Games are $60 because enough people are willing to buy games at that price to justify it. Like many other products, if games don't sell at $60, the price drops. If they thought people would be willing to buy games for $50 but not $60, games would be $50.
It is a relatively simple matter to make your own ringtones for the iPhone with no need for jailbreaking or even much knowledge. It is literally a matter of changing the.m4a extension to.m4r and iTunes will automatically convert audio to m4a. You don't ever have to buy a ringtone for the iPhone if you don't want to and still have your own custom rings.
I seriously doubt there are many (if any) hackers out there competent enough to hack into and disable an oil platform who would actually do this. Every few months, we hear about how our power grid is vulnerable to hackers or our water supply or all sorts of other things, but hackers have yet to actually attack any of those things. Sure, it's possible one day. Anything is possible. It's just not very likely based on past history.
That might be true if programming content was also ad-free, but billions of dollars are spent on product placement so that you see that make of car and the logo on it while watching CSI in case you missed it in the commercial. I've worked in TV production and the efforts to get the product placed in the show are huge. We used to have to make sure every can of the drink which sponsored us was facing with the logo toward the camera at all times and the actors had to do their best not to obscure it when drinking it.
The whole [citation needed] thing was a reaction to criticism by main-stream press and political figures who can't understand that facts are NOT handed down from 'on high' and that sometimes, the mob can be right if they leave the knowledge to the experts in the field that swoop down and make critical edits to a fleshed out piece, transforming an OK article into a good one.
Short of "...and then the universe ceased to exist, and all of time with it," I'm not sure how you can avoid someone desperate enough to think of a sequel (or a prequel if necessary) to come up with one.
For those who don't like the downer ending, think about this- Ford could have just hitched a lift on the Vogon ship again, except this time, he could bring all of his friends along. Maybe that's why he was laughing.
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Games are $60 because enough people are willing to buy games at that price to justify it. Like many other products, if games don't sell at $60, the price drops. If they thought people would be willing to buy games for $50 but not $60, games would be $50.
A whole new way to astroturf.
People use a piece of technology to get away from all the technology and then wonder why it isn't working...
Because if there's one thing Microsoft is known for, it's not acting like control freaks. Am I right, guys?
The Maori didn't mess around with animals they didn't like. They killed off the Moa too.
"We can't put the clock back" sounds awfully inappropriate in an apology for chemically castrating someone.
It's pretty easy to pay attention to a TV show and, for example, play Tetris at the same time.
It is a relatively simple matter to make your own ringtones for the iPhone with no need for jailbreaking or even much knowledge. It is literally a matter of changing the .m4a extension to .m4r and iTunes will automatically convert audio to m4a. You don't ever have to buy a ringtone for the iPhone if you don't want to and still have your own custom rings.
I don't know about that. Any barber's dumpster will have lots of free hair for the taking.
I have yet to find that my movie watching experience was in any way noticably improved by watching a film on Blu-Ray instead of DVD.
If I have to wear any sort of headgear, even paper glasses, it's a no deal. I like to multitask when I watch TV.
Everyone knows that if you need to call for rescue, you use twitter.
if they were smart, they would have stolen AppleCare too. It's a really good value.
It's going to be decommissioned in 5 years. Maybe they should be planning the lab for the next generation space station.
They could have gone with the original idea and called it Hoffa...
I like the way you think, sir. Would you care to go halfsies with me on a skull-shaped island fortress? I'll bring the death laser.
Now I can build my impervious-to-pain super-soldier army! Thank you, cow scientists!
Wake me up when they bring back the Transatlantic Zeppelin flights. We already have a perfectly good mooring mast in New York City.
I seriously doubt there are many (if any) hackers out there competent enough to hack into and disable an oil platform who would actually do this. Every few months, we hear about how our power grid is vulnerable to hackers or our water supply or all sorts of other things, but hackers have yet to actually attack any of those things. Sure, it's possible one day. Anything is possible. It's just not very likely based on past history.
Gaming the app store is no worse than apping the game store...
That might be true if programming content was also ad-free, but billions of dollars are spent on product placement so that you see that make of car and the logo on it while watching CSI in case you missed it in the commercial. I've worked in TV production and the efforts to get the product placed in the show are huge. We used to have to make sure every can of the drink which sponsored us was facing with the logo toward the camera at all times and the actors had to do their best not to obscure it when drinking it.
The whole [citation needed] thing was a reaction to criticism by main-stream press and political figures who can't understand that facts are NOT handed down from 'on high' and that sometimes, the mob can be right if they leave the knowledge to the experts in the field that swoop down and make critical edits to a fleshed out piece, transforming an OK article into a good one.
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The Psychologists later added, "if you're a total pussy."
Short of "...and then the universe ceased to exist, and all of time with it," I'm not sure how you can avoid someone desperate enough to think of a sequel (or a prequel if necessary) to come up with one.
For those who don't like the downer ending, think about this- Ford could have just hitched a lift on the Vogon ship again, except this time, he could bring all of his friends along. Maybe that's why he was laughing.