...who in no way, shape or form was affected by the Snowden leaks.The only thing he has in common is that he was a practicing pedophile and child molestor.
Your point being?
You are aware it it the British police saying this? You know, where the strictest of gun laws in the USA is orders of magnitude more permisive than what is allowed in England?
The rozzers currently have so much egg on their face a brain-fart like that won't misdirect the current attention they gained for being corrupt, lying and brutal bastards.
Take money from the yellow press, be caught lying about an incident that forced a senior politician to resign and demonstably be disonest why they shot a guy who posed no threat and you will have some yolk dripping down your collar. Sprinkle this with a misplaced esprit d'corps and obfuscation and feet-dragging and suddenly you will think of their uniform as nothing more than gang colours.
These wankers in Britsh govt (and civil service) know very well how much are their sleezy sicko tricks are exposed.. so take the usual mud slinging tactic..
Edward Snowden, you are true hero.
The kind of sleaze like running ads on vans for "illegals" to turn themselves in? If UKIP says something like this is going too far then you know they absolutely crossed all lines including the date-line. Calling them wankers is an insult to all masturbators everywhere.
Cameron and May have no place on a high horse.
The UK Tories have a long track record of comically wrong policies. Especially May is utterly despicable. Anybody remember the Snooper's Charta? Guess what? GCHQ didn't need it at all. And the Snooper's Charta was killed off(read: tabled) for being too far-fetching. Add to this the abysmal PR campaign where they painted an invitation for illegal immigrants to call a phone number for deportation on the side of lorries. And the text message campaign doing the same. And now they say that unearthing their lack of oversight aids pedos, terrorists and crims.
Where before this their policies seemed to be merely incompetent they now look like acts of malice.
The UK shows the least grace of all parties involved in the Snowden revelations. Pity the country that NEEDS The Grauniad.
Pedophilia is the issue that requires therapy. Child molestation on the other hand is a crime that requires repercussions.
As long as we do not distinguish between those two we will never be able to cope with the problem since they are not the same and require different action.
Yeah. The whole thing smacks of lack of adult supervision. He was a bit petty and they completely mishandled the whole situation. If the person who by their rules was authorized to receive the passwords had gone to him then this whole mess wouldn't have erupted into a giant shit volcano. He was by no means being reasonable but so were they.
The lesson you can take away from this is if you have a workplace dispute DO NOT CALL THE COPS or the lawyers. Just sort it out like a grown-up. Also I can't see how sentencing him to 5 years in the slammer is by any means reasonable since the city officials did their best not to resolve this reasonably. They created the financial loss by not sticking by their own rules.
The other lesson you can take away from that is that if you were Terry Childs you could have prepared a writing that said that you were giving out the passwords to an unauthorized person under duress and have the city drones and their lawyers and the cops sign that. That's CYA and that is sufficient.
Goddamit. This whole thing reads like a chapter of The Lord Of The Flies.
This is where the executive and legislative branch are at odds, true. Interestingly the situation in the US is quite similar. The houses are furious now that it emerges that they had exactly zero oversight capabilities. The US executive branch(which oddly includes the head of the state...what a weird thing to do in a democracy) sits in the same boat as the German executive branch. All this mess is their responsibility and so they are a bit on the defensive there.
While it is true that having friendly relations with the US is important the long-term relations are much more important than being all buddy-buddy with the current administration.
During the Iraq crisis ten years ago the French(and also Germany and a couple of other countries) didn't want to play ball and help the way they did in Afghanistan. The diplomatic tensions over this were quite severe. Let's remember Rumsfeld's "old Europe" and other hawkish remarks back then. Let's remember renaming french fries into Freedom Fries just to piss the Belgians off. Now, ten years later nobody wants to remember that silly episode. In ten years time we will not look kindly upon Obama's "I'm good at killing people" drone war and the security services running amuck. Make no mistake, all security services worldwide have crossed the line. The only country unable to deal with that properly seems to be the UK. French and German secret services will propably be the next target but since they are not part of the "Five Eyes" there isn't much but a hint here and there. We shall see.
