I don't see why not. The local cab company used to do beer/liquor deliveries where I lived. $5 flat rate for all deliveries. As students without a car it was the best/only way to get a case of beer to the house. As long as you bill appropriately for the time it takes to complete the errand, I don't see why they couldn't make good money doing this.

Especially with this amount of money. It's one thing to walk away from your job for a million dollars (typical lottery), it's another thing to walk away from you job for a billion dollars. $1 billion is enough that you would never have to worry about money ever, no matter how much money you spent. You could just travel (first class) and live in hotels (five star) and get limousines to driver you everywhere and you still wouldn't run out of money in your entire lifetime. You could do exactly what you wanted, where you wanted, when you wanted to do it.

Or they could make the modding community better. It they created a market place for people to sell/give away their mods and give users a supported way of installing those mods, then that would be a big step in the right direction. Currently installing mods is a big pain. Even installing Forge means going through ad-hell.

Apparently there already is a Minecraft Movie in the works. I'm not sure if a Minecraft Cartoon series (or the movie for that matter) could compete with the many people that churn out thousands of videos of Minecraft on Youtube.

Maybe they just need to optimize things better then. There's no reason to draw millions of blocks if there is no way for me see millions of blocks on my screen. You can tell there's issues when it slowly draw stuff. It starts drawing caverns 50 blocks deep before it draws the stuff that's right in front of your face. They shouldn't be rendering stuff that you can't even see.

This. The XBox 360, Android, iOS, and Raspberry Pi versions all play quite well.There's no reason why a reasonable computer shouldn't be able to run this game. Yet any computer that isn't a "gaming" computer with a dedicated video card struggles with this game. They need to drop Java or figure out a way to compile Java to actual machine code so the game runs well. If they can make it so that it can run on any old computer (which by the graphics level it should be), They'll be able to sell a lot more copies. As it is, there is only 1 copy in my house because we only have 1 computer that can run it well enough. If all the computers in my house could run it well enough, we would have 4 copies so we could all play multiplayer together.

Yeah, but I think if you want to do that, a phone isn't a great device for doing that. Most are locked down in some way or another specifically to stop you from doing that. I'm not sure what device really suits that need. I'm not sure if there are enough people who truly want this experience for there to be a commercial product that offers this.

Not only your "Mac" but your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch as well. I know many people with iProducts, and many of them complain about the amount of space available on the device. Most devices only ship with 16 GB (12GB free out of the box), and since they have no SD card option, an it's $100 for an extra 16 GB of space, most users opt for the smallest storage options. Personally, I will never buy a phone/tablet that doesn't have any option for expanding storage with standard media. There is no real reason to not have a micro SD card slot except to fleece people out of money. I can't believe people fall for it.

I don't have an iPhone, but I kind of agree with this. A phone is a tool, it's not a toy that I want to play with and modify. I don't want to miss a call or not get an alarm because I installed some rogue firmware on my phone (I know people this has happened to because they're always installing different ROMs on their Android phone). I'm not saying that getting an iPhone is the only way to get this experience, but that I find that this is really the point of a phone. I wanted a toy to install software on and experiment with and crash and reboot all the time, there's plenty of devices out there that are cheaper and can do just that.

Nexus 4 and 5 made sense because they had a 4 and 5 inch screen. The 7 has a 7 inch screen. Unless the 6 has a six inch screen, the numbering system won't make sense. Perhaps they should go with Nexus 5 again, like they did with the two models of Nexus 7.

MS has done nothing to prevent a PC from being sold without an OS. You can buy plenty of computers without an OS. The reason you don't see more available from the likes of HP, Dell, Acer, and others is because it creates a support nightmare. 99% of the population would have no idea what to do with a computer if you shipped them a computer without an operating system on it. Also, not shipping an OS means they can't ship third-party nagware (Antivirus, PowerDVD, etc) on the computer that they get paid to put on there because a certain percentage of people will buy the premium versions.

What Microsoft has done is made it quite cheap to sell computers with Windows pre-installed. They certainly make it cheaper for Dell to pre-install Windows on a machine than for the end user to buy their own copy. They may have even said that they will raise the price if they don't make all their machines come with Windows. But manufacturers do that kind of stuff all the time in other areas. It costs almost as much for a whole new bike for the price you'd pay just for the drive train on a bicycle if you were to buy it apart from the bike. Companies pay big money to get exclusive rights to products (think games and products that are only sold in specific stores) because they know they'll make make money off the customer in the end.

There's a large percentage of people who don't have large hands. Most women, teenagers, and even some men do not have large hands. Personally, I'm of the idea that if I want a large screen, I'll use a tablet. There's very few situations I find myself in where I wish my phone were bigger. There's a lot of situations where a 5.5 inch phone would be too large to bring with me. But most of the time where it would be convenient to have a 5.5 inch phone, I could easily bring a 4 inch phone and a 7 inch tablet.

Also worth pointing out that the factories and barracks were programmable. You could tell your factor to output 3 tanks, 6 jeeps and a helicopter (making up the units for an example, I don't remember the actual units) and it would produce that sequence as often as you liked. It was great to have an RTS that didn't have you micro managing everything.

Eventually if nobody fits in the seats, then people will stop booking seats on that airline. On the other hand, some people might think that stand up seating similar to the SkyRider would be a welcome option on shorter flights if it meant lower ticket prices. It's like saying that people shouldn't be able to operate a hostel or a capsule hotel because a large percentage of the population doesn't find that type of accommodation adequate, when it works well for a large number of people.

I'm with the parent. If I can't fall asleep, or read a book, or watch a movie, then I'm not interested. Unless they can do it for the same price, or minimal price difference than a similar car without the feature. It would be nice to have my car drive down the road for me. But if I still have to pay attention to traffic and have my hands on the wheel, then it's not really giving me much of and advantage over traditional driving. Personally, I think it would be more dangerous because if the system works well enough, I may be lulled into false sense of security, causing me to not pay attention. When the car inevitably has a problem, I'm not going to be watching, and I'm not going to be prepared to take over in sufficient time to correct the problem.