Yeah, but if you can downgrade the firmware, I see no reason why you can't make your PSP pretend like it's running the 2.1 version. Sure, there might be functions in the newer API that certain games require, but 99% of the games will PROBABLY run fine on earlier firmware.
There's really not much difference between Discretionary and Entitlement spending. The only reason that Entitlement spending is "not discretionary" is because congress passed a law to make it so.
Congress DOES have direct control over entitlements. Congress can easily pass laws to make Entitlement spending NOT spending. They just don't want to... they'll lose votes (Republicans and Democrats both).
Using figures from 2000:
The truth is, over 70% of our budget goes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. If you include the ~11% interest on the budget, and you assume that we need no national defense (for the sake of argument), that leaves us able to discuss 19% of the budget.
Why do you formulate an argument based on 19% of the budget?
If we cut 25% of the funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, we would have DOUBLE the current "discretionary" spending (.25*(100-19)=20.25% which is roughly 19%)... and that's assuming no national defense.
If national defense cost 10% of our income, we'd have 350% of the discretionary income we currently have. Our "discretionary" income would be (19%-10%)=9%, so a 25% reduction in the funding for medicare would give us (.25*(100-9)=22.75% free budget), (22.75%/9%)=252% MORE discretionary income than we currently have.
I think you need to realize that Entitlements aren't entitlements because they're fundamental to the creation of this country. They're entitlements because some politician, one day, thought it would be a good idea to get them re-elected, and then went out and told everyone about how NOBODY deserves to be disadvantaged. Then they enacted laws that take other people's money so they could get re-elected. We could just as easily pass laws to take them away.
On top of all of it, the government is historically TERRIBLE dealing with entitlements. Don't believe me? Look at Katrina. We're spending TWO BILLION dollars PER DAY on Katrina victims. That's 4 times what the Red Cross has collected to date, and with the whole FEMA debacle, I'm willing to bet the Red Cross has probably helped more than the Federal Government. The total cost of the debit card program? ~650 million...
Most of that debit card money will probably be misspent. If you give poor people money (most of the displaced people from New Orleans are poor) (poor people have shown themselves to lack money management skills--by definition), they squander the money you give them. Lack of money management is why so many lottery winners end up losing their money. Every charity knows that when you provide for people in need, you give them what they NEED, NOT money. Because people without money management skills almost always buy things they want, rather than things they need.
Believing that people deserve entitlements is a fundamental problem in the thought process of many people in this country. The government is taking my money and spending 2 billion a day for hurrican relief, and people are complaining that the lines are too long, that they need people to watch their kids so they can get out of the Astrodome, etc. People BELIEVE they're entitled to all of this money because our politicans have told them (and passed laws) that the government should bail everyone out of all bad circumstances.
It doesn't say that because it's a PC it's fine. It says you may not use it for any non-PC purpose OR (long list here)
Personally, even if they didn't care about laptops, that's so close to prohibiting/actually prohibits laptops, that I really wouldn't want to argue it in court... especially if I agree to pay THEIR legal fees.
Nvidia drivers have full support for 3d, and work very well. Also, Nvidia supports all TNT2+Geforce products in linux, and they have either an installer that's easy to use, or your distribution comes with a patch.
The Nvidia drivers are VERY good and easy to install.
ATI also has linux drivers, but they don't support all of their products, and they support some partially--so you have to be very careful what you get.
I know that a launch window is a period of time that you can launch in, but is this an environmentally created window (ex: the atmosphere being ideal at a specific time), or is this some sort of legal clearance granted by the FAA/NASA, etc?
Sony could digitally sign certain homebrew applications and verify that they're legit for a fee from the developers.
Or better yet, Sony could manage a user-based voting system where applications not supporting piracy would be approved by voting consensus, and those allowing piracy would be denied. Entry into this voting forum would be fee based for voting users ($10 admission?), to pay for Sony's moderation expenses. Users found improperly voting on a repeated (intentional) basis for software products known to be piracy would be banned. In addition, the forum could be web-based and provide advertisement revenue.
All homebrew applications that come out would be required by Sony to also install the latest firmware version, thereby discouraging piracy even further. This would also decrease demand for attempting to find exploits in the PSP to circumvent piracy protections by those people wanting to simply run legit homebrew applications.
I don't see why it couldn't work--if Sony wanted it to... but I doubt they care.
