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Re:Good Grief...
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While I'm at it, here's the low-down on the actors. M.E. Hart, the engaging rapper had a gig on a television show "In Our Lives" but was soon cancelled after this video was made. I'm not going to pick on him because after reading his bio, he had a rough life in his childhood. Seriously. I'm sure this video didn't help. He's moved on and is now a lawyer in DC and speaks out against child abuse. As for Maria Allen and Jimmy Todd, I can't find anything on those two. I'm assuming that they have gone on to mediocrity or are currently working at Dunkin' Donuts. Interesting note is that James Todd is the real name of LL Cool J. Now why couldn't they have used him instead? -
More linksI'm currently hosting the docket documents as they come in. I've seen several other people point to them so here's a quick update. (Shacknews must have gotten their info from my posts at Hardforum which where in turn picked up by Gamespot.) This is information that Gamespot hasn't been reported yet or Shacknews.
A latest check of the docket shows that the Infinium Labs lawyers forgot to file a Certificate of Interested Persons with the court. It's just a list of people who a financial stake in the outcome of the case. When it is filed on Infinium's part, it could provide a look at the backers of Infinium and who else is financially involved with the company.
In other news, the court ordered a mediation meeting as part of the process to get the two sides to settle. This has to happen by April 23rd. It's intended to be a face-to-face meeting with all parties, but I expect Infinium to go pro se and do a telephone conference. If a settlement can't be reached, then both sides will file a report to the court explaining why.
Until the Certificate of Interested Persons is filed, the case won't progress much until the middle of next month. I've got the docs, but haven't uploaded them my site yet being as they are from the court and none of the parties. If there's a lot of interest, I'll post 'em.
Infinium Labs has retained the following legal council in Texas. This is public information from the court docket.
Baxter W Banowsky
Banowsky Betz & Levine
790 Coit Central Tower
12001 N Central Expwy
Dallas, TX 75243
214/871-1300
Fax : 214/871-0038 FAX
Email: bwb@bblpc.comThe latest info on the case can always be found at whereisphantom.com and the Hardforum.
Links to the essential court docket documents:
KB Networks Civil Cover Sheet.pdf
Infinium Summons
Infinium Motion to Dismiss -
More linksI'm currently hosting the docket documents as they come in. I've seen several other people point to them so here's a quick update. (Shacknews must have gotten their info from my posts at Hardforum which where in turn picked up by Gamespot.) This is information that Gamespot hasn't been reported yet or Shacknews.
A latest check of the docket shows that the Infinium Labs lawyers forgot to file a Certificate of Interested Persons with the court. It's just a list of people who a financial stake in the outcome of the case. When it is filed on Infinium's part, it could provide a look at the backers of Infinium and who else is financially involved with the company.
In other news, the court ordered a mediation meeting as part of the process to get the two sides to settle. This has to happen by April 23rd. It's intended to be a face-to-face meeting with all parties, but I expect Infinium to go pro se and do a telephone conference. If a settlement can't be reached, then both sides will file a report to the court explaining why.
Until the Certificate of Interested Persons is filed, the case won't progress much until the middle of next month. I've got the docs, but haven't uploaded them my site yet being as they are from the court and none of the parties. If there's a lot of interest, I'll post 'em.
Infinium Labs has retained the following legal council in Texas. This is public information from the court docket.
Baxter W Banowsky
Banowsky Betz & Levine
790 Coit Central Tower
12001 N Central Expwy
Dallas, TX 75243
214/871-1300
Fax : 214/871-0038 FAX
Email: bwb@bblpc.comThe latest info on the case can always be found at whereisphantom.com and the Hardforum.
Links to the essential court docket documents:
KB Networks Civil Cover Sheet.pdf
Infinium Summons
Infinium Motion to Dismiss -
More linksI'm currently hosting the docket documents as they come in. I've seen several other people point to them so here's a quick update. (Shacknews must have gotten their info from my posts at Hardforum which where in turn picked up by Gamespot.) This is information that Gamespot hasn't been reported yet or Shacknews.
A latest check of the docket shows that the Infinium Labs lawyers forgot to file a Certificate of Interested Persons with the court. It's just a list of people who a financial stake in the outcome of the case. When it is filed on Infinium's part, it could provide a look at the backers of Infinium and who else is financially involved with the company.
In other news, the court ordered a mediation meeting as part of the process to get the two sides to settle. This has to happen by April 23rd. It's intended to be a face-to-face meeting with all parties, but I expect Infinium to go pro se and do a telephone conference. If a settlement can't be reached, then both sides will file a report to the court explaining why.
Until the Certificate of Interested Persons is filed, the case won't progress much until the middle of next month. I've got the docs, but haven't uploaded them my site yet being as they are from the court and none of the parties. If there's a lot of interest, I'll post 'em.
