We better ask the Pandemic and the US Army to stop distributing/playing Full Spectrum Warrior because it features violent Arabs in a Middle Eastern country.
While I've never used it, your VOD sounds like a crippled version of a TIVO or a Replay...
It's not the same really. Like selecting the list of Cinemax movies brings up a few dozen movies at any one time. I select which i want to watch and watch it then and there. No pre-recording needed. Or if I want to do a mini-Arliss Marathon, I can watch the 5 or so eps available at any time on the spot. There's also VoD content not available as normal channels, such as the Anime Network ADV runs(mmm...free anime).
Video On Demand. And I am not talking for PPV. I have RCN and HBO on my package. So with VOD I can tune into a bunch of HBO or Cinemax movies for free whenever I want to watch them. I can also watch eps of tons of HBO series(Sex in the City, Sopranos, Curb, Arliss, Real Time, etc), some of their comedy specials, some MaxAfterDark*cough* all for free as a HBO/Cinemax customer. I also get access to a lot of free content like ADV's anime channel, ESPN is getting into the act too. The abilitiy to pause, FF, and rewind are great too. VOD is something Satellite companies can't do at all, and it is so addictive.:)
Getting back to your original question, the debate on whether Cable or Satellite is better very much so is determined to where you live. I suggest trying cable first(since you don't need to buy equipment or sign contracts), and if you aren't happy, try a Satellite provider.
This has *nothing* to do with restricting a company from making a game based on Norse mythology. RTFA. The issue is that Mythica will be going into direct compatition with Mythic's game in the same genre(MMORPG). The name is the heart of the issue, not public domain mythology.
Actually, it does cause some financial damage reguardless. See, illegal hookups, especially from the tap(where the drop starts from at the pole, or sometimes inside a large building) tends to be very shoddy. Then it starts leaking signal. That's bad cause leaked cable signal can interfere with a lot of very important things. Things like police radio, or in very severe cases, it could cause some interference with air traffic control systems if it is near an airport. So the cable company must actual spend time and money checking for leakage and correcting it. There'd be a lot less leakage without cable theft.
Another way it can cause damage is black box descramblers. They got a nasty habit of backfeeding signal up the drop. That can cause reception problems for everything feeding out of the tap(taps in boston tend to serve roughly 8 residences/tap. Though larger taps do exist). Once people start to complain of reception problems(ghosting and humbars are common), cable company rolls out a tech to fix it. Sending techs out is not free.:p
Is that right? Satellite TV costs well over $1000 a year? No wonder people don't want to pay for it.
There's other costs involved. For example, in the cable industry, there's entire departments whose goal is to find, disconnect and deal with cable theft. And it is not cheap. When someone says that stealing cable is a victimless crime, there is a victim: The legal, paying subscribers who needs to help eat the cost of finding the theives.
Many of the people that were part of this scheme dont have the money to pay for satellite legally. They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
TV(Satellite or cable) is not a right. It is not a lifeline service(electricity, water, heat and phone are). In some states it is not considered a utility. It is a service. You pay money and you get the service. Don't got the money, you don't get the service.
Your logic is really bad, and shows a complete lack of comprehension of how a service business works.:p -Henry
Exactly cenobita. I am willing to bet that if MS made a game that had a name that was nearly indistinguishable from a smaller company, people would be up in arms.
Oh wait, MS is going that with upcoming norse myth mmorpg Mythica. How odd, one of the competitors in MMORPG is Mythic Entertainment, and Dark Age of Camelot has a Norse myth based realm.
I think GnuPengwyn needs a hug and to put down the tinfoil hat. Jesus, before you insinuate blizzard is a greedy company, do you have any idea how much a network like battle.net costs? Bandwidth alone can easily top 250,000/month. On top of that, I have never, ever, ever recieved one piece of spam from Blizzard, so I dont think they are selling my 'personal info'. Their newsletter thing is totaly opt-in.
And if you hate them so much, why did you buy Warcraft 3?:p
Speaking as someone who went to E3 and played with the N-Gage, I agree with Gabe on all counts. Control was arkward at best, screen wasn't so great, and the games I played were not making me want to consider buying this. And the having to turn the phone off and remove the back cover to change the games sealed the deal.:p
The only 'cool' thing it does is allow you to play against other people using GSRP and GSM. Oh, except those things cost money under just about every cell plan there is...
It is illegal. Only utilities can use poles. And beyond that, there's rules for utilities. Like no matter what pole you look at, the actual electrical lines are the highest tier of wires.
He'd heard enough complaints about spam from his friends, but he never understood them. The junk mail his mail carrier delivers bothers him much more, Shiels said.
"It costs money to be processed. And it's a waste of trees. It's intrusive as hell because you have to go through all of it. People don't get mad about that, and I don't understand why," he mused.
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We better ask the Pandemic and the US Army to stop distributing/playing Full Spectrum Warrior because it features violent Arabs in a Middle Eastern country.
...this is a very good example of how p2p can be used in a productive legal way.
:p
On the other, I wouldn't trust any 'security' patches found on p2p networks unless the file's link came from MS's site directly.
here.
Hearing, "We'll cut $1 billion in expenses!" makes investors happy.
You unlock the classic Metroid when you beat Metroid Zero for the GBA already.
...for proving once again that creating controversy is easier than creating a good game. Say hi to Acclaim there. :-|
-Henry
While I've never used it, your VOD sounds like a crippled version of a TIVO or a Replay...
