I'm not a union expert, but I've been in the game business for over ten years.

Most of the major development houses are really interested in outsourcing to reduce dev costs.

Now, as a skilled programmer, I'm worth at least a dozen overseas developers. But two dozen? Three dozen?

I don't even blame my current bosses. I've seen them lose contracts to oversea dev houses who can do a project for half our lowest price.

Unless he's a lot shorter than I remember, or full of air, he's much heavier than 235.

From his 2007 blog: "Lemme tell ya’ something: if I weight 230, I wouldn’t be blogging about losing weight; I’d be stuffing my fat maw with starches and sugars in a veritable orgy of food, glorious food. I dream of being 230. 230 is a months-away, pie-in-the-sky quasi-pipe-dream."

I think Google's point was that they're giving you a choice by not limiting you to a single provider (ala iPhone). It isn't their fault that AT&T is lame. Hopefully this will pressure the service providers to actually provide services instead of making money with confusing long-term contracts and random fees (e.g. like the stupid 'activation fee' they charge for the 'Totally Free Phone' I got 3 months ago).

Sega actually *does* outsource some of its work to the US.

I don't mind losing at tennis, even to a 15-year old. It's a fun game and good exercise. But if my opponent is a smart ass, smack talker, I'll take my ball and go home.

I'm a better than average FPS player (and much better at Halo than tennis ;)), but 90% of the time when I play a FPS it's full of nothing but smack talking racist (or worse). So I either play without the mic, or against bots.

IANAL, but if you signed a contract with the rental company that said they could claim any software developed on their rented equipment, you'd be screwed.