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  1. Re:"open source" the source code after release.. on DarkSeas Games Developing Spiritual Successor To Road Rash · · Score: 1

    you really havent used unity then i take it. as i have and have seen my code decompiled to basically my code minus my spacing. function names and variable names were preserved.

  2. "open source" the source code after release.. on DarkSeas Games Developing Spiritual Successor To Road Rash · · Score: 2

    I like this. i think it is the funniest part of the project. as since they are using unity to build their game, the source code is already open source. as unity only does AOT compile on the iOS platform. so weather you want to give it away or not. you did! look at any unity android game and open the apk yourself and you can use a c# decompiler to get back to original source (minus comments). I actually asked for AOT compile for all platforms on unity and was ignored.

    but thanks for "open sourcing" it. i guess.

  3. ibuypower.com on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    see title

  4. Re:OUYA: Free To Play PITA. on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 1

    totally agree. as a user i dont download apps anymore that have IAP. i can't tell or dont want to tell the difference between full game unlock and nickel and diming me to death. so i check IAP is there... no buy. i don't care if i dont need to use it to beat the game. its there i dont download i dont buy.

    as a developer who uses unity, there API sucks ass. i need to do 10 or more C#->Java "native" calls in order to get the entire joypad information. umm switching languages is like slow dude. no thanks.

    i wish them all the success. but it does seem that this is an alpha product.

  5. obvious joke... on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More · · Score: 1

    has anyone watched frodo (hobbit) using frodo(XMBC) on frodo(Android)?

  6. Borrowing money on Prosecution of Swartz Typical for the "Sick Culture" Pervading the DOJ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How many of you did similar things when you were a kid? you want $10 from mom..."mom can i have $50", "umm no", "ok $25", "no", "$10", "ok"

    it should be illegal via sentencing the prosecutor to the maximum sentence of the charged crime for charging someone with a crime only to inflate charges.

  7. Re:not game on In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run · · Score: 1

    yes requires the HDD. i moved here after the ps3 generation started so dont know how popular ps2 hdds are. wii u seemed to sell pretty decently. donno how US sales went.

  8. not game on In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run · · Score: 4, Informative

    to be fair FFXI: seekers of adoulin is an expansion to the FFXI game released close to 7 years ago now. it is not a full game and can not be played seperately without buying the original title from 7 years ago.

  9. app store star system on Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books · · Score: 1

    i've seen this in app store reviews a lot. the xkcd jokes are so spot on its ridiculous. People use 1 star to complain about everything. and i mean everything. not only that they see the star system as a kind of tech support line. "didn't work. fix then i'll re-rate" well wth didn't work. i have no clue. you didn't contact support so we could help you. i don't know if its our ADHD society or just the way things are moving. Good reviews are usually 4-5 stars made by people that either had little problems, no problems or communicated with the company the resolve a problem. "downloaded, no issues, great product", "downloaded, but hiccup on install, still a great product." "wouldnt install. contacted support they fixed it up"

    if you are a "free" app in the apple app store people use it to complain about your "price" so i don't put things for free on the apple app store anymore. i want someone who purchased my app to review it. and i mean purchased it. not just downloaded it.

    The google one is even worse. i can purchase the product, immediately return it for a full refund AND leave a review. wth. so if you really really really hate an app have you and your 10-20 friends buy and refund the app and then leave a 1 star review.

    i really wish the star rate would change slightly. 3.75 stars with 80% being above 3 stars tells me a lot more then 3.75 stars

  10. holy f*** there is a slashdot japan? on Japanese Police Charge 2channel Founder Over Forum Posts · · Score: 5, Funny

    shiranakatta!

  11. Re:eBay link on Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 · · Score: 1

    I can help some (not a lot but some). living in Chiba Japan right now. approx. 30 mins from akihabara. the stores there i see with old snes carts dont have boxes but if your looking for a title i wouldnt mind going down there to look for it.

    hit me up at email address. i use gmail with my username.

  12. Re:Hey Guys on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    because movie tickets are incredibly high. 1500 yen approx $20(american) for 1 ticket. plus movie theatres arent are close to you as they are in america. so you often have to pay 500 yen or approx $7 for a train ticket to get there. so yours talking $27 dollars per person to see a movie. wait a while then goto geo (very close and affordable) and rent it for 350 yen for a new release or wait even longer and eventually get it for 100 yen for a weeks rental. rip it with handbrake and makemkv. why would i spend $4 on an itunes rental (or similiar)

    sneaker net still faster then the fastest internet, since forever.

  13. Re:Just... on Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads · · Score: 1

    you know i dont remember in my OS class us talking about stock tickers and news functionality as standard OS functions. virtual memory, file management... yes. new aggregators, cant quite remember that.

  14. Re:-1 Flamebait on Is Microsoft's Price Model For the Surface Justifiable? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I HAVE used it. first comment after getting it was "hey this thing is pretty fast" then as i began to develop for it i notices things. 20gig of the 64 gigs are used for the OS. umm why? the device(s) i have all lose touches, hold on to touches, or at times are generally not responsive to touches. there are 4 buttons on the top or side that seem to do things randomly. i honestly have been using it for a month still dont know what they do. every corner being a non-disable hot corner gets really annoying fast, especially for games, where do you put the buttons? in the middle of the screen where the action is? also there dev panel needs a lot of work, seriously a LOT of work. everytime i need to sign to upload to the store i have to call my manager over since i cant sign directly. he cant give me privledges for signing. wtf. also there are just some things you can NOT do without using the old windows xp/vista/7 interface which on the touch screens is really really freaking annoying, since you dont have the accuracy of a mouse and no right click.

