So apparently Android developers can sign there own code with this handy app included in the android development kit.
No Certificate Authority?
While I found it awesome that I didn't have to pay someone like VeraSign my life savings every year for a certificate, it does pose some major security concerns.
Case in point, Abraham Lincoln just wrote a nasty program that erases your Android SD card. Or so the certificate says, Damn Abe I just lost a lot of respect for you.. :D
And, Ryan whats this app you posted on the Android market that replaces all photos with faces in them, with pictures of Danny Elfman sucking a rabid dogs penis.. That's just sick and disgusting and I don't approve!
Being that Android apps aren't screened buy anyone, except a "report malware feature." I'm a little worried about the safety of all my Asian porn , err I mean business documents.
That being said, I'm a little conflicted.. I feel that CA's are a real good thing, you must provide legal proof of identity to get a certificate from one, well at least a respected one. But at the same time, big CA companies having realized how important they are, have inflated the price for that little 12K file to near insane amounts. In some cases thousands of dollars. So sticking it to them does feel really good.
I mean, I wouldn't be completely shocked if it doesn't happen, or if this is something else. But I really do think that they haven't given up on it, and the rumors that this is it (being completed by another studio) seem pretty strong.
What did I just watch? Was any of that necessary? Really? It's a cartoon! He got hit in the head! A screaming narrator does NOT need to explain that to us, it doesn't need to be in slow motion, it's just dumb. This is "entertainment" for the reality show generation, just taking stuff that's fully capable of standing on it's own and ruining it by shoving a narrator down it's throat and baking it for half an hour.
The first "chapter" of this fan sequel has been released. Honestly I hadn't been paying much attention because I was afraid it was going to play like bad fan fiction (I had a few issues with the vampire friendly story changes they made in the KQ2 remake for example, though that was a different group). However, one thing changes that. Apparently Roberta Williams played it and thinks it's great. As a result, I'm certainly willing to give it a try.
The important thing is Activision decided to let them continue the project. It didn't end up like that awesome looking 3D remake of Chrono Trigger did.
Yep, MS finally is attempting to fix their biggest flaw, that d-pad.
Most people seem to be skipping over one big reason they didn't just use a Nintendo d-pad before. Nintendo patented that thing decades ago. That's also why they aren't using it this time either. This "transforming" d-pad design seems to be a way to get around that. Since it's a development FROM that old design, one with it's own "advantages" (if you call being able to switch to "garbage mode" an advantage), it can be patented itself, meaning they no longer owe Nintendo anything (in patents, a derivative work is allowed so long as it is a clear, non-obvious upgrade from a previous design, which is meant to allow for innovation, though in this case it's more of a work-around).
The other big change seems to be removing the color from the buttons. How dull... how boring... How, hard to make out what button does what for newcomers playing, say, Fable 2 (which identifies the buttons purely on color). Nintendo took the color out of their buttons too of course, but I thought that was a mistake too. Face buttons SHOULD be colorful. It makes it easier to identify them, and it makes things a little nicer to look at. I argued for simplicity when splashes of annoying color were the norm, and I'm arguing for more noise now that boring and flat are the norm. Yeah, I'm aware of it, I'm just contrary I suppose, but in this case I think it's justified. I like my red, blue, green, and yellow. I guess it's just the ol' Super Nintendo/Famicom logo there speaking up (I used an Ascii pad back in dem days, so that's the pattern I'm used to, and it matched up so well with the SNES "logo" used very rarely like in Mario World's "Special Zone".
Anyway, assuming this really DOES make the d-pad nice to use, they should just start packing it with the remodeled 360 from here on out.
Awesome news for Golden Sun 3 for the DS, along with Etrian Odyssey 3 that's one of the only DS games coming this year that I want... the first game was pretty good, and I actually beat it. I never did finish Golden Sun 2, I got bored and stuck partway through and kept quitting, until I finally did for good. Maybe I'll go back and try to finish it, I don't like it quite as much as the first game but it is still pretty good.
As for the DSi and DSi XL price drops, it's $20 down for each of them, to $150 for the DSi and $170 for the XL. Speculation (on GAF) now is that the 3DS will be out in the US in December, hopefully for $200... we'll see if we're that lucky, but this price drop does make that price feasible, at least. Something like $230 wouldn't surprise me, but $200 sure would be nice.
