Are you from Mars?

Look out the window. See how many cops, soldiers et all we need to keep our civilization barely civilized...

My english just sucks sometimes. I apologize.

Where I wrote "we develop products that runs on Oracle, for SQL Server", please read "we develop products that run under Oracle and SQL Server".

Where I wrote "as it's energy consumption is far better than anything else", please read "as its energy consumption is far better than anything else".

My boss!! :-D

But it appears that for little time, I hope. The support guys are asking about what Linux distro I would like to use to host our VM's that are used for software development (we develop products that runs on Oracle, for SQL Server, and it's easier to setup dedicated development environments using VMs!).

It's almost three years since I used Windows for something but playing media and games: I'm using Gnu/Linux where I can, or Mac OS at my home and some freelancing. Not a single drop of regret, this piece of crap is just not missed by me.

I keep a old Windows XP box for my retro-computing interests just for the taste of using/playing in the real hardware - I could easily dump the hard disk to be used on a OpenBOX VM on some of my UNIX (or like) machines. But that SoundBlaster Audigy and that Radeon HD 3850 still does so great on my favorite PC games that I just can't stand throwing it away. Yet. :-)

To tell you the true, there's just one situation where I'm stuck on Windows 7 on my personal affairs - at least, for now. I had setup a Atom 330 to be my torrent/media/file server under my TV-Set, and the sad true is that Intel was a bitch on supporting Linux. The Atom 330 just sucks playing media on Linux (or even in Windows, without the Intel's codecs), and this is Intel's fault.

But since I don't plan to switch my Atom 330 for anything else, as it's energy consumption is far better than anything else I could use for the job (or someone else can recommend to me an ARM based MiniITX board that can fully substitute the 330 in processing power and hardware expandability?) and HD videos (that the Atom 330 handles badly - 1080p movies aren't handled very well, if handled at all) can be watched on my PS3 when I really want to see something in HD, I think I will stick with Win7 for some more time. My girl friends are still used to Windows anyway and keeping the Media Center on Win7 is easier for them - at least, for now. :-)

Why?

About that license, for the sake of (my) curiosity - it is paid on tv-set basis (one por TV), or por watching eyes basis (one por house's living people)?

Classic videogame gadgets are valuable for a decrescent amount of collectors.

Everybody will die someday, including the ones that, now, are willing to spend some serious money on buying their childhood back.

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. :-)