> Even with a large HDTV, and really good speakers, > it would be hard to notice a quality difference.
WRONG!
The difference in quality from DVD to HD-DVD will be enormous.
For example, even if I could get the entire next season of Lost on DVD, I would still prefer TiVOing them. Over the air HDTV absolutely obliterates DVD quality.
I am sad when I have to watch tv shows on DVD. HDTV is so much better that both regular TV and DVD are almost depressing to watch.
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There is no comparison.
Sports in regular definition looks like garbage.
I watched the Super Bowl 2 years ago on a friend's TV in HD. It ruined me. I couldn't watch non-HD ever again.
I really hope the movies they make are good ones, and good sellers, or else this little experiment will lengthen the time it takes before this is common practice.
The reality is that the whole process of seeing a movie in a theater continues to lose its luster. It is too expensive. The food and drinks keep getting more and more outrageous in price. It is too inconvenient. Even in pure performance, the theater is losing out - more and more people have equal or superior sound and visual quality in their home theaters.
Also, it is better to sell copies of your movie immediately and eliminate one of the biggest reasons people pirate movies over the internet.
This is a huge boon to people with children. Going to see a movie is a pretty tough task when you have kids (not to mention, the expense is astronomical).
Huh? So if I kill you with my car because I was piss drunk it is not murder? If I run you over while I am trying to get away from another crime I committed, it is not murder? Man, you have some serious issues! Killing a person against thier will for _any_ reason is MURDER! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Murder is a legal term. Please go research it.
Everything you listed is a KILLING, but it is not murder.
Riddle me this, Batman. From the perspective of advertisers' profits, what's the difference between me watching a television program with the ads removed and walking away from the TV for some championship thumb twiddling during commercial breaks?
Yeah right... walk away from the TV?
Isn't that sortof like getting up to change the channel?
> However, it would -not- be an additive to what the > numbers are now.
Wrong.
There is ONE reason I did not buy Half Life 2: Steam.
If they had not included this outrageous scheme, I would have bought 2 copies (one for me, one for my wife). Instead, we bought none.
We are not alone.
There has never been a single bit of evidence that shows piracy actually hurts game sales. It is all imagined hype used by publishers to justify intrusive scams like Steam.
This is an impending disaster for the gaming marketplace.
First it was EA with the NFL license. We know why they did it: the ESPN line of games was eating into their profits bigtime, and had exposed the fact that $20 for a barely updated annual game is more than enough to charge.
With "The Day after Tomorrow" coming out in two weeks and having just read "Lucifer's Hammer" 3 months ago, I cannot help but react to news like this with a bit of paranoia.
How good are we at accurately projecting the trajectory of such objects?
Is there any web site that tracks how well JPL has done at predicting the paths of other celstial objects? How often are they wrong? When they are wrong, how WRONG are they?
Perhaps having a wife and a kid also adds to the paranoia here, despite knowing rationally I shouldn't worry about something like this.
Do you believe that technological advancement and deepening immersion of players into games will decrease the role writing plays, or bolster it?
We are still quite far from portraying subtle human emotions in games. We are taking baby steps to that direction, but its slow going. As we get closer to that, closer to the skin as it were, the need for good writing will increase.
I agree that it SHOULD increase but for at least the medium term, I think there is so much obsession with technology in graphical games that story and writing will NOT improve for the forseeable future.
If you want rich stories (and role playing, for that matter), look to text MMORPGs and MUDs.
If you want great action and beautiful vistas, stick with graphical games.
Max Payne 2's story was good for an action game but pathetic for almost any other medium.
Why do so many web sites feel the need to waste everyone's time with idiotic April Fool's pranks like this stupid story?
April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year.
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The main reason TIVO is going to die is because of a total failure to innovate their product. The TIVO was absolutely awesome 2-3 years ago. I still love my TIVO but I am constantly disgusted by their failure to improve the product.
Some things that should have been implemented AGES ago:
1) The ability to store shows in folders. It would be very convenient to have all your episodes of (Insert Show Here) in a single folder.
2) The ability to sort your programs by ANYTHING other than time/date stamp. Sorting by name sure would be nice.
3) The ability to start recording LATE rather than just early. With shows that start at stupid times like 8:59 now, it would be nice to start recording 1 minute late to avoid overlap.
4) The ability to still record part of a show if there is overlap. Just because something overlaps for 5 minutes doesn't mean the later show should just be abandoned.
5) Sharing shows between multiple TiVOs.
Finally, the recent revelation that TiVO logs EVERYTHING you go: when you pause, what parts of a show you watch more than once, etc. and sells this data really hurt TiVO badly.
I didn't mind them keeping aggregate data on what shows got recorded because that helps me. If the shows I watch are considered "popular" then it is less likely they will be cancelled.
But I definitely don't like them being able to record data on when I pause, when I fast forward, what I watch more than once, etc. That is an invasion of privacy. Furthermore, I suspect this additional logging is the reason why so many TiVO owners I know report far more problems and lags when performing such operations.
The failure to innovate and the implementation of incredibly invasive logging are what will kill TiVO. Those actions make the environment RIPE for a competitor to steal customers.
