For only $17.99 ! Or from blockbuster previously viewed fro 10.99... Uh oh, do I hear the RIAA complaining again that P2P is killing their sales of 60 minute $17.99 lame audio cds? Awww...
They're just run off some 10 year olds box in some ass end part of the world like antartica.. The CARP stuff doesnt apply to them for the most part.. They're not actual "for-profit" stations. It's just someones remix of tunes played over and over in Siberia.
Since the entire reason people skip commercials in the first place is because they dont appeal to them, how about just simply allowing people to check mark what interests them and have commercials personalized to them. I own a TIVO, i've used it for nearly 3 years now. It's probably the best invention in quite a long time, however, I *do* watch commercials that interest me. When I am skipping(fast forwarding) them with my TIVO, I often stop and watch something that catches my eye. Be it movie trailers, new computer ads, or the latest BMW advertisements. I suspect other TIVO owners are doing the same, and simply NOT just skipping everything like some might think. We're watching those ads, but only the ones that interest us and are GOOD. TIVO can see what commercials people watch, and where they pause and rewind them. Chances are, most of the pausing and rewinding is when a Brittney Spears commercial airs and she bends over to show a ton of cleavage. If advertisement companies can get that info, and realise that most guys want to see cleavage, then I really doubt anyone would be fast-forwarding through commercials for TAMPONS as long as it has some high profile gorgeous female celebrity talking about them while wearing a bikini while bending over for the camera. It's simply really.. Why is this a big issue?
Quake sales have been slumped simply because the single player was so suck. Multiplayer was great, but since Half-Life/CounterStrike and Unreal Tournament, multiplayer id games are just plain bleagh. They're going back to their roots with Doom and focusing on what sold, good solid and freaky FPS.
Their price model is BAD too.. $15 a CD?! NUTSOS
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I could buy a DVD for that much! Full digital 5.1 audio that is over 2 hrs long! Whats a $15 Audio CD provide? 60 mins of stereo music... Joy.. Their business model has DIED, they need to start selling Audio CDs for $5 to sell them.
And thats why Audio CD sales have been slumping! They need to fight the progress of what we're used to on DVDs. For $15-20 I can buy a fully loaded movie + soundtrack.. Or.. I can buy the soundtrack on audio cd for $18! Hard choice? Who the HELL buys audio cds anymore? hell, I just buy the DVD concerts and video collections for $10 on DVD now! F*ck audio CDs and the RIAA! They need to GET IN TOUCH and lower their prices to $5 bux to COMPETE.
I would think they would pose a national security threat if they haven't yet. I could imagine some guy working for the FBI or some WHite House Janitor in the basement downloading some MP3 and then the RIAA disabling servers on the network. I would hope the heck that the US Government has them all blacklisted themselves by now.
I can understand that people want to tailor their specific videos/software per region because of language barriers and such, so it'll be easier to track and distribute... But.. DVD is a medium that was MEANT to be an "all inclusive" format.. Meaning you can have Japanese, Spanish, whatever languages, subtitles, etc all on the same disc, or discs. Often in these region mixups, different people got to work on the movies and decided to add uncut footage that the other regions didn't get so it pissed everyone off.. Now everyone can be the same. Finally.
Nuff said, esp all those stupid kids in the movie theaters who have the gall to ANSWER the phone and TALK for 10 mins! Kick them out and fine them broke as shit so they can't see any more movies.
You'd think they would have realised that FPS's dont work too well on these consoles.. Halo was OKAY, but the fact that it was on a console made it virtually unplayable. I could go on how Halo ripped off other games like Terminator: Future Shock, but that's another article. And besides, after the end of the year when Mario, Zelda, and Metroid are all released, XBox wont even be a viable platform to see anything on... Why bother?
It all comes down to the same trick.. Build screen in back buffer, flip memory around to display on primary buffer when done.. Repeat. Carmack didn't invent this.. I'm surprised it took someone like him to even do this, since the Amiga folks were doing it in the mid/late 80s.. And it wasn't special Amiga hardware that allowed this technique, this was just common programming technique for simple scrolling. The Amiga hardware allowed it to be taken to entirely new levels (Parallax scrolling, blitting, etc.. )..
Seriously, the storyline and epic artwork was enough to satisfy ANYONE. Have you seen ANYTHING remotely cool come out with the worldbuilder that doesnt look like it's the same overused 3D *crap*? Didn't think so! Whats the point of a 3D worldbuilder when everything that is in 3D is all the same! They should have stuck to making awesome 2D RPGs.. This 3D crap ruined them.
What a letdown.
It's true... Everything in this game is cookie cutter madness. You've seen it all before in every other 3D game.. Crates, endless tilesets that are all the same.. It sucks bad.. BG series was all beautiful 2D artwork. Nothing was repeated, it was all original, and the game was so incredibly AWESOME because of the fantastic 2D artwork.
This will be so totally awesome. Screw RIAA trying to tax webcasts, busting movie streamers, it will be a place where none of that crap will exist. It will be a private network with major Corporate USA assnads locked out! This is the best idea ever.
