This patenting of general ideas is so wrong... Patents should require a working prototype - it's not a problem when it is developed in secrecy...

Or a defenestration.

Usually a difficulty of distributing encryption keys to soldiers on the field watching the video stream.

I guess he meant flour. Which is pretty explosive when mixed with air and ignited.

When the bearers and coffin get together, you can’t help but notice an instant connection. That’s because they designed them to work with the coffin — and the other way around. For starters, coffin has magnets built right into its frame — magnets that align perfectly with the bearers for an effortless fit. On the opposite side, magnets inside the bearers help them stay put. It’s ingenious yet simple. Secure yet easy to remove. In fact, the coffin and bearers work so well together, it’s easy to think of them as one device.

Top 5% makes sense if you want to punish customers for actually using what they paid for :) However light the usage of the users will be, there will always be 5% of users in that group to punish... So, from this, we can derive the long term business goal of the carriers cartel, which is to get paid and not provide any service in return!

Ok, what's the catch? It's Microsoft right?

I thought major version increments were for major, incompatible changes, while minor versions were for smaller, compatible ones?
I know, that was beofre marketing took over...

If you don't mind the ping between 6 and 44 minutes and the ocassional outage due to Sun getting in the way, then by all means ;)

Used to be like that. Not true for us anymore, thank god. I guess our management has learned a lesson. We got burned by a big publisher deal once already.
We now do self distribution, Steam, and have some localized deals with publishers in some areas. Much bigger share of profit gets to us now. Seems to work, so far...

With this attitude, you will be back to watching TV soon, hero. There will be nothing to play :)

In fact, yes, I think that is as bad. You can't unsee the movie can you? You don't pay for the DVD disk, you pay to see the movie. In case of DVD, as many times as you like. Don't mix game creators with game distributors into the same bag. Game creators don't create games to sell DVD media thay are on. They sell you the experience of the game, and that is what they should be paid for. In that regard, only the first sale pays. Used game shops make money on each sale. But they didn't make the game. Game authors get nothing. That is why it's bad. Keep that up, and soon nobody will create anything anymore. Why feed the leeches? Can't you see that?

I don't know about your area, but here in Czech Republic old games get progressively cheaper. If you are a cheapskate and can't afford a shiny new game, you probably can't afford the beefy gear required to run the new games either. So you simply play older games on older hardware and you are fine, just say two years behind...

Used games are like selling your movie ticket after you have seen the movie, and the person you sold it to demanding to see the movie too. It hurts the game developers by denying them a fair share of profit. It's the same as for-profit piracy. Disclosure: I work for a game development company.

Not true. In C64, the on-CPU 6510 specific I/O accessible at addresses $00 , $01 has been used for switching the Basic ROM, character ROM, attribute color memory and I/O mapped area on/off in the CPU address space, allowing you to access to the parts of RAM normally obscured by them.