- GPS support: ability to read and interpret NMEA sentences from a GPS receiver communicating through PSP's serial port.
Rather simple DYI hook up with GPSlim 236 receiver from Holux is explained in following thread:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t= 30035
This is why I like the PSP platform - versatility.
None of the games that came out for it are worth their cost and the cost of upgrading my 1.5 firmware. No thanks, I like being able to do awesome stuff like this on a high res handheld. Music, video, emulation, and all the homebrew you can ever imagine.
Now, Sony, if you pulled your face out of your ass and stopped trying to screw the homebrew community over, maybe the PSP could have sold more units.
Disclaimer - I assist in running a Runescape help site. A legit one. Google me if you want.
This happens in any MMO. Demand surges from the rich people with money to blow. The poor people jump in to harvest material to get rich. The rich get a gigantic mansion (the skill construction is little more than a massive goldsink, ex: equipping a dungeon into your house complete with a 'steel dragon' costs you well over fifteen MILLION gold), the poor get cash to spend on supplies.
This happened in Runescape after any skill release (farming, runecrafting), this will happen in World of Warcraft when Jewelcrafting comes out at expansion, etc. Give it a few weeks, prices will stabilize, and we're back to the status quo.
I believe that Runescape presents the best MMO economy simply because nothing is ever bound to the user and prices for supplies are generally not set. In other games the best gear, best armor or whatever cannot be resold and typically also cannot be bought (WoW, UO, etc).
Seven standard high school classes, two university math classes (not university level, university). Applied Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations. My high school classes are a joke, but they still eat seven hours out of each weekday. SAT was a joke, AP Tests were all jokes, college classes and midterms are the stress. Single variable calculus was fairly easy, I took it my Soph year. No prep classes for me, all studying. Not rich enough to buy my way into college.
I've already jumped the college hoops, got accepted to Berkeley undergrad engineering and Harvey Mudd.
When I programmed on my own I did it to toy around and experiment. I learned my code languages on my own time, since my HS offers only a single course in Java.
I enjoy programming. I like messing with code. Projects require a large amount of short term dedication - if I let anything slide for a week I pretty much have to relearn my program again, which is a chore. That short term dedication is only available to me over holidays and breaks, and I dont get much done.
I didn't expect it to be easy, I expected it to be time consuming, and my post is cognizant of how 'gifted' students CAN be bogged down through educational red tape.
I cut my teeth on C++ when I was nine. Graduating from HS this year with a few years of C++, some cursory Java, some cursory web 'languages' below my belt.
The main issue here is that programming isn't necessary anymore for kids - whatever any kid wants to do they can rush out and buy a bit of software for, or find a utility online. All the functionality they'd want is at their fingertips already, so programming is left to the tinkerers.
And I rarely program anything for fun anymore because I'm overscheduled. Too many classes, too many bloody standardized tests, and programming itself isn't rewarded at the HS level because of a refocus on reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic. Out of the set of dedicated students, the more well off kids burn time at prep schools and cram classes, the less well off burn time studying. Few chances to program 'for fun' - I've got a really old RPG engine that I add bits and pieces to every now and then, but there's no way I can finish it anytime soon.
Lehmann estimated that the mice ate the human equivalent of 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week. That is about the amount found in three to eight fresh habanero peppers, depending on how hot the peppers are.
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
If you can't be bothered to read that link, basically, San Diego's embroiled in a financial crisis that's being investigated by the FBI, and the recently-resigned city manager had a few thousand emails erased immediately after he stepped down which may POSSIBLY incriminate him or others in the muni government.
Of course, in that instance the email deletion is probably straight obstruction of justice, while this one is not involving any actual 'crime' other than possible breach of contract. But I figured it'd be food for thought.
Very, very true. The same reason why plenty of businesses at the moment are still running Windows 2k.
There's very little reason for businesses to 'upgrade' to Vista anytime soon, and for the home user they can always crack the 'ultimate' version. Deliberate feature locking is never going to benefit the end-customer anyhow, so they have little motivation to purchase a non-OEM copy of anything but 'Ultimate'.
There have been several reports of children using calculators as simply a crutch in order to not learn long division or multiplication at all. In this case they ues the calculator as a cop out.