The fate of one man is a small matter when looking at this from that angle. I would say Germany would be doing the US a huge favour by taking Snowden in. It's embarrassing enough he had to take refuge with Russia. The same Russia that somehow mislaid one of the Pussy Riot detainees.
Fuck the current German and US administrations. They'll be long gone when we start to think of this like we now think of the Dreyfuss affair. If there is the right thing to do then we should do it. Let the usual diplomatic channels negotiate some token ineffectual repercussions over this for appearances sake so they can keep on rattling their limp sabres and be done with it.
For the record: Jingoism is the worst mass hysteria a nation can suffer from and at the moment to the dismay of the UK and US administrations this time around the rabble is not buying it.
That would, unfortunately, never happen. Right until it came out that Merkel was spied on, our minister of the interior accused all the NSA critics of anti-Americanism and insisted that USA never has spied on Germans. Our current government is quiter far up Obama's arse and the next one won't be that much different.
Nope. That was BEFORE they were caught spying on Mutti. Afterwards everything he said before was obviously misinterpreted.
You turn if you want to. The German government officials are not for turning.
That's what I would say too.... if I had a target on my back. If he has disclosed everything, there is no reason to take him out.
Alan Rusbridger said they were still sifting through the data. Up to now nothing has been published that would put lives at risk. And they are very conscientious about how they publish. One would assume Snowden has handed over the whole lot. And he has promised Putin not to release any embarassing stuff while he is in Russia...
And this will stop the USA from conducting another illegal extradition?.
If he gets sanctuary in Germany then this would be a litte bit too high-profile for something like that. At least for the next couple of years. After that he would be forgotten like Bobby Fischer.
Since he is a civilian he wouldn't be tried in front of a kangaroo military court. This would be a civilian trial. And there would be a lot of publicity surrounding that. No trial of this caliber could be kept as secret as the current would like it to be. This is bound to be leaky. I would say they are not interested in another trial like this and are completely happy about him being elsewhere. Assuming he already has handed over all of his material to The Grauniad.
All this is obviously pretty hypothetical. What isn't hypothetical is the preemptive US extradition request that arrived pretty much immediately after this has hit the headlines.
...seems like this preemptive extradition request wasn't issued in response to the latest German involvement. The US pretty much carpet-bombed the world with those yonks ago. Personally delivered by carrier-drone, presumably.
The German parliament wants to interview him. The current discussion is wether he can come to Germany to do so. And maybe even stay here. There are rumors there may be a legal loophole to not extradite him to the US if he sets foot on German turf. There is a slim majority for that in the German parliament.
All this is obviously pretty hypothetical. What isn't hypothetical is the preemptive US extradition request that arrived pretty much immediately after this has hit the headlines.
Same here. I don't check up on new releases or maintain a wishlist in a couple of stores. I stick to Steam and so I won't see any EA releases. Between my Steam sale backlog and my GoG backlog I frankly can afford to blissfully ignore EA releases. Their loss since I buy during sales on a whim and sometimes don't even finish the games if I lose interest. I'm looking at you, Machine of Pigs.
I'm roughly in the same neighborhood(-5.6, -6.4). The test has a certain cultural bias so it's hard to take it too seriously. But as a ball-park estimate it does ring rightish even if some questions are blatantly idiotic.
But you and I are individuals. We are free to be easy-going and charitable with what we've got. Politicians OTOH have a national mandate and are sworn to uphold the best interests of their respective nations(all of which have in common that they are the bestest ever). Now, the best interest is a matter of perception since they need to think about what would/could happen in the future. Also politicians need to be in control. So if you asked them about their personal opinion(and they were willing to answer truthfully) I wouldn't be surprised if they were leaning a bit more to the left and libertarian views. But once you take responsibility a bit more serious because you have a lot of it then I'm not surprised if you leaned more to the right and authoritarianism. But sometimes they overdo it and forget that the long term interests of a nation may lay a bit more to the left and to liberties.
