Nicholas Overstreet 's Techdirt Comments

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• On the post: Reminder: It's Still Not Illegal For Someone To Criticize You

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2008 @ 06:45am

  Re: It can be a fine line

  Fine line? Hardly.
  One is false, one is true. There is no fine line there. It's either true or it's not. Big difference.

• On the post: Sprint And Cogent Remind Us That The Internet Is Held Together With Handshakes And Duct Tape

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2008 @ 02:35pm

  Re: Routing?

  There are a lot of Web Hosting companies who get their main service through Cogent.
  While those hosting companies technically should have a secondary line to prevent things like this from effecting their business, they don't.
  No Sprint customers are able to access any web sites or servers hosted on Cogent's network.

• On the post: Ubisoft Says It's Delaying A PC Game Due To Piracy; But That Makes No Sense

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2008 @ 01:39pm

  Here's an idea

  Maybe if they made something WORTH buying people would pay for it. If you make a mediocre game, chances are people won't pay for it because it isn't worth the $65 to them.
  Make a game worth it and people will buy it.
  Games such as the Orange Box and Sims 2 are great examples of this.

• On the post: MPAA Doubletalk On FCC Request To Block DVR Recordings

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2008 @ 07:51am

  MPAA Always Good For a Laugh!

  I enjoy these MPAA articles, almost as much as the RIAA articles.
  You're always guaranteed a laugh at the complete absurdity of these archaic organizations.

• On the post: Movie Downloads Get Even More Confusing Thanks To Sony

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2008 @ 06:57am

  Typical Sony Shenanigans

  When was the last time Sony did ANYTHING with the consumer in mind? I'd be willing to be it's been over a decade... Sony is bad for consumers, it's clear as day.

• On the post: Google Inches Toward Wikified Maps

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2008 @ 01:44pm

  Mobility = the key

  If Google really wants this to take off, they need to make a mobile interface for this.
  They have Google Maps for Windows Mobile. Ideally a user should be able to fire up Google Maps on their GPS phone and make edits to the map as they are driving. If they hit a part of the map that is inaccurate, or needs changing or updating, the person could do it while they are right there with live GPS data.
  This is something I've felt is a long time coming. There are several roads in my area that were re-routed to go around small towns instead of through them. The problem is they aren't updated on ANY maps, so when you're driving them on GPS, your GPS thinks you're driving through the middle of nothing and starts freaking out trying to get you back on road ways.
  With live editable maps, problems like these could be easily solved helping the maps make more sense to people who would be unfamiliar with the roads.

• On the post: Recording Industry Calls Radio 'A Kind Of Piracy'

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2008 @ 12:45pm

  Confused

  I'm not sure whether I'm more shocked by the fact that the RIAA still exists, or that people still listen to music on the radio?

• On the post: Massachusetts Worker Cleared Of Child Porn After Malware Discovered On His Machine; Life Still In Shambles

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2008 @ 07:16am

  Re: Damn the media...

  Who would want to read news about some one who didn't do anything?
  The media is all about sensationalizing anything, regardless of the fact it could ruin lives.

• On the post: The Internet Isn't 'Critical Infrastructure'

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 28 May, 2008 @ 06:12am

  The Internet IS Critical

  I can think of at least 10 industries off the top of my head, and countless more businesses, that rely on the internet to operate. If the internet went down, they would not be able to do business as they do today. Costs would sky rocket and whole ways of doing things would grind to a complete hault as they tried to work around what they had come to rely on over the last 2 decades.
  The claim that the internet is not critical is foolish, near-sighted, and quite frankly ABSURD.
  Poorly thought out article is poorly thought out.

• On the post: Seagate: If Flash Drives Get Too Cheap, We'll Use Patents To Make Them Expensive

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2008 @ 07:50am

  He's Nick Burns, your company's computer guy!

• On the post: Network Solutions And ICANN Both Sued For Allowing Domain Front Running

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2008 @ 06:17am

  Network Solutions needs to be stopped

  I've had many dealings with NS over the years and none of them have ever been pleasant. All of their prices are higher then other providers and their service has been terrible.
  When the domain front running news broke in January I swore to never do business with them again.

