I just bought a samsung 55 inch LED, it has two USB ports and a media player app built-in. Threw my MKVs and divxes at it, it would play everything.

VLC server, geexbox, XBMC, "plugging a computer into the teevee" and so on... They're obsolete to me now. Even my internet/TV provider's box has usb plugs and can read even the most obscure, piraty formats ever.

I'm kinda dubious towards this "technology". It would have been cool FIVE YEARS AGO!

If by "suck" you mean "nobody ever forced you to post your pictures of when you're drunk, you idiot", then yeah, I agree with you.

The persecution shtick works when you're actually a jew, not when you use a program hosting 90% of the world's pedophiles.

I mean get a clue, guys, even downloading tor will put you on the "HAS SUMTHIN TUH HIDE, HYUCK" list.

"People who say in this topic that Tokyo is crowded obviously never been to Time Square or for that matter the Kalverstraat. But your brain can parse those signs and classify them as unimportant. "

You're really trying to compare shibuya crossing with times square? ...
REALLY? DO WE HAVE TO WHIP OUT THE YOUTUBE LINKS?

But the google text ads don't slow down my computer, don't hog my ram, and are usually relevant.

Here's THE ONE THING the game needs : Slicing enemies with your lightsaber should cut off limbs insteead of "decreasing their energy bar".
Otherwise, it's not even worth pirating!

Both IT crowd and TBBT have their qualities, sheldon and wolowitz (I can never wear a NES controller belt buckle ever again) remind me more of actual nolife geeks i've met than IT crowd's archetypes.

But it wasn't even advertised as one. To wit :

"In remarks made to Japanese website Impress Watch, and translated by consumer website Beyond3D, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Ken Kutaragi has commented in more detail on the concept that the PlayStation 3 is a computer, rather than a game console.

Kutaragi pointedly commented of the next-gen console, which is due to launch this November at dual price points of $499 and $599 in North America: "We don't say it's a game console (*laugh*) - PlayStation 3 is clearly a computer, unlike the PlayStations [released] so far."

He went on to outline a scenario where many parts of the PS3 were upgradable, much more like a PC, noting: "Since PS3 is a computer, there are no "models" but "configurations"", and continuing (though talking in the theoretical): "I think it's okay to release a [extended PS3] configuration every year". It's clear from the comments that Sony is indicating that it will be possible to upgrade hard drives and perhaps even other components easily.

The Sony CEO gave another example in the interview: "As PS3 is a computer... it also wants to evolve. We'll want to upgrade the HDD size very soon - if new standards appear on the PC, we will want to support them. We may want the [Blu-ray] drive to [have a writable version upgrade]." He then tempered his comments: "Well, BD may not develop like that, though." But extensibility is what Sony is stressing that you get for the price of a PS3, nonetheless.

Kutaragi's comments echo a recent Phil Harrison interview in which he commented: "We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play games, watch films, browse the Web, and use other computer functions. The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC." The combined executive comments appear to signify a change in marketing tactics for the company, who may have always had this scenario in mind, but are pushing it much more strongly following a somewhat mixed E3 showing from a PR perspective."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9642

But really, why drop a feature?

How did one home menu item screw with my enjoying god of war or metal gear?

Was there some system menu bug? They could have at least PRETENDED there was one..

If they could just change the red/green LEDs to red/something-that-isn't-even-close-to-being-mistaken-for-the-same-fucking-color-by-us-daltonians LEDs, I wouldn't need a cure. You know, red/blue would work. That is the ONLY thing I resent in everyday life. Assholes. Instead they wanna prick my eye with a needle, fuck that. I don't care about being a pilot, or a chemist.

You just educated a guy you don't even like because he insulted you.
Wow, you probably won twenty minutes of your life there!