Right, such as the PSSuite alternative to the Play store. It's good competition. The Vita might not be able to add alternative stores, but most importantly Sony will be competing with Google on the Android systems.
1. It's for mobile devices. PS Vita is the current testing platform. When PSSuite launches, it will be available on Playstation Android phones (another whole story).
2. It's beta, but since it's a branded Mono Develop that means good things. iOS can only be done properly on OSX after all.
3. Yeah that was weird but they might be going for the XNA crowd.
4. There's 3D support, you're completely wrong. From their site
>Rather than providing only basic samples for explaining each basic API, the SDK also gives you access to samples of games and applications using 2D and 3D graphics.
5. PSSuite will be a platform. Google can prevent anyone from using the Play store, Apple can prevent anyone from using the app store.
6. It will be $99/year, the same price as iOS development.
Looks like it's right in line with the other mobile platforms.
I love Slashdot! A posting about how 360 exposed credit card details is _finally_ posted, but it's in defense of Microsoft. And the third comment down is saying Sony is just as bad. Keep up the great work, everyone!
Sabayon has a KDE version that's very good on updates and default configuration. Sabayon is based on Gentoo but doesn't do all of the compiling. Yes, that negates the advantage Gentoo had but you still get the rolling release and you can still use portage if needed.
I don't see how nuclear power is in any way more dangerous than hydro electric. There have been significantly more people killed by hydro electric power, not to mention the massive effects it has on the environment.
When the Banqiao Dam in China collapsed, 26,000 people died immediately. This is the worst accident in the history of hydroelectric. Chernobyl had 31-56 direct deaths and this is the worst nuclear power accident. In both cases they were from direct negligence. Banqiao continued to kill more, just like Chernobyl. Banqiao killed 145,000 additional people within a few years and Chernobyl killed/will kill ~6,000 eventually (various estimates change). Banqiao directly effected 11 million people and Chernobyl displaced the entire town, 49,400 people, and it's a mere fraction of Banqiao. The fact is the deaths from nuclear power is significantly less than hydroelectric and always will be. A nuclear power plant does not blow up like in video games such as Red Alert 2, Chernobyl was the absolute worst case scenario (for one reactor, Chernobyl would be worst if all reactors that were there blew).
The Three Mile Island incident shows the lack of education for the public. People continue to "monitor" Three Mile Island but what they don't know or are too dense to know is that their basements have more radiation than Three Mile Island outputs.
Oh, lets note that Chernobyl continued to operate the other reactors until 2000.
I've been wanting to switch to Mint Debian Edition for some time but the KDE support keeps being pushed lower and lower on the priority list of the project sadly. Maybe it's about time I start helping a community project.
Yes there are. Oil Rush, for example. You can browse the Linux only games by going to the game browsing page and clicking the Tux in the upper right hand corner. The Humble Indie Bundle was popular and came with Desura keys, so a lot of people can test using Desura without having to buy a game straight out from them.
Are other titles available? Does this mean EA is going to start doing Linux ports through this?
I *highly* doubt EA will ever start doing Linux ports and if they did, they'd find a way to bring Origin to Linux to do it. But Desura acts as a game distribute service that goes across Windows, Linux and soon to be OSX that developers can utilize when creating cross platform games. I welcome Desura and will be using it for future game transactions since Steam never decided to make a Linux port.
>Passowrds != CC info...
Then here's the source where they say the Credit Cards were encrypted (I probably should have linked this one).
>Q: Was my personal data encrypted?
A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link.
The fact that the server got overloaded is a testament to how much us KDE4 users hate KDE4 (and how much the KDE developers apparently hate us).
Not all of us hate KDE4, many of us love it so don't walk around like everyone hates it. Plus the Qt+KDE communities are tightly knitted. If you think that Trinity will still be "KDE 3.5" once it's ported to Qt4, you're very wrong. It will be KDE4 with less functionality.
Take a look at the comments, no one else on/. is concerned about you're credit card. Instead they would rather say someone that isn't a part of Anonymous didn't do it and that Sony deserved it.
but not so much "is my credit card that the PSN stores secure?"
Which is precisely what Sony is investigating. First/. commenter's must say Sony doesn't know howto bring PSN back up, that Anonymous is not responsible and that Sony brought down lik sang/rootkit/OtherOS before they say anything about the more important issue of peoples credit card informaiton. Just look at how parent has a score of 3 and people blaming Sony for being idiots has a score of 5.
Then you don't have a right to comment on this article.
There aren't any single player games on PS3 that require PSN connection (not Demon Souls, not LittleBigPlanet, not anything) in order to save the game, and the fact that you have a score 5 is pathetic. It really shows the Sony hate on/., which is undeserved as the PS3 is the most open platform (Steam integration, 99% region free games).
there is the crazy Live-Games for Windows
Sony is not Microsoft, which coincidently make the competing console with a 60% failure rate.
Slashdot Mirror
I see slashdot comments become more and more useless with every passing day.
Right, such as the PSSuite alternative to the Play store. It's good competition. The Vita might not be able to add alternative stores, but most importantly Sony will be competing with Google on the Android systems.
1. It's for mobile devices. PS Vita is the current testing platform. When PSSuite launches, it will be available on Playstation Android phones (another whole story).
2. It's beta, but since it's a branded Mono Develop that means good things. iOS can only be done properly on OSX after all.
3. Yeah that was weird but they might be going for the XNA crowd.
4. There's 3D support, you're completely wrong. From their site
>Rather than providing only basic samples for explaining each basic API, the SDK also gives you access to samples of games and applications using 2D and 3D graphics.
