Why do movie studios allow Netflix to send out DVDs to their subscribers by mail, but not to allow the same option in the form of "virtual DVDs" that you could "check out" through their website, and stream them while they're checked out to you?

DVDs are covered by the first sale doctrine (c.f. Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus) and the movie companies have no legal basis to stop Netflix from renting out the DVDs. Digital copies aren't covered by the first sale doctrine and thus require licenses.

Who said anything about regulation? I'm not saying Kickstarter should be illegal, I'm just saying it's foolish to participate in for things like this.

Code you develop under the old headset will still run on the new ones

Will it? Why would it? Facebook gets no future money form you, why would they care if your old dev kit code still works?

you just migrate to newer versions of the SDK and make whatever tweaks are needed to keep running

How much is that newer version gonna cost? If the upgrade to SDK 3.0 is $3500 instead of $350 are you still going to buy it? What if the new SDK isn't for sale to the public at all, just companies that Facebook wants to work with?

Oh I know Kickstarter has been explicit. My point isn't that Kickstarter is being misleading. It's that many Kickstarter supporters are being foolish throwing good money into projects like Oculus Rift.

Yeah, and I'm sure people have HD-DVD dev kits too. Doesn't do much good when there's no one making HD-DVDs anymore.

Likewise when Facebook modifies the interface to be completely incompatible with your dev kit, what good is it? Maybe you can make stuff for your own amusement, but you'll never be able to share it with anyone who doesn't also already have their own dev kit.

What good is a development kit for a product that's unlikely to see production in a form compatible with said development kit? Sure you can make stuff for your own amusement, but you won't be able to share it with anyone who doesn't have their own dev kit already.

It's not the point of Kickstarter to screw people over, but as it's currently set up, it's really easy for the unscrupulous to use it to screw people over without them being able to do anything about it.

No, I do understand Kickstarter. That's why I think only a fool would participate in one related to software or technology development.

1). So people donated $2.5 million to start up a company that sold for $2 billion, and they don't see a dime of that.
2). Worse, they have no control over the company, so Facebook now gets to lock down the use of the technology to only big developers that can afford to license it rather than being open to hobbyists the way many of the backers were not doubt had hoped.
3). Oh, and a "next generation" version that is completely incompatible with the current one is now doubt on the way. Since your old generation version won't be available anymore, good luck getting any developers to support it.

He doesn't even have to hire someone. In most parts of the US, his municipal government will have already hired someone who's job includes serving eviction notices:

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They never got the chance to say "that's gay" to begin with because I boot minors as soon as they show up.

From what I've read about it, saying the Noah movie counts as an argument for Christianity is like saying Thor: The Dark World was intended as an argument for Forn Siðr.

I've found an effective way of dealing with homophobia online is to start flirting with them. They HATE when you do that.

Other details were scarce, but you can bet that Haswell-E will be Intel's fastest desktop processor to date when it arrives sometime in the second half of 2014. Intel also gave a quick nod to their upcoming 14nm Broadwell CPU architecture, a follow-on to Haswell.

Does anyone else find it kind of weird that Intel seems to have gotten into a pattern where their supposed top of the line CPUs are perpetually a generation behind their supposed commodity CPUs in terms of technology?

In every show there are cases where something external to the show necessarily ends up forcing changes to the plot of the show (an actor leave unexpectedly, network demands some change, etc.). We know there's a number of cases where something like that ended up impacting Babylon 5. In your opinion, what forced change had the biggest impact on how the show came out, and what would have happened differently if things had worked out the way you had intended them to?