Sega has stated that a keyboard adaptor will ship with Phantasy Star Online for the XBox.
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Umm sorry wrong answer Star Wars Galaxies aka Star Wars online is actually 2 products Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided is being created by Sony, while Star Wars Galaxies is a MMORPG created by LucasArts for the PC and XBox.
So basically your travelling in a pressurized capsule, in an airless tunnel? Wow that presents all kinds of scenarios for potential disasters. It may be energy efficient but I would have to think that the cost of engineering something reliable and safe like this would far outweigh the energy savings in the near term anyway. And if you frequent mass transit...the idea of a dozen people in an enclosed capsule breathing recirculated air for hours doesnt sound real pleasant either.
I guess they could go cheap and just make a really big version of those things they use at the drive up window at banks....
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I have to agree, I love anime but Mononoke was IMHO boring and preachy. All of the characters were equally unlikable and as a result I didnt really care who "won". I really cant agree that it made you think. Actually as I recall the only thing I could think about while watching was that I wished Kenshin would make a guest appearance to smote them all:)
Ive been hearing this argument for weeks, but the fact is neither side seems to get the background facts in order before spouting off.
First off Spiderman is a standalone movie, no prior experience required. Second the film premiered on a friday against nothing else of note, plus it premiered on nearly 1000 more screens. Third who cares? I enjoyed them both, whats with having to pick sides anyway. I liked LOTR, Spidey and Episode 2 and will probably like Matrix Reloaded and etc...its just entertainment people..enjoy it.
That said, I guarantee that spidey will be a bit long in the tooth long before Spiderman V. (Superman Quest for Peace anyone?)
The plan isnt to shut it down...the plan actually is to relaunch a second generation product that will offer better reliability and non line of sight...in other words no more pizza dish. With the first gen product, sprint actually lost money with each install. Gen2 will hopefully give them the ability to turn a profit.
The hidden camera part is obvious...and as for the.prn idea, i think its great. Think about it, contect filtering on an individual basis would be as simple as blocking a top level domain. This has been suggested before,.sex was proposed before ICANN choose the pathetic list of TLD's that were most recently added. It was shot down then by arguments about free speech, but I really dont see that as an issue. No one is suggesting banning porn on the net, what is suggested is giving it their own redlight district. You dont see adult bookstores and strip clubs next to peoples homes in most neighborhoods, but just about every city has them. They have zoning laws and regulations to deal with that, if the net is the community many seem to claim it is, why should it be any different?
As for the argument about getting other countries to comply, i belive most would welcome the effort on an international level, but domain holders would have to be compensated. Offering a free transfer of their existing domain to the.prn equivalent would be a good start. Heck if it was done responsibly it wouldnt kill off adult material, in fact it could actually fuel it (porn only browsers, portals, etc).
Most web streaming applications tell you and log exactly how many streams are in use. I think its fairly obvious that what the RIAA wants is complete control over what is heard over the internet. If they can price the small independants out of business it means less competition for whatever deals they make with Clearchannel, Chancellor or any of the other major radio conglomerates.
The internet community can take this as facing the inevitable or as a challenge. Id prefer the later. There are many listeners out there or this wouldnt be an issue. What if the independant small broadcasters all started gearing themselves towards only braodcasting non-riaa artists and original content?
Ive been attempting to get a grass roots effort like his off the ground for years, unforntunately I dont have the talent to do the code needed myself, and I dont have the money to hire people to do it, but this is what Im looking for..
1) Shared playlists between independent stations, basically play the same game the riaa does, if one station plays "Joes Garage Band" they arent likely to gain much following but if 20 stations do....this doesnt imply that all stations should have the same genres but those that do can share artists. The same goes for cross promoting of content.
2) Produce original content, talk shows, live guests, game shows, radio drama, whatever will bring in people and get attention.
3) A Centralized real time channel listing for all participating stations.
4) An open sourced client and server that can be modified and customized via a plugin type method.
There is alot more to it, but right now its just a pipe dream that I have had for many years. Ive had a business plan (yes there is a revenue model) finished for quite a while, but have had it dismissed by investors with comments like "its really cool but its star trek...just not possible" even though its totally researched and documented. Frankly I dont know where to take it. Im looking at source forge but am up for any suggestions.
I really think the only hope for the future of streaming media is a united front but so far everyone I have talked to is looking for "cornering the market" or building their own conglomerate, is there any hope for folks that just want to share and communicate? I really think the best way to fight the RIAA is to not fight them at all but play the game the same way they do. The internet is still the greatest equalizer of all current forms of media. One person with determination and a good idea can create something that is just as competative and just as compelling as anything a big company with a wad of cash can do, and many people working together can do that 100 fold.
Ive got a +3 sword of light only $1 to enter the raffle...
or hiring hitmen to take out some other player you dont like...
or shaking down weaker characters for thier milk money?
