HD-DVD really should have stuck with that deal they were working on with Sony. They really screwed themselves by pulling out. HD-DVD will get an early lead, but the DAY the PS3 comes out there will immediately be more BLU-Ray players in the market than HD-DVD and it's all down hill for them from there. Their stubborness will the their epitaph.
It sounds like all you need is a person who doesn't care about his credit rating and you could get hundreds of thousands of dollars this way. Maybe after a while of losing this money they banks will start doing their due dilligence.
No matter where you work in the video game industry, if EA is forced to pay overtime then the effects will sweep across the video game landscape. Other developers copy what EA does. If they see EA getting away with it, they will try it too.
BTW, this memo looked as if it were written by Ike Turner asking Tina Turner to stay and that "he'll change, baby".
1. A game where you get to kill Laci Peterson and dump her pregnant body in the bay. If you can do it and get your boat cleaned before the detectives arrive you win $1,000.
2. A game like Flight Simulator (2000 version) except if you can fly your plane into the exact same place on the north tower as Mohammed Atta did you win $1,000,000.
3. A game where you get to play Susan Smith. If you can drive your car into a lake and kill your two children while escaping alive you win $10,000.
There is a reason why the entire country ground to a halt after Kennedy was assassinated. It wounded every American. To make a game of re-enacting a singular event that in one day caused so much pain and anguish is CLASSESS and I am embarrassed that the company involved (Traffic Games) works in the same industry that I do.
Here's a great idea for a game: You play a bankruptcy repossesser and you go to Traffic Games' office and repossess all their furniture and computers after they declare bankruptcy.
I don't understand why downloading it through Steam costs $49.99 when you can get it from places like http://www.yesasia.com/ for $39.99. I thought using Steam was going to cut out the middle man and save the buyer money while also increasing Valve's profits. So much for their great idea of direct downloading...
More like it will get better and peak a little after the middle and then decline again.
If dead Darth is Hayden, why not use Ewan for Obi Wan? And maybe use a sock puppet for Yoda?
For one thing, you don't have to spend a dime on your defense if you don't want to. Furthermore, if you have ever sued someone in a civil trial you would know that unless they are very wealthy to start off with, collecting any money from them is next to impossible. The RIAA is shaking the tree and seeing how many suckers fall out (settle out of court).
Most people have been using Trillian for so long that they will simply ask their friends to use ICQ or MSN so they can stay on their contact lists. In the end this will just result in fewer people using Yahoo messenger.
In a related story, NBC has decided to make their broadcast signal only work on a G.E. television. Brilliant move boys!
With every game company killing themselves to sell to the people who shop at Walmart, is it any shock that this has happened? A majority of them would find "minesweeper" to be mind boggingly complex.
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I can only imagine what the "flaming cell phone" looks like, but I figure it must be easy to accesorise with. Now the likes of Charles Nelson Reily, Divine and JM J Bullock can have a cell phone that emphasizes their unique charm. No longer will Harvey Firestein or RuPaul have to settle for a boring grey Nokia. It's too bad that Liberace will miss out on a phone that would have gone smashingly with his mink furs. With shows like "Queer Eye", "Queer as Folk" and "Sesame Street" making gay mainstream, it's only fitting they have their own phone to put on "vibrate".
Once the victims of the RIAA's legal tantrum finally start to make these lawsuits too lengthy and unprofitable for the RIAA using methods easily obtained online or from a library with law books for their state, the RIAA will not be able to ruin many people before they themselves are driven into bankruptcy faster than P2P file sharing ever would have. Every little step on their quest has to cost them more than its worth.
As far as them scaring people out of using P2P, you don't know very much about human nature. People still speed even though they see people getting tickets all the time. People still cheat on their spouses even though people get caught and lose everything they have all the time. People all believe in one universal truth... "It won't happen to me" (unless they're buying a lottery ticket, then it's reverse myopia)
These people can sign up to make calls for charities and politicians, both of which are exempt from the list.
So... Two million low skilled people who take up the valuable time of skilled and productive members of society are going to have to better their education and find another occupation... What was the problem again?
And that was likely a public transport taking you to public school. We are talking about private companies property. I don't see this as any different than being in a dressing room which is monitored or a casino which is monitored. My only concern is that the airline has the ability to edit such a recording to backup a false claim. I have this same fear with cameras on police cars. Until a neutral party is the one who owns those tapes and can verify they have not been edited, they are really leverage that can be edited to screw someone who didn't do what they are being portrayed as doing.
"Why would you want to spend extra money to be compatible?"
I would want any player I buy to be compatible with Sony and Philips as well as Panasonic for the same reason that I want any memory card reader I buy to be able to read Compact Flash and Secure Digital and Smart Media AND Memory Stick.... Because I can't control what people write things on or with, but I can control whether I can read them or not.
Stop wasting your time trying to kill a format that will not go away and just embrace what is and make sure it won't cost you the ability to watch a DVD because you are stuck on your principles.
