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I still think they are not as bad as some countries we consider allies

And who would that be? I can only think of North Korea, who are worse than Cuba...

Nonsense.

Unprocessed foods are not more expensive. They can't be. It's simple math and economics. Anything that is more ready made has more labor put into it. Like any outsourcing, it increases your costs. The middle man and all his little minions need to be paid.

People are just lazy and like to make up excuses.

Worse in the winter cause you're blasting heat? Why not just put a coat on?

Real were not circumventing DRM. They ADDED iPod compatible DRM to the music they were selling, to keep the record labels happy. Apple didn't want Real to be able to sell iPod compatible DRM infested music.

It has nothing to do with circumventing DRM. Anyone with an audio cable could already do that.

In what universe does this statement make sense?

"The complexity was orders of magnitude less as well."

That is absolutely wrong.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/91...

There's your initial, modern way to do some ROM programming.

Bear in mind, these tools were not available back then. It was pure ASM and Hex Editing.

And ASM is anything BUT simple, sir.

"Yeah, there are some technical problems, but that happens with any launch."

I don't recall that happening very often at all back in the days of cartridge-based games. You know, when the silicon was too expensive to waste with buggy code.

Too bad things aren't similarly expensive, now. The big game companies would be forced to do serious QA for once.

The things that I can currently think of that I'd use a smartwatch for - 1) GPS / pedometer for running 2) music (without the need for a phone) while working out 3) discreetly checking notifications during meetings 4) navigation when riding a bike / motorcycle. I realize not everyone would value these and will say "JUST USE YOUR PHONE!", but for a $200 - $250 smart watch, I'd definitely drop down the money for these apps.

Yeah.

I was hoping the Apple Watch would include Ant+, but it looks like they expect fitness centers to switch to bluetooth, so it's going to be a pass from here.

. It's a good question if they'll put it in the cloud backup -- I don't use the Cloud backup features.

If a 15 minute open refund period produced "obvious and intuitive consumer benefits" just think about what an hour could do. You know, like enough to actually test out the app for REAL. Especially apps that are more complicated than flappy bird and, oh yeah, more expensive.

Mea Culpa: though I will acknowledge that a "free" app with in-app purchase, that works well enough to test it out before spending money, is indeed one way to get around the limited 15 minutes to test the app.

But of course those apps are not the problem. The problem the government (you know, the supposedly by the people FOR the people) is trying to prevent predatory sharks from bilking people of money through shady practices like kids games that make it very easy to just click click spend a shed load of money.

If you cycle, then I suggest doing your BMI maths to find out how obse you are, BMI FUCKING SUCKS! Muscle is heavier than fat, bmi is your weight in relation to you high. therefore if you have a maximum about of muscle then you come in at Obse on this stupid fucking scale. Fuck all fat on me, mostly skinny build, have some nice leg muscles, no real arm or back muscles, no fat gut, im 183cms and 95KGs.. Overweight to the point that if I put on more weight i'm Obese!

A: Legacy code, and because Fortran 2003+ is a very good modern language for scientific computation and maps very naturally to problems

See.... Fortran 2003 is more modern than ISO 1999 C.... Now that that's settled... How come people are still programming in languages like C/C++/Java, when Fortran2003 is available?

Pure capitalism is letting the market decide which leads to the monopolization of industries.

Nope.

Nobody's ever succeeded in establishing a coercive monopoly without government backing. In a free market, monopoly is a non-issue. For example, when Alcoa was the only vendor of Aluminum in the United States, the pricing of aluminum fell continuously.

-jcr

There is no need for a new format. The idea that LPs are better is hogwash. The only time LPs sound better is when they are mastered with more dynamic range than whatever you are comparing them to is.