This of course is purely anecdotal and based on my consumer grade experiences. But given how eagerly Dalvik disposes of anything connected to a process that'S not in the foreground I wouldn't consider using it to do anything important. As an abstraction layer for vastly different hardware running the same crap it works quite nicely. But you shouldn't attach hydraulics, engines, valves or anything else important to it.
Also let's not forget how long it took to get Linux anywhere near equipment that needs an RT OS. And it possibly still isn't the first choice in such environments. I've been out of that loop for a long time and have been known to be wrong. So this is no engineering advice.
It was only after I started organizing my shopping list on Evernote that I noticed a streak of insanity in myself.
There I was standing in front of a shelf in a shop. I noticed I forgot to put something onto my list. And I proceeded to append my Evernote list with the item I forgot to put on it.
The sane thing to do would of course have been to SIMPLY GRAB THE STUFF FROM THE SHELF and not bother with Evernote at all.
Therefore Evernote == insanity. And I'm better now.
It's a bit like Notepad. but it saves teh dataz in teh cloud!
You can edit a text snippet on your smartphone and it will automagically synch it with your tablet that's a couple of feet away. It also does images. So the picture you took of your genital warts with your phone will instantly appear on your laptop. Nifty, huh?
The better approach is to cloud only stuff you could as well put in the pub directory of an FTP server.
If you work under the assumption cloud == public then you will do no wrong.
...which makes Truecrypt an exercise in self defeat. I'd rather have my passwords encrypted on my own person instead of on a public directory.
To whoever cracked Evernote:
Now that you have my groceries lists you could do the decent thing and go to the shops. Also bring beer. Cheers, mate.
I have moved quite a lot of my gaming to my tablet.
On Friday my company got a new beamer(after the old low-res, knackered one suffered an "accident"). First thing I did was hook up my tablet and test how good the refresh rates were. As it so happens I always have a PS3 controller with me(I use it to control my presentations I give with my tablet). That weird coincidence led to one of our sales reps to beat my times at Riptide GP. Sure, graphics wise tablets can't beat a full blown PC. It may take some time until they can play the likes of Skyrim with high-res textures. But neither can the current console generation.
People have forgotten how games work. The likes of Mad TV, Populous, Master of Magic, Elite, Turrican, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper... never needed as much graphics power yet they they are perfectly playable on a tablet. And they are a lot of fun. I played Day of the Tentacle on my Nokia Symbian smartphone in 2007 for crying out loud!
To be fair, todays games are much more linear and story driven than they were ages ago. You can even get stuck in a FPS and not for want of health packs! And that genere has ever been the least cerebral of all.
then there is the decline of the common game manual. The type of manual that contained formulas and figures behind the pixels. Nowadays you have to rely on others to do the theory crafting or invest quite a lot of time yourself.
In the olden days when we got stuck we did grind our teeth and tried everything. Now you have a Steam library full of other things jumping up and down, shouting for your attention.
He who hath solved Day of the Tentacle without a walkthrough may throw the first stone. Those were the reasons why we bought gaming mags in the first place. One of the finest adventure games ever(The Last Express) was IMPOSSIBLE to finish without a walkthrough. If you didn't show up at the right place at the right time the game was unfinishable. Which you would realise a couple of hours after the fact. Hell, I wouldn't even have finished Ultima 6 without a hint or two from a walkthrough.
Something more sinister was going on. They used DMCA takedowns so that game wouldn't be found.
They have a sequel in the works and would rather have people find that.
The result of course is a full blown boycott of Youtubers with two or more strikes on their account. And when your livelyhood depends on it, well...
Riddle me this, Batman: What game publisher will not get any free coverage whatsoever?
Everybodyseemsto be coolwith what theydo. If even Sony worries about wether streaming is easy enough to achieve or not that'ssomething to consider.Sony of allpeople.
...and then there is also ofcourse Sega who started slapping around people over footage of an age old Dreamcast game.
Silly, silly Sega.
