CES: Sony CEO: "Open technologies are winning."

[#1 posted by technogeek , January 8, 2009 9:48 AM]

Uhm... The greeked text was a funny-once. It's getting past boring and approaching annoying, at least for this reader.

[#2 posted by stumo , January 8, 2009 10:42 AM]

Greeked Text? What do you mean?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , January 8, 2009 10:45 AM]

What, you can't read lorem ipsum?

BARBARIAN!

--Charlie

[#4 posted by Anonymous , January 8, 2009 11:27 AM]

Just kidding, guys; obscure medievalist joke. It's latin, and Technogeek needs to adjust his noScript settings I suspect.

I haven't, because I'm enjoying the surreality of the version Technogeek and I are seeing. How often do you get to see dueling dog-latin versions of Cicero and Caesar? It's most excellent.

Somebody says something complicated about a cucumber, and the reply looks like "in my house we speak plainly" (in hac habitasse platea dictumst). Totally awesome.

--Charlie

[#5 posted by stumo , January 8, 2009 11:33 AM]

Techno - you do know that if you click on it, you can read the real text, right?

(And if anything, it's fake Latin, not Greek...)

[#6 posted by oldtaku , January 8, 2009 2:12 PM]

This is a little disingenuous given that Sony's business model, is, and always has been, throwing out proprietary technologies nobody wants and trying to get them to stick (like those ridiculous memory sticks). Blu-Ray's another one. And SecureROM, though that's getting a bit off track.

So basically they're going to leverage open source software for their proprietary hardware to save themselves some money. Great.