I consider playing the game without doing in-game purchases part of the game. It's a good challenge and if you work it right, you can use it to teach children about economics. No, I'm not kidding. It's all about allocation of resources and also setting goals and priorities (and sticking to them). You just need to show them how to do it properly in the game.

I imagine that this will work until the child abusers find a way around it.

My favorite question / answer pair: "IEEE Spectrum: What kind of business model is associated with Google Glass? Babak Parviz: This is still being worked on, but we are quite interested in providing the hardware."

Probably my favorite non-answer answer of 2012.

Yes, it did. The 9th Doctor saved us, didn't you know that?

you're presuming that people will actually use Google+.

Why should we get something for free when we can pay for it? Wait a minute....

I hate it when I can't food. We all need to food sometime.

True but at least it gives them the drive to solve a knotty problem.

And here I thought it'd be porn, not drugs that would get bitcoin going.

Exactly. If the data plans didn't cost and arm and a leg, and you KNOW they'll never lower the pricing, I'd consider it.

I wonder if they'll try the same techniques to study Autism?

I'm sorry, but that has got to be one of the sillier things I've read here on /. There's nothing special about this other than the fact that it's a Microsoft product. In the current smart phone market, more is expected of a product than that.

You mean this Ted Stephens? The one that died in the plane crash?

But it will be obsolete by the end of the month.