I purchased 1984 on my Kindle back in March, and I always leave wireless turned off except for when I want to purchase another book. As ErikZ mentioned, it extends the battery life for weeks. I fully expected 1984 to be deleted from my Kindle once I turned wireless back on and purchased another book, but it's still there (I reopened it to make sure it was still readable as well), and I received a refund for the purchase as well. The book is also still there on my iPhone Kindle app. So maybe leaving your wireless turned off can prevent Amazon from remotely deleting your purchases? Doesn't seem likely that they would have left that kind of hole in their kill switch, but it did the trick this time.
I would be very interested to see what the creative minds at Nintendo could do with this technology, once it has advanced to a mass consumption level. This could add an interesting element to all games certainly, but games like Brain Age come immediately to mind.
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It's been explained before in previous Slashdot articles, but here it is again. The word "boxen" comes from a Brian Regan stand-up comedy bit on his Live CD.
Sure all he could do was turn right and pick up beepers, but the brilliant programmer could make him turn left by turning right 3 times. This was day 1 of Intro to Computer Science in high school (for those of us that didn't start programming in the womb).
Way to support a bad product by paying $50 for it. The author "gave these asses FIFTY dollars" and THEN "went to look at the reviews for the game and saw that it was averaging a 4/10". I almost never buy a game without checking out at least one or two online reviews to see if it's worth my money or not. Had he done the same, I'm guessing he wouldn't have bought it. Even if the game got good reviews, he would have found out that it relies heavily on cinematics, and would've at least second guessed the purchase. If he bought it anyway.. well, he was warned.
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I purchased 1984 on my Kindle back in March, and I always leave wireless turned off except for when I want to purchase another book. As ErikZ mentioned, it extends the battery life for weeks. I fully expected 1984 to be deleted from my Kindle once I turned wireless back on and purchased another book, but it's still there (I reopened it to make sure it was still readable as well), and I received a refund for the purchase as well. The book is also still there on my iPhone Kindle app. So maybe leaving your wireless turned off can prevent Amazon from remotely deleting your purchases? Doesn't seem likely that they would have left that kind of hole in their kill switch, but it did the trick this time.
I would be very interested to see what the creative minds at Nintendo could do with this technology, once it has advanced to a mass consumption level. This could add an interesting element to all games certainly, but games like Brain Age come immediately to mind.
It's been explained before in previous Slashdot articles, but here it is again. The word "boxen" comes from a Brian Regan stand-up comedy bit on his Live CD.
I'm thinking Isaiah "I am Error" Johnson might have been more appropriate.
Whoops got my article comments mixed up. Stupid back button.
Sure all he could do was turn right and pick up beepers, but the brilliant programmer could make him turn left by turning right 3 times. This was day 1 of Intro to Computer Science in high school (for those of us that didn't start programming in the womb).
Way to support a bad product by paying $50 for it. The author "gave these asses FIFTY dollars" and THEN "went to look at the reviews for the game and saw that it was averaging a 4/10". I almost never buy a game without checking out at least one or two online reviews to see if it's worth my money or not. Had he done the same, I'm guessing he wouldn't have bought it. Even if the game got good reviews, he would have found out that it relies heavily on cinematics, and would've at least second guessed the purchase. If he bought it anyway.. well, he was warned.