Sony is doing what all people in power do: - find a scapegoat.
Reminds me of what my boss said, "I will not take the blame for the failure of this board. YOU will." Normally I would agree, but I told you that we should do additional testing to verify it works, but you said 'we don't have time'. LIKEWISE I suspect Sony's employees told them to add additional safety measures, but Sony's managers refused to spend the labor time/cost.
So instead the managers are deflecting blame from themselves to the users.
Bastards.
Easy to believe. Having play Everquest 2, I noticed about 3 years or so ago we lost a "Quality Checker". It really became apparent when, mythical weapons were introduced in the game, and it gave a server wide message that misspelled mythical. (every time someone earn it, it was funny. took them like 2 months to fix a spelling error. 2 fucking months!)
Still quest from 2 expansions ago that the words aren't in there. Crap like that. Stuff that shouldn't of made it out of beta/test server, but did.
Sony reaps what it sows in the name of it's quest for money.
See this is why I don't understand everyone bitching about the American economy being broken. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't... but one thing is for sure. We are using paid employee's to try and compete with a country that essentially uses prisoners to power there economy. Whos confused about why we are losing??
Except we aren't competing. We are shipping all our work over there to get done cheaper.
We are all being tracked, everyday, in one way or another.
We have video cameras everywhere. We carry cellphones, we use the internet from those cellphones, home network, & on the run with a laptop/netbook/tablet. Yes, those tell your location also, based on where you connected at.
Your credit cards? Wow, they keep track of your purchases, been doing that for decades.
Get used to it. It's never going back to how it was, the genie is out of the bottle.
And as tech gets more advanced, they'll find it easier to track us.
If you don't want to be found, don't stay connected.
Don't have a cellphone, don't use the internet, don't use credit cards.
Can't live like that? Then quit your bitching, get used to it. Or god forbid, you actually do something other then cry.
It's not Sony that may have irreparable damage done to them... it's the users.
I play EQ2, in fact, we were supposed to raid today, can't because we can't log in.
I'm pissed at 2 things:
1. That Sony sucks as a company and is pretty much part of the growing corporate problem.
2. That I give them money to play a game i enjoy, EQ2.
Sony got what they deserved. I can deal with downtime, it's like being on strike. I tried to explain this over ventrillo to some guildies, but they only think of themselves.
The problem? I use my debit card for my monthly game fees, so i guess I better get a new card. That's a hassle, but then, i could of just bought monthly game cards, but i wanted the convenience, so that's on me.
Apparently the servers are supposed to be back up today. Not holding my breath.
Guess i can actually go outside now. Maybe this is a good thing.
Someone tried to play a Sony music CD in one of their Windows servers during a maintenance window, and the SBRK (Sony-blessed rootkit) decided it had found some pirate MP3...
That would be funnier if the same joke wasn't reused from the PSN network down story.
"Before the Internet, there was a collection of nets, like Compuserve, Minitel, MSN, and AOL. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request information from any computer out there."
The Internet predates CompuServe, AOL, etc., and wasn't created by linking those walled-garden services together.
Ya, i had to send the writer of the article an email with links pointing out how wrong that statement was.
Don't they have fact checkers anymore? Sad part is, you don't have to read far on the wiki's of those to see how wrong the statement is.
And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this. It took almost 10 years, trillions of dollars, the invasion of two countries (neither of which he was found in), and an untold number of lives lost to find a 6 foot 6 inch multi-millionaire (with diabetes!) living in a private luxury compound (in a well populated city) which was at least eight times larger then anything nearby. I don't think there is too much to celebrate here.
Oh, that's easy. People think this is going to bring change.
Look at their website. It's a company that helps you send mass e-mails while circumventing spam filters. Awesome. I'm so excited about this interesting opportunity to send "e-mail blasts" to everyone who's ever been foolish enough to leave an address with me, I just wish they had an hour and a half long "webcast" I could watch.
Thanks Slashdot! Without you, I never would have guessed that a former casino scammer (not that there's anything wrong with that) would look to make his next fortune in the spam, er, electronic campaign management business!
hmm, a scammer turns spammer.