I fully acknowledge that I may be living in an ivory tower but I do enjoy the view.
...and now the conservatives have to form a coalition with the social democrats. A couple of weeks ago the conservatives had declared the Snowden affair over and now are obviously left with egg on face. I don't know what will come out of this but it now SEEMS like they will at least go through the motions. Also I'm fairly certain the Bundestag will be allowed to send a delegation to Snowden. Putin must be chuffed to bits over the cooldown of EU/US reletions and the way he humiliated the US over the the Syria situation. ATM everything points to the US not being a major political power in the world anymore.
Meanwhile in the UK Cameron continues his crusade against the press(which obviously excludes a certain Australian gentleman) while questions are being asked why what GCHQ was doing more than Theresa May's "snooper's charter" would have allowed.
The global fallout over the Snowden affair already has made this one of the historically most significant events in our lifetime.
Also there were no lies told. They said they weren't listening in on Mutti at the time and they wouldn't do so in the future. They only omitted they had been doing so for the past 10 years. Heh.
West Germany kept East Germany alive with money. A lot of money. When the underhanded deals struck between the staunchest anti-communists of the west and the eastern camarilla came to light 15 years ago everybody was genuinely shocked.
You will have to remember that their journalists spend quite a lot of time in the BStU which keeps whatever is left from the Stasi files. Once you see first hand what kind of information they kept you will feel very uncomfortable about what foreign nationals do.
The rumors about espionage and also economic espionage have been very loud since the 90ies. Then we spoke about Echelon and how trade secrets of German eco-tech companies turned up in US patent applications(and in some cases even still showing the German logos on the applications). Back then nobody wanted to do something about it for obvious diplomatic resons. Now that the US has been exposed everybody feels like this is the perfect opportunity for a reckoning. Every European country(apart from the UK) has some major beef with the US over this. France, Italy, Germany, Belgium for sure. The EU institutions, too. The SWIFT agreement is in jeopardy. Trade agreements, too. The diplomatic fallout is tremendous. And even in the UK the government and Cameron in particular are facing more and more internal pressure. The US is being more and more internationally isolated in a way that's not even funny. And from what I can tell this has been coming for the past 20 years.
Do not quote that rag when there are more reputable sources available. They are not as silly as the Daily Fail but their credibility and journalistic quality is very low by German standards.
Interestingly the GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 actively and successfully lobbied against admitting their information into courts of law. Not because they thought it improper but rather because they weren't too keen on a parliamentary(and thus public) discussion of how they got their data.
So this might actually be a bit of a blessing since this could stir exactly that kind of public discussion within...
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, it's awefully hard to finish this sentence with a straight face.
PS3 Controller already IS a proper Android controller. The support is really good. You plug it in via USB to pair it and the rest is done by Bluetooth.
Good games already support it. Measly iOS ports and Gameloft games struggle. There is no need for a dedicated "Android controller". USB BT HID does exist and is supported by Android. If you layer your game properly then you can support those on-screen-controls and HID properly. I'll mention Gameloft again since they are the worst offender in that area. Thankfully you can get your money back easily if you find you bought one of their half-assed games. Which is BTW what their support suggested. Controllers designed specifically for Android usually have size and form factor in mind since a proper sized controller(like the old XBox) are too bulky to carry around. USB/BT HID does the rest.
It could very well be that stock Android broke PS3 support a couple of versions ago but I had no problems on my TF201 on 4.0. I've rooted that thing ages ago. And another hurdle would be the shenanigans manufacturers play. Like the old Nexus 7 requiring a root to connect the controller via USB. But that's another story.
That's an area where I admit OUYA failed. Its only video output is HDMI with HDCP that a game's developer doesn't appear to be able to turn off.
