This one fits in your pocket, and is happy to see you.

Everything is insanely expensive there because of import costs.

Agree. Being conducted online, it shows a bias to computer users who are more likely to be gamers. Now go do the same study by having people stand in a strip mall holding clip boards where there is a movie theater nearby.

He wants the big record labels to be okay with him using their IP in derivative works. Why would he not be okay with the reverse?

Maybe it was my tone? *shrug*

If they used his work as a component in yet another derivative work? I'm sure he'd be just fine with it.

I wouldn't call it the same idea. The same idea would be releasing a CD-RW with 1-2 tracks on it, then releasing more tracks over the years as you get around to writing them.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/02/16/daily23.html 4th or 5th result when I searched for 'FirePond'

It is not a blank CD, it is a blank CD-R. VERY different.

Yes. Without the gravity from our Sun, the Earth would never have coalesced into a planet. No Sun, no Earth, no hydrothermal vents.

beat ya to it =P http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3699491 http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3699515

And if there is no wind?

"...names were entered into the state police database as terrorists partly because the software offered limited options for classifying entries."

So much for guilty until proven innocent. If the correct classification doesn't exist, then don't enter in the name until one does. You wouldn't put their names in as murderers or child pornographers. They are not terrorists, don't call them such.