Here here with bin laden dead, I thought the world was a better place.
Here in Seattle, I'm getting 25/25 mbit internet & telephone over fiber without caps for about $100.:)
Sure, our internet isn't as good as yours.. and our skiing isn't as good as yours.. and we can't get lutefisk except at christmastime.. but I'm sure there must be some reason that I live here instead of Norway, just let me think about it some longer.
Dang, and here in Seattle I'm stuck with DSL at 6mbps/75kup, or Cable (who cares speed, comcast sucks) for $65.
The sad part is? I'm right pretty much downtown. But do i get fiber optics even though I (and everyone else) paid for it in the 90's? Oh hell no.
Maybe if Communism actually worked I'd consider doing something like this.
It is my personal observation that Communism works well in a small group, like a tribe. More than a few hundred people and you need a tyrant.
Communism doesn't work currently because not everyone works in the government. Since only some peeps work in the government, and does it full time, it makes it ripe for bribery and other crappy shit. Because when you leave the power in the hands of the few, it's corrupts them and they have to hold on to the power.
What you need is everyone has to work for the goverment, like half the work week. No one gets a position for longer then, lets say, 5 years. Everyone does their part. No one person or group is in charge. Everyone is accountable to someone else. Every office is accountable to another office, everything is open for people to inspect.
If everyone shares the responsibilty and keeps each other in check, you can have a successful communism or socialist country. We just haven't had any country do it like that yet.
Tell all of this to the guy who had his door kicked down and assault rifles put to his head after a wardriver used his open access point for distributing child porn.
Dude was a victim. He didn't break any laws. Did the police overreact? Yes. Something they do alot. This case isn't anything new, cops have been busting doors down and point guns at the wrong sort of crimes for decades. Shit, it's all they know. It's how they are trained.
Dude needs to sue for emotional/mental damages. There was no reason for the cops to bust in like that, even if he was the guilty party, but seeing as he wasn't, all the more reason to sue.
Get the city defending a few lawsuits like this, they might start thinking different on how they bust doors of some suspects.
I do pay for my own services. And if my neighbor is too cheap to pay for theirs, I don't care. Let them have at it.
Whats all this talk of 'leeching'? Who really cares? I don't need to hoard the portion of my monthly bandwidth allotment that I never use. If I've got it, someone should be using it.
I have a neighbor, nice lady, has a nice kid. I noticed she'd take her laptop to the lobby of our building to get wifi access (some hotel was in range that had free access). So I told her she can use my wifi and gave her access.
Why? Because she is a mom, and shouldn't be leaving her little kid (probably 4-5 years old) upstairs by herself. Of course, I don't know that the kid is by herself, I'm not going to ask. But shit, she's not using much bandwidth and I told her no streaming of movies, or downloading large files.
If i didn't have crappy DSL, i would probably make a guest connection for others that can access it. Ya, I'd limit the bandwidth, so it was just good for maybe email & web browsing. Why? Because not everyone can afford to pay $65 a month for internet. And yes, that is what it cost in Seattle, if you go with cable or DSL. I could probably get a cheaper DSL connection, but ti's speeds are slow enough as is. As it is, I pay for internet, share it with my neighbor (different neighbor, he has a 1000mbit ethernet connection to it), and he pays for cable tv, and shares it with me.
Sorry, Internet is way overpriced, and service is crappy, and not everyone can afford it. Maybe i'm a fucktard socialist, but I think everyone should have access to internet.
These companies don't want to compete against their own products (released to open source). They'd rather make these products disappear forever, and force customers to buy the newest gadgets.
Basically it's the same strategy Microsoft follows when it refuses to open source Windows 3 or 95 or XP.
Which is funny, seeing as a company like id would release the source code of their earlier games and it wouldn't cut into any problems with sales of their new games.
I find it odd that people don't complain about the government saying you must have auto insurance if you want to drive a car, but they do complain if the government says you must have health insurance if you want medical treatment. In either case, if you are uninsured, your actions have an impact on the rest of those who are insured.
