It's worth pointing out here that PSPGo accomplishes a few objectives for Sony, but also benefits the PSP platform as a whole by its existence. Case in point: look at how many PSP games are now available on the Playstation Store. 225. Before the Go came out that number was much lower. All of those 225 games can be downloaded and used on an original PSP. Which is great news for me, because I own a PSP 1000 and a PSP 2000, but loathe lugging around the huge and fragile UMD discs everyone is apparently so sad are no longer supported on the Go. I now have a much larger selection because of the Go's existence.

Also, developers have disliked the PSP for quite a while because retail stores don't carry a large enough selection of games. In fact it is the retailers themselves who refuse to carry a decent UMD selection that are now turning around and telling Sony they won't carry the Go because they can't sell the games for it. They said they hate UMD, and they got what they wanted. Too bad. The existence of the Go does two things for the PSP platform: it forces the big developers to put their titles up on the Store instead of just on UMD. A win for anyone who prefers to download their games. But now smaller developers can compete on a fairly level playing field, knowing that at least when it comes to PSP Go owners they aren't competing for a tiny amount of shelf space with the likes of EA and Activision.

Finally, if you can't tell that this is very much an effort to get devs on board for a future PSP 2 that is digital-download only, you're pretty stupid.

Wow, because I totally never got my pockets picked in my home city. Like, it absolutely never happens.

Let's just say that you might need a Physicians Health Plan after trying to remember whether or not a function name has an underscore.

I think the fed should hold onto the money; The last thing you do to someone who doesn't know how to budget themselves and blows their money on crap like booze and toys instead of rent and food is give them more money.

Why not make the source itself a formal language?

It already IS a formal language: American English Leagalese.

This language started out as essentially the language as spoken at the time the early laws were written, then various words had their meanings defined, clarified, and frozen by court decisions. Further laws, contracts, and legal arguments and decisions used these words whose meanings were clarified in preference to other words that had not been so clarified. Meanwhile, in the absense of public education in the law for people who weren't making a carreer in the legal system, the spoken language drifted away.

I work for a company with ~20 employees that sells a software package that needs its own unix server.

It doesn't matter how many times I say 'CentOS is 100% compatible, and FREE! (w00t)' to my boss. When a machine goes to a customer, it goes out with Red Hat. Even if no one ever calls Red Hat for support, that warm fuzzy CYOA feeling of having a big well known company behind your product is irreplaceable. At the same time, we have a stack of CentOS machines and VMs in the office for testing and development for no additional cost to us.

I can honestly say that CentOS made Red Hat a much more palatable choice as we switch away from our previous UNIX- SCO Openserver.