Lol, that argument is moot, rich people will play games regardless, this is not any sort of incentive for them to 'start'. If you earn income anywhere in the world as a US citizen you are liable for income taxes. You are being unethical by pretending income is not earned by using shell corporations and holding corporations to limit your personal income on paper. The money is all tied up in the effort to avoid paying any income taxes on it, and that is where the problem lies in our tax system with all of the sheltering loopholes available.

Not that I like paying taxes any more than the next guy, but hiding millions upon millions of dollars of income from the tax man just to keep yourself from having to write a bigger number on a check to send to him (and not, as a result of the reduction in your overall worth, needing to work overtime for a year to afford it, at some point its just goddamn numbers and no real work that involves blood and sweat and energy).

A business lesson in how to ruin a company in just a few short months, from a CEO perspective.

i like how the submitter w00ted despite there being no common sense involved with the entire ordeal.

Every website layout and design I came up with from 1998-2001 was the same as Craigslist. Its not 'special,' its just USEFUL.

A form of latching device such as robotic actuator arms latch onto the landing vehicle as it descends above or to the side of the landing platform, allowing for minimal damage to the involved equipment and other claims. (Patent Pending.)

If they called it a Samsung iTablet or some such shit I could see a vague argument, but its not, and knock off similarities are perfectly fine in different devices. This whole situation is fucked. Apple has traveled down the wrong road here, their very essence is take OTHER people's developments and making them shinier and simplified. Its not innovation, its turning advanced technology into "McTechnology", easily consumable by the masses (although so far the masses that buy Apple products tend to pay MORE for the privilege than other industry equivalents, lucky Apple).

The Sharp Zaurus could be used as a 'finger' touch screen (although it was a stylus 'pda'). Multi-touch is an improvement, but I'm fairly certain there had been prior multi-touch developments before Apple brought it out with iphone/ipod touch. Hell, there were plenty of touchscreen devices around even in the 90s, the parts just weren't small enough for a tablet sized device and weren't all that great for non-stylus usage. There is nothing particularly 'original' about a tablet, it is an oversized PDA, and its all just a take on science fiction concepts and a natural evolution for a device to become smaller and more portable as technology improves the components.

If you think Apple was the first "tablet" with a touch screen and have to argue specific features that it had, you have lost your mind. It was the first handheld tablet that used new enough technology that it was a generally enjoyable experience, but it was far from any sort of 'first' for what amounts to an oversized PDA. (Oh, and hook that bitch up and transfer files and music to it without using Apple's proprietary iTunes software... hell, the sharp zaurus had an SD slot and a CF slot in it. and a slide down real keyboard.)

That's even worse, you are 'renting' items that expire, where the only work associated is an hour creating the small 3d model and modifying a few lines of text in a config file somewhere that states fire rate, damage, reload time. Its not a Picasso painting or an intensive programming mod. Its a way to siphon money out of people, when its the people themselves that are essentially creating the valuable 'content' of BF Heroes (multiplayer servers require players for the real content of interaction and gameplay, the pretty pictures are actually secondary)

So, instead of drop down text menus, they make it horizontal with tabs and pictures and a few functions take up ALL of the real estate for additional functions due to the graphical nature of it all now? Yeah, the clear benefits of clicking an additional 4-8 times and going through different popups to change something that used to be 2-3 clicks.

Bullshit all the way around. Smear campaign against the very concept of Anonymous by associating it with specific politics and Lulzsec, its an attempt to paint Anonymous in a subtle light of a terrorist organization. Enough reporting in that style and folks will eventually look at Anonymous like another Al Qaeda (or was that El Queso) mishmash of random groups.

So you figured out how black holes work and what dark matter really is? And they have no affect on the laws of 'thermo'? Your argument is full of holes. The universe could in fact have always existed, we simply haven't figured out how yet. Hell, we may not ever really figure it out, we may not be capable of some sort of complex reasoning to properly grasp it all, which of course will lead to a future religion and some sort of God(s) entity that we blame for that first blip of energy, until humanity collapses into a single hivemind in order to find the beginning and end of existence.

I don't see annoying Zynga app-of-the-week update posts all day on Google+ and I actually interact with others about 'real' things to talk about other than the usual Facebook one-liner update.

You are shilling for Facebook, I hope you are getting paid. G+'s ability to follow others that actually have something interesting to say gives it a definitive leg up on Facebook for individual social interaction (of course, FB is still the king for Corporation social media, while G+ still gets its stuff together).

I agree, I actually liked discussing/flaming/trolling comments on Dvorak's articles. Regardless of whether or not I thought he was wrong, he presented points of view that were sometimes worth debate.

As soon as I saw Florian Mueller I knew it was all utter bullshit. I consider him in a lower, more scumbag league than even half-assed MG Siegler on Techcrunch.

Everything you think, write, say and do is a copy of some other action or thought that developed from other interactions with other people and was adapted to your own interpretation of it. Removing the patent and copyright systems (as they CURRENTLY STAND, go back to original intent!) solved more problems than you can possibly imagine. Also, people have to actually do 'work' to earn a living instead of licensing ideas and words that cost next to nothing to reproduce.