You miss the point. You do NOT have to drive. You can take the bus, etc. If you decided you must drive, you are required to get insurance, in case of any accidents. That is a good thing.
With medical stuff, we didn't get a choice to live, we were born. We should be entitle to health care no matter what our financial situation is. Saying you get get health care because you don't have insurance is bullshit. Everyone should be entitled to health care no matter what.
Look, Sony purposely setup the Dev's network like they did.
They also knew when someone reverse engineered the USB debug util, that all bets were off. That it wouldn't take someone long to figure out how to make it seem like they have a Dev. machine.
They also knew that making it so only certain firmwares can connect to the PSN, that the hackers will try to figure a way around it.
Did they decide to change how they do the Dev Network, to keep it and PSN safe? No, they decided to sue everyone and anyone that talked about hacking the PS3.
We call that denial.
Sony got what it deserved. Sorry that it affected it's customers, but then, you had been warned what type of company Sony is, and their incompetence proved dangerous this time.
Sony never, ever cared about it's customers. It only cares about money. Sorry it took something like this to wake you up, but hey, at least Sony told you right away. err, i mean, a week later.
See what I mean? They don't give a fuck about you.
As a previously happy PS3 user, I'm infuriated at their shoddy handling of this whole thing. The delay in notifying customers was inexcusable, and I still don't understand how passwords could have been compromised... I refuse to believe that even Sony would have stored them in plaintext. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they were stored in hashes but Sony is concerned that the hashed passwords are subject to brute force attacks. I spent a good chunk of last night changing all my online passwords that were the same as the one used in my PS3 account, and that meant dozens of accounts. (Thank goodness none of them were bank-related.) I guess that I should have moved to a system of unique passwords for each site before, and this finally forced me to do it.
I am struggling to find a bright spot anywhere in this, but if I were to find one it would be that Sony must understand how badly they have pooched this situation. I would expect some serious mea culpas and free crap out of them (like free PlayStation Plus for a year or something) out of this. I don't know whether I actually want that, but it should be interesting to watch them grovel for my online trust and/or business back.
Too bad it took something bad happening to open your eyes. Peeps been telling you how fuck up sony is for a long time, but in your fanboyism outlook, you thought we were talking shit.
Sorry you had to find out this way, but think of it like this.
Whomever stole your info, had a whole week to do shit before you found out.
Realism time - at first App Store seems generic. But when, before the Apple "App Store" launched, did anyone ever use the term "app" outside of a restaurant?
That's the key thing. The slang if you will, is something Apple developed. Like Kleenex or Windows it sounds generic, but that's because it's so widely used now that you think of it as generic when the term really originated with Apple.
So I don't think it's that silly a suit at all, though I don't care who wins it. I just think there's more of a point to it than most here would credit.
yes, I've been using the term "app" for applications since my Amiga days, early 90's. I'd store all my Applications in the App directory.
In fact, I still do. You'll find all non OS, non Driver, non Games, and whatever i left out in my/store/apps directory, and in all my dvd backups, you'll find the same thing.
And I got this breakdown from probably aminet or some of the file archives on the internet before the app store was around, early 90's.
That article will become invalid once the PS3 Network Hack is completely revealed.
You mean why the PSN is currently down? It seems, Sony, in it's infalliable wisdom, decided that since they PS3 could NOT get hacked, they made it so they didn't check CC# on the dev network. Apparently they made it so you could make Sony think your machine was a dev machine, and once on the dev network, they discovered other stuff, like Sony doesn't check CC#, they assume because you are on their network, you belong there.
It's like leaving your keys in the car, locking the doors, but leaving a window open. And of course, you didn't noticed the window open until peeps were joyriding in your car, and stealing your CD's.
Or, it's like having a cellphone that can pay your bills, turn your car on, etc, and you leave it somewhere. oh, and you don't password protect the cell phone.
Sorry, the car example is wrong. Instead of a window down, it's like having a side window that doesn't lock, and you know the keys are in the car, but figured eveyone else will think it's locked since they shouldn't know about the broken lock on the window.
That article will become invalid once the PS3 Network Hack is completely revealed.
