walking the street to the highest politicians it needs to be transparent. I think that CCTV is a horrible idea, I'm not going to rehash as many people have pointed out exactly what it doesn't do.
Having met, talked to, and worked with people from various three letter agencies I will argue the fact about them hiring the best and brightest. Some of the people that work for the government are scary intelligent. The best data recovery tools I have ever seen or used came out of one of said agencies, the same that came up with SELinux. So I'm going to say that lost email in this instance, while certainly inside the realm of possibility and more than likely, is borderline criminal negligence.
The hard part is proving that person is the one tha uploaded the file. How do you know it wasn't a sibling, friend, or other family member. Are you sure the computer isn't rooted and someone else uploaded the files? This really doesn't prove anything other than you're the person that bought the file.
Or just use a marble.
You, me, and anybody else on this forum really don't matter though. We're minuscule compared to the rest of the population that have no idea where to get that or how to install it.
There are some people that are immune to the disease, however the incidence of immunity is very low. Here is a linky start if you want to check it out. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_06.html
There is some truth to that. I was recently in a conversation with a manager about that, he said "I wouldn't hire anyone with a felony, you just can't trust them.". I wondered about that a little as I personally know several felons that are actually pretty good people, one who borders on sainthood. That guy is amazing, true story follows: He broke down outside my parents house, does not know the first thing about cars and asks my dad for help. My dad flushes the cooling system and does a couple other repairs right there by the road, turns out this guy started a business in hardwood flooring and was extremely good at it. Well my parents hardwood floor is cut from the cherry trees that were on the property when my grandfather built it, he went out and matched the wood as close as he could then completely repaired and finished this floor for them. Then he found out about a friend of theirs that had to choose between food and presents for their kids on Christmas, so he went out and filled top to bottom, front to back his jeep grand cherokee with food, clothing, toys and drove it 300 miles to give to them. He's also a violent felon, who would have thought huh? If he does this for random people, I wonder what else he does?
I bet he's on the watch list as well, not that he cares though as he has to drive his work truck wherever he needs to go. Not all ex-cons are like this guy, but damn people like him give you hope.
Be allowed into tests at universities.