Actually, you really need to listen to the interview.
He doesn't consider what he did okay, and he even says feels bad for it. Maybe you call bullshit on this one, but I don't honestly think so... I don't think he's lying, he's just insane--not like (most) of the people at your school.
The man is a complete nut (really, listen to the interview)... he talks about the proof of UFO's he's seen, and most importantly, he isn't defending himself like a sane person would. Instead of making up a story, or letting a lawyer handling his defense, he's being completely open about what he's done. He's interacting with the world in a way that indicates that he doesn't think his message will be at all rejected or ridiculed.
What's really disturbing is the fact that he was so easily able to break into the computer networks of US military organizations. That is what REALLY scares me.
The best thing about using make and a Makefile instead of Ant is that I don't need to read books like this.
You don't need to learn make from books because you already know it, and if you knew ant, you wouldn't need to read books like this either.
Even if you didn't know ant, the online documentation is sufficient. That is how I learned ant.
I didn't say the PPC's software was better--just that the palm's sucked. The conduits are easily corrupted, and I've had it cause havok on my palm that only a hard reset and very careful reinstallation of applications could fix.
That, and the lack of multi-palm support (you can't have two palms on one computer at the same time, at least, not easily), the fact that EVERY FREAKING VERSION of the palm has a DIFFERENT VERSION of the sync software (common API, ANYONE?), and that none of them are intercompatible... that data errors caused the software to crash... etc.
I've just had a nightmare with them. They did the palm so very right (except for a common OS between the hardware), but they did the sync so badly in comparison.
I never said his actions were justifyable, just his position. The fact that his position is illogical, and very similar to most people (I like it when it suits me/my beliefs, but if it gets in my way, it sucks), is irrelevant. His perspective has not changed.
In fact, I do not agree with his handling of the situation (see my other post on this topic). He should have done, as I have done, which is to avoid, at all cost, from buying products from those companies that I consider ideologically or practically horrific (Microsoft, Linksys, RIAA, and Disney, to name a few).
Actually, his position hasn't really changed. He supported, and still supports (RTFA) DRM which the consumer is "not constantly bumping into." For this product, this is obviously not the case. He even says in his blog that this is a terrible implementation of DRM.
What are you doing with those devices? Seems a bit strange you're having so many failures... Are they hardware or software failures?
I'm not saying this is a solution... but did you try hard resetting the Treos before RMA'ing them? A hard reset is basically like formatting the device--it'll fix anything but a hardware failure.
If the hard reset does fix the issue, you're most likely encountering problems from the (horrid) sync software corrupting the software on the palm. That's the most often source of problems I've seen.
Anywhoo, I'm sorry they've been causing you so many problems. I'm very happy with mine.
Don't know how good the security is, but I've used two palms (IIIc, no network connectivity), and a Treo 650, and I've never gotten a single piece of malware. So either it has good security, or not a large enough number of targets to infect to make it worthwhile writing malware.
I've used palm for over 6 years, and I've been very happy. At first, I used a palm IIIc, and I just upgraded to a treo 650. They are great devices, very fast, and it does everything I need. Sure, it doesn't play 3D games, but there are a host of products out there, both games and productivity based... and contrary to what the article says, the palm is very stable.
Although they don't have OS level memory protection, I had my palm IIIc (excepting one program) crash twice in four years, and once I got my treo setup, it crashes very rarely (once a month, at most). I've NEVER had the palm crash in Palm's own applications. If a program has a serious flaw, it WILL restart the palm.
Honestly, the OS restarting on an application crash isn't that big of a deal, anyway. All programs save their state when you switch out of them, so even after a reboot, you don't lose your work in the programs. And the reboot takes only about 10 seconds--so it's really not bad at all... when it happens.
And, the palm can play videos... very well. With TCMCP , you can even play PC-sized divx encoded video on the palm. The Treo 650's 312 MHZ Xscale is FAST.
The palm does have downsides... The sync software is terrible (mentioned in the article), their customer service SUCKS, and devices previous to the Treo 650 are NOT flash based--you lose your battery and backup battery, and you lose your information. They needed to upgrade to flash memory a LONG time ago.
Basically, a palm is like a Mac with a good application base. It's intuitive, stylish, and it "just works". It doesn't always have bleeding edge stuff, but it does everything it's designed for, and there are programs to do almost anything you need. Every PocketPC I used crashed repeatedly and had severe stability issues.
