I wondered if the anklet would really repel sharks or just make you more visible to them. It seems they genuinely don't like it.

Or instead of launching a geopolitical revolution and trying to reengineer mankind, people could simply be conscious of their vitamin D levels... What I am saying is simply that your other post about getting UV incidentally, and getting more than before, is not substantial enough in terms of natural vitamin D…

I understand the scenario you're giving, but again, this is also mainly a deterrent to used game sales. It's not about giving full service to each copy of the game; it's about making some profit off each user who wants to play online.

Don't know... I'm pretty unhip to Zynga's projects. I guess it wouldn't surprise me if you could call a customer service line and make a big order?

"Yet as more and more people are tested, researchers are finding serious vitamin D deficiencies in virtually all of the population of the United States, Canada, and northern Europe."

Not so much. If you want all the girls on Idolm@ster for PSP, you have to buy the game THREE TIMES since they pared them off into three editions of the disc. Namco is just really weird with their content. Besides, giving away a few hundred bucks worth of DLC... if this is like the first game, that should still leave…

So a silly over the top Oneechanbara then? I thought Oneechanbara was silly and over the top...

As the original buyer, nothing changes for you. This isn't driving up the cost of new games, and even single player games will sell for that much. The difference is that buyers of used copies will pay something instead of nothing to use the online service. That's not paying twice as much for the service for either…

While I'm not against the idea itself, I can totally get behind what you're saying here. What they're doing is not the norm, so they should make it clearly visible before you buy the game.

I've argued against system-bound downloadables. I've argued against DRM. I've argued against DLC.

I went with that strategy for a long time too. In my case, now that I have an iPhone, it seems that it's really more of an Internet tablet with an occasionally-used novelty feature of voice calling. I just don't do that many phone calls anymore - it's usually SMS, Skype, and email. So as long as it has a semi-decent…

For years I didn't care about iPods because I'd already had 3 MP3 players when they first came out, and after that, a few more others - the price wasn't nearly justified and I'm a Windows user; at one point that was an issue.

The good ones had a sort of raised ring they shot the water through, at the bottom of a half-circle shield that would make mouthing them almost impossible. (Still, I've seen chewing gum stuck to the nozzle on those ones too... some people just aren't cut out for civilized society.)

Where did you hear that YLOD is more common? What are the actual rates? Or is this all speculation?

Wow. No dot matrix paint controller, no image, no text, no colours. All he does is mess up the windows and make it worse for everyone who has to use or own the train.

I've heard this from some. My cases are all anecdotal, and I don't know where any large studies have been compiled; I have a lot of Sony products though, and the only one to die has been a stereo receiver which I used propped on its side for around 3 years. I'm afraid I may have killed it by repeated static shocks due…

Sony never left. They make slick electronics that are exercises in engineering first, and products second. They're a "boutique" brand that has things that are a bit nicer than the rest, and a bit, to more than a bit, more expensive than the rest. Like Apple, you pay extra for slickness, then you pay extra for the name…

Thank god someone has a clue. Thanks.

It's some DRM that was licensed by Sony BMG Music, and put onto audio CDs. It used a rootkit-style exploit to make Windows machines unable to copy the disc - unless you didn't allow autorun, held shift, drew on the innermost ring of the CD, etc.

Then, the RROD went on for years and years, and MS claimed again and again that it wasn't as big as it seemed, and that they had fixed it, when they hadn't. I'd like to see proof that it is fixed, since the slims do still suffer general failure - they just no longer signal it with a red ring. (And yeah, I have an…