Well, the general angle on honey is the same in China as in everywhere else. Bees eat flowers and barf honey.
BUT given that there have been some health scares due to Chinese produced food and they are one of the biggest honey producers in the world you will have to rethink where the stuff you eat comes from. Heavy metals can be introduced in a number of ways into that eat flowers and barf honey thing.
For example pollution of the environment. Or sloppy production techniques. Or dump toxic stuff into honey because it will look prettier in the supermarket.
All these things have already happened. And some Chinese food producers(think about that willfully polluted toddler food they sold a couple of years ago) are very reckless when it comes to making a profit.
Well, the alternative is equally unpleasant. Wait a couple of hours until your car is fully charged. Or fast-charge potentially cutting battery life short.
If charging your car is even an option wherever you keep it.
I once drove a rented Elise up and down some serpentines in Switzerland. That kind of hairpin madness where 30km/h is plenty.
Got the fright of my life. That was truly scary. I know now why Imprezas are so common over there.
Truth is, the Tesla Roadster woud propably also scare me.
A while back(10 years or so) Shai Agassi had this brilliant idea:
1) Agree on an easily removable common battery pack
2) Exchange your empty battery pack for a full one at the next petrol station
3) Profit
I assume this never really got anywhere since I've never heard anything of it ever since.
But this is such a blindingly obvious solution to the "it takes too long to recharge" problem that I wonder why we are wasting time with anything else? Instead we mill about in hybrids that still are powered by an internal combustion engine(and in case of the Prius an inefficent one at that). Electric engines are BRILLIANT! You get loads of power out of a thing that's relatively small and you get it at all revvs.
If the Tesla Roadster had been done properly(with easily exchangeable battery packs) I would have bought one in a heartbeat. Based on the Elise? Powered by a plucky little electric engine? Goes like stink? DO WANT! Harder to live with than an Elise? Ummm, yeah. Maybe next time.
I would rather attribute all that stuff to the Provisions of Oxford than the Magna Carta. Most of it dealt with John Lackland could and could not do to nobles. Magna Carta was meant for the nobs not the plebs.
If you're sitting on a couch with your feet on a table, you're not doing any serious work, so why wouldn't you just use an iPad anyway while you're fapping to furry porn?
Just because it's called a laptop doesn't mean it's best to use it on your lap.
You can't watch furry porn on an iPad. No Flash, you see? Also this thing is to heavy to be used with one hand. So you might have to hire some help while you hold that thing with both hands.
MS obviously has designed this thing for heavily mutated deviants. Has Flash, but you will need three hands.
The price point actually is quite good. The form factor is a bit unfortunate.
Asus has shown how you would do a proper hybrid tablet/notebook solution. Mechanically they have nailed the ideal(to me) form factor with the Transformer tablet line. If they actually built something like that with specs similar to this MS thing then I would pay more than a thousand bucks for it.
I'm currently sitting in front of an i7 notebook with 8gigs of RAM. Imagining I could simply detach the screen while leaving the keyboard in the docking station makes me nursing a semi.
In the olden days I used to run around with a clipboard and a pocket protector. Nowadays I'm running around with a tablet. Brushed aluminium. Same weight. I get beaten up a lot less now.
The hardware is interesting. But...
-it's got the battery life of a laptop
-it weighs as much as an ultrabook
-it doesn't have a proper keyboard
-you can't balance it on your lap
-it's too heavy to hold in one hand
-it's got a full blown wasteful Windows installation that eats greatly into the available disk space
-has cooling vents
To me that reads: all the drawbacks of both a laptop and a tablet
It propably is an amazing piece of kit and I honestly want something like that more than my next breath. But I would have preferred if they had gone the way Asus went with the Transformer line. Detachable clamshell keyboard with an extra battery. No need for a sleeve. Does not tip over as easily. All the benefits of a laptop and a tablet. Should have been a winner. Maybe the next batch.
Also I'm not quite sure about the choice of CPU.
