{"id":5506,"date":"2010-05-16T04:56:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2010-05-16T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T09:56:18","slug":"friendly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5506","title":{"rendered":"Friendly Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/05\/how-removing-ps3-linux-hurts-the-air-force.ars\">Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another grotesque waste of taxpayer dollars? Exactly the opposite, according to research lab staff. Off-the-shelf PS3s could take advantage of Sony&#8217;s hardware subsidy to get powerful Cell processors more cheaply than via any other solution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought it was mildly interesting that Sony sells the hardware at a loss because they expect you to buy games, and here we have customer who will never buy any games, buying many consoles.  I&#8217;m sure this is completely unrelated:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-13\/sony-tumbles-after-forecasts-miss-analyst-estimates-update1-.html\">Sony Tumbles After Forecasts Miss Analyst Estimates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update Another grotesque waste of taxpayer dollars? Exactly the opposite, according to research lab staff. Off-the-shelf PS3s could take advantage of Sony&#8217;s hardware subsidy to get powerful Cell processors more cheaply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}