Oh, the Ouya is brilliant. They use abundantly available and established stock electronics. The development tools are free and also established. IMHO they underestimated the effect of their "game needs to be partially free" rule and their decision to design their own controller is outright idiotic. Designing something like a controller has to be the master discipline of consumer electronics. I would have tried for a 70$ price point and bundled it with something reasonable. A partnership with Logitec, Razer, whatever would have been much, much better.
Otherwise the Ouya is something so obvious it had to be done.
IMO if they manage to stay afloat for the next couple of years they are onto something. I wouldn't be surprised if they moved into providing components for smart TVs and sell their platform to be integrated by the likes of Toshiba, Acer and the rest of them. It makes no sense they build their own stuff. Especially with the slim profits they have. Also I really, really hope they are in serious talks with nVidia. Given that Tegra3 does support that nVidia 3D trick(but only at 720p) I do see real potential here.
My Toshiba TV set doesn't do anything that wouldn't be better if it were done properly based on Ouya tech. Toshiba Places has to be the silliest thing ever to develop yourself. It's expensive and by no means a selling point.
Not all games lend themselves easily to a demo. Also the current trope is that demos actually cost sales and that that money is better spent on marketing. I don't really follow that kind of reasoning myself but suffice to say downloadable playable demos are hugely unpopular with AAA studios and devs for whatever reason.
Demos take time and money to create. And they need to run on your potential buyer's machine without any issue. I can remember a couple of demos in the 90ies which I couldn't get to run yet the game ran perfectly. Also the time and resources spent building a demo can be used to start on that expansion/DLC and get all the things into your game that you had to triage out. If I were a dev that's what I'd rather do.
From a customer's point of view I can't say I'm too interested in demos either. I wait for the reviews to come in(RPS and John Bain mainly), watch a couple of YT videos or simply unthinkingly pick the game up on some Steam sale for a few quid and play it whenever.
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We need to break the law and spy on law abiding citizens FOR THE CHILDREN and to STOP TERRORISTS.
They're going for broke.
...time to call for another badger cull. That should keep The Guardian occupied...
Nevermind we're not quite done with the current one.
'Nuff said.
...who in no way, shape or form was affected by the Snowden leaks.The only thing he has in common is that he was a practicing pedophile and child molestor.
Your point being?
You are aware it it the British police saying this? You know, where the strictest of gun laws in the USA is orders of magnitude more permisive than what is allowed in England?
The rozzers currently have so much egg on their face a brain-fart like that won't misdirect the current attention they gained for being corrupt, lying and brutal bastards.
Take money from the yellow press, be caught lying about an incident that forced a senior politician to resign and demonstably be disonest why they shot a guy who posed no threat and you will have some yolk dripping down your collar. Sprinkle this with a misplaced esprit d'corps and obfuscation and feet-dragging and suddenly you will think of their uniform as nothing more than gang colours.
These wankers in Britsh govt (and civil service) know very well how much are their sleezy sicko tricks are exposed .. so take the usual mud slinging tactic ..
Edward Snowden, you are true hero.
The kind of sleaze like running ads on vans for "illegals" to turn themselves in? If UKIP says something like this is going too far then you know they absolutely crossed all lines including the date-line. Calling them wankers is an insult to all masturbators everywhere.
Cameron and May have no place on a high horse.
The UK Tories have a long track record of comically wrong policies. Especially May is utterly despicable. Anybody remember the Snooper's Charta? Guess what? GCHQ didn't need it at all. And the Snooper's Charta was killed off(read: tabled) for being too far-fetching. Add to this the abysmal PR campaign where they painted an invitation for illegal immigrants to call a phone number for deportation on the side of lorries. And the text message campaign doing the same. And now they say that unearthing their lack of oversight aids pedos, terrorists and crims.
Where before this their policies seemed to be merely incompetent they now look like acts of malice.
The UK shows the least grace of all parties involved in the Snowden revelations. Pity the country that NEEDS The Grauniad.
Way to wrest air superiority from those feathered commie bastards!
We need a higher military budget to match their numbers for airborne crafts!
33 casualties in 40 years. Quick, does anybody have the airman cancer death statistic at hand?
Pedophilia is the issue that requires therapy. Child molestation on the other hand is a crime that requires repercussions.
As long as we do not distinguish between those two we will never be able to cope with the problem since they are not the same and require different action.
Yeah. The whole thing smacks of lack of adult supervision. He was a bit petty and they completely mishandled the whole situation. If the person who by their rules was authorized to receive the passwords had gone to him then this whole mess wouldn't have erupted into a giant shit volcano. He was by no means being reasonable but so were they.
The lesson you can take away from this is if you have a workplace dispute DO NOT CALL THE COPS or the lawyers. Just sort it out like a grown-up. Also I can't see how sentencing him to 5 years in the slammer is by any means reasonable since the city officials did their best not to resolve this reasonably. They created the financial loss by not sticking by their own rules.
The other lesson you can take away from that is that if you were Terry Childs you could have prepared a writing that said that you were giving out the passwords to an unauthorized person under duress and have the city drones and their lawyers and the cops sign that. That's CYA and that is sufficient.
Goddamit. This whole thing reads like a chapter of The Lord Of The Flies.
This is where the executive and legislative branch are at odds, true. Interestingly the situation in the US is quite similar. The houses are furious now that it emerges that they had exactly zero oversight capabilities. The US executive branch(which oddly includes the head of the state...what a weird thing to do in a democracy) sits in the same boat as the German executive branch. All this mess is their responsibility and so they are a bit on the defensive there.
While it is true that having friendly relations with the US is important the long-term relations are much more important than being all buddy-buddy with the current administration.
During the Iraq crisis ten years ago the French(and also Germany and a couple of other countries) didn't want to play ball and help the way they did in Afghanistan. The diplomatic tensions over this were quite severe. Let's remember Rumsfeld's "old Europe" and other hawkish remarks back then. Let's remember renaming french fries into Freedom Fries just to piss the Belgians off. Now, ten years later nobody wants to remember that silly episode. In ten years time we will not look kindly upon Obama's "I'm good at killing people" drone war and the security services running amuck. Make no mistake, all security services worldwide have crossed the line. The only country unable to deal with that properly seems to be the UK. French and German secret services will propably be the next target but since they are not part of the "Five Eyes" there isn't much but a hint here and there. We shall see.
The fate of one man is a small matter when looking at this from that angle. I would say Germany would be doing the US a huge favour by taking Snowden in. It's embarrassing enough he had to take refuge with Russia. The same Russia that somehow mislaid one of the Pussy Riot detainees.
Fuck the current German and US administrations. They'll be long gone when we start to think of this like we now think of the Dreyfuss affair. If there is the right thing to do then we should do it. Let the usual diplomatic channels negotiate some token ineffectual repercussions over this for appearances sake so they can keep on rattling their limp sabres and be done with it.
For the record: Jingoism is the worst mass hysteria a nation can suffer from and at the moment to the dismay of the UK and US administrations this time around the rabble is not buying it.
That would, unfortunately, never happen. Right until it came out that Merkel was spied on, our minister of the interior accused all the NSA critics of anti-Americanism and insisted that USA never has spied on Germans. Our current government is quiter far up Obama's arse and the next one won't be that much different.
Nope. That was BEFORE they were caught spying on Mutti. Afterwards everything he said before was obviously misinterpreted.
You turn if you want to. The German government officials are not for turning.
That's what I would say too.... if I had a target on my back. If he has disclosed everything, there is no reason to take him out.
Alan Rusbridger said they were still sifting through the data. Up to now nothing has been published that would put lives at risk. And they are very conscientious about how they publish. One would assume Snowden has handed over the whole lot. And he has promised Putin not to release any embarassing stuff while he is in Russia...
And this will stop the USA from conducting another illegal extradition?.
If he gets sanctuary in Germany then this would be a litte bit too high-profile for something like that. At least for the next couple of years. After that he would be forgotten like Bobby Fischer.
