DA_MAN_DA_MYTH - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Not surprising (Score 3, Insightful) 395

by DA_MAN_DA_MYTH on Monday May 23 2011, @01:55PM (#36219706) Attached to: PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets

I don't know how many games have turned killing Chinese into entertainment value? This isn't a game made by a game company. This was developed by the PLA. Did America's Army developed for the US Army attack Chinese, or really anyone? Propaganda is propaganda.

Comment: Re:'Bout time (Score 1) 917

by DA_MAN_DA_MYTH on Friday July 16 2010, @05:18PM (#32932338) Attached to: Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems

You suggest that Apple spent a month testing other phones, they couldn't perhaps have tested this in tandem while working to fix their own phone? They showed the testing process. Basically what they admitted was they gave you an X to cover up the antennae, people did it and therefore had something to complain about.

Heaven forbid one benchmarks their product against someone else's. I think the free case is a nice option. Also the 30 days to return your iphone is another nice option.

I think the problem really is... People like to bitch. That, and fixing problems is as easy as flipping a few switches.

Comment: Big F U to Adobe (and others) (Score 4, Informative) 983

by DA_MAN_DA_MYTH on Thursday April 08 2010, @06:13PM (#31782652) Attached to: iPhone OS 4.0 Brings Multitasking, Ad Framework For Apps

In revised iPhone SDK License agreement:

3.3.1 -- Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).

Comment: Re:really? (Score 2, Informative) 802

by DA_MAN_DA_MYTH on Tuesday December 01 2009, @06:52PM (#30290314) Attached to: Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking

[This comment has been removed due to legal action by the Church of Scientology]

Hands On: The $100 Laptop

Submitted by

Paul Stamatiou

on Wednesday March 14 2007, @03:40AM

Paul Stamatiou writes "I got my hands on the second release of the $100 One Laptop per Child laptop and wrote a review complete with pictures. It runs a custom version of Fedora Core 6 complete with an Xulrunner-based browser and an impressive 7.5-inch LCD sporting a resolution of 1200×900 with the ability to go monochromatic in sunlight. Other hardware features include a VGA webcam, 802.11b/g wireless, 512MB flash storage, 128MB DDR266 system RAM and a 366MHz AMD Geode CPU."

The Ten Most Important Games 577

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12 2007, @04:56PM
from the a-good-place-to-start dept.

Taking a page from the National Film Preservation Board, the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University and a group of five prestigious games industry figures have inducted ten games into a sort of 'canon'. The New York Times reports that some of these titles represent the start of weighty gaming genres, while all are laudable for their place in gaming history. "[Henry] Lowood and the four members of his committee -- the game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; Matteo Bittanti, an academic researcher; and Christopher Grant, a game journalist -- announced their list of the 10 most important video games of all time: Spacewar! (1962), Star Raiders (1979), Zork (1980), Tetris (1985), SimCity (1989), Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990), Civilization I/II (1991), Doom (1993), Warcraft series (beginning 1994) and Sensible World of Soccer (1994)." Most likely, future years will see additional titles inducted into this game canon.

X Prize video contest

Submitted by zor_prime on Monday March 12 2007, @04:24PM

zor_prime writes "Looks like X Prize is trying to figure out ways to spend the money they raised at the Google gala. Kinda funny (and recursive) that they are having a contest to help determine what the contest should be. Top prize is a trip to the Wirefly X Prize Cup in October."

PSP 2.0 to be announced at E3?

Submitted by

marcellizot

on Monday March 12 2007, @02:31PM

marcellizot writes "It is starting to look increasingly like there probably is something going on at Sony regarding the PSP's future right now. Last week Sony's snubbing of the PSP at its big PlayStation Home announcement seemed too obvious an omission. Given some of the rumours Kotaku have managed to get their hands on today, it seems that last week's PSP free GDC presentation was less of an oversight and more an indication that there is some sort of question mark hanging the over PSP."

DARPA's Super Soldiers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12 2007, @12:11PM

An anonymous reader writes "600 pull-ups in a row, anyone? Wired is running down DARPA's research to make troops stronger, smarter, and more resilient than ever before. Along with the article, there's an interview with DARPA chief Tony Tether, on the super soldier program, is also included. All kinds of Captain America-type experiments are explored."

Mobile Carriers Cry "Less Operating Systems" 217

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12 2007, @09:59AM
from the less-qq-more-pew-pew dept.

A NYTimes story says "Multiple systems have hampered the growth of new services, mobile phone executives say. " The story does a good job of capturing some of the changing dynamics in the mobile OS market — but rightly raises the point that given the sheer size of the mobile market, it's unlikely we're going to see the homogenization we have in the desktop market.