Using "not insignficant" instead of "significant" lengthens the sentence and makes it harder to parse. They mean the same thing despite your pointless story about paper cuts. It's never not good to go ahead with stopping not misusing self-contradictory phrases.

If Sony came into your house and disabled even just a seldomly-used button on your remote control, I'll bet you'd bitch about it every time their name was mentioned - regardless of whether you could go out and buy a separate remote for that button or not.

Here's the deal: PS3 sucked as a computer. Development of anything interesting (like say, a media player that used the Cell to play MKVs) languished for years. YDL was/is a decent distro, but you weren't going to do anything interesting with it on the PS3. I know, I tried. This coming from someone who uses Linux as my only desktop at work.

If Sony came into my house and took off a button from my remote that I'd never used, I'd be happy because then I wouldn't accidentally hit it anymore. Not that your absurd example has anything to do with what actually happened.

Traditional A/V companies are all doing pretty poorly. Like most consumer products, there's no middle ground anymore. It's all super cheap crap fresh off the boat from China or expensive custom boutique stuff. Sony is neither one of these, and I don't suspect they'll survive in the long run.

Someone will pay big bucks for the Sony name, but that's the only thing that will be left: a name that bears no resemblance to the original innovative company (see also: Zenith, RCA, Atari).

The USA has less people, and much more arable land.

What he's trying to say is that you're completely wrong. Tramiel killed Atari. Remember his terrible decisions that destroyed the most pioneering company in video gaming history?

"Game machines were dead"?!?! No, Tramiel decided that game machines were dead, and he was absolutely wrong. He froze the 7800 right when it was ready for market in 1984. He gutted Atari's arcade and home console divisions to focus on computers.

Then, after the success of the NES, he decided Atari needed to make a console again. But did he commission a new design? Nope, he brought back the 7800, slashing the specs from its 1983 design so that it was even further behind the NES and Master System. Another puzzling decision in the name of saving money.

In 1984, the 7800 had the best ports of the most popular arcade games ever made. In 1987, it was light years behind the NES and Super Mario Bros. Atari would never recover from Jack's decisions.

Baloney. Just because you bought into the BS spouted by people shilling for registry cleaners, doesnt make it accurate.

Hah. Guess you've never actually worked on Windows computers.

And a bad setting always has the potential to cause problems, whether its called named.conf or boot.ini or grub.conf or the SYSTEM hive.

So...what's easier to diagnose and fix? Hundreds of thousands of obscure key/value pairs in the SYSTEM hive or changing a few lines of a .conf file?

The whole "walled garden" metaphor applies to iOS products, not Mac OS X. You can download and install whatever you want on a Mac. Including Linux or Windows if that floats your boat.

Sweet, could you text Bob Dole and ask him to give me some free V14.gr4?

How about buying a dead-tree edition? Or maybe even take it out of the goddamn library, you deadbeat?

Well, I wouldn't know, it's been so long since we've been outside the asylum, hasn't it, Bats? WAHOOOHOOOHAHAHAH!