The Article (yes, they are not just a myth) explicitly tells of Ubuntu running on (err, op top of the hypervisor on) the PS3. Now, I for one do NOT want to go through and compile EACH AND EVERY SINGLE Ubuntu app I desire after being spoiled with apt-get (and dpkg before that) and repeating the process with EVERY SINGLE UPDATE/FIX. Further more, tracking down EACH AND EVERY library/dependency for said apps without the help of a packaging system would be a living breathing hell (and yes, some of said apps either use assembly or target the x86 architecture so closely that there is a speed loss on others due to instruction/stack/register differences brought up by gcc switches in the makefile, or intentionally by the coder).

You've... never used a non-x86 Linux distro, have you? It's pretty much exactly the same as the equivalent x86 distro, except with a PowerPC/SPARC/MIPS/Alpha/ARM/etc. CPU instead. (And usually more sloppy QA, but that's another story.)

Very, very few programs require x86 assembly nowadays.

And as mentioned above (in a less derogatory manner, you insensitive clod) the PS3 hypervisor would only offer a framebuffer to the PPC kernel hypervisor to pass to the guest x86 kernel to use (wasn't over-engineered brought up above, as well?) for video - so yes, you won't get HD performance on the box as I'm aware of now, but I'm sure the framebuffer at least offers something, you think? Oh thats right, nobody has taken the time to satisfy all the dependencies in the universe to compile a worthy app by hand to test it with. Yes, I've gotten a little spoiled since the green-screen days, but software has also gotten more complex (we still use C and its libraries to write ideal modern software/VMs, right?) so what do you expect?

You've... never used a "fast" computer with a plain framebuffer, have you?

You know what, replying to you is a waste of time.

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No, we restored from backup.

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If we harvest the fuel faster than nature makes it, it's a finite resource.

Guess that means solar power is unsustainable too, since our poor sun only has a few billion years of fuel left. Wind power too, since that ultimately comes from the sun. And geothermal power, because without any energy input from the outside the core of our planet would get too cold for us to usefully exploit a heat gradient...

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Do they fill forms faster than humanly possible?

I type between 100 and 180 words per minute. Not only am I faster than some programmers might think is "humanly possible," but it's trivial to bypass protection like that.

msleep(200 * number_of_characters_typed); // Now, we are a moderately fast (60 WPM) typist instead of a bot

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Honestly, I don't know anyone that takes into consideration how 'green' something is before they purchase it...especially gadgets.

Me.

I won't even consider buying a computer that will use more than about 300W of power at any time, because it's too much. My current Linux desktop uses about 20W, and my server about 10W.

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