It isn't particularly large, I'd say at best it was an inch wider than a GBA. Specifically: The dimensions are 170mm x 74mm x 23mm with a weight of 260g.
That's bloody tiny considering the screen size and removable media drive.
At Fred Meyer in Auburn WA, they have dozens of PSPs on display at the moment. And @$250 a pop, why buy one when you can get consoles @$99-$150, or Gameboy Advance/Nintendo DS for under $150?
How about fingerprints? I had to give mine when I applied for a California drivers license, and had to submit them again when applying for a bus driving job. Obviously neither led to a criminal case, but frankly, neither are needed UNLESS I committed a criminal act. So why isn't there a massive cry to remove such records?
Mind you, the California fingerprint rule has been in effect since I originally applied for a DL in 1992, so essentially it's been around for 15 years now.
I mean, Sempron CPUs are essentially 64 bit processors with (assumably) one core switched off, correct? Same goes for ATI Radeon 9200SE based video cards (same chipset as a 9200 Pro, but with a set of pipelines disabled), if I recall correctly.
In other words; How long until someone with an axe to grind, a long term grudge, or just to be an asshole, starts up a blog with their chosen target's name, and starts talking smack about the company they're employed by?
Hell, I could see something like that happening with interoffice politics. Don't like the guy who rejected your idea for a USB powered vibrator? Make a blog and watch as he clears out his desk, and is then escorted off the property by security/
As long as you have a rudimentary knowlege of your target, I doubt there's anything you cannot do, if you're a complete bastard.
Violating decency rules can occur accidentally. For example, a bystander yelling "Holy shit!" when watching a crash take place on live TV.
Such occurred on CNN when they broadcast the video footage of the planes hitting the WTC. The newscaster shrugged "I apologise for the language, but think it's appropriate nonetheless".
Said footage was aired HUNDREDS of times around the country, unbleeped, and the FCC turned a blind eye to it.
The major problem isn't the language, the psychotic religious right being in charge, who are trying to legislate morality.
His job, and career, are built upon fragments of literacy without any measurable basis for comparison from one book to the other.
Therefore, by that technically, and being that he (obviously) hasn't read every single book in every single library, he isn't remotely qualified to be a library director.
Last year in September or so, if that's any indication, then fire up your bittorrent app of choice in about 6 months. Not that long a wait between seasons, really, if you've just started watching it.
I see a way that this could be a boon for flagging state economies. For one, every state is literally being buried in landfills, slowly but surely.
At least 3/4 of the waste being dumped into landfills is organic in nature.
Now if, for example, a state such as Washington, built a municiple biodiesel plant to recycle said waste into fuel, then instead of relying on external fuel sources, they could not only supply their state with energy resources.
That way they can pocket the funds from said resources to pay for education, roads, etc, instead of relying on Uncle Sugar or taxes to make the balance. Each state can do this and improve everything for the better.
However, this is a pipe dream. As long as there's lobbyists and a government that is devoted to their money, such a possibility will never come to pass.
That's kind of like the concept of suing gun manufacturers whenever someone with a screw loose goes on a shooting spree, as if they could somehow build a "insanity sensing chip" into the guns.
Every OS has its potential security holes, but for the most part, everyone who has the skills targets Microsoft.
Simply put, because the internet was still relatively unused compared to now, along with the various services we take for granted today (DSL/Cable broadband).
As PC prices came down (anyone remember what prices for PCs was back in 1995?), and more people began to connect to the net, the bulk of the market were immediately inducted as Win9x users, due to the OS being preinstalled in most systems. Most of whom are still ignorant of security issues.
Since there has been a major anti Microsoft mentality over the last 10 years, along with a major anti American mentality (just look at what DDOS bots target, the majority of which are American companies or entities), Windows became the defacto target of choice.
In fact, the security issues have been slowly being covered from Windows 2000 onward, in fact, for the last 5 years. However, since you still have people who have nothing better to do than attack any possible security hole they can find, along with clueless users who open every attachment in e-mail, the issue is NOT, repeat, NOT in fact Microsoft's fault, let alone any software manufacturer's fault (from OS X through Linux through Windows).
I was pondering robotics the other day, and came to the conclusion that, for the most part, we're going at it all wrong.
