Has anyone quantified the effect of selling used games for credit, creating churn which ultimately benefits the industry as a whole? Even if you feel like Gamestop is ripping you off, you're probably still going to sell them your old game so you can buy a new one. It gets you in the door and looking at games. It…

It's actually console manufacturers who can't get behind digital distribution. As much as it would help their software sales margins, they can't threaten to take away software sales from the retailers. See, they need the brick and mortar shops to sell consoles and accessories. If it wasn't for that, I'm sure they'd…

Well, yeah. But that's because you're a MAN. And you use a MAN's stick. And you let strangers on Kotaku know about your MANLINESS through posts about how your stick isn't a toy. And we sit, wideyed and awestruck by the quality of your toys which aren't toys.

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Except Apple doesn't really make much money on content sales. They have big cash flow in iTunes and the App Store, but not a lot of profit. Apple sees the bulk of their profit in their hardware sales, so they want you in their ecosystem to keep you buying Apple in the future. Once you're invested, you've got more…

mp3.com offered the feature a decade ago. You just had to prove you owned the music by putting a cd in your drive and then the contents would become available without actually copying them. This was a time when that was the only way you could purchase music and ripping and encoding mp3s was a much slower process.

Google does nothing for free. They charge their customers every time they sell them your personal info.

I don't necessarily disagree with your aims, but I think it's naive to think this has anything to do with partisanship. The Democratic party can be bought out by business interests just as readily as the Republican party. The buyers just pick the avenue they think will be easiest and cheapest for them.

This is actually a trademark issue, not a patent one. There's not really much debate about trademark reform. The question in a case like this would come down to brand confusion. Is HTC clouding the marketplace by using the Vivid name? It seems a stretch to me, but it ultimately depends on what Vivid has registered…

Football coach and guidance counselor. Hmmm...like he never left high school. Color me impressed with his macho success.

I absolutely agree. I was just focusing on one point people don't seem to be aware of. I could just as easily have pointed out the limitations you encounter trying to dim non-fluorescent lights or the energy inefficiencies introduced by the transformers and dimmers you need to run them in some installations. That…

Perhaps, but you and I know that the people who make this argument are housewives thinking that their land yacht's going to stop faster when they slam on the brakes.

Two that have always driven me nuts:

I'm pretty sure right on red is meant to be treated as a full stop in all circumstances - like a stop sign - not as a yield. If not, I apologize to all of the people who have waited behind me unnecessarily.

Luther is a damn fine show. I'm surprised you're the first to mention the connection to this song here.

There are some good reasons to prefer incandescent besides "we're just used to them". In particular the CRI (color rendering index) of non-incandescent lights is generally terrible. CRI is a measurement of how accurately a range of colors can be viewed with a particular illumination. Incandescent light has a CRI…

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Hopefully this isn't what they'll release. The back end looks very Celica to me and the hood just looks cheap. The square tail lights - which I think are the worst thing about the Camaro - just don't feel very vette to me. I realize that the affordable supercar has to come in priced well below European competitors,…

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