Doing a google of the patents and lawsuit, it seems they sued them over any manipulation (Or, "Warp" in their terms) of the feeds. Ie. Pausing live tv, fast forwarding, rewinding, pretty much any DVR function. Other articles mention many other companies will be sued next.
Looking around, Tivos patent covers pretty much any digital recording features. Dual tuners, fast forward, pause, rewind, etc. There really isn't a way to even skirt around these concepts and still be able to call a DVR a DVR anymore unless you're paying Tivo.
Articles mention this win will allow Tivo to pretty much go after anyone and everyone, and I'm going to guess Echostars "next generation" DVR software will also fall be next up on the chopping block. Unless of course their new DVR software doesn't allow pausing of live tv, recording, fast forwarding, rewinding.. Pretty much anything that allows you to "warp" the multimedia streams.
I can't think of a single application other than email that can be used efficiently at this resolution. Web browsing is pretty pointless with sites wanting 1024 or more these days. How in the world could you edit photos and videos on something like that? What about playing any games? Word and Excel might work fine, but man, could you imagine having to fight with only being able to see only a couple rows at a time?
What a nightmare. It really sounds more like a contender for the OQO and other micro devices of its kind. Not the Macbook Air.
I am going to guess what you say will happen, and Internet radio will start to take off even more than it has already. Someone will need to find a way to get channels repeated over the airwaves so we can get this in our vehicles as well.
I really don't care much for Trent anymore, and begun to dislike his music when Broken came out. But if he offers free albums, I'll gladly take a listen to see if he's making music I might like again and offer up some cash if I like it. If not, no loss for me or him.
The Milwaukee GenCons were a thing of legend. It blew my mind when they were moving it. If I were a spiteful person, I might be happy about this news. But I'd rather they just come back home. Where they belong.
You might want to read the article when it comes back, you might be surprised. The demoscene prided itself with playing with math in the fact that you had objects on the screen moving and deforming in crazy and amazing ways. A lot of the earlier demos on the Amiga also used hardware tricks that sometimes fooled, or "broke" the hardware to do certain effects with amazing results. Sure, a lot of demos were just a texture mapped box spinning around to some really cool music, but the ones with the textures that were randomly procedurally generated, and the box that was spinning that exploded into hundreds of thousands of points that turn into mathematical equations while some really great music played were the ones that won awards at demo competitions. The trick was who could out nerd the other groups when it came to these.
Wow, I did so many searches on this dang issue and came up with nothing! I thought I was the only person who hid their SSID for their wireless network or something! Leopard will remember what I put in there one out of ten times, on a lucky day. It'll work fine for a week and then suddenly forget my wireless network! THIS IS SO ANNOYING! I found that unhiding my SSID fixed the problem immediately.
Do none of the Apple employees use hidden wireless networks? It baffles me that this problem is still around SO LONG AFTER LEOPARD HAS BEEN OUT!
Know whats even worse? My girlfriends iPod Touch HAS THE SAME PROBLEM! It wont remember networks that have a hidden broadcast id! What crap is this!?
Yes, and I'm going to assume they're going to lobby for a bill that would make them exempt from it all. ALl they will need to do is toss in a few "think of the children!" and everyone will toss their vote in. Republican and Democrats alike. The only person who wont will be Ron Paul and the response will be "Oh Ron! Such a funny guy! Look at him wave his arms around! Where does he get the energy!".
They denied it, pure and simple. Just because someone can do something doesn't mean they're going to. How about instead of ignoring their denial, you take it for face value until, you know, they actually do it. Until then, the rest of the world will be waiting for sub $100 Blu-Ray players before we even think about jumping on this train.
No, you wont have to rebuy your HD Tivo all over again. It's already in law that they need to support Cablecard for pretty much the end of time, regardless if they decide to jump onto some other standard. The devices will still need to require a cablecard slot, and the cable companies will still be required to offer them. Their new standard might turn out to be awesome, cure cancer, bring people back to life, but in the end they'll still need to offer Cablecard support. Which is EXACTLY why you wont have to buy another HD Tivo.
I was at Zion State Park a few years back sitting at a picnic table staring at the clouds while a few friends were talking about something or other. The clouds stopped. For about two seconds. It was weird, I thought maybe I was having a stroke or maybe just a brain fart, but my friends were talking through the pause that I was seeing. It was only the clouds. I asked them to check it out, and they looked up, but by then the clouds were moving across the sky as normal.
It was weird, I'm not one to think of the whole "matrix" stuff, but this really made me go "wtf". I still believe it was just a random brain hiccup of sorts or something. (I'm in perfect health, no mental issues that I know of, etc.) Weird.
