Thanks. I feel educating people is always a good idea. I wrote my English thesis on video games as the next evolution of modern literature. It is truly a sign of the system catching up with times to place games in libraries. And when people start going to libraries people will inevitably become more educated. The arguments people have against this are very similar to the arguments against putting music in libraries in the 60's and movies in the 90's and then internet in the early 200x's.

Degrees do not ensure an adequate education. My engineering degree and my MBA won't either, what does however is constantly being exposed to new and diverse information and absorbing it. The only way to adequately do that is libraries. If the world was full of very technically minded people with no sense of culture the world would be worse off. Video Games are part of our culture, and should be given the same place in a library as our other forms of media.

You can be the smartest person in the world but if you have no culture than what use is it? There is nothing to live or die for, nothing to love or cry for, and those things we keep in libraries.

I have been badgering our public library here to check out games for years! This is a huge step forward in the evolution of the library. The student government at the University of North Texas was able to finally convince the administration to check out console games about a year ago while I was finishing my undergrad, and The University of Texas at Arlington soon followed suit. It is a good thing to try and bring normal non library fairing folk into the public library. There are a whole lot of people who cannot afford games for that PS2 they bought at a garage sale, and this provides the exact public service libraries were designed to give.

After just renting games for a few months the patrons will probably move to checking out movies, and then be drawn in by one of the programs geared to getting people reading and begin checking out books. It is in the best interest of a government to keep its people well rounded and well informed. This program will draw many people who would have never set foot into the library inside the halls of knowledge. It will expose a new generation to something more than just the copies of HALOx they come to borrow. It will get people reading more, and reading will cause those people to be better informed citizens, and make children into better students. This is a good thing, and should be viewed as such.

People who have never set foot in a library don't understand the magic that happens inside of one. You see people of all ages becoming part of the great conversation of human existence. You see people transported to far off lands, and others discovering new science, and still others finding their political voice. And all of that is FREE. This library is going to give the gift of the grand conversation to a new group of people who have not yet experienced it. That is a good thing.

You're correct about everything except what the first core of a powerxcell 8i does. It is a single power6 core Wichita means it's awesome at math. It's just designed to do dual precision FLOPS instead of single precision like an intel or amd CPU. The ps3 has quite a beefy CPU for linear processing even today. It's the gpu and RAM in the ps3 that hold it back. If the ps3 had about 4GB of RAM and the equivelent of a new nvidia 470 it would play games as well as any pc. (It would not be useful as a multitasking machinefor buisness purposes). What I really want to see is PC games built for HTPCs that use 4 controllers so we can split screen on my tv and then I can boot the same game on my desktop in my office pick up where we left off and still play with everyone when they get home to their families with a keyboard and mouse.

Jobs is only against DRM when it suits him. EFI is just hardware enabled DRM. No arguments about its superiority to BIOS hold water.

The RIAA can't actually do what they are paid to do which is protect royalties. So what they do is create a media circus to make it appear to their clients that they are doing their jobs. Otherwise they would lose their clints if they relized how incompitent the people supposedly protecting their royalties are.

Read the interstate commerce act. The RIAA is not regulated by the 4th amendment directly but they are regulated by the interstate commerce act and what they are asking for violates that by violate 4th amenent by proxy of the interstate commerce act. You should study deeper.

I agree with you, but your analogy is faulty. The Xbox Live experience is better because MS is a software company, and Sony is a hardware company.

A better analogy is why Ubuntu is more n00b friendly than is parent Debian. The centralized control mechanisms which vet systems before they are implemented from a small group with a specific purpose in mind which does not include doing absolutely everything possible. However I do believe an attack like this is possible, but not probable on the iPhone due to the nature of the people at Apple. Also if this did succeed they would just sew them into the ground. and get them and all their associates imprisoned also due to the nature of the people at Apple.

Right. The best gpu in an iMac is a 512 mb mobility radeon 4850. That's laughable to call that impressive or gaming level at all! No dx11! And it couldn't even come close to pushing that high res led monitor resoultions on the new iMacs! Resolutions beyond 900p need at least 1gb of gddr 3. And I can build a pc with windows around a 2gb radeon 5770 and an athlon 2 x4 for 550! I'm no apple hater. I'm posting this from my iPhone but surely you cannot be suggesting gaming on a mac! As to the op. The Eula isn't even availible to view until after you pop the disc in the drive and make it non returnable. That my friends is theft on apples part. Apple's behavior violates antitrust law, an you don't have to have a monopoly to violate the deceptive trade practices act which apples EULA does. It's called a tying arragement, and tying arrangments are illegal. If apple handed you the Eula BEFORE they would sell you osx they woudl be in the clear, but they do not. Go psystar! I don't see them winning, but they are trying like hell! If psystar pulls this off the whole industry will be better off b/c osx is a really decent product even without crossfire or sli support.

So, right now most of SUN's products are availible in a FOSS version, but my concern is that Oracle will do away with that. All oracle would have to do is realease a new version and force existing users to upgrade to a new closed source version that might or might not be free. Yes the existing versions are forever FOSS, but to get around that all Oracle has to do is change the JAVA EULA, and then charge for the compiler. Oracle is not exactly the most FOSS friendly company in the way that SUN is.