I'm surprised that there hasn't been a single EVE reference to this project yet.

Soon as I saw this project, I thought, "It's like they're developing a Minmatar frigate of some sort!"

With that in mind, I genuinely hope that this project exceeds expectations, and that we may see more projects like this in our near future. Good luck and best wishes.

Uh, correct me when I'm wrong as I don't use the thing, but don't some Blu-Ray discs require a network connection to allow playback?

And, if so, I'd assume to get the Blu-Ray updates, you have to have access to PSN, which means getting banned from PSN would be counterproductive to play Blu-Ray on a purchased device.

I'd research, but the corporate firewall is set to particularly brutal levels today.

I bet that after seeing what McAfee can do when it screws up, they won't bitch about what ClamAV did.

(for those who need the summary: ClamAV pulled an update that caused it to shut itself down if it was version 0.94 or older after announcing ~6 months in advance that people needed to update, and kept filling log files with warnings to update. McAfee is breaking a Windows component that causes the entire computer to not function, with a less obvious warning, left for the reader to figure out. The hint is the first word in the previous sentence.)

Except that, if memory serves me, DDO started as pay to play, and ended up as a micropayment game because it wasn't enough of a cash cow with subscriptions.
Why break what works?

I think that the secret grumblings going on is that these developers are wishing for a time when the Sega Master System and the Nintendo Entertainment System roamed the earth.

You didn't really get demos of games for these, free for downloading at the time they were popular.

( - This ignores, of course, the Nintendo Play Choice 10 machines, and any Sega equivalent of the time, in which I'm sure plenty of us of the respective age range would beg mom for quarters to feed whilst she did whatever she was out and about to do. It was great, because one would feed a machine quarters, play games, and when one gets home, beg dad to buy Track and Field or Contra, or whatever. PC10s were, effectively, paid demo machines that would give you access to the full game for the right amount of dosh and skill!
It also ignores the people who had dumpers and carts to dump their old games onto, or necessary emulation software to play it on a PC.)

A derp-a-derp-derp.
Would help if I actually linked what I discovered.

From TFA, I followed a link over to a blog at the Telegraph that contained links to the Netposti interface (link set to english. På svenska, Suomeksi are options for .fi, .se).

What shows up after logging in, I have to leave to someone who actually has a login for the service. It'd be an expensive, expensive trip overseas just for me to get an answer (passport, plane, time off from work, sedatives, rental vehicle, ...), so I'll leave it to someone who might just be able to walk down the road and get set up.

Doesn't seem so. Following a few links through the article, they genuinely appear to have a site set up for receiving digital mail.

Requires either a user/pass set, or a (government issued? possibly as part of the ID?) smartcard read by the site to get logged in.

I'm nowhere near there, so I lack a user/pass or ID for login, but it seems to be legit.

Yeah... call center full of geeks reading /. because we can't get anywhere else online, and now there's video being loaded. I'm sure that IT will filter us in the face shortly, and come slap us with rulers for watching not-work-related video with company bandwidth. =|

So, I guess this means we've got to kill it with fire on an epic scale, eh?

I couldn't find that package, so I decided to sudo aptitude install everything in subsection cli-mono instead.

Would that work?

You forgot to put on your sunglasses, but I can still take the cue:
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

It tends to be overcome with a simple r:
'niner', 'ten' are now completely different lip movements. (Additionally, it breaks a tonal similarity between 9 and 5 up for people who are listening to me.)
This tends to be even easier to disambiguate in context.

I use 'niner' on a regular basis in my line of work, in which I give and receive a lot of numbers over the phone, as well as names and locations.

I'd think that this technology would use a similar method to disambiguate between 5, 9, and 10.

(Of asides and theory: I run under the assumption that most software that listens to voices for recognition are listening not for the lead or tail sounds of a number or letter, but for the shape your mouth makes and the resulting sound that comes with it. If you try saying numbers 0-10 without moving your jaw or tongue, you'll notice how some sounds are the same as well (eeo, uhn, oo, wee, or, i, ih, ehun, eeh, i, ehn, for those who skipped the practice level). Because of this, 'niner' becomes important, simply to change that aforementioned sound to 'ihr'. I think this theory holds a little weight, since I can log in to the voice system of my financial institution using that same method, and not have my lips read.)

Sorry, but I have to call you on this one, from personal experience.

Before doing the MS licensing dance from the website to link my new machine to my account (Old one was stolen, meh), if I were logged in on my Live account, but disconnected, all my downloaded games were stuck in Trial status.

The moment I connected, though, it would acquire the full license for my games and let me play them.

This was a pain in the ass when all I had was mobile broadband -- I'd have to leave my laptop turned on, share the connection with the 360, and log on that way. Usually took two tries, but then it'd let me play more than just chapter 1 of Ikaruga.

Quirky. I've had the best service ever with the credit union I'm with.

I can find ATMs everywhere.

Even when I'm not in my home state, I usually can run into an ATM that's supported by my CU to get free withdrawals (found that out on a trip to Minnesota, US, and again on a trip to Georgia, US).

I recently needed a loan to get my vehicle back after needing emergency repairs.
I called them on a Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday morning, the money I needed to pick up my vehicle was in my account and ready to go.
I didn't have to go do any paperwork or anything special. I just called.

I haven't paid any BS fees. The few times I actually managed an overdraft, I was charged the overdraft fee and that's it. I couldn't deposit anything for two weeks, but there were no fees other than that one overdraft.

This is unlike what has happened to a good friend of mine: He managed to overdraft by 47 cents (an automated transfer for something hit right after paying rent, heh).
The bank charged him for the overdraft, which is right and fine, albeit $40 is a pretty steep overdraft charge.
Then a week later, they hit him for a 'service fee' for the overdraft ($35).
A week after that, they hit him again for another 'service fee' ($35 again).
As a result, he gets to pay over $100 for overdrafting by 47 cents with a regular bank.
My CU would have charged him $29 for the same thing. That's it.

The few banks I've tried have pretty much scared me off with their fee schedules.

I puckered around with it this morning, and found that yes, you can categorize games with tags, and pull a specific tag up when trying to choose certain game types.

I've got Lord of the Rings Online, EVE, and Anarchy Online sitting under "MMORPG", Torchlight under "Crawler", Iji under "Platformer", and so on.

I've yet to see if the new overlay will work with a couple of games on this list (AO, Iji) since it didn't before, but I won't be disappointed if not.