I guess as long as they don't go after other parodies I'm cool with it, but there's something that I can't describe about this leaving a funny taste in my mouth. It's probably just paranoia.
It's a licensing deal essentially. Lucas films gives the site/films rights to spoof their property in exchange for a percentage, and more importantly to them probably, some control over the product.
I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that this is all bad, it sounds pretty good actually, but some spoofs might be asked to tone down or be rejected outright. Still, they can continue underground I suppose.
So long as Lucas himself doesn't "direct" any of the goings on here, it looks good...
I like to reply with an attachment. Typically a 1 meg scanned.jpg of a handwritten note saying "I do not wish to receive e-mail from you in the future. Thank you."
Now I know the irony of this and that it isn't the BEST way to deal with it, but if enough people do the same, it calls attention to the problem. It won't work in all cases either, but makes me feel better.
You're vailed attempts to keep your post on topic by using dinosaurs in the examples don't altar the fact that your still off topic.
Also, using this advice, WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY THAT SOMETHING THAT IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE OWNS SOMETHING, YOU SAY "ITS", what do I say when my dog spot can't find [it's] toy? I'm pretty sure its a male.
There has to be more to the rule then that. And take it easy on the use of all capitol letters.
Anyway, this is what you get when MS apps correct half the world's spelling and grammar.
This is the "new economy," remember. They'll sell this by putting more ingenuity, time, and quality into the marketing than the product. I imagine with some well-heeled VC backing them and the right PR firm, they already have a line at their door.
Even supposing someone at an ad agency has a clue what ARIN is or can tell how worthless this new scheme is, they'll just jump on the train. They'll buy into the database and in turn drop the same sales pitch on their customers. This makes them seem to have an advantage over competitors. In turn those competitors will buy into the service just to be keep up. Remember, crap like this looks great on promotional material and sounds even better in sales presentations.
I don't think most companies that distribute region-specific content actually care where it's going to. First and foremost, pr0n and similar content. As long as someone clicks through a disclaimer, it's out of the site's hands and they can start collecting cash. I don't think they want to know that X% of their revenue comes from a region they shouldn't be streaming to.
The quote also mentions "music downloads". I'm pretty sure this is thrown in there to obscure the fact that the service is for the afore mentioned "industry." I can't imagine music downloads that are disallowed by region. Either it's downloadable or it's not (or you pay per download). Maybe this is good for pirates in China who don't want US record labels to find their sites, though.
Credit card info, disclaimers, and mailing addresses have always worked in the past, why would a company buy this service with the possiblilty of being liable once they get the knowledge that they're sending content to the wrong region?
It's about the same as calling everyone in the phone book and recording the way the phone is answered for resale
Hey, I'm going to do that. That's a great idea.
(What reason someone would have for that I can't guess, but it's more to make a point)
It should be good for a laugh. Ah ha ha, this is going to be good...
Wrong answer.
Right answer? Because they can. They dump millions daily into programs/products that will never see the light of day. If the X-box isn't one of them, they will buy Sega just to clear up the marketplace, gain access to titles and franchises, and put pressure on Sony. They're not in the console business to sell consoles, they're in the console business to grab marketshare of what may well be the "gateway drug" to LANs, ISP/high bandwidth subscriptions, regular PCs and other jucier and more profitable products and services. Get your foot in the door first and NEVER take it out. Remember, Sony is getting into the PC business.
Jaguar could continue to make high end cars and sell them at a low volume. Unlike the auto industry where you can (possibly) survive via volume or high markup on high end products, the console business is all about volume. According to the article Sega reported losses of 200+ Million USD last quarter. I doubt they'll just lay low taking that kind of pounding and then come back.
Jaguar was and is recognized as a premiere automobile manufacturer and they had patents on a damn fine engine. Sega isn't so lucky. Even with all that, it wasn't until Jaguar was bought by Ford that they started penetrating the mass market (US at least). Like the article states, Sega is (or should be) hoping for the same from MS.
I don't know if they'd have as much of a case since they are Guinness and not Guiness. Or would they?
There are a ton of sites that use common typos to grab eyeballs. I think this is ripping someone off more than "x-sucks.com." If you don't know the meaning of the word "sucks," you won't understand much of the English language site anyway. www.webcrawler.com vs. www.webcrawlre.com for example (one is an old search engine, one is pr0n, IIRC-trust me, don't give them the hits by checking).
Guess it's back on the Canadian lagers and Murphy's for me...
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On a side note, you notice how short MSNBC's article was? Obviously, enough text there for them to claim that they are still a news organization, but short enough to try to keep the stock for MS up. Nothing insightful there, but I still have to wonder how they will cover it in the future.
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MSNBC's story is a copy of the Wall Street Journal article which apparently broke the news - it's the most complete.
Even they woulnd't botch a blantant conflict of interest like that. Always read the dateline and byline.
True. And don't forget that the PS2 will be backwards compatible with old PS games. Parents will definately like that. Granted no kid is going to want to play NHL 2000 when NHL 2001 is out, but parents and other buyers will at least feel better about not having to toss those old games. And they can always just rent their kids The Matrix on DVD to shut them up. The PS2 plays those too.
Besides, I'm sick of all those whiny punks playing all my favorite mods (especially CS). I don't need Gran Turino or Final Fantasy XXI to come out for the PC. Leave those to the console kiddies.
Speaking of demeaning subjects (see your original rant), I would have to say you are demeaning all the topics you're inanely soapboxing about (captial punishment, murder, animal abuse, etc.) by placing them in a discussion about an article entitled "The Hack Furby Two-Fifty Challenge."
Sheesh, isn't there another site you can waste bandwidth at?
I jammed mine into a door hinge to keep the door open. It wasn't designed for that (note the cracked display) AND it did a damn good job but that hardly makes it serious art.
