Looks like they added Ethernet. Doesn't say what speed, though.

You still can. Just use proper cable hiding tools and techniques. Like whatever they use to make power cables running across floors OSHA-safe. :)

My chief complaint was that in the original announcement, they were only going to support wifi for networking, yet it was supposed to be useful for gaming and streaming video.

The problem is that wifi is terrible for both of those use cases. It's bad on its own for latency purposes, and then there's spectrum contention. I raised these points in response to their Kickstarter drive, and it looks like they turned around and added those features. If I'd known they would, I would have donated on the Kickstarter.

Then they added both my suggestions. Rock on!

I'll definitely have to get one, now.

When their Kickstarter began, I sent them a message (along with many other folks, I'm sure) that it needed _some_ means of getting a wired internet connection and/or access to by-wire accessories. USB was one of the possibilities I offered.

Now devs for Ouya can turn around and leverage that USB port to allow the Ouya device to latch on to a PC's network connection. Excellent.

(Page doesn't seem to show if it's USB2 or 3. At this point, I sure hope it's USB 3...)

That's like a lifetime achievement Oscar, right?

And now we're back to a familiar analogy: "The door was open, so anything inside should have been mine to take!"

In other markets (including software), activities like that were called "anticompetitive."

Not that I really see a problem with it. Just making an observation that amuses me.

If I understand what you're saying, you're expressing the same ignorance about downloadable material that people downloading warez and mp3s in the 90s had. "It's free, so it's probably legal, right?"

I thought someone would eventually come through and get some sort of Netflix working on Linux, but Silverlight working right was not at the top of my list. I was expecting either a dedicated and optimized "player" for the Android app or a port of the the ChromeOS version.

I can't recall when I joined. 1997? 1998? I don't think I did a JE until 2003, though. Maybe they list from that date.

Since you may be going cross platform at the host, either VMware or VirtualBox are good options. I've personally been using VirtualBox for a while and find it quite easy to use and being free is a nice perk too. Though I understand VMware Player(the free version of VMware) has grown in a a decent general purpose VM solution for simple desktop virtualization like it sounds like you'll be doing.

I had one of those. Boiled it down to the smallest possible test case (AFAICT), even.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35664

Couldn't tell you why it's still marked 'new', though.