Mine is the original Vita, with 3G (but not used due to the scammy 3G data sim prices). It certainly charges slowly.
I plugged it in and started my timer. It's flashing it's orange light under the left button, as it does when the battery is too dead to start the thing running. We shal find out how slow.
One of my favorite things about my PSP was the ability to play most/all old psOne games (through jailbroken means), as well as the host of old console emulators that existed.
Mine was the ability to carry all of my UMD games around with me, minus the actual UMDs. Too bad there's no microSD adapter for the Vita like there was for the PSP, so I'm still stuck buying Sony's overpriced memory card.
My PSP is still heavily used by grandchildren. Mostly due to Loco Roco. I used to carry the Vita on plane trips, but it's extra weight and space I don't want in my bag.
I have a PSVita. If I turn it on (after an extended period of charging the entirely dead battery) I will then have to set the time again and wait while it downloads the fifteen updates that occurred between now and the last time I turned it on a couple of years ago.
The screen is excellent though. I think the most likely outcome is I will pull it apart and use the screen in some geeky project.
Thanks for some good answers, which really boil down to mostly "time is money" and that is certainly true in the professional world. The difference between free and even $100 per month or whatever is immaterial for a professional who depends on his/her tools to make a living. Saving half an hour or an hour of work a month will seemingly pay for Adobe products. (The point about workflow is really about saving time as well.)
For the rest of us, who do graphics as a sometimes/non-professional thing, free is good if we can do "most" things.
Although I'm no graphics professional, technically I've done professional work on Adobe products, GIMP, Inkscape and whatever else comes to hand, in the sense that it was graphics for my wife's business. What the clear benefit of Adobe is is that it is 'compatible' with real graphics professionals. They can take a file out of photoshop or illustrator or whatever without complaint or problem. Give them something out of GIMP or inkscape and the SVG won't work with their tools, or they'll bitch about the colour space in the bitmap images.
This is known as effective vendor lock in. I'm reasonably certain the wonky treatment of SVG in Adobe products is for that reason.
But the entire transaction is faster with a card swipe than with a chip transaction. My card machine isn't waiting for an OK from the local vendor sales/inventory system because I wrote the software and I know it doesn't. It's still slow with the chip. That same chip card in a card terminal in Europe is faster, even though it's calling back to my bank in the USA. So it's not completely simple. There's more than one thing going on.
Encryption/decryption processing is handled by dedicated ASICs in terminals, not "by CPU". And no, the auth is not what is slowing down the transaction. The possibilities are: bank transaction infrastructure or vendor POS transaction infrastructure.
Not in all terminals. I'm a hardware engineer and I'm familiar with the designs of some of those terminals. Why would the bank infrastructure be slower with a chip transaction than when doing a swipe transaction? RSA running on a server takes a fraction of a second.
I've noticed some readers are slow, but this probably has nothing to do with the chip, the merchant just has a shitty system. If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
The terminal we have in our shop is not greatly different to swipe only machines of the past. It smells of 8-bit micro with LCD. I know it to be doing two way 1024 RSA for the authentication because I checked. I'm familiar with the X.9 series and PCI specifications, so I know what is going on on the wire.
So my assumption is the delay is doing 1024 RSA sign and verify (It's two way auth) for each chip transaction on an 8 bit CPU. This is the authentication of the terminal, not the card.
A normal extended session with pairwise symmetric keys gained using an authenticated key agreement protocol periodically (say once per day) is not what is going on here. This is why it's slow. A fast CPU would help. A good protocol would help.
If alcohol doesn't increase the rate of accidents, for example because tipsy drivers drive more carefully to avoid being pulled over, then these statistics mean nothing.
If people's motivation for driving home drunk instead of getting a cab, uber or lyft is because their car is parked in limited time parking where it would be subject to fines and/or towing when left overnight, then the availability of cabs is moot.
Statistics isn't hard if you do it right. Observational studies of rare events are highly likely to be confounded.
I've used and modified C programs that took SPICE output to optimize IC circuit speed, and interfaced with part of Verilog to calculate gate loading and speed. C was essential to our process of chipmaking.
Fair enough. I was really aiming at HDLs for digital logic, but I didn't write with sufficient precision.