Is this really any different than sony though? I mean sony first owned half the music industry, then the portable audio market and a good chunk of the home audio and video markets, Pc sales, and the playstation...and they have their own software developers too....sony is actually much bigger than MS but I never hear anyone screaming monopoly or unfair practice about them. Instead of whining why dont people just not buy the product and stop worrying about it, thats what I did no X-Box in my home...in fact after my dreamcast dies it will most likely be Game Over for the consoles in my life anyway.
It helps if you actually come up with a company that went out of business....
Looking Glass was put out of business by Eidos its parent company due to debt from advertising and overspending on Diakatana. (ex Thief and Thief II cost a combined total of under $4 million, Diakatana cost over $30 million and sold all of 2 copies one to Romero and one to his mom.)
The antennae and reciever being installed is sold at a signifigant loss to the customer (over 50%) loss. The requirements for bandwidth and the limitations of spectrum mean that only a fixed number of customers can be added per sector. You still have to deal with transport costs. The day to day costs of maintaining the head end is many times greater than that of dsl. Add to that the need to constantly upgrade the sector to maintain an acceptable performance level and you are looking at a product that takes over 4 years until the customer is "paid" for.
Frankly, I see nothing wrong with what AT&T is doing, they are not simply shutting off the network tomorrow, customers have between 6 months and a year to find an alternative. I was surprised to see them bow out completely though, epecially when the next generation of wireless technology is so close. But a billion dollars is alot of money when you practically pay the customer to use the service. I am an engineer for another broadband wireless provider, its no easy job. Simply running a wireless providership is costly when you concider nearly every customer problem has to be taken care of on site (truck roll) and maintenance of a wireless head end is very costly as most areas served by broadband wireless have their towers in remote locations like mountain tops. In Salt Lake City for example over half the year the towers there are reachable only by snowcat or helicopter. The snowcat ride to the top can be as long as 6 hours. Add this in with problems like ice on the antennas, line of sight and outside interference and things can get really interesting.
Broadband Wireless is a great product but unfortunately the technology has not caught up with the demand. There are new advancements that will hopefully remove problems like line of sight and the need for a technician to install, but those are still 6 months to a year away. Currently the cost of adding a user is just too high to be profitable, every broadband wireless company out there is operating at a loss hoping that the next generation of devices will offer more potential.
The inoperability arguments really seem to be bunk most of the time. How difficult is it to install real audio? Other than the fact that you have constantly hunt the web page for the new nearly hidden link to the free version, or that you have to wrestle with it on install as it tries to take control of every media format available even ones it can run properly. I wouldnt say thats really microsofts problem.
I have no problem running eudora on my game box it doesnt mess anything else up, Winamp runs fine too...what exactly is the problem? I just find it rather ironic that folks who primarily use the OS that is percieved to be for the smarter crowd talk as if you have to be a mensa member to get a simple app running in windows.
The argument of linux giving you the best of is nice...but its not exactly the same thing....the equivalent would be if MS decided to bundle in the best freeware apps available...Im no big MS fan but its really starting to look that MS is damned if they do and damned if they dont, look at the java VM situation, sun got exactly what they asked for and now they are whining because of it.
Name one "bundled" feature of Windows that you dont find in the typical linux installs or osX? I cant think of one..in fact the latter 2 have even more bundled with them. The only thing that is going to stop microsoft is competition at the OS level. Either linux needs to step up to the plate and make it usable out of the box or someone else needs to come up with a better solution. I thought at one time BeOS was going to be the OS of the future...
I use debian myself, but i sure as hell wouldnt give it to my mother to install on her own, I do enough support for her windows machines.
Ive always thought that if anyone could challenge Microsoft it would be a deal between Be and Sony. Sony has already sold nearly $6 million ps2's and has a hard drive adaptor coming out very soon. Imagine adding a vga adaptor...suddenly you have an instant computer. One that is proprietary much like apple but cheap enough to be nearly disposable anyway.
That is the most pathetic statement regarding piracy that i have ever read. I guess you dont work for a living either since seeing all those folks in the welfare line makes it too difficult to justify working when all those people are getting it for free....
Also coming next year flying jetsons cars and robotic children. Seriously, right now WCDMA is still not standardized enough, I work for one of those major mobile phone companies you mention as an engineer and I can assure you that the best your going to get out of the next 2 years or so is around 144kbit. Right now most of the gameplans for 2mbit per second (G3's max speed) are more than 3-4 years down the road. So feel safe buying your PDA it will be obsolete by then anyway.
NOTE: I am talking about the US market which is a bit behind on wireless deployment. I can speak for other parts of the world.
The biggest problem with opt-in and opt-out is that the rules for doing so should have required that the opt-in/opt-out address be from the same domain as the emails point of origin. That would solve most of the problems.