You mean why the PSN is currently down? It seems, Sony, in it's infalliable wisdom, decided that since they PS3 could NOT get hacked, they made it so they didn't check CC# on the dev network. Apparently they made it so you could make Sony think your machine was a dev machine, and once on the dev network, they discovered other stuff, like Sony doesn't check CC#, they assume because you are on their network, you belong there.
It's like leaving your keys in the car, locking the doors, but leaving a window open. And of course, you didn't noticed the window open until peeps were joyriding in your car, and stealing your CD's.
Or, it's like having a cellphone that can pay your bills, turn your car on, etc, and you leave it somewhere. oh, and you don't password protect the cell phone.
I have a Nvidia 3D Vision. I use it mostly for gaming. Everyone that I let try it on games, wants one. The reason for that?
Simple, it's not a gimmick. Sure, 3D movies are just so-so. That's because the 3D in movies don't really add depth to the movie. But in games? Hell ya. Blades of grass become real. Stiching and straps on a back pack in Bad Company 2 stick out like it's real. It adds to the immersiveness part of the game.
Only drawback is it being darker then normal, and having to adjust for that. But it's a small price to pay for the games that do well with the 3D Vision. Of course, not all games do.
Is it for everyone? No. Is it a gimmick? No. (and for those with attention spans shorter then mine, i'm referring to 3D gaming, not movies)
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Sony is doing what all people in power do:
- find a scapegoat.
Reminds me of what my boss said, "I will not take the blame for the failure of this board. YOU will." Normally I would agree, but I told you that we should do additional testing to verify it works, but you said 'we don't have time'. LIKEWISE I suspect Sony's employees told them to add additional safety measures, but Sony's managers refused to spend the labor time/cost.
So instead the managers are deflecting blame from themselves to the users.
Bastards.
Easy to believe. Having play Everquest 2, I noticed about 3 years or so ago we lost a "Quality Checker". It really became apparent when, mythical weapons were introduced in the game, and it gave a server wide message that misspelled mythical. (every time someone earn it, it was funny. took them like 2 months to fix a spelling error. 2 fucking months!)
Still quest from 2 expansions ago that the words aren't in there. Crap like that. Stuff that shouldn't of made it out of beta/test server, but did.
Sony reaps what it sows in the name of it's quest for money.
See this is why I don't understand everyone bitching about the American economy being broken. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't... but one thing is for sure. We are using paid employee's to try and compete with a country that essentially uses prisoners to power there economy. Whos confused about why we are losing??
Except we aren't competing. We are shipping all our work over there to get done cheaper.
This is capitalism, in it's finest.
Trial is taking place in Raleigh. Not anywhere close to Charlotte. Although I'm sure some non-NC people think that Charlotte is the only city in NC.
No, us non-NC people don't care.
this mandatory "give phone makers your location all the time" thing has got to be put down.
If the cell companies didn't track you, how would you get your calls? How would you be able to call?
Ya, oddly enough, the same thing that connects you to their services tracks you. That's how you receive calls, and how you get a signal to call out.
What is wrong with people? This is how technology works. Don't like it? Quit using cellphones.
I miss the pre-internet days, when I just thought the people around me were stupid. Now i know most everyone in the world is.
We are all being tracked, everyday, in one way or another.
We have video cameras everywhere. We carry cellphones, we use the internet from those cellphones, home network, & on the run with a laptop/netbook/tablet. Yes, those tell your location also, based on where you connected at.
Your credit cards? Wow, they keep track of your purchases, been doing that for decades.
Get used to it. It's never going back to how it was, the genie is out of the bottle.
And as tech gets more advanced, they'll find it easier to track us.
If you don't want to be found, don't stay connected.
Don't have a cellphone, don't use the internet, don't use credit cards.
Can't live like that? Then quit your bitching, get used to it. Or god forbid, you actually do something other then cry.
Bin Laden causes turmoil for the public!!!
Guess maybe you don't really die once you hit celebrity status.
Or is that if you get digitized on the interwebs?
Dang it, TSA better start groping my email for terrorist, or something.