The main problem with modern mathematics education is that there's much less an emphasis on mental mathematics skills. I, for example, memorized the multiplication table at 3 and taught myself to do 'speed' mental math without the aid of a calculator. This has allowed me to perform calculations much quickly at higher levels of math, such as when generating a set of eigenvalues by hand, as well as consistently perform at a higher level than most of my peers who learned 'by the calculator'. Relevant to modern life? Mental mathematics allows you, for example, to walk into Costco and immediately compute the per ounce cost of a particular brand of beef compared to the other without having to whip out a calculator. Unless you consider modern life to be little more than 'create spreadsheet at work', 'push paperwork, 'go home and watch Gray's Anatomy', 'sleep', basic math skills are more than relevant to every aspect of a modern human being.
Although I dont agree with your quoted line, calculators should never be allowed into the hands of a student until that student has a firm grasp of basic mathematical functions. Calculators are meant to facilitate computation, and that's all.
There's an Asimov short story out there - "The Feeling of Power", detailing a society where no human remembers how to perform basic math but carries a pocket calculator. A technician who rediscovers the process of hand mathematics is hailed as a genius, and work begins on a missile with a human 'computer' inside to calculate trajectories. Read it in your spare time.
There are people that literally cannot feel pain - therefore they would be able to, for example, sit with their knee twisted in what would be an excruciating position with no awareness that they're actually hurting themselves.
Few of these people make it to adulthood because of a death that could have been prevented if they could feel the pain.
Be thankful you can feel pain. It means something's wrong, and it means that whatever the hell you were doing or just did, you need to change it, *now*. That's why you stop feeling pain after, for example, your arm is blown off from a shrapnel blast - after a point, feeling pain is useless.
If the game is supposed to be 'realistic' and set in a contemporary period, and the ads are where you expect them (i.e. they dont show up during loading periods, but on bus stops and billboards), they can positively contribute to the game experience.
If you're fragging and you see an ad for Preparation H right after you get a headshot, it's obviously a negative experience.
But considering the rising cost of video games I'm wondering whether they're just milking as much cash out of the game as possible. I mean, for $60 I shouldn't expect to see ads in my games.
Lest I seem too Libertarian, I must add that I believe in positive liberty, that is, the government should facilitate the growth of personal, human liberty, rather than removing it.
The Preamble, and thus mission statement, of the Constitution of the Government of the United States of America, is as follows, emphasis mine.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Actions taken by the current government undermine this mission statement and, on that line of reasoning, are not American.
It is YOUR responsibility to ensure that YOUR liberties are maintained. Not the states, not your nanny, YOU. Simply because you cannot defend your rights without the approval of the government doesn't mean we must surrender our rights as such. Such is one of the problems with majoritarian rule - people raised to think such as the parent, may soon form the majority. A great example would be Nazi Germany after Hitler was appointed Chancellor.
I doubt very much that people who claim to 'hate America' hate the system of government. Rather, they hate the government that is currently in place due to it's UNAMERICAN breaches of liberty. Telling them simply to leave the country rather than attempt to improve upon it in their eyes is anti-democratic and, again, unamerican.
And on a final note, just because things 'balance out' in the end doesn't mean the people who were arrested, had their basic human rights removed, and otherwise got the losing side of the stick were given justice.
There are some here who simply refuse to recognize the quote for its significance.
This quote, along with others, should have been pounded into the head of every single American during their education, in their Civics class. Oh wait. We don't have any civics classes anymore.
PSP Homebrew, while illegal in a sense, allows me to play the entire GoodSNES collection of 6000+ SNES games, along with NES, Genesis, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games, on the go.
That feature alone was worth the $250 out of my pocket and made the PSP inestimably more valuable than the DS.
Other than the newfangled dual core processor everything else is kinda marginal. XP Home? 512 mb? Not for 2000 USD.
As a serious question though, who's going to be doing renders and such where dual cores really shine, on a laptop? Can anyone tell me applications of dual core for a on-the-go computer?
Not a board meeting. He'd be nothing more than a shareholder, and shareholders rarely get to actually do much at shareholder meetings other than *possibly* ask one question.
Though given this is Jack Thompson there's a good chance they won't let him speak at all.
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- GPS support: ability to read and interpret NMEA sentences from a GPS receiver communicating through PSP's serial port. Rather simple DYI hook up with GPSlim 236 receiver from Holux is explained in following thread: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t
RTFA.
This is why I like the PSP platform - versatility.
None of the games that came out for it are worth their cost and the cost of upgrading my 1.5 firmware. No thanks, I like being able to do awesome stuff like this on a high res handheld. Music, video, emulation, and all the homebrew you can ever imagine.
