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Comment Re:Wrong lesson. (Score 4, Informative) 569

I played for the couple of hours I could, last night. Even if you control all the cities in a region yourself, there is still a global market that is being interacted with. When the server was having connection problems (but would still let you play), the oil that I was exporting would no longer export and sit in the stockpile until I was alerted it was full. This was affecting my overall economy, because as an oil town, a lot of my economy was dependent on that global export. The market prices are determined by overall supply/demand on the particular server you're connected to (each server being a sim globe as it were). As others have pointed out, this is of course something that didn't have to be multiplayer, but does add an additional interesting variable to the game. Here's a screenshot of the market graph.

Comment wtf (Score 5, Insightful) 270

It's ironic — when Bill Gates agreed to port Office to the Mac nearly 20 years ago, it was seen as a lifeline for the beleaguered manufacturer. Now, Microsoft is knocking on the door of Apple's business and Cupertino seems disinclined to answer.

This conclusion absolutely does not follow from the sentence that came before it.

Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 1) 480

the biggest problem with this is when your algorithm won't fit the password requirements of one particular site. then you have to memorize that this one site has a specific password requirement which requires a different password than the algorithm normally generates, and often these sites don't advertise their password requirements when you login so you end up locking your account after too many password attempts.

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