Why? CPU time is dirt cheap if you can concentrate your task. The bandwidth (a much scarcer resource) is already being spent, and better decisions will just tend to reduce your costs there. To me this smacks of laziness, not efficiency.

No, but you are required to be in actual possession of at least a binary copy before you gain any rights under the GPL. If you can't find someone that will just give you a copy out of the goodness of their hearts, you might well have to pay for it.

That got modded flamebait? Really??? Hey moderators: WHOOSH!

Wow. It's rare that you can actually see sarcasm dipping from a comment.

Simple solution: Rearrange one or more GPU constant maps (register IDs, video modes, ?) based on the state of the trust chain, and have the firmware and OS capable of operating in either state. This should be easy to do in silicon. Any decent commercial game will end up with those values hardcoded all over the engine and would require extensive patching to correct for it. When authoring, just set a compiler flag to choose which map to use. So homebrew stays homebrew in untrusted space but with full hardware access, and commercial games stay commercial in trusted space.

Thou'rt a-prick with grammar.

These were Japanese fullsets, so BFD isn't "missing", it's just not relevant.

More like: "Since some people don't respect themselves, law enforcement can't be bothered to respect anyone."

Sounds like a crock to me.

Hmm, I've got mod points but I can't find the -1, Wrong entry on the menu. So I'll just point out here that you're wrong. The internet has not magically caused everyone to use your particular dialect of English.

We've taken this route as well. It's not worth the hassle (much less being treated like a criminal) and we've discovered that a lot of the country is really pretty to drive through. I do hope that someday this all gets fixed, but my vote's always been an outlier and I don't expect that to change. I'll charter a flight or drive, and since I can't afford a chartered flight I'm paying for gas and auto maintenance instead of airline tickets.

Sheesh. Dude, I'm not pulling random text out of the ass-end of the Internet and parroting it (are you projecting maybe?). I was a 3D engine programming lead at Midway for years. One of the platforms I did way too much work on was the PS2. I can assure you from a combination of personal experience and Sony's developer docs for the CPU and its associated hardware that the PS2 is, in actual fact, a 128-bit system in pretty much every way you might want to approach it - register width, bus width, instruction support and the function of various arithmetic and vector units.

The PS2 was a 128-bit machine. The main CPU had a nice selection of SIMD opcodes, and you could use most of VPU0 via inline coprocessor instructions. It was almost as awesome as it was complex and cumbersome to code for.

That depends on what you mean by "running fine." There's a major difference between "this works well enough we could charge a couple bucks for the app" and "this works well enough we're going to hype up the next version of our flagship hardware with it."