Actually, Opportunity is examining the damaged heat shield from re-entry, which it just arrived at the other day.

Its absolute garbage that a company cant produce a useful 75 dollar laptop. I may not be completely enlightened as to all of the technical hurdles, I'm sure that they can put a commodore 64 into something the side of a fingernail. Add on a flat pressure keyboard, a crappy LCD display with no backlight, and a 10 dollar 8GB SDcard for the slim, custom operating system and apps, and you start getting pretty close. It sounds like this company has blown a tonne of cash on trying to find a new iPod that even though its targetted at kids in suffering nations, everyone will want one because its 'such impressive technology'. FFS, a modified nintendo DS is nearly achieving all of the design goals of this project.

tl;dr : this made some people rich.

Thanks! +1 from my non-mod family :)

I guess EA found its own way to take care of the current pandemic, without having to wait in line for

As cool as this project sounds, and as much as many folks will argue with you, please please do NOT install some Linux variant and hack together a working system, as you'll only end up costing the museum more money after your contract has expired and they decide down the road to make some changes. Linux may be free, but linux administrators sure enjoy charging a premium. Go with the easiest to configure and most dummy proof model you can, and then simplify it.

I think you can thank the antivirus companies for this one. Were microsoft to include enough tools and antivirus with their operating systems, suddenly all antivirus makers would be crying foul and shouting monopoly and the like, as their markets would suddenly dry up. It happened in the past when MS was pushing windows defender and trying to integrate it deep into their OS.

VoIP on the DSi, including video chat. Problem solved.

The important part of this article is not the reliability of the hardware, but is the response by Sony in supporting the (apparently rare) customer who has spent a sizeable chunk of change on hardware that has lasted less than two years under normal use. A two hundred dollar 'repair' charge from Sony on top of the high cost of the console just demonstrates how $ony views their 'valuable' customers.

One of the main things I look for in my entertainment systems is that they run quietly, and its promising to see a company develop a system capable of 1080p in a low sound output system. It is however disappointing to see that the system is just a reorganized PC, including multiple fans for cooling, which add the majority of decibels. As it takes on load (say, for running video in 1080p) and the fans kick it up to cope with the added heat, its going to increase in volume substantially, and as the system ages, it will start to make a fair bit of noise... not sounds I really want to be hearing as I'm engrossed in some sort of cinematic masterpiece.

Ideally, I'd like a system much like the PS3 to use for a entertainment hub, something the PS3 is actually quite good at doing and doing quietly as well. Its just too bad that its a Sony product.

Are you telling me this works without an internet connection?!

Who's to say anyone has a 'right' to a domain? I snatch up www.coca-cola.com before they do, and i should rightfully be compensated for being smarter than their marketing department. If I speculate on future hot topics or names and buy up a bunch of domains, then my risk is that they'll be worth something someday and I'm putting out substantial investment on something which may never yield profit. Its called a 'free-market', and it should carry over to internet investments as well.

Does that mean there's a job opening for someone to punch a series of numbers into a computer every 108 minutes?

Why not just get in line over there, behind Silverlight, GoLive, and the rest of the systems that were going to 'kill flash'.

Thank goodness Darkfall has 'launched', and proves that a game doesn't have to follow the 'rules' to be 'successful'.

Which one aren't we going to look forward to?