More market, more profit. Not even accounting for the fact that developers make more from Apple App Store listings than they do from Google Play listings, why would you limit your market-size for the sake of $8-$9 per month? That's just stupid.

This is just stupid. There are still kids fresh out of high school with the ability to start their own companies. There are kids who haven't even finished high school who are taking masters-level courses (I am friends with one). Making the assertion that anyone is capable of starting and continuing a successful business just because they had one thing in common with Bill Gates doesn't mean they had everything else necessary to be as successful as Bill Gates.

Some kids have the knowledge and ability. Most didn't care enough to develop those skills, instead relying on sports or the promise of the benefits of post-sec education or maybe not even relying on anything to help them along, just coasting through because they don't see the benefits.

I *am* an iPhone 3G (not S) owner (Meaning: owner). I've always kept up on the updates to the OS, and I've never had any problems with any version slowing my phone down or causing instability or other problems (except that one time when Facebook decided to crash every time I loaded the app, so I visited the mobile website in Safari instead). It stopped updating at 4.2, but whatever. I can't install anything newer than that (and I mean it doesn't LET me), so I have to wonder, who are these people who installed iOS 5 and iOS 6 on their iPhone 3G? My buddy with a 3GS got those, but I didn't.

If you're going to be on about how acronym pronunciation does or doesn't work, then "GIF" would never be a word. When reading the written text, you always pronounce the elongated form of the acronym. "The GIF file is in the FS on the HDD" should be orated as "The Graphics Interchange Format file is in the File System on the Hard Disk Drive."

Strictly speaking, we aren't talking about pronouncing an acronym; we're talking about pronouncing a new word derived from an acronym in which case you would be right to claim pronounciation is different from the etymology.

Or is this too pedantic?

The Earth is a lot more complex than a snow globe. There are a lot of scientists who wouldn't be sure, given similar complexity, that all the flakes would rest on the bottom of the snow globe after 5 minutes.

That's like saying engineers predicted increased taxes on the manufacturing sector will lead to greater defects in cars due to lower-quality, cheaper product being used, then pointing at the Fisker Karma and saying "See! I told you so!"

Except he wouldn't be because all of his peers would be trying to get out of jury duty. He'd be tried by responsible and probably more intelligent people. He'd be fucked.

Tell me: Are you allowed to stand butt-naked in front of an open window in a ground-level house across the street from an elementary school? The answer is obviously "No." What can be seen from public grounds can be considered "public viewing."

And this is exactly why modded boxes should be banned from XBox Live.

I believe they call that "DVD Boxed Sets"

To ensure the person is of voting age?

Working in a restaurant located in a business hub, I see two or three blue-tooth headsets each day. Sure, maybe not a lot by your standards, but it's significant that these are the people who forget that they're wearing them meaning many more probably use them regularly.

I use one, myself, because I'm never just talking on the phone. If I'm driving and a phone call comes in, I can't be holding the phone to my head. I don't often play games that can be paused so I can't stop just to answer the phone at the drop of a hat. While I'm walking around not doing anything else, sure, I could probably just hold the phone up to my head, but I already have a bluetooth earpiece. Why would I not want to use it?

On the topic of how often any of these come up, very rarely. My last phone bill had 6 minutes of airtime used for the month. Still, I've had the earpiece for over a year and the convenience for the above-listed situations makes it more than worth the $40 I paid for it.

I've never had a problem with an update being forced on me. Neither XBox360, nor PS3, Nor Wii has ever pushed it beyond saying "There's an update. Do you want it?"

You can always refuse to update. So you lose the ability to play online. Get over it. If you're modding your console, the only place you deserve to keep it is offline.

The local university, as I understand it, charges per credit hour up to 12 at which point you qualify for a Full-Time rate, and then if you have more than 18, they start charging per extra credit hour again. As with all hear-say, it could be wrong, but it's the word on the street for now.

Isn't that... hmmm. am I the only one that thinks that sounds like Dark Matter? I mean, it's valid, I suppose, to assume that the energy would be released as heat (I'm assuming that's what you're getting at with "boiling away"), but what if it's released as mass or gravity or an electric field or something?