My point is that the value per hour depends entirely on the specific game, the purchase price, and how much replay the individual owner gets out of it. Some games like an FPS with strong multiplier features, or a sports game, can have very high values (unless there's a new version every 6 months that everyone switches to). Other games with finite story driven play (like the first Assassin's Creed) have a very low replay value, and so the price-per-hour can be quite high.

AAA titles fall in price because most people have bought them near release at full cost.

The funny thing is that if you look it as dollar spent per hour enjoyed, it's not a waste of money.

That's really hard to evaluate. $60 for that AAA game which gets a total of 5-10 hours of play is far more expensive than the $7-15 admission for an afternoon at a museum, or $120 for an annual pass to the zoo.

If you don't load images, they have no way to tell that you viewed the email.

That's the whole point of unique tracking single-pixel images. Google Analytics works basically the same way (but they inject this pixel image via javascript).

How about all of them are secured?

Now that everyone's wifi router is provided free with their DSL/Cable/UVerse connection in my neighborhood, they're all secured by default.

And I don't think Netgear/DLink/Linksys have sold routers in default unsecured states for a while now.

I grew up in San Diego with coyotes in my yard.
I also lived in southern New Mexico for several years (just as arid as southern Arizona) and experienced a record heat wave of 115-120 temperatures for about 2-3 weeks.

Stop exaggerating. The Phoenix heat only peaks in the middle of the day. Most of the year is quite pleasant, and even in the hottest part of the summer, it's still nice outside before 10 and after 5-6. The evenings are beautiful and there's more than enough light to play outside safely. Evening is even the best time for catching the wildlife. Coyotes are primarily nocturnal and are more scared of the kids than the kids are of them. If your kid is old enough to play outside unsupervised, they're sure as hell old enough not be bothered by coyotes.

And believe it or not, even in Phoenix there's a lot of wildlife if you'd just stop to look. Lots of cool insects, birds, lizards. I'm sure there's rabbits and squirrels as well (hint, the coyotes eat something, and it ain't bugs). Sure, you don't have anything as big as a deer, but there's a lot morde wildlife than you realize.

But you probably miss all that because you assume it's hostile out there and instead spend your evenings watching prime-time TV or playing video games.

Oh, and one last thing. Explain the exploding flashlight bombs? Let me guess, something like exploding a mailbox or the like? The people pulling those pranks like to do it when no-one is around to see them. If people are out of doors, actually using their yards and public spaces, then miscreants wouldn't be able to do the shit they do.

ISPs could push back and set themselves as common carriers if they wanted to, but the temptation of selling content to their customers in addition to dumb pipes is just too tempting.

Comcast - planning (or already has) their own streaming music service, and owns NBC Universal
Cablevision - has a streaming video service, and also makes their bread and butter off of Cable TV
Verizon - sells TV via their FiOS bundles
Time Warner Cable - Not associated with Time Warner Media anymore, but any time spent on the internet is time not spent watching their Cable TV offerings.

Notice any patterns here? Bandwidth is a cost to these companies, and they all operate other significant revenue streams that are in direct competition with unmetered data service when it comes to what customers are doing.

Something seems off there.

If the raise described is the volume of one supertanker, that means 1 supertanker filled with water would (fully dispersed) raise worldwide ocean levels by .77mm.

Sure, less weight for oil than water, so the total displacement for working supertankers is lower, but still... with the armada of supertankers around the world, this should be measurable effect in total.

Selling a software license or a piece of hardware is a sale.

Selling the above, along with implementation services, is a solution.

if they actually cared about their users, they would make crapware-free systems a requirement for using the Windows logo.

The line between crapware and useful software can be very hard to define since it all depends on what the particular end user wants.

4 antivirus packages - probably crapware
1 antivirus package - probably not
Media library manager/player - depends on the user
Driver packages - not crapware
Scanning software? Image editing software? Online photo printing?
Games?
Bluray player?
Firefox or Chrome?

No, the race to the bottom in an overly-saturated market is why there is so much crapware.

As manufacturer, if you are selling the same machine, built with all the same parts, from the same vendors, with the same costs as your competitors, how do you beat your competitor's price? You offset your costs by charging crapware vendors to include their products on your machines. And then you claim that crapware is actually a "feature" that sets your product apart from your competitors.