I think the "industry" would be shooting themselves in the foot if they stopped producing DVD's in an effort to force people to buy $800 HD-DVD equipment. Really, only in the last few years of sub-$100 DVD players being manufactured has DVD really taken off since most anyone can buy the equipment, and bargain-basement DVDs have been hitting the bins at Wal-mart and the like.
Even though Wal-mart denies that it's "getting out of the VHS market", seen many VHS tapes at any store lately?
Russell Carroll has been talking about and predicting on "Attack of the Show" that Indy Gaming would get a boost thanks to the Live Arcade. The idea that you can sit down at a console and snag a game for $5 is the largest part of it, regardless if it's an Indy release, or an Arcade Classic. Most everyday Joe's aren't dedicated enough to build a MAME cabnet, but drop a few bucks on some Midway classics and get the instant gratification of playing immediately instead of getting a game at a retail outlet is an easy choice for most.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up. This is one of the biggest things that irritates me with everyone's beloved Google as of late. I want to use google, but the last product I was looking for had 4 "Buy x on Ebay" ads in the sidebar, and at least the first 15-20 results were either redirectors to ebay, or those stupid squatter 'search' pages filled with links to other advertisements surrounded by snippits from other webpages. Even Froogle is littered with the ebay redirectors, so you can't even use that sometimes.
I know ebay has to be one of Google's biggest customers, and probably isn't likely to rock the boat - but come on. I want to use Google, I really do. But I think their position has made them sit on their laurels a bit.
(and just for Fun, a google search for 'laurels' has a "Looking for Laurels? Find exactly what you want today." ebay advert.)
I think the technology that would come from this would easilly pay for itself regardless of the R&D costs. There would be an immediate need for this technology in various industries.
My EBGames also had repeatedly said that they wouldn't have any for months and months. Funny, I walked in to Best Buy, and they had a handful of 360's on two separate occasions. Granted, most were core's - but I could have picked one if I wanted. I wonder if BB has some type of special agreement worked out regarding supply.
This story, or at least the summary, should most certainly be modded -1 Flamebait. As the parent noted, what kind of purpose does it serve by inserting some remark about Intellegent Design being put in the grave because they figured out how bees fly? And this a few stories after the griping post in regards to story moderation and conspiracy theories.
The 3 series is the lifeblood of BMW, both in the UK/Germany and in the US. The Mini is a popular US car that is an easilly accessable price point. Not to mention the 1 series that's coming out soon which will probably outsell the 3 series and the mini's combined.
If you haven't seen, they also have their Strategy Game Of The Year completed. Noticed one of my favorites on there, Trash by Inhuman Games. If you are a Starcraft or old-school Warcraft fan, you have to give Trash a try. It's an unbelievable game for an indy release.
I've heard a couple different individuals complain of the button config, making it difficult to be able to accelerate and use the power slide effectively. These are people who are avid "kart" players, and don't even know each other. Coming from two especially kart nutters, I think I'll be steering clear of this one. Too bad too, I really enjoy kart.
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Why can't someone provide a simplified flexible, almost modular GPL license similar to what they've done with Creative Commons. Heck, pick the "modules" you want, and run with it, with a site that has both legaleze and simplified requrements?
I'll give you home video enthusiasts, up to a point. But I was emphasising everyday users, not any specialty professions such as photographers or videographers.
How many "everyday" users are using medium or large format camera equipment, have a film scanner that can even scan medium and large format. Even your consumer-level digi's would take quite some time to fill an entire 500gb drive. Filling a 1gb card daily with pictures would take almost two years.
Especially that they kept the "Deskstar" name for the drive. From a marketing perspective, why in the world they didn't change the drive line name is beyond me.
It will be hard to shake the death-star mantra for some time, regardless of how good the drives currently are or how much perpendicular space they can cram on the platters.
We're getting to a point in storage mediums where size is outgrowing necessity, at least in the consumer aspect. Geeks aside, what everyday user needs a half-terabyte of space?
Olympiads of programming?!? It's one thing to have a contest, it's another to call national versions "Olympiads". You would think they would have taken the opportunity to pick a better name for nationals than Olympiads.
The RIAA website noted that they aren't going after bittorrent trafficking (at least not yet).
From their release:
These "John Doe" lawsuits cite individuals for illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet via unauthorized peer-to-peer services such as Grokster, eDonkey, KaZaA, and LimeWire. The litigations were filed in federal district courts across the country, including in: California, Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Most of these people are on completely open systems where they can easilly do a client search and see every single piece of data you are sharing. They aren't interested, again not yet at least, in people that are transmitting one single mp3/movie/etc, they are going after folks running large hubs and have gobs and gobs of mp3's shared. Then all they need is your IP, the client search results - they go after the ISP to tie the IP at the time they do the search to you, and go from there.
As the most widely used Gnutella clients are configired to immediately share everything you download, and most everyday folk doing the infringing don't know any better, they keep downloading, and forever share hundreds and hundreds of songs just asking for their little bots to come along and pick you off.
These file sharing networks are easy, bittorrent is a bit tougher. They would need to maintain a history of BT packets to specific IPs, and tie every instance of that traffic to the IP to the same person, and maintain that history to gain enough evidence to even begin to go after people. A lot more hassle than just browsing for specific RIAA-artist songs, then browsing every client that has it to see what else they might have that they are sharing that they can pin on them.
Maintaining transmission logs to IPs, or easy-peasy search and nab - why do you think they keep going after people on these same networks.
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What crack are you smoking?!? An invite isn't required. You can get a gmail account with a mobile phone.
Uh, why not just put your documents straight in the black hole in the first place? Seems like it would save quite a bit of time and money eh?
