Used market is a rip-off in the big franchises. It is usually the better deal to wait for the re-release to come out at over a 50% discount. I don't see why anyone would sell a game to Gamestop for a pittance when they can sell it to their buddy for a lot more used. A pawn shop would probably pay more than Gamestop.

Anyway... I think it is silly to assume that anyone would require a broadband Internet connection in order to play games on a console. That's just silly to cut that much market out.

And what precedent in history have you seen that would make you believe this?

They will still be overpriced, locked into the walled garden and the secondary market will be eradicated. Thinking otherwise is just falling into the trap that has already been laid with other eBooks.

Win for publisher, fail for students. Apple is just a profit machine for content creators and evidently there are a lot of suckers who believe otherwise.

I've traveled there on business and agree. Very impressive low-cost for access infrastructure. It is good they are being heavy handed with the cellular carriers though - the prices for international roaming are robbery there and forces people onto VOIP if they are working temporarily in the country.

You can opt out of any and all location services in the system's settings and on first install on Android. I am assuming it actually does if you click 'No'.

I hired a 60+ year old and I turned 30 this year. I even got approval to hire him on the same level as I since he was a contractor. I think age-ism is definitely out there, but true professionals look at the facts.

Iraq is not renewing 'diplomatic immunity' for any US citizen. Any security force would be stupid to stay.

People want to see Win8/Metro - it will be the same UI across all MS stuff backed by the cloud. It will be interesting to see it all tied together in one place.

Desktop synching is obsolete. That is the whole point of Android. You don't sync with a desktop period. A USB connection just allows you to do USB Debugging or mounting storage. "Real phones" don't sync to a desktop at all.

I would guess that marriage is actually a construct to limit the creation of "illegitimate" children with reckless abandon and make it more attractive economically (and morally for the religious) for a man to settle down with a family. Imagine if there was no such thing as marriage when women had no equal rights? We would live in an anarchy.

The question is -- have we evolved enough to properly foster a civil society without the concept of marriage at all - which if you boil it down - is a way to control the male instinct to procreate unabashedly?

Yes the fad are Agile teams that all sit next to one another... but people tend to forget you will be down 1 FTE regularly because you all sneeze and cough on each other. Sickness runs rampant in those rooms... particularly if you have someone who is not hygienic in the group.

Obviously a troll that has gotten out of hand, but,

On the news recently your government is seeming to force the closure of many coffee shops and brothels and force them deeper into the red light district, citing 'criminal elements.'

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/12/07/Amsterdam_targets_sex_and_drug_crime/UPI-68241228633552/

There's quite a CCTV, speed cameras, and speed measuring devices installation which has the underpinnings of a surveillance society.

Race and race relations are not great there, and there are many news articles and posts about that -- including this one ( a bit old but still relevant, this is a law focused on restricting freedom of expression and religious belief and are even extending it to campuses.)

http://digg.com/world_news/Muslim_women_protest_outside_Dutch_parliament_against_burqa_ban

A law like this would be directly against the US Constitution.

Also it has the 8th highest taxation rate/GDP ratio which I consider oppressive.

While on an individual basis it seems you can do whatever you want to kill yourself, there are some issues as a 'free society' just as in the United States that you guys are dealing with.