Let's get some perspective on this. There are way more paid games that are way better today than there were when we were growing up. Just because there are also way more free games doesn't change that. The options are there, it just means more people have access to gaming, who cares if they enjoy a different aspect of…

All those problems, and if you're playing as a Mac user, a pair of game-crippling RAM leak and texture bugs that have not been addressed for going on a year now. I'd have liked to spend more time getting into it, but it's hard enough to cotton to the awful an inconsistent UI when you can't really make out flags very…

Well I never thought it would happen but feminists complaining about "nice guys" have officially surpassed "nice guys" complaining about the friend-zone on the list of annoying things that I'm really tired of hearing about. Now that's quite an accomplishment, because I was *really* damn tired of hearing the word…

I don't even think the channels really care about most of the content they put out outside of prime-time hours. They'd probably like it too if we could get rid of the notion of programming schedules altogether and just do direct subscription fees to access content.

"The damage won't be limited to the names on that list."

"which was obviously the 'correct' ending"

Those were negligible increases in overall production. The Fed's estimation that per capita income still stayed between $400-$700 still remains the same. Get out of the Europe bubble, history was happening elsewhere. Improving per-capita income for a handful of Europeans doesn't do squat in light of the status of…

Incidentally, economic growth has quite a bit to do with the weather. Especially in pre-industrial economies where 90% of economic activity was agricultural.

io9's presentation was fine if you actually pay attention to economics. It's not that big of a leap to assume people are talking about economic growth. In fact, it's such a common sense assumption that I get the feeling you're just being a pedantic git at this point to cover up that you put your foot in your mouth.

Still doesn't do anything to increase the overall size of the economy because prior to that, the finished goods would have been made domestically. If it was economically efficient to ship raw materials all over the place and then ship the finished goods back, the colonial powers wouldn't have needed to institute…

No, pretty much anyone who studies economic development uses GDP per capita. Your way would imply that India is richer than Switzerland, which is not the case. Bigger, not richer.

Incorrect. The correct answer was "What is an indication that you didn't RTFA?"

"We're not talking about individual lives, we're talking about economic growth, "

Two words for you: "Per Capita."

Um. . . evidence? I can't open the paper because I guess the server is overloaded, but I would assume he's talking about growth in total factor productivity which never really grew over the long-term until the first Industrial Revolution.

It works this way with computers too chief. You can't use the latest version of office without upgrading your OS, which for many people means having to get a new computer.

Mine had yet to crash in all its years of use. And it was never jailbroken.

What the hell are you talking about? I'm *still* perfectly happy with my iPad one. I got a new one for Christmas and got $200 when I sold it to someone else. The old ones work fine, just because there is a new one out there now doesn't mean you *have* to buy it.

You know I was thinking about this some more and something occurred to me. All this time I had been assuming that dudes who catcall in real life and send lewd messages online were just doing it to be jerks, not really expecting anything to come out of it. But if telling said creepers to stop creeping actually stops…

I don't get what you're complaining about then being as how I don't know what your "niche" is. And judging by other people who express similar ideas it sounds to me more like "Things aren't as good as they were when I was 13" more than anything else.