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Phantom Console May Never Materialize
CNN Money's excellent column Game On is running a piece discussing the conspicuous absence of the Phantom console from this year's E3. The service-based system which was to allow download and purchase of games via a living-room unit has been the subject of dubious press coverage and general mistrust, all of which appears to have been well deserved. From the article: "The company believes, based on past performance, that there is a high likelihood that sufficient capital will not be available ... and many or all of these milestones will be missed and the launch date will again shift and/or the company will go out of business..."
A better analogy would be the success of Valve software's Steam service. It has essentially made the buy, download, play model viable. Add a hardware scheme around it and its even more protected. Speed? so you wait a few days for the download, if it allows the user to demo the game or obtain a rare game they would otherwise have to wait for anyway, why the hex not?
Actually, I wish they would release that cool "couch" keyboard they developed. But of course, it'd have to be wireless.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
You gotta love this stuff.
From Infinium's Investor relations section; Under SEC filings, reads the following words:
You can browse SEC filings in Edgar by clicking here. Note that you will be redirected to an external website. We cannot guarantee the accuracy and timeliness of any information therein.
READ: Whatever the SEC says, it just isn't true!
Also, the Infinium Labs stock closed today at $0.13 a share after an increase of five one-thousanth of a cent.
Now who wants to buy this red-hot technology at a super-low bargin price?
OMG!
I'm sure your little boy is going to make lot's of friends by wearing a suit which is electrically charged, has a antenna stick out of his shoulder and looks even more like a "nerd" than when he was just wearing glasses.
I think you didn't do your son a favor by doing this.
Of course, if this would be true, which I sincerely doubt.
"The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum cleaner."
I don't think it stood much of a chance against the current generation either
The last one is still my favorite. though, the "its got broad bands" makes me laugh every time i read that comic
"Something's wrong with you...and I hope we never do meet again." - Deftones When Girls Telephone Boys
Another example of content delivery over the net is Guild Wars, where you download a ~70Kb client, which in turn downloads the actual content only when it's needed for the first time or if a new version is available. So far it has worked perfectly for me, and there is no hassle with CDs or any manual involvement in the patching/updating process.
I know that. In fact I specifically said the whole purpose was to scam investors.
All I'm saying is that it would have been real easy to make a few thousand of them. At the very least it would have enticed more investors to come on board to scam. The fact that it was vaporware for so long must have scared some investors away.
But despite of the ease of making the system, he couldn't' be bothered to even do that. It's like he's the laziest con artist in the world.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Um, if he defended himself, and won, it should have been a condition of the lawsuit that he won his 'costs' back as well. Lawyers are greedy, and they wouldn't take a case like this without a guaranteed paycheck. If defending against this case crushed his bank account, he should have gotten punitive damages as well as lawyer compensation from the prosecution.
Then again, IANAL, and maybe his lawyers sucked.