If TechTV picks it up, that would mean the end of them airing BBC's TechnoGames, which is basically just a collection of school projects made by elementary school students. Two birds with one stone.
Then again, the female host is certainly appealing..
"The music industry pays the RIAA to investigate and prosecute copyright infractions. They don't pay us a penny to do that. They don't pay ISPs a penny to do that. Even if they did, it would be a violation of due process and subscriber privacy."
So what if they did pay? It seems that the anti-RIAA people (telcos, ISPs, civil liberties) are still partly in it for the money. After all, the payment issue shouldn't even arise when the problem at hand is the DMCA's "turbocharged" subpoena clause.
The groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Alert, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and National Consumers League, argued the RIAA is relying on a portion of the DMCA that violates Americans' right to be anonymous online
Everyone has certain rights (such as anonymity) until they commit a crime. Pirating music (whethey they're justified or not) is still a violation of copyrights. Why do ISPs have the right to refuse handing over the information when they can be considered criminals? Is it because they don't provide the actual connections for the P2P network?
The web fonts were released so people can design sites which look sharper and nicer, such as the Verdana font. Others, like Georgia is "bordering on trendiness", as someone else put it.
And yet, Slashdot, the site that posted this news, is still using Times New Roman.. ironic.
Here's a pretty lengthy article on the reasons - basically, it's not exactly a safety issue; it's more of a nuisance to those using it at ground-level due to the way radio waves travel.
And on the other hand, there's the oblivious massively multiplayer online RPGs - Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, Everquest..
However, it seems that they all seem to faltering, or not seeing any substantial growth. Possible reasons?
Noone else is using it, anyway
It maneuvers like crap
There's alternatives much simplier than virtual reality
Basically, people aren't using it because there's no advantage of doing so. Those that are using it are, from what I've seen, much more social than the typical geek.
When will we see a world that provides both quality, as well as a reason to stay? Only MMORPGs seem to be providing it today.
(Then again, I haven't stepped into a chat-oriented world in a few years, so I don't know of any particular trends.. YMMV.)
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Obviously there's a difference between gross and profit, but it just shows that Blizzard will up their prices, and this is important when their MMORPG starts up.
Granted, they must have huge development/production costs, but so does Star Wars Galaxies.
This becomes much more of an issue as the market becomes riddled with next-generation MMO-Games (I believe we're at the 3rd or 4th gen. right now).
The big three used to be Asheron's Call, Everquest, and Ultima Online. More recently there are challengers such as Anarchy Online, Dark Ages of Camelot and that one space-age MMORTS game. While all have acheived a significant user base due to its hype, they don't seem to have the stability that the "big 3" still manage to maintain.
I've played all three of the big 3, and it is truly difficult to balance between even two of them, playing 8-10 hours daily.
Getting back to the original point - the upcoming MMOers will need to rely on more than hype, as can be seen by the current offerings. Hopefully they've learned the lesson by the launch of Anarchy Online.
As for the current big ones - it's slowly getting to the point where the only players are the dedicated ones, so there shouldn't be much of an "mass exodus" when new ones appear - probably more of a gradual one.
Blizzard is on the other side of the spectrum in terms of how they make profit. They initially charged $60 for Warcraft III.
It reportedly sold one million copies, which means roughly $60 million - about as much as Verant makes in a year with Everquest.
If Blizzard plans to sell Worlds of Warcraft, their massively multiplayer version of Warcraft for about the same retail price, they've got a huge cash cow waiting for them, especially with the current trends of higher monthly pricing for MMORPGS - from $10 to $12.95.
(Assuming they can get it out before the market becomes stuffed with major contenders such as Star Wars, Everquest 2, and Asheron's Call 2)
A universal set-top box would be very convenient - it brings together a wide, demanding audience from various cable companies, and as a result, may provide a better "viewing experience".
However, could this be another ploy by the industries to round the entire consumer base up in order to easily dish out digital rights management technology?
Accenture was originally part of the Arthur Andersen LLC conglomerate, as Andersen Consulting. Notice the consulting, not accounting. In January 2001 they renamed themselves to Accenture and began public trade.
That all doesn't mean that it's off the hook, however.
When Napster was bombarded by suits and started to slowly die, many of the users moved to Morpheus (known as MusicCity at the time and running their own OpenNap network, IIRC). So who did the RIAA attack? Kazaa/Morpheus, of course.
