Your sig .... ugh.

It's "For all intents and purposes," not "intensive purposes."

It's not like it matters anyway, you're on Slashdot.

Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp

You make a good argument, but there are some holes in it.

First of all, the "Xbox 360 Development Kit" you speak of that costs $99, that's just the XNA Community Games dev kit - it's not what the industry uses. The actual dev kit required to make games for the 360 (not XBL Indie Games) runs about the same as the others, somewhere between $1500 and $2000.

Second, you mention the Unreal 3 Engine costing $350k to license and then royalties on top of that - Valve offers the Source engine pretty much for free, and, while somewhat dated at this point, can compete pretty damn well. Not to mention that whenever Episode 3 drops, it'll get another significant update. All this for buying a game at $50 retail.

Wish I had mod points, you'd get an insightful from me.

Ah, so the glass is half full AND half empty? Preposterous.

You bought the laptop. It is yours. If your boss decides, "Hey, I'm gonna give you money for that laptop," your company is now out $1250 and you just got a free laptop.

I'll spend a lot more on steaks or chicken than I will on a box of pasta. Carbs: 2, Proteins and Fats: 1.

Anything that could be remotely related to harming my liver or destroying my muscle tissue, citation or not, I am going to avoid like the plague. Not to mention, carbs are my staple food (as they are for most people). They're inexpensive and provide hunger satisfaction.

Some medical resources regard ketosis as a physiological state associated with chronic starvation. Some clinicians regard ketosis as a crisis reaction of the body due to a lack of carbohydrates in the diet and consider it a dangerous and potentially life-threatening state that stresses the liver and causes destruction of muscle tissues. .


Yeah, let me get started on that ketosis right away.

Ugh. My formatting fails again.

Jeff: I'm afraid that Earth, a-all of Earth, is nothing but an intergalactic reality-TV show. Man: My God... we're famous! [Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705900/%5D

Actually, only parts of the US call it a rest room. Here in New England, it's a bathroom, through and through.

No, Urectum.

Your libraries must suck. Fines here are something like $.02 a day, and the book exchange program is free.