They also used young teenagers to test it as well. They compare against a kid playing a PS2 game vs a kid playing Wii Sports for 15 minutes. I believe their test pool was five or so kids as well.
The study basically doesn't prove anything because you would need more than 15 minutes to break a sweat and really start burning calories with Wii Sports. You would also need to test overweight people where it actually is easier for them to expend more energy far easier than a fit kid who can basically bounce off the walls for five hours straight and burn 0 calories.
If they wanted to test this, they would have ran the tests of over an hour, and used normal or overweight middle aged people.
Considering it proves that movies, television, music, etc are enforced worse off than games currently.
It just proves that the gaming industries ratings work better than any other out there and that self regulation within the gaming industry is tip top and working a-ok.
Having played it as a kid, it wasn't that bad. Compared to other games on the system, like Night Driver, it was a bit more complex. I found it pretty challenging trying to get ETs neck to extend and make me float out of those holes. It fascinated me just as much as any other game, really.
I think the real reason it got a bad rap was because anyone beyond the "kid" mentality saw it for what it really was. A poor movie cash in.
They have been considered such since the beginning of time. Simple google searches will provide plenty of information on this. This is why the RIAA simply hasn't started suing Comcast, Charter, etc to stop the torrents, and file exchanges. (Note they still ask them to provide information so that they can sue the users directly, however).
As to the OPs question, I would think this does invalidate their common carrier clause. I would think they would be liable for anything on their Usenet servers, anything floating on their mail servers, anything ending up on their users web accounts.
Throwing money at something doesn't automatically create something good. In fact, I think people do the really good work when they're starving artists. Those two guys working out of a garage usually have a hell of a lot more willpower and determination than most fat cats with more money than they know what to do with. They become lax and sterile.
Well, not always. And Firefox is still a damn good product. So long as it stays that way, I'll still be using it. But if they begin to rest on their laurels, the "next big thing" that will put them by the wayside will most likely be another side project out of nowhere from people who are living off Ramen.
This will be very valuable when the next President is put into power. If they decide to start holding people accountable, we really don't want to find out that the telecoms were granted immunity. The next President will have the power to give up all the information the Bush admin has been currently keeping to themselves.
"Games for -all- consoles tend to be a bit lacking this year"
No offense, but this year has easily been one of the most block buster gaming years in the entire history of gaming. On the 360 along we've seen more 9 and 10 rated games that all other consoles combined in a single year! Forza 2, Bioshock, Halo 3, Mass Effect, The Orange Box, Guitar Hero 3, PGR4, Puzzle Quest, Eternal Sonata, and a whole slew of others.
You are most certainly not using the "same mental states" killing someone in a game and in real life. I'd really like to know how you came up with this idea. When you're playing the game, you're thinking about getting to the end of the level and seeing what happens with the story next. You're not sitting over every corpse getting whatever thrill it is murderers get in real life.
Games and real life are distinctly different, and I would honestly like to know how you could even rationalize that the "mental states" are even close to each other. "dragon punch! eat it bitch!" was a horrible example simply because the reasoning for saying that is because you probably just won the round and will make it to the next level. In real life, I hardly doubt killers are all excited to get an extra life and get to level two.
Perhaps you could give a reason why you think the engine is poorly designed, and why the gameplay is sloppy? The game controls fantastic for having a controller. I don't think I found a glitch in Halo 3 yet, other than being stuck in a hole that the level makers may or may not have done on purpose. The frame rate is solid, the weapons and vehicles are all solid and pretty dang balanced for having so many. Four player co-op can't be beat. You mention Gears of War. While that game was definitely good, I don't think it came close to Halo 3. The two person co-op was fun, but the game was really short. It also wasn't very replayable. I'm not sure why, but I've beaten Halo 3 twice already and I would have no problem playing through again with a few more people. It just doesn't seem mundane. Gears multiplayer was also pretty limited and didn't hold my attention for more than a week.
Just waiting to be played. I've been actively buying the newer games as they come out and stashing them for when I own a PS3. Why? Because I want to play them all upscaled with AA on my HDTV. I was planning on buying this new PS3 because it was *finally* in my price range, but now that it has no backwards compatibility it is entirely useless to me. The PS3 library is too small and doesn't appeal to me at all, so there is no real reason to buy the thing yet.
Perhaps the real reason the PS3 is doing so miserably is because people like me are still showing that there is demand for PS2 games. Why bother developing for the PS3 is they'll sell on the PS2 still?
