Hopefully Allofmp3 is smart and ignores the lawsuit in federal ct. in NY. After all, the federal court in NY has no personal jurisdiction (let alone subject matter jurisdiction!) over allof mp3.
Allofmp3 should ignore the suit, I mean, why even consent to allow the federal court in NY determine if proper jurisdiction exists? Even if the RIAA, because of this, got a default judgment against allofmp3 in fed. ct in NY, it is worthless unless allofmp3 decides to open up shop in the US in which the judgment would all of a sudden become enforceable.
If someone files a lawsuit against me in Malaysia, I wouldn't dare do anything BUT completely ignore it since the courts in Malaysia have no jurisdiction over me. They cannot compel me to court, and they cannot force me to pay up to the scumbag.
I hope allofmp3 has good lawyers advising them of this.
"But what would be even nicer than having a list of nice HD movies, how about a nice guide of HD sets that accept 1080p via composite input or VGA input?" ^^^^^^^^^^^
1080p via composite....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, bud, you have bigger problems than this question. Do some homework before you look stupid again.
Composite, FYI, is the yellow cable in standard RCA cables.
1080p over composite is the funniest thing TV related I've heard this year! Nice job!
Why are people being dumb? Does every post have to be some stupid not-so-funny joke?
It's obvious that on PS3 launch day, Bungie will announce a Halo 3 Release Date. What that date is beats me, but they'll announce it and it won't change.
Really? I must have missed something when I was told that JetBlue flies nonstop from Long Beach to several cities in the US. Or that Jetblue flies out of the Oakland nonstop to several major cities other than NYC, like Boston and DC. Or that Jetblue flies nonstop from Burbank to Las Vegas, and Burbank to Orlando.
I didn't realize all these flights somehow stop in NYC.
"There should be a law that you can't put a law on the books with no intention of enforcing it."
No way! Then the great state of Washington could have these laws on the books:
It is illegal to attach a vending machine to a utility pole without prior consent from the utility company.
No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.
Destroying a beer cask or bottle of another is illegal.
It is illegal to entice girls away from the Maple Lane School for girls.
X-rays may not be used to fit shoes.
All lollipops are banned.
A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.
It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.
People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle.
It is illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich.
You are not allowed to breastfeed in public. (this is a good law though)
One may not spit on a bus.
When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.You cannot buy meat of any kind on Sunday.
So DisneyQuest stunk it up because they didn't handle it properly, BUT it's still a good idea. The video game market is now exclusively at home. I remember when the Sony Metreon in SF first opened, and the video game area was pretty neat, except that the fun Quaternia game was simply a FPS, and the immersion game where you sit in a pod and drive around and shoot things was poorly implemented. Now no one gives a rats a$$ about the games at Metreon.
I think it's sad that these games like the ones at DQ have not evolved. I don't think they have because the demand is low, and the demand is low because people don't know how fun this kind of stuff COULD be.
I hope they can do this. It would be a nice f**k you to EB Games and Gamestop, who buy games from unknowing kids for pennies on the dollar and resell for major profit.
I agree that HD for movies will fail. Right now I know tons of people who kill for movies in theaters with IMAX, but when you talk about going to see it on the big screen in DLP projection, they aren't so impressed. Of course they are idiots because they seem to favor a big analog picture, over a high quality crisp DLP picture, but c'est la vie.
But outside of movies, HD makes a huge difference in TV. At least for the people who are going out to buy it. I HATE watching TV shows in analog 480i (even digital 480i isn't all that great), and when something is in at least 720p or 1080i, the difference is breathtaking. Even for sitcoms or drama (let alone SPORTS), it makes a difference. It makes TV watching more enjoyable.
In fact, if you go to avsforum, you'll find that HD makes shows previously unwatchable, now all of a sudden tolerable. I know I personally have watched more Discovery because of Discovery HD Theater than I would have had I been totally deprived of HDTV.
HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray may die, but you are living your life with blinders on if you can't see that HDTV is here to stay (until perhaps surpassed by something better).
"Am I the only one that doesn't like to HAVE to connect to the net to play a game?"
