The Genre has kind of played out; and single player FPS style games have absolutely flooded the market, especially on Steam. I can’t imagine what Valve could do to HL3 to make it anywhere near as revolutionary as the first game was. Even if the physics engine and graphics were as groundbreaking today as HL2 was in its…

This is photoshopped. You can tell by the fact that one old guy has been dead for over a decade and the other hasn’t aged a day.

Forget the weight even, lets say they make the walls 2” thick; that means everyone on the plane just lost 4” of elbow room, and we didn’t have a lot to spare to begin with.

You basically said what I came to say about load times. Airlines could cut the amount of time it takes to load the plane in half by either loading…

A great example of why “an armed society is a police society” is a ridiculously wrong cliche.

**edit: by great I mean terrible of course

And now I miss black rock...

I love when action movies can actually tell a tiny story with the fight scenes, instead of just having them by a montage of 0.25 second clips of people getting punched and explosions.

I’ll take it a few steps further: Don’t post pictures of your kids on Facebook. There’s really no reason to, ever. If you want to share pictures of your kids with friends and family, do it in a more secure way. You can have a dropbox-like account where you post images. You can just zip them up and email them. You can…

Yeah, when you spend as much as we do on our military, we can expect it to at least work. Except for the F-35....just don’t think about that.

I think the point of 3D printing something like a car is that it drastically lowers the cost to bring a small number of units to completion. This means that someone could design a car themselves, and print it, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars instead of tens of millions. This fits in really well with local…

Meh. Even a serious accident wouldn’t cause the warhead to go off; but I guess a really serious one could lead to containment damage and basically be a dirty bomb.

The problem is that the carries (for the most part) aren’t willing to let the money they made off this go. Sure, you can buy your phone elsewhere, you can go off contract, but that monthly bill you get still has the cost of handset replacement integrated into it, so that upgrade credit you get every two years is just…

No, the only thing my hypothetical relies on is the assumption that anything worth consuming is worth a non-zero amount of money to consume. The presence of lots of content you don’t want to consume has no effect on the value of the content you do intend to consume, which is the only factor involved in the valuation.…

In the first part of your argument, you seem to be implying that a diverse set of content with a non-zero valuation will somehow come out a a zero valuation. Since you’re not required to watch the videos that don’t interest you, I don’t see how you could make this argument.

Again, I agree with you that if you give…

I have some degree of sympathy for this guy. Perhaps he, like me, grew up in a family without very much money, and he looked at maids the way I used to: people who lighten the load for you around the house (in exchange for money of course). It wasn’t until I met (and married into) a family that had more money that I…

Exactly, now if you work from there and start asking yourself: would you pay 2 cents? What about a penny per year? Two pennies per month? Eventually you’ll reach the point where you really would say no, this is the actual non-zero valuation of the content.

Just to be clear, you are saying that if YouTube said that, in order to access the same content you have been watching, you would have to pay them a one-time cost of one penny (not per video, a lifetime one time cost for all their content), you would say “no” and happily never watch a YouTube video again, because the…

No, it’s you that has an outdated understanding of valuation; where the smallest unit of payment is $0.01 and the act of paying require time and energy. The new economic models of micro-valuation and micro-transactions, allow consumers to effortlessly pay the tiniest fractions of a penny for content. We no longer have…

I’m looking for a response where you explain how you can value content at $0 and still watch it. When it comes to valuing a web video, I can’t see what parameters you would use to come up with a value other than you desire to watch it. If your desire is non-zero, the value should be non zero. If the value is zero, you…

Yeah, that’s pretty much the only response you have left at this point, isn’t it?

Hey, if you want to argue that $10/month isn’t the right price point you can totally make that argument. As long as you don’t make the argument that the content you are watching is actually worth $0/month, but yet you are still watching it, I think there’s lots of room for debate.