Sigh. I just want my PS2 games on my HDTV with some nice AA and upscaling. For an "affordable" price. Blargh.
I've been a FPS fanatic, and my favorite to date is still the Doom series. In particular the second. I grew up on Quake swinging from grappling hooks. I've played through Duke and beat aliens in Half-Life 1 and 2. The Halo series is pretty unique in the fact the atmosphere is pretty damn good. Next to Terminator: Future Shock and Skynet I can't think of another FPS that had such a great atmosphere. While I didn't care much for the second game, the third seemed to do EVERYTHING fantastic. Everything was finely tuned, the entire home theater experience was second to none. Sitting on a couch and having your 5.1 surround sub shaking the entire building to the ground while you "finished the fight" was nothing short of pure awesome.
I'm sorry you have a grudge against Halo, or maybe even "non-mouse and keyboard" games, but this series is beyond "average", and in fact it's pretty dang good. The reviews and sales show the obvious, a lot of other people agree.
No single game is worth a console.
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That said, the 360 has hundred of pretty awesome titles that DO make it worth buying. Your life will probably be consumed for the next year playing these games. Take a look over on Gamerankings and look at the top games, read some reviews and see if they interest you at all. The 360 has the widest selection out of the next gen systems right now, so no matter what your niche, the 360 has it available. Shooters, Horror, Racers, jRPGs, RPGs, Arcade, Retro, Puzzle, Boardgame, sRPG, blah blah blahhhhh.
Bull. Controllers are good enough.
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You know, I had the same exact position. I used to be a mouse/keyboard type of guy. I lived through Quake and on up and through HL2 on the PC. I sat down and tried to play Halo and I thought it sucked. I couldn't control anything. Why isn't there a mouse!? Where is my keyboard! By the end of the game, I noticed I wasn't fumbling with the controller anymore. I could circle strafe just as good as with a mouse. Sure, I can't do 920 degree jump spins with a controller. But really, I haven't run into a situation where I needed to. Ever.
What you need to do is get used to it. You will see that todays games are more than fluid enough, intuitive enough, and easy enough to control with the gamepads of today.
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Doing a google of the patents and lawsuit, it seems they sued them over any manipulation (Or, "Warp" in their terms) of the feeds. Ie. Pausing live tv, fast forwarding, rewinding, pretty much any DVR function. Other articles mention many other companies will be sued next.
Articles mention this win will allow Tivo to pretty much go after anyone and everyone, and I'm going to guess Echostars "next generation" DVR software will also fall be next up on the chopping block. Unless of course their new DVR software doesn't allow pausing of live tv, recording, fast forwarding, rewinding.. Pretty much anything that allows you to "warp" the multimedia streams.
I can't think of a single application other than email that can be used efficiently at this resolution. Web browsing is pretty pointless with sites wanting 1024 or more these days. How in the world could you edit photos and videos on something like that? What about playing any games? Word and Excel might work fine, but man, could you imagine having to fight with only being able to see only a couple rows at a time?
What a nightmare. It really sounds more like a contender for the OQO and other micro devices of its kind. Not the Macbook Air.
I am going to guess what you say will happen, and Internet radio will start to take off even more than it has already. Someone will need to find a way to get channels repeated over the airwaves so we can get this in our vehicles as well. I really don't care much for Trent anymore, and begun to dislike his music when Broken came out. But if he offers free albums, I'll gladly take a listen to see if he's making music I might like again and offer up some cash if I like it. If not, no loss for me or him.
The Milwaukee GenCons were a thing of legend. It blew my mind when they were moving it. If I were a spiteful person, I might be happy about this news. But I'd rather they just come back home. Where they belong.
You might want to read the article when it comes back, you might be surprised. The demoscene prided itself with playing with math in the fact that you had objects on the screen moving and deforming in crazy and amazing ways. A lot of the earlier demos on the Amiga also used hardware tricks that sometimes fooled, or "broke" the hardware to do certain effects with amazing results. Sure, a lot of demos were just a texture mapped box spinning around to some really cool music, but the ones with the textures that were randomly procedurally generated, and the box that was spinning that exploded into hundreds of thousands of points that turn into mathematical equations while some really great music played were the ones that won awards at demo competitions. The trick was who could out nerd the other groups when it came to these.
Do none of the Apple employees use hidden wireless networks? It baffles me that this problem is still around SO LONG AFTER LEOPARD HAS BEEN OUT!
Know whats even worse? My girlfriends iPod Touch HAS THE SAME PROBLEM! It wont remember networks that have a hidden broadcast id! What crap is this!?
