It is interesting, as all "normal" PSN logins used for commenting on that blog expired last week. The cooking keeping them "logged in" to the blog had a 1 week expiration. I guess that only leaves Sony employees to be able to actually log in and comment.
Would a half keyboard and a trackball work? It's too bad that Matias, which owns the patent on half keyboards, prices them squarely in the insurance-driven market for assistive devices for people with disabilities, not the consumer-driven gaming market: $595? Give me a break.
the keyboard is not really the problem, pushing a button on a pad or a keyboard doesn't make that much difference, also there is the logitech g13 that cost less than 100€
when playing an fps on console the real problem is the aim stick, it's nowhere near a mouse precision, that's why there are a lot of aim aids on console games
yeah also the EA online pass is exactly the same, I really don't see why the article say it's worse, if you are not a VIP in BC2 you don't get map packs, and guess what, on pc everybody is automatically a VIP because nobody sells used pc games
it doesn't support windows 3.1 either so what? windows xp doesn't have direct2d, if you need a browser that supports css3 and html5 use firefox 4 or chrome, if you can't install them because of company policies then you probably don't need them anyway
Funny... I just blacklisted Experts-Exchange on my very first search... before I read this article/summary. Apparently I'm not alone in thinking it is the main scourge of the internet.:)
actually experts-exchange is quite good, I've found solution to many problems more than once, in theory you can't see the answer without paying, but if you have a google referrer, googlebot user agent or click "cached" on google result you can see everything for free
I don't see why it would make anything harder for centos or oracle, I doubt they check the code of every redhat patches before applying them. Redhat sells a product so the patches must be good and if they are good for them they are fine for centos and oracle too
On the contrary it might be harder for other distro not based on rh to get a single patch out of the kernel
Geez, I've been on the FF4 beta for like 5 months now almost. IMO it's much better and stable. Almost all of my extensions work in it too.
If your extension doesn't work with 3.6, edit your install.rdf file and change the MaxVersion to 3.6 (or wildcard)
I've been using it since last march, and aside from some issue with non working extension when they did some big changes it worked fine and it's much faster than ff3
like this would never happen if you run your own mailserver, I personally trust google more than myself, they have who knows how many servers just for gmail, if one goes down it's not a problem since the filesystem is distributed iirc.
Can you have the same uptime for FREE with your own server? of course not since you actually have to either buy a server and pay the electricity bill or rent a dedicated/shared server somewhere but still pay a fee
I have been using gmail for more than six years now and I had something like 1 hour of downtime a couple of years ago, and it was just the web interface since they did update apache or something like that, pop3 and imap were still working
The only thing you need to do is a daily/weekly backup just like with your own mailserver
There's the problem, every Slashdotter knows this but what about everybody else? Your average consumer doesn't know/care about any of this and until they do, this whole issue is going to continue for the rest of us. As long as the majority of Sony's customers just want to play on their PS3 and believe all hackers are puppy killers Sony doesn't need to care about whether its customers are even aware of being abused.
You should stop worrying about what other people should buy. I want to be able to tinker with my stuff, so I won't buy anything Sony. But when somebody else wants to get screwed by Sony, they are within their rights. Either they will get what they want (e.g. a PS3 which just plays their games) which is fine. Or they will run into something they are not allowed to do by Sony and stop buying it as well. It's their life, their money. That's a free market for you.
I read in the newspaper that the US will help the citicens of Iran to keep the internet running. Obama and Clinton promised that. I find that extremely hypocritic behaviour. Where was the US when Egypt's internet was shut down? Oh yeah, they liked Mubarak so they did nothing. But they don't like Ahmadinejad so now they help the Iranian people. And in the meantime Obama wants a kill switch so he can switch the internet off whenever he wants.
it's more complicated than that, the us couldn't really state which side they were because egypt owns something very important, the suez canal, so if they helped one side and the other one won it could have blocked the canal for us ships as retaliation
In Iran instead they don't have anything to lose since Ahmadinejad already hate them
all slashdot icons got updated with the new design, why the hell you still use that old kde logo? those are the logo you should use http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php
Qt is not just used by open source software, but by many commercial software that probably payed a license too before it was lgpled, some of these are big softwares like google earth or autodesk maya, you can see some of these here http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/target/desktop and here http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use
you are kind of wrong, the problem here is that nintendo is in the same casual gamer market as cheap games, most wii and ds titles have graphics and animations from 10 years ago, so they're actually the same or worse than these 2$ games.
So these cheap games won't hurt sales of the elder scroll skyrim or battlefield 3 but it will be a problem for nintendogs, petz and shit like that
I can't see any products sony offers that isn't also available elsewhere and better. not the exact same thing, but sony is *fully* boycottable with very little pain involved. its easy to do.
please consider not buying sony. ever. you can find alternatives. you can, really.
you are wrong at least for the ps3, it's not replaceable by other products, sure most of the game are available on pc or 360 but I bought a ps3 to play some great exclusive title that you can't find on any other platform, most of those title are made by sony first party studios so good luck hoping that they'll ever come to pc or 360. You can find alternatives for other sony hardware but not for ps3 games, games are like movies so unless you want to watch "in the name of the king" instead of lotr there is no alternative
as much as I like Carmack for everything he did, he's becoming an apple fanboy, during the last quakecon he asked the people there how many of them buy from the apple app store and how many from the android market, the result was pretty much even and he didn't expect that, he was all like "wow there are more than two people here buying from the android market".
