Cylons!

Well I guess the meat of the problem is I don't want it being a phone and a GPS at the same time. I don't want a call to come in and interrupt my navigation at an inopportune time. Plus, I already had a standalone GPS anyway.

I have an iPhone and a dedicated GPS unit because I don't want my phone triple-tasking as a phone, music player, and GPS unit while I'm driving. I don't trust it to do that many things at once without them tripping over each other at some point.

I'm in the computer science program at RHIT and we're required to take two courses on computer architecture. In the first course, we implement a simple processor using an FPGA, then we design and build our own. Of course, this is before we learn about pipelining, but it's still a lot of fun. In the prereq course where we learn digital circuits, my section's final project was to build a judging system for a pinewood derby race using an FPGA, and other sections had to do such things as implement an alarm clock. I had a lot of fun doing both and they really made me appreciate digital hardware.
Also, as a fun side note, a roommate of mine last year designed on paper a Brainfuck interpreter that ran off raw Brainfuck ASCII source for the Xilinx FPGA competition, but never built it because he wasn't sure if he could present on Brainfuck without laughing. I wonder if that schematic is still lying around somewhere...

I want to wear my glasses in my driver's license picture! But, as an Indiana resident whose license expires next year, I suppose I'll have to be Scowly McNoGlasses in my next picture. Though I guess it's better than the rain-induced white boy afro in my current picture.

Personally, I've always preferred to think of it as a Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. It does such a good job at handling all my rubbish, too!

You could really call it either. I suppose calling it a translator makes sense given the language analogy, but really all a compiler does is read in some file(s) (usually source code) and emit file(s) based on the input, usually but not always in the form of something executable. So, a source-to-source compiler is still a compiler.

I expected it to flip out and start destroying shit.

Okay, so people that want the content and have to pay for it are pissed. But what about your customers that don't have Internet access on their console? They're double-screwed even if they bought the game new.