It's kind of sad.
They denied it, pure and simple. Just because someone can do something doesn't mean they're going to. How about instead of ignoring their denial, you take it for face value until, you know, they actually do it. Until then, the rest of the world will be waiting for sub $100 Blu-Ray players before we even think about jumping on this train.
No, you wont have to rebuy your HD Tivo all over again. It's already in law that they need to support Cablecard for pretty much the end of time, regardless if they decide to jump onto some other standard. The devices will still need to require a cablecard slot, and the cable companies will still be required to offer them. Their new standard might turn out to be awesome, cure cancer, bring people back to life, but in the end they'll still need to offer Cablecard support. Which is EXACTLY why you wont have to buy another HD Tivo.
It was weird, I'm not one to think of the whole "matrix" stuff, but this really made me go "wtf". I still believe it was just a random brain hiccup of sorts or something. (I'm in perfect health, no mental issues that I know of, etc.) Weird.
The study basically doesn't prove anything because you would need more than 15 minutes to break a sweat and really start burning calories with Wii Sports. You would also need to test overweight people where it actually is easier for them to expend more energy far easier than a fit kid who can basically bounce off the walls for five hours straight and burn 0 calories.
If they wanted to test this, they would have ran the tests of over an hour, and used normal or overweight middle aged people.
But I somehow doubt they'll be the ones paying the $300,000 fines.
It just proves that the gaming industries ratings work better than any other out there and that self regulation within the gaming industry is tip top and working a-ok.
I think the real reason it got a bad rap was because anyone beyond the "kid" mentality saw it for what it really was. A poor movie cash in.
Those were some of the best days ever.
As to the OPs question, I would think this does invalidate their common carrier clause. I would think they would be liable for anything on their Usenet servers, anything floating on their mail servers, anything ending up on their users web accounts.
Well, not always. And Firefox is still a damn good product. So long as it stays that way, I'll still be using it. But if they begin to rest on their laurels, the "next big thing" that will put them by the wayside will most likely be another side project out of nowhere from people who are living off Ramen.
This is a BIG "if", though..
No offense, but this year has easily been one of the most block buster gaming years in the entire history of gaming. On the 360 along we've seen more 9 and 10 rated games that all other consoles combined in a single year! Forza 2, Bioshock, Halo 3, Mass Effect, The Orange Box, Guitar Hero 3, PGR4, Puzzle Quest, Eternal Sonata, and a whole slew of others.
Games and real life are distinctly different, and I would honestly like to know how you could even rationalize that the "mental states" are even close to each other. "dragon punch! eat it bitch!" was a horrible example simply because the reasoning for saying that is because you probably just won the round and will make it to the next level. In real life, I hardly doubt killers are all excited to get an extra life and get to level two.
Perhaps you could give a reason why you think the engine is poorly designed, and why the gameplay is sloppy? The game controls fantastic for having a controller. I don't think I found a glitch in Halo 3 yet, other than being stuck in a hole that the level makers may or may not have done on purpose. The frame rate is solid, the weapons and vehicles are all solid and pretty dang balanced for having so many. Four player co-op can't be beat. You mention Gears of War. While that game was definitely good, I don't think it came close to Halo 3. The two person co-op was fun, but the game was really short. It also wasn't very replayable. I'm not sure why, but I've beaten Halo 3 twice already and I would have no problem playing through again with a few more people. It just doesn't seem mundane. Gears multiplayer was also pretty limited and didn't hold my attention for more than a week.
Perhaps the real reason the PS3 is doing so miserably is because people like me are still showing that there is demand for PS2 games. Why bother developing for the PS3 is they'll sell on the PS2 still?
Sigh. I just want my PS2 games on my HDTV with some nice AA and upscaling. For an "affordable" price. Blargh.
I'm sorry you have a grudge against Halo, or maybe even "non-mouse and keyboard" games, but this series is beyond "average", and in fact it's pretty dang good. The reviews and sales show the obvious, a lot of other people agree.
That said, the 360 has hundred of pretty awesome titles that DO make it worth buying. Your life will probably be consumed for the next year playing these games. Take a look over on Gamerankings and look at the top games, read some reviews and see if they interest you at all. The 360 has the widest selection out of the next gen systems right now, so no matter what your niche, the 360 has it available. Shooters, Horror, Racers, jRPGs, RPGs, Arcade, Retro, Puzzle, Boardgame, sRPG, blah blah blahhhhh.
What you need to do is get used to it. You will see that todays games are more than fluid enough, intuitive enough, and easy enough to control with the gamepads of today.