I use my cable companies DVR (It has a USB port on the front) not sure if I am allowed to do this but it works and I don't have to turn on something I am not using.

One complaint I have about my PS3 dealing with charging the controller.... On the Wii when I watch Netflix the controller shuts itself off after a few minutes of inactivity, no problem if I want to use it I just push a button (any button) and it turns on and works. On the PS3 if I watch a movie the controller eagerly sits for 2 hours and sucks its battery dry.... Why does it stay on the entire time? Feels like I have to charge my PS3 controller 2-3 times more often then I should by working this way.

Ummm no, just no on so many levels....

The PS3 has 1 Cell Broadband Engine with is a single CPU based on the PPC CPU, and 7 SPU's the 8th SPU is disabled at manufacture to increase yields. They run a tests on the chip, notice one SPU is bad, isolate it then disable it. If all of them are good they disable one.

Only 6 SPU's are usable to programs as the 7th SPU is reserved for the OS's Hypervisor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3_Hardware

(To access Wikipedia just refresh the page when you see the SOPA thing and hit stop before the redirect.)

I agree some of these marketers I suspect are smoking meth or something... As a great example there is some commercial showing recently where they start singing the 12 days of Christmas and I hit the mute button so fast I don't even know what product its for... The girl just starts yammering about a bunch of crap and I want to slap her...

This commercial is so annoying the only reason I would want to even know the name of the company that makes it is so I can boycott them...

Thats where the inflation part comes in, those dolls wont blow them selves up you know! At least not the cheap models...

At this point in time I would consider it very likely that we park a couple of satellites overhead and just watch all the radar stations then just triangulate the positions down to the foot or something.

Maybe some of these neat radar ground mapping satellites with the transmitter turned off and just the listening part turned on.

I used to have a World of Warcraft account, I use gmail as my primary email service. One thing that happened to me is that about 8 months after I stopped playing WoW I get a lot of weird emails overnight. the last one bothered me the most. "From the Gmail team" or something to that effect, what it boiled down to is that some one in China had accessed my email through "unknown means" and managed to get my passwords and account information for WoW then they proceeded to have like 12 demo's of WoW, I changed my gmail password to some crazy 36 long letter number soup and contacted blizzard... This has been months ago, the end result is that Blizzard pretty much says that if I wanted to play WoW in the future I would need to buy the game and the expansions I had again... Awesome customer service Blizzard! Love you too! /sarcasm

"Making money with a product speaks louder than hand-waving."

I take it you don't speak Italian? Sorry couldn't resist :)

"No.

The US is the worst evil-empire. 20 years from now, we will wish the Soviets had survived, to keep their horror in check."

Judging by the fact that when the Soviets where going full steam they had to build a giant wall to keep people IN I would question your version of reality. I have yet to see people digging tunnels to get out of the US... Tunnels going in sure thing.

I know I am looking forward to this, I usually buy 1 or 2 tiers down from the extreme editions or what ever they are being called, with this tech I will probably buy what ever is cheapest and can be turned into the top model.