And it is then that you realize why Richard Stallman insisted on the term GNU/Linux. Graphical computers that use the Linux kernel can be divided into three categories. The first is GNU/Linux, which uses glibc, GNU Coreutils, an X11 server, and a Free desktop environment such as Xfce, KDE Plasma, GNOME, or Unity. The second is Android. The third is embedded Linux, seen on home router appliances and "cheap effective set-top boxes", and this variant is the most likely of the three to be thoroughly Tivoized.

Let me take a guess as to why Amazon allows high-definition streams of television shows but not movies to be played on a PC. Movie publishers insist on HDCP for high-definition outputs. OTA TV, on the other hand, is required to be broadcast in the clear, and even some cable channels aren't strict about requiring DTCP.

Or wait for developers to add support for a Dual Shock 3 controller paired to an Ouya console.

What's the counterpart to "performance" for someone developing a non-MMO video game that uses a Free engine but non-free assets?

How much of, say, the video game market is COTS software?

What "services and support" would one sell for, say, a Free video game? Selling mission packs would lead to the situation described in the article, where the meshes, textures, maps, audio, and scripts that make up the mission pack are not free software.

The vast majority of these portable devices suffer from one of two flaws. It could be that the device has no buttons for applications' use, making it unsuitable for certain genres such as platformers and fighting games. This is true of most phones and tablets, which ship without a built-in gamepad and aren't bundled with a Bluetooth gamepad. For example, the only buttons on many iOS and Android devices are system buttons: sleep, quit, volume up, and volume down. Or it could be that the device has only one app store whose inclusion policy is unfriendly to small developers. This has historically been true of Sony and Nintendo handhelds; it may have changed recently, but I haven't done any in-depth checks.

The application you probably used to do this stopped working under Android 4.2. Now all I get on my Nexus 7 is "No route to host".

But not 900 million of them. How many people would be willing to buy a $60 Bluetooth joystick that clamps onto a phone or tablet just to play a $3 game?

Say I were to buy an Avatar Sirius tablet to game on. Is there a carrying case option that flips open to reveal a gamepad, like on the Game Boy Advance SP, the Nintendo DS family, and the Shield?

That depends on how your PC's operating system implements dual-monitor support. I imagine that if someone else is using the 27" screen for Facebook or YouTube or something, you can use the 5" screen for your game.

Is Ouya having hardware issues? Most of the issues I've seen reported are system software issues that could be fixed in the "month or two" you describe.

Apart from platforms that use OpenPGP, such as .deb-based GNU/Linux platforms, each platform has a separate signing certificate. OS X has its own, Android has its own, iOS has its own, and Windows has two: Authenticode for desktop applications and the Windows Store developer license for immersive applications. For small developers, it's a hassle to keep all of them renewed, but for companies big enough to draw targeted attacks like this, it's a benefit.

How many controllers per iPhone or iPad will the controller API in iOS 7 support? Can one, say, pair four controllers to a single iPad connected to an Apple TV and play a platform fighting game?

Based only on the name, CloudOn looks like it works on the same principle as VNC, RDP, or OnLive. This has two implications: it doesn't work at all on a tablet disconnected from the Internet, such as a tablet being used while riding the bus. And even when you do have Internet access, such as the phone docked for use as a desktop computer that fauxjargon mentioned, it'll eat through your monthly cap. The PDF overview confirms my guess: offline use does not work.

Based on the same PDF overview, something else worries me:

Any edits you make to your files within the CloudOn workspace are automatically saved, so there is no need to take an explicit save action using the File menu. We also do not currently offer a "Save As" feature although that is something we are considering for a future release

Automatic saving means no way to Revert. I have lost data in the past when deletions were automatically saved.

Psychology gives the UX designer a starting point so that the "group of random people" can be smaller and therefore cheaper, and it gives her insight as to what kind of "better idiot" is most likely.