Since he is a civilian he wouldn't be tried in front of a kangaroo military court. This would be a civilian trial. And there would be a lot of publicity surrounding that. No trial of this caliber could be kept as secret as the current would like it to be. This is bound to be leaky. I would say they are not interested in another trial like this and are completely happy about him being elsewhere. Assuming he already has handed over all of his material to The Grauniad.
All this is obviously pretty hypothetical. What isn't hypothetical is the preemptive US extradition request that arrived pretty much immediately after this has hit the headlines.
...seems like this preemptive extradition request wasn't issued in response to the latest German involvement. The US pretty much carpet-bombed the world with those yonks ago. Personally delivered by carrier-drone, presumably.
It gets better.
The German parliament wants to interview him. The current discussion is wether he can come to Germany to do so. And maybe even stay here. There are rumors there may be a legal loophole to not extradite him to the US if he sets foot on German turf. There is a slim majority for that in the German parliament.
All this is obviously pretty hypothetical. What isn't hypothetical is the preemptive US extradition request that arrived pretty much immediately after this has hit the headlines.
Same here. I don't check up on new releases or maintain a wishlist in a couple of stores. I stick to Steam and so I won't see any EA releases. Between my Steam sale backlog and my GoG backlog I frankly can afford to blissfully ignore EA releases. Their loss since I buy during sales on a whim and sometimes don't even finish the games if I lose interest. I'm looking at you, Machine of Pigs.
I'm roughly in the same neighborhood(-5.6, -6.4). The test has a certain cultural bias so it's hard to take it too seriously. But as a ball-park estimate it does ring rightish even if some questions are blatantly idiotic.
But you and I are individuals. We are free to be easy-going and charitable with what we've got. Politicians OTOH have a national mandate and are sworn to uphold the best interests of their respective nations(all of which have in common that they are the bestest ever). Now, the best interest is a matter of perception since they need to think about what would/could happen in the future. Also politicians need to be in control. So if you asked them about their personal opinion(and they were willing to answer truthfully) I wouldn't be surprised if they were leaning a bit more to the left and libertarian views. But once you take responsibility a bit more serious because you have a lot of it then I'm not surprised if you leaned more to the right and authoritarianism. But sometimes they overdo it and forget that the long term interests of a nation may lay a bit more to the left and to liberties.
I fully acknowledge that I may be living in an ivory tower but I do enjoy the view.
...and now the conservatives have to form a coalition with the social democrats. A couple of weeks ago the conservatives had declared the Snowden affair over and now are obviously left with egg on face. I don't know what will come out of this but it now SEEMS like they will at least go through the motions. Also I'm fairly certain the Bundestag will be allowed to send a delegation to Snowden. Putin must be chuffed to bits over the cooldown of EU/US reletions and the way he humiliated the US over the the Syria situation. ATM everything points to the US not being a major political power in the world anymore.
Meanwhile in the UK Cameron continues his crusade against the press(which obviously excludes a certain Australian gentleman) while questions are being asked why what GCHQ was doing more than Theresa May's "snooper's charter" would have allowed.
The global fallout over the Snowden affair already has made this one of the historically most significant events in our lifetime.
Also there were no lies told. They said they weren't listening in on Mutti at the time and they wouldn't do so in the future. They only omitted they had been doing so for the past 10 years. Heh.
West Germany kept East Germany alive with money. A lot of money. When the underhanded deals struck between the staunchest anti-communists of the west and the eastern camarilla came to light 15 years ago everybody was genuinely shocked.
You will have to remember that their journalists spend quite a lot of time in the BStU which keeps whatever is left from the Stasi files. Once you see first hand what kind of information they kept you will feel very uncomfortable about what foreign nationals do.