Now, Sony, if you pulled your face out of your ass and stopped trying to screw the homebrew community over, maybe the PSP could have sold more units.
Disclaimer - I assist in running a Runescape help site. A legit one. Google me if you want.
This happens in any MMO. Demand surges from the rich people with money to blow. The poor people jump in to harvest material to get rich. The rich get a gigantic mansion (the skill construction is little more than a massive goldsink, ex: equipping a dungeon into your house complete with a 'steel dragon' costs you well over fifteen MILLION gold), the poor get cash to spend on supplies.
This happened in Runescape after any skill release (farming, runecrafting), this will happen in World of Warcraft when Jewelcrafting comes out at expansion, etc. Give it a few weeks, prices will stabilize, and we're back to the status quo.
I believe that Runescape presents the best MMO economy simply because nothing is ever bound to the user and prices for supplies are generally not set. In other games the best gear, best armor or whatever cannot be resold and typically also cannot be bought (WoW, UO, etc).
I'll clarify my workload then.
Seven standard high school classes, two university math classes (not university level, university). Applied Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations. My high school classes are a joke, but they still eat seven hours out of each weekday. SAT was a joke, AP Tests were all jokes, college classes and midterms are the stress. Single variable calculus was fairly easy, I took it my Soph year. No prep classes for me, all studying. Not rich enough to buy my way into college.
I've already jumped the college hoops, got accepted to Berkeley undergrad engineering and Harvey Mudd.
When I programmed on my own I did it to toy around and experiment. I learned my code languages on my own time, since my HS offers only a single course in Java.
I enjoy programming. I like messing with code. Projects require a large amount of short term dedication - if I let anything slide for a week I pretty much have to relearn my program again, which is a chore. That short term dedication is only available to me over holidays and breaks, and I dont get much done.
I didn't expect it to be easy, I expected it to be time consuming, and my post is cognizant of how 'gifted' students CAN be bogged down through educational red tape.
I cut my teeth on C++ when I was nine. Graduating from HS this year with a few years of C++, some cursory Java, some cursory web 'languages' below my belt.
The main issue here is that programming isn't necessary anymore for kids - whatever any kid wants to do they can rush out and buy a bit of software for, or find a utility online. All the functionality they'd want is at their fingertips already, so programming is left to the tinkerers.
And I rarely program anything for fun anymore because I'm overscheduled. Too many classes, too many bloody standardized tests, and programming itself isn't rewarded at the HS level because of a refocus on reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic. Out of the set of dedicated students, the more well off kids burn time at prep schools and cram classes, the less well off burn time studying. Few chances to program 'for fun' - I've got a really old RPG engine that I add bits and pieces to every now and then, but there's no way I can finish it anytime soon.
Lehmann estimated that the mice ate the human equivalent of 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week. That is about the amount found in three to eight fresh habanero peppers, depending on how hot the peppers are.
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
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If you can't be bothered to read that link, basically, San Diego's embroiled in a financial crisis that's being investigated by the FBI, and the recently-resigned city manager had a few thousand emails erased immediately after he stepped down which may POSSIBLY incriminate him or others in the muni government.
Of course, in that instance the email deletion is probably straight obstruction of justice, while this one is not involving any actual 'crime' other than possible breach of contract. But I figured it'd be food for thought.
Russ Feingold voted against the PATRIOT act in 2001.
There is no contemporary politician at the moment I respect more.
Or, give them a pencil and paper and tell them to work it out by hand.
Very, very true. The same reason why plenty of businesses at the moment are still running Windows 2k.
There's very little reason for businesses to 'upgrade' to Vista anytime soon, and for the home user they can always crack the 'ultimate' version. Deliberate feature locking is never going to benefit the end-customer anyhow, so they have little motivation to purchase a non-OEM copy of anything but 'Ultimate'.
There have been several reports of children using calculators as simply a crutch in order to not learn long division or multiplication at all. In this case they ues the calculator as a cop out.
The main problem with modern mathematics education is that there's much less an emphasis on mental mathematics skills. I, for example, memorized the multiplication table at 3 and taught myself to do 'speed' mental math without the aid of a calculator. This has allowed me to perform calculations much quickly at higher levels of math, such as when generating a set of eigenvalues by hand, as well as consistently perform at a higher level than most of my peers who learned 'by the calculator'. Relevant to modern life? Mental mathematics allows you, for example, to walk into Costco and immediately compute the per ounce cost of a particular brand of beef compared to the other without having to whip out a calculator. Unless you consider modern life to be little more than 'create spreadsheet at work', 'push paperwork, 'go home and watch Gray's Anatomy', 'sleep', basic math skills are more than relevant to every aspect of a modern human being.
