User: eqreed

Just like cyclical development

On: Songbird Fossil Virus May Help Predict Pandemics

Quote: "But when deactivated fragments of these viral freeloaders reside in a host's genome for millions of years"

Don't you hate it when no one cleans up the unused code?

Re: Confounded

On: CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code

I don't think we knew the stars/sun was a ball of burning gas until spectrometry developed around the end of the 19th century.

So that part might have been too complex for the people who wrote the Constitution...

Re:Noble, but sad

On: The Humble Indie Bundle

Except that I wasn't planning on buying it at all. Now I'll buy it and pay something for it. Something > Nothing.

I'd imagine that most people who wanted it would have already bought it by now. They're squeezing money out of people who wouldn't have bought it at the higher price.

Although, I have a feeling that sales will plummet after this week.

I can hear it now...

On: Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo

"The ticket will cost 100 yen and 5 jumping jacks."

But for computer viruses

On: Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases?

For computer viruses, you only need to understand 1's and 0's.

Marketing Works

On: Study Suggests Music Industry Embrace Piracy

Throwing money into promotions and advertisements does influence the masses to buy; and money is what counts to business. The question is, how much of sales are based upon marketing?

Marketing leads to popularity. Popularity leads to sales. Sales leads to money. Money leads to power. Power leads to suffering.

Cause and Effect

On: People Were More Likely To Google Themselves This Year

People who read articles about Googling themselves are more likely to Google themselves. It's self a fulfilling article!

Re:Accountability

On: FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast

That's a bad analogy. What if parked my car at the top of a hill in a bad neighborhood, leave my car unlocked, and someone else "breaks" into it and puts it into neutral. Am I still responsible?

What if I locked my doors?

What if I didn't "upgrade" my new locks to stronger more secure locks? I've seen a tow truck driver pick my door lock in seconds.

False Starts?

On: Ask Turbine's Jeff Anderson About LOTRO

It appears that LOTRO went through a bit of false starts in development. What happened there?