The only extension I use on Chrome is "Don't Fuck With Paste", which prevents web sites preventing you from pasting into a field. So I can copy and paste from my password manager.
The "bad guys" will still find that classic abandoned warehouse across the train tracks and plot their evil in the veil of darkness. Perhaps we should require spotlights and mandatory cameras over every square inch of the planet too?
The problem has never been all that hard for the authorities: They have always known that to snag all the bad guys, they only have to monitor the small subset of warehouses that are built on a slanted "Dutch angle".
Accomplished criminals know to conduct all their dealings via email with a lawyer and label all communication "Attorney Client Privileged".
>C and assembly are all you need to know. Neither will do for designing digital logic. We use HDLs to create the logic that makes the instructions. Instructions are way too high in the stack.
Verilog sucks and System Verilog makes amends, but neither is worthy of VHDL. VHDL's syntax sucks because it's based on ADA. But the execution model makes sense, unlike Verilog. C will fail to help you make a chip. System C exists, but seriously, don't go there. MyHDL is a python HDL which should be awesome, but it isn't.
> store your passwords locally and through an encrypted hash
I'm a cryptographer and I don't know what that means. If I presented the encrypted hash of my password to a web site, it would tell me my password is wrong. The storing of a hash of a password, encrypted or not is the business of the authenticator at other end.
Maybe you meant to say: A password manager should encrypt, integrity protect and store you passwords locally.
How will screaming kids, sticky floors and overpriced snacks help them stop piracy?
The theater/cinema experience is just too horrible. To make it less horrible they will have to: Stop selling popcorn and pop at the theaters. Use cellphone jammers. Have people who talk forcibly silenced. Refuse entry to children.
No, this is not going to work out. Cinemas are dead.
I know of three cinemas like this (except for the cell phone jamming, which is illegal) in the greater Portland area. They can do this because they serve alcohol and real cooked food. Children aren't allowed. The movies are geared towards a mature audience. One has a mix of tables chairs and sofa to sit in. One has more traditional cinema seats, but spaced better with an integral fold out table for your food.
These are great. You can get dinner and watch a movie at the same time without kids, sticky soda or popcorn.
I assume it is financially viable with the lower room capacity, because they make it up on food and drink.
A 1080p screen and inexpensive? That's great! But the screen is too damn tiny, the company doesn't have a proven track record (I wouldn't be surprised if lots failed from the heat or mechanical issues). I guess we'll keep buying Dells and stuff for a while longer.
Dell's don't fall apart? I've seen a few that did.
1080p is 1920x1080. A 13" retina display is 2560x1600. I have both (a work laptop and a personal MBP). There is no comparison. The retina display is simply better to work on.
This look extraordinarily similar to a Macbook Pro.
(And even more than the usual 'resemblance' that Xiaomi's products have for other manufacturer's products).
Yes. And that's a good thing. The basic shape of a continuous aluminium block is very effective. It doesn't break or fall apart. My MBP would be in the bin by now if it was from Lenovo or HP. It would have fallen apart.
If I wanted a Linux laptop, I suspect this would be it.
I would trust that his political opponents would be raking that muck. Given Trump's history, there must be a huge number of piles of poo that they can dig over and use for electoral benefit. They would be remiss as politicians not to.
The world is generally not completely simple. There can be more than one thing going on. In this instance it can both be true that the Russians want Trump to win so they hacked themselves a way to influence the outcome and members of the DNC were anti-Bernie. It can exist independently of being a deflection even though some people might be happy that it serves in that that capacity.
I'm not at all surprised about the Russians. Who wouldn't want an idiot for an adversary. I'm not at all surprised about the DNC. Bernie did untold damage to the Democrats chances in this election. He wasn't even a Democrat, he just signed up at the last minute to ride on the Democratic party's coat tails. Did you expect them to be all bending over for Bernie?
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Mine is the original Vita, with 3G (but not used due to the scammy 3G data sim prices). It certainly charges slowly.
I plugged it in and started my timer. It's flashing it's orange light under the left button, as it does when the battery is too dead to start the thing running. We shal find out how slow.
Mine is the original Vita, with 3G (but not used due to the scammy 3G data sim prices). It certainly charges slowly.
One of my favorite things about my PSP was the ability to play most/all old psOne games (through jailbroken means), as well as the host of old console emulators that existed.
