Sorry, not comparable. I knew people that bought PS3s with OtherOS specifically FOR OtherOS and ya know what? They never bought a single game for the system, not one. they were buying them half a dozen at a time to make cheap clusters out of them. Considering that at the time Sony was losing something like $300 a sale? Those are the people you DO NOT WANT.

What sony found out with OtherOS is Joe Average buying a PS3 to play Uncharted couldn't give a rat's ass about using their PS3 as a fricking desktop, that is what their desktop and laptop is for, and the ones buying because of OtherOS never bought any games because nobody is playing games on a computer cluster. so in that case Sony was RIGHT to pull OtherOS, if they would have kept it frankly they would have gone bankrupt. I knew guys that worked at the local colleges talking about buying up PS3s by the dozens for clusters, we are talking about thousands of units that Sony would have lost $300 a pop on, never to see a dime of that back.

Uhhh it'll be a flop anyhow not because of the DRM, but because they are releasing a console with shittier specs than the other guy for $500 in a down economy. I'm sorry but that is fucking RETARDED, and if the reports are true that a LOT of that extra cost is forcing everyone to take the fucking Kinect, which NOBODY liked the God damned Kinect so you have saddled your console with a higher price tag to push shit your customers never liked? Well i'm sorry but you deserve to lose for being stupid.

Hell the Kinect is so damned bad the fans of Angry Joe keeping voting for Kinect games for him to play just because they know they'll be fucking awful and love to see Joe flip his shit trying to fight the damned Kinect. If you haven't seen Joe play Steel Battalion you really need to watch, he just fights and struggles against the kinect until he is just a ball of pissed off fury.

Mark my words Kinect will go down like the NES glove or the Sega bazooka in the "man that was stupid" pile, but not until MSFT keeps flogging the dead horse long past anyone caring, like how they cranked out Zunes long after people gave a shit.

Good! Its a fucking console NOT a PC! if the only way they will allow the game to be installed to the drive is to make the DRM in every. possible. metric. WORSE than the PC (Fuck Steam gives you 30 days offline and is trivial to bypass, MSFT was giving you not even a whole damned day before it would brick) then they can keep it!

I'm just glad i got the boys off the consoles when I did, at least on the PC as i said you have options, hell you can even go Humble Bundles or GOG and not have any DRM at all, whereas the consoles seem to be in a race to see who can treat their customers like thieves worse. hell at least Steam gives me things for putting up with the DRM, like free MP, updates, chat, and matchmaking, fricking MSFT makes you break out a CC just to play an online session of a game you already bought! Geez MSFT, could you BE any more greedy? Maybe you should call up Monty Burns, he'll probably have some advice on how to gouge customers a little more, damn.

That depends on whether Microsoft considers brown-nosing an established disc game publisher for an XBLA release slot to be equivalent to the Greenlight process.

Would this third option be Ouya or a home theater PC?

As I understand the Xbox licensing structure, if a company doesn't ship a certain amount of discs, it isn't deemed a "publisher" and thus has to rely on another publisher that does ship disc games for slots in Microsoft's XBLA release schedule.

I'll assume you meant "Atari Jaguar or Sega Saturn from 20 years ago". With that out of the way:

How is that true? My buying a Super NES doesn't render my NES Game Paks unplayable on my NES, and just because my cousin plans to buy a Wii U for Smash Bros. U when it comes out doesn't mean the games he already has will stop working on his Wii, no matter whether they're Wii discs, GameCube discs, or from Wii Shop. How does buying an Xbox One break your 360?

Is that true even for games that use additional third-party DRM that counts installations? Or do Steam's terms forbid third-party DRM from enforcing install limits?

If you break GameStop, you also break person-to-person sales of game media on eBay and the like.

I thought Europe and Australia were one "region" with respect to the firmware of video game consoles.

One reason is the ability to play a game on a big TV without having to carry your desktop PC back and forth between your desk and the living room TV. Another is the ability to play a video game with house guests who happen to be visiting you but aren't carrying their own gaming laptops.

Care to post a link to this revolutionary new research debunking physicalism? I'd have thought it'd have made the news.

If you can't cite such a thing, then GP's point stands: humans are physical things executing certain functions some of which constitute the state we call "feeling", and a sufficiently perfect emulation of such functions would constitute "feeling" just as much if carried out by a physical thing made of metal as they would when carried out by our brains.

As I understand this, this means the government can just freeze anyone's ownership of shares in a public company by telling him material classified information about the company. Or what's the legitimate way out of this situation?

I'd have to agree. There were only three sentences in the summary. The error wasn't exactly hard to spot, given that the sentence in question was both grammatically and factually incorrect.

"What's that big truck in front of our office?"

"I don't know, and why is your spleen showing on my laptop?"

I think the point is that people assume that they aren't intelligent in the Star Wars universe. I often thought that R2's behavior was specifically intended to convey the idea that they are...

they couldn't afford a bounty like this until Windows 7 was SP'd...