Use your $$$ to buy the writer/media you prefer and let that be your vote in the format war, but refusing to push for readers that don't choke on one disc or the other is silly. They're just readers. Panasonic making their readers choke on DVD+R discs is no better than M$ making Netscape choke on content from its website. Be better than that.
I would say the biggest incompatability is the authors grasp of the english language.
But seriously, I think it's time we all accept that neither format is going to die at this point and just focus on buying PLAYERS that will best play all formats... The player is the cheapest link in this chain anyway. At that point, people can decide to record on - or + based on their preference for the price/feature aspect of the media... "Do I want to pay.50 less for my disc or do I want to be able to rewrite files on the disc without erasing the whole thing?" Every situation will be different. There's no excuse for a player to come out today that doesn't fully support both formats, and THAT is where our focus should be.
I can""t believe how accurate this review was of SOE""s new SWG game. I""ll be waiting for the content to improve before I""m going to buy it.
If Kirsten Dunst naked is "mediocre". Then I would be satisfied with far less than I previously imagined...
I made a dozen backup CDs to use in my car. A few weeks later I came back to my car to find that the backups were gone. I guess the RIAA is going to come after me now since I have allowed copies to fall into the hands of a person who didn't legally own the originals. The funny thing is, with this logic, even if the individual who took the backup CDs had returned them before I got back to notice them missing, I would still be guilty in the eyes of the RIAA and could be sued.
I was just reading THE DEATH OF A STAR before reading this article and I found some interesting similarities between a star and the RIAA.
Death of a star-
After few billion years [say 10 billion years] the star runs out of hydrogen. The star now starts desperately holding off its inevitable gravitational collapse by burning its existing helium atoms into carbon. At this point the outer shell of the star drifts away leaving the star cooler and less bright. Hence they are red in color. At this stage the star is known as a red giant. After few million years the star runs out of helium and burns whatever elements it has left into heavier elements until they cannot stave off the gravitational collapse of the star. The last outer layers drift away from the core as a gaseous shell, this gas that surrounds the core is called a PLANETARY NEBULA. The remaining core [thatâ(TM)s 80% of the original star] is now in its final stages. The core becomes a WHITE DWARF, or a dead star. A dim remnant of what it used to be.
I kinda see those shells of gas leaving the star as similar to the millions of people so disgusted and alienated by the actions of the RIAA that they refuse to do any further business with an industry that eats its customers to stay alive. Way to go out with class, RIAA! Ever wonder why we look at the carriage industry or the locomotive industry and remember them with romance and fondness? Because they went out with a modicum of grace. The interesting thing is that it's not possible that anyone at the RIAA is delusional enough to think that these actions will restore the monopoly that the RIAA used to wield. So therefore, at this point these actions are really simply taken out of spite. Just as they killed Napster long after it was anything remotely resembling a threat to them, they are now taking actions purely out of bitterness. At least any doubts as to their willingness to conduct business in good faith is finally being put to rest.
Kazaa has basically made it's reputation spitting in the face of media companies. Their attitude to the RIAA and the US Government has been one of defiance, and frankly, arrogance from the very start.
Well, then it would seem Kazaa and the RIAA speak the same language. That should be enough for them to make a deal.
It seems very easy to solve this. If the artists want their whole album heard and not just one song, then they should have the album be all one song. Then you have to download a huge hour long song for your.99
Now if they want more than.99 for the album, then we will see that their motivations have nothing to do with artistic integrity and everything to do with greed. The ball is in their court...
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HD-DVD really should have stuck with that deal they were working on with Sony. They really screwed themselves by pulling out. HD-DVD will get an early lead, but the DAY the PS3 comes out there will immediately be more BLU-Ray players in the market than HD-DVD and it's all down hill for them from there. Their stubborness will the their epitaph.
It sounds like all you need is a person who doesn't care about his credit rating and you could get hundreds of thousands of dollars this way. Maybe after a while of losing this money they banks will start doing their due dilligence.
Ooooh, I'm really scared!
Please....
Any calendar without a Halloween (Oct. 31) is immediately RE-JECTED!!!!!!!
BTW, this memo looked as if it were written by Ike Turner asking Tina Turner to stay and that "he'll change, baby".
2. A game like Flight Simulator (2000 version) except if you can fly your plane into the exact same place on the north tower as Mohammed Atta did you win $1,000,000.
3. A game where you get to play Susan Smith. If you can drive your car into a lake and kill your two children while escaping alive you win $10,000.
There is a reason why the entire country ground to a halt after Kennedy was assassinated. It wounded every American. To make a game of re-enacting a singular event that in one day caused so much pain and anguish is CLASSESS and I am embarrassed that the company involved (Traffic Games) works in the same industry that I do.
Here's a great idea for a game: You play a bankruptcy repossesser and you go to Traffic Games' office and repossess all their furniture and computers after they declare bankruptcy.
I don't understand why downloading it through Steam costs $49.99 when you can get it from places like http://www.yesasia.com/ for $39.99. I thought using Steam was going to cut out the middle man and save the buyer money while also increasing Valve's profits. So much for their great idea of direct downloading...