It's not Sony that may have irreparable damage done to them... it's the users.
I play EQ2, in fact, we were supposed to raid today, can't because we can't log in.
I'm pissed at 2 things:
1. That Sony sucks as a company and is pretty much part of the growing corporate problem.
2. That I give them money to play a game i enjoy, EQ2.
Sony got what they deserved. I can deal with downtime, it's like being on strike. I tried to explain this over ventrillo to some guildies, but they only think of themselves.
The problem? I use my debit card for my monthly game fees, so i guess I better get a new card. That's a hassle, but then, i could of just bought monthly game cards, but i wanted the convenience, so that's on me.
Apparently the servers are supposed to be back up today. Not holding my breath.
Guess i can actually go outside now. Maybe this is a good thing.
Someone tried to play a Sony music CD in one of their Windows servers during a maintenance window, and the SBRK (Sony-blessed rootkit) decided it had found some pirate MP3...
That would be funnier if the same joke wasn't reused from the PSN network down story.
"Before the Internet, there was a collection of nets, like Compuserve, Minitel, MSN, and AOL. Then the 'Inter' prefix was added by linking these nets altogether, and everyone was given the freedom to request information from any computer out there."
The Internet predates CompuServe, AOL, etc., and wasn't created by linking those walled-garden services together.
Ya, i had to send the writer of the article an email with links pointing out how wrong that statement was.
Don't they have fact checkers anymore? Sad part is, you don't have to read far on the wiki's of those to see how wrong the statement is.
So why did we invade and occupy Iraq and Afghanistan? It seems to me that all we needed were a good investigation and a team of crack Navy Seals.
Can we stop killing people now?
The Corporate Overlords will let you know when it's time to stop killing people.
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And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this. It took almost 10 years, trillions of dollars, the invasion of two countries (neither of which he was found in), and an untold number of lives lost to find a 6 foot 6 inch multi-millionaire (with diabetes!) living in a private luxury compound (in a well populated city) which was at least eight times larger then anything nearby. I don't think there is too much to celebrate here.
Oh, that's easy. People think this is going to bring change.
Look at their website. It's a company that helps you send mass e-mails while circumventing spam filters. Awesome. I'm so excited about this interesting opportunity to send "e-mail blasts" to everyone who's ever been foolish enough to leave an address with me, I just wish they had an hour and a half long "webcast" I could watch.
Thanks Slashdot! Without you, I never would have guessed that a former casino scammer (not that there's anything wrong with that) would look to make his next fortune in the spam, er, electronic campaign management business!
hmm, a scammer turns spammer.
Here here with bin laden dead, I thought the world was a better place.
In Soviet Slashdot, articles are posts dupes of you!
Here in Seattle, I'm getting 25/25 mbit internet & telephone over fiber without caps for about $100. :)
Sure, our internet isn't as good as yours.. and our skiing isn't as good as yours.. and we can't get lutefisk except at christmastime.. but I'm sure there must be some reason that I live here instead of Norway, just let me think about it some longer.
Dang, and here in Seattle I'm stuck with DSL at 6mbps/75kup, or Cable (who cares speed, comcast sucks) for $65.
The sad part is? I'm right pretty much downtown. But do i get fiber optics even though I (and everyone else) paid for it in the 90's? Oh hell no.
I hate you. (not really, just pipe envy)
Maybe if Communism actually worked I'd consider doing something like this.
It is my personal observation that Communism works well in a small group, like a tribe. More than a few hundred people and you need a tyrant.
Communism doesn't work currently because not everyone works in the government. Since only some peeps work in the government, and does it full time, it makes it ripe for bribery and other crappy shit. Because when you leave the power in the hands of the few, it's corrupts them and they have to hold on to the power.
What you need is everyone has to work for the goverment, like half the work week. No one gets a position for longer then, lets say, 5 years. Everyone does their part. No one person or group is in charge. Everyone is accountable to someone else. Every office is accountable to another office, everything is open for people to inspect.
If everyone shares the responsibilty and keeps each other in check, you can have a successful communism or socialist country. We just haven't had any country do it like that yet.