The "estimated 1 million pounds" you speak of is a calculated number based on the expected earnings of the person over their lifetime. It is not the amount spent on "clearing up the dead".
In other words, assuming that I died right after getting out of college, it would "cost" society ~2.2 million US dollars (1 million pounds) in my lost income. If I was older, it would "cost" society less. That's drastically different than society having to pay 1 million pounds to take care of my death.
Keep in mind, the traffic death/cost statistics are generally made by people who want stricter traffic laws. Liars figure and figures lie.
P.S: Think about the conclusion of statistics in that way. People who are retired (and don't/will never own a business or work occasionally at a paying job), are worth $0 to society.
Apply it to abortion. If aborted babies are costing the US $2.2 million each, then at 45 million abortions , that's $99 TRILLION dollars cost since 1973. At a GDP of 11.75 trillion dollars (2004) per year, that means abortion is costing the US fully 26% of the national income to pay for abortions and the resulting cleanup (assuming the GDP has stayed the same from 1973-2004).
I used the verizon low speed service for a long while. It's only $5 a month on top of their service, and it's actually pretty fast. It's marketed as dialup speeds, but it's actually double that (10k realistic throughput).
It's got horrible latency, though, so you can forget gaming. Just to test, I fired up counterstrike to test, and I get latencies between 1-3k, the same as in other games I tested.
Now, this was the low speed service, but I doubt the high speed service has better latency. However, for $5 a month, it was an awesome internet connection for a mobile home.
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Yeah, but if you can downgrade the firmware, I see no reason why you can't make your PSP pretend like it's running the 2.1 version. Sure, there might be functions in the newer API that certain games require, but 99% of the games will PROBABLY run fine on earlier firmware.
You forgot to mention that the ipod scratches MORE EASILY than even the "very fragile styrene plastic case"
There's really not much difference between Discretionary and Entitlement spending. The only reason that Entitlement spending is "not discretionary" is because congress passed a law to make it so.
Congress DOES have direct control over entitlements. Congress can easily pass laws to make Entitlement spending NOT spending. They just don't want to... they'll lose votes (Republicans and Democrats both).
Using figures from 2000: The truth is, over 70% of our budget goes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. If you include the ~11% interest on the budget, and you assume that we need no national defense (for the sake of argument), that leaves us able to discuss 19% of the budget.
Why do you formulate an argument based on 19% of the budget?
If we cut 25% of the funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, we would have DOUBLE the current "discretionary" spending (.25*(100-19)=20.25% which is roughly 19%)... and that's assuming no national defense.
If national defense cost 10% of our income, we'd have 350% of the discretionary income we currently have. Our "discretionary" income would be (19%-10%)=9%, so a 25% reduction in the funding for medicare would give us (.25*(100-9)=22.75% free budget), (22.75%/9%)=252% MORE discretionary income than we currently have.
I think you need to realize that Entitlements aren't entitlements because they're fundamental to the creation of this country. They're entitlements because some politician, one day, thought it would be a good idea to get them re-elected, and then went out and told everyone about how NOBODY deserves to be disadvantaged. Then they enacted laws that take other people's money so they could get re-elected. We could just as easily pass laws to take them away.
On top of all of it, the government is historically TERRIBLE dealing with entitlements. Don't believe me? Look at Katrina. We're spending TWO BILLION dollars PER DAY on Katrina victims. That's 4 times what the Red Cross has collected to date, and with the whole FEMA debacle, I'm willing to bet the Red Cross has probably helped more than the Federal Government. The total cost of the debit card program? ~650 million...
Most of that debit card money will probably be misspent. If you give poor people money (most of the displaced people from New Orleans are poor) (poor people have shown themselves to lack money management skills--by definition), they squander the money you give them. Lack of money management is why so many lottery winners end up losing their money. Every charity knows that when you provide for people in need, you give them what they NEED, NOT money. Because people without money management skills almost always buy things they want, rather than things they need.
Believing that people deserve entitlements is a fundamental problem in the thought process of many people in this country. The government is taking my money and spending 2 billion a day for hurrican relief, and people are complaining that the lines are too long, that they need people to watch their kids so they can get out of the Astrodome, etc. People BELIEVE they're entitled to all of this money because our politicans have told them (and passed laws) that the government should bail everyone out of all bad circumstances.
And you just bought into it too.
