Incidentally, you can get the English versions of the two MSX games with Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (it's on Disc 2), the Metal Gear HD Collection, or the Metal Gear Legacy Collection. I know they're in the MGS3 game menus in the HD Collection, I'm not sure about the Legacy Collection.

I think the fact that English-speaking audiences didn't get to play the real Metal Gear or play its sequel at all is why those games were included.

Sure there is. One has had hardware decoding in nearly all graphics processors released in the last decade and the other hasn't.

In fact, considering h.264 has been the de facto accelerated video codec in graphics processors since 2005ish, why are we even having this debate in 2014?

That would be why I said "in their right mind." :P

Since JavaEE is a server application standard, cutting old stuff means that you can no longer run apps that still use said older features on a newer JavaEE server. So, expect everyone to continue using the crusty, old versions of JBoss (for example) or to have the server manufacturers outright ignore Oracle's changes to JavaEE 8.

I know this is a parody, but...

That sounds suspiciously like a complaint about Oracle's database product, not Java. No one in their right mind actually licenses Java stuff from Oracle, which is why Oracle constantly has shit-fits about it.

You do know ASP was introduced in 1996, before PHP became popular? That was during the PHP/FI 1.0 days, which were followed by PHP/FI 2.0 before it became PHP 3 and started resembling the PHP we know today.

No, ASP was introduced to unseat Perl, which was the defacto language for CGI scripts at the time.

I'm so glad you decided to use the US as an example here.

Title 17 section 117 (part (a)(1) specifically) is worded quite broadly and gives you the right to make any copies as long as it's "an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine". Not anywhere in the text is a limit of one copy mentioned. Software requires installation to a hard drive or it won't run? Then that's an essential step and would be covered. Software needs to copy itself into RAM to run? Also an essential step. As much as I sometimes think Congress is stupid, by wording it vaguely and not specifying that it only applies to copies in RAM, they made it so it could be applied in this manner.

You mean other than the DRM on DVDs/Blu-Ray which was explicitly introduced to prevent copying?

Before the dark times. Before the Actpire.

ps -A | grep -i nsa

returned no results!

Sony claims to be looking into the media playback formats issue... they claim they didn't think there would demand for playing mp3s and the like. We'll see if they patch it in with a later firmware update.

From what I've heard, PSN Plus is required for online play on the PS4. much like XBL Gold is for the XB1.

From all the reviews I've read, they really aren't working out-of-box. Or at least Blu-Ray support isn't. That's one of the reasons there's a 300MB firmware update available on launch day.

Well, technically it was available several days before launch day, so you could download it and stick it on a USB drive so you don't have to wait for their (apparently) massively overloaded PSN service to download it from the PS4.

The rootkit fiasco was about Sony BMG music discs installing rootkits when you tried to play them on a computer and had nothing to do with games.

I say music discs because said discs lost the right to be called CDs and have the CD Audio logo due to intervention by Philips.

Microsoft Security Essentials actually flags SourceForge's installer as malicious. I forget what exactly it calls it, but I ran into it when I had to install something from there recently (likely Filezilla on a new machine).

The post I was replying to concludes that the Xbox One was a better system because of things Sony had done.

My post was just refuting that by pointing out that MS is just as bad.

And by the same token, Microsoft's Microsoft Devices and Studios Group and Microsoft Operating Systems Engineering Group are owned by the same company.

The point I was trying to make is that you can either include all the divisions owned by each company or just the console divisions. However, pointing out something bad done by a different division of one company while at the same time dismissing things done by different divisions done at the other company because it "has nothing to do with their console" (yes, GGP said that to me in his latest reply) is intentionally misrepresenting things. Either way, both companies have done some pretty heinous things over the years.

Personally, I have no intention of buying any consoles this generation, which is a change from owning all 3 from last generation. At this point, I'd just rather use my PC.

Did you seriously say those back to back with a straight face?

One of the reasons you listed was from a different division of Sony... and yet you call foul when I include things done by a different division of Microsoft. Make up your mind whether different divisions of the same company count or not.

The list of standards Sony helped create was there specifically to address Blu-Ray, because some people include that under "proprietary" and I couldn't tell if you were one of those people.

Speaking of proprietary, which "proprietary standards" are you referring to? You never actually said and it's impossible for me to respond to the vague assertions you've actually made.

Oh, and it should go without saying that mentioning things that both consoles do is off topic, as per the conclusion to your original post:

It feels weird to say it, but XBOX is clearly the better platform here.