Tell all of this to the guy who had his door kicked down and assault rifles put to his head after a wardriver used his open access point for distributing child porn.
Dude was a victim. He didn't break any laws. Did the police overreact? Yes. Something they do alot. This case isn't anything new, cops have been busting doors down and point guns at the wrong sort of crimes for decades. Shit, it's all they know. It's how they are trained.
Dude needs to sue for emotional/mental damages. There was no reason for the cops to bust in like that, even if he was the guilty party, but seeing as he wasn't, all the more reason to sue.
Get the city defending a few lawsuits like this, they might start thinking different on how they bust doors of some suspects.
I do pay for my own services. And if my neighbor is too cheap to pay for theirs, I don't care. Let them have at it.
Whats all this talk of 'leeching'? Who really cares? I don't need to hoard the portion of my monthly bandwidth allotment that I never use. If I've got it, someone should be using it.
I have a neighbor, nice lady, has a nice kid. I noticed she'd take her laptop to the lobby of our building to get wifi access (some hotel was in range that had free access). So I told her she can use my wifi and gave her access.
Why? Because she is a mom, and shouldn't be leaving her little kid (probably 4-5 years old) upstairs by herself. Of course, I don't know that the kid is by herself, I'm not going to ask. But shit, she's not using much bandwidth and I told her no streaming of movies, or downloading large files.
If i didn't have crappy DSL, i would probably make a guest connection for others that can access it. Ya, I'd limit the bandwidth, so it was just good for maybe email & web browsing. Why? Because not everyone can afford to pay $65 a month for internet. And yes, that is what it cost in Seattle, if you go with cable or DSL. I could probably get a cheaper DSL connection, but ti's speeds are slow enough as is. As it is, I pay for internet, share it with my neighbor (different neighbor, he has a 1000mbit ethernet connection to it), and he pays for cable tv, and shares it with me.
Sorry, Internet is way overpriced, and service is crappy, and not everyone can afford it. Maybe i'm a fucktard socialist, but I think everyone should have access to internet.
These companies don't want to compete against their own products (released to open source). They'd rather make these products disappear forever, and force customers to buy the newest gadgets.
Basically it's the same strategy Microsoft follows when it refuses to open source Windows 3 or 95 or XP.
Which is funny, seeing as a company like id would release the source code of their earlier games and it wouldn't cut into any problems with sales of their new games.
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I find it odd that people don't complain about the government saying you must have auto insurance if you want to drive a car, but they do complain if the government says you must have health insurance if you want medical treatment. In either case, if you are uninsured, your actions have an impact on the rest of those who are insured.
You miss the point. You do NOT have to drive. You can take the bus, etc. If you decided you must drive, you are required to get insurance, in case of any accidents. That is a good thing.
With medical stuff, we didn't get a choice to live, we were born. We should be entitle to health care no matter what our financial situation is. Saying you get get health care because you don't have insurance is bullshit. Everyone should be entitled to health care no matter what.
Look, Sony purposely setup the Dev's network like they did.
They also knew when someone reverse engineered the USB debug util, that all bets were off. That it wouldn't take someone long to figure out how to make it seem like they have a Dev. machine.
They also knew that making it so only certain firmwares can connect to the PSN, that the hackers will try to figure a way around it.
Did they decide to change how they do the Dev Network, to keep it and PSN safe?
No, they decided to sue everyone and anyone that talked about hacking the PS3.
We call that denial.
Sony got what it deserved. Sorry that it affected it's customers, but then, you had been warned what type of company Sony is, and their incompetence proved dangerous this time.
Sony never, ever cared about it's customers. It only cares about money. Sorry it took something like this to wake you up, but hey, at least Sony told you right away. err, i mean, a week later.
See what I mean? They don't give a fuck about you.