Infinium Labs has retained the following legal council in Texas. This is public information from the court docket.
Baxter W Banowsky
Banowsky Betz & Levine
790 Coit Central Tower
12001 N Central Expwy
Dallas, TX 75243
214/871-1300
Fax : 214/871-0038 FAX
Email: bwb@bblpc.comThe latest info on the case can always be found at whereisphantom.com and the Hardforum.
Links to the essential court docket documents:
KB Networks Civil Cover Sheet.pdf
Infinium Summons
Infinium Motion to Dismiss -
Re:IANAL so get some in here
HA! comment on the motion to dismiss. Informed comments are overrated.
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Read the brief, and damn is Infinium sad.
I just read the motion to dismiss and supporting brief relating to the Texas suit. Infinium is not going to have much of a fun time in this suit. Their counsel are incompetent. I've yet to read anything prepared by [H]'s lawyers, but it's got to be better than the inane dribble that Infinium has sent to the Tx District Court. Misspellings, wrong words, never mind the fact that they're plainly disrespectful in some places, and oh, flat out wrong in some, too.
Motion to dismiss:
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Re:VGAs were craptasticFunny, but your title was also the title of my review at www.videogamestumpers.com only I used "craptacular".
Oh, and the results were fixed in the sense that SpikeTV, with the exception of the internet polls, chose the winners. Funny how the winners all fit with their programming theme of manly things.
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Journalists complaining about journalistsI find it interesting to see these journalists point of view in trying to critique themselves. It seems (at a hurried skimming) that each of these people lament the lack of professionalism in their craft. The games are evolving, but the writing is stagnant.
When I wrote an article about game journalists, I wrote it from the perspective of a developer and as a fan. In retrospect, it's slightly eerie that I chose ethics as the number one problem in journalism before the New York Times scandals. In some respects, these people are right in that game journalists just don't have any professionalism to them. (I just saved you eleven parts of reading just now.) The larger issue is separating the money from the writing.
You start to fix this by educating your writers and hiring those with professional experience outside of gaming or with a journalism degree. Make sure that your publication has an ethics statement and follows it. Educate your readers by pulling back the curtain and exposing the marketing machine of publishers. Have a long term plan for development and not be the "flava site of the month". Good writing starts with your own site.
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Analysis
I saw this early yesterday and posted an analysis about it early. Some newspaper reports are trimming the article leaving out the parts of Jack Thompson. The blame is really with the writers of the Reuters article for not checking facts first in the rush to get the article out.
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Where are they now
I did some quick research and found out some information on the people featured in the video here in my own review. This video was so bad that almost everyone associated with it has gone on to mediocrity.
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Re:For a good explanation...
And as a counter, please read this article explaining why 3DMark is not a good benchmark because of the aggregate number it uses.
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Re:3DMark is a terrible benchmark anywayYou are pretty much on target. However the real reason that 3DMark is a bad benchmark is because the 3DMark Score is an aggregate number. You lose all your detail and are able to hide any "cheats" the hardware makers want. It's the reason that whenever people compare hardware in the real world (cars, televisions, computers) they don't use some made up figure. They measure using metrics like horsepower, torque, size, weight and speed.
What Futuremark is currently doing is akin to taking a Dodge Ram pickup and a Ford Mustang and saying that Dodge got 5427 Marks and Ford had 5621 Marks. What does that tell you? How can you truly compare the two? The Ford is better in some way, but without the base numbers, the result is useless.
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Visa - Don't leave home without itThe Reporters Without Borders press release makes a big deal about how they were strip searched, put in a cell, etc. Guess what? That's standard procedure for anyone without the right visa to enter the country. I'm actually a bit more disturbed that the visa policy wasn't strictly inforced lending to more confusion.
So when you read an article about this incident, it really boils down to this quote I found by Alison Wood: "I also hope that E3 organisers, the Interactive Digital Software Association, take steps to ensure that in future they inform all international journalists what documentation is actually required to enter America as a journalist. It seems all this could've so easily been avoided if it had been made clear that entering the States, on the visa waiver program, as a journalist, is not permitted." [BTW, this happened in Atlanta as well a few years ago.]
There are bigger problems than journalists being detained for a few days. I wrote an article the other day that focuses on the ethics that some game publications and websites use in their reports. I'd rather a reporter go on a junket and be detained for the right reasons, than have have the reporter go on a junket and be influenced for the wrong ones.
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Re:Ahh, the good 'ol days
I wrote an article that addresses this. E3 has become a show that tries to serve two masters. Either it is a place "where business gets fun" or a place where the fanboy can get jiggy wit it. It can't be both.