I love the convergence of tablet and laptop. That is a truly, truly great thing. But normal laptop innards conveniently rearranged will not quite cut it. We are currently moving away from the old Intel x86 architecture and into happy RISC land for a reason. My Transformer has replaced my notebook for all but heavy typing and dev work. For everything else I actually prefer the plucky little bugger and take only that with me on business trips. No worries.
...and in that vein I will also wanr you not to sideload an Amiga emulator. Even if the one I once watched a friend of a friend of a friend play Gods and Xenon2 and Turrican play on supported a stock PS3 sixaxis controller. I also have heard talk of MAME! DO NOT BE TEMPTED! You might be jailed for your heineous crime!
But I suppose heading over to GoG, grab a copy of Master of Magic and running that in Dosbox on your tablet might be fine...
This isn't iOS. Android was made for putzing around. Putz around! But I have to warn you, on Tegra3 you may find that Dungeon Keeper 1 is a bit sluggish. Playable, but sluggish. Also I had no problems running Day of the Tentacle. Played it on my old 386, my nokia phone 5 years ago and now on my tablet. If somebody had told me when I bought the CD 20 years ago I would have called him quite mad!
The Android market place is notoriously disorganized. You need to look for dedicated Android gaming websites. There are quite a lot.
Just a couple of days ago I read about Max McMann, bought it on a whim, played it and found it was the small hours of the morning. There's also Machinarium for your classic point&click pleasure. Zen Pinball is one of the best pinball games I've played since the Epic ones from the 90ies. Sonic has been superbly ported. There are a couple of nice twin-stick shmups, Ikaruga has been ported(can you believe it?) and if you feel like it you can set up DosBox for GoG classic DOS games and there are is a rather nice Amiga emulator.
Do not go for whatever currently tops the Google Play charts. It's children downloading the usual fart apps and nothing else.
Lately I've played a lot of Max McMann, Riptide GP, Asphalt 7, Sonic, Bard's Tale(a remake, the purchase includes the originals which I haven't yet tried out), Machinarium, Sector Strike(touch controls done correctly), Zen Pinball, Dark Meadow(Unreal 3 engine!!!!), Expendable Reloaded(a Dreamcast port), World of Goo, Osmos and Puddle. Mind you, all of these games have a LOT more to them than the ubiquitious Angry Birds. These are games for real gamers. Not stuff granny would play while on the toilet. I don't like ShadowGun because 3D shooters are obviously stupid.
A couple of them will propably be not be available on non-Tegra devices. nVidia has consulted(bribed) a lot of mobile dev studios how to "optimize" for Tegra 3. They are going guns blazing for the mobile market.
Guess what the Ouya is using?
Not sure about that. I buy a lot of games for my Tegra 3 tablet. Given the choice I prefer to buy it for that instead of my dedicated gaming PC.
Since my tablet also comes with a rather clever keyboard and an extra mouse and sixaxis controller do fit rather nicely into my bag I've already go a mobile gaming platform. Hook up a beamer and that's some nice rig.
Any platform that runs Sonic and Master of Magic with no problems at all gets my vote. And at 100 bucks there is very little risk involved.
Since I already got a very similar platform(at more than seven times the price of the Ouya, mind you) I may have to find other clever uses for it. And I give that thing about a week before somebody gets the Android market place/Google Play to run on it. This thing will be hacked to oblivion and back. And at 100 bucks it still will make a nice and cheapish XBMC box.
There's more putzing around potential in this thing than people give it credit for. I've dabbled with the free nVidia Tegra dev kit(it's Eclipse with a couple of plugins) and getting things done with it is rather easy once you get the hang of it. Given the choice between a Raspberry Pi and this thing I take the Ouya.
...and given that a lot of these games either have a free demo or are free to play they absolutely follow the Ouya rules.
