Good question. I don't know.

What I know is that I'm fed up with using my phone to playing games. I need to be at home in order to save that abusive 3G billing anyway, why not leave the phone on the desk and having the fun using a TV?

Having fun using the phone can be expensive. The 3G costs money, and you burns your battery's juicy (and lifespan!).

You will laugh on me, but now when I go out, I carry my Android phone for some Net surfing (google maps, mainly) and Voice calling, and my PSP for the gaming. So now I can play until the battery is drained without worrying about staying offline.

Put your money where YOUR ass is. Oh, wait... =P

Of course! :-)

Or you expect me to waste 600USD on a state of the art console to play these cheap games? ;-)

OUYA will not steal high end console's market. OUYA will succeed only if a latent low profile gaming market is out there, waiting to be discovered and exploited, I mean, explored. :-)

Nops, it's a standard Intel motherboard with a I8294G graphic chipset. Barely acceptable, but it does the job. And, as you said, as a desktop machine it's a pain in the mouse's ass.

I had a harsh time, however, until I manage to install and configure the correct drivers and codecs. Win7, as it's installed, does a shitty job on the Atom 330. You need to use the Intel network driver (and turn off all hardware aid!), and do not forget to install the Atom 330 optimized codecs - otherwise you will not be able to see 1080i video.

I also installed a Soundblaster 5.1 PCI soundcard, with the correct drivers.

And that's all.

The machine is running almost 24x7 for 2 years and something, and I have no (many) regrets. My power bill lowered enough to spend some money on yet another 4T of storage for multimedia with the savings not much time ago.

Yes, you can. :-)

I managed to play Orbiter on a reasonable resolution (1280x1024x16) and got an acceptable (barely, I admit) framerate on my Atom 330 box. That it's my Media Center and torrent server, by the way.

Granted, the Game of the Year will not run on this setup. :-)

Funny thing is that Google, indeed, makes a living using user (meta)data, while Microsoft just wants to sell you software.

The fox guarding the henhouse?

WebArchive could be a even serious problem here.

Google's cache are temporary. WebArchive aims to be eternal. :-)

Throwing away an already selled and advertised feature because it would be, perhaps, used to breach the system is user hostility, no matter what. :-)

Now and then Sony does something on my PS3 over a update (that I must do or will be kicked out from the Network) that pisses me off someway. Last time a controller stop connecting to the console. And NOT, I'm not buying that "It's an unlicensed device".

When I brought that console, it was advertised that it can run Linux and use Bluetooth devices. Now, it does not.

Granted, it's Sony, not "the game developers". But Sony is also a game developer, and game developers are locking down the games to the console - so if my console got busted, my own game will be restricted on the new console. They do it to prevent the game to be selled again as used goods.

And this is hostility, in my vocabulary.

And that's exactly the reason why I foresee a hard time on gathering the main stream game developers attention. They want locked down, user hostile, opaque boxes that allows them to push any kind of crap embedded in the game on their users. They will not be allowed to do that on the OUYA.

It's kind of dumbness, because they didn't managed to do that forever on the PS/3 - and I suspect that PS/4 will have a lot of drag on the market, as it will have to compete not only with new consoles as the OUYA (finally somthing to replace my modded PS/2!!), but with their own old ones - I'm still pretty happy with the games for my PS/3, I'm already pissed of with some Sony's (and their partners) attitude and I not too much willing to spend more money on this.

They need to sell a lot of OUYA consoles, made their bucks on the hardware to keep breathing and, if everything goes right, when a large and interesting base of installed systems is available, start to changing the business model to game providing - that is where the money is nowadays, as it appears.

I sincerely hope they succeed. It is already on my wish list for this year's Xmas. :-)

One should not be responsible for the ignorance of others.

If I'm going to drive in U.K., it's my responsibility to keep the car on the "wrong side" of the way. No british should be liable if he says to me "keep you car on the right side of the street", and I take it literally.

The same should happen with computers. There's a clear, well known, accepted definition for Virii and Trojans. For decades now. They invented this "malware" concept for a good reason.

Perhaps Yahoo should do as Google on this also: opening facilities on third world countries to avoid paying too much on salaries. What do you think?

(I think it would be great! I live on one of these third world countries!)

Billions of dollars can be deactivated by a simple PEM.

You know... the bombs that emits an electro-magnetic pulse that disables everything that are digital...

They are so simple to build that USA would restrain itself from use them, as the enemy would easily figure out how to build one by analyzing the bomb's scraps...

iPad Mini is using a new revolutionary engine based on the Replica 1. :-)

How we would now if it's really our hour if we don't try it? ;-)

I'm sure they will be remembered, but hopefully not missed! :-)