The MX1000 also has reception problems where it'll lose sync and start jittering around. It has great tracking, but the jittering is annoying as hell.
I'd just like a wireless mouse that works with high DPI tracking, thanks.
Oh... yeah... what a concession.
I spent months (years?) of my life fighting in court because some company sucks, but it's all good because I don't have to pay.
Unless I lose.
I understand your point, but that still doesn't make it okay.
It doesn't say that because it's a PC it's fine. It says you may not use it for any non-PC purpose OR (long list here)
Personally, even if they didn't care about laptops, that's so close to prohibiting/actually prohibits laptops, that I really wouldn't want to argue it in court... especially if I agree to pay THEIR legal fees.
That's gotta be one of the best trolls I've seen lately :)
Nvidia drivers have full support for 3d, and work very well. Also, Nvidia supports all TNT2+Geforce products in linux, and they have either an installer that's easy to use, or your distribution comes with a patch.
The Nvidia drivers are VERY good and easy to install.
ATI also has linux drivers, but they don't support all of their products, and they support some partially--so you have to be very careful what you get.
I know that a launch window is a period of time that you can launch in, but is this an environmentally created window (ex: the atmosphere being ideal at a specific time), or is this some sort of legal clearance granted by the FAA/NASA, etc?
Sony could digitally sign certain homebrew applications and verify that they're legit for a fee from the developers.
Or better yet, Sony could manage a user-based voting system where applications not supporting piracy would be approved by voting consensus, and those allowing piracy would be denied. Entry into this voting forum would be fee based for voting users ($10 admission?), to pay for Sony's moderation expenses. Users found improperly voting on a repeated (intentional) basis for software products known to be piracy would be banned. In addition, the forum could be web-based and provide advertisement revenue.
All homebrew applications that come out would be required by Sony to also install the latest firmware version, thereby discouraging piracy even further. This would also decrease demand for attempting to find exploits in the PSP to circumvent piracy protections by those people wanting to simply run legit homebrew applications.
I don't see why it couldn't work--if Sony wanted it to... but I doubt they care.
Actually, you really need to listen to the interview.
He doesn't consider what he did okay, and he even says feels bad for it. Maybe you call bullshit on this one, but I don't honestly think so... I don't think he's lying, he's just insane--not like (most) of the people at your school.
The man is a complete nut (really, listen to the interview)... he talks about the proof of UFO's he's seen, and most importantly, he isn't defending himself like a sane person would. Instead of making up a story, or letting a lawyer handling his defense, he's being completely open about what he's done. He's interacting with the world in a way that indicates that he doesn't think his message will be at all rejected or ridiculed.
What's really disturbing is the fact that he was so easily able to break into the computer networks of US military organizations. That is what REALLY scares me.
The best thing about using make and a Makefile instead of Ant is that I don't need to read books like this.
You don't need to learn make from books because you already know it, and if you knew ant, you wouldn't need to read books like this either.
Even if you didn't know ant, the online documentation is sufficient. That is how I learned ant.
I didn't say the PPC's software was better--just that the palm's sucked. The conduits are easily corrupted, and I've had it cause havok on my palm that only a hard reset and very careful reinstallation of applications could fix.
That, and the lack of multi-palm support (you can't have two palms on one computer at the same time, at least, not easily), the fact that EVERY FREAKING VERSION of the palm has a DIFFERENT VERSION of the sync software (common API, ANYONE?), and that none of them are intercompatible... that data errors caused the software to crash... etc.
I've just had a nightmare with them. They did the palm so very right (except for a common OS between the hardware), but they did the sync so badly in comparison.
I cannot agree with you more.
I never said his actions were justifyable, just his position. The fact that his position is illogical, and very similar to most people (I like it when it suits me/my beliefs, but if it gets in my way, it sucks), is irrelevant. His perspective has not changed.
In fact, I do not agree with his handling of the situation (see my other post on this topic). He should have done, as I have done, which is to avoid, at all cost, from buying products from those companies that I consider ideologically or practically horrific (Microsoft, Linksys, RIAA, and Disney, to name a few).
Actually, his position hasn't really changed. He supported, and still supports (RTFA) DRM which the consumer is "not constantly bumping into." For this product, this is obviously not the case. He even says in his blog that this is a terrible implementation of DRM.
To the agencies and get him arrested for violation of the DMCA?
