Well hold on a second, how are you defining community anyway? What is the 'real' community we live in if not a collection of tens of thousands of very different people (per town) existing in close proximity. What you make of that is up to you. If you make a 'presence' for yourself on a page like/., just as if you get out of your room once in a while in the real world, you find yourself meeting people, then getting into discussions and conversations. Where you take that initial contact is up to you. I'm not sure you can decry the/. sense of community just because of its size.
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Well hold on a second, how are you defining community anyway? What is the 'real' community we live in if not a collection of tens of thousands of very different people (per town) existing in close proximity. What you make of that is up to you. /., just as if you get out of your room once in a while in the real world, you find yourself meeting people, then getting into discussions and conversations. Where you take that initial contact is up to you. /. sense of community just because of its size.
If you make a 'presence' for yourself on a page like
I'm not sure you can decry the
As mentioned b4, the USD370 figure is a direct conversion.
The actual release cost is quoted (from Edge magazine, UK - sorry, no URL) at around USD 200 for the States and UKP 200 for Europe.