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Facebook To Make Facebook Credits Mandatory For Games 116

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @07:40AM from the hope-that's-ok-with-you dept.

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from TechCrunch: "Facebook has confirmed that it is indeed making Facebook Credits mandatory for Games, with the rule going into effect on July 1 2011. Facebook says that Credits will be the exclusive way for users to get their 'real money' into a game, but developers are still allowed to keep their own in-game currencies (FarmBucks, FishPoints, whatever). For example, Zynga can charge you 90 Facebook Credits for 75 CityCash in CityVille. ... The company acknowledges that some developers may not be pleased with the news, explaining this is why it is announcing the news five months in advance, so it can 'have an open conversation with developers.' The rule only applies to Canvas games (games that use Facebook Connect aren't affected), and while it's games only at this part, Facebook says that it eventually would like to see all apps using Facebook Credits. It's a move that's been a long time coming — there has been speculation that Facebook would do this for a year now, spurring plenty of angst in the developer community."

1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? 685

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 28, 2010 @02:17PM from the I-hate-time-travel-stories dept.

Many of you have submitted a story about Irish filmmaker George Clarke, who claims to have found a person using a cellphone in the "unused footage" section of the DVD The Circus, a Charlie Chaplin movie filmed in 1928. To me the bigger mystery is how someone who appears to be the offspring of Ram-Man and The Penguin got into a movie in the first place, especially if they were talking to a little metal box on set. Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Comment NearLine storage. (Score 1) 411

by Salsero on Thursday March 04, 2010 @06:47AM (#31356298) Attached to: Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets?

Hi, If you are really talking about multiple terrabytes of archiving and you are allowed to keep it online I would look at something like Isilon IQ 36NL or IQ 72NL Series. This gives you a redundant storage environment where you can store depending of the size of the cluster starting at 100TB up to Peta Bytes of storage. And it is affordable. These amounts of data are just to big to consider things like tape or blueray. JHP

Comment Re:Is Red Hat big enough to fight? (Score 1) 787

by Salsero on Monday August 04, 2003 @06:00PM (#6610031) Attached to: Red Hat Sues SCO, Sets Up Legal Fund

I think that RedHat is really doing something really good here. The problem for RedHat might very well be that they are, at this very moment, losing money on the SCO claims. By attacking those claims in courd they are probebly hoping to stop the whole thing and by creating a fund they are probebly hoping that big compagnies like IBM can join them in the lawsuit and help them settle this once and for all.

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