Too bad that is absolutely irrelevant to the issue here.
The topic is law and why "nerds" seem to be so interested in the subject on/.
The fact that the law is deliberately written to be confusing to non-lawyers was one aspect of one of my 3 major reasons why the subject of law crops up so often here.
If you hope to graduate, you might want to work on reading comprehension.
I never said it was hard. I said that the law is written to be deliberately confusing so people without legal training cannot understand it well. If you are unable to acknowledge that fact, then you are a disgrace to an otherwise high quality law school.
Instead of popping a boner at the opportunity to be contrary, try READING what you are replying to.
Nothing you wrote actually contradicts anything I posted, despite your clear intention for it to do so.
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How about for next year's April Fool's joke, you just run the site normally.
Are you idiots aware yet that this is not funny any more (if it ever was).
Do you really think telling the same joke over and over makes it funny?
> XBox 360 is not released yet, and March isn't
> year away. You should take care about your problem
> with numbers and dates.
You aren't seriously believing Sony's vaporware BS? They are trying the same thing they did (successfully) to ruin the Dreamcast.
The PS3 will come out in time for Christmas 2006, no earlier.
> Even with a large HDTV, and really good speakers,
> it would be hard to notice a quality difference.
WRONG!
The difference in quality from DVD to HD-DVD will be enormous.
For example, even if I could get the entire next season of Lost on DVD, I would still prefer TiVOing them. Over the air HDTV absolutely obliterates DVD quality.
I am sad when I have to watch tv shows on DVD. HDTV is so much better that both regular TV and DVD are almost depressing to watch.
There is no comparison.
Sports in regular definition looks like garbage.
I watched the Super Bowl 2 years ago on a friend's TV in HD. It ruined me. I couldn't watch non-HD ever again.
I really hope the movies they make are good ones, and good sellers, or else this little experiment will lengthen the time it takes before this is common practice.
The reality is that the whole process of seeing a movie in a theater continues to lose its luster. It is too expensive. The food and drinks keep getting more and more outrageous in price. It is too inconvenient. Even in pure performance, the theater is losing out - more and more people have equal or superior sound and visual quality in their home theaters.
Also, it is better to sell copies of your movie immediately and eliminate one of the biggest reasons people pirate movies over the internet.
This is a huge boon to people with children. Going to see a movie is a pretty tough task when you have kids (not to mention, the expense is astronomical).
Huh? So if I kill you with my car because I was piss drunk it is not murder? If I run you over while I am trying to get away from another crime I committed, it is not murder? Man, you have some serious issues! Killing a person against thier will for _any_ reason is MURDER!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Murder is a legal term. Please go research it.
Everything you listed is a KILLING, but it is not murder.
Please educate yourself.
Yes it does. Most countries aren't so silly as to make all of their bill denominations the same size and color. But that's another rant./i?
Different sizes?
How idiotic is that.
Do you buy books where the pages are different sizes?
Bills being the same size makes it far easier to organize them and hold them in a wallet.
The fact that all our money is green IS style.
Other countries and their gaudy monopoly money is not very stylish imho.
Furthermore, coins suck. I hate coins. They are a hassle to carry around. Bills fold nicely in a wallet and you're done.
April 1st is the WORST day to use the internet.
Every web site operator seems to fell compelled to pull some kind of goofy trick or have some kind of bogus story.
It might have been funny 10 years ago. But guess what folks, its been done.
Enough already.
April 1 is just another day.
Yeah right... walk away from the TV?
Isn't that sortof like getting up to change the channel?
> I feel sorry for him that he's only going to be President for just under 4 years.
Huh?
George Bush has already been President for over 4 years.
> There's a rumor that John Carmack once asked Steve .......... AND?!?!?!
> Jobs what would happen if they'd put one more key
> on the keyboard."
What is up with the story. It says there is a rumor but doesn't fully elaborate on what the rumor is.
Does anyone know what supposedly happened in this exchange?
If such a rumor exists, obviously Jobs must have had some answer.
> However, it would -not- be an additive to what the
> numbers are now.
Wrong.
There is ONE reason I did not buy Half Life 2: Steam.
If they had not included this outrageous scheme, I would have bought 2 copies (one for me, one for my wife). Instead, we bought none.
We are not alone.
There has never been a single bit of evidence that shows piracy actually hurts game sales. It is all imagined hype used by publishers to justify intrusive scams like Steam.
This is an impending disaster for the gaming marketplace.
First it was EA with the NFL license. We know why they did it: the ESPN line of games was eating into their profits bigtime, and had exposed the fact that $20 for a barely updated annual game is more than enough to charge.
2003
Madden sales 5,000,000
ESPN sales 450,000
2004 (through Nov)
Madden sales 3,000,000
ESPN sales 2,000,000
Now Take 2 tries to counter EA by inking this deal.
This is a horrible trend and I don't see it being reversed unless consumers vote with their wallets.
> And while he's out riding his Segway, the pool boy
> is riding his wife.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That is sheer brilliance.
With "The Day after Tomorrow" coming out in two weeks and having just read "Lucifer's Hammer" 3 months ago, I cannot help but react to news like this with a bit of paranoia.
