This post made me vomit a little inside my mouth.

Firstly... a lot of people read this post incorrectly. Sony is looking to sell the ability to harness users PS3's to companies that want to use it for their own benefit... not for NPO like Folding@Home. If this was to go through you would be helping random companies like Chevron calculate deep-sea oil drilling sites and helping the CIA calculate the location for their latest illegal detention center (what?). The supposed upside for users that donate their PS3s to this money making scheme is that thye get coupons or prizes.

Other than mentioning Folding@Home once in this post... it has nothing to do with that humanitarian project. Please learn to read.. and if you can do that.. then at least learn to understand what you have read.

The interface is great to use. The activity extensions interface (custom apps) is really great. I think they achieved what they wanted, a simple interface with little to no text (for internationalization) and a Window Manager that gets the hell out of the way and lets you use the application you have opened. Its simple, clean and easy to understand. The 4 Icons at the top are very neat. Think of them as "Show Desktop", "Network Places", "Workgroup" and "Entire Network" icons in Windows.

I don't think they are belittling the kids with this interface, instead they are trying to make a simple and extensible interface for the educational environment. I for one think it works quite well. It could use some color, but other than that it is great.

Hooray for us... the consumers. The possability of cheaper cards is great. Even better is the possability that intel would divulge the specs of their cards (like they do for part of the integrated graphics chips) to the open source devs so that Linux can finally get some decent Hardware accelerated drivers that are open source.

They are actually already planning a standard API for all package management systems. What this will allow developers to do, is release GUI installers for applications (or just plain old packages) that will register the software/program installation with the host package manager, no matter what platform (apt/debian or yum/redhat). In other words, if I install VMWare Server with a GUI Installer (not that one exists at the moment) VMware will not only install the software in a nice way, it will also register it with apt/rpm/etc. so that I can easily remove it with my favorite package management application (Yum/Synaptic).

I think that a unified body to decide on linux standards is a great step forward for FOSS. As long as the 'governing' body remains open and transparent I am on board 100%.

This is all good for doctors and medical usage, but the second this becomes a commodity device the total strength of the human gene-pool will be weakened irrevocably. By eliminating germs will will become more and more susceptible to the flu and colds and all sorts of mutated nasties.

Good idea until it becomes popular.

Is everyone here serious?

Since when does game size have anything to do with quality? If the game developers were clever and put more effort into compression and their game engines, we would see better games taking up no more than 200Mb.

Procedural content generation is the next step forward. Look at Spore for PC, while not really on par with Gear Of War, it is not bad looking. Kreiger (a Scene.org demo game) took not much more than 2Mb for one whole game that employed alot of the same tech used in GOW and Doom3 (while not as polished of course :P).

Can everyone please stop saying that BD-DVD games are better quality than HD-DVD games because they can hold more on them. The only thing that allows the developer to do is become lazy.

This is just rediculous.

Interesting concept. I absolutely adore portable gadgets. I am still using my older ibook G3 12" over anything newer, simply because its small, light and portable (and I can't quite afford a Flybook).

If I can get one of these things running Linux then I would be willing to pay the $250 for it, if only because the 2B1 (olpc) isn't for commercial consumption.

It is true, this thing IS just a bad attempt at countering the OLPC. $400 ? really... wow... OLPC was original $100... now, with price increases it is still only going to cost aprx. $140. Unless Intel markets these at Uni students with no taste, I can't really see this winning over the OLPC in developing nations, especially since the OLPC's interface (codename: sugar) is designed from the ground up to be a usable education-oriented interface. I would hardly think WinCE's BSOD's count as interface enhancements!

I think SD was a good choice. Now I can use the SD cards I already own rather than having to go buy a N-Flavoured Memory Card.

Personally I am over the console wars. 360 is good, PS3 is amazing but not worth the money. Wii is going to be fun for the few games it has.