By Xenoveritas, 26 February, 2008

Sony Replaces 80GB PS3 With 80GB PS3

Topics
PlayStation 3

So, after taking the current 80GB PS3 off the market, tons of speculation was raised that Sony would be releasing a new PS3. After all, why else would they remove a model that, according to Sony, was selling as well as the 40GB model if not to replace it with a new, better model?

By Xenoveritas, 20 February, 2008

Sony Announces In-Shirt XMB

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Video Games

Citing considerable demand, Sony has announced that they will be offering in-shirt Cross-Media Bar in a new firmware update for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. The feature would, for the first time, allow people to access the cross-media bar while they are wearing a shirt. Currently using the Cross-Media Bar requires gamers to don a kimono. Sony has not yet set a timeline for when this feature will be available.

Sony remained silent when asked if they would also offer in-blouse and in-hoodie Cross-Media Bar support.

By Xenoveritas, 29 January, 2008

New PS3 Model Coming Out?

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PlayStation 3

I've been looking into buying a PS3 recently (hey, I need to do something to pass the time before Super Smash Bros. Brawl is finally released...), and I've noticed that the 80GB PS3 seems to be disappearing.

It's no longer available from Best Buy. I asked a blue-shirt at a Best Buy if they had any 80GB PS3s. When they looked it up on the computer, I noticed that the "deleted" flag had been set on its entry. Apparently Best Buy no longer expects to carry 80 GB PS3s.

By Xenoveritas, 24 January, 2008

KDE4 for Windows

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Linux
Windows

KDE4 has recently released a Windows version of KDE which allows many popular KDE applications like Konqueror under Windows.

Well, sort of.

The installation process is still a bit sketchy. My first attempt to use the graphical installer failed, because I was behind a firewall and the attempt to use Firefox's settings failed. (It does need to be noted that I use a PAC script for settings, so if using Firefox settings worked for someone else, that could be why.)

By Xenoveritas, 6 December, 2007

Java, Copy Constructors, and clone()

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Java

The need to copy objects come up frequently in object-oriented programming. The are many times when an object needs to be copied, so a new object with the same state can be modified.

There are several solutions for this. Which one is best? That's, unfortunately, debatable.

By Xenoveritas, 29 November, 2007

I guess Mario isn't quite so passé

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Video Games

I've been watching Rise of the Video Game on Discovery channel. It's somewhat interesting to see what they say and what they show.

In the second episode, they mention that "the era of the mustached plumber is over," talking about how Mario has become passé and "more realistic" games like Grand Theft Auto 3, Halo, The Godfather and the like have taken over.

By Xenoveritas, 1 November, 2007

NaNoWriMo

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NaNoWriMo

It's November now, and that means that NaNoWriMo 2007 has started!

As always, their website appears to be running amazingly slowly, so I'm currently trying to come up with a better way of linking my writing progress (currently 0 words out of 50,000).

Good luck to all the other NaNoWriMo authors out there!