Probably. I grew up in the NES/SNES generation and while back then I bought games that I would play alone and/or with friends, today I only buy games that have multiplayer, like (XBOX 360) NHL 2k6, COD 2, Perfect Dark Zero, and I am going to pick up Fight Night Round 3 this week.
What I hated as a kid (And my parents really hated it) was that I wanted a game so badly, and when I finally got it, I was pretty much bored with it after a few hours. The games in which this did not happen were multiplayer- oriented games, like Goldeneye for N64.
It's used to be a rare thing to get anyone over to play a multiplayer game, but when you did, oh man was it fun. Today the consoles and PC's allow this for hundreds of games, and you almost always can find someone to play with so you don't get bored by the CPU. This is a good thing.
P.S. I am not a fan of the MMO thing, but as long as RPG's are around, MMO's will continue to thrive.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I could have sworn that the original Halo was NOT an XBOX launch title. I could have sworn it came out later and then quickly gave people a reason to buy XBOX.
"Hopefully Congress will shore up this loophole and outlaw the resale of intellectual property by anyone other than the copyright owner. "
Oh come on. If the game publishers want revenue from used games, well then, they should do something about it!
Hmmm, let's see, a game publisher could offer to buy back the game, and offer more in cash than you would get at a Gamestop, and then the game publisher could sell those used games to Gamestop's. It would have to be something where you got your money quickly, perhaps once the publisher received the game they immediately send you payment via paypal.
I don't know, but what I do know is that game publishers should stop whining and try to get in on this lucrative sub-industry.
I thought Nintendogs was THE hit DS title in Japan???? I know Nintendogs is popular in the US, but it was released earlier in Japan to rave reviews and reports were coming out that the Japanese were buying DS just to play Nintendogs.
Think about this people. Why are we even having this ID/evolution debate?
Oh I know....when humans came to be they had something other animals did not: the ability to reason.
Most animals can't reason, and their whole life consists of eat/sleep/sh**/f***/survive and then die.
With humans we think beyond that, we can reason. It's a blessing and a curse.
Blessing to be so intelligent, but curse because it makes us ask the ONE single question (among other questions) that got religion started: what happens after we die???
Because humans have the ability to reason, we can't deal with the fact that nothing happens when we die. Most humans would be too paranoid to live life (because of the ability to reason and think about these abstract things), so we invent religion. We invent stories that say what happens when we die, to put us at peace. Once those stories got a hold of us, people pulling the strings busted out creation myths(ding ding ding!) and the rest is history.
So what is the point of arguing ID vs. evolution? ID is based on religion, which came about to put humans, who have the ability to reason, at peace during their lives because they can't deal with the fact that nothing happens after death. You just die.
"Well, actually "TV addicts" will have to splash out on a HDMI-compliant HD TV if they want to play any HD-DVDs (not just to get the resolution improvements) because the players only offer HDMI output"
Not necessarily. This week, (reported on Slashdot) Bill Gates announced that XBOX 360 would have an optional external HD-DVD ROM drive.
Surely you'll be able to watch HD DVD on the XBOX 360 with this drive using the current component video hookup (And I seriously doubt that they would down-rez the output simply because it's component. We are talking about XBOX 360 here, not some regular stand-alone DVD player)
I don't see the need to get a TV that accepts HDMI. You may, if you don't already have one, need to get an HDCP-compliant TV, but that is a different issue.
"You've proved nothing because Nintendo or Sony DIDN'T release a console with the same launch titles and do better. "
So you honestly think that if it was Nintendo XBOX 360 with the same launch titles that it would NOT be a glowing success??
Your other examples are not about the video game market. I was only referring to the video game market and how the Japanese automatically hate anything in the video game world that isn't Japanese. Do you have any evidence of an American based puzzle/RPG that does well in Japan, regardless of platform?
Does the Sims, the best selling game of all time for the PC, do well in Japan, or do they prefer some Japanese knock-off SIMPLY because it's Japanese.
You really need to open your eyes to this. The Japanese are notorious for automatically hating American games and consoles.
