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Is a (Second) Degree Worth It?

I have been asked to consider returning to further education to break out of my current vocational malaise. Several of my peers have done precisely that, hoping to capitalise on a future demand for medical services, and an immediate demand to not appear like unemployed bums to their family. I take it as given that people with degrees command better salaries than those who do not. But does this make a very expensive degree worthwhile? We have heard of professional elites who are also skint. Poor doctors, lawyers in hock. How well does a professional degree translate to increased net wealth? There are plenty of internet articles on soul-searching to find the answer. There are not so many on the hard finance of tertiary education. By far the best I have found is the College Risk Report , which compares the value of specific U.S. degrees with that of a high school education and a 2-year generic college course. As comprehensive as it looks, the model has (to me) some weaknesses.

Transcode to PSP using Handbrake

Source: Handbrake 0.9.9.5530 64-bit edition Target: (Phat) Playstation Portable PSP-1000 , System Software: 6.60 Many internet articles on how to transcode video to PSP using Handbrake have not worked for me. Even the most helpful are incomplete. I hope this post will help fill in the blanks. There is no longer any PSP preset for Handbrake, but from what I can gather, the preset had only limited success as the x264 encoder would change syntax and settings between versions. Other presets that may have worked before, like 'iPod' and 'Apple-Universal' now do not. Here is what worked for me, step by step: