The tower comes up to his waist.

Everything I've read indicates that the console & pc gaming industry works under the 80/20 rule. So, yes there are lots of people who do not buy a $60 game each month. And, yes, most people make a lot of posts complaining that $15 a month is expensive.

However, publishers make a lot of money catering to the heavy buyers (like me) who spend more than $500 a year on games.

I hear NASCAR fans enjoy a good Heisenberg joke.

One automobile requires 4 radials. 720 degrees requires 4 Pi radians.

I'm sure the DoJ would have a field day with that one- Extorting the cell phone companies by leveraging their monopoly in search.

Nonetheless, giant fires do happen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrollton,_Kentucky_bus_collision#NTSB_Summary

Less than 10% of mosquito species carry plasmodium. It's about 100% certain that killing off the species that do will result in the other non-lethal mosquito species filling their niche.

They must not read comic books.

Haha! They fooled you too. The dirty little secret is that Siri is actually a nice old lady in Delhi.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2845/why-arent-porn-actors-charged-with-prostitution

The key quote FTA:
But in 1988 his conviction was overturned by the California Supreme Court, which cited precedent establishing that "for [an act] to constitute 'prostitution,' the genitals, buttocks, or female breast, of either the prostitute or the customer must come in contact with some part of the body of the other for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the customer or of the prostitute" [emphasis added]. The court found that the "payment of acting fees was the only payment involved in the instant case. . . . There is no evidence that [Freeman] paid the acting fees for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, his own or the actors'." Thus, no prostitution.

I know this is Slashdot, but the French contributing to the success of the American Revolution was 100% done out of self-interest. The Bourbons loved democracy in the same way Americans loved radical Islam when we gave Afghanistan freedom fighters Stingers to shoot down Russian helicopters. And it came back and bit them in the tail in a much more dramatic and bloody way.

That's a really interesting story and probably not uncommon. I'm sure everyone has their horror stories about the startup that was born in an academic institution. It's such a problem and the university technology licensing / outreach administrators who are tasked with fixing it are complete dimwits.

From a legal perspective, it seems stupid to approach people and ask them to to surrender their shares. Firing them straight up if they are truly "MIA" as Pincus claims would be justifiable. There's nothing wrong with letting go an employee who doesn't meet expectations. Asking them to surrender their shares, THEN firing them makes your motivations clear.

This simply confirms that Zynga is a company with no morals.

While it is interesting to see a UI expert dissect a piece of software, this piece reminds me a bit of folks who do analysis of lottery ticket numbers and then try to convince us that the winners are geniuses. We all know of a bazillion games that are similar shoot-projectile-random-result games (golf, bowling, Bloons, Peggle, Darts) and why they are addictive. Angry Birds is good, but the amazing success probably has more to do with social mania than UI design. OH, and hitching your corporate bandwagon to the iOS.

A lot of the time this happens, it's because management wants to take a more aggressive strategy that shareholders won't support. Nobody has a crystal ball that can guarantee increased profits. If management fundamentally disagrees with ownership about where the company should go, a MBO is usally the result of a lot of meetings where management puts forward proposals and gets repeatedly shot down.