As a previously happy PS3 user, I'm infuriated at their shoddy handling of this whole thing. The delay in notifying customers was inexcusable, and I still don't understand how passwords could have been compromised... I refuse to believe that even Sony would have stored them in plaintext. The only thing that makes sense to me is that they were stored in hashes but Sony is concerned that the hashed passwords are subject to brute force attacks. I spent a good chunk of last night changing all my online passwords that were the same as the one used in my PS3 account, and that meant dozens of accounts. (Thank goodness none of them were bank-related.) I guess that I should have moved to a system of unique passwords for each site before, and this finally forced me to do it.
I am struggling to find a bright spot anywhere in this, but if I were to find one it would be that Sony must understand how badly they have pooched this situation. I would expect some serious mea culpas and free crap out of them (like free PlayStation Plus for a year or something) out of this. I don't know whether I actually want that, but it should be interesting to watch them grovel for my online trust and/or business back.
Too bad it took something bad happening to open your eyes. Peeps been telling you how fuck up sony is for a long time, but in your fanboyism outlook, you thought we were talking shit.
Sorry you had to find out this way, but think of it like this.
Whomever stole your info, had a whole week to do shit before you found out.
Realism time - at first App Store seems generic. But when, before the Apple "App Store" launched, did anyone ever use the term "app" outside of a restaurant?
That's the key thing. The slang if you will, is something Apple developed. Like Kleenex or Windows it sounds generic, but that's because it's so widely used now that you think of it as generic when the term really originated with Apple.
So I don't think it's that silly a suit at all, though I don't care who wins it. I just think there's more of a point to it than most here would credit.
yes, I've been using the term "app" for applications since my Amiga days, early 90's. I'd store all my Applications in the App directory.
In fact, I still do. You'll find all non OS, non Driver, non Games, and whatever i left out in my /store/apps directory, and in all my dvd backups, you'll find the same thing.
And I got this breakdown from probably aminet or some of the file archives on the internet before the app store was around, early 90's.
That article will become invalid once the PS3 Network Hack is completely revealed.
You mean why the PSN is currently down? It seems, Sony, in it's infalliable wisdom, decided that since they PS3 could NOT get hacked, they made it so they didn't check CC# on the dev network. Apparently they made it so you could make Sony think your machine was a dev machine, and once on the dev network, they discovered other stuff, like Sony doesn't check CC#, they assume because you are on their network, you belong there.
It's like leaving your keys in the car, locking the doors, but leaving a window open. And of course, you didn't noticed the window open until peeps were joyriding in your car, and stealing your CD's.
Or, it's like having a cellphone that can pay your bills, turn your car on, etc, and you leave it somewhere. oh, and you don't password protect the cell phone.
Sorry, the car example is wrong. Instead of a window down, it's like having a side window that doesn't lock, and you know the keys are in the car, but figured eveyone else will think it's locked since they shouldn't know about the broken lock on the window.
That article will become invalid once the PS3 Network Hack is completely revealed.
You mean why the PSN is currently down? It seems, Sony, in it's infalliable wisdom, decided that since they PS3 could NOT get hacked, they made it so they didn't check CC# on the dev network. Apparently they made it so you could make Sony think your machine was a dev machine, and once on the dev network, they discovered other stuff, like Sony doesn't check CC#, they assume because you are on their network, you belong there.
It's like leaving your keys in the car, locking the doors, but leaving a window open. And of course, you didn't noticed the window open until peeps were joyriding in your car, and stealing your CD's.
Or, it's like having a cellphone that can pay your bills, turn your car on, etc, and you leave it somewhere. oh, and you don't password protect the cell phone.
I have a Nvidia 3D Vision. I use it mostly for gaming. Everyone that I let try it on games, wants one. The reason for that?
Simple, it's not a gimmick. Sure, 3D movies are just so-so. That's because the 3D in movies don't really add depth to the movie. But in games? Hell ya. Blades of grass become real. Stiching and straps on a back pack in Bad Company 2 stick out like it's real. It adds to the immersiveness part of the game.
Only drawback is it being darker then normal, and having to adjust for that. But it's a small price to pay for the games that do well with the 3D Vision. Of course, not all games do.
Is it for everyone? No. Is it a gimmick? No. (and for those with attention spans shorter then mine, i'm referring to 3D gaming, not movies)