Finally, a GOOD use for the DMCA... putting people behind bars that support the DMCA.
Mod me flamebait, if you want... but DON'T mod this funny! I'm being serious...
Actually, no. I've dated for a long while, and I've just found girls to be far too flaky at my age. I'm going to give them a few years to grow up.
But your comment was HILARIOUS, Anonymous Coward.
What are you doing with those devices? Seems a bit strange you're having so many failures... Are they hardware or software failures?
I'm not saying this is a solution... but did you try hard resetting the Treos before RMA'ing them? A hard reset is basically like formatting the device--it'll fix anything but a hardware failure.
If the hard reset does fix the issue, you're most likely encountering problems from the (horrid) sync software corrupting the software on the palm. That's the most often source of problems I've seen.
Anywhoo, I'm sorry they've been causing you so many problems. I'm very happy with mine.
Don't know how good the security is, but I've used two palms (IIIc, no network connectivity), and a Treo 650, and I've never gotten a single piece of malware. So either it has good security, or not a large enough number of targets to infect to make it worthwhile writing malware.
I've used palm for over 6 years, and I've been very happy. At first, I used a palm IIIc, and I just upgraded to a treo 650. They are great devices, very fast, and it does everything I need. Sure, it doesn't play 3D games, but there are a host of products out there, both games and productivity based... and contrary to what the article says, the palm is very stable.
Although they don't have OS level memory protection, I had my palm IIIc (excepting one program) crash twice in four years, and once I got my treo setup, it crashes very rarely (once a month, at most). I've NEVER had the palm crash in Palm's own applications. If a program has a serious flaw, it WILL restart the palm.
Honestly, the OS restarting on an application crash isn't that big of a deal, anyway. All programs save their state when you switch out of them, so even after a reboot, you don't lose your work in the programs. And the reboot takes only about 10 seconds--so it's really not bad at all... when it happens.
And, the palm can play videos... very well. With TCMCP , you can even play PC-sized divx encoded video on the palm. The Treo 650's 312 MHZ Xscale is FAST.
The palm does have downsides... The sync software is terrible (mentioned in the article), their customer service SUCKS, and devices previous to the Treo 650 are NOT flash based--you lose your battery and backup battery, and you lose your information. They needed to upgrade to flash memory a LONG time ago.
Basically, a palm is like a Mac with a good application base. It's intuitive, stylish, and it "just works". It doesn't always have bleeding edge stuff, but it does everything it's designed for, and there are programs to do almost anything you need. Every PocketPC I used crashed repeatedly and had severe stability issues.
Uh yeah, it's called the TSA ...and they do it at all airports. That's why in-airport restaurants have to provide plastic utensils.
I see it happening every time I get strip searched... I mean fly.
Just FYI...
The "estimated 1 million pounds" you speak of is a calculated number based on the expected earnings of the person over their lifetime. It is not the amount spent on "clearing up the dead".
In other words, assuming that I died right after getting out of college, it would "cost" society ~2.2 million US dollars (1 million pounds) in my lost income. If I was older, it would "cost" society less. That's drastically different than society having to pay 1 million pounds to take care of my death.
Keep in mind, the traffic death/cost statistics are generally made by people who want stricter traffic laws. Liars figure and figures lie.
P.S: Think about the conclusion of statistics in that way. People who are retired (and don't/will never own a business or work occasionally at a paying job), are worth $0 to society.
Apply it to abortion. If aborted babies are costing the US $2.2 million each, then at 45 million abortions , that's $99 TRILLION dollars cost since 1973. At a GDP of 11.75 trillion dollars (2004) per year, that means abortion is costing the US fully 26% of the national income to pay for abortions and the resulting cleanup (assuming the GDP has stayed the same from 1973-2004).
The statistic makes no sense.
Dang, I read this and I thought, for some weird reason, I had just become trapped in the movie "Groundhog's Day".
Scary.
I before E except after C... or in seized.
I used the verizon low speed service for a long while. It's only $5 a month on top of their service, and it's actually pretty fast. It's marketed as dialup speeds, but it's actually double that (10k realistic throughput).
It's got horrible latency, though, so you can forget gaming. Just to test, I fired up counterstrike to test, and I get latencies between 1-3k, the same as in other games I tested.
Now, this was the low speed service, but I doubt the high speed service has better latency. However, for $5 a month, it was an awesome internet connection for a mobile home.