More like it will get better and peak a little after the middle and then decline again. If dead Darth is Hayden, why not use Ewan for Obi Wan? And maybe use a sock puppet for Yoda?
Maybe this means http://www.planetreplay.com/ can allow people to share shows from their ReplayTV's again.
For one thing, you don't have to spend a dime on your defense if you don't want to. Furthermore, if you have ever sued someone in a civil trial you would know that unless they are very wealthy to start off with, collecting any money from them is next to impossible. The RIAA is shaking the tree and seeing how many suckers fall out (settle out of court).
When you jack a girl's iPod you are jacking every iPod that she has jacked. Think about that for a while and clean your earbuds, dude!
In a related story, NBC has decided to make their broadcast signal only work on a G.E. television. Brilliant move boys!
With every game company killing themselves to sell to the people who shop at Walmart, is it any shock that this has happened? A majority of them would find "minesweeper" to be mind boggingly complex.
I can only imagine what the "flaming cell phone" looks like, but I figure it must be easy to accesorise with. Now the likes of Charles Nelson Reily, Divine and JM J Bullock can have a cell phone that emphasizes their unique charm. No longer will Harvey Firestein or RuPaul have to settle for a boring grey Nokia. It's too bad that Liberace will miss out on a phone that would have gone smashingly with his mink furs. With shows like "Queer Eye", "Queer as Folk" and "Sesame Street" making gay mainstream, it's only fitting they have their own phone to put on "vibrate".
As far as them scaring people out of using P2P, you don't know very much about human nature. People still speed even though they see people getting tickets all the time. People still cheat on their spouses even though people get caught and lose everything they have all the time. People all believe in one universal truth... "It won't happen to me" (unless they're buying a lottery ticket, then it's reverse myopia)
So... Two million low skilled people who take up the valuable time of skilled and productive members of society are going to have to better their education and find another occupation... What was the problem again?
And that was likely a public transport taking you to public school. We are talking about private companies property. I don't see this as any different than being in a dressing room which is monitored or a casino which is monitored. My only concern is that the airline has the ability to edit such a recording to backup a false claim. I have this same fear with cameras on police cars. Until a neutral party is the one who owns those tapes and can verify they have not been edited, they are really leverage that can be edited to screw someone who didn't do what they are being portrayed as doing.
I would want any player I buy to be compatible with Sony and Philips as well as Panasonic for the same reason that I want any memory card reader I buy to be able to read Compact Flash and Secure Digital and Smart Media AND Memory Stick.... Because I can't control what people write things on or with, but I can control whether I can read them or not.
Stop wasting your time trying to kill a format that will not go away and just embrace what is and make sure it won't cost you the ability to watch a DVD because you are stuck on your principles.
Use your $$$ to buy the writer/media you prefer and let that be your vote in the format war, but refusing to push for readers that don't choke on one disc or the other is silly. They're just readers. Panasonic making their readers choke on DVD+R discs is no better than M$ making Netscape choke on content from its website. Be better than that.
I would say the biggest incompatability is the authors grasp of the english language. But seriously, I think it's time we all accept that neither format is going to die at this point and just focus on buying PLAYERS that will best play all formats... The player is the cheapest link in this chain anyway. At that point, people can decide to record on - or + based on their preference for the price/feature aspect of the media... "Do I want to pay .50 less for my disc or do I want to be able to rewrite files on the disc without erasing the whole thing?" Every situation will be different. There's no excuse for a player to come out today that doesn't fully support both formats, and THAT is where our focus should be.
I can""t believe how accurate this review was of SOE""s new SWG game. I""ll be waiting for the content to improve before I""m going to buy it. If Kirsten Dunst naked is "mediocre". Then I would be satisfied with far less than I previously imagined...
I made a dozen backup CDs to use in my car. A few weeks later I came back to my car to find that the backups were gone. I guess the RIAA is going to come after me now since I have allowed copies to fall into the hands of a person who didn't legally own the originals. The funny thing is, with this logic, even if the individual who took the backup CDs had returned them before I got back to notice them missing, I would still be guilty in the eyes of the RIAA and could be sued.
I kinda see those shells of gas leaving the star as similar to the millions of people so disgusted and alienated by the actions of the RIAA that they refuse to do any further business with an industry that eats its customers to stay alive. Way to go out with class, RIAA! Ever wonder why we look at the carriage industry or the locomotive industry and remember them with romance and fondness? Because they went out with a modicum of grace. The interesting thing is that it's not possible that anyone at the RIAA is delusional enough to think that these actions will restore the monopoly that the RIAA used to wield. So therefore, at this point these actions are really simply taken out of spite. Just as they killed Napster long after it was anything remotely resembling a threat to them, they are now taking actions purely out of bitterness. At least any doubts as to their willingness to conduct business in good faith is finally being put to rest.
Well, then it would seem Kazaa and the RIAA speak the same language. That should be enough for them to make a deal.
Now if they want more than .99 for the album, then we will see that their motivations have nothing to do with artistic integrity and everything to do with greed. The ball is in their court...