"Had they launched with RPGs, simulation games, party games, gambling games and fighters, they might have done a whole lot better."
Actually, had they released the SAME EXACT SYSTEM WITH SAME LAUNCH TITLES, but it happened to come from Nintendo or Sony, they would have done a whole lot better.
Let's not forget that the Japanese have a strong anti-American bias when it comes to this industry. They fall all over anything and everything Nintendo/Sony, and automatically hate anything Microsoft.
At least many Americans realize that the Japanese tend to make better cars than Americans. You would think the Japanese would give us the same open mind towards video games.
The FACT that XBOX 360 with the SAME launch titles would have done much better if it simply had a Nintendo or Sony stamp on it PROVES that the Japanese are closed-minded when it comes to the video game market.
"I was going to use the Sims as an example here, but a moment's thought reminded me that the Sims is actually just an extension of the doll principle, having nothing whatsoever to do with social interaction"
Exactly, and The Sims: Online was a horrid failure because of the "doll principle."
"It was a lot more fun sitting next to your friend as you blast him and talk smack instead of sitting alone in your room playing against strangers."
Yes, this is very true. I got into FPS's with Goldeneye for N64, playing with 3 other friends.
The problem is that you can't always find time to get everyone over to one physical location to play a game, even if all of your friends can play at the same time. Online gaming solves this problem as you get to play with your friends (and perhaps new friends), without leaving your house. The HUGE plus (and I guess you don't get this), is that by playing your friends online, in say Halo 2 (or any FPS), you get your own FULL screen, not split screen garbage. With games using snipers and improving graphics, it helps to have your own full screen to see things.
Plus you don't have to worry about that one friend who blatantly looks at other people's screens, and you also don't have to worry about that one friend who doesn't mean to look, but can't help it.
So tell me, does your keyboard and mouse rumble? Can they vibrate due to actions in the game? I've noticed this to be a difference in playing COD2 on PC vs. COD2 on 360.
In fact this has been a problem for years now (considering many XBOX games have the rumble/vibrate feature as well)
UT2k7 is a PS3 launch title????? But I thought PS3 gamers, especially Japanese gamers, want PS3 for RPG's, not FPS. In fact, I heard that one reason they don't like 360. This can't bode well for PS3...
Oh wait, I forgot, this is the Sony PS3, and we all know that Sony can do no wrong in Japan, and that Japanese gamers will buy ANYTHING thrown at them from Sony because they have "BIAS BLINDERS" on...
Think about this people. Why are we even having this ID/evolution debate?
Oh I know....when humans came to be they had something other animals did not: the ability to reason.
Most animals can't reason, and their whole life consists of eat/sleep/sh**/f***/survive and then die.
With humans we think beyond that, we can reason. It's a blessing and a curse.
Blessing to be so intelligent, but curse because it makes us ask the ONE single question (among other questions) that got religion started: what happens after we die???
Because humans have the ability to reason, we can't deal with the fact that nothing happens when we die. Most humans would be too paranoid to live life (because of the ability to reason and think about these abstract things), so we invent religion. We invent stories that say what happens when we die, to put us at peace. Once those stories got a hold of us, people pulling the strings busted out creation myths(ding ding ding!) and the rest is history.
So what is the point of arguing ID vs. evolution? ID is based on religion, which came about to put humans, who have the ability to reason, at peace during their lives because they can't deal with the fact that nothing happens after death. You just die.
I'm truly sorry the Dennis Miller-esque comedy of the Family Guy escapes you. But hey, I think you can still get your cheap chuckles from Will & Grace, According to Jim, George Lopez Show, The King of Queens, and until this May, Joey.
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Hopefully Allofmp3 is smart and ignores the lawsuit in federal ct. in NY. After all, the federal court in NY has no personal jurisdiction (let alone subject matter jurisdiction!) over allof mp3.
Allofmp3 should ignore the suit, I mean, why even consent to allow the federal court in NY determine if proper jurisdiction exists? Even if the RIAA, because of this, got a default judgment against allofmp3 in fed. ct in NY, it is worthless unless allofmp3 decides to open up shop in the US in which the judgment would all of a sudden become enforceable.
