No. They'll have to maintain the $60 model, for xbox games at least, since they will be selling so many fewer of them after this.

I was just wondering the same thing. I won't buy most games unless I can rent them first and try them.

So, MS is saying you have to just buy the game, no more trying it out first. Oh, and you have to buy it at pretty close to retail price too, even if it is used. You can't borrow one from a friend to try it out (my son does that all the time and we go buy the ones he likes). You can't take them to someone else's house for a game night.
I guess I wont be getting an xbox 1

According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smitten?s=t, you're ok with smitten. However you should probably be a bit more specific about which definition you mean. One would be rather amusing to see, the other sort of disgusting in a beastial sort of way

And, I'm not sure the llamas would appreciate either

Especially solar cells that keep getting holes punched in them ... sorry, had to ...

To regularly spam the people you want to get to donate money to you.

What!? No beard? All those pictures and statues and stuff are wrong?

Because the days of pitched battles across huge areas are falling behind. The modern battle field is getting more and more urban (that would be indoors), and where it isn't urban, it is often underground or inside caves

Actually, the point of doing this would be to save American lives and not needlessly endanger them. I'm sure they aren't very worried about people disobeying orders

I, for one, welcome our internet connected, email sending, fairly penguin overlords.

Having lots of people means nothing if you can't get them there. The Chinese navy is pretty much none existent, at least as far as what they would need to mount any sort of invasion of Taiwan or Japan. Even a very small US Naval force would be sufficient to prevent them from having any sort of success.

Korea would be the only one they could have a chance of doing anything with. And even then I'm sure North Korea would have a thing or two to say about it.

In reality you'll get modded down because right after you say that you'll get modded down you go on to insult the very people doing the modding.

And, what the hell is a "DO NOTHING HAT" and how did it get in the way of a powerful economy?

Sure charge everyone a hundredth of a cent for each email, assuming my account doesn't get hacked, I'll need to pay a penny or two each month. No problem.

But wait .... who's going to pay to set up the monitoring process, the billing process, the dispute process, the collection process, and the method of getting the money to where it is that it's supposed to go? So my $.01 per month just turned into $1.00 or $2.00.

Politicians should be required to prove they have a minimum IQ and a certain level of common sense before being allowed to run in an election

Unfortunately the president is no longer capable of making such an address. Shortly after being informed of the North Korean threat he was found on the floor of the oval office, unconscious. Apparently he had been laughing so hard, not only did he pull a muscle in his abdomen, but he was so short of breath he passed out.

He woke once briefly, on the way to the hospital, and is believed to have said something about nuclear weapons, and not hitting barns while being inside them, at which point he began laughing again ....

As several dozen other people have mentioned crappy docs account for a lot of it, the fact that Stack Overflow comes up first in most searches is a lot more of it, but another factor is that, in most cases, devs aren't looking for a technical definition of some API method. They are looking for a solution to a problem and the way technical docs are written they don't lend themselves to those sorts of questions unless you know the method that you need and can go right in there and find it.
And then hope that it has some sort of readable description and possibly an example. Otherwise, it's off to what ever site actually has a post by some who has used that method and can tell me how to use to solve my problem.

Yep, the US government is hacking the Chinese military in order to steal all their valuable, state of the art, highly effective, totally awesome ..... oh who am I kidding. It went like this.

US government: We need you to hack in to the Chinese military and steal all their secrets.
Hacker: Sure thing, I'll get right on it.
.... a few weeks later ....
Hacker: Here you go, there was quite bit there but I got it all.
US Government: perfect, you've done your country a great service ..... ahhh, wait a minute ....
Hacker: what?
US Government: You hacked the wrong country, these are all our military files ... in fact, you got the wrong decade, these are all really old.
Hacker: Dude, it was from China, it was all right there in the folder named "R sekret stuf that we didnt get from noone else", behind the folder labeled "Taiwan Invasion plans"
US Government: Ok, well, errr thanks, I guess we have nothing to worry about.

Dude, have you ever seen one of our political campaigns? Any law like that has exactly zero chance of ever getting passed here. Or the politicians would need to actually campaign on their own values and accomplishments and not by trying to manipulate the truth and facts so that no one has any idea of who said what or went where. Plus it would put all the super pacs out of business and also it wou-* ... oh....

err, Sorry ....

...got carried away

Please carry on with the topic at hand