DS Web Browser in June 89
Eurogamer reports that the Opera DS Browser will be available in June, though so far only in Japan. From the article: "In fit-to-width mode, Opera uses both screens for scrolling up or down a page with both screens completing the view. In DS mode, an overview of the Web page is displayed on the lower screen and a pink square can be moved around an area of the page. The area you have selected is shown on the upper screen."
Two Questions (Score:1)
2. When are we going to see the first sensationalist news article about rabid child molesters preying on kids with Nintendos?
Re:Two Questions (Score:3, Funny)
Probably the Opera team started playing Mario Kart DS when the devkits arrived, instead of actually working.
2. When are we going to see the first sensationalist news article about rabid child molesters preying on kids with Nintendos?
A couple of months ago there was one. Pedophiles could prey children via...Pictochat. Which has a range around 30 feet IIRC.
Re:Two Questions (Score:2)
I'm just gonna grab a good paragraph here from the article [gamesetwatch.com]...
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and god damn, I've just watched part of Fahrenheit 911, and this (American paranoia in the media) is exactly what he's talking about. Why does the media need to give us 356233 things to be afraid about every night? I've listened to whats up for "news" tonight and damn.
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DS Lite (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:DS Lite (Score:3, Informative)
I recommend it. It's a fun little pinball game and if nothing else you'll get the Rumble Pak with the game for free which I believe sells for $10-$15 by itself. It took me about 2 weeks to unlock all the secrets and get the high score on each table, but the Rumble Pak has come in handy for other games.
Re:DS Lite (Score:1)
It's a decent pinball game. Not great, but fun for the most part.
I don't get around to playing it often because I have too many other great DS games I'd rather play.
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Re:DS Lite (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, now that I've ordered one, they'll make the announcement in a few days...
Thank you. You have done us all a great service :)
Re:DS Lite (Score:2, Interesting)
It is a little bulky but not any more so than the PSP. It's a lot more durable too.
My only complaint is that it's a little top heavy so playing games like Mario Kart gets tiresome after a while.
For $130 I can't think of any reason not to buy one. You could probably get a decent trade in for it when you upgrade to a lite but perso
Re:DS Lite (Score:3, Informative)
As a real-work pinball junkie, I heartily recommend it. It's made by the same people that made the awesome Pro Pinball PC pinball simulations "The Web", "Timeshock", and "Big Race USA". (Disclaimer: I was a design consultant on the latter two, but I'd lost touch with the Pro Pinball guys a long time ago and didn't realise they were behind Metroid Pinball until I finished the game and s
Re:DS Lite (Score:2)
Also, it comes with the Rumble Pack, and you can't really go wrong by buying it. I play it all the time... it may well be my favorite game for the DS. (In fact, I like it so much I just recently ordered The Pinball of the Dead for Gameboy Advance.) Of course, I've always loved real pinball, and bought two pinball sims f
Re:DS Lite (Score:1)
Mine was shipped to me a few days back... so much for the "shortage". ^_^
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WPA Support (Score:1)
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Re:WPA Support (Score:1)
Second, why do you need so much encryption on your laptops? The most you're ever likely to be doing is sending information such as credit card data when you buy stuff online, and any good credit card company has good fraud protection. Besides, who is likely to be able
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I use WEP but only because I don't really feel the need to upgrade my 802.11b network card to g, and AFAICT nobody has used my network without authorization.
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Re:WPA Support (Score:3, Insightful)
Because that's only an illusion of security. Your MAC is not hardcoded on PCs. In fact, you can quite easily change your MAC in Linux when configuring your network device.
My understanding, though I could be mistaken, is that even when you are using WEP, the MAC address is still sent unencrypted (so you can do things like filtering). Because of this, somebody needs only to sniff a little bit of traffic to find a valid MAC and set their machine to use it.
That said, I still use WEP on my AP in my apartm
SSL (Score:1)
If anything, the flaw with WPA is that it might not be secure enough, but unless my wife starts suddenly letting me string cables across the house at will, WPA will have to do.
Then set up your AP to use WEP and a MAC address whitelist. Buy a second AP to use on a different channel if you have to.
Re:SSL (Score:2)
Of course, if Nintendo only needs access to their own serve
Nintendo dongle needs Windows XP (Score:1)
Of course, if Nintendo only needs access to their own servers, then you could probably just get their dongle thingy and run it.