AudioGalaxy is yet another of those sued by the industry, and yet another source of music is destroyed. What will this mean for users of the service?
They'll move to another service, such as BearShare, iMesh, or WinMX. Very few of them will bother finding true alternative sources, such as IRC channels or FTP servers. And what does RIAA do best? Look for popular services and nuke them.
This is in no way a flame towards those who decide to move to other services - however, it just seems to be becoming a trend for the RIAA to hurt larger services first.
From the id Software E3 interview at GameSpy: GameSpy: [7th Guest and now DOOM III writer] Matt Costello... somehow I suspect you were involved with getting him involved in the project.
Graeme Devine: [laughs] Oh yeah! I remember we were looking for a writer... we'd talked to a bunch of writers, Tim and John were reading books and stuff, and I said "Well, I know a guy. I've worked with him before, he's really good: Matt Costello."
So, we got some of his books and John read them and loved them, and it's just really weird, bringing him onto the project... an old friend, bringing part the old team back. It's been really fun.
But if you take into account that you only have to pay for it once and spread the cost over all users of the purchased song, the cost is really quite minimal.
When you take into account that the creator only has to make it once, then take out all of the packaging, advertising, etc. needed for a typical album, the cost seems rather high.
Then again, That's still around $12 a CD, which is well below the current average.
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If TechTV picks it up, that would mean the end of them airing BBC's TechnoGames, which is basically just a collection of school projects made by elementary school students. Two birds with one stone.
Then again, the female host is certainly appealing..
I'm not sure, but I think the organization that funds them starts with the letter "g" and ends with "overnment".
Disclaimer: I haven't read the legal brief.
"The music industry pays the RIAA to investigate and prosecute copyright infractions. They don't pay us a penny to do that. They don't pay ISPs a penny to do that. Even if they did, it would be a violation of due process and subscriber privacy."
So what if they did pay? It seems that the anti-RIAA people (telcos, ISPs, civil liberties) are still partly in it for the money. After all, the payment issue shouldn't even arise when the problem at hand is the DMCA's "turbocharged" subpoena clause.
The groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Alert, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and National Consumers League, argued the RIAA is relying on a portion of the DMCA that violates Americans' right to be anonymous online
Everyone has certain rights (such as anonymity) until they commit a crime. Pirating music (whethey they're justified or not) is still a violation of copyrights. Why do ISPs have the right to refuse handing over the information when they can be considered criminals?
Is it because they don't provide the actual connections for the P2P network?
(Not a troll, just curious)
They need more power before they can survive a Slashdotting.
Why?
If you're asking why it's ironic, it's because the web fonts' primary purpose (I believe) was to move away from the classic fonts like TNR.
If you're asking why people started to move away - it's a matter of style. Just like you don't often see advertisements with serif-text.
The web fonts were released so people can design sites which look sharper and nicer, such as the Verdana font. Others, like Georgia is "bordering on trendiness", as someone else put it.
And yet, Slashdot, the site that posted this news, is still using Times New Roman.. ironic.
Here's a pretty lengthy article on the reasons - basically, it's not exactly a safety issue; it's more of a nuisance to those using it at ground-level due to the way radio waves travel.
On the other hand, the FAA says it's dangerous.
And before anyone corrects me, yes, I noticed they didn't say a jet. It could have been an air balloon, for all I know.
They were able to get the necessary tools (including a private-freaking-jet) to do some wardriving/warflying..
And they didn't have decent servers to handle a Slashdotting?
Oh, this is Australia. Never mind.
There's even a language (VRML) for such virtual worlds.
And on the other hand, there's the oblivious massively multiplayer online RPGs - Asheron's Call, Ultima Online, Everquest..
However, it seems that they all seem to faltering, or not seeing any substantial growth. Possible reasons?
Noone else is using it, anyway
It maneuvers like crap
There's alternatives much simplier than virtual reality
Basically, people aren't using it because there's no advantage of doing so. Those that are using it are, from what I've seen, much more social than the typical geek.
When will we see a world that provides both quality, as well as a reason to stay? Only MMORPGs seem to be providing it today.
(Then again, I haven't stepped into a chat-oriented world in a few years, so I don't know of any particular trends.. YMMV.)
