I get really irritated with all this PSPGo bashing. Although unpopular, getting rid of the UMD, was an ambitious statement, setting the mark for next generations and hardware-wise, making a PSP that's actually pocketable (at least for a guy) is real progress. This is a with no noubt a market failure, mainly due to the rather high price and also probably the fact that you still can't play pirated games on it, but it would really be stupid to discard all the improvements that this device brought and come up with somethig radically different. Android is definitely a cool thing, but IMHO, adding plain simple telephony to the PSPGo would have been a wiser choice (after all, it already does Skype pretty well) and result in a less resource/battery-hungry phone

As I've been the beneficiary of an H-1B with Microsoft, I know very well that MS also does a good job at sending H1-B permit holders back home after 1-2 years, before they get a green card. They actually paid for my 1-way ticket back to Europe. I'd be interested to see what is the proportion of H-1B visa holders who end up staying permanently in the US and which company hired them.

Browsed through all the nerdy sites and desperately cannot find the answer...

I keep an old laptop with a serial port, so that I can transfer stuff to my good old Atari 800XL with the awesome SIO2PC cable from Nick Kennedy: http://pages.suddenlink.net/wa5bdu/sio2pc.htm

Although I've been around since betamax, I've never heard of the "old Sony" or any other major competitor that would be suicidal enough to open up their console as you suggest. The friendly koreans from GamePark attempted it, but they won't be around for much longer.

Considering that you can hack any PSP for free (except the PSPGo for now), with no additional hardware, in a matter of minutes, I strongly disagree with this statement.

Many people (including you apparently) don't get the fact that the PSPGo is not meant to be a replacement for the PSP-3000. The UMD-friendly PSP will still be available after the PSPGo's launch, so the comparison with the PS3 is not really relevant

Pakistani and/or Chinese nukes make maneuverability irrelevant

Carmack should reconsider releasing games on PC altogether, whether it is on Windows or Linux. Today's console capabilities -especially when it comes to HD display- make PC gaming irrelevant. Ever since I bought a PS3, My PC became Windows-free as gaming seems to be the only reason to keep paying for a Windows license nowadays.

There are several products like Shavlik Netchk, which allow you to patch commonly-used applications like Adobe, Firefox, Java, etc... at the same time as MS OS and applications.

ntlmaps should do the trick

I've run Ubuntu Hardy with Boxee on a low-end Mac Mini for months: it works fine too.

I think there's a bigger need for a decently-sized, affordable electric car than a Tesla Competitor. That's why EV Innovations' PT Cruiser conversion (Liv Surge), priced at 55K seems much more interesting.

There are more and more excellent games available on recent console's online services. I really applaud Sony for making major titles like Warhawk, Burnout Paradise or WipeOutHD available for below 30$. On the other hand, most of the available addons (eg. all those GH3 addons) don't add enough value to be paid for

I have a variety of resumes in different formats (from plain text to Flash depending on where I'm applying to), but for the more sober version, I'm pretty happy with the one I did in Google Docs. It's quite handy to be able to generate a .pdf wherever you are located.