If A 747 was being sold as a smart car then that would be a valid analogy. However it isn't because people realise that would be moronic, just like selling a watch that sucks at actually being a watch.

It really comes down to what their privacy policy says, the country you are in and if they claim they do not share any information with 3rd parties and you were smart enough to use separate email addresses or unique identifying information so you can show the information had to originate with them then in many countries there definitely are legal avenues you can follow. But for the most part you are shit out of luck, find someone else to deal with. I started creating unqiue information that I can easily map to individual sites so I will know who is fucking me over whenever I register somewhere.

From the Sherman Act

"The agreement to inhibit price competition by raising, depressing, fixing, or stabilizing prices is the most serious example of a per se violation under the Sherman Act. Under the act, it is immaterial whether the fixed prices are set at a maximum price, a minimum price, the actual cost, or the fair market price. It is also immaterial under the law whether the fixed price is reasonable. All horizontal and vertical price-fixing agreements are illegal per se.

The difference here is Apple are imposing that minimum price on deals that the publishers have with other stores. THAT isn't legal. Basically they are fixing the price for every store to ensure they cannot be beaten on price. You can happily make deals for price you obtain goods, you can happily sell for below what they recommend you sell for or advertise for. you CANNOT demand that no other store is permitted to undercut you.

There is nothing illegal about being a monopoly. You don't get to justify corrupt behavior just because it damages an even bigger shark.

If you are only looking at using 500mb over a few days then you are hardly going to notice any difference from 25mb connection. that is literally only 3 mins or so of use at 25mbps.

League of Legends seems to have more gained from younger audience rather than Ex wow. I don't think many older wow players have gone to it. Anecdotal I know, but I know just 18 Ex Wow players (used to play with them) all over 30, none went to LoL. some gave up MMO's, some bounce around between trying whichever new MMO is just released or in beta, some are back to single player games.

I would love to volunteer for this, could probably even contribute quite well with a range of engineering, IT and even agricultural skills. sadly the height restrictions are a killer as I am 1 inch taller than the maximum :-(

like most professions it is the few bad eggs you hear about that really do tarnish everyone. There really are quite a lot of good judges that really are only interested in doing what's right (within the confines of the law) and though it feels untasteful for me to say even most lawyers are for the most part honest.

Console gamers are a fussy bunch. Giving them 6 year old games for free is unlikely to be much of an incentive, live and PSN already give them access to cheap or free games, they all look forward to their next Mario, Zelda, Halo, Gears of War, God of War, Uncharted etc. Unless Steam can entice them with something new that competes for their fanboi love I think Steambox will fail miserably at appealing to a new audience, it is going to have to rely on existing Steam fans.

They are venture capitalists, their goal is to make money and therefore you need to show a how and why what you are doing will make them money. So you need to show :

a) What your doing will sell and sell well, hopefully you have the market research behind this.
b) Your ideas are original, can't be easily copied by competitors or you have the patents/copyright behind it and you should be able to articulate this.
c) a good demo and complete openness when it comes to them asking questions, you need to be able to convince them you are worth the bet and nothing turns an investor off faster than you being less than forthcoming.

The deep technical details comes a distant second to the business aspects.

not so sure you do speak for most. certainly not me. I like the idea of enhancing gaming visuals beyond the borders of the television, not everyone cup of tea I am sure, but I think it is actually a rather appealing advancement. I agree skip the gimmicks but I don't think better visuals is a gimmick.

I think from memory (though happy to be corrected) is that the difference was found that people in the car interacting are at least aware of the current situation whereas someone on the phone has no awareness whatsoever of the conditions you are speaking in and may distract you at the worst possible moment whereas at least someone in a car has some vague awareness of the dangers, Radio is passive and yeah kids are probably also a huge distraction but that doesn't mean you should just automatically say fuck it we may as well provide an even greater amount of risk to those in and around you as we can't control everything. You control what you can, and this distraction is certainly unnecessary and easily avoided.

I thought it has been long established through research that even a hands free cradle talking on the phone is a dangerous distraction while driving, Can't see how this can be less of a distraction than that even if it is better than manual texting. People have enough accidents without additional distractions.

That is not Amex's problem, that is the employees fault for letting their employer use his personal card and then subsequently being fucked in the arse by his employer. No matter how the dispute goes the employer is responsible for repaying the employee unless the employee made the payment without authorisation. The dispute after that is between saleforce and Mr pillow.