Sony is saying that this is a voluntary effort to cooperate with Japanese authorities, as they are not actually legally obliged to wait for permission to restart their services in Asia.
However, it's worth pointing out that in Japan it is common to allow companies and individuals to take "voluntary" actions to save face or prevent a public appearance of contention. There is also generally a greater public expectation of privacy amongst the Japanese, so their regulators are more less amused with Sony than American authorities.
I live in Japan and have been following this news all day. The info in the headline and summary about the the reactors is complete incorrect. As to what has actually been happening:
First, the linked article is from 7 hours ago and is referring to the second explosion at Fukushima Daiichi of Reactor #3. The current situation as of 8PM Japan time was that the cooling system of Reactor #2 finally died and they just recently started filling it with seawater like the other reactors. This reactor is likely to cause another hydrogen explosion like the other two failed reactors before it. Also like the other reactors, this one may have suffered from some partial melting of its fuel rods.
Secondly, the article implies that thousands have died as a result of the problems at the Fukushima reactors. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! There have been reports of non-serious injuries and VERY mild radiation contamination but nothing that warrants any kind of panic yet.
Slashdot editors, please rewrite or delete this article, it is just spreading misinformation!
Crash dumps sent to Microsoft can contain memory used by the Windows process that was hosed by the virus writer, which could very well include whatever machine code was injected in to the process's memory or the invalid input that caused the crash . No phoning home via Visual Studio is required (amazing FUD with your speculation there, by the way,) the nature of the attack means the code/data is going to be exactly in the place it needs to be for MS to get at it without doing anything nefarious.
This is actually a totally understandable response to the flawed user profile/content ownership system on the PS3. Really the only thing that surprises me is that it took this long to happen!
Basically, on the 360 permissions work out such that your purchased content can be used by you or any other user on the console it was originally bought from and roams with you, but can only be used by you on other consoles. This means I can play SomeGame X with my friend at his home, but he can't play it once my account is gone.
As I understand it The PS3 ownership model doesn't seem to really do anything at all, so as another poster mentioned you can basically share PSN Games and DLC with abandon.
This didn't need to happen this way but somebody skimped on the planning stages for this whole downloadable content thing and left the door wide open to abuse. I'd love to see a way to digitally transfer ownership legitimately, but that is an argument for another day.
I think it's worth pointing that Winni is used almost exclusively by the Japanese, and the total population of Japan is still under 130 million people. The 200 million users figure put forth by the BBC is a bad guess at best, and completely made up at worst. I honestly expected better from the BBS, but why should factual reporting get in the way of writing a sensational story?
...games were more picturebook than cinema. One of my strong motivators for learning to read earlier than my peers was wanting to play text-heavy NES games like Dragon Warrior, Xexyz or Faxanadu.
Perhaps in this age of of movie-like games we should start our kids off playing text adventures...
Did you perhaps neglect to click on the thumbnail in the article? Or even click the second link the summary? The 6480 x 4239 full resolution image is readily available as a JPEG and a TIFF.
Because of improperly implemented ad or site statistics scripts. I cannot even begin to count how many times I have thought a site was being served up slow due to network congestion only to see "waiting for doubleclick/google/etc" in the status bar...
Quite nice, it actually tends to be a bit easier on the system than the Compiz(or whatever the hell it's called now) effects on my Linux installation, but it is arguably doing less work.
Did anyone else notice the little iframe in the bugmenot page? That links back to the ttuttle.com site the original blog post is on? According to Chrome's nifty element inspector it's pointing back to http://www.ttuttle.net/396jdw.php, though it's obviously slashdotted by now so I have no idea what it's supposed to do or if that address is unique.
Chrome works just fine for me on Vista64 and integrates very slickly with Aero Glass. If you look at the build requirements it lists the Vista SDK, so frankly I'd be pretty amused if it didn't work on on Vista.
It looks to me like the out-of-context excerpts here all pertain to your use of Google's services with Chrome. All of these services state that you agree to let Google use the data you generate so I perhaps these clauses are present in Chrome's EULA to cover your use of their apps in Gears?
Like most Legend of Zelda games before it, the story of this game has nothing to do with the previous Zelda titles. There are some neat revisions or upgrades to items from the previous games, but their use is always explained. There are only passing references to the stories/situations of previous Zelda titles, so you will not be left in the dark there either.
You can input your credit card info to the Wii Shop, or input the code from the back of the points card to get wii points. 1 Wii point = 1 cent, which means Mario 64 is $10, SNES/Genesis/Turbo Gfx games are $6-8 and NES games are $5(!?)
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Sony is saying that this is a voluntary effort to cooperate with Japanese authorities, as they are not actually legally obliged to wait for permission to restart their services in Asia.
However, it's worth pointing out that in Japan it is common to allow companies and individuals to take "voluntary" actions to save face or prevent a public appearance of contention. There is also generally a greater public expectation of privacy amongst the Japanese, so their regulators are more less amused with Sony than American authorities.
Make of Sony's voluntary claims what you will.