Although I dont agree with your quoted line, calculators should never be allowed into the hands of a student until that student has a firm grasp of basic mathematical functions. Calculators are meant to facilitate computation, and that's all.
There's an Asimov short story out there - "The Feeling of Power", detailing a society where no human remembers how to perform basic math but carries a pocket calculator. A technician who rediscovers the process of hand mathematics is hailed as a genius, and work begins on a missile with a human 'computer' inside to calculate trajectories. Read it in your spare time.
There are people that literally cannot feel pain - therefore they would be able to, for example, sit with their knee twisted in what would be an excruciating position with no awareness that they're actually hurting themselves.
Few of these people make it to adulthood because of a death that could have been prevented if they could feel the pain.
Be thankful you can feel pain. It means something's wrong, and it means that whatever the hell you were doing or just did, you need to change it, *now*. That's why you stop feeling pain after, for example, your arm is blown off from a shrapnel blast - after a point, feeling pain is useless.
Given the association with 'single' with marital status a synonym should have been used, such as 'isolated', which reduces the vagueness greatly.
So. Yeah. Woo.
How, exactly, to you go from discussing the technical aspect of space fuel tank construction, to starting a debate on friggin intelligent design?
Orlando Sentinel = troll.
Yep, led the revolt against the Encyclopedists in the first 50 years of the Foundation.
If the game is supposed to be 'realistic' and set in a contemporary period, and the ads are where you expect them (i.e. they dont show up during loading periods, but on bus stops and billboards), they can positively contribute to the game experience.
If you're fragging and you see an ad for Preparation H right after you get a headshot, it's obviously a negative experience.
But considering the rising cost of video games I'm wondering whether they're just milking as much cash out of the game as possible. I mean, for $60 I shouldn't expect to see ads in my games.
Limiting the franchise to only those that can pay the costs of voting (time and gathering information) is inherently elitist and undemocratic.
A solution that limits the franchise further than how it already is in the US is worse than the problem.
I suppose I'll go ahead and snark the glowboxy in order to transferbangle redundanmancy for general purposes.
On a side note google gave only 2 hits for transferbangle, both dupes of this little blurb. So yeah, uh, made up words suck.
Lest I seem too Libertarian, I must add that I believe in positive liberty, that is, the government should facilitate the growth of personal, human liberty, rather than removing it.
The Preamble, and thus mission statement, of the Constitution of the Government of the United States of America, is as follows, emphasis mine.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Actions taken by the current government undermine this mission statement and, on that line of reasoning, are not American.
It is YOUR responsibility to ensure that YOUR liberties are maintained. Not the states, not your nanny, YOU. Simply because you cannot defend your rights without the approval of the government doesn't mean we must surrender our rights as such. Such is one of the problems with majoritarian rule - people raised to think such as the parent, may soon form the majority. A great example would be Nazi Germany after Hitler was appointed Chancellor.
I doubt very much that people who claim to 'hate America' hate the system of government. Rather, they hate the government that is currently in place due to it's UNAMERICAN breaches of liberty. Telling them simply to leave the country rather than attempt to improve upon it in their eyes is anti-democratic and, again, unamerican.
And on a final note, just because things 'balance out' in the end doesn't mean the people who were arrested, had their basic human rights removed, and otherwise got the losing side of the stick were given justice.
Yes.
There are some here who simply refuse to recognize the quote for its significance.
This quote, along with others, should have been pounded into the head of every single American during their education, in their Civics class. Oh wait. We don't have any civics classes anymore.
Lovely America we live in now, eh?
PSP Homebrew, while illegal in a sense, allows me to play the entire GoodSNES collection of 6000+ SNES games, along with NES, Genesis, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games, on the go.
That feature alone was worth the $250 out of my pocket and made the PSP inestimably more valuable than the DS.
Other than the newfangled dual core processor everything else is kinda marginal. XP Home? 512 mb? Not for 2000 USD.
As a serious question though, who's going to be doing renders and such where dual cores really shine, on a laptop? Can anyone tell me applications of dual core for a on-the-go computer?
Not a board meeting. He'd be nothing more than a shareholder, and shareholders rarely get to actually do much at shareholder meetings other than *possibly* ask one question.
Though given this is Jack Thompson there's a good chance they won't let him speak at all.