It's not the same really. Like selecting the list of Cinemax movies brings up a few dozen movies at any one time. I select which i want to watch and watch it then and there. No pre-recording needed. Or if I want to do a mini-Arliss Marathon, I can watch the 5 or so eps available at any time on the spot. There's also VoD content not available as normal channels, such as the Anime Network ADV runs(mmm...free anime).
Video On Demand. And I am not talking for PPV. I have RCN and HBO on my package. So with VOD I can tune into a bunch of HBO or Cinemax movies for free whenever I want to watch them. I can also watch eps of tons of HBO series(Sex in the City, Sopranos, Curb, Arliss, Real Time, etc), some of their comedy specials, some MaxAfterDark*cough* all for free as a HBO/Cinemax customer. I also get access to a lot of free content like ADV's anime channel, ESPN is getting into the act too. The abilitiy to pause, FF, and rewind are great too. VOD is something Satellite companies can't do at all, and it is so addictive. :)
Getting back to your original question, the debate on whether Cable or Satellite is better very much so is determined to where you live. I suggest trying cable first(since you don't need to buy equipment or sign contracts), and if you aren't happy, try a Satellite provider.
This has *nothing* to do with restricting a company from making a game based on Norse mythology. RTFA. The issue is that Mythica will be going into direct compatition with Mythic's game in the same genre(MMORPG). The name is the heart of the issue, not public domain mythology.
...that pirate in the bottom right of the picture?
Why would the SEC bother with video game publishers when the Enron crooks are still running around?
Fewer political contributions to the Republican party, perhaps?
-Henry
Could a reason for their leaving possibly be in reaction to Blizzard's handling of the battlenet controversy? Just a thought...
:p
Um, no. The whole bnetd incident had nothing to do with this at all. Problems with VU seems so much more likely.
-Henry
Actually, it does cause some financial damage reguardless. See, illegal hookups, especially from the tap(where the drop starts from at the pole, or sometimes inside a large building) tends to be very shoddy. Then it starts leaking signal. That's bad cause leaked cable signal can interfere with a lot of very important things. Things like police radio, or in very severe cases, it could cause some interference with air traffic control systems if it is near an airport. So the cable company must actual spend time and money checking for leakage and correcting it. There'd be a lot less leakage without cable theft.
:p
Another way it can cause damage is black box descramblers. They got a nasty habit of backfeeding signal up the drop. That can cause reception problems for everything feeding out of the tap(taps in boston tend to serve roughly 8 residences/tap. Though larger taps do exist). Once people start to complain of reception problems(ghosting and humbars are common), cable company rolls out a tech to fix it. Sending techs out is not free.
-Henry
Is that right? Satellite TV costs well over $1000 a year? No wonder people don't want to pay for it.
There's other costs involved. For example, in the cable industry, there's entire departments whose goal is to find, disconnect and deal with cable theft. And it is not cheap. When someone says that stealing cable is a victimless crime, there is a victim: The legal, paying subscribers who needs to help eat the cost of finding the theives.
-Henry
Many of the people that were part of this scheme dont have the money to pay for satellite legally. They chose the illegal option because it was what they can afford. Thus it is not lost revenue to the companies since these people would never have paid full price.
:p
TV(Satellite or cable) is not a right. It is not a lifeline service(electricity, water, heat and phone are). In some states it is not considered a utility. It is a service. You pay money and you get the service. Don't got the money, you don't get the service.
Your logic is really bad, and shows a complete lack of comprehension of how a service business works.
-Henry
Exactly cenobita. I am willing to bet that if MS made a game that had a name that was nearly indistinguishable from a smaller company, people would be up in arms.
Oh wait, MS is going that with upcoming norse myth mmorpg Mythica. How odd, one of the competitors in MMORPG is Mythic Entertainment, and Dark Age of Camelot has a Norse myth based realm.
I think GnuPengwyn needs a hug and to put down the tinfoil hat. Jesus, before you insinuate blizzard is a greedy company, do you have any idea how much a network like battle.net costs? Bandwidth alone can easily top 250,000/month. On top of that, I have never, ever, ever recieved one piece of spam from Blizzard, so I dont think they are selling my 'personal info'. Their newsletter thing is totaly opt-in.
:p
And if you hate them so much, why did you buy Warcraft 3?
...just get an original name rather than just riding off the obviously inspired by Blizzard ripoff name?
Speaking as someone who went to E3 and played with the N-Gage, I agree with Gabe on all counts. Control was arkward at best, screen wasn't so great, and the games I played were not making me want to consider buying this. And the having to turn the phone off and remove the back cover to change the games sealed the deal. :p
The only 'cool' thing it does is allow you to play against other people using GSRP and GSM. Oh, except those things cost money under just about every cell plan there is...
-Henry
That's probably illegal.
It is illegal. Only utilities can use poles. And beyond that, there's rules for utilities. Like no matter what pole you look at, the actual electrical lines are the highest tier of wires.
Actually, in MGS2, Snake infiltrates that hexagon facility thing claiming his name is Lt. J.G. Iroquois Pliskin.
The protaginist of Escape from LA is Snake Pliskin.
Disclaimer: I am not in any way, shape, or form advocating mass mailing him either with 'real' mail or e-mail. I am just pointing out irony here. ;)
He'd heard enough complaints about spam from his friends, but he never understood them. The junk mail his mail carrier delivers bothers him much more, Shiels said.
"It costs money to be processed. And it's a waste of trees. It's intrusive as hell because you have to go through all of it. People don't get mad about that, and I don't understand why," he mused.
Is anyone else thinking what I am thinking?
Then we will send the landwalking sharks with the attached lasers to destroy PETA. 2 birds, one stone.
That depends on if the laser is waterproof. Unless you also develop an evil landwalking shark...