5. PSSuite will be a platform. Google can prevent anyone from using the Play store, Apple can prevent anyone from using the app store.
6. It will be $99/year, the same price as iOS development.
Looks like it's right in line with the other mobile platforms.
Yeah, lets have another Sony hating article. NEVER 4GET
If Sony does anything to the XMB they'll probably just fuck it up. I prefer it stays the same.
Not sure what's evil about the system that allows Steam and cross platform play...
I love Slashdot! A posting about how 360 exposed credit card details is _finally_ posted, but it's in defense of Microsoft. And the third comment down is saying Sony is just as bad. Keep up the great work, everyone!
Sabayon has a KDE version that's very good on updates and default configuration. Sabayon is based on Gentoo but doesn't do all of the compiling. Yes, that negates the advantage Gentoo had but you still get the rolling release and you can still use portage if needed.
I don't see how nuclear power is in any way more dangerous than hydro electric. There have been significantly more people killed by hydro electric power, not to mention the massive effects it has on the environment.
When the Banqiao Dam in China collapsed, 26,000 people died immediately. This is the worst accident in the history of hydroelectric. Chernobyl had 31-56 direct deaths and this is the worst nuclear power accident. In both cases they were from direct negligence. Banqiao continued to kill more, just like Chernobyl. Banqiao killed 145,000 additional people within a few years and Chernobyl killed/will kill ~6,000 eventually (various estimates change). Banqiao directly effected 11 million people and Chernobyl displaced the entire town, 49,400 people, and it's a mere fraction of Banqiao. The fact is the deaths from nuclear power is significantly less than hydroelectric and always will be. A nuclear power plant does not blow up like in video games such as Red Alert 2, Chernobyl was the absolute worst case scenario (for one reactor, Chernobyl would be worst if all reactors that were there blew).
The Three Mile Island incident shows the lack of education for the public. People continue to "monitor" Three Mile Island but what they don't know or are too dense to know is that their basements have more radiation than Three Mile Island outputs.
Oh, lets note that Chernobyl continued to operate the other reactors until 2000.
Banqiao Dam source
I've been wanting to switch to Mint Debian Edition for some time but the KDE support keeps being pushed lower and lower on the priority list of the project sadly. Maybe it's about time I start helping a community project.
Are other titles available?
Yes there are. Oil Rush, for example. You can browse the Linux only games by going to the game browsing page and clicking the Tux in the upper right hand corner. The Humble Indie Bundle was popular and came with Desura keys, so a lot of people can test using Desura without having to buy a game straight out from them.
Are other titles available? Does this mean EA is going to start doing Linux ports through this?
I *highly* doubt EA will ever start doing Linux ports and if they did, they'd find a way to bring Origin to Linux to do it. But Desura acts as a game distribute service that goes across Windows, Linux and soon to be OSX that developers can utilize when creating cross platform games. I welcome Desura and will be using it for future game transactions since Steam never decided to make a Linux port.
>Passowrds != CC info... Then here's the source where they say the Credit Cards were encrypted (I probably should have linked this one). >Q: Was my personal data encrypted? A: All of the data was protected, and access was restricted both physically and through the perimeter and security of the network. The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no evidence that credit card data was taken. The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
One other point to clarify is from this weekend’s press conference. While the passwords that were stored were not “encrypted,” they were transformed using a cryptographic hash function. There is a difference between these two types of security measures which is why we said the passwords had not been encrypted. But I want to be very clear that the passwords were not stored in our database in cleartext form. For a description of the difference between encryption and hashing, follow this link.
If you're not playing Uncharted 3 right now then you don't own a Playstation 3.
The fact that the server got overloaded is a testament to how much us KDE4 users hate KDE4 (and how much the KDE developers apparently hate us).
Not all of us hate KDE4, many of us love it so don't walk around like everyone hates it. Plus the Qt+KDE communities are tightly knitted. If you think that Trinity will still be "KDE 3.5" once it's ported to Qt4, you're very wrong. It will be KDE4 with less functionality.
Eye for an Eye!
Those games aren't open source. I have no idea where you got that from.
Sony doesn't make money from second hand game sales. This is very bad for GameStop. Why doesn't slashdot make up their mind who they hate more?
Except for that file that said: We are Anonymous. We are legion. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/05/04/sonys-response-to-the-u-s-house-of-representatives/
I don't know what I would have done today if I didn't read a news article on an astronaut going to space.
We need to start utilizing APNG or MNG. Firefox does support APNG, most Webkit browsers do not sadly. APNG has the advantage of displaying the first frame in any PNG capable program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNG
When said corporation is said to be the target for a few weeks prior, I think it's more than scapegoating. It's a confirmation.
Take a look at the comments, no one else on /. is concerned about you're credit card. Instead they would rather say someone that isn't a part of Anonymous didn't do it and that Sony deserved it.
but not so much "is my credit card that the PSN stores secure?"
Which is precisely what Sony is investigating. First /. commenter's must say Sony doesn't know howto bring PSN back up, that Anonymous is not responsible and that Sony brought down lik sang/rootkit/OtherOS before they say anything about the more important issue of peoples credit card informaiton. Just look at how parent has a score of 3 and people blaming Sony for being idiots has a score of 5.
I don't have a Playstation
Then you don't have a right to comment on this article. There aren't any single player games on PS3 that require PSN connection (not Demon Souls, not LittleBigPlanet, not anything) in order to save the game, and the fact that you have a score 5 is pathetic. It really shows the Sony hate on /., which is undeserved as the PS3 is the most open platform (Steam integration, 99% region free games).
there is the crazy Live-Games for Windows
Sony is not Microsoft, which coincidently make the competing console with a 60% failure rate.