I’m beginning to think that 80% of the world’s problems are caused by reporters who don’t even really know what they’re talking about. Take this flawed article with a flawed headline. "Works flawlessly 20% of the time?“ That’s almost certain to be misunderstood. Perhaps they should have said that 20% of PS3 cell processors produced will have no silicon defects. That would be a far more accurate. If he had read more of his source article he would have seen that one of the benefits of the Cell chip is that over 2/3rds of its surface area are redundant.

In case someone missed it the first 3 times that this story ran someone has dredged it up yet again. Man, do reporters just have the universe’s shortest memories or are they getting paid off to reintroduce this story every couple months?(For those of you who didn’t live through the MS vs OS/2-Amiga-Atari-etc wars the last time Microsoft did this, FUD stands for “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt” and is used to torpedo opponents products by making people worried about if the investment is worth it through lies in the press and whispering campaigns…)Update: I thought more about other articles that are “abuzz” on the internet regarding the PS3 over the last couple weeks.

Instead of having you copy them off the original cd:My breath of fire 3 apparently has enough damage that a certain area of the disc is unreadable. The catch? This data happens to be in the last area of the game, and is required to finish it. I just hit 62.5 hours of playtime. Ugh.Options? Get the disc resurfaced for $6-10. Gamble that one of the $20 “good” copies on half.

A moron stole the recipe for coke.But instead of doing the smart thing, he tried to sell it to pepsi. Pepsi has its own distinctive taste that if they changed would cause their fans to go elsewhere. What he should have done is gone to some of the smaller cola manufacturers and tried to sell it to them. Most of them, like Big K, Safeway, Shasta, etc don’t really have as much of a fanbase and making it taste like coke would be an improvement to almost everyone.

Google says it will bring an anti-trust lawsuit if the ISPs overstep their boundaries. (Link dead)Hey, that’s actually a good thing. We do need a counterbalance to keep the ISPs from blocking content or degrading its performance until it is unusable. The internet should remain roughly the same as it was before or even better with regards to best-effort traffic. If its degraded then the ISPs aren’t doing their job as ISPs and they deserve to lose their customers and be called on it.

My resurgence of interest in the PSone triggered by news of the official PSP emulator for the system has resulted in my looking for games that I still want to play for the system. Here’s a list of the ones I haven’t yet purchased but could potentially want to buy.Chances are I wouldn’t even be able to finish the ones listed in my Definitely column, but it still shows there’s a good bit of entertainment left in even a 12 year old platform.

There’s been a great deal of crying and screaming about PS3’s rather steep price. To me, though, it makes perfect business sense given the trends over the last several console cycles. It’s a very supply and demand thing to do. With the PS2 and Xbox360 both, people bought them and then resold them for $800+ on Ebay. The supply was very tight, so only those who predicted the release in advance and reserved their system as much as 6 months ahead of time actually were able to purchase one at the list price.

I admit, I haven’t really even taken much of a look at the PSP for quite awhile. The rather high price and the idea of a portable game system with a disc format kind of made it less than attractive to me. This may change soon though.Sony to release downloadable PSone games for PSPDepending on the implementation, this could be just the push I needed to go out and buy one.

I suppose a nearly silent post is in order for this. (Dead link about Baen) (As opposed to a moment of silence which would be hard to do when posting a link.)

The US really needs to figure out a way to assign more spectrum for general public use. There really is a lot of spectrum out there and most of it seems to have been gobbled up by various groups with only tiny scraps left for the public in the form of ISM and UNII bandwidth. A full map showing exactly how tiny the ISM bandwidth is can be found here.Below the various bands are little text saying “ISM blah +/- blah” showing what us in the public have to work with.