How good are we at accurately projecting the trajectory of such objects?
Is there any web site that tracks how well JPL has done at predicting the paths of other celstial objects? How often are they wrong? When they are wrong, how WRONG are they?
Perhaps having a wife and a kid also adds to the paranoia here, despite knowing rationally I shouldn't worry about something like this.
Do you believe that technological advancement and deepening immersion of players into games will decrease the role writing plays, or bolster it?
We are still quite far from portraying subtle human emotions in games. We are taking baby steps to that direction, but its slow going. As we get closer to that, closer to the skin as it were, the need for good writing will increase.
I agree that it SHOULD increase but for at least the medium term, I think there is so much obsession with technology in graphical games that story and writing will NOT improve for the forseeable future.
If you want rich stories (and role playing, for that matter), look to text MMORPGs and MUDs.
If you want great action and beautiful vistas, stick with graphical games.
Max Payne 2's story was good for an action game but pathetic for almost any other medium.
> > "yeah but nobody wants to buy a text-based game"
>
> Which is probably why they're free these days.
Wrong.
The commercial text gaming business is BOOMING.
http://www.thresholdrpg.com
http://www.topmudsites.com
http://www.mudconnector.com
RIGHT ON!
These April Fools stories are complete tripe.
They are not even SLIGHTLY amusing or interesting.
I really wish this day and this trend would just DIE.
April Fool's Day used to be moderately amusing before the internet. The internet turned this into the most obnoxious day of the year.
What we get are a bunch of talentless, uncreative nimrods wasting our time with their ham handed, clumsy attempts at humor.
Oh boy.
Another stupid April Fool's news item.
April 2nd cannot come soon enough.
Can't we just add a day to February and get rid of April 1?
Why do so many web sites feel the need to waste everyone's time with idiotic April Fool's pranks like this stupid story?
April Fool's Day is the worst day of the year.
The main reason TIVO is going to die is because of a total failure to innovate their product. The TIVO was absolutely awesome 2-3 years ago. I still love my TIVO but I am constantly disgusted by their failure to improve the product.
Some things that should have been implemented AGES ago:
1) The ability to store shows in folders. It would be very convenient to have all your episodes of (Insert Show Here) in a single folder.
2) The ability to sort your programs by ANYTHING other than time/date stamp. Sorting by name sure would be nice.
3) The ability to start recording LATE rather than just early. With shows that start at stupid times like 8:59 now, it would be nice to start recording 1 minute late to avoid overlap.
4) The ability to still record part of a show if there is overlap. Just because something overlaps for 5 minutes doesn't mean the later show should just be abandoned.
5) Sharing shows between multiple TiVOs.
Finally, the recent revelation that TiVO logs EVERYTHING you go: when you pause, what parts of a show you watch more than once, etc. and sells this data really hurt TiVO badly.
I didn't mind them keeping aggregate data on what shows got recorded because that helps me. If the shows I watch are considered "popular" then it is less likely they will be cancelled.
But I definitely don't like them being able to record data on when I pause, when I fast forward, what I watch more than once, etc. That is an invasion of privacy. Furthermore, I suspect this additional logging is the reason why so many TiVO owners I know report far more problems and lags when performing such operations.
The failure to innovate and the implementation of incredibly invasive logging are what will kill TiVO. Those actions make the environment RIPE for a competitor to steal customers.
> He said it wasn't difficult.
Wrong. Learn to read, coward.
He specifically said:
> Law, as a subject, isn't that hard.
That was not the point whatsoever. He missed it in his law student fervor to be contrary.
> On the issue of the law being deliberately
> confusing, it is not.
Then you are utterly clueless about the law. Lawyers draft the law to be deliberately confusing because it ensures that they are needed.
> There is a certain amount of jargon used
> however, laws are written to be percise and
> nothing more.
Hahahahaha Oh my, that's a whopper.
> If you cannot understand law that is fine but
> just because you cannot understand something
> doesn't mean others cannot.
You enjoy arguing against straw men apparently.
I understand the law just fine. Most people do not, however, because the law is deliberately written to be confusing to average, everyday folks.
That is why morons like yourself come here and blather foolishly in perfect demonstrance of your idiocy on the matter.
> As mentioned before Chief Justice John Marshall
> only studied it for six weeks.
Yipdee doo. Einstein flunked algebra. Does that mean quantum physics is easy too?
Get a clue, coward.
Yup. You sure could.
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Too bad that is absolutely irrelevant to the issue here.
The topic is law and why "nerds" seem to be so interested in the subject on
The fact that the law is deliberately written to be confusing to non-lawyers was one aspect of one of my 3 major reasons why the subject of law crops up so often here.
I never said the law was UNIQUE in this regard.
Who said it was hard?
If you hope to graduate, you might want to work on reading comprehension.
I never said it was hard. I said that the law is written to be deliberately confusing so people without legal training cannot understand it well. If you are unable to acknowledge that fact, then you are a disgrace to an otherwise high quality law school.
Instead of popping a boner at the opportunity to be contrary, try READING what you are replying to.
Nothing you wrote actually contradicts anything I posted, despite your clear intention for it to do so.