kasihan - Slashdot User

Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers 255

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, 2011 @05:22PM from the everybody-needs-a-second-job-these-days dept.

MojoKid writes "Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is six years old. The Nintendo Wii is five years old, and so is the Sony PlayStation 3. All three are due for an overhaul (can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half a decade old, or more?), and while they're still popular gaming platforms, consoles are really starting to shine as streaming media centers. According to market research firm Nielsen, streaming video on game consoles is up over last year. Xbox 360 owners now use their consoles to stream video 14 percent of the time, which is almost as much as PS3 users (15 percent). But it's the Wii that sees the most time as a streaming device, with Wii owners using their consoles to stream video a third of the time."

Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? 246

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, 2011 @04:50PM from the alternate-e-history dept.

Glyn Moody writes "In an interview, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and currently CIO at Mozilla, reveals that Microsoft tried to buy Netscape at the end of 1994. They were turned down because the offer was too low, but imagine if Netscape had accepted: no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox. How might the Web — and the world — have looked today if that had happened?"

Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums 221

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 06, 2011 @03:52AM from the lalala-i-can't-hear-you dept.

spidweb writes "One full-time Indie developer writes about why he never goes to online forums discussing his work and why he advises other creators to do the same. It's possible to learn valuable things, but the time and the stress just don't justify the effort. From the article, 'Forums contain a cacophony of people telling you to do diametrically opposite things, very loudly, often for bad reasons. There will be plenty of good ideas, but picking them out from the bad ones is unreliable and a lot of work. If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad. You have to be very, very careful who you let into your head.'"

Julian Assange's Online Dating Profile Leaked 334

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @04:57PM from the leaker-love dept.

Ponca City writes "The Telegraph reports that an online dating profile created by Julian Assange in 2006 has been unearthed from OKCupid disclosing that the WikiLeaks editor sought 'spirited, erotic' women 'from countries that have sustained political turmoil.' Writing under the pseudonym of British science fiction author Harry Harrison, Assange described himself as a 'passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual.' Assange said he was seeking a 'siren for [a] love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy' adding that he was 'directing a consuming, dangerous human rights project which is, as you might expect, male dominated' and added enigmatically: 'I am DANGER, ACHTUNG.' Among Assange's listed interests were the 'structure of reality' and 'chopping up human brains' – although he added the caveat '(neuroscience background)' lest the latter put off potential admirers. 'I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil,' Assange wrote. 'Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane. OK. Not only women!'"

Valve Trademarks 'DOTA' 141

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday August 12, 2010 @06:45AM from the vi-sitter-i-ventrilo dept.

An anonymous reader tips news that Valve Software has filed a trademark claim for the term "DOTA," fueling speculation that the company will soon reveal a new Defense of the Ancients game. Voice actor John St. John recently said he was recording for such a game in a post to Twitter. The tweet was subsequently deleted. Last year Valve hired 'Icefrog,' lead developer for the original DotA mod.

Nokia Trades Symbian For MeeGo In N-Series Smartphones 184

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 24, 2010 @07:33PM from the unfortunate-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia announced that moving forward, MeeGo would be the default operating system in the N series of smartphones (original Reuters report). Symbian will still be used in low-end devices from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The move to MeeGo is a demonstration of support for the open source mobile OS, but considering the handset user experience hasn't been rolled out and likely won't be rolled out in time for its vague June deadline outlined at MeeGo.com, could the decision be premature?"

Sony Charges Publishers For DLC Bandwidth Usage 127

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 21, 2009 @02:05AM from the nothing-if-not-consistent dept.

tlhIngan writes "Since October 1, 2008, Sony has been billing game publishers for DLC bandwidth usage. The game companies are forced to pay 16 cents per gigabyte downloaded by users (the 'Playstation Network Fee') regardless of whether the content is free or paid. The good news is that free content will only be billed during the initial 60 days it's up, but paid content will require fees forever. (No word on whether free content will mysteriously disappear after 60 days, though.) Given that some popular game demos run over a gigabyte by themselves, it could easily start costing publishers serious money (16 cents each for a few million downloads adds up). So far, it hasn't cut down the content available (or few publishers have started pulling content), but it's too soon to tell. It should be noted that Microsoft isn't charging publishers any money for content on Xbox Live, though some may argue that the 'gold premium content' is the same thing." Perhaps this is one of the reasons various publishers are pressuring Sony for a PS3 price cut.

Bookmark Slashdot FAQ - Tags (slashdot.org)

by Partho on Friday July 27, 2007 @09:07AM

Comment Re:Sophos Anti-virus detects pages using this expl (Score 1) 595

by kasihan on Monday January 10, 2005 @06:39AM (#11308834) Attached to: Extremely Critical IE6/SP2 Exploit Found

I have been using Firefox as my default browser for 6 months. I should have mentioned that in my post - but I guess I take for granted that self respecting slashdotters would not use IE :-)
Sophos saw the cached page even though the code was never going to be executed. I believe in a multi-layered defence - I count 5 between my filesystem and the net: firewall, http proxy (privoxy), a better browser (FF 1.0) running without admin privledges & anti-virus. All of these bits help.

Slashdot Top Deals