You should not, however, be allowed to make minor changes, recompile it, and then sell it as your own.

A lot of video game companies teeter on the edge of bankruptcy. Sometimes it isn't corporate greed, but a collective failure to develop products that can sell enough to pay the real costs of producing it.

There are a few clever ways you could get around tagging produce items individually. One would be to put an id tag on bags, and track the contents of the bags in the store computer system. You could integrate that with the weighing process, perhaps, to streamline it.

You're right that there's a few tricky spots, and it's not perfectly clear how it would best be handled. Nevertheless, I think if you can get tags cheap enough, it would be a great application.

I find them much more convenient, as I have no need or desire to have a cashier do for me what I can probably do better myself.

One thing I like about them is that they're one step closer to the eventual future. At a certain point, there's going to be no more cashiers, as you'll just be able to walk out of the store without having to individually scan items, as they'll be tagged for remote sensing. Just swipe your credit card on the way out the door, authorise payment, and leave.

I doubt it. They devote an entire page to explaining why they don't use templates:

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/templates.html

Have you tried installing in compatibility mode? A post on their forums suggests that it would work. Or, at least up to version 1.05.

Oh the other hand, community-created content is a huge part of Little Big Planet. At launch, there wouldn't have been nearly as much great user-content out there as there is now.

That doesn't seem right to me. Use of a lethal weapon is definitely more serious, and should be treated as such. It's one thing to expect the use of non-lethal weapons to be treated seriously and investigated, but they shouldn't be treated equally when they are not.

As an analogy, it's important to investigate and punish petty thieves, but requiring an ongoing string of petty thefts to receive equal attention as an ongoing string of serial murders would be silly.

There's a decent number of Wiis with poor disk drives. They became apparent when Smash Bros. Brawl released. It was a popular game and was on a dual-layered DVD, so it exposed latent problems many Wiis. There's also occasional defective video hardware. But all-in-all, the Wii seems to have had pretty low failure rates.

Gentlemen, start your cloning!

If we outlaw malware, only outlaws will have malware!

All significantly sized banks were given TARP funds. Being on the verge of bankruptcy was not a criteria for participation. Even healthy banks were encouraged to join in order to prevent stigmatising participants. Goldman Sachs has already repaid their TARP funds. Go take a look at the Wikipedia page for TARP under "participation criteria" and "participants".

Actually, Goldman Saches did not go bankrupt in 2008. In fact, they did relatively well throughout the crisis. Your response to the other poster explaining that they could have gone bankrupt while still making profit is also irrelevent, because they didn't go brankrupt.

Modding this funny was a brilliant but subtle touch. Whoever did that deserves a round of applause.

More likely, if you do a charge back, Sony will ban your account. Such is the danger of highly DRM'd services.