The X-Box may be the most formidable yet.
Slashdot's one step ahead of you.
Obviously there's a difference between gross and profit, but it just shows that Blizzard will up their prices, and this is important when their MMORPG starts up.
Granted, they must have huge development/production costs, but so does Star Wars Galaxies.
This becomes much more of an issue as the market becomes riddled with next-generation MMO-Games (I believe we're at the 3rd or 4th gen. right now).
The big three used to be Asheron's Call, Everquest, and Ultima Online. More recently there are challengers such as Anarchy Online, Dark Ages of Camelot and that one space-age MMORTS game. While all have acheived a significant user base due to its hype, they don't seem to have the stability that the "big 3" still manage to maintain.
I've played all three of the big 3, and it is truly difficult to balance between even two of them, playing 8-10 hours daily.
Getting back to the original point - the upcoming MMOers will need to rely on more than hype, as can be seen by the current offerings. Hopefully they've learned the lesson by the launch of Anarchy Online.
As for the current big ones - it's slowly getting to the point where the only players are the dedicated ones, so there shouldn't be much of an "mass exodus" when new ones appear - probably more of a gradual one.
No, I have no idea why I wrote this much at 5am.
Blizzard is on the other side of the spectrum in terms of how they make profit. They initially charged $60 for Warcraft III.
It reportedly sold one million copies, which means roughly $60 million - about as much as Verant makes in a year with Everquest.
If Blizzard plans to sell Worlds of Warcraft, their massively multiplayer version of Warcraft for about the same retail price, they've got a huge cash cow waiting for them, especially with the current trends of higher monthly pricing for MMORPGS - from $10 to $12.95.
(Assuming they can get it out before the market becomes stuffed with major contenders such as Star Wars, Everquest 2, and Asheron's Call 2)
A universal set-top box would be very convenient - it brings together a wide, demanding audience from various cable companies, and as a result, may provide a better "viewing experience".
However, could this be another ploy by the industries to round the entire consumer base up in order to easily dish out digital rights management technology?
Then again, it's just a black box...
Maybe they backed off after they realized their crucial mistake.
Just a guess.
and this post gets modded down as redundant:
Accenture was originally part of the Arthur Andersen LLC conglomerate, as Andersen Consulting. Notice the consulting, not accounting. In January 2001 they renamed themselves to Accenture and began public trade.
That all doesn't mean that it's off the hook, however.
When Napster was bombarded by suits and started to slowly die, many of the users moved to Morpheus (known as MusicCity at the time and running their own OpenNap network, IIRC). So who did the RIAA attack? Kazaa/Morpheus, of course.
AudioGalaxy is yet another of those sued by the industry, and yet another source of music is destroyed. What will this mean for users of the service?
They'll move to another service, such as BearShare, iMesh, or WinMX. Very few of them will bother finding true alternative sources, such as IRC channels or FTP servers. And what does RIAA do best? Look for popular services and nuke them.
This is in no way a flame towards those who decide to move to other services - however, it just seems to be becoming a trend for the RIAA to hurt larger services first.
Linux and the Smile.D Virus keeps us Smiling
That pun would work better if it was actually called the Smile.D Virus.
Symantec and ZDNet appear to call it Simile.D.
What happens when your webmasters and the editing people don't communicate?
JonKatz.
The SEUL is an organization for using Linux for education. There's even a case study section.
That would be Matt Costello.
... somehow I suspect you were involved with getting him involved in the project.
... we'd talked to a bunch of writers, Tim and John were reading books and stuff, and I said "Well, I know a guy. I've worked with him before, he's really good: Matt Costello."
... an old friend, bringing part the old team back. It's been really fun.
From the id Software E3 interview at GameSpy:
GameSpy: [7th Guest and now DOOM III writer] Matt Costello
Graeme Devine: [laughs] Oh yeah! I remember we were looking for a writer
So, we got some of his books and John read them and loved them, and it's just really weird, bringing him onto the project
But if you take into account that you only have to pay for it once and spread the cost over all users of the purchased song, the cost is really quite minimal.
When you take into account that the creator only has to make it once, then take out all of the packaging, advertising, etc. needed for a typical album, the cost seems rather high.
Then again, That's still around $12 a CD, which is well below the current average.
First Lisa, now Lego.