For what this guy will probably get for this "art," I would gladly draw a 4'x 17', hell a 20'x 20', mass of doodles. I don't think people deserve props for wasting everyone's time, even if they waste a lot of their own in the process.
I'm glad to see most everyone sees through this piece. I'm sure the idea was to woo "techies" by running the same old crap through a new vehicle. And to get some gallery owner in London who (conspicuously) uses a Palm to champion the guy.
"As far as we know, this is the first serious, large-scale painting produced on a Palm." Call me old-fashioned, but don't paintings usually require paint? If it were truly produced on a Palm, it wouldn't be a painting, if it were truly painted it would just be designed on a Palm. Either way, I'd call it more of a mosaic or montage or hanging bunch of doodles or something.
Now if someone were to do the same thing with a few hundred screen shots of Asteroids...wait, no, that's my idea(TM)...
The problem I see is that manufacturers will may use it as a way to jack up prices for bad ram. Kind of like the way chips are sold: You make a ton of what you want to be 900s, say, and the ones that don't make the cut (bad) are sold as 800s, 750s, whatever clockspeed they are stable at. What's to stop a 512 card being sold as a viable 256 for Linux systems? So instead of dirt cheap/free damaged 512s, you're getting 256-priced damaged 512s.
Granted, there was little use for damaged memory before, but now you'll have to pay for it.
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A lawyer wrote Star Wars? Excellent!
It's a licensing deal essentially. Lucas films gives the site/films rights to spoof their property in exchange for a percentage, and more importantly to them probably, some control over the product.
I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that this is all bad, it sounds pretty good actually, but some spoofs might be asked to tone down or be rejected outright. Still, they can continue underground I suppose.
So long as Lucas himself doesn't "direct" any of the goings on here, it looks good...
Now I know the irony of this and that it isn't the BEST way to deal with it, but if enough people do the same, it calls attention to the problem. It won't work in all cases either, but makes me feel better.
Also, using this advice, WHEN YOU WANT TO SAY THAT SOMETHING THAT IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE OWNS SOMETHING, YOU SAY "ITS", what do I say when my dog spot can't find [it's] toy? I'm pretty sure its a male.
There has to be more to the rule then that. And take it easy on the use of all capitol letters.
Anyway, this is what you get when MS apps correct half the world's spelling and grammar.
Shouptronic sounds like a female "Urban R&B" band.
(Yes, I've registered with my slashdot nick, too).
Even supposing someone at an ad agency has a clue what ARIN is or can tell how worthless this new scheme is, they'll just jump on the train. They'll buy into the database and in turn drop the same sales pitch on their customers. This makes them seem to have an advantage over competitors. In turn those competitors will buy into the service just to be keep up. Remember, crap like this looks great on promotional material and sounds even better in sales presentations.
The quote also mentions "music downloads". I'm pretty sure this is thrown in there to obscure the fact that the service is for the afore mentioned "industry." I can't imagine music downloads that are disallowed by region. Either it's downloadable or it's not (or you pay per download). Maybe this is good for pirates in China who don't want US record labels to find their sites, though.
Credit card info, disclaimers, and mailing addresses have always worked in the past, why would a company buy this service with the possiblilty of being liable once they get the knowledge that they're sending content to the wrong region?
Hey, I'm going to do that. That's a great idea.
(What reason someone would have for that I can't guess, but it's more to make a point)
It should be good for a laugh. Ah ha ha, this is going to be good...
Right answer? Because they can. They dump millions daily into programs/products that will never see the light of day. If the X-box isn't one of them, they will buy Sega just to clear up the marketplace, gain access to titles and franchises, and put pressure on Sony.
They're not in the console business to sell consoles, they're in the console business to grab marketshare of what may well be the "gateway drug" to LANs, ISP/high bandwidth subscriptions, regular PCs and other jucier and more profitable products and services. Get your foot in the door first and NEVER take it out. Remember, Sony is getting into the PC business.
Jaguar was and is recognized as a premiere automobile manufacturer and they had patents on a damn fine engine. Sega isn't so lucky. Even with all that, it wasn't until Jaguar was bought by Ford that they started penetrating the mass market (US at least). Like the article states, Sega is (or should be) hoping for the same from MS.
There are a ton of sites that use common typos to grab eyeballs. I think this is ripping someone off more than "x-sucks.com." If you don't know the meaning of the word "sucks," you won't understand much of the English language site anyway.
www.webcrawler.com vs. www.webcrawlre.com for example (one is an old search engine, one is pr0n, IIRC-trust me, don't give them the hits by checking).
Guess it's back on the Canadian lagers and Murphy's for me...
Note: MSNBC's story is a copy of the Wall Street Journal article which apparently broke the news - it's the most complete.
Even they woulnd't botch a blantant conflict of interest like that. Always read the dateline and byline.
Besides, I'm sick of all those whiny punks playing all my favorite mods (especially CS). I don't need Gran Turino or Final Fantasy XXI to come out for the PC. Leave those to the console kiddies.
Sheesh, isn't there another site you can waste bandwidth at?
For what this guy will probably get for this "art," I would gladly draw a 4'x 17', hell a 20'x 20', mass of doodles. I don't think people deserve props for wasting everyone's time, even if they waste a lot of their own in the process.
"As far as we know, this is the first serious, large-scale painting produced on a Palm." Call me old-fashioned, but don't paintings usually require paint? If it were truly produced on a Palm, it wouldn't be a painting, if it were truly painted it would just be designed on a Palm. Either way, I'd call it more of a mosaic or montage or hanging bunch of doodles or something.
Now if someone were to do the same thing with a few hundred screen shots of Asteroids...wait, no, that's my idea(TM)...
Granted, there was little use for damaged memory before, but now you'll have to pay for it.