How is this spying on you when you're the one who agree'd to allow them to look at your statistics? With Tivo you need to Opt In, or Opt Out.. You have a choice to have them look at what you watch. I will always let them look at my habits because I would like to see more shows and commercials geared to what *I* like.
Wait.. You're saying people that pay AOL a monthly fee are seeing POPUPS? What the hell? POPUPS were invented for NONPROFIT sites to stay alive, not for corporate whoring!
Most likely, they will do what I believe Washington is doing (Or is it Oregon...). If the spammer is out of the state, they will be served with a summons to court. If they chose not to show up, the person suing will win by default, and the spamming company will owe the person. If the spamming company doesn't pay, I believe that in itself is another law broken, and there will most likely be warrants out for people. The people who will be making the most money out of this? Bounty Hunters. They will go anywhere in the country to round these guys up if they get some pay. Of course, you'll have to put something up front first just in case the guy in question is really broke.
If the RIAA downloads illegal MP3s, even to check to see if they're legit illegal copies, this in turn opens THEM of for legit DoS attacks. The person in question that is doing the "checking" for the RIAA better own the right to every single MP3 he downloads. They're going to need to have the artists themselves sit at the cpus and do the DoS's for this to even be legal, it can't be based around "trust". Quite an evil little repurcussion.. If this goes live, it will effectively DESTROY the RIAA.
Considering Microsoft has thousands of employees, at least ONE of them has an illegal MP3 on their machine, right? So.. What if its MINE? Does that legally let me DoS Microsofts site into the ground and all their dev machines, all their code databases? This is going to be fun! I bet someone over there has my MP3 illegaly. I'm gunna nuke em all LEGALLY the second this bill gets passes. Sweet.
Someone please mod the original up. This is sad news.. Why the hell would Sony give them money if they didnt ask for anything for over 10 years *on purpose*? That sounds pretty suspicious and illegal. The original company never had plans to persure any claims and they got bought out - Is it legal to all of a sudden change their minds by simply buyign them out when something like this is basically a standard? It sounds sneaky and underhanded, and possibly totally criminal. What would be amusing is them askign Microsoft to pay up on royalties and Microsoft just buys them out and fires everyone.. Hey, it would give them some good press for a change.
He doesn't say "fine". He says they will run it. Much like how he said a high end would run Quake1. (Ie. 320x200 with the screen shrunk 90%)At e3 they had Doom3 running on one of the soon to be released cards in low res and it was just barely performing fluidly on a totally buffed out system.
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For only $17.99 ! Or from blockbuster previously viewed fro 10.99 ... Uh oh, do I hear the RIAA complaining again that P2P is killing their sales of 60 minute $17.99 lame audio cds? Awww...
They're just run off some 10 year olds box in some ass end part of the world like antartica .. The CARP stuff doesnt apply to them for the most part.. They're not actual "for-profit" stations. It's just someones remix of tunes played over and over in Siberia.
Since the entire reason people skip commercials in the first place is because they dont appeal to them, how about just simply allowing people to check mark what interests them and have commercials personalized to them. I own a TIVO, i've used it for nearly 3 years now. It's probably the best invention in quite a long time, however, I *do* watch commercials that interest me. When I am skipping(fast forwarding) them with my TIVO, I often stop and watch something that catches my eye. Be it movie trailers, new computer ads, or the latest BMW advertisements. I suspect other TIVO owners are doing the same, and simply NOT just skipping everything like some might think. We're watching those ads, but only the ones that interest us and are GOOD. TIVO can see what commercials people watch, and where they pause and rewind them. Chances are, most of the pausing and rewinding is when a Brittney Spears commercial airs and she bends over to show a ton of cleavage. If advertisement companies can get that info, and realise that most guys want to see cleavage, then I really doubt anyone would be fast-forwarding through commercials for TAMPONS as long as it has some high profile gorgeous female celebrity talking about them while wearing a bikini while bending over for the camera. It's simply really.. Why is this a big issue?
Quake sales have been slumped simply because the single player was so suck. Multiplayer was great, but since Half-Life/CounterStrike and Unreal Tournament, multiplayer id games are just plain bleagh. They're going back to their roots with Doom and focusing on what sold, good solid and freaky FPS.
I could buy a DVD for that much! Full digital 5.1 audio that is over 2 hrs long! Whats a $15 Audio CD provide? 60 mins of stereo music... Joy.. Their business model has DIED, they need to start selling Audio CDs for $5 to sell them.
And thats why Audio CD sales have been slumping! They need to fight the progress of what we're used to on DVDs. For $15-20 I can buy a fully loaded movie + soundtrack .. Or.. I can buy the soundtrack on audio cd for $18! Hard choice? Who the HELL buys audio cds anymore? hell, I just buy the DVD concerts and video collections for $10 on DVD now! F*ck audio CDs and the RIAA! They need to GET IN TOUCH and lower their prices to $5 bux to COMPETE.
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I would think they would pose a national security threat if they haven't yet. I could imagine some guy working for the FBI or some WHite House Janitor in the basement downloading some MP3 and then the RIAA disabling servers on the network. I would hope the heck that the US Government has them all blacklisted themselves by now.