Nintendo's USB Wi-Fi adapter works only with Windows XP, which in practice means it works only with PCs manufactured in January 2002 or later. If your PC is older than that, then it probably came with either Windows 2000 or Windows Millennium Edition, you need to buy an operating system upgrade. Sales of this upgrade subsidize the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles, which co
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Import Opera? (Score:1)
Hotels usually have an open WIFI connection (no wep) that gives you a private IP but doesn't allow you to surf the net until you login via their local web page using a prepaid card or something. NDS should first connect to the hotspot and then open the login web page.
But then you'd have to import a copy of Opera DS in order to display the web page.
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Re:Import Opera? (Score:1)
you'd use Opera to activate the thing
Provided that Opera is made available for sale in your region at all.
and then you could switch to your favorite game and play away.
Unless the AP has some sort of timeout.
Re:WPA Support (Score:3, Interesting)
No one's forcing you -- you're free to use NO encryption instead.
Anyway, my theory is that the DS's processors aren't powerful enough to do strong WPA encryption AND maintain a smooth multiplayer experience in a game like Mario Kart.
In a web-browsing title, there will be more CPU cycles free to dedicate to encryption. It's not out of the realm of impossibility that WPA support will be included on selected titles.
Not very convenient if you want to set-and-forget
You don't need WPA with MY strategies! (Score:1)
If you notice someone's broken in, simply break in to THEIR computer over your wireless network and fill their harddrive with [animal]se and tub[woman]. Problem solved.
DS Browser In Action (video) (Score:3, Informative)
it's in japanese, but it's cool to see. not sure how youtube will handle
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Gaming implications? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Gaming implications? (Score:1)
No flash support?
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I'm hoping that we'll be able to capture D-pad and button presses in JavaScript.
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Q: Are PDF and Flash supported.
A: No
only one screen clickable.... (Score:2)
It seems like this might be one of those cases where havinly one of the 2 screens being touch sensitive might be a serious pain in the butt.
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I wasn't trying to turn it into yet another DS-vs-PSP thing, I only brought it up because the PSP also has a web browser that a good number of people seem to think is lacking. I don't know if Opera on the DS will be better, but the touch screen could make web browsing much easier. Some of the other obstacles to makin
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Sony innovation (Score:1)
I'm unsure about an N64-style analog stick. That would have required an entirelly different design for the DS, no matter how useful it'd be for Mario 64.
A pressure sensitive D-pad (as seen on the Dual Shock 2 controller) would probably have worked.
Re:Sony innovation (Score:2)
I learned something new today! Which games support this feature, would you happen to know?
Re:only one screen clickable.... (Score:2)
That has hurted the platform a lot. FPS cannot have the same configuration as in the consoles due to this. At least, the analog should be in the right side instead of the left side, where is redundant.
Re:only one screen clickable.... (Score:2)
You'd think the PSP would have room for a 2nd analog stick. It's like they're purposefully trying to keep things stripped down.
You know, you could make a decent PDA out of a
Cool, but its success hinges on two things... (Score:1)
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How? (Score:1)
Re:How? (Score:1)
The browser has not been announced for the US yet, but when it is released in Japan this summer it will be sold alongside other DS software. Inside the box will be a standard DS cart with the browser, and a memory cart to go in the GBA slot to cache pages.
It's going to be a great little device for checking e-mail and such (so long as you have webmail, as the browser will not support POP or other email protocols). I
Re:How? (Score:2)
That is pure rumor. This was talked about previously on /. and is the result of some fairly asinine wishful thinking. There has been no evidence to support this, and furthermore, it would be utterly unneccessary, as the DS cart has a good few magnitudes more memory storage capability than the GBA cart to begin with. Please, next time check your facts and name your sources if you're going to
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DSLinux (Score:2)
Anybody used DS Linux yet? I keep meaning to try it on mine. I'd love to make a DS distro that had, say, epiphany, kismet, nmap, and an irc client. That could be really useful...
Re:DSLinux (Score:1)
Some day X will happen, but there are a few restriction on it that are annoying (no MMU, so no swap, only 4megs RAM on the DS, etc).
Someone will probably get a
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Opera Mini cell phone browser (Score:3, Interesting)
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Lies (Score:1)
Opera was too slow, so they are second.
Flash support? (Score:1)