also, don't forget that at $300 for a Shield console, you are $50 away from getting an Xbox One or PS4, which make an X1-based system look like a calculator, have massive AAA game libraries, will probably still be getting new AAA titles in 10 years, and are media centers to boot.

and let's not talk about the $200 16GB Shield. completely unreasonable, and only offered to be able to claim the $200 price point.

i think people get that. it's more about investing in an unproven, largely unsupported (in the way of game developers) gaming console that's underpowered when compared about similarly priced next gen consoles.

the company was by law required to provide a severance package when laying off employees, which they did not. the employees sued for the severance package, and won.

and ..... why did they sue the company? it was because they were due severance by law and the company did not provide it. so yeah, it had everything to do with the severance package.

yes, they were forced to adhere to the law. crazy huh?

yes, it's so bad that people pay their monthly fees and spend thousands of hours leveling their characters. just a terrible game indeed.

wrong. MMOs are all about your place respective to other players. how do you think it makes the non-cheating customers feel if they spend 5000 hours leveling their character but someone else does it in 10 hours of screen time with a bot? you think it makes the vast majority of paying customers feel good about the game? like they want to keep devoting their precious time and money?

this is nothing more than keeping the vast majority of the paying customer base happy. and yeah, it's a money grab because as soon as the average person feels the game is overrun with bots, they stop paying.

what costs do those monthly fees go toward, pre-profit? bandwidth. electricity. maintenance. etc. all of those costs get multiplied by bots. humans don't play for weeks straight. a bot is a net loss for the company.

people seem to forget that just because it's digital doesn't mean it's without operating costs.

it's all about having an advantage. bots exists to gain an advantage. if everyone is a bot, it defeats the point.

not to mention, bots put excessive load on their servers beyond what would be possible with a human player.

oh man, that's so intense. i can't believe you had the guts to say it! damn. just .... damn.

on my nexus, i can disable any (firmware) app. note that you can't disable non-firmware apps, simply because you have the option of uninstalling them.

so, then why'd you buy a samsung product? people keep complaining about things like this, but then they go out and support products that implement such restrictions. lesson learned?

it's trivial to root most phones, and easier than trivial for Google's branded Nexus line.

Please post some references. Thanks.

It's since 4.0. You can't uninstall them completely without reflashing the firmware that doesn't contain them. They are part of the firmware image.

You can disable any app, even those in the firmware. When disabled, the app no longer shows in your launcher and cannot run, ever. Yes, the bits are still present in the firmware read-only partition.

completely misunderstanding the problem. the fear is that if iran gets nukes, they'll supply smaller groups that can't be retaliated against without massive collateral damage (not that you can ever avoid collateral damage with nukes).

e.g., a nuke is launch from the mountains around the pakistan / afghan border. what do you do? nuke pakistan?

i think it's well and truly clear that i didn't say anything about legality. i said it's a difficult technical challenge.

what way?

what feature?