I wonder how many of these games will support the Tegra 3 nVidia 3d glasses thingie. I'm only aware of Riptide GP and I have to say from time to time I do disconnect my computer monitor from my i7/Geforce 680 rig, plug in my tablet and have a go on that sucker. Also I prefer to buy indie titles for my tablet since I am on the move quite a lot. Buying Machinarium/Puddle/Osmos... for my PC or my tablet. Gee. That's a no-brainer. I'd also like to see Bastion on that but given the platform I think that's rather unlikely.
Oh do come on! It's nice bit of fun!
May I interrupt your little conspiracy theory here and point out that adding controller support to existing games is rather trivial? Also I happen to play a couple of games on my Tegra 3 pad with a stock PS3 sixaxis controller. No rooting, no hassle.
For newish games that are not developed around touch controls(so irritated poultry is excluded) you will find that they very much support controllers. You get the usual crop of arcade racers, twin-stick shooters, supersonic hedgehogs, 3rd person shooters, dungeon defend thingies, pinball, the lot.
The Ouya people have been very clever. They hopped on a bandwagon that was already rolling. nVidia has bribed, begged or threatened a lot of serious mobile developers to optimize for their chipsets. They also pressure for controller support where applicable. The library is there. They only needed to sell it at a second shop. The real question is if they get it in quantity into Tys-R-Us and Wallmart. At that price people will buy it at a whim. I know i will.
This is not the Phantom. 166 titles all of them having a free to play/extensive demo portion to them is nothing to sneer at. For 100 bucks not only do you get some nice kit, you get more games than the XBox could field on release. You also get a fairly open system.
I have yet to read that sideloading will be not possible.
One of these things has been preordered by my company. We might be using it to monitor our network traffic but knowing our admins I have my doubts. I've granted them my approval provided the "demo" it to me regularly. This is a serious bit of kit and needs management oversight.
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Android is very unpredictable during runtime.
This of course is purely anecdotal and based on my consumer grade experiences. But given how eagerly Dalvik disposes of anything connected to a process that'S not in the foreground I wouldn't consider using it to do anything important. As an abstraction layer for vastly different hardware running the same crap it works quite nicely. But you shouldn't attach hydraulics, engines, valves or anything else important to it.
Also let's not forget how long it took to get Linux anywhere near equipment that needs an RT OS. And it possibly still isn't the first choice in such environments. I've been out of that loop for a long time and have been known to be wrong. So this is no engineering advice.
It was only after I started organizing my shopping list on Evernote that I noticed a streak of insanity in myself.
There I was standing in front of a shelf in a shop. I noticed I forgot to put something onto my list. And I proceeded to append my Evernote list with the item I forgot to put on it.
The sane thing to do would of course have been to SIMPLY GRAB THE STUFF FROM THE SHELF and not bother with Evernote at all.
Therefore Evernote == insanity. And I'm better now.
And people still laugh when Germany pushes for laws that require companies to give you a big "FORGET ME NOW" button.
It's a bit like Notepad. but it saves teh dataz in teh cloud!
You can edit a text snippet on your smartphone and it will automagically synch it with your tablet that's a couple of feet away. It also does images. So the picture you took of your genital warts with your phone will instantly appear on your laptop. Nifty, huh?
The better approach is to cloud only stuff you could as well put in the pub directory of an FTP server.
...which makes Truecrypt an exercise in self defeat. I'd rather have my passwords encrypted on my own person instead of on a public directory.
If you work under the assumption cloud == public then you will do no wrong.
To whoever cracked Evernote:
Now that you have my groceries lists you could do the decent thing and go to the shops. Also bring beer. Cheers, mate.
I have moved quite a lot of my gaming to my tablet.
On Friday my company got a new beamer(after the old low-res, knackered one suffered an "accident"). First thing I did was hook up my tablet and test how good the refresh rates were. As it so happens I always have a PS3 controller with me(I use it to control my presentations I give with my tablet). That weird coincidence led to one of our sales reps to beat my times at Riptide GP. Sure, graphics wise tablets can't beat a full blown PC. It may take some time until they can play the likes of Skyrim with high-res textures. But neither can the current console generation.
