Shouldn't the market fix this? If there aren't enough lumberjacks, their won't be enough lumber for wood and paper products, causing prices to rise which will allow timber companies to offer higher salaries as incentive for more people to take up the ancient art of jacking lumber. The market won't solve every…

The simplest explanation is a boring one. Given that Valve started Steam way ahead of the digital distribution curve, they probably own relevant IP that Apple is interested in licensing. If it's a big enough deal, then sending in Tim Cook might make sense.

Really? I know there are publishers that encumber some games with additional DRM beyond Valves's but they are the exception and I've only read about them, in any case. I've never had a problem getting a Steam game I owned onto any machine or even playing it in offline mode while travelling. What onerous DRM…

I think it's 30%, acutally, but your point still stands. 30% isn't actually that big of a cut when compared to how much publishers give up to distributors and retailers in a standard brick and mortar sales scheme.

It's 4,400 sq ft, so it's a big place. My 4br, 3ba house is only about 2,200 sq ft.

I'm sure there are a lot of legitimately good points in there, but at the end of the day it's someone telling all of us here "You shouldn't be having fun doing that, it's not enjoyable in the right way!"

I think the author of this article isn't correctly assessing the costs of wireless data provisioning, nor the actual available capacity. The way data is used in a home would quickly crush every wireless network if it became the primary means of access.

Not to mention that NK's short range and artillery capabilities would cost the lives of millions as Seoul is quickly pounded into dust.

Consider the possibility that Steve Jobs personal taste may have been a bit more broad than the relatively, narrow minimalist direction he dictated for Apple. Phillipe Starck has created many more conservative designs that wouldn't be interesting vis-a-vis this article, so he's more than capable of making something…

This is probably gonna lug so bad they won't need to worry about speeding.

Sounds like you're gonna carrot their stick. It should be easier to deal with a well-fellated country, though.

I never cared for Goldeneye multiplayer, but by the time it came out I'd already been playing Quake CTF online for a while. I recognize it was a revelation to people who weren't involved in PC multiplayer on the internet.

Their polling is very suspect if they're getting those kind of numbers in China. I just don't believe that the majority of Chinese people are doing these things. I don't believe that portion of Chinese people even have regular internet access. For all of China's increasing wealth, distribution is very uneven. Once…

So, the FBI asks him to explain what he did in detail and he goes ahead and tells them because they're too dumb to "fully understand the complexity" of it. Arrogant shit's gonna have a hard time defending against himself if keeps giving them all the details they want just to show how much smarter he is.

Now, I'm as anti-beige as the next guy (around here, at least), but I think it's unfair to say that everyone driving a Toyota has a boring lifestyle. Believe it or not, it's quite possible to have an interesting, adventurous life and just not give a damn about cars. For most people, after all, they are just…

China and Russia both manage NK differently than the US do, but it's a stretch to say they "support" them, except in the sense of China doing more than other nations to prevent mass starvation in NK when their crops fail.

The payload capacity and range issues are addressed within the article.

Maybe, maybe not. You go to some of those small towns in Vermont where they have made sure no Wal Mart can get anywhere near and they're doing fine. It's hard to say if the same would have been true in southeast Missouri or whether they were doomed for other reasons.

Two notes. First, there are a lot more than 10 felony charges heading his way. #4 alone is 4 robbery counts, probably with enhancements for having a gun, plus an assault count for the tazer and one for the pistol-whipping. Second, if you're going to go on a crime spree where you give free reign to your id, do you…

It is a complicated issue and I certainly can't claim to have taken a virtuous line of only supporting locally owned small businesses. Please don't think I'm being holier-than-thou; that would just make me a hypocrite. But it's a topic I get angry about because I've seen the small towns that my family came from…