Jeff Atwood hit on this issue in a blog post last year: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/url-shorteners-destroying-the-web-since-2002.html

Agreed. Very impressive.

They'll still be interested. Demographic information is worth money. If they don't use it on Facebook (or the web) they'll use it in other places.

About time my alma mater got some recognition on here for something other than an MP3 playing Xmas Tree ;)

"What I have noticed is that the employees at Chik-fil-a's are better dressed and more polite/helpful than at most fast food restaurants"

Holy crap yes. I tried Chik-fil-a for the first time back during Xmas while mall shopping. I was actually stunned when they seemed more than helpful to make sure I was satisfied with my order.

They've supposedly fixed this very recently. If you launch Steam without an Internet connection available it'll kick into offline mode correctly now.

I started to use Netflix to watch movies because I decided that it was much more convenient to rent a movie I wanted to watch instead of dealing with the hassle of BitTorrent and running the risks that includes. So now they want to clamp down on that, presumably because it's cutting into their profits. How many more times are we going to see this song and dance from these spoiled brats? First Hulu, now this.

If they were smart they would realize that 1) we're in a recession, 2) people are effectively telling them movies cost too much to own. If people are jumping on board rental services (which have existed for years, and rental stores predate them since the 70's or earlier) after they scared everyone from pirating, wouldn't that be a very clear indication that the price of a DVD is too high?

Next thing you know they're going to get rentals classified as illegal.

Haven't read TFA but this stood out at me from the summary:

"'I'm not sure that we'll see a standard $70 price point at all. To my mind, emerging technologies, subscriptions and episodic and downloadable content should all enable price drops -- increasing accessibility to a much wider audience.'"

Well if it worked for AT&T and Apple, I'm sure it'll work for the games industry. Decrease the initial investment cost, charge a regular subscription fee (DLC can serve this purpose too) and profit. No ???? needed.

Of course, it should be pointed out that PC and Wii games have stayed at $50. Just sayin'.

I think you need a "DaVinci" virus involved too

You do realize that ICBMs actually do into orbit or near-orbit for a short period of time right?

Karma wasn't a big enough goal already?

It's not like Blu-Ray is going to be a good alternative either.