Also he always disliked the PS3 so I would expect no less from him on the NGP
backward compatibility was already demoed during the presentation, of course since there is no UMD only games downloadable from the psn will work, anyway most portable(both psp and ds) games are shit that last a couple of hours, very few have the quality of pc/ps3 games(an example is metal gear peace walker) so this "expansive library" is not a big deal especially since top quality games like uncharted, lbp2 or mgs4 have been demonstrated on the NGP
the only thing bugging me is the price, a 1-2 core phone costs around 600€ the NGP has a quad core CPU and a quad core GPU so I doubt it will be less than 600-700€ on launch day
well google obviously doesn't care to implement this restriction properly, and since ip blocking is enough to satisfy the us government why would they waste time doing something else?
also google earth needs to be connected to google server at all the time so just downloading it from an internet cafe won't work
GeoHot didn't hack the PS3 until Sony removed functionality.
actually geohot is the reason why sony removed otheros, he was the first to discover a vulnerability exploitable from linux, then he disappeared only to come back a few weeks ago
This makes total sense - Sony are very similar to Apple in that they lock their systems down and actively prevent after-market modifications. For these reasons, there was no way Sony were going to go down an Android-esque / Java route, so mimicking Apple was the logical choice.
did this just came out of your arse or what? do you think that using java instead objective-c/gnustep will prevent Sony or anyone from locking down the system, or even better do you think that using objective c like Apple will automagically lock down the system?
Oh and by the way Sony Ericsson use android for their phones, and there is some speculation that they will use android 3.0 for the playstation phone
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It is interesting, as all "normal" PSN logins used for commenting on that blog expired last week. The cooking keeping them "logged in" to the blog had a 1 week expiration. I guess that only leaves Sony employees to be able to actually log in and comment.
wrong, that's the eu playstation blog and as you can see there is no comment there http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/01/some-playstation-network-and-qriocity-services-to-be-available-this-week/
the us version probably has a longer expiration date or maybe they don't expire at all, also sony itself warned about the cookie expiration ONLY on the eu blog http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/04/28/issue-with-leaving-comments/
Would a half keyboard and a trackball work? It's too bad that Matias, which owns the patent on half keyboards, prices them squarely in the insurance-driven market for assistive devices for people with disabilities, not the consumer-driven gaming market: $595? Give me a break.
the keyboard is not really the problem, pushing a button on a pad or a keyboard doesn't make that much difference, also there is the logitech g13 that cost less than 100€
when playing an fps on console the real problem is the aim stick, it's nowhere near a mouse precision, that's why there are a lot of aim aids on console games
I guess they just played too much team fortress 2
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of SEO cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something awesome has happened
yeah also the EA online pass is exactly the same, I really don't see why the article say it's worse, if you are not a VIP in BC2 you don't get map packs, and guess what, on pc everybody is automatically a VIP because nobody sells used pc games
Wouldn't it be far more effective to ddos their psn servers.
they actually did that, I had a hard time trying to login today to play online, so fuck you anonymous cowards
it doesn't support windows 3.1 either so what? windows xp doesn't have direct2d, if you need a browser that supports css3 and html5 use firefox 4 or chrome, if you can't install them because of company policies then you probably don't need them anyway
Funny... I just blacklisted Experts-Exchange on my very first search... before I read this article/summary. Apparently I'm not alone in thinking it is the main scourge of the internet. :)
actually experts-exchange is quite good, I've found solution to many problems more than once, in theory you can't see the answer without paying, but if you have a google referrer, googlebot user agent or click "cached" on google result you can see everything for free
I don't see why it would make anything harder for centos or oracle, I doubt they check the code of every redhat patches before applying them. Redhat sells a product so the patches must be good and if they are good for them they are fine for centos and oracle too
On the contrary it might be harder for other distro not based on rh to get a single patch out of the kernel
Geez, I've been on the FF4 beta for like 5 months now almost. IMO it's much better and stable. Almost all of my extensions work in it too. If your extension doesn't work with 3.6, edit your install.rdf file and change the MaxVersion to 3.6 (or wildcard)
I've been using it since last march, and aside from some issue with non working extension when they did some big changes it worked fine and it's much faster than ff3
like this would never happen if you run your own mailserver, I personally trust google more than myself, they have who knows how many servers just for gmail, if one goes down it's not a problem since the filesystem is distributed iirc.