I think the "industry" would be shooting themselves in the foot if they stopped producing DVD's in an effort to force people to buy $800 HD-DVD equipment. Really, only in the last few years of sub-$100 DVD players being manufactured has DVD really taken off since most anyone can buy the equipment, and bargain-basement DVDs have been hitting the bins at Wal-mart and the like.
Even though Wal-mart denies that it's "getting out of the VHS market", seen many VHS tapes at any store lately?
Russell Carroll has been talking about and predicting on "Attack of the Show" that Indy Gaming would get a boost thanks to the Live Arcade. The idea that you can sit down at a console and snag a game for $5 is the largest part of it, regardless if it's an Indy release, or an Arcade Classic. Most everyday Joe's aren't dedicated enough to build a MAME cabnet, but drop a few bucks on some Midway classics and get the instant gratification of playing immediately instead of getting a game at a retail outlet is an easy choice for most.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up. This is one of the biggest things that irritates me with everyone's beloved Google as of late. I want to use google, but the last product I was looking for had 4 "Buy x on Ebay" ads in the sidebar, and at least the first 15-20 results were either redirectors to ebay, or those stupid squatter 'search' pages filled with links to other advertisements surrounded by snippits from other webpages. Even Froogle is littered with the ebay redirectors, so you can't even use that sometimes.
I know ebay has to be one of Google's biggest customers, and probably isn't likely to rock the boat - but come on. I want to use Google, I really do. But I think their position has made them sit on their laurels a bit.
(and just for Fun, a google search for 'laurels' has a "Looking for Laurels? Find exactly what you want today." ebay advert.)
I think the technology that would come from this would easilly pay for itself regardless of the R&D costs. There would be an immediate need for this technology in various industries.
My EBGames also had repeatedly said that they wouldn't have any for months and months. Funny, I walked in to Best Buy, and they had a handful of 360's on two separate occasions. Granted, most were core's - but I could have picked one if I wanted. I wonder if BB has some type of special agreement worked out regarding supply.
This story, or at least the summary, should most certainly be modded -1 Flamebait. As the parent noted, what kind of purpose does it serve by inserting some remark about Intellegent Design being put in the grave because they figured out how bees fly? And this a few stories after the griping post in regards to story moderation and conspiracy theories.
...Good grief.
The 3 series is the lifeblood of BMW, both in the UK/Germany and in the US. The Mini is a popular US car that is an easilly accessable price point. Not to mention the 1 series that's coming out soon which will probably outsell the 3 series and the mini's combined.
Cleveland factory? The only factory in the states is in North Carolina.
If you haven't seen, they also have their Strategy Game Of The Year completed. Noticed one of my favorites on there, Trash by Inhuman Games. If you are a Starcraft or old-school Warcraft fan, you have to give Trash a try. It's an unbelievable game for an indy release.
Master Yoda, is that you?
I think VBR would solve both issues... size and quality ;)
I've heard a couple different individuals complain of the button config, making it difficult to be able to accelerate and use the power slide effectively. These are people who are avid "kart" players, and don't even know each other. Coming from two especially kart nutters, I think I'll be steering clear of this one. Too bad too, I really enjoy kart.
Why can't someone provide a simplified flexible, almost modular GPL license similar to what they've done with Creative Commons. Heck, pick the "modules" you want, and run with it, with a site that has both legaleze and simplified requrements?
... and why didn't you take the opportunity to provide it? Just sayin...
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I'll give you home video enthusiasts, up to a point. But I was emphasising everyday users, not any specialty professions such as photographers or videographers. How many "everyday" users are using medium or large format camera equipment, have a film scanner that can even scan medium and large format. Even your consumer-level digi's would take quite some time to fill an entire 500gb drive. Filling a 1gb card daily with pictures would take almost two years.
Especially that they kept the "Deskstar" name for the drive. From a marketing perspective, why in the world they didn't change the drive line name is beyond me. It will be hard to shake the death-star mantra for some time, regardless of how good the drives currently are or how much perpendicular space they can cram on the platters.
We're getting to a point in storage mediums where size is outgrowing necessity, at least in the consumer aspect. Geeks aside, what everyday user needs a half-terabyte of space?
Olympiads of programming?!? It's one thing to have a contest, it's another to call national versions "Olympiads". You would think they would have taken the opportunity to pick a better name for nationals than Olympiads.
... get a job from any reputable company, unfortunately. Someone as resourceful as Jon, if given an opportunity, could be priceless.
From their release:
Most of these people are on completely open systems where they can easilly do a client search and see every single piece of data you are sharing. They aren't interested, again not yet at least, in people that are transmitting one single mp3/movie/etc, they are going after folks running large hubs and have gobs and gobs of mp3's shared. Then all they need is your IP, the client search results - they go after the ISP to tie the IP at the time they do the search to you, and go from there.
As the most widely used Gnutella clients are configired to immediately share everything you download, and most everyday folk doing the infringing don't know any better, they keep downloading, and forever share hundreds and hundreds of songs just asking for their little bots to come along and pick you off.
These file sharing networks are easy, bittorrent is a bit tougher. They would need to maintain a history of BT packets to specific IPs, and tie every instance of that traffic to the IP to the same person, and maintain that history to gain enough evidence to even begin to go after people. A lot more hassle than just browsing for specific RIAA-artist songs, then browsing every client that has it to see what else they might have that they are sharing that they can pin on them.
Maintaining transmission logs to IPs, or easy-peasy search and nab - why do you think they keep going after people on these same networks.
Since when does manufacturing in the US qualify someone/something to be classified as "first"... first is first, or am I mistaken?