Minor correction: You had access to 6 of the 7 available SPUs under Linux on the PS3; one SPU was reserved for the hypervisor.

The GPU is what was locked down, thus the thing everyone wants access to.

Actually, the ribbon was created to expose more functionality. Most users of Office weren't aware that there were any new features added since Office 2000. MS had solid research to back that up. The ribbon really does a great job of exposing new, useful features. I'm amazed you aren't modded troll.

Hmm, interesting, I'll have to try that out. Thanks.

The PS3 works just fine for me as a media player, and it even passes the girlfriend test as long as it's working. I really like it. But if I were looking for a dedicated media box, the PS3 is not it.

I do this for my PS3, and there are a few issues that would make me NOT recommend it for the OP.

Occasionally my PS3 refuses to find the media server and both have to be restarted. Not a huge deal, but annoying- especially to someone who doesn't know how to reboot the media server.

Sometimes PS3 Media Server doesn't get the auto-transocde right. So you have to browse to the TRANSCODE folder on your PS3 and select a transocde preset manually. Very handy for a techie, not user friendly at all.

The interface on the PS3 kinda sucks. It's a basic hierarchy-style file browser. Yes you can find something if it's labeled properly. I have a "TV" and "Movies" folder, and in there each show or movie has its own folder and in that is the media file(s) associated with it. But after using XBMC or Boxee which automatically find your media, pull all of the metadata you'd ever want about it, then make it easily searchable, you'll realize just how much the PS3 is missing. They both offer WAY more in terms of usability, plus Boxee streams all kinds of fun internet content. I had occasion to run Boxee this summer after using my PS3 for 2 years, and it was like fucking magic.

MTU is a lonely, lonely place...

TMobile's unlimited everything no-contract plan was $20/month cheaper than the subsidized plans, making the unsubsidized N1 cheaper than one under contract over 2 years.

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What he said. BE AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE

If you screw it up, girls are way less judgmental when they want your penis already.

Because if piracy didn't exist, your friend would have shelled out $50 for the retail version of all of those games, right?

"CESA reports a total of 19,347,668 downloads for the top twenty DS games and 86 billion yen ($941 million) in damages." - http://www.siliconera.com/2010/06/09/pokemon-platinum-tops-nintendo-ds-piracy-list/

And yet Nintendo is making money hand over fist with the NDS.

Correlation is not causation.

I could fire up 100 torrent clients and have them all download, delete, then redownload Halo for the Mac. Let them do this 24/7 and we'll crank that ratio to 400:1. It'll still have ZERO effect on how much money Bungie made.

A PIRATED COPY IS NOT A GUARANTEED LOST SALE

Yes. It'll connect to any 360. However, the custom port on the new XBox will also provide power to the Kinect, so that you don't have to have a separate power adapter for it.

Christian Audigier? Or however that's spelled?

It seems to me like the people that are interested in the new sexy, are not going to have the experience to work on something like the mainline kernel anyways. Need someone to work on the Safari app on the iPhone? I imagine a new CS grad that's slightly above average could fit the bill. But hardcore kernel work? It's not like you're going to take on all willing applicants for something like that.

To me, the barrier to entry seems much higher for at least your kernel example. Is that the case?

I have several apps that I ran on my Android 1.1 G1 that run perfectly on my Nexus One running 2.1. In fact, of the apps I used to use on my G1 that I have tried on my N1, none refuse to work. Now, go beyond the "reference" phones from Google and, yes, you'll probably see some problems. The more handset manufacturers fuck with the OS, the more likely they are to break compatibility. But they're shooting themselves in the foot, and the Android Marketplace will (hopefully) be enough of a reason for them to not screw things up.

As an Android developer, I feel this fragmentation crap is overblown. So what if only x% of the Android phones out there can run My Amazing3DGPSSocialNetworkingApp? Anyone evaluating the potential market for their app is going to know to check what portion of the market can actually use their device, and if they don't know to do that then they have bigger problems. If that % isn't big enough, you rework the app so that it does work on new handsets, or don't create it. The more advanced the requirements of your app, the less likely your target audience is going to be using a phone not capable of running it anyways. Advanced features mean advanced users. Advanced users use phones that support advanced features.

As an aside that has not much to do with the actual discussion, I have apps, like Wifi Tethering, that not only work perfectly on multiple phones, but CANNOT be killed because of how open Android is.

So in essence you're saying that the ONLY thing keeping you from raping and killing everyone you want, is your invisible friend in the sky? That if it weren't for the threat of him and his morals you'd be sodomizing every small child you came across? Err, that's probably a bad example, as even God hasn't managed to stop the Catholics from doing that...