Can you have the same uptime for FREE with your own server? of course not since you actually have to either buy a server and pay the electricity bill or rent a dedicated/shared server somewhere but still pay a fee
I have been using gmail for more than six years now and I had something like 1 hour of downtime a couple of years ago, and it was just the web interface since they did update apache or something like that, pop3 and imap were still working
The only thing you need to do is a daily/weekly backup just like with your own mailserver
There's the problem, every Slashdotter knows this but what about everybody else? Your average consumer doesn't know/care about any of this and until they do, this whole issue is going to continue for the rest of us. As long as the majority of Sony's customers just want to play on their PS3 and believe all hackers are puppy killers Sony doesn't need to care about whether its customers are even aware of being abused.
You should stop worrying about what other people should buy. I want to be able to tinker with my stuff, so I won't buy anything Sony. But when somebody else wants to get screwed by Sony, they are within their rights. Either they will get what they want (e.g. a PS3 which just plays their games) which is fine. Or they will run into something they are not allowed to do by Sony and stop buying it as well. It's their life, their money. That's a free market for you.
finally someone with a brain here on slashdot
I read in the newspaper that the US will help the citicens of Iran to keep the internet running. Obama and Clinton promised that. I find that extremely hypocritic behaviour. Where was the US when Egypt's internet was shut down? Oh yeah, they liked Mubarak so they did nothing. But they don't like Ahmadinejad so now they help the Iranian people. And in the meantime Obama wants a kill switch so he can switch the internet off whenever he wants.
it's more complicated than that, the us couldn't really state which side they were because egypt owns something very important, the suez canal, so if they helped one side and the other one won it could have blocked the canal for us ships as retaliation
In Iran instead they don't have anything to lose since Ahmadinejad already hate them
it's still 10.1 you can see the update history at the end of the page http://www.appbrain.com/app/flash-player-10-1/com.adobe.flashplayer
all slashdot icons got updated with the new design, why the hell you still use that old kde logo? those are the logo you should use http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php
Qt is not just used by open source software, but by many commercial software that probably payed a license too before it was lgpled, some of these are big softwares like google earth or autodesk maya, you can see some of these here http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use/target/desktop and here http://qt.nokia.com/qt-in-use
this is BBC world not BBC 1/2/3, I can watch it for free via sat or dtv and I'm not in uk, I think it's free all over the world
you are kind of wrong, the problem here is that nintendo is in the same casual gamer market as cheap games, most wii and ds titles have graphics and animations from 10 years ago, so they're actually the same or worse than these 2$ games.
So these cheap games won't hurt sales of the elder scroll skyrim or battlefield 3 but it will be a problem for nintendogs, petz and shit like that
I can't see any products sony offers that isn't also available elsewhere and better. not the exact same thing, but sony is *fully* boycottable with very little pain involved. its easy to do.
please consider not buying sony. ever. you can find alternatives. you can, really.
you are wrong at least for the ps3, it's not replaceable by other products, sure most of the game are available on pc or 360 but I bought a ps3 to play some great exclusive title that you can't find on any other platform, most of those title are made by sony first party studios so good luck hoping that they'll ever come to pc or 360. You can find alternatives for other sony hardware but not for ps3 games, games are like movies so unless you want to watch "in the name of the king" instead of lotr there is no alternative
as much as I like Carmack for everything he did, he's becoming an apple fanboy, during the last quakecon he asked the people there how many of them buy from the apple app store and how many from the android market, the result was pretty much even and he didn't expect that, he was all like "wow there are more than two people here buying from the android market".
Also he always disliked the PS3 so I would expect no less from him on the NGP
it uses some sort of memory card http://www.kotaku.jp/assets_c/2011/01/110127ngp_media-23816.html
backward compatibility was already demoed during the presentation, of course since there is no UMD only games downloadable from the psn will work, anyway most portable(both psp and ds) games are shit that last a couple of hours, very few have the quality of pc/ps3 games(an example is metal gear peace walker) so this "expansive library" is not a big deal especially since top quality games like uncharted, lbp2 or mgs4 have been demonstrated on the NGP
the only thing bugging me is the price, a 1-2 core phone costs around 600€ the NGP has a quad core CPU and a quad core GPU so I doubt it will be less than 600-700€ on launch day
well google obviously doesn't care to implement this restriction properly, and since ip blocking is enough to satisfy the us government why would they waste time doing something else?
also google earth needs to be connected to google server at all the time so just downloading it from an internet cafe won't work
GeoHot didn't hack the PS3 until Sony removed functionality.
actually geohot is the reason why sony removed otheros, he was the first to discover a vulnerability exploitable from linux, then he disappeared only to come back a few weeks ago
this is the news that geohot hacked the ps3 in january http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/0654253/PS3-Hacked
and this is the removal of otheros from march http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/29/0227251/Install-Other-OS-Feature-Removed-From-the-PS3
This makes total sense - Sony are very similar to Apple in that they lock their systems down and actively prevent after-market modifications. For these reasons, there was no way Sony were going to go down an Android-esque / Java route, so mimicking Apple was the logical choice.
did this just came out of your arse or what? do you think that using java instead objective-c/gnustep will prevent Sony or anyone from locking down the system, or even better do you think that using objective c like Apple will automagically lock down the system?
Oh and by the way Sony Ericsson use android for their phones, and there is some speculation that they will use android 3.0 for the playstation phone