Terkanil - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Backwards (Score 1) 76

by Terkanil on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:15PM (#63497406) Attached to: Discord Will Force You To Update Your Username

To be fair, it's more than that even. As stated in another comment, it allows full unicode presently, so if you try to manually add someone using a unicode username, it's a Hail Mary to get it right. In some cases, if it isn't provided in text via other means, you aren't getting it.

Comment Is it just me.... (Score 1) 58

by Terkanil on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:21PM (#62225137) Attached to: Sony Buys 'Destiny' Game Developer Bungie for $3.6 Billion

...or does it really feel like Bungie has no interest in actually being a separate company? What with signing themselves away first to Microsoft, before freeing themselves for a few years before signing themselves away to Activision, before freeing themselves for a couple years and now signing off to Sony.

Comment Re:Most Chinese Support Beijing (Score 3, Interesting) 34

by Terkanil on Friday August 14, 2020 @04:13PM (#60402157) Attached to: Google Has Stopped Responding To Data Requests from Hong Kong Authorities

First, '97 was a long time ago, back when HK was still owned by the UK. Second, if you look at even as recent as last year, over 1.7 million Hong Kongers turned out to protest about one year ago.

Comment Re:Crap (Score 2) 70

by Terkanil on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:19PM (#59312628) Attached to: YouTube Gets Alleged Copyright Troll To Agree To Stop Trolling YouTubers

Well if this is accurate, then "... is banned from 'submitting any notices of alleged copyright infringement to YouTube that misrepresent that material hosted on the YouTube service is infringing copyrights held or claimed to be held by Brady or anyone Brady claims to represent.'"

Comment Re:Vega 48? (Score 1) 143

by Terkanil on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:44PM (#58299560) Attached to: Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options

This sounds like the Intel chip with a Vega 20 onboard: https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

Comment Re:What's the name of the Quiz? (Score 1) 124

by Terkanil on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:07PM (#55072483) Attached to: Google Invites Users To 'Check If You're Clinically Depressed'

Best as I could gather, it's part of a long document referenced as PHQ-9: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... The actual questionnaire is down in the Appendix.

Comment Re:Swtor (Score 2) 299

by Terkanil on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:21PM (#43352071) Attached to: Disney Closes LucasArts

Bioware is good. Bioware on EA is questionable. EA... I have choice words I shall choose to not repeat at this time. LucasArts has been cases of hit or miss. Though so have some of the other works allowed by LucasArts in Star Wars. They've been directly quiet for a while now though. Sad to see them go though.

Comment Re:Biometrics are not secrets. (Score 1, Interesting) 139

by Terkanil on Friday March 15, 2013 @02:36PM (#43184951) Attached to: Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers

Biometrics are not difficult. Others have commented on this as well. For demonstrations with Biometrics, there's an episode of Mythbusters that is right up you're alley. They laughably show how easy it is to bypass multiple biometric options.

Comment Re:No backwards compatibility (no physical media?) (Score 1) 587

by Terkanil on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @08:57PM (#42961323) Attached to: Sony Announces the PS4

First, I'll note that I fall into the crowd that will not be purchasing this console. The lack of physical media is how Sony apparently plans to control the game market for the console. They recently had a bit fall with locking games to a console, which is pretty damning in my opinion, especially as Sony has been attempting to kill the Used game market for years now. Lacking physical media places the PS4 alongside walled garden environments as seen with the Apple, Andriod, and WinRT devices. These apps as far as I'm aware, cannot be transferred. As such its quite likely that Sony is pushing games for the PS4 in a similar fashion. Once you've shelled out for the game, its yours.

Comment Re:I got there Mini10v, and quite like it (Score 1) 604

by Terkanil on Thursday July 01, 2010 @09:51PM (#32767780) Attached to: The Ignominious Fall of Dell

With the customer service, they try to keep it a good thing, but I would agree some choices aren't made well. When I worked in Dell support, if we didn't know of a major problem, it didn't exist. But many companies do it that way. Innocent until forced into guilty. Now if I call in, its a matter of forcing the rep to do as I say and not be a mindless tree riding drone. Free thought among the reps I've talked to has been declining. However, I bought a short lived Mini 9. Now use Ubuntu 10.04 on it. Still love the little thing. Its a permanent part of my Mobile Office.

Activision CEO Warns Sony That the PS3 Needs a Price Cut 149

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 20, 2009 @03:23AM from the take-the-hint-sony dept.

Bobby Kotick, President and CEO of Activision, one of the largest game companies in the world, has come out with a none-too-subtle warning to Sony that they need to seriously consider a price drop on the Playstation 3. Rumors have been circulating for months that such a drop was forthcoming, but Sony has staunchly denied that they had any plans to drop prices, Kotick said, "The PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform. It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. ... They have to cut the price, because if they don't, the attach rates [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony." While it's unlikely that Activision would follow through with such a threat, it definitely adds to the pressure Sony is feeling to lower the PS3's price. Sony issued a brief response which said nothing of consequence.

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