JT was under a gag order not to reveal any details of the gameplay, I assume in order to protect Take-Two's earnings from early release of gameplay information (not a lawyer or businessman, so this is a guess). However, in subsequent (public) applications to the court JT mentioned several things specifically within the game that he objected to, thereby violating the gag order. Blank-Rome assumes the judge was so busy laughing JT out of court that he didn't notice that he was in contempt, so they submitted it after the case was finished.
Regardless of the trial being over or not, JT was still under that gag not to release information until after the release date and he violated it. It's picking hairs but under the letter of the law perfectly viable. The standard procedure for dealing with it is fines and a ticking off, but can extend to jail-time if the judge decides it.
JT's response is that the judge violated that gag order himself (despite not being under it), and also the judge is a big poopy-head and was very mean to him during the trial. Finally, obviously not content with the original slightly dubious contempt of court, he decided to go right ahead and tell the judge he wasn't fit to do his job.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable backhanded bitch-slap which is going to entail from this.
I admit to having some egg on my face in that regard, but that's not even the best of it, IMHO. His response to being held in contempt of court was to tell the judge and the court that they had no idea on how to interpret law. He also said that the motion was "slithering in bad faith goo".
It's like this guy is on a different page of reality to the rest of us, the page where lawyers defend assault charges by punching the judge in the face.
Let us also mention for exposition that Kaspersky Labs already noted that there didn't seem to be any problem with writing a virus checker/firewall for Vista.
Symantec and McAfee are trying to save themselves dev time by whinging that their job spec has changed somewhat now that MS are being held accountable for the flaws inherent in XP and earlier. Sorry guys - just like everyone else, you might actually have to do some work on your software rather than just bloat it out every year with new virus signatures.
I love how people suggest this without thinking that when your ISP 'monitors everything you do' and finds that you don't do anything except via a secure proxy, that they might just be even more suspicious.
You're the one who implied that he should go and stick earphones in her ear. You never once mentioned anything about asking, and you language implied that he should do so without.
We all know, twit, that you don't like MS. But are you really so stupid that you think a 'normal' person (i.e. not you, nor anyone on Slashdot) would prefer to lug around a laptop instead of a small MP3 player?
Oh, and calling the Zune a 'crippled' music player is a specious argument. Zune will play tracks whether they're DRMed or not. What they are providing you is a quick transfer option in case you want someone to just listen to a song without any fuss or setup at all. You can carry on pulling your laptop around with you, or even having your USB drive in your pocket, but all those things need plugs and sockets, where the Zune needs nothing at all. That's convenience the iPod just does not possess (which, incidentally, doesn't let you transfer music to anyone elses iPod, DRMed or otherwise)
Chuck out my last comment about having more reason to be biased, I forgot about the Zune.
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I have to agree with this.
Who would have sued YouTube before? Universal hinted but never made good, and considering YouTube would probably have been barely able to cover fighting all these lawsuits let alone winning/losing, it seemed like an uphill battle trying to squeeze the money these companies 'deserve'.
Now that YouTube is backed by deep-pocketed Google, this is every lawyer's wet dream waiting to happen. Let's hope that the deals that Google have already signed with some of the major players are enough to stem the tide of lawsuits waiting to happen.
Also, let's be honest, if Steve Jobs had said this people here would have thought about it rather than the rampant anti-Ballmer sentiment that seems to be throwing itself up here. The funny thing is that if Jobs had said it, he has far more of a reason to be biased because Apple are in the business of actually buying video content before they sell it.
This might be me being lazy but I don't think I should have to spend 10 minutes extrapolating a guy's true point when he could just say it.
Also, as I say, it's not the first time he's done it. Down the page a bit he responded to me talking about how connectivity hadn't been discussed with "Do you really think it's going to be that cheap?".
When you click 'Reply to This' there is an implication that you will respond to what I said rather than taking issue with something completely irrelevant. This is the second time you did this on the same article. Maybe you could try addressing my point, which is that it exists and is therefore not vapour.
My point was less whether I believe their hype or not, and more that I am more willing to judge things on specs that have actually been released than rampant speculation on connectivity that isn't alluded to in the article.
Basically, argue with the point I'm making now rather than the point you want to make, which I believe was made further up the comment list.
And displayed beside a conventional 50 inch plasma TV this afternoon, the Mitsubishi-built prototype does appear brighter and clearer than its "older" rival.
Absolutely vapourware! No prototypes exist for this at all, and because they don't exist a company like, say, Mitsubishi could never have built one.
