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More reminiscent of Empire Strikes Back to me. Quite a few things were living on that asteroid.

And a knight. Are you sure you were playing blackjack, or did you really just spend the night playing Magic:The Gathering?

As someone who has worked for a city planning agency for many years, I can attest that your tower costs are merely the cost of the material inputs. The cost of putting up a new tower in a residential or commercial area that has already been developed is perhaps 20x that due to the amount of red tape involved and billable hours for attorneys, expert witnesses, and more.

I can picture a scene of pure evil, years from now, when Apple begins suing cell phone makers once their patent has been granted.

"Your cell phone sucks. It doesn't use all of its potential, so you are infringing on our patent and you owe us money."

Exactly. Another way of saying 'targeting ads' is to not think of it by what it isn't - it is money that isn't spent advertising messages to people who have no interest in a particular product. Know what that is? Efficiency. Efficiency in the marketplace. And that means a larger economic pie for all of us. Maybe that pie will take shape when products are offered for lower prices (smaller, efficient advertising budget = lower overhead), maybe it'll mean more ad execs spending their extra cash on your elite car wash and waxing service. In the end, the world is more efficient. Is it worth the privacy tradeoff? For me it is.

Did you miss the part about agrarian history? He's talking about lengthening the school year, not the day.

Whoever marked the parent a troll failed economics 101. The poster was arguing about opportunity costs. It is true, you can't make a game for $0.

Hey damburger, you've been quoted on Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2227002/

While there are a lot of not so obvious revenue streams for smaller movies, it is not necessarily true that they turn in the black. Hollywood execs are businesspeople looking for profit and so they naturally want the blockbusters, but most of their human capital likes to consider themselves artists. Many of the good movies we see from major studios (I'm not talking about the arthouse movies) - those sleepers that fall under the radar but are very good (e.g. Shawshank Redemption, L.A. Confidential, etc.) are sometimes made as a business expense to keep the talent happy so that they can churn out the tentpole memorial day spectacular filled with explosions and such. If they turn a profit, all the better, but their intent is to keep the high end stuff in production. Put another way, the art fanfare is a business expense to keep the team assembled to produce the schluck that makes the big bucks.

And if we learned anything from Hugh Grant, that can be hard enough even in a country where you do speak the language. Divine Brown, ahem, ahem.

Last time I checked, the world population was just over 6.9 billion. Just sayin'...

If you buzz at the wrong time, you get locked out for about a second.

Queue Godwin's Law.

That means it's being developed for the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720, and perhaps the Wii 2.0, unless by "next generation" they mean the devices that came out 3-4 years ago.