If someone files a lawsuit against me in Malaysia, I wouldn't dare do anything BUT completely ignore it since the courts in Malaysia have no jurisdiction over me. They cannot compel me to court, and they cannot force me to pay up to the scumbag.
I hope allofmp3 has good lawyers advising them of this.
"But what would be even nicer than having a list of nice HD movies, how about a nice guide of HD sets that accept 1080p via composite input or VGA input?"
^^^^^^^^^^^
1080p via composite....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry, bud, you have bigger problems than this question. Do some homework before you look stupid again.
Composite, FYI, is the yellow cable in standard RCA cables.
1080p over composite is the funniest thing TV related I've heard this year! Nice job!
Why are people being dumb? Does every post have to be some stupid not-so-funny joke?
It's obvious that on PS3 launch day, Bungie will announce a Halo 3 Release Date. What that date is beats me, but they'll announce it and it won't change.
"Every flight goes to or from New York."
Really? I must have missed something when I was told that JetBlue flies nonstop from Long Beach to several cities in the US. Or that Jetblue flies out of the Oakland nonstop to several major cities other than NYC, like Boston and DC. Or that Jetblue flies nonstop from Burbank to Las Vegas, and Burbank to Orlando.
I didn't realize all these flights somehow stop in NYC.
http://www.jetblue.com/travelinfo/routemap.asp
More accurately, Jetblue is a point-to-point airline.
"There should be a law that you can't put a law on the books with no intention of enforcing it."
/
No way! Then the great state of Washington could have these laws on the books:
It is illegal to attach a vending machine to a utility pole without prior consent from the utility company.
No person may walk about in public if he or she has the common cold.
Destroying a beer cask or bottle of another is illegal.
It is illegal to entice girls away from the Maple Lane School for girls.
X-rays may not be used to fit shoes.
All lollipops are banned.
A law to reduce crime states: "It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.
It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag.
People may not buy a mattress on Sunday.All motor vehicles must be preceded by a man carrying a red flag (daytime) or a red lantern (nighttime) fifty feet in front of said vehicle.
It is illegal to pretend that one's parents are rich.
You are not allowed to breastfeed in public. (this is a good law though)
One may not spit on a bus.
When two trains come to a crossing, neither shall go until the other has passed.You cannot buy meat of any kind on Sunday.
http://dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/washington
So DisneyQuest stunk it up because they didn't handle it properly, BUT it's still a good idea. The video game market is now exclusively at home. I remember when the Sony Metreon in SF first opened, and the video game area was pretty neat, except that the fun Quaternia game was simply a FPS, and the immersion game where you sit in a pod and drive around and shoot things was poorly implemented. Now no one gives a rats a$$ about the games at Metreon.
I think it's sad that these games like the ones at DQ have not evolved. I don't think they have because the demand is low, and the demand is low because people don't know how fun this kind of stuff COULD be.
I hope they can do this. It would be a nice f**k you to EB Games and Gamestop, who buy games from unknowing kids for pennies on the dollar and resell for major profit.
I agree that HD for movies will fail. Right now I know tons of people who kill for movies in theaters with IMAX, but when you talk about going to see it on the big screen in DLP projection, they aren't so impressed. Of course they are idiots because they seem to favor a big analog picture, over a high quality crisp DLP picture, but c'est la vie.
But outside of movies, HD makes a huge difference in TV. At least for the people who are going out to buy it. I HATE watching TV shows in analog 480i (even digital 480i isn't all that great), and when something is in at least 720p or 1080i, the difference is breathtaking. Even for sitcoms or drama (let alone SPORTS), it makes a difference. It makes TV watching more enjoyable.
In fact, if you go to avsforum, you'll find that HD makes shows previously unwatchable, now all of a sudden tolerable. I know I personally have watched more Discovery because of Discovery HD Theater than I would have had I been totally deprived of HDTV.
HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray may die, but you are living your life with blinders on if you can't see that HDTV is here to stay (until perhaps surpassed by something better).
"Am I the only one that doesn't like to HAVE to connect to the net to play a game?"
