March 22, 2002
What to expect from PlayStation 3...

There are hints that the next version of Playstation will be a network connected game platform based on Linux.

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC), an annual trade show for the creative and technological sides of the game industry, Shin'ichi Okamoto, chief technical officer for Sony Computer Entertainment, said research efforts for the PlayStation 3 are focusing on distributed computing, a method for spreading computational tasks across myriad networked computers.

PlayStation 3: The next generation - Tech News - CNET.com

Looking even further ahead, Okamoto said "Maybe the PlayStation 6 or 7 will be based on biotechnology"

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Copy Protection Bill Introduced

If you thought the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was bad, wait till you read about the the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA). This law could have crippeling effect on computer eqiptment and use of it - not only in the US - but all over the world..

Copy Protection Bill Introduced

Posted by jarle at 01:56 AM