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Nuts, I didn’t have internet when it was announced. Here’s hoping for more coming available.

@ninjabrokenleg: It does flash some rainbow LEDs (I mean, I had to. I HAD TO.) when someone gets candy, but because it does sit in a cube farm there’s nothing else it does aside from display the dashboard.

I love these things!

I just deployed a hobby project at my office that shows real-time information of people getting candy from a communal bowl (see below). Honestly, I'm still amazed at how fast these things are for the price; it's incredible the amount of stuff they can do for an all-in cost of $60 or so.

Thanks for everything, Patrick. Enjoyed listening to you over the years.

Are there any problems with HDCP if you convert the PS3's HDMI to VGA? Or will it still be able to see that you're playing content on a certified display? I always had wondered if Blu-Ray disks or other HDCP-protected content would be scaled down if you convereted the signal to VGA-only.

You certainly don't need a really expensive cable for HDMI. Since HDMI is a completely digital signal, the cable is either going to work, or it's not. Therefore, a "higher quality" (read: more expensive) cable isn't going to do much of anything for you (save for maybe durability). Get the cheapest HDMI cable you can find, I guarentee it will work fine for you.

It's really surprising how companies can still jack up the costs of cables so much - it's like they've hoodwinked the entire populace and made them think that you can only get good results with a billion-dollar cable. I guess that may have been true in the analog days, but not so much anymore with the transistion to digital..

I used to leave my PS3 on 24/7 Folding when I wasn't using it, but I heard that Sony isn't repairing or replacing 60GB consoles that die, and I don't really want to take the chance. I might start folding again if I get another non-bc PS3 at some point, but I don't see that happening for a very long time, if at all.

However, I did just get a new video card for my computer, and I hear it can run Folding@Home, so I might try that.

I considered it for some time to put some emulators on it - but then they released the homebrew channel for the wii and I figured I'd just use that instead. Seemed like less of a hassle.

Only one - sold my sixaxis when my white dualshock came in from Japan. Don't really have anyone over to play, much - plus having the console in my room doesn't make it much of a multiplayer system.