Probably. I grew up in the NES/SNES generation and while back then I bought games that I would play alone and/or with friends, today I only buy games that have multiplayer, like (XBOX 360) NHL 2k6, COD 2, Perfect Dark Zero, and I am going to pick up Fight Night Round 3 this week.
What I hated as a kid (And my parents really hated it) was that I wanted a game so badly, and when I finally got it, I was pretty much bored with it after a few hours. The games in which this did not happen were multiplayer- oriented games, like Goldeneye for N64.
It's used to be a rare thing to get anyone over to play a multiplayer game, but when you did, oh man was it fun. Today the consoles and PC's allow this for hundreds of games, and you almost always can find someone to play with so you don't get bored by the CPU. This is a good thing.
P.S. I am not a fan of the MMO thing, but as long as RPG's are around, MMO's will continue to thrive.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I could have sworn that the original Halo was NOT an XBOX launch title. I could have sworn it came out later and then quickly gave people a reason to buy XBOX.
Can anyone confirm?
"Hopefully Congress will shore up this loophole and outlaw the resale of intellectual property by anyone other than the copyright owner. "
Oh come on. If the game publishers want revenue from used games, well then, they should do something about it!
Hmmm, let's see, a game publisher could offer to buy back the game, and offer more in cash than you would get at a Gamestop, and then the game publisher could sell those used games to Gamestop's. It would have to be something where you got your money quickly, perhaps once the publisher received the game they immediately send you payment via paypal.
I don't know, but what I do know is that game publishers should stop whining and try to get in on this lucrative sub-industry.
"Brain Training, *the* hit DS title in Japan"
Huh?
I thought Nintendogs was THE hit DS title in Japan???? I know Nintendogs is popular in the US, but it was released earlier in Japan to rave reviews and reports were coming out that the Japanese were buying DS just to play Nintendogs.
Think about this people. Why are we even having this ID/evolution debate?
Oh I know....when humans came to be they had something other animals did not: the ability to reason.
Most animals can't reason, and their whole life consists of eat/sleep/sh**/f***/survive and then die.
With humans we think beyond that, we can reason. It's a blessing and a curse.
Blessing to be so intelligent, but curse because it makes us ask the ONE single question (among other questions) that got religion started: what happens after we die???
Because humans have the ability to reason, we can't deal with the fact that nothing happens when we die. Most humans would be too paranoid to live life (because of the ability to reason and think about these abstract things), so we invent religion. We invent stories that say what happens when we die, to put us at peace. Once those stories got a hold of us, people pulling the strings busted out creation myths(ding ding ding!) and the rest is history.
So what is the point of arguing ID vs. evolution? ID is based on religion, which came about to put humans, who have the ability to reason, at peace during their lives because they can't deal with the fact that nothing happens after death. You just die.
"Well, actually "TV addicts" will have to splash out on a HDMI-compliant HD TV if they want to play any HD-DVDs (not just to get the resolution improvements) because the players only offer HDMI output"
Not necessarily. This week, (reported on Slashdot) Bill Gates announced that XBOX 360 would have an optional external HD-DVD ROM drive.
Surely you'll be able to watch HD DVD on the XBOX 360 with this drive using the current component video hookup (And I seriously doubt that they would down-rez the output simply because it's component. We are talking about XBOX 360 here, not some regular stand-alone DVD player)
I don't see the need to get a TV that accepts HDMI. You may, if you don't already have one, need to get an HDCP-compliant TV, but that is a different issue.
"You've proved nothing because Nintendo or Sony DIDN'T release a console with the same launch titles and do better. "
So you honestly think that if it was Nintendo XBOX 360 with the same launch titles that it would NOT be a glowing success??
Your other examples are not about the video game market. I was only referring to the video game market and how the Japanese automatically hate anything in the video game world that isn't Japanese. Do you have any evidence of an American based puzzle/RPG that does well in Japan, regardless of platform?
Does the Sims, the best selling game of all time for the PC, do well in Japan, or do they prefer some Japanese knock-off SIMPLY because it's Japanese.