Mine was the ability to carry all of my UMD games around with me, minus the actual UMDs. Too bad there's no microSD adapter for the Vita like there was for the PSP, so I'm still stuck buying Sony's overpriced memory card.
My PSP is still heavily used by grandchildren. Mostly due to Loco Roco. I used to carry the Vita on plane trips, but it's extra weight and space I don't want in my bag.
I have a PSVita. If I turn it on (after an extended period of charging the entirely dead battery) I will then have to set the time again and wait while it downloads the fifteen updates that occurred between now and the last time I turned it on a couple of years ago.
The screen is excellent though. I think the most likely outcome is I will pull it apart and use the screen in some geeky project.
Thanks for some good answers, which really boil down to mostly "time is money" and that is certainly true in the professional world. The difference between free and even $100 per month or whatever is immaterial for a professional who depends on his/her tools to make a living. Saving half an hour or an hour of work a month will seemingly pay for Adobe products. (The point about workflow is really about saving time as well.)
For the rest of us, who do graphics as a sometimes/non-professional thing, free is good if we can do "most" things.
Although I'm no graphics professional, technically I've done professional work on Adobe products, GIMP, Inkscape and whatever else comes to hand, in the sense that it was graphics for my wife's business. What the clear benefit of Adobe is is that it is 'compatible' with real graphics professionals. They can take a file out of photoshop or illustrator or whatever without complaint or problem. Give them something out of GIMP or inkscape and the SVG won't work with their tools, or they'll bitch about the colour space in the bitmap images.
This is known as effective vendor lock in. I'm reasonably certain the wonky treatment of SVG in Adobe products is for that reason.
Not to mention raster images are the worst format to use for print. You should be using vector graphics.
Great. I'll go and get my vector camera.
But the entire transaction is faster with a card swipe than with a chip transaction. My card machine isn't waiting for an OK from the local vendor sales/inventory system because I wrote the software and I know it doesn't. It's still slow with the chip. That same chip card in a card terminal in Europe is faster, even though it's calling back to my bank in the USA. So it's not completely simple. There's more than one thing going on.
Encryption/decryption processing is handled by dedicated ASICs in terminals, not "by CPU". And no, the auth is not what is slowing down the transaction. The possibilities are: bank transaction infrastructure or vendor POS transaction infrastructure.
Not in all terminals. I'm a hardware engineer and I'm familiar with the designs of some of those terminals.
Why would the bank infrastructure be slower with a chip transaction than when doing a swipe transaction? RSA running on a server takes a fraction of a second.
Painstakingly slow
I've noticed some readers are slow, but this probably has nothing to do with the chip, the merchant just has a shitty system. If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
The terminal we have in our shop is not greatly different to swipe only machines of the past. It smells of 8-bit micro with LCD. I know it to be doing two way 1024 RSA for the authentication because I checked. I'm familiar with the X.9 series and PCI specifications, so I know what is going on on the wire.
So my assumption is the delay is doing 1024 RSA sign and verify (It's two way auth) for each chip transaction on an 8 bit CPU. This is the authentication of the terminal, not the card.
A normal extended session with pairwise symmetric keys gained using an authenticated key agreement protocol periodically (say once per day) is not what is going on here. This is why it's slow.
A fast CPU would help. A good protocol would help.
If alcohol doesn't increase the rate of accidents, for example because tipsy drivers drive more carefully to avoid being pulled over, then these statistics mean nothing.
If people's motivation for driving home drunk instead of getting a cab, uber or lyft is because their car is parked in limited time parking where it would be subject to fines and/or towing when left overnight, then the availability of cabs is moot.
Statistics isn't hard if you do it right. Observational studies of rare events are highly likely to be confounded.
I've used and modified C programs that took SPICE output to optimize IC circuit speed, and interfaced with part of Verilog to calculate gate loading and speed. C was essential to our process of chipmaking.
Fair enough. I was really aiming at HDLs for digital logic, but I didn't write with sufficient precision.
The only extension I use on Chrome is "Don't Fuck With Paste", which prevents web sites preventing you from pasting into a field. So I can copy and paste from my password manager.
Never heard of SystemC?
Of course I have. I mentioned in the post.. "C will fail to help you make a chip. System C exists, but seriously, don't go there."