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Sega has stated that a keyboard adaptor will ship with Phantasy Star Online for the XBox.
Umm sorry wrong answer Star Wars Galaxies aka Star Wars online is actually 2 products Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided is being created by Sony, while Star Wars Galaxies is a MMORPG created by LucasArts for the PC and XBox.
So basically your travelling in a pressurized capsule, in an airless tunnel? Wow that presents all kinds of scenarios for potential disasters. It may be energy efficient but I would have to think that the cost of engineering something reliable and safe like this would far outweigh the energy savings in the near term anyway. And if you frequent mass transit...the idea of a dozen people in an enclosed capsule breathing recirculated air for hours doesnt sound real pleasant either.
I guess they could go cheap and just make a really big version of those things they use at the drive up window at banks....
I have to agree, I love anime but Mononoke was IMHO boring and preachy. All of the characters were equally unlikable and as a result I didnt really care who "won". I really cant agree that it made you think. Actually as I recall the only thing I could think about while watching was that I wished Kenshin would make a guest appearance to smote them all :)
Ive been hearing this argument for weeks, but the fact is neither side seems to get the background facts in order before spouting off.
First off Spiderman is a standalone movie, no prior experience required. Second the film premiered on a friday against nothing else of note, plus it premiered on nearly 1000 more screens. Third who cares? I enjoyed them both, whats with having to pick sides anyway. I liked LOTR, Spidey and Episode 2 and will probably like Matrix Reloaded and etc...its just entertainment people..enjoy it.
That said, I guarantee that spidey will be a bit long in the tooth long before Spiderman V. (Superman Quest for Peace anyone?)
The plan isnt to shut it down...the plan actually is to relaunch a second generation product that will offer better reliability and non line of sight...in other words no more pizza dish. With the first gen product, sprint actually lost money with each install. Gen2 will hopefully give them the ability to turn a profit.
As for the argument about getting other countries to comply, i belive most would welcome the effort on an international level, but domain holders would have to be compensated. Offering a free transfer of their existing domain to the
According to 2600 alot of hackers hang out in mall food courts too...guess we should shut down those as well.
Check http://uk.eurorights.org they have an updated list of known proteced cd's and their labels. It covers mostly European releases. For info on US a good site is http://www.fatchucks.com/corruptcds/index.html.
Why not send $50 to the EFF now so that more can be done to keep this from passing in the first place?
Umm you do realize of course that the PocketPC os wasnt even available 3 years ago...
The internet community can take this as facing the inevitable or as a challenge. Id prefer the later. There are many listeners out there or this wouldnt be an issue. What if the independant small broadcasters all started gearing themselves towards only braodcasting non-riaa artists and original content?
Ive been attempting to get a grass roots effort like his off the ground for years, unforntunately I dont have the talent to do the code needed myself, and I dont have the money to hire people to do it, but this is what Im looking for..
1) Shared playlists between independent stations, basically play the same game the riaa does, if one station plays "Joes Garage Band" they arent likely to gain much following but if 20 stations do....this doesnt imply that all stations should have the same genres but those that do can share artists. The same goes for cross promoting of content.
2) Produce original content, talk shows, live guests, game shows, radio drama, whatever will bring in people and get attention.
3) A Centralized real time channel listing for all participating stations.
4) An open sourced client and server that can be modified and customized via a plugin type method.
There is alot more to it, but right now its just a pipe dream that I have had for many years. Ive had a business plan (yes there is a revenue model) finished for quite a while, but have had it dismissed by investors with comments like "its really cool but its star trek...just not possible" even though its totally researched and documented. Frankly I dont know where to take it. Im looking at source forge but am up for any suggestions.
I really think the only hope for the future of streaming media is a united front but so far everyone I have talked to is looking for "cornering the market" or building their own conglomerate, is there any hope for folks that just want to share and communicate? I really think the best way to fight the RIAA is to not fight them at all but play the game the same way they do. The internet is still the greatest equalizer of all current forms of media. One person with determination and a good idea can create something that is just as competative and just as compelling as anything a big company with a wad of cash can do, and many people working together can do that 100 fold.
How long till we see:
Ive got a +3 sword of light only $1 to enter the raffle...
or hiring hitmen to take out some other player you dont like...
or shaking down weaker characters for thier milk money?
That is pure rubbish...look at Sprint and Sprient they are actually starting to go head to head in wireless...noone seems to be suing anyone.
Is this really any different than sony though? I mean sony first owned half the music industry, then the portable audio market and a good chunk of the home audio and video markets, Pc sales, and the playstation...and they have their own software developers too....sony is actually much bigger than MS but I never hear anyone screaming monopoly or unfair practice about them. Instead of whining why dont people just not buy the product and stop worrying about it, thats what I did no X-Box in my home...in fact after my dreamcast dies it will most likely be Game Over for the consoles in my life anyway.