I live in Japan and have been following this news all day. The info in the headline and summary about the the reactors is complete incorrect. As to what has actually been happening:
First, the linked article is from 7 hours ago and is referring to the second explosion at Fukushima Daiichi of Reactor #3. The current situation as of 8PM Japan time was that the cooling system of Reactor #2 finally died and they just recently started filling it with seawater like the other reactors. This reactor is likely to cause another hydrogen explosion like the other two failed reactors before it. Also like the other reactors, this one may have suffered from some partial melting of its fuel rods.
Secondly, the article implies that thousands have died as a result of the problems at the Fukushima reactors. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! There have been reports of non-serious injuries and VERY mild radiation contamination but nothing that warrants any kind of panic yet.
Slashdot editors, please rewrite or delete this article, it is just spreading misinformation!
Crash dumps sent to Microsoft can contain memory used by the Windows process that was hosed by the virus writer, which could very well include whatever machine code was injected in to the process's memory or the invalid input that caused the crash . No phoning home via Visual Studio is required (amazing FUD with your speculation there, by the way,) the nature of the attack means the code/data is going to be exactly in the place it needs to be for MS to get at it without doing anything nefarious.
This is actually a totally understandable response to the flawed user profile/content ownership system on the PS3. Really the only thing that surprises me is that it took this long to happen!
Basically, on the 360 permissions work out such that your purchased content can be used by you or any other user on the console it was originally bought from and roams with you, but can only be used by you on other consoles. This means I can play SomeGame X with my friend at his home, but he can't play it once my account is gone.
As I understand it The PS3 ownership model doesn't seem to really do anything at all, so as another poster mentioned you can basically share PSN Games and DLC with abandon.
This didn't need to happen this way but somebody skimped on the planning stages for this whole downloadable content thing and left the door wide open to abuse. I'd love to see a way to digitally transfer ownership legitimately, but that is an argument for another day.
I think it's worth pointing that Winni is used almost exclusively by the Japanese, and the total population of Japan is still under 130 million people. The 200 million users figure put forth by the BBC is a bad guess at best, and completely made up at worst. I honestly expected better from the BBS, but why should factual reporting get in the way of writing a sensational story?
...games were more picturebook than cinema. One of my strong motivators for learning to read earlier than my peers was wanting to play text-heavy NES games like Dragon Warrior, Xexyz or Faxanadu.
Perhaps in this age of of movie-like games we should start our kids off playing text adventures...
I honestly can't help but wonder if this will eventually be used as an excuse to hike insurance/worker's comp rates for desk jockeys...
Congratulations, you posted in the wrong article. Pity you didn't accidentally post as AC.
Did you perhaps neglect to click on the thumbnail in the article? Or even click the second link the summary? The 6480 x 4239 full resolution image is readily available as a JPEG and a TIFF.
Except that if they used Newtons nobody who was not a scientist or engineer would understand what the article was talking about...
Because of improperly implemented ad or site statistics scripts. I cannot even begin to count how many times I have thought a site was being served up slow due to network congestion only to see "waiting for doubleclick/google/etc" in the status bar...
Quite nice, it actually tends to be a bit easier on the system than the Compiz(or whatever the hell it's called now) effects on my Linux installation, but it is arguably doing less work.
Also nice troll.
Brilliant! Though, judging by the page in that IFrame being down by the time I got to it, I imagine that that fellow got more than he bargained for.
Did anyone else notice the little iframe in the bugmenot page? That links back to the ttuttle.com site the original blog post is on? According to Chrome's nifty element inspector it's pointing back to http://www.ttuttle.net/396jdw.php, though it's obviously slashdotted by now so I have no idea what it's supposed to do or if that address is unique.
Chrome works just fine for me on Vista64 and integrates very slickly with Aero Glass. If you look at the build requirements it lists the Vista SDK, so frankly I'd be pretty amused if it didn't work on on Vista.
It looks to me like the out-of-context excerpts here all pertain to your use of Google's services with Chrome. All of these services state that you agree to let Google use the data you generate so I perhaps these clauses are present in Chrome's EULA to cover your use of their apps in Gears?
plans = plants. 'Should teach me to post at 1am!
You are kind of on the right track, but I believe that you are confusing midori (ç') with another Japanese word, aoi (é'ã)
/. cocks up the encoding on the Japanese characters, at least I tried!)
Aoi is an adjective that is usually translated in English as "blue", but, as you suggested, it can also refer to the color green.
Midori is actually a noun that, while it used today to refer to the color green, can also refer to plans (i.e. greenery.) Hope that clears things up.
(P.S. Sorry if
Seriously, the fact that MS doesn't provide something like this for all Windows XP customers is bordering on criminal in my mind.
Welcome to the USA, where it is MM/DD/YYYY
Wii can handle Unreal Engine 2, so imagine it could handle (a somewhat reduced?) Source engine.
Where did this story come from? 2005?
Like most Legend of Zelda games before it, the story of this game has nothing to do with the previous Zelda titles. There are some neat revisions or upgrades to items from the previous games, but their use is always explained. There are only passing references to the stories/situations of previous Zelda titles, so you will not be left in the dark there either.
You can input your credit card info to the Wii Shop, or input the code from the back of the points card to get wii points. 1 Wii point = 1 cent, which means Mario 64 is $10, SNES/Genesis/Turbo Gfx games are $6-8 and NES games are $5(!?)
This guy is just angry that he is bad at the video games