Why not try forming an opinion on it based on things they've actually confirmed and denied?
Half the weight and size of a plasma TV. Uses a quarter of the power to the same effect. Increases the range of colours displayed from 30% of what we are able to conceive to 90%. Costs half the price of a plasma screen.
"Oh, but they never said whether or not they support these three completely random display connectors so obviously it's a waste of time."
Maybe they're being percieved as an alternative but they show a frightening inability to convert that into sold systems.
As of June the 1st they still have a personal computer marketshare of 3.8 percent which doesn't seem to have moved since October of last year. In fact, in 2002 that figure was around 3.5. 0.3% growth in three years is nothing to crow about, let's be honest.
If anything, Apple should worry that though Windows XP might be losing market slightly, it isn't to Apple. It's this wonderful category 'Other' they should be worrying about.
How on earth is having the foresight pre-order something that could be popular anything to do with expecting things being handed to you on a silver platter? If anything you have to go out twice to a game store to pre-order a console and only once to buy it on the day!
I believe the MS official line would be "No patches for old OSes because we have newer ones."
By the way, using 'Homeland Security' as a reason to patch OSes is spurious. The government in the interests of security should always be up to date, so there is no reason for them to still be using Win98/2k. There's probably no reason for them to be using Windows at all. I use MS myself (I'm a gamer and Transgaming is still not an option) but I'd be happier if any government was using a more secure OS, or at least an OS that isn't targetted by every hacker out there.
I'd love you to explain how Mozilla are shooting themselves in the foot by disassociating their trademark with a version of Firefox that they have no creative control over.
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Hm, well this isn't from Fox News, so it's blatantly just not true.
I only accept news from reputable, unbiased news sources.
JT was under a gag order not to reveal any details of the gameplay, I assume in order to protect Take-Two's earnings from early release of gameplay information (not a lawyer or businessman, so this is a guess). However, in subsequent (public) applications to the court JT mentioned several things specifically within the game that he objected to, thereby violating the gag order. Blank-Rome assumes the judge was so busy laughing JT out of court that he didn't notice that he was in contempt, so they submitted it after the case was finished.
Regardless of the trial being over or not, JT was still under that gag not to release information until after the release date and he violated it. It's picking hairs but under the letter of the law perfectly viable. The standard procedure for dealing with it is fines and a ticking off, but can extend to jail-time if the judge decides it.
JT's response is that the judge violated that gag order himself (despite not being under it), and also the judge is a big poopy-head and was very mean to him during the trial. Finally, obviously not content with the original slightly dubious contempt of court, he decided to go right ahead and tell the judge he wasn't fit to do his job.
I'm looking forward to the inevitable backhanded bitch-slap which is going to entail from this.
I admit to having some egg on my face in that regard, but that's not even the best of it, IMHO. His response to being held in contempt of court was to tell the judge and the court that they had no idea on how to interpret law. He also said that the motion was "slithering in bad faith goo".
It's like this guy is on a different page of reality to the rest of us, the page where lawyers defend assault charges by punching the judge in the face.
Let us also mention for exposition that Kaspersky Labs already noted that there didn't seem to be any problem with writing a virus checker/firewall for Vista.
Symantec and McAfee are trying to save themselves dev time by whinging that their job spec has changed somewhat now that MS are being held accountable for the flaws inherent in XP and earlier. Sorry guys - just like everyone else, you might actually have to do some work on your software rather than just bloat it out every year with new virus signatures.
Someone teach this guy that, let's be honest, his story of love, loss and VS.NET isn't actually that interesting to begin with.
... because it's not a waste of bandwidth when part of your audience doesn't have a clue what the joke refers to.
I love how people suggest this without thinking that when your ISP 'monitors everything you do' and finds that you don't do anything except via a secure proxy, that they might just be even more suspicious.
You're the one who implied that he should go and stick earphones in her ear. You never once mentioned anything about asking, and you language implied that he should do so without.
We all know, twit, that you don't like MS. But are you really so stupid that you think a 'normal' person (i.e. not you, nor anyone on Slashdot) would prefer to lug around a laptop instead of a small MP3 player?
Oh, and calling the Zune a 'crippled' music player is a specious argument. Zune will play tracks whether they're DRMed or not. What they are providing you is a quick transfer option in case you want someone to just listen to a song without any fuss or setup at all. You can carry on pulling your laptop around with you, or even having your USB drive in your pocket, but all those things need plugs and sockets, where the Zune needs nothing at all. That's convenience the iPod just does not possess (which, incidentally, doesn't let you transfer music to anyone elses iPod, DRMed or otherwise)
Am I the only one here that objects to the term 'lap-safe'?