It helps if you actually come up with a company that went out of business....
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Looking Glass was put out of business by Eidos its parent company due to debt from advertising and overspending on Diakatana. (ex Thief and Thief II cost a combined total of under $4 million, Diakatana cost over $30 million and sold all of 2 copies one to Romero and one to his mom.)
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/20/da
Origin was purchased for a nice hefty sum by Electronic Arts.
Microprose was bought by Infocom.
Sir-Tech just released Wizardry 8, they cant help it if they are slow.
Cavedog is still around, they stopped wasting time on Amen but are working on a new Total Annihilation game.
Interplay is still around but most of its money problems of late are due to political squables internally (ex Black Isle vs Interplay).
Not much evidently,
The antennae and reciever being installed is sold at a signifigant loss to the customer (over 50%) loss. The requirements for bandwidth and the limitations of spectrum mean that only a fixed number of customers can be added per sector. You still have to deal with transport costs. The day to day costs of maintaining the head end is many times greater than that of dsl. Add to that the need to constantly upgrade the sector to maintain an acceptable performance level and you are looking at a product that takes over 4 years until the customer is "paid" for.
Frankly, I see nothing wrong with what AT&T is doing, they are not simply shutting off the network tomorrow, customers have between 6 months and a year to find an alternative. I was surprised to see them bow out completely though, epecially when the next generation of wireless technology is so close. But a billion dollars is alot of money when you practically pay the customer to use the service. I am an engineer for another broadband wireless provider, its no easy job. Simply running a wireless providership is costly when you concider nearly every customer problem has to be taken care of on site (truck roll) and maintenance of a wireless head end is very costly as most areas served by broadband wireless have their towers in remote locations like mountain tops. In Salt Lake City for example over half the year the towers there are reachable only by snowcat or helicopter. The snowcat ride to the top can be as long as 6 hours. Add this in with problems like ice on the antennas, line of sight and outside interference and things can get really interesting.
Broadband Wireless is a great product but unfortunately the technology has not caught up with the demand. There are new advancements that will hopefully remove problems like line of sight and the need for a technician to install, but those are still 6 months to a year away. Currently the cost of adding a user is just too high to be profitable, every broadband wireless company out there is operating at a loss hoping that the next generation of devices will offer more potential.
The inoperability arguments really seem to be bunk most of the time. How difficult is it to install real audio? Other than the fact that you have constantly hunt the web page for the new nearly hidden link to the free version, or that you have to wrestle with it on install as it tries to take control of every media format available even ones it can run properly. I wouldnt say thats really microsofts problem.
I have no problem running eudora on my game box it doesnt mess anything else up, Winamp runs fine too...what exactly is the problem? I just find it rather ironic that folks who primarily use the OS that is percieved to be for the smarter crowd talk as if you have to be a mensa member to get a simple app running in windows.
The argument of linux giving you the best of is nice...but its not exactly the same thing....the equivalent would be if MS decided to bundle in the best freeware apps available...Im no big MS fan but its really starting to look that MS is damned if they do and damned if they dont, look at the java VM situation, sun got exactly what they asked for and now they are whining because of it.
Name one "bundled" feature of Windows that you dont find in the typical linux installs or osX? I cant think of one..in fact the latter 2 have even more bundled with them. The only thing that is going to stop microsoft is competition at the OS level. Either linux needs to step up to the plate and make it usable out of the box or someone else needs to come up with a better solution. I thought at one time BeOS was going to be the OS of the future...
I use debian myself, but i sure as hell wouldnt give it to my mother to install on her own, I do enough support for her windows machines.
Ive always thought that if anyone could challenge Microsoft it would be a deal between Be and Sony. Sony has already sold nearly $6 million ps2's and has a hard drive adaptor coming out very soon. Imagine adding a vga adaptor...suddenly you have an instant computer. One that is proprietary much like apple but cheap enough to be nearly disposable anyway.
That is the most pathetic statement regarding piracy that i have ever read. I guess you dont work for a living either since seeing all those folks in the welfare line makes it too difficult to justify working when all those people are getting it for free....
Also coming next year flying jetsons cars and robotic children. Seriously, right now WCDMA is still not standardized enough, I work for one of those major mobile phone companies you mention as an engineer and I can assure you that the best your going to get out of the next 2 years or so is around 144kbit. Right now most of the gameplans for 2mbit per second (G3's max speed) are more than 3-4 years down the road. So feel safe buying your PDA it will be obsolete by then anyway. NOTE: I am talking about the US market which is a bit behind on wireless deployment. I can speak for other parts of the world.
Insightful? Try moronic...comparing tab to stolen code is insane...by that way of thinking I guess Linux would be concidered stolen unix?
The biggest problem with opt-in and opt-out is that the rules for doing so should have required that the opt-in/opt-out address be from the same domain as the emails point of origin. That would solve most of the problems.