The rumors about espionage and also economic espionage have been very loud since the 90ies. Then we spoke about Echelon and how trade secrets of German eco-tech companies turned up in US patent applications(and in some cases even still showing the German logos on the applications). Back then nobody wanted to do something about it for obvious diplomatic resons. Now that the US has been exposed everybody feels like this is the perfect opportunity for a reckoning. Every European country(apart from the UK) has some major beef with the US over this. France, Italy, Germany, Belgium for sure. The EU institutions, too. The SWIFT agreement is in jeopardy. Trade agreements, too. The diplomatic fallout is tremendous. And even in the UK the government and Cameron in particular are facing more and more internal pressure. The US is being more and more internationally isolated in a way that's not even funny. And from what I can tell this has been coming for the past 20 years.
Time to break out the Freedom Fries again?
Do not quote that rag when there are more reputable sources available. They are not as silly as the Daily Fail but their credibility and journalistic quality is very low by German standards.
Interestingly the GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 actively and successfully lobbied against admitting their information into courts of law. Not because they thought it improper but rather because they weren't too keen on a parliamentary(and thus public) discussion of how they got their data.
So this might actually be a bit of a blessing since this could stir exactly that kind of public discussion within...
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry, it's awefully hard to finish this sentence with a straight face.
PS3 Controller already IS a proper Android controller. The support is really good. You plug it in via USB to pair it and the rest is done by Bluetooth.
Good games already support it. Measly iOS ports and Gameloft games struggle. There is no need for a dedicated "Android controller". USB BT HID does exist and is supported by Android. If you layer your game properly then you can support those on-screen-controls and HID properly. I'll mention Gameloft again since they are the worst offender in that area. Thankfully you can get your money back easily if you find you bought one of their half-assed games. Which is BTW what their support suggested. Controllers designed specifically for Android usually have size and form factor in mind since a proper sized controller(like the old XBox) are too bulky to carry around. USB/BT HID does the rest.
It could very well be that stock Android broke PS3 support a couple of versions ago but I had no problems on my TF201 on 4.0. I've rooted that thing ages ago. And another hurdle would be the shenanigans manufacturers play. Like the old Nexus 7 requiring a root to connect the controller via USB. But that's another story.
watch a couple of YT videos
That's an area where I admit OUYA failed. Its only video output is HDMI with HDCP that a game's developer doesn't appear to be able to turn off.
Oh, the Ouya is brilliant. They use abundantly available and established stock electronics. The development tools are free and also established. IMHO they underestimated the effect of their "game needs to be partially free" rule and their decision to design their own controller is outright idiotic. Designing something like a controller has to be the master discipline of consumer electronics. I would have tried for a 70$ price point and bundled it with something reasonable. A partnership with Logitec, Razer, whatever would have been much, much better.
Otherwise the Ouya is something so obvious it had to be done.
IMO if they manage to stay afloat for the next couple of years they are onto something. I wouldn't be surprised if they moved into providing components for smart TVs and sell their platform to be integrated by the likes of Toshiba, Acer and the rest of them. It makes no sense they build their own stuff. Especially with the slim profits they have. Also I really, really hope they are in serious talks with nVidia. Given that Tegra3 does support that nVidia 3D trick(but only at 720p) I do see real potential here.
My Toshiba TV set doesn't do anything that wouldn't be better if it were done properly based on Ouya tech. Toshiba Places has to be the silliest thing ever to develop yourself. It's expensive and by no means a selling point.
Not all games lend themselves easily to a demo. Also the current trope is that demos actually cost sales and that that money is better spent on marketing. I don't really follow that kind of reasoning myself but suffice to say downloadable playable demos are hugely unpopular with AAA studios and devs for whatever reason.
Demos take time and money to create. And they need to run on your potential buyer's machine without any issue. I can remember a couple of demos in the 90ies which I couldn't get to run yet the game ran perfectly. Also the time and resources spent building a demo can be used to start on that expansion/DLC and get all the things into your game that you had to triage out. If I were a dev that's what I'd rather do.
From a customer's point of view I can't say I'm too interested in demos either. I wait for the reviews to come in(RPS and John Bain mainly), watch a couple of YT videos or simply unthinkingly pick the game up on some Steam sale for a few quid and play it whenever.