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Comment Flash (Score 2) 290

Iunno, I found it ironic that when Flash first came out, it was a way to create and inbed animation and sound into a website with very little weight. I actually used to make Flash sites actually smaller than HTML ones with raster graphics.

Then everyone decided to make Flash sites really heavy. Instead of going the route I thought it would go. The computers and the internet back then were too slow to handle those sites.

Now that we have the bandwidth and computing power, everyone seems to be bashing on Flash. When it is the best developer tool for vector based animation around. It's all backwardsy to me. I didn't expect it to be such a big deal that Adobe bought Macromedia.

Comment Percieved value. (Score 1) 637

I had a long conversation with my brother about perceived value and video games compared with the value of a blockbuster movie. I am still concerned why games are still $60 where most Bluray movies are around half the price. Big blockbuster movies HAVE to cost more than the biggest game.

How are game publishers getting away with the $60 price tag?

Comment Covers (Score 2) 243

Can an artist make a "Cover Song" of his/her song out of contract of a big record label, I wonder why artists haven't thought of this. Or do record companies own everything an artist does while in contract?

The Courts

Games Workshop Sues Warhammer Online Fansite 182

chalkyj writes "WarhammerAlliance.com (run for the last five years as one of the leading fansites for the MMORPG Warhammer Online) is being sued by Games Workshop for the use of the 'Warhammer' name, 'cybersquatting' and 'unfair competition.' This lawsuit is yet another in Games Workshop's disturbing pattern of suing their fans and hobbyists, this time going after a legitimate fansite for their MMORPG franchise. The full complaint (PDF) has been posted online."
Media

Radiohead May Have Made $6-$10 Million on Name-Your Cost Album 539

mytrip passed us a link to a Wired article indcating that if music industry estimates are correct Radiohead has made as much as $10 million on the 'In Rainbows' album so far. This despite the estimates of widespread piracy of the album as well. "[The estimate assumes] that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead).
Microsoft

Submission + - Lawsuit claims Xbox 360s scratch discs

StonyandCher writes: A class action suit in Florida claims that Xbox 360s can scratch game discs, making them unusable.

Just days after Microsoft took a more than US$1 billion earnings charge to fix hardware problems in Xbox 360 consoles, a class-action suit says that the consoles also damage game discs.

Filed on Monday in the U.S. District court for the Southern District of Florida, the suit claims that Xbox 360s scratch game discs, making them unusable. Thousands of people have been affected by and have complained to Microsoft about the problem, the suit claims. The suit asks for damages over US$5 million and the repair of Xbox 360s that cause the scratching and replacement of damaged discs.
Privacy

Submission + - Elderly Woman Jailed for Not Watering Lawn

i_like_spam writes: BBC news is running a story about Betty Perry, a 70-year-old resident of Orem, Utah. Betty was cited and sent to jail for not watering her lawn. Like many other communities around the country, Orem (aka 'Family City USA') has rules mandating that residents maintain and water their lawns. In terms of privacy, is it right for communities to enforce lawn maintenance? And, in this day and age of energy and water conservation, shouldn't well-manicured lawns be a thing of the past?
Google

Submission + - eBay pulls advertising from Google

gounthar writes: After Google decided to organize a Google Checkout Party event the same day as the long expected eBay Live conference in Boston, eBay pulled out its marketing spending from Google. Although this budget estimated at $100m according to the Enquirer represent less than 1% of Google revenues, Google promptly cancelled its party.
The Courts

Submission + - Court Fight over Consensual Sex Offense in Georgia (yahoo.com)

internic writes: In 2003, a 17-year-old Georgia boy named Genarlow Wilson was convicted of felony aggravated child molestation for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a party. Yahoo is reporting that, after serving 28 months of the manditory minimum 10-year sentence, a judge has now reduced his sentence so that he can go free, calling the case, 'a grave miscarriage of justice.' But it seems that he's not going free after all, because Georgia's attorney general is appealing the case. The New York Times and ESPN have covered the case in the past characterized it as unjust. Georgia state law has already been changed to make these actions a misdemeanor, but the change is not retroactive. The Yahoo article also points out that, 'If he had instead had sexual intercourse with the teen, he would have fallen under Georgia's "Romeo and Juliet" exception'. Along with the prison sentence, Wilson's conviction earns him a spot on the sex offender registry.
Republicans

Submission + - UT & CA Republicans Sign Global Warming Pact

hairygenes writes: "Today Governor Schwarzenegger visited Salt Lake City, UT to visit with Governor Jon Huntsman and the two signed on to the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative. The WRCAI is a pact intended to join the Western US states and British Columbia in a joint effort to combat human contributions to global warming... (Read the rest here)"

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