I was thinking that we should instead build each limb as a seperate subsystem, with the nessesary computing equipment built into the limb, along with the power supply.
One thing about all ambulatory animals, is that the weight is equally distributed throughout the body. It isn't about figuring out how to balance all the weight in a torso, it's about using weight to act as counterweights, along with sensing the nessesary force needed to move each of those weights.
Another part of it is reflex movement. We think of it as simple because we learned how to do it with almost no effort long before basic skills. For a computer, this is something that requires a huge amount of processing time.
However, a "main brain" that has to interpret data from multiple individual "sub brains" would have an easier time, since the sub brains would process specialized data.
An arm would process just the data for that arm, a leg would process just the data for that leg, etc. Instead of the main brain having to process reams of data from every sensor on the body, it would have to only process the sub brains' inputs. Consider it as a biological analogy for USB.
One interesting "glitch" I had noticed in years of using CCD based analog video camcorders (VHS/8MM), is that the IR LED on the front of remote controls would show up as a bright white light (it would appear on a brightness level comparable to a bright white LED).
So my question is, would it be possible to scavenge a common video camera (dirt cheap at Goodwill or yard sales), turn off the electronic shutter, and build a similar night vision scope?
You have pretty much everything you need shy of a bank of IR LEDs to work with, and could possibly retrofit an old camera light to act as the emitter. Of course, we all know about the Sony "X-Ray" video camera as well, which worked on a similar principal.
Including at least 1.1 million instances of a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
That doesn't do much good in stormy weather and/or fog. And as many ship wreckages have proven throughout history, you don't avoid accidents by simply "sitting still and doing nothing". Ships run aground due to tides, after all.
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It isn't particularly large, I'd say at best it was an inch wider than a GBA. Specifically: The dimensions are 170mm x 74mm x 23mm with a weight of 260g.
That's bloody tiny considering the screen size and removable media drive.
At Fred Meyer in Auburn WA, they have dozens of PSPs on display at the moment. And @$250 a pop, why buy one when you can get consoles @$99-$150, or Gameboy Advance/Nintendo DS for under $150?
How about fingerprints? I had to give mine when I applied for a California drivers license, and had to submit them again when applying for a bus driving job. Obviously neither led to a criminal case, but frankly, neither are needed UNLESS I committed a criminal act. So why isn't there a massive cry to remove such records?
Mind you, the California fingerprint rule has been in effect since I originally applied for a DL in 1992, so essentially it's been around for 15 years now.
I mean, Sempron CPUs are essentially 64 bit processors with (assumably) one core switched off, correct? Same goes for ATI Radeon 9200SE based video cards (same chipset as a 9200 Pro, but with a set of pipelines disabled), if I recall correctly.
As the ol' mentality goes, my country, right or wrong.
Well, technically most folks who watch Dr. Who already aren't paying for it, since it's largely broadcast on public television.
Aren't mod chips made and marketed in/from Hong Kong & Taiwan? How does this effect Australia?
In other words; How long until someone with an axe to grind, a long term grudge, or just to be an asshole, starts up a blog with their chosen target's name, and starts talking smack about the company they're employed by?
Hell, I could see something like that happening with interoffice politics. Don't like the guy who rejected your idea for a USB powered vibrator? Make a blog and watch as he clears out his desk, and is then escorted off the property by security/
As long as you have a rudimentary knowlege of your target, I doubt there's anything you cannot do, if you're a complete bastard.
Is iRonic.
Damn, they sent them over with trombones, when they meant to send them with trumpets!
It was due to a defective fuel guage showing a full tankload, despite it being 2600 lbs short.
Why is this listed under "Censorship"? What's being censored? I think it would be closer to "Your Rights Online", or politics, or whatever.
Violating decency rules can occur accidentally. For example, a bystander yelling "Holy shit!" when watching a crash take place on live TV.
Such occurred on CNN when they broadcast the video footage of the planes hitting the WTC. The newscaster shrugged "I apologise for the language, but think it's appropriate nonetheless".
Said footage was aired HUNDREDS of times around the country, unbleeped, and the FCC turned a blind eye to it.
The major problem isn't the language, the psychotic religious right being in charge, who are trying to legislate morality.
His job, and career, are built upon fragments of literacy without any measurable basis for comparison from one book to the other.