  15. horrible dev panel... on Why Microsoft Shouldn't Copy Apple's iOS Walled Garden · · Score: 1

    wont matter no one will be able to upload there game using the current MS developer panel. constantly times out or "cant read package" on very large size packages. why cant you read the package? did the upload fail? or did i misplace a comma in my text? did the compiler screw up the executable?

  16. Re:Think of the Children! on Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling On College Campuses · · Score: 1

    umm unless education suddenly changed in the US. the avg freshmen in college is 18 years of age. and this too might have changed but last time i was in america the legal age to be considered an adult was 18. so they are no longer children. also why is no one thinking of the professors and campus staff? the "children" spend 4 years there. professors and staff spend their lives there.

  17. finally the war i wanted. on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 5, Interesting

    pixel density. it will be heaven to have clean graphics and now that portables get higher resolutions then desktops, people will start asking why. only thing i ask is more antiglare displays.

  18. purchasing content on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    live in japan so cant get hbo. would buy the dvds but they dont sell them here. would be even more inclined to buy them if they had japanese language and subtitles. but because the show is so interesting to me and i feel its moving too slow for my tastes i have purchased the offical "hbo licensed" books which are just reprints of the normal books. so i guess in a way i'm format shifting which is perfectly legal.

  19. Re:Lion Down on With Mountain Lion's iCloud Integration, Apple Strengthens the Garden Wall · · Score: 1

    that documentation is old and out of date. i routinely have to make new itunes accounts for testing and never have seen this "none" option is the past 6 months. it is either regional (as i live in japan) or they keep that documentation up just to make people think they can create an itunes account without a credit card.

    in fact i just tried that. and following their documenation from itunes 10.6.1 on mac there is no "none" option. i am forced to enter a credit card in order to create an account.

  20. Re:Dont you love... on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 0

    maybe then you will parent up and actually monitor you child's usage. or do what my parents did when i wanted my own (wired) phone. you pay for it yourself. she wants all that data usage without your monitoring, she's gotta pay the $80 herself. man/woman up. and be a parent for once.

  21. i was one of the 20% on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    american but i live in Japan. I would have paid $50 for me and my wife (even though she hates "war" movies and doesnt speak english) to go see this movie in the theater but they didnt want a world wide release. did the same for sherlock holmes 2. so i pre-rented the movie. watched it now. when it comes out on DVD i'll rent it and just not watch it. rentals her cheap here too. approx $1.25 sometimes they have half price weekends too. now if i were a parent i'd be pissed if my kid lost $48.75.

  22. maybe im misunderstanding but. on China Unblocks Sensitive Keywords · · Score: 1

    ok. i RTFS, then had my chinese wife look for taimen (spelling please forgive) and june 6th. on baidu. while i brought up the chinese wiki page for the event. she said the results she got back were nothing in correlation to that event. what am i misunderstanding?

  23. IMHO nothing to do with users. on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    lets see... i have to use eclipse which is god aweful slow, and i still cant figure out how to get functionality to work even after reading the documentation and support forums. i.e. reverting to previous versions of a file. undo buffer is too small.
    i cant debug C++ code at all.
    often the adb manager loses connection with the phone
    often the adb manager wont print out log messages from the phone to eclipse.
    i have to use cygwin (dont mind since i typically install it anyway) but really it seems they couldnt do this without linux/unix.
    i need a new usb driver from every manufactuer in order to use that device with windows.

    thats off the top of my head....

  24. Re:Good Move on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry. Even as a software developer i have stopped hitting the "upgrade" button on all things except for Opera, and Firefox. why? because every release just moves up more into confusing user interfaces, more tracking, or charging for services that were free with previous versions.

    examples:
    biggest one XCode. 3.5 was free 4.0 costs $6.00. granted $6 is nothing. i don't care... but why am i being charged for a product that was free? what is the incentive to upgrade? Well i needed to code and i didn't have XCode 3.5 downloaded anymore (cleared space a while ago) so i paid to get 4.0. OMG is this thing horrible. the installer requires approx 30gig of free space.... the UI is horribly designed making me Apple doesn't know what developers want or need. strangely though as i expect they use XCode exclusively in house.

    Skype. As an old AIM user i like a buddy list window and when i double click friends a new window open up allowing me to chat with them. the new skype doesn't allow me to do that anymore. i click on a friend and the window resizes and shows me buddy details. and when im talking with friends everything is tabbed with no option (that i saw) to make everything window based. so thankfully i had an old copy in downloaded. i deleted the new copy and reinstalled the old and will continue to use the old until the copy no longer allows it to connect to there network.

    Firefox (maybe all browsers soon). i like the address bar. i like a search bar. i like them separated. why are they 1. getting rid of the bar and 2. why did they combine the search and address bar... so i dont use firefox as my main browser anymore. just as a browser for sites that dont work in opera.

    Opera: every release since 10 has only added bloat to the browser. i love opera but i have a hard time lately running opera 11.11 and xcode and the same time on my 4 year old mac. yes my computer is 4 years old. i know i want a new one but i cant afford it right now. what is my incentive to upgrade when they will just add more bloat and not do anything to reduce memory consumption?

    software in the 90's followed the KISS mentality and all was good. you had tons of little executables to do little tasks. can we bring those days back? i dont need 1 app that does everything. i need 1 app that does 1 thing and only 1 thing very well and very cleanly and does it very lightly.

  25. Re:I dunno on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    im surprised they said "i dont know" and turned you away. the apple store i worked out we would say "i dont know lets find out" and download your app and try it to see if it worked.