ranolen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It's MY hardware. (Score 1) 218

by ranolen on Friday January 28, 2011 @12:05PM (#35034172) Attached to: Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking

I paid for it. I am not "licensing" the hardware. I'm not "borrowing" it. I am not "leasing" it.

Once it is mine and I have possession of it, I can modify it any way I know how and there is nothing legally they can do about it. It is my property.

So don't update it. There is nothing saying that you have to update your hardware, you just can't access their network if you don't. You will still have a blu ray player...

Comment Re:I don't have the right to make Apple give flash (Score 1) 850

by ranolen on Thursday May 06, 2010 @12:34PM (#32113648) Attached to: Flash Is Not a Right

You do have the right, but by doing so, Apple also has the right to no longer support your personal cell phone... Not that I think it is right, but it's what happens.

Submission + - Airline Says It Owns The Word "Northwest" 2

Submitted by

Freshly Exhumed

on Friday August 07, 2009 @01:42PM

Freshly Exhumed writes: "Northwest® Airlines, the major airline whose market branding is being phased out after it was acquired by Delta, charges that it has exclusive ownership of the common, geographically descriptive term northwest." The Minnesota-based airline is going after the operator of a small, Spokane Washington web site that provides tourist information for visitors to the Pacific Northwest. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: '[the site's owner] said he has so far spent more than $4,000 in the past few months to defend his site, and he's looking at thousands more going forward as he faces battles in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.' Presumably the Government of Canada will be the next Northwest® target victim, what with their use of the term to name some of their Territories since 1870. I don't suppose Northwest® can sue the world's cartographers, geocachers, boy scouts, etc. can they?"

Epic Sticking With Classic Controllers For Now 64

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @10:23AM from the no-hand-waving dept.

Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games, said in an interview with Develop that while motion control schemes like Project Natal look interesting, Epic will probably be sticking with classic controllers "for the foreseeable future." He said, "Microsoft came down a few weeks before E3 and gave us a demo, and they're now shipping out the dev kits; I think it's great. When you start combining the motion-capture, the facial recognition, and the vocal recognition you can create some unique experiences. And of course more accessibility is always a good thing. When you build an interface like that though you need to [specifically] design a game for it. It can't just be tacked on."

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