I can understand that people want to tailor their specific videos/software per region because of language barriers and such, so it'll be easier to track and distribute... But.. DVD is a medium that was MEANT to be an "all inclusive" format.. Meaning you can have Japanese, Spanish, whatever languages, subtitles, etc all on the same disc, or discs. Often in these region mixups, different people got to work on the movies and decided to add uncut footage that the other regions didn't get so it pissed everyone off .. Now everyone can be the same. Finally.
Are you that daft? It's their own damn fault! If they dont have common sense, or cant follow the law, boom! $500 fine! Bet they dont do it again!
Nuff said, esp all those stupid kids in the movie theaters who have the gall to ANSWER the phone and TALK for 10 mins! Kick them out and fine them broke as shit so they can't see any more movies.
You'd think they would have realised that FPS's dont work too well on these consoles .. Halo was OKAY, but the fact that it was on a console made it virtually unplayable. I could go on how Halo ripped off other games like Terminator: Future Shock, but that's another article. And besides, after the end of the year when Mario, Zelda, and Metroid are all released, XBox wont even be a viable platform to see anything on... Why bother?
I guess im part of the minority tho ...
It all comes down to the same trick.. Build screen in back buffer, flip memory around to display on primary buffer when done .. Repeat. Carmack didn't invent this .. I'm surprised it took someone like him to even do this, since the Amiga folks were doing it in the mid/late 80s.. And it wasn't special Amiga hardware that allowed this technique, this was just common programming technique for simple scrolling. The Amiga hardware allowed it to be taken to entirely new levels (Parallax scrolling, blitting, etc .. )..
Seriously, the storyline and epic artwork was enough to satisfy ANYONE. Have you seen ANYTHING remotely cool come out with the worldbuilder that doesnt look like it's the same overused 3D *crap*? Didn't think so! Whats the point of a 3D worldbuilder when everything that is in 3D is all the same! They should have stuck to making awesome 2D RPGs .. This 3D crap ruined them.
What a letdown.
It's true... Everything in this game is cookie cutter madness. You've seen it all before in every other 3D game.. Crates, endless tilesets that are all the same.. It sucks bad.. BG series was all beautiful 2D artwork. Nothing was repeated, it was all original, and the game was so incredibly AWESOME because of the fantastic 2D artwork.
This will be so totally awesome. Screw RIAA trying to tax webcasts, busting movie streamers, it will be a place where none of that crap will exist. It will be a private network with major Corporate USA assnads locked out! This is the best idea ever.
How is this spying on you when you're the one who agree'd to allow them to look at your statistics? With Tivo you need to Opt In, or Opt Out .. You have a choice to have them look at what you watch. I will always let them look at my habits because I would like to see more shows and commercials geared to what *I* like.
Cable was originally designed to NOT carry commercials (That is why you PAID for it.). How it got to be the way it is now is beyond me.
Wait.. You're saying people that pay AOL a monthly fee are seeing POPUPS? What the hell? POPUPS were invented for NONPROFIT sites to stay alive, not for corporate whoring!
Most likely, they will do what I believe Washington is doing (Or is it Oregon...). If the spammer is out of the state, they will be served with a summons to court. If they chose not to show up, the person suing will win by default, and the spamming company will owe the person. If the spamming company doesn't pay, I believe that in itself is another law broken, and there will most likely be warrants out for people. The people who will be making the most money out of this? Bounty Hunters. They will go anywhere in the country to round these guys up if they get some pay. Of course, you'll have to put something up front first just in case the guy in question is really broke.
If the RIAA downloads illegal MP3s, even to check to see if they're legit illegal copies, this in turn opens THEM of for legit DoS attacks. The person in question that is doing the "checking" for the RIAA better own the right to every single MP3 he downloads. They're going to need to have the artists themselves sit at the cpus and do the DoS's for this to even be legal, it can't be based around "trust". Quite an evil little repurcussion .. If this goes live, it will effectively DESTROY the RIAA.
Considering Microsoft has thousands of employees, at least ONE of them has an illegal MP3 on their machine, right? So.. What if its MINE? Does that legally let me DoS Microsofts site into the ground and all their dev machines, all their code databases? This is going to be fun! I bet someone over there has my MP3 illegaly. I'm gunna nuke em all LEGALLY the second this bill gets passes. Sweet.
Someone please mod the original up. This is sad news.. Why the hell would Sony give them money if they didnt ask for anything for over 10 years *on purpose*? That sounds pretty suspicious and illegal. The original company never had plans to persure any claims and they got bought out - Is it legal to all of a sudden change their minds by simply buyign them out when something like this is basically a standard? It sounds sneaky and underhanded, and possibly totally criminal. What would be amusing is them askign Microsoft to pay up on royalties and Microsoft just buys them out and fires everyone.. Hey, it would give them some good press for a change.
He doesn't say "fine". He says they will run it. Much like how he said a high end would run Quake1. (Ie. 320x200 with the screen shrunk 90%)At e3 they had Doom3 running on one of the soon to be released cards in low res and it was just barely performing fluidly on a totally buffed out system.