Comment Re:Piracy is theft. (Score 1) 620
If I copy your car, then I have a car and you still have a car, which you could use or sell.
Having inventory stolen is different from copyright infringement.
Comment Re:Martini (Score 1) 216
Comment Re:Surf's Up! (Score 1) 180
Or... group projects for HS/college classes would be easier than emailing updates to a single document back&forth among 6 people. (Yes, there are ways like shared online storage, but Wave allows for simultaneous editing.)
Comment Hugging (Score 2, Funny) 15
Comment Re:Companionship is addictive (Score 1) 308
Yeah, but I doubt that there's a WoW player that's a illiterate mass-murdering celebrity billionaire terrorist!
Osama bin Laden might play WoW, though.
Comment Re:How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? (Score 1) 426
Comment Purest Analog Format (Score 1) 743
Comment Re:Voucher/coupon returns? (Score 1) 591
I requested coupons for a couple of older TVs, but never received them. I inquired but they said they were sent out and there is nothing further they could do, and suggested getting an unused card from a friend or relative who had to many. Perhaps a trading site could be set up to match people who have extras with people who didn't get any for whatever reason?
If you have nothing better to do with it, I could send you a stamp to send it my direction.
Jeremy
The same thing happened to me; my coupons never arrived, even though they were listed as being sent. Good thing I have family members that never would've requested them otherwise.
I wonder if it would have been safer to mail them in more nondescript envelopes?...
Comment Re:saying. "Fast forward to the 21st century" (Score 1) 504
"if you sell a piece of software for even one dollar, you have MADE one dollar because after its creation there is no cost"
But who paid the programmers to make the software in the first place?
You stupid stupid STUPID cunt.
Once you recoup your development costs, then it's almost ALL profit. You still have to pay for producing discs and packaging, but a $1000 DVD of Photoshop will cost roughly the same to physically manufacture as a $50 game. Why do you think software goes down in price over time, notably in digital distribution? Services like Steam don't have to worry about shelf-space, so once the developers break even, they can afford to lower the price to entice more customers. A lower profit per unit is certainly better than none at all.
Please pay attention when you're deriding someone: "...after it's creation there is no cost". The parent noted your point, and your final comment certainly speaks volumes about your powers of observation.
Bravo, good sir, bravo.
Comment Re:Another example of US telcos acting dumb on SMS (Score 1) 260
Also, prices per text are so high because the telcos want everyone to sign up for texting plans. Do you honestly think everyone uses $20+ each month for the data transfer of SMS messages? The telcos are just milking the cash cow for all it's worth.
What REALLY burns my butter is when 'friends' just don't get the fact that I don't have an unlimited-texting plan, and -I- pay for every one of their inane "wat u doin" texts. The only saving grace is when my attractive female friends start drinking and decide to send pictures of various body parts. (Can you say potential blackmail material?)