Oh yes, if you don't want to take part in the model, don't buy the darn thing.

Buy a PC.

No one is putting a gun to your head forcing you to buy a PS3.

There is nothing wrong with the model, it works fine if everyone plays by the rules.

Sony can't play by any other model, the console has to be cheap to sell, it was the way the industry evolved.
Have you seen the amount of bitching over the PS3 original starting price.

If Sony uses the PC model next round, and MS plays by the razor model, Sony just wasted their money.

This is assuming Sony doesn't just quit, which I sure is what MS wants and promotes via astrosurfers, convincing consumers to hand them another monopoly.

Nope, don't really care either way.

Just stating some of the things that went through my head when I read the post.

Nope.

What will happen is Sony will drop out of the race as it's no longer profitable, and all you would have left is MS who has gotten the heck of locking their consoles down.

Nintendo won't have the money to do the required R&D (risk and all) and will once again release a weak console.

Yupe. MS monopoly 3.0.
Enjoy.

Karma be damned.

Then they rather you not buy one. Their PS3 works via the razorblade model where they sink billions into R&D and sell the console at slightly below or at break even prices, recouping their cost via game sales.

Hopefully Sony will survive this gen to make the PS4, else enjoy your new Microsoft monopoly where they control gaming in the PC and on consoles.

How quick people forget the sins of that MS. I suppose this short memory is why politicians can manipulate people with such ease. I feel like the donkey in Animal Farm.

If web video is going to get DRM, the "client" will have to be implemented by a trusted party.

Google can play the role, but I don't think Mozilla can.
So if DRM is going to be implement it will need support from the OS - where the OS plays gatekeeper, and browsers relying on it for decoding.**

I don't see a problem to be honest with DRM for web video, it would be up to the content creators whether they want their video protected by DRM.
Those who don't want DRM can just post without it.

**Ya, I know, problem for Linux. Some day they will probably move it into hardware like on the video card itself.

Interesting.

It's quite a lot more jerky in Safari and Chrome.

Looks like this is something the Webkit guys need to work on.

With the proliferation of mobile tech like the iPhone, monitoring is going to get harder.

No opinion on the issue, I don't have kids of my own ... No idea how I would go about it if someday I do.

Well, Chrome 11 is still in alpha though.

And from what I noticed, while Chrome seems to "lag" other browsers when you compare versions, but due to it's ridiculously fast development cycle it almost always catches up if not surpass it's competition.

People have been saying, IE9 has this, FF4 has that, since ... Chrome 7, and they both still aren't out yet.

I regret to inform you that Android is only "open" to handset makers.

Tivoization as it's finest.

You have no idea how disappointed I was when I found out it couldn't play PSP games - that I thought it would be able to based on it's name.

Replace "after" with "unlike" then. :p

ActiveX was MS attempt at competing with Java applets. After everyone realized what an unsafe idea ActiveX was, Java was championed as the "right way" to do it but never was used much due to it's terrible speed.

It's just a trojan horse on an alternative app market.

Just like on the PC you have to exercise caution as to where you get your apps.

Good thing it's not a security vulnerability, like one that allows an attacker to get root access to a phone, that needs patching to fix.

Java was supposed to be the safe (but painfully slow) way to run "web apps" after the giant clusterfuck that was ActiveX.

But over the years it seems it too have "growth" into a security risk.

I wonder if Javascript will suffer the same fate one day.

The essence of Jeopardy is to answers questions correctly and quickly.

Watson has prove itself to be almost at the level of, if not equal to, humans in this regard.

In professions like medicine and law, where the amount of information a practitioner has to keep in his head is enormous and will only grow, Watson even in it's 1.0 "release" can be of great help.

I won't be surprise that in 4 years, as IBM continues to improve it's "reasoning" ability, that Watson will be asking questions in return to clarify the details of questions posed to it - and to compensate for the limited context it can perceive.