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Feed Engadget: iTunes Store slip-up reveals future rental movie options? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday September 08, 2007 @09:52AM

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Movie rentals could be coming to the iTunes Store, if an apparent slip-up by Apple is any indication. Mac developer David Watanabe uploaded a screenshot depicting an iTunes problem reporting system which has options for requesting a refund due to non-delivery of rental movies. The other options for reporting issues with the as yet unannounced -- but rumored -- rental movie options on the iTunes Store include accidental purchase, poor content quality, duplicate purchase, wrong version, bad metadata, and "other." The same possible complaints are available for every other content type on iTunes. We verified that this error is still viewable on a US iTunes Store account: see for yourself by viewing your account purchase history, clicking report problem, and then clicking on an individual purchase.

[Thanks, Josh]

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From feed by lcfeed on Saturday September 08, 2007 @09:32AM

Would You Pay Pennies For Game Features? 64

Posted by Zonk on Saturday September 08, 2007 @08:12AM from the coming-soon-to-a-game-near-you dept.

Friday at GDC Austin saw the day starting with a keynote that may seem unusual to players unfamiliar with the Asian online gaming market. Nexon is a major player from the country of South Korea, boasting a handful of titles that see more users in a month than many well-known online games made here in the US. All of the company's titles, regardless of genre, have one thing in common: they're free to play, sort of. Microtransactions, the practice of paying a very small amount of money for an object or service, is what provides Nexon its revenue ... and plenty of revenue it is. Nexon America's director Min Kim gave a discussion on the realities of rolling Microtransaction-based titles out in the states, with a case study of the success of Maple Story's launch in our country.

Comment Re:Does it... (Score 1) 199

by paropaco on Monday September 03, 2007 @12:17PM (#20452563) Attached to: The Really Fair Scheduler

Unless, of course, you unlink its executable file, in which case it allocates swap to hold the file first.

Why doesn't it just take into account the fact that the file is in execution in its reference count and leave the file where it is on the file system until it terminates? "unlink" only decrements the reference count, it does not free the file. Seems much simpler to me.

In addition, if it does as you say, FreeBSD does not just need to allocate the swap to hold the file, it actually needs to take every page from the executable file that has not yet been loaded in memory and actually copy it to the swap. Where's the coolness in that?

By the way, I didn't find the paragraph which lead you to that that's how it does in there.

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