The "bad guys" will still find that classic abandoned warehouse across the train tracks and plot their evil in the veil of darkness. Perhaps we should require spotlights and mandatory cameras over every square inch of the planet too?
The problem has never been all that hard for the authorities: They have always known that to snag all the bad guys, they only have to monitor the small subset of warehouses that are built on a slanted "Dutch angle".
Accomplished criminals know to conduct all their dealings via email with a lawyer and label all communication "Attorney Client Privileged".
Great, watching a movie to the sound of people munching.
people are spaced further apart than in a conventional cinema.
I've not noticed it to be a problem.
>C and assembly are all you need to know.
Neither will do for designing digital logic.
We use HDLs to create the logic that makes the instructions. Instructions are way too high in the stack.
Verilog sucks and System Verilog makes amends, but neither is worthy of VHDL.
VHDL's syntax sucks because it's based on ADA. But the execution model makes sense, unlike Verilog.
C will fail to help you make a chip. System C exists, but seriously, don't go there.
MyHDL is a python HDL which should be awesome, but it isn't.
But C is most certainly not all I need to know.
> store your passwords locally and through an encrypted hash
I'm a cryptographer and I don't know what that means.
If I presented the encrypted hash of my password to a web site, it would tell me my password is wrong.
The storing of a hash of a password, encrypted or not is the business of the authenticator at other end.
Maybe you meant to say: A password manager should encrypt, integrity protect and store you passwords locally.
How will screaming kids, sticky floors and overpriced snacks help them stop piracy?
The theater/cinema experience is just too horrible. To make it less horrible they will have to:
Stop selling popcorn and pop at the theaters.
Use cellphone jammers.
Have people who talk forcibly silenced.
Refuse entry to children.
No, this is not going to work out. Cinemas are dead.
I know of three cinemas like this (except for the cell phone jamming, which is illegal) in the greater Portland area.
They can do this because they serve alcohol and real cooked food. Children aren't allowed. The movies are geared towards a mature audience. One has a mix of tables chairs and sofa to sit in. One has more traditional cinema seats, but spaced better with an integral fold out table for your food.
These are great. You can get dinner and watch a movie at the same time without kids, sticky soda or popcorn.
I assume it is financially viable with the lower room capacity, because they make it up on food and drink.
A 1080p screen and inexpensive? That's great! But the screen is too damn tiny, the company doesn't have a proven track record (I wouldn't be surprised if lots failed from the heat or mechanical issues). I guess we'll keep buying Dells and stuff for a while longer.
Dell's don't fall apart? I've seen a few that did.
1080p is 1920x1080. A 13" retina display is 2560x1600. I have both (a work laptop and a personal MBP). There is no comparison. The retina display is simply better to work on.
This look extraordinarily similar to a Macbook Pro.
(And even more than the usual 'resemblance' that Xiaomi's products have for other manufacturer's products).
Yes. And that's a good thing. The basic shape of a continuous aluminium block is very effective. It doesn't break or fall apart. My MBP would be in the bin by now if it was from Lenovo or HP. It would have fallen apart.
If I wanted a Linux laptop, I suspect this would be it.
I would trust that his political opponents would be raking that muck. Given Trump's history, there must be a huge number of piles of poo that they can dig over and use for electoral benefit. They would be remiss as politicians not to.
Who cares who hacked them. This is just a deflection.
It's what's IN THEM that is the story behind the curtain nobody wants you to see
The world is generally not completely simple. There can be more than one thing going on. In this instance it can both be true that the Russians want Trump to win so they hacked themselves a way to influence the outcome and members of the DNC were anti-Bernie. It can exist independently of being a deflection even though some people might be happy that it serves in that that capacity.
I'm not at all surprised about the Russians. Who wouldn't want an idiot for an adversary.
I'm not at all surprised about the DNC. Bernie did untold damage to the Democrats chances in this election. He wasn't even a Democrat, he just signed up at the last minute to ride on the Democratic party's coat tails. Did you expect them to be all bending over for Bernie?
That's 129.2F if you're interested.
Please don't build any satellites. They're likely to fall out of the sky when a poor unit conversion is performed.
You clearly don't deal with lawyers much. They would usually advice caution.
I was talking about Facebook's actions and choices, not Wikileaks' actions.