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A "best practice" for packaging sensible defaults for key-bindings might be a good idea, but "mandate" seems a bit strong - it's kind of against the open development process, and may not even possible without locking down hardware functionality. I have to ask - can you not rebind the keys...

Waving the Free Speech flag over your right to be a douchebag doesn't impress anyone. Sure... you have the RIGHT to insult people, nobody can actually stop you from vilifying others based on race, religion, or sexual preference... but exercising that right just because you can is kind of against...

yongzh has been pretty blatant about license violations - he refused to attribute the copyright owners so we can at least know if he was stealing. Users (not nintendo) have petitioned google to remove his apps in the past, but google's position seems to have been to wait for the actual...

+1. Discovered nethack some time late last century - and despite playing pretty much non-stop ever since - I'm still a n00b. If work knew how much they have been paying me to play it lately I'd be out of a job. One of my "things to do before I die" is to ascend... haven't got even close yet.

Well it IS possible that only part of a chip if faultly, but the rest of the chip is fine. This is why we have 3-core CPU's, for example. But those defects should have been caught at point of manufacture. Unless, maybe, TI ship all their chips with broken DSPs to OPT, because they know OPT...

Thanks ED. Updates are always welcome even without hard numbers. Please keep them coming!

See (while I would like that too), I do believe that may be putting an unnecessary burden to put on the team. All I want to see is some respect paid to the people who's patience is making this all possible. At the moment, I'm just not feeling it.

I'm also heartened by this news. I think we all really want this all to be an unpleasant memory - one that is eclipsed by the total awesomeness of the device & the community that goes with it. But the one-way flow of information is extremely discouraging. ED & craigix - you must understand...

Screw the food analogy. We've paid for hardware. If the hardware vendor's cost estimates got thrown out of whack they can either 1) give a refund 2) meet their commitments 3) go bankrupt. Now, we can certainly understand the situation. OPT can't afford to give everybody refunds, and they can't...

No B.P. I am not kidding - just daydreaming. I said I knew it would never happen, but I would happily upgrade my pre-order to a 'DIY-Premium' if given the option. I'm actually kind of disappointed that you think it's such a horrible idea. What do you see in an 'Open' device if you are so...

Dude, cut out the racial/homophobic stuff, eh?

You know, this got me thinking... OPT could just skip the assembly and ship kits. Packaging might be a little bulkier, but it could potentially save heaps in labour costs. And to a certain type of customer (i.e. ME) the DIY aspect would really add to the cool factor. Imagine excitedly...

Oh, sorry Link. I didn't mean earbuds from your shop (I haven't tried them). It's just the newer around-the-neck style in general seems to have this problem.

Yeah, I get that too. I guess my point is we already have a custom user-friendly interface for people who want more of a iDevice-style 'full LIMITED experience'. No need to annoy everyone else by removing the beautiful UNLIMITED experience.

Pretty up Minimenu if you like. It does look a little retro, and could be expanded to to include more functionality while still being targeted to users who just want a handheld console. But as Ashens said in his review "this thing is the logical inverse of an iPod touch". Dropping the "full...

Lets say for a moment the moon is made of cheese, what then? Seriously though, I don't think you need to worry about OPT going all Apple on us. You get root access; no cryptographically signed bootloader or kernel; the source is up on GIT... If you don't like the direction things are going...

+1 HATE the cool new "behind the neck" style earbuds. Always ripping one of them out just looking around. Form over function I'd say.

To quote Steve Jobs "great artists steal". I'd seen this before, but didn't realise it's an XDA game. Bit of a shame. Simple enough to have been SDL or something.

Not to mention wear and tear. I've actually killed an old (486 old) laptop by trying to compile a kernel on it. Left the thing running overnight and cooked it dead. ARM has a much better heat profile then x86, to be sure. But my ARM-based phone runs pretty warm with heavy use. I'd be wary of...

It's nifty that you can do development on a pandora. It really shows the flexibility and power of the device as a platform. But it's more of an interesting technology demonstration then a real solution. I, for one, need dual-head monitors and a keyboard I can fit 10 fingers on. Not to mention...