Can they make it longer? Maybe 1 minute 30 seconds in total? Just about enough to make a cup of coffee, prep some popcorn and visit the bathroom?

I was sitting here reading everyone's comments and something struck me...(Apart from my wife telling me to come to bed)...

This is great for shareholders:

I guess it is now possible for Sony to put a firmware patch (required for PSN and New Games) that would effectively put your Blue Ray and DVD player into an alternative REGION code, thus rendering use of the device to watch movies useless, maybe along with a new "Streaming Service"...You choose, PSN+Streaming Service or Play your own DVD/Blue Ray movies...If you choose the latter, you also forego, from this point on, your rights to play any new Games released.

How about an update that requires a subscription of $9.99 for PSN. Don't upgrade if you don't want to pay, the choice is yours...But you can't play new games either...

How about an update that renders the current controllers useless requiring the purchase of new controllers...Update or no new games...

How about an update that removes the use of third-party TV's and only allows connection to SONY BRAVIA TV's...Update or no new games or PSN...

The choices are endless to squeeze consumers into making more necessary purchases to just use their device...

That's about right for a British person... :D

to be honest, no, I didn't read the article, I googled it after remembering the statistic and must have got a bad google match...or rather, it was reported by another paper in not such shining lights...

soz

Welcome to the UK...well, for the cameras anyway: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article5834725.ece

300 times a day...

Oh, and I know that this information is collected in squad cars and transmitted wirelessly every time the car docks at the station, both video and audio...

Erm, if the fact of increasing payments towards fixing you car because you were over the speed limit reduces the cost of insurance, then that is a benefit to the careful driver.

What it is more likely do is improve lawyers income with people arguing with insurance companies over the fact that just because I was speeding earlier, at the point of the accident I was driving within the parameters of the law...

What gets me is if they can put these blackboxes in, and my gps does this anyway, why can't they regulate the speeds of the vehicle on the roads. If you are on the limit, the accelerator doesn't allow further acceleration, except in short bursts (which is needed for accident avoidance in certain situations). Oh wait...the police department won't be able to fine any more.

This is merely a revenue generation type black box. If you're going to do it on the premise of saving lives, go the whole way or don't do it at all...

Stupid Question:

1) Most DVD players these days can be made region-free easily.
2) Converting Blue Rays to upload to Pirate Bay is much harder and needs more beef.
3) Blue-Rays are too expensive...Reduced cost DVDs has only made them more popular.
4) Blue-Ray is Sony...They are destined to fail in a format war...forever.
5) Based on 1) above, I can't watch my Blue-Rays I bought in the UK for my PS3 on my US bought PS3...why? Stupid.
6) Blue-Ray content different per region...Unfair...Won't buy because of this.

I hire my blue-rays...I have no need to buy them...hiring becomes more interesting due to high purchase price. However a good movie I want to keep I will buy on DVD for 1/4 the price...Sit far enough from the TV you can't really tell that much of a difference (maybe in sound yes).

Get an Orange San Francisco PayG phone (circa £99), pay $5 to get it unlocked online and then use ROM Manager to install the Cyanogen 7 RC2.

total cost to you: approx £120 tops.

That explains why doctor's handwriting looks like my 2-year olds...harder to read, more important...Time to start writing in my newly designed crap font....

I didn't select to post anonymously...weird

With access to Pentaho's knowledgebase and support you would have had first class support and access to a wealth of documentation.

Some of this documentation is available on Pentaho's open wiki: http://wiki.pentaho.org/