People have forgotten how games work. The likes of Mad TV, Populous, Master of Magic, Elite, Turrican, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper... never needed as much graphics power yet they they are perfectly playable on a tablet. And they are a lot of fun. I played Day of the Tentacle on my Nokia Symbian smartphone in 2007 for crying out loud!
To be fair, todays games are much more linear and story driven than they were ages ago. You can even get stuck in a FPS and not for want of health packs! And that genere has ever been the least cerebral of all.
then there is the decline of the common game manual. The type of manual that contained formulas and figures behind the pixels. Nowadays you have to rely on others to do the theory crafting or invest quite a lot of time yourself.
In the olden days when we got stuck we did grind our teeth and tried everything. Now you have a Steam library full of other things jumping up and down, shouting for your attention.
He who hath solved Day of the Tentacle without a walkthrough may throw the first stone. Those were the reasons why we bought gaming mags in the first place. One of the finest adventure games ever(The Last Express) was IMPOSSIBLE to finish without a walkthrough. If you didn't show up at the right place at the right time the game was unfinishable. Which you would realise a couple of hours after the fact. Hell, I wouldn't even have finished Ultima 6 without a hint or two from a walkthrough.
Something more sinister was going on. They used DMCA takedowns so that game wouldn't be found.
They have a sequel in the works and would rather have people find that.
The result of course is a full blown boycott of Youtubers with two or more strikes on their account. And when your livelyhood depends on it, well...
Riddle me this, Batman: What game publisher will not get any free coverage whatsoever?
Silly, silly Sega.
Everybodyseemsto be coolwith what theydo. If even Sony worries about wether streaming is easy enough to achieve or not that'ssomething to consider.Sony of allpeople.
...and then there is also ofcourse Sega who started slapping around people over footage of an age old Dreamcast game.
Silly, silly Sega.
Well, the general angle on honey is the same in China as in everywhere else. Bees eat flowers and barf honey.
BUT given that there have been some health scares due to Chinese produced food and they are one of the biggest honey producers in the world you will have to rethink where the stuff you eat comes from. Heavy metals can be introduced in a number of ways into that eat flowers and barf honey thing.
For example pollution of the environment. Or sloppy production techniques. Or dump toxic stuff into honey because it will look prettier in the supermarket.
All these things have already happened. And some Chinese food producers(think about that willfully polluted toddler food they sold a couple of years ago) are very reckless when it comes to making a profit.
Well, the alternative is equally unpleasant. Wait a couple of hours until your car is fully charged. Or fast-charge potentially cutting battery life short.
If charging your car is even an option wherever you keep it.
I once drove a rented Elise up and down some serpentines in Switzerland. That kind of hairpin madness where 30km/h is plenty.
Got the fright of my life. That was truly scary. I know now why Imprezas are so common over there.
Truth is, the Tesla Roadster woud propably also scare me.
A while back(10 years or so) Shai Agassi had this brilliant idea:
1) Agree on an easily removable common battery pack
2) Exchange your empty battery pack for a full one at the next petrol station
3) Profit
I assume this never really got anywhere since I've never heard anything of it ever since.
But this is such a blindingly obvious solution to the "it takes too long to recharge" problem that I wonder why we are wasting time with anything else? Instead we mill about in hybrids that still are powered by an internal combustion engine(and in case of the Prius an inefficent one at that). Electric engines are BRILLIANT! You get loads of power out of a thing that's relatively small and you get it at all revvs.
If the Tesla Roadster had been done properly(with easily exchangeable battery packs) I would have bought one in a heartbeat. Based on the Elise? Powered by a plucky little electric engine? Goes like stink? DO WANT! Harder to live with than an Elise? Ummm, yeah. Maybe next time.
Oxygen!
Get get really nervous when I don't get my next hit. Oxygen withdrawal is quite ugly.
...and the whole "no taxation without representation" was even back then an old English Whig idea.