It's a LAPTOP. If you can't put it on your lap, surely it ceases to be described as one!
Whoever modded that up, that's not informative!
We knew that already!
*joke*
You can't fucking read, can you?
All I did was list items that the company was quoted as saying about the TV, not my own personal opinion.
Chuck out my last comment about having more reason to be biased, I forgot about the Zune.
I have to agree with this.
Who would have sued YouTube before? Universal hinted but never made good, and considering YouTube would probably have been barely able to cover fighting all these lawsuits let alone winning/losing, it seemed like an uphill battle trying to squeeze the money these companies 'deserve'.
Now that YouTube is backed by deep-pocketed Google, this is every lawyer's wet dream waiting to happen. Let's hope that the deals that Google have already signed with some of the major players are enough to stem the tide of lawsuits waiting to happen.
Also, let's be honest, if Steve Jobs had said this people here would have thought about it rather than the rampant anti-Ballmer sentiment that seems to be throwing itself up here. The funny thing is that if Jobs had said it, he has far more of a reason to be biased because Apple are in the business of actually buying video content before they sell it.
This might be me being lazy but I don't think I should have to spend 10 minutes extrapolating a guy's true point when he could just say it.
Also, as I say, it's not the first time he's done it. Down the page a bit he responded to me talking about how connectivity hadn't been discussed with "Do you really think it's going to be that cheap?".
At what point did I argue picture quality?
When you click 'Reply to This' there is an implication that you will respond to what I said rather than taking issue with something completely irrelevant. This is the second time you did this on the same article. Maybe you could try addressing my point, which is that it exists and is therefore not vapour.
My point was less whether I believe their hype or not, and more that I am more willing to judge things on specs that have actually been released than rampant speculation on connectivity that isn't alluded to in the article.
Basically, argue with the point I'm making now rather than the point you want to make, which I believe was made further up the comment list.
FTFA:
And displayed beside a conventional 50 inch plasma TV this afternoon, the Mitsubishi-built prototype does appear brighter and clearer than its "older" rival.
Absolutely vapourware! No prototypes exist for this at all, and because they don't exist a company like, say, Mitsubishi could never have built one.
Why not try forming an opinion on it based on things they've actually confirmed and denied?
Half the weight and size of a plasma TV. Uses a quarter of the power to the same effect. Increases the range of colours displayed from 30% of what we are able to conceive to 90%. Costs half the price of a plasma screen.
"Oh, but they never said whether or not they support these three completely random display connectors so obviously it's a waste of time."
Maybe they're being percieved as an alternative but they show a frightening inability to convert that into sold systems.
As of June the 1st they still have a personal computer marketshare of 3.8 percent which doesn't seem to have moved since October of last year. In fact, in 2002 that figure was around 3.5. 0.3% growth in three years is nothing to crow about, let's be honest.
If anything, Apple should worry that though Windows XP might be losing market slightly, it isn't to Apple. It's this wonderful category 'Other' they should be worrying about.
What a ridiculous comparison.
How on earth is having the foresight pre-order something that could be popular anything to do with expecting things being handed to you on a silver platter? If anything you have to go out twice to a game store to pre-order a console and only once to buy it on the day!
To save people clicking that link:
1) It's very old news, and
2) It's nothing to do with bricks and cell phones being linked to bombs.
It must be very trying for you to remain relevant to the conversation.
"Please mention a few names of persons or organisations that have fought against the people and won, from any point in history.
Silence ? you got my point i believe."
You know, leaving a gap in the text there doesn't mean they can reply within it.
I believe the MS official line would be "No patches for old OSes because we have newer ones."
By the way, using 'Homeland Security' as a reason to patch OSes is spurious. The government in the interests of security should always be up to date, so there is no reason for them to still be using Win98/2k. There's probably no reason for them to be using Windows at all. I use MS myself (I'm a gamer and Transgaming is still not an option) but I'd be happier if any government was using a more secure OS, or at least an OS that isn't targetted by every hacker out there.
I'd love you to explain how Mozilla are shooting themselves in the foot by disassociating their trademark with a version of Firefox that they have no creative control over.
Try it in 50 words or less.
Are you seriously suggesting a difference between 'lawyers' and 'rats'?