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Submission + - Unreal Engine 4 Is Now Free 1

Submitted by jones_supa on Monday March 02, 2015 @01:25PM

jones_supa writes: In 2014, Epic Games took the step of making Unreal Engine 4 available to everyone by subscription for $19 per month. Today, this general-purpose game engine is available to everyone for free. This includes future updates, the full C++ source code of the engine, documentation, and all sorts of bonus material. You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. The business scheme that Epic set in the beginning, remains the same: when you ship a commercial game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. Epic strived to create a simple and fair arrangement in which they succeed only when your product succeeds.

Comment Re:Google Double Plus Good (Score 1) 146

by jones_supa on Monday March 02, 2015 @11:15AM (#49164163) Attached to: Google+ Divided Into Photos and Streams, With New Boss

Sometimes I don't understand how people avoid running away screaming in terror.

Because the Big Brother aspect is hidden in daily use of these services, and at the same time they provide people the benefits of a powerful communication tool. Pretty simple really.

It's the same reason why people buy unethically produced goods: because the manufacturing process is hidden from them, but the price is cheap.

Comment Re:Old vs New (Score 1) 110

by jones_supa on Monday March 02, 2015 @07:30AM (#49163077) Attached to: Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds

Proof? Can you show an example of such old Slashdot article?

Comment Re:I should think so! (Score 1) 107

by jones_supa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:36PM (#49158703) Attached to: Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs

When would such blacklisting occur?

Comment How is a HDD firmware written? (Score 1) 324

by jones_supa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @08:43AM (#49158005) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware?

What is the process of writing a new HDD firmware? Does the drive listen for some specific ATA command followed by the program data?

Submission + - Android phone completely disabled after receiving an international call

Submitted by OneSmartFellow on Sunday March 01, 2015 @08:10AM

OneSmartFellow writes: I was out with friends on Friday evening when I received an international phone call from a +7 phone number. It's not at all unusual for me to receive international phone calls, but, I'll admit I have never receievd one from the +7 dialing code. I answered the call, and I could only hear myself speaking. I hung up, and my phone immediately shut off. All attempts to power it back on have failed. I have tried removing the battery, and booting into recovery mode. Phone is a Nexus S with Cyanogenmod installed. It is now a paperweight. I presume I have been hacked somehow. Is there any way to recover from this experience ?

Submission + - Xfce 4.12 Released

Submitted by jones_supa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @08:04AM

jones_supa writes: The Xfce team is pleased to announce the release of the Xfce 4.12, a new stable version of the fast and optimized desktop environment that supersedes Xfce 4.10, which was released 2 years and 10 months ago. While the version number looks like a small jump, there is a big amount of improvements and fixes all around. Most notable things that have seen changes are: the panel, power management, multi-monitor support, task manager, file manager, optical disc burning (Blu-Ray support), Alt-Tab popup, keyboard shortcuts, and wallpaper selector. An online tour of the changes in the new version is available. Looking into the future, the plan to upgrade from GTK2 to GTK3 is probably the hottest topic in the roadmap.

Comment Re:Agenda bias (Score 1) 107

by jones_supa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:44AM (#49157653) Attached to: Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs

Are you joking? That's like saying that AutoRun is a good thing.

Comment Re:I should think so! (Score 1) 107

by jones_supa on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:33AM (#49157633) Attached to: Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs

At least physical media allows you to own the product.

Comment Re:Twitter is a powerful tool (Score 2) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @09:30AM (#49153147) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Much more websites offer Twitter feeds than RSS feeds these days.

Comment Re: Good, I'm tired of removing the crap. (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:37AM (#49152995) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Then what difference would there be between "Not Now" and "Ask Me Later"?

Comment Re: Bloatware?! (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @04:24AM (#49152577) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Agreed, trashy advertisements can ruin a website. But even then I personally do not turn on an ad blocker but I leave the site completely.

Comment Re:Twitter is a powerful tool (Score 1) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:56AM (#49152531) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Then don't follow such celebrities. You can use it to see @slashdot topics as well, for example.

Comment Re:Really (Score 1) 101

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:53AM (#49152527) Attached to: Twitter Adds "Report Dox" Option

Twitter is great for following the headlines. It's like an improved RSS reader.

Comment Re:Utilities (Score 1) 210

by jones_supa on Saturday February 28, 2015 @03:25AM (#49152489) Attached to: Lenovo Saying Goodbye To Bloatware

Yes, they do. An OEM wireless manager is mostly the same thing that ships with the OS. It is reinventing the wheel. However, applications, poems and fonts all serve different needs.

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