True of the former, not so much of the latter. Time Warner no longer owns AOL, Warner Music Group, or Time Warner Cable.

I imagine that a renderer could use a window in a door as a cue to use a lower level of texture and geometry detail, especially if the window is tinted.

I would imagine that the increased expertise you see among users of the OS X version of your app would not correlate well with users of an iOS app. OS X and iOS are very different market segments.

Not if streaming incurs a $10 per GB overage payable to the satellite or cellular ISP. See how Hulu and Netflix waste cellular airtime.

A product bearing the USDA Organic certification mark "has been produced through approved methods that integrate cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. Synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, irradiation, and genetic engineering may not be used."

Climbing I'll give you, but what feet?

Budget problems? For parts of a map that need to look plausible but whose precise arrangement isn't critically important to the story, try something procedural. Don't design a hotel room; make a program that designs hotel rooms. It worked for the space trading sim Elite, the shooter .kkrieger, roguelikes, graphical dungeon crawlers inspired by roguelikes, and Orteil's Nested tech demo.

Tech limits? Why can't the game just drop everyone to 1997-class graphics when it detects that what the players have chosen to do has hit fundamental limits of popular video gaming platforms? If it was good enough for GoldenEye...

You didn't buy it; you licensed it. And you didn't license the ability to charm all NPCs into unlocking all doors for you.

Perhaps the door analogy is her way of expressing what it's like to have a "mundane problem in a complex system" to someone who has never faced a system as complex as a video game.

Search engines count inbound links as one of the factors in the rank of a particular document. Keeping old URIs working alongside your new URIs keeps your old inbound links working, which can only improve the placement of the documents on a site. When I moved Phil's Hobby Shop to a different shopping cart package, I had the 404 handler try to interpret the old cart's URI schema and route requests to product search.

That's the intent: cool URIs don't change. But in the real world, URIs disappear for political reasons. One is the change in organizational affiliation of an author. This happens fairly often to documents hosted "for free" on something like Tripod/Geocities, a home ISP's included web space, or a university's web space. Another is the sale of exclusive rights in a work, invention, or name to a third party. A third is the discovery of a third party's exclusive rights in a work, invention, or name that make it no longer possible to continue to offer a work at a given URI.

Renting those things takes a budget that indies (other than long-time industry veterans) tend not to have.

The entire "freemium" video game revenue model is predicated on the fact that so-called "whales" would pay $5 to download a car.

In baseball you're not trying to get the "grenade" into a target almost as high as a second-story window.

So how should I go about trying your apps before buying the iPod touch or iPad mini on which to run them, in addition to whatever Android kit I already have?