Except that the PS3 was marketed from the outset as a Blu-Ray format player, is a perfectly un-neutered player with full HDMI and Optical outputs to support the full quality of the format, and is still nigh the cheapest player on the market for equal featues (optical out with selectable codec, full 1080p HDMI out, full BD menu control).

Oh trust me, I have the highest contempt for the courts right now.

Soo.. What could you get out of a beowulf cluster of these?

Security vs. Useability:

Windows is a house with the front door left unlocked.

Linux/Unix is a house with no front door.

And then they baited 'n switched for the new bodystyle and build. It was cool when it was cool, now its just another lunchbox hybrid being pushed as the 'cool' thing it once was.

They didn't consider pushing it until gas was $4 a gallon, but then when they needed to push it they went too far away from the original concept and more towards the 'conservative, green car' image that utterly betrays the performance that this vehicle was supposed to attain.

The Volt was going to be cool, efficent, and most importantly to Americans: Sporty! Like almost Tesla Roadster sporty in the original concept, then they started reigning in the numbers and it looked more and more like a slick-bodied econobox. They changed the shape to match and now I have zero interest in the vehicle at all, personally, and I doubt the reaction of so many other (See: Economy is good, but we have freeways here!) Americans would be so different.

Its not just a matter of the connector bits and maybe including an extra cable in the box. Its also the engineering and extra electronics and regulation to take power from any of multiple sources, and even thats not inclusive of having the USB plugged in for data but not power while wall power is being used and other situations. I'd rather not have that faster-charging barely-regulated 6.7v be two teeny transistors in a $200 cellphone away from feeding into the +5vsb of my $200 motherboard.

Being able to plug in your phone to charge with the same plug you may use for the headset, your camera (the real one, phone cameras still suck) and any other multitude of devices just makes sense from the beginning. It should be touted as a feature that a phone carries a standard charging connector, not pushed as an industry standard onto everyone. I use a mini-hat USB for my phone (Dash), camera (Samsung L60), and PS3 controllers already, so replacing any of them should be within my want to use the same charging devices I already have.

Having to buy new cables for a new phone has been a commercial scheme since 'cellular phone' day one, and could almost (based on usage) be compared to having to buy new video output cables every time you changed monitors; square-up your combinations and you have a lucrative market.

Luckily this hasn't flown well with consumers in some time (Apple backlash noted, conversion of iPods to standard headphone jacks et.al.), but again shouldn't be pushed as a 'standard' (Apple's extra capabilities built-in also noted) and instead as a 'works with your existing xxx' feature.

I would equate the 'privacy invasion' of Google Latitude to having windows in your home. Leaving your curtains aside can let the neighborhood peep see your skivvies, but its still your prerogative to close them when you don't want to be seen.

Obviously windows are a dangerous privacy risk that leads to a totalitarian state, and we should all be housed inside metal cubicles to protect our personal lives.

Excuse my bias towards gaming, but outside of business and server space theres only one reason for 'performance benchmarks'. Do it all again with Crysis, or Oblivion, or any 'mainstream' gaming title, or non-FOSS anything for that matter.

Oh, wait... you said Linux right?

Not to pick and choose, but in my book compatibility with developed salable software comes first, absolute performance comes second. Sure Ubuntu could run Doom faster, does it look like anyone would excrete a certain building material over it? Can someone explain to me how doing less is overridden by doing it faster?

Candlejack does it to keep up the lege