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On the other hand I am not sure that most people would be playing the same game for 20+ years - I played CS religiously during my school years, but at some point, even if you keep …

The thing is, if I want my Star Trek, I want my Star Trek, not some substitute…

After sales support, as in spare parts and maintenance, is a big part of income for manufacturers of heavy equipment, as such machines run for a loong time given parts and maintena…

Article seems to be spot on - it's good to remind people about it once in a while. When I was a kid I jumped into a semi-empty pool, where depth was more or less equal to my total …

A statement like Randy Marsh made - “F—— the Chinese government” - seems like a candidate for a redemption ;) Edit:formatting

> Am I the only one that thinks Blizzard is in the right No, I think there’s quite a number of people being used to the whole world doing censoring on behalf of China. Status quo i…

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” seems…

Everyone has an opinion, but it doesn’t make a word meaningless. Of course there is some grey area, but if “men are not women” is the best example you can think of, I’m pretty sure…

It’s a different category of action, but the app comes down to the same. It marks locations, right? Or I suppose moving points. Or am I misunderstanding something?

I thought so too, but I stumbled upon SC2 with it’s war chests, and I like the idea of paying 25$ and getting the whole set of skins* instead of loot boxes. * - I suppose there’s a…

Oxford defines as follows: “abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orien…

If you are pricing it at cost plus, yeah, it can be worth near-ish the cost of production. Not things with assosciated costs like rnd, but think some of spare parts, for example.

If the less powerful costs the same to make and is just crippled full version, then for me it’s not ethical and calling it a choice is a farce. Btw obviously I’m not talking about …

One thing is trading features for money, the other is artificially crippling the product just so you can release a cheaper version. For what, to justify unreasonably high price for…

This is not an error in my argument. You just do not understand what I mean by “customer-friendly(ethical)”.

Because giving something more to the customer would not cost them anything. There used to be this belief that things are worth as much as the cost to produce them + some margin for…

The fact that degree is the same means that energetically 1 degree C is equal to 1K. So when doing scientific calculations, for example to calculate energy needed to change the tem…

In my experience audits done by big 4 are worth nothing. Irregularities are raised, and handled, unofficially, so when the report comes, everything is fine, everything’s legit. Tha…

I suspect it just assumes that the temparature increase of 2 degrees while make it easier to grow food and overall live in some countries, while screw up already hot countries, but…

> The game publishers who continue to pay to use Denuvo indicate otherwise. In a hit-or-miss industry like video games, publishers are not in the habit of being stupid with their m…

Well, when the game is designed around microtransactions free to play means more free to pay, as playing without paying is not enjoyable at all. Look at EAs mobile offerings.

If one is a fan of football, and video games, buying FIFA every year isn't that baffling. I actually do it every year - till 2009 it was new PES every year, and since 2010 it was F…

No, it is an economics term describing a type of market, as an opposution to regulated one, as often sugar industry is, for example. Maybe you mean the fact that there are regulati…

I think ban from an app store for a platform is something more like “if someone commits a crime using your vehicle, you might lose your driving permit”.