Couldn't we just agree that when it comes to stuff like that we copied from each other?
I would rather attribute all that stuff to the Provisions of Oxford than the Magna Carta. Most of it dealt with John Lackland could and could not do to nobles. Magna Carta was meant for the nobs not the plebs.
If you're sitting on a couch with your feet on a table, you're not doing any serious work, so why wouldn't you just use an iPad anyway while you're fapping to furry porn?
Just because it's called a laptop doesn't mean it's best to use it on your lap.
You can't watch furry porn on an iPad. No Flash, you see? Also this thing is to heavy to be used with one hand. So you might have to hire some help while you hold that thing with both hands.
MS obviously has designed this thing for heavily mutated deviants. Has Flash, but you will need three hands.
The price point actually is quite good. The form factor is a bit unfortunate.
Asus has shown how you would do a proper hybrid tablet/notebook solution. Mechanically they have nailed the ideal(to me) form factor with the Transformer tablet line. If they actually built something like that with specs similar to this MS thing then I would pay more than a thousand bucks for it.
I'm currently sitting in front of an i7 notebook with 8gigs of RAM. Imagining I could simply detach the screen while leaving the keyboard in the docking station makes me nursing a semi.
In the olden days I used to run around with a clipboard and a pocket protector. Nowadays I'm running around with a tablet. Brushed aluminium. Same weight. I get beaten up a lot less now.
The hardware is interesting. But...
-it's got the battery life of a laptop
-it weighs as much as an ultrabook
-it doesn't have a proper keyboard
-you can't balance it on your lap
-it's too heavy to hold in one hand
-it's got a full blown wasteful Windows installation that eats greatly into the available disk space
-has cooling vents
To me that reads: all the drawbacks of both a laptop and a tablet
It propably is an amazing piece of kit and I honestly want something like that more than my next breath. But I would have preferred if they had gone the way Asus went with the Transformer line. Detachable clamshell keyboard with an extra battery. No need for a sleeve. Does not tip over as easily. All the benefits of a laptop and a tablet. Should have been a winner. Maybe the next batch.
Also I'm not quite sure about the choice of CPU.
I love the convergence of tablet and laptop. That is a truly, truly great thing. But normal laptop innards conveniently rearranged will not quite cut it. We are currently moving away from the old Intel x86 architecture and into happy RISC land for a reason. My Transformer has replaced my notebook for all but heavy typing and dev work. For everything else I actually prefer the plucky little bugger and take only that with me on business trips. No worries.
Also I dare you to build a PC for 100 bucks.
...and how does it compare to a Tegra 3?
...and in that vein I will also wanr you not to sideload an Amiga emulator. Even if the one I once watched a friend of a friend of a friend play Gods and Xenon2 and Turrican play on supported a stock PS3 sixaxis controller. I also have heard talk of MAME!
DO NOT BE TEMPTED! You might be jailed for your heineous crime!
But I suppose heading over to GoG, grab a copy of Master of Magic and running that in Dosbox on your tablet might be fine...
This isn't iOS. Android was made for putzing around. Putz around! But I have to warn you, on Tegra3 you may find that Dungeon Keeper 1 is a bit sluggish. Playable, but sluggish. Also I had no problems running Day of the Tentacle. Played it on my old 386, my nokia phone 5 years ago and now on my tablet. If somebody had told me when I bought the CD 20 years ago I would have called him quite mad!
...then you haven't looked very hard.
The Android market place is notoriously disorganized. You need to look for dedicated Android gaming websites. There are quite a lot.
Just a couple of days ago I read about Max McMann, bought it on a whim, played it and found it was the small hours of the morning. There's also Machinarium for your classic point&click pleasure. Zen Pinball is one of the best pinball games I've played since the Epic ones from the 90ies. Sonic has been superbly ported. There are a couple of nice twin-stick shmups, Ikaruga has been ported(can you believe it?) and if you feel like it you can set up DosBox for GoG classic DOS games and there are is a rather nice Amiga emulator.
Do not go for whatever currently tops the Google Play charts. It's children downloading the usual fart apps and nothing else.
Lately I've played a lot of Max McMann, Riptide GP, Asphalt 7, Sonic, Bard's Tale(a remake, the purchase includes the originals which I haven't yet tried out), Machinarium, Sector Strike(touch controls done correctly), Zen Pinball, Dark Meadow(Unreal 3 engine!!!!), Expendable Reloaded(a Dreamcast port), World of Goo, Osmos and Puddle. Mind you, all of these games have a LOT more to them than the ubiquitious Angry Birds. These are games for real gamers. Not stuff granny would play while on the toilet. I don't like ShadowGun because 3D shooters are obviously stupid.
A couple of them will propably be not be available on non-Tegra devices. nVidia has consulted(bribed) a lot of mobile dev studios how to "optimize" for Tegra 3. They are going guns blazing for the mobile market.
Guess what the Ouya is using?
Not sure about that. I buy a lot of games for my Tegra 3 tablet. Given the choice I prefer to buy it for that instead of my dedicated gaming PC.
Since my tablet also comes with a rather clever keyboard and an extra mouse and sixaxis controller do fit rather nicely into my bag I've already go a mobile gaming platform. Hook up a beamer and that's some nice rig.
Any platform that runs Sonic and Master of Magic with no problems at all gets my vote. And at 100 bucks there is very little risk involved.
Since I already got a very similar platform(at more than seven times the price of the Ouya, mind you) I may have to find other clever uses for it. And I give that thing about a week before somebody gets the Android market place/Google Play to run on it. This thing will be hacked to oblivion and back. And at 100 bucks it still will make a nice and cheapish XBMC box.
There's more putzing around potential in this thing than people give it credit for. I've dabbled with the free nVidia Tegra dev kit(it's Eclipse with a couple of plugins) and getting things done with it is rather easy once you get the hang of it. Given the choice between a Raspberry Pi and this thing I take the Ouya.
...and given that a lot of these games either have a free demo or are free to play they absolutely follow the Ouya rules.
I wonder how many of these games will support the Tegra 3 nVidia 3d glasses thingie. I'm only aware of Riptide GP and I have to say from time to time I do disconnect my computer monitor from my i7/Geforce 680 rig, plug in my tablet and have a go on that sucker. Also I prefer to buy indie titles for my tablet since I am on the move quite a lot.
Buying Machinarium/Puddle/Osmos... for my PC or my tablet. Gee. That's a no-brainer. I'd also like to see Bastion on that but given the platform I think that's rather unlikely.
Oh do come on! It's nice bit of fun!
May I interrupt your little conspiracy theory here and point out that adding controller support to existing games is rather trivial? Also I happen to play a couple of games on my Tegra 3 pad with a stock PS3 sixaxis controller. No rooting, no hassle.
For newish games that are not developed around touch controls(so irritated poultry is excluded) you will find that they very much support controllers. You get the usual crop of arcade racers, twin-stick shooters, supersonic hedgehogs, 3rd person shooters, dungeon defend thingies, pinball, the lot.
The Ouya people have been very clever. They hopped on a bandwagon that was already rolling. nVidia has bribed, begged or threatened a lot of serious mobile developers to optimize for their chipsets. They also pressure for controller support where applicable. The library is there. They only needed to sell it at a second shop. The real question is if they get it in quantity into Tys-R-Us and Wallmart. At that price people will buy it at a whim. I know i will.
This is not the Phantom. 166 titles all of them having a free to play/extensive demo portion to them is nothing to sneer at. For 100 bucks not only do you get some nice kit, you get more games than the XBox could field on release. You also get a fairly open system.
I have yet to read that sideloading will be not possible.
One of these things has been preordered by my company. We might be using it to monitor our network traffic but knowing our admins I have my doubts. I've granted them my approval provided the "demo" it to me regularly. This is a serious bit of kit and needs management oversight.