Cinder is way over-reacting, and he said *a* grand not 10 grand. Come on. Sure, the PS3 will be expensive, more expensive than the X360 or the Revolution, but it's still nowhere near $1000.
That survey about us having the highest suicide rate was misleading. I was being sarcastic. I'm sure you remember that thread I made about this Agozer...you guys in nokia land do have a a pretty high rate...not as high as Japan but not that far off. Yes, I remember that thread, but I'd still be a little skeptical about it... Either way, I'm not going to slit my wrists anytime soon.
How about you people take a deep breath and stop arguing for a second? This "debate" of yours turned sour pretty quickly. I'm not participating because I don't know about the issue enough.
CPU-Z shows various information about your computer, as well as the extra instructions supported by the processor (MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!, etc.) or you could just tell me what processor you have.
I haven't encountered anything like this myself (or bothered to really look for that matter), but the unused stuff in games is no big secret. Well ok, there are several dummy emenies/characters/etc. amongst the code in all PSX Final Fantasies (VII, VIII and IX anyway).