• On the post: Did The Warranties Just Run Out On Undersea Cables?

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2008 @ 07:01am

  Re: Didn't know

  Well if an anchor did catch a fiber cable I can totally see it breaking the fiber.
  But as you said, I didn't know these cables were so vulnerable. I thought they would've at least buried them a bit to prevents things like this from happening (if it was really an anchor... which I am not buying at this point).

• On the post: Pirate Bay Sued, As Expected

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2008 @ 01:18pm

  Interesting, but...

  When will Demonoid be moving to Sweden? :-D

• On the post: Wait… AOL Was Still Making A Netscape Browser?

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2007 @ 02:46pm

  Re: What's the context for this story?

  I guess it would've helped had you read the story.
  
  I remember the arguments my friends and I would have in High School, Netscape versus IE. I was a major IE supported and despised all that Netscape was. Than AOL bought them and I rubbed it in all my buddies faces.
  Now I argue with anyone who is still using IE and not Firefox or even Opera.
  Oh how the times change.

• On the post: PlaysForWhatNow? Microsoft 'ReBrands' Misnamed DRM

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2007 @ 07:06am

  Re: Re #8 Steve R

  hahaha, what?
  Hard to get Vista to play HD content?
  I had no problems at all. I double click the .avi file encoded in HD, and it plays.
  Now if you're wanting to play an HD-DVD or BluRay disc and output it to a TV, that is a different story, but if you have the correct hardware it is as simple as hooking up the cables and installing the software the usually comes with the drive. But, you said "HD content". An .avi file or any video file can be HD... it all depends on how it is encoded.
  You have to be careful with the terminology you use.

• On the post: Does ActiBlizsion Make Sense? Can A Merged Activision And Blizzard Really Work?

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2007 @ 09:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Oh comeon

  Top 5 selling PC games, Blizzard only has 2 of the 5 spots. Not 4 of the 5 spots as Blizzard would like you to believe.

• On the post: Does ActiBlizsion Make Sense? Can A Merged Activision And Blizzard Really Work?

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2007 @ 09:30am

  Re: Re: Re: Oh comeon

  Ok, so let's remove "bundled" games since you don't want to count those.
  #1 and #2 were the only bundled items, so move up everything else and you end up with this:
  1) Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy - 20.08 million approximately, 10.23 million in Japan, 9.85 million in US)
  2) Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES - 18 million)
  3) The Sims (16 million shipped)
  4) Nintendogs (DS - 15.77 million)
  5) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2 - 15 million, may include PC and Xbox versions)
  [wikipedia.com]
  
  Huh... still no Blizzard games. 3 Nintendo and 1 EA and 1 RockStar.
  
  The point being that Blizzard's best selling game was StarCraft with 9.5 million and doesn't even make a top-20 list. Sorry.

• On the post: Does ActiBlizsion Make Sense? Can A Merged Activision And Blizzard Really Work?

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2007 @ 06:33am

  Re: Oh comeon

  4 out of 5 all-time bestselling games belong to Blizzard?
  What are you talking about?
  It is obvious you made NO effort to check this comment, and in reality just made it up.
  Let's look at the top 5 best-selling games of all time:
  1) Super Mario Bros. (NES - 40.23 million)
  2) Tetris (Game Boy - 33 millions)
  3) Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy - 20.08 million approximately, 10.23 million in Japan, 9.85 million in US)
  4) Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES - 18 million)
  5) The Sims (16 million shipped)
  [wikipedia.com]
  Well, you got one thing right, 4 of the top 5 all-time bestselling games do have something in common. They're Nintendo games. With the other top 5 game being from EA.
  
  Please don't make up your own facts, it has only proven to discredit your entire post.

• On the post: Hollywood DRM Hasn't Stopped Piracy, But It Has Boosted the Antiguan Economy

  

  Nicholas Overstreet ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2007 @ 06:20am

  DRM will always be a joke

  I would like to talk to some person who though DRM would be a good idea and stop piracy.
  They are obviously disillusioned with their (or other's) ideas, and apparently not familiar with the saying that applies 100% of the time;
  "What man can make, man can break".
  Now if only man can make Hollywood not pump out such garbage, then we'd be better off.