Therefore, by that technically, and being that he (obviously) hasn't read every single book in every single library, he isn't remotely qualified to be a library director.
Last year in September or so, if that's any indication, then fire up your bittorrent app of choice in about 6 months. Not that long a wait between seasons, really, if you've just started watching it.
Co-starring Pauly Shore as the Flesh Scarfing Bacterium, buhhhhhhhddy!
Depends, do gun manufacturers ship guns with the safety on by default?
The other thing too, is that Microsoft no longer allows scripts/images/attachments to be run by default, that was fixed back in SP1.
Yatta yatta yatta, but you all saw that coming.
I see a way that this could be a boon for flagging state economies. For one, every state is literally being buried in landfills, slowly but surely.
At least 3/4 of the waste being dumped into landfills is organic in nature.
Now if, for example, a state such as Washington, built a municiple biodiesel plant to recycle said waste into fuel, then instead of relying on external fuel sources, they could not only supply their state with energy resources.
That way they can pocket the funds from said resources to pay for education, roads, etc, instead of relying on Uncle Sugar or taxes to make the balance. Each state can do this and improve everything for the better.
However, this is a pipe dream. As long as there's lobbyists and a government that is devoted to their money, such a possibility will never come to pass.
That's kind of like the concept of suing gun manufacturers whenever someone with a screw loose goes on a shooting spree, as if they could somehow build a "insanity sensing chip" into the guns.
Every OS has its potential security holes, but for the most part, everyone who has the skills targets Microsoft.
Simply put, because the internet was still relatively unused compared to now, along with the various services we take for granted today (DSL/Cable broadband).
As PC prices came down (anyone remember what prices for PCs was back in 1995?), and more people began to connect to the net, the bulk of the market were immediately inducted as Win9x users, due to the OS being preinstalled in most systems. Most of whom are still ignorant of security issues.
Since there has been a major anti Microsoft mentality over the last 10 years, along with a major anti American mentality (just look at what DDOS bots target, the majority of which are American companies or entities), Windows became the defacto target of choice.
In fact, the security issues have been slowly being covered from Windows 2000 onward, in fact, for the last 5 years. However, since you still have people who have nothing better to do than attack any possible security hole they can find, along with clueless users who open every attachment in e-mail, the issue is NOT, repeat, NOT in fact Microsoft's fault, let alone any software manufacturer's fault (from OS X through Linux through Windows).
The fault lies with human nature and ignorance.
I was pondering robotics the other day, and came to the conclusion that, for the most part, we're going at it all wrong.
I was thinking that we should instead build each limb as a seperate subsystem, with the nessesary computing equipment built into the limb, along with the power supply.
One thing about all ambulatory animals, is that the weight is equally distributed throughout the body. It isn't about figuring out how to balance all the weight in a torso, it's about using weight to act as counterweights, along with sensing the nessesary force needed to move each of those weights.
Another part of it is reflex movement. We think of it as simple because we learned how to do it with almost no effort long before basic skills. For a computer, this is something that requires a huge amount of processing time.
However, a "main brain" that has to interpret data from multiple individual "sub brains" would have an easier time, since the sub brains would process specialized data.
An arm would process just the data for that arm, a leg would process just the data for that leg, etc. Instead of the main brain having to process reams of data from every sensor on the body, it would have to only process the sub brains' inputs. Consider it as a biological analogy for USB.
One interesting "glitch" I had noticed in years of using CCD based analog video camcorders (VHS/8MM), is that the IR LED on the front of remote controls would show up as a bright white light (it would appear on a brightness level comparable to a bright white LED).
So my question is, would it be possible to scavenge a common video camera (dirt cheap at Goodwill or yard sales), turn off the electronic shutter, and build a similar night vision scope?
You have pretty much everything you need shy of a bank of IR LEDs to work with, and could possibly retrofit an old camera light to act as the emitter. Of course, we all know about the Sony "X-Ray" video camera as well, which worked on a similar principal.
Why did I suddenly get an image of the tablets being shaped like 16 sided dice?
Including at least 1.1 million instances of a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
That doesn't do much good in stormy weather and/or fog. And as many ship wreckages have proven throughout history, you don't avoid accidents by simply "sitting still and doing nothing". Ships run aground due to tides, after all.