You really need to open your eyes to this. The Japanese are notorious for automatically hating American games and consoles.
"Had they launched with RPGs, simulation games, party games, gambling games and fighters, they might have done a whole lot better."
Actually, had they released the SAME EXACT SYSTEM WITH SAME LAUNCH TITLES, but it happened to come from Nintendo or Sony, they would have done a whole lot better.
Let's not forget that the Japanese have a strong anti-American bias when it comes to this industry. They fall all over anything and everything Nintendo/Sony, and automatically hate anything Microsoft.
At least many Americans realize that the Japanese tend to make better cars than Americans. You would think the Japanese would give us the same open mind towards video games.
The FACT that XBOX 360 with the SAME launch titles would have done much better if it simply had a Nintendo or Sony stamp on it PROVES that the Japanese are closed-minded when it comes to the video game market.
"I was going to use the Sims as an example here, but a moment's thought reminded me that the Sims is actually just an extension of the doll principle, having nothing whatsoever to do with social interaction"
Exactly, and The Sims: Online was a horrid failure because of the "doll principle."
"It was a lot more fun sitting next to your friend as you blast him and talk smack instead of sitting alone in your room playing against strangers."
Yes, this is very true. I got into FPS's with Goldeneye for N64, playing with 3 other friends.
The problem is that you can't always find time to get everyone over to one physical location to play a game, even if all of your friends can play at the same time. Online gaming solves this problem as you get to play with your friends (and perhaps new friends), without leaving your house. The HUGE plus (and I guess you don't get this), is that by playing your friends online, in say Halo 2 (or any FPS), you get your own FULL screen, not split screen garbage. With games using snipers and improving graphics, it helps to have your own full screen to see things.
Plus you don't have to worry about that one friend who blatantly looks at other people's screens, and you also don't have to worry about that one friend who doesn't mean to look, but can't help it.
The N-Gage was the bust of 2003, perhaps 2004, but NOT 2005! http://ngage.ign.com/articles/453/453629p1.html
I was attacking the post submitted buddy.
How about you stop being a pu$$y and NOT post anonymous??
How is this MSN music thing the author mentions a DESIGN flaw?
After all, it could be added to XBOX 360's via an update if MS decided to do it. I figure many things will be added over the lifespan of the 360.
So tell me, does your keyboard and mouse rumble? Can they vibrate due to actions in the game? I've noticed this to be a difference in playing COD2 on PC vs. COD2 on 360.
In fact this has been a problem for years now (considering many XBOX games have the rumble/vibrate feature as well)
UT2k7 is a PS3 launch title????? But I thought PS3 gamers, especially Japanese gamers, want PS3 for RPG's, not FPS. In fact, I heard that one reason they don't like 360. This can't bode well for PS3...
Oh wait, I forgot, this is the Sony PS3, and we all know that Sony can do no wrong in Japan, and that Japanese gamers will buy ANYTHING thrown at them from Sony because they have "BIAS BLINDERS" on...
Think about this people. Why are we even having this ID/evolution debate?
Oh I know....when humans came to be they had something other animals did not: the ability to reason.
Most animals can't reason, and their whole life consists of eat/sleep/sh**/f***/survive and then die.
With humans we think beyond that, we can reason. It's a blessing and a curse.
Blessing to be so intelligent, but curse because it makes us ask the ONE single question (among other questions) that got religion started: what happens after we die???
Because humans have the ability to reason, we can't deal with the fact that nothing happens when we die. Most humans would be too paranoid to live life (because of the ability to reason and think about these abstract things), so we invent religion. We invent stories that say what happens when we die, to put us at peace. Once those stories got a hold of us, people pulling the strings busted out creation myths(ding ding ding!) and the rest is history.
So what is the point of arguing ID vs. evolution? ID is based on religion, which came about to put humans, who have the ability to reason, at peace during their lives because they can't deal with the fact that nothing happens after death. You just die.
I'm truly sorry the Dennis Miller-esque comedy of the Family Guy escapes you. But hey, I think you can still get your cheap chuckles from Will & Grace, According to Jim, George Lopez Show, The King of Queens, and until this May, Joey.