I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Texas already has a direct tax on computing services.

"they should definitely do it somewhere in Texas "

Texas already directly taxes computing services.

You take them if you are car camping, not when backpacking.

Apparently it rewards them well enough that they prefer using it over distributing for themselves.

It can impact him by having an effect on the rest of the industry. EA may license the technology they use so that it gets used more broadly in other products. EA is very big, so they might decide to go buy a company that makes a competing product he likes and then shutter the product. They may buy a company and then add the features he dislikes to product that makes it unusable for him.

Basically, products are not released into a vacuum and practices that are bad for the customer can spread through the industry if they are included in products that do well. This is a very simple observation that people seem to frequently miss.

While directly taking money away isn't a solution in this case(it certainly can be in the case of dangerously bad products), the desire to do more than simply be quiet is understandable. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. If you see a problem that you think may spread; you complain, you voice your opinion, and you try to convince people to agree with you. That is how you work to get things changed.

"Why does it cost 10s of millions to make a game? I've seen indie games like minecraft or terarria or...."

Good games, but simple, with relatively little in the way of 3rd party or artistic assets.

The costs ramp up when you start developing a game that requires a combination of teams of artists, recording engineers, voice actors, etc... High end graphics are going to require dedicated teams too. Moving from high to bleeding edge graphics are going to require even more trained people and the development new techniques. You also may need to pay to license vehicles, locations, teams, people, and/or characters. If you are a large company you may need to localize it for the various countries its selling in so you don't do something like accidentally use "spastic" in a kids game being sold in the UK.

What about digital content in collectors editions? It generally comes on all the discs, but requires activation only included with the collector's edition packaging. Frequently, some or all of this becomes available as DLC for a charge.

So... a subset?

Agreed.

This is a good question, this is an unusual situation and people seem somewhat confused as to who has done what.

It was decided years ago that cell phone unlocking was illegal under the DMCA. But, as part of the DMCA, there are reviews done by the Librarian of Congress that grant temporary DMCA exemptions for certain activities. Previously, one of the exemptions that the Librarian had granted was to allow people to unlock phones. Unfortunately, the exemption was not extended this year, so legality defaults to the DMCA. The DMCA says no unlocking without permission.

The primary action the petition is for the White House to ask the Librarian review the decision to end the phone unlocking exemption. If this does not work, then the petition asks the White House to push for a bill that would declare unlocking to be legal.

The problem is that they didn't sell the crop as feed. They *thought* they sold the crop as feed, but they didn't put it in a contract. They only had feed sale rights, but then gave the wholesaler full sale rights. They may have done it on accident, but it could still come back to bite them.

They should have included a step 2b) Farmer A has buyer sign contract that seeds will be sold only as feed, and buyer takes liability for any seed sold for planting. Distribution rights get tricky because you generally aren't just allowed to say, "Well I didn't break the rule, I sold it to someone without telling them and they broke it."

1. My comment had nothing to do with it being ready or not. Only with the likely availability of a technical solution to a problem that may or may not exist.

2. I wasn't answering grandma, I was answering SuperKendall. I don't think most grandmas should be buying an $800 first gen niche targeted PC tablet at all.

Hmmm... that I'm not sure. I don't know if that restriction will be kept for the pro platform. Either way, I've read that on the RT version a registry key be edited to give full access to the SD card, so in the worst case that should still be doable.

No, the equivalent would be McDonalds selling a 1/4 pound burger but measuring the weight before cooking.