the internals are not "PC architecture", the internals are using PC CPU and GPU, but the cache and bus are not the same. once engines are optimised for the hardward specificities on a PS4 they won't run the same way on PC.
I predict vastly superior performance for the PS4 compared to a PC of the same price because of the dedicated hardware.
that doesn't mean there won't be cross-platform games, on the contrary it will be easier than before, but to havbe the same quality on PC will required many more dollars of hardware

like most people you underestimate the advantage of using unified memory. there's no data transfer on the bus when you want to send data calculated from the cpu onto the gpu, the graphics perf are going to be vastly superior to an "equivalent" PC when we devs tune our engine to make the most of it.

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???
seriously guys?

you should become gay. your criteria for women are definitely too restrictive

Except when you leave in a place where the data is simply wrong. Apple maps cannot find the busiest shopping street in Montreal (it sends you to whatever midwest town). it's not New York but it's not Tombuctu either. so leaving here means you simply cannot use the app at all.

definitely top here in canada. I live in Montreal and apple maps is unable to find Rue St Catherine, it's just the biggest shopping street in the city, and apple maps direct you to cleveland or somewhere....
I'll finally be able to update to iOS 6 :)

Game developers use C# to write their pipeline tools (level editors, particle editors, AI editors, etc.), not the game itself. except for XBLA indies, all major console games are pretty much 100% C++.
some also include scripting languages like lua or python for higher level, non time critical processes (like level scripting), but if you want your game to run fast (and you do, as faster=more stuff on the screen at the same time) you use a visual tool that internally generates C++ code.
as long as C++ is the fastest, closest to the machine language it's never going to go away.
and don't talk to me about managed code, when you have 64MB of ram to run a game on the wii I can tell you you better know exactly how you use your memory at any given point in time. you ban dynamic allocations and make sure all objects are placed in a nice contiguous way (to avoid cache misses) in your memory pools.

You know you wrote "My hovercraft is full of the eels" right ?

come on, that's naive. the real reason for wars is always power, and power nowadays comes with money. and politicians follow what they are told by the people in charge.
it's not oil they are after at the moment, it's controlling the power of the dollar. in the future it will be wars about water or any kind of expensive resource

pointer arithmetic is useful for efficient code, it has nothing to do with "high" or "low" level.

so it's actually more limiting than helpful. I don't understand why people want garbage collection. it's a hindrance, you cannot allocate the memory the way you like, so there is no optimisation possible, in memory usage or in performance.

what's wrong with a PIN ? that cannot be forged. civilised countries do use them for credit card payments now you know.

the difference is that in europe you cannot patent a simple idea.

which seems to be the case in the US. you can call that software patent, an algorithm or whatever, at the end of the day it's just an idea.

patents were designed for "inventions", which at the time implied a realisation (a prototype) of the thing, now with software patents you can simply patent an idea, without actually using it for something.

when the european parliaments rejected software patents they rejected the concept of patenting lines of codes, as being just an idea, and already covered by copyright. I guess you can patent software in europe, but it has to be part of a technical realisation of something, you cannot patent an algorithm or a process, as is done in the US.

please, don't try to sound educated if you don't do it properly. it's "au contraire"