Spoonbender

Simple simple. Just include PA in the poll when they have a webcomic that's better than the non-PA comic that'd otherwise get included.

"the onus is on Linden Lab to run their auctions properly and securely"
Isn't that what they're doing by suspending his account? :)

Ace: Oh please, do you always trust what Sony's marketing people tells you?

"Sony didn't want to lose that title, so they built a supermachine crammed with the very latest technology. They had no choice but to put the price up that high."
Sure they did. They could choose to lose more money per console. Or they could have chosen to cram it with the technology needed for a good console, no more no less. That's what Microsoft did. They got an equally powerful console, at half the price (at a rough guess on manufactoring costs)

"Even tho the graphics card is more than twice as powerful as some of the most powerful one's out now"
You mean its Geforce 7900 GT? Yes, I can't believe we don't have anything like that on PC's. Or on Xbox 360.
It is just a 7900, nothing more. If you want to praise Sony, the graphics chip is the last place to look. Sure, it's fast, but it's not unique, and it's not even made for PS3. It's a PC chip that's been adapted in a hurry.
The 360 has a far more advanced and better integrated graphics chip.

And its CPU is nothing special either. *Unless* you plan to decode a dozen streams of audio/video.
For general purpose computations, it's slow and needlessly difficult to program for. And games largely fall into that category, although they can be tweaked to leverage *some* of its strengths.

"standard wireless controllers, bluetooth, Blu-ray, Linux, wireless internet"
Wireless controllers? Like the 360, you mean? Shocking. How revolutionary. Blu-Ray? Sony's proprietary format that so far has zero content available? If it becomes the standard, it'll be useful. Until then? Who cares? Wireless internet? So has my old laptop. Again, big deal.

"photo-realistic games"
Oooh, you mean the prerendered demos they showed? Or maybe you're referring to Sony saying "We will have photo-realistic games", just like they said with PS2 and PS1?
The *actual* ingame graphics are nothing special. Nothing a real high-end PC can't handle. And nothing the 360 can't handle.

"and the list goes on."
Please continue then. So far, you've listed only "Sony has promised me that it'll be so good"-features and a few features that the 360 has already. When do we get to the actual *advantages*?

"I have read everything and always check updates... I see nothing wrong with this machine."
Apparently you haven't. If you had, you'd have read about how big game developers are complaining about it being hard to develop on, about how it's no more powerful than the 360, how the Cell just isn't suited for games, how Blu-Ray becoming standard is so far nothing more than wistful thinking on Sony's behalf, and how most of the "features" it promise are related to coming up with new forms of DRM. How, if you don't have a HDMI-capable TV, the output resolution will be scaled down. How they basically licensed a standard PC GPU to act as graphics card. How games that were presented as "Look at these graphics, only the PS3 will be powerful enough to run this", turned out to a) be prerendered, and b) be ported to 360 with *no* changes to the graphics.

The New Revelation:
Ouch, misinformation overload there.

"the inclusion of a Blu-Ray player alone more than justifies the cost of the PS3 for me."
Doesn't that depend on 1) The *quality* of the Blu-Ray player? And the amount of content available for the format? As it is *right now*, it doesn't seem like a very good bargain, since you basically can't get any Blu-Ray movies. In a year, it might be more useful. Or it might not. It's not guaranteed that the format will catch on. Betamax ring any bells? Or UMD for that matter. Minidisc? Or about a dozen of Sony's other proprietary formats for this and that?

"And the fact that it will be open-source and run Linux is icing on the cake."
It's not open source at all. Try reading the article again. No access to SDK's, documentation or anything else. And you can get Linux running on an Ipod. What does that prove?

"With the use of the Cell, what you're now getting is PC with the fastest prcoessor available"
No you're not. You're getting a PC with the fastest DSP processor available. But it's also among the slowest general-purpose processors. And requires heavily tweaked code that's extremely graphics/physics heavy to be more than average for games. If you're looking for stuff like AI or just plain gameplay, the Cell's shortcomings come into play. It just isn't good at general purpose stuff.

"for only $499-$599."
For only the price of an average PC, you get... Uh, an average PC with less support for "homebrew" development. A bargain.

"The PS3 only has 256MB+256MB or RAM, but Linux has a relatively small footprint in memory so RAM is not a big issue."
That depends on the version of Linux, and it is an issue if you want to run more than one or two applications. There's no swap file or anything. And if you only want to run one app at a time, what do you need an OS for?

"Sony stated originally its intention to run Mac OS X on the platform."
HAHAHHAAAHHA, please, don't tell me anyone falls for that stuff? Yes, it'll also be the fastest supercomputer on the face of the Earth, because Sony said so. And so was the PS2. And you know, it'll run all your Windows games too. No, here's a surprise for you. Mac OSX is not going to run on PS3, for a dozen very good reasons, ranging from hardware incompatibility to the lack of several features that'd make it useful, to the fact that it's owned by Apple, and they're feeling very protective of it.

If you're going to be a Sony fanboy, at least do it with the few facts you have on your side. If you want to argue for the superiority of PS3, your best bet is to say "It's Playstation. People will buy it". Because Sony has more or less thrown away every other advantage they might have had by now.