I've done native code on Windows in industrial safety and automation. You'd think that's an oxymoron, but it can be made sufficiently robust.

I've dealt with bugs in Microsoft's SDKs, and dealt with multiple generations of drawing APIs. Played WoW and other games on WINE on Gentoo. Watched the incessant scrolling of FIXMEs on the console.

I'd love it if I could get paid to hack on WINE...

You could build the browser without video support. Actually trivial to do on Gentoo...

Gentoo. Not just for ricers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)

If he was in a coma, I'd think that'd be the part he missed.

Looks like they added Ethernet. Doesn't say what speed, though.

You still can. Just use proper cable hiding tools and techniques. Like whatever they use to make power cables running across floors OSHA-safe. :)

My chief complaint was that in the original announcement, they were only going to support wifi for networking, yet it was supposed to be useful for gaming and streaming video.

The problem is that wifi is terrible for both of those use cases. It's bad on its own for latency purposes, and then there's spectrum contention. I raised these points in response to their Kickstarter drive, and it looks like they turned around and added those features. If I'd known they would, I would have donated on the Kickstarter.

Then they added both my suggestions. Rock on!

I'll definitely have to get one, now.

When their Kickstarter began, I sent them a message (along with many other folks, I'm sure) that it needed _some_ means of getting a wired internet connection and/or access to by-wire accessories. USB was one of the possibilities I offered.

Now devs for Ouya can turn around and leverage that USB port to allow the Ouya device to latch on to a PC's network connection. Excellent.

(Page doesn't seem to show if it's USB2 or 3. At this point, I sure hope it's USB 3...)

And now we're back to a familiar analogy: "The door was open, so anything inside should have been mine to take!"

In other markets (including software), activities like that were called "anticompetitive."

Not that I really see a problem with it. Just making an observation that amuses me.

If I understand what you're saying, you're expressing the same ignorance about downloadable material that people downloading warez and mp3s in the 90s had. "It's free, so it's probably legal, right?"

I had one of those. Boiled it down to the smallest possible test case (AFAICT), even.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35664

Couldn't tell you why it's still marked 'new', though.