Now that leeds to the following cartoon :).

Not only that but if you have PS1 games you can still play them on your PS3, but with the exception of a few PS1 games you probably won't. Unfortunately only the first FAT PS3's played PS1, PS2 and of course PS3 games, however if you compare graphics on a decent large HDTV most PS1 games are fairly grainy even with smoothing on, the PS2 (FAT only) is quite reasonable and many games are very playable.

It is unfortunate but as time goes by the only way to play older PS1, PS2 and eventually PS3 games is to run them in an emulator. This does not only apply to PlayStation games but all games that ran on a different architecture.

At the moment I have no intention of purchasing a PS4 since there are not many games I see for it that makes it a compelling purchase for me. Backwards compatibility would have made for a compelling reason since I have many PS3 games I am still interested in purchasing as well as ones I am currently playing and since I like RPG's and Action Adventure I have enough for 100's of hours of game-play before I even consider getting a PS4.

Well I have never played the PC versions of the above however I do have the PS3 version of Oblivion and I have not seen any patches for it and the game plays fine. The only complaints for the PS3 version of Oblivion is the character generator were everyone appears to be hit with the "Ugly Stick" :) and the fact that levelling up appears to be pointless since all the enemy does as well.

I think many people are not impressed since a little market research would have informed Microsoft that all their initial requirements for the XBone (sorry they asked for this abbreviation) were not going to be appreciated by most of the people who would purchase a console. Having done all these back-flips they should have called their console XBox180 or XBox540 :)

As for Nintendo, Sigh! I totally agree.

In terms of High Definition consoles there were only two last generation consoles, the PS3 and the XBox360, so basically it was a two horse race of which the PS3 is currently winning in world wide sales. The Wii was only Standard Definition which sort of put it in the PS2, XBox and Game Cube camp.

Ah but they did tell you how, it was called an XBox360 :)

I don't have a PS4 since there aren't any games on it that I am interested in (likewise the XBone), although I will at a later date get one. If the PS4 had backwards compatibility I would have got one on first release since I still have PS3 games I have not finished and the difference in graphical output while noticeable is not significant enough to convince me to purchase a PS4 at the moment.

As for paying for a subscription to Netflix I do have to agree that having to pay a monthly fee (ie Xbox) just to access this is ridicules, however when I purchase a gaming console the last thing on my mind is purchasing and downloading movies.

I think most people who post here have a PC in one form or another.

Personally I have a gaming Laptop on which I have exclusively put Fedora 20 (I always keep it updated) which effectively stops me playing "Games for Windows" since I could not be bothered setting up Wine and have no intention of dual booting because I am not very interested in PC games preferring Console (PS3) games instead.

Are PC games (aka Games for Windows) better than console games? Well that depends on the gamer and what they like.

You can treat a "chip" as a black box (standard engineering/technical practice) and from the Manufacturers specifications (they are available) it is surprisingly easy to determine if that chip has been compromised. Scale up to any electrical equipment such as a router and the same principles apply since the tester needs only to know what is input (they control this) and what they expect the device to output and if the output is different from what is expected then the device is faulty or compromised.

Sure a tester is only human and may miss something important, however it only requires one person to actually blow the whistle and you have many interested parties getting involved. If it can be shown that the manufacturer is deliberately putting in back-doors then the loss of sales and possible litigation could be very damaging to that manufacturer and no manufacturer would knowingly risk being put in such a compromising position.

Since you asked for a citation under US Law does this count . A little searching could also pull up the laws governing tampering with mail in other countries as well..

Sounds good on paper, however unless the person who uses this is a night worker the whole array is pretty much next to useless since most day workers would have taken their electric car to work and only return to park under their now non functioning solar car port once the sun has gone down. Of course if we consider the weekend the electric car could be recharged during the day unless the driver has decided to take the car to say a shopping centre. So I think I would be fairly confident to say that with regard to recharging the electric car most of the charging would actually be from the mains.

Instead of spending money on a car port just to power their car it is more practical to feed the solar power back to the grid and/or powering devices that require power during the day. This is not to say that the car port is a waste of money but like anything that is solar powered some thought is required on the best use of the device.

Well you have locked yourself into AutoCad which does not come cheap in the first place or are you a member of the "Green Parrot Brigade"? :). Personally I don't see you having a problem upgrading to MS Windows 7 or later and running AutoCad, assuming your hardware is capable of supporting the OS upgrade. Of course there is a cost involved with upgrading a Microsoft OS but it really helps to be a GPB member if you do this.