Hey if it encourages iPhone users to think they can switch easily, I say go for it!

Can't we just send Bruce Willis up to die?

I was reading down the replies wondering the same thing. Borderlands was the first thing that came to mind. I also don't see the WOW factor in the landscape, perhaps I've been watching too many BF3 trailers.

You guys think too much. They produce CPUs, I guess they contract out OEM heatsinks, They then have to establish a facility where both of these items come together and get package together and transport said items to the facility. Dump the heat sink and now you can have a combined production/packing line, with smaller volume of packing materials, no customer service for the heatsink if it's not working and most people prefer 3rd party heatsinks to the OEM, so it's not really added value. It's a simple case of business economy and reduction of costs.

This now becomes Chain World: Multiverse expansion pack

I routinely reference my old text books as well, but I have to disagree, this would've been preferred by me.

As a student I didn't really have the cash for these books and always needed to sell them back. So assuming that the cost is significantly cheaper than buying the book it would've suited me to rent them. Then as I got an income (i.e. the job that would use them in) I not only purchased back old text books, having a lot more disposable cash, but I purchased the ones that I used and didn't have the useless doorstops sitting around. It's not like there's a law out there saying that you only get one chance to buy the book.

Let's face it, Amazon will charge more to rent the book than price/course length, but the students will benefit from this deal. It's not like they can't go buy the books if they want. The only downside may be that you can't mark up the book while studying.

Interesting comment. I have to say that this is a way more complex issue than just affinity. I wonder if there's also something in there that is associated to addiction in a way, or at least the way the brain processes addiction. A lot of addiction is based around physiology, but there are huge components that come from obsession and all the other intangible emotions. So if you get someone who buys a brand, they could fall into a culture addiction. I don't know, just throwing out thoughts.

I'm confused to where this double the price comes from. My old plan was 3 DVDs a month (with blu ray) and streaming was $23. The equivalent new plan would be $28, which seems to me to be a 21% increase. Now did they give me anything different, nope. In fact as we always seem to have a DVD sitting around for a month, I dropped the 3 DVDs to 2 DVDs and am going back to $23/month. When they first bought in streaming it was 1 hour for every dollar you spent on a plan, I was on the $18 plan and got 18 hours of streaming. You paid for unlimited streaming separately, I can't remember how much. Then they wrapped unlimited streaming into all packages. Now they've gone back to paying for unlimited streaming. I'm not really sure while people are getting their entitlement knickers in a twist over this. I pay for stuff on VUDU, Amazon at the moment and use Hulu plus and playon. (I dont have cable TV, haven't had for 5 years). Once the economics breakdown, Netflix will loose my business, really that simple, but the economics, given what we watch is still pretty good for us.

Nice use of selective editing.

Germany is already far ahead of most of the world in alternative energy and this SHOULD force them to accelerate progress in the area, which will benefit all of us. The question is whether they stick to the road map.

While interesting, the thing that bothers me about this exercise is it puts the focus on friending/unfriending the US, but as with a lot of these exercises it completely ignores the assholishness of all those countries critiquing the US. I'm British by birth, lived there 23 years, came to the US and now naturalized. As much as people want to be critical about the US history, I grew up learning how Britain has been completely prickish throughout the whole of history in general. The difference I suppose is that we were taught about this in school. The point being there is no country, the US included, out there that who has the right to critique any countries history without critiquing their own. People in glasshouse shouldn't throw stones.

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I hear Apple was awarded a patent on using a white background in the toolbar. Google obviously will not pay the license (Ummm, I'm joking btw...it's obvious, but you can never tell with this crowd)

You sure about that?