That's just dumb. Fiats don't start most of the time. How are they going to crash if they don't start?

Nooo, sexily plug in a bitcoin-enabled USB flash drive into their USB socketed Gstring. Of course, having to flip it around like 17 times before getting it to connect correctly because of its false symmetry might get annoying.

I can't believe I forgot that one! And Dovahkiin.

Fact 1: Most 16 year olds I know these days can't spell.
Fact 2: An adult has 2x the brainpower as a child, especially with decision making, because of frontal lobe rearrangements that happen during teen years

So it's really quite stupid to teach K-5 kids chess instead of reading, writing, and spelling.

They should have just hired Barbara Streisand to handle the situation instead. She's have the same results, just at a lower price.

You underestimate the situation. You've got 4chan. You've got the Star Wars crowd trying to name them Hoth. You've got the Trekkies trying to name it Vulcan. You've got the scientologists trying to name it who the hell even knows what. You've got MS haters trying to name it Windows 9 (because it's so far away). This is like the internet version of World War 3 because there are so many super powers involved.

Oh, that's easy. I have an IQ of 134. I'm very slightly autistic and have a moderate obsession with shapes and patterns but not enough to interfere with my daily life. I absolutely cannot look at a tile bathroom wall without finding shapes and patterns and triangles and angles and symmetry between them though. So when I sit down to design the logical flow of a program, my subconscious already completed the work, I just type it. Like when I wrote a car rental program in college, I read the requirements and immediately drew out exactly what the flow of information between the modules would have to look like to meet the needs. Everyone asked how I solved it that quickly and I had no idea why they didn't because it seemed obvious to me.

My college and high school programming teachers did a good job telling me how programming and variables and memory and instructions ACTUALLY worked and that's what makes me a good programmer. My brain's natural abilities filled in the rest. Like do this but don't do that because garbage collection won't reach it and that's double the size of memory you'd need anyway for that data. That's not a learned ability, it's common sense if you know how programming actually works. So you don't need to "learn" how to not write crappy code in most cases.

Sorry but the console won't get any better over the years and PC hardware will. So even a year from now, everyone will be playing Watch Dogs at a higher quality.

I still like Exile 3 by Spiderweb software better. It's a super ultra mega classic RPG and its map makes Skyrim look small. I think it was released in 1994 or something but it still runs on Windows 7 32 bit today.

You have to be REALLY smart and good at pattern recognition and logic to be a programmer. And I mean extremely, unnaturally good. I completely disagree with the years of dedication and research, as I wrote an entire software suite that was pretty much flawless right out of college. Experience and training is not very important as long as you know how to write good code that's efficient and makes sense to others. The biggest determining factor is how smart you are. That's just how it is. I'm not a famous singer because I suck at singing and I'm not a famous artist because I suck at all forms of art. You don't see me writing a whiny article about it.

So they should just make the films and then after that any TV channel or internet site can license it to themselves for free because they have no control over it? All their money comes from licensing it to theaters and cable channels with a tiny bit from DVD sales.

You know that other currencies are worth other amounts of money in USD on the exchange, right? Because it doesn't seem like you know that. Russia would be the exception but it costs a lot of money to even just change the purchase into another currency. Then it costs a lot to pay taxes properly in that country (in the rare case that they choose to do that). Then they have to pay for phone and e-mail support staff for that country. There are costs to maintaining a presence in another country and it's reflected in the price. Russia is just so cheap because that's what Russians are willing to pay for the game since everyone there is broke.

It is. What the problem is is Hollywood and their media licensing rules. They're the ones that decided that streaming to an additional country costs more. Netflix didn't decide that all on their own for no reason.

You and the other replier apparently aren't aware that cities with 50,000 people exist. To drive from our inner city urban area to our suburbs takes 15 seconds, sometimes 30 if you hit a light. A 2000 sq ft house costs about $150,000 brand new and in an ideal zone. To drive out to a wooded area or farming area takes about 6 minutes from the center of the city. A street hot dog costs about $2.50-$4. The standard $38/mo internet connection is 15 megabits and you actually get 15 on a test (unless you're with AT&T). But we do have people stupid enough to live out in the middle of nowhere 20 minutes away who have septic and unreliable electricity. They're known to complain constantly about no internet and the long drive to go grocery shopping.

If you live in LA, it takes 2 hours to get to work, your small house cost $600,000, and you're 50 miles from farmland, that's a different story. That is THE most undesirable living condition in my opinion.

...until it rains or snows.