especially on obsolete products

Funny thing is, the SNES isn't obsolete in that way; you can buy SNES games on the Wii virtual console (albeit a limited subset). That means every other emulator is still in direct competition because it removes the need to give Nintendo money. For hardware emulation, there are NES-on-a-chip systems - they don't want this to happen with the SNES, too.

Good luck with yet another DAW. Thing is, this is nonsense - making music never has been cheaper, and the price is still dropping.

$60 for Reaper and a slew of free as in beer plugins is not ridiculously expensive, and Reaper's anything but crippled.

This is an impoverished view which will lead to nothing but stagnation, decline, and ultimately extinction.

If we actually want to get plain H. sapiens in space instead of robots containing brain uploads (because they don't have bones that wither under microgravity and they don't require costly foodstuffs), then re-use holds a lot of promise. Nanomachines breaking down waste to its molecular components, assembling C and O atoms back in any hydrocarbon flavor you want. Lots of room for very useful research - anything but stagnation!

You know they've visited when you find a fat job offer on your desk. And you'd be smart to take it. Myself, I was a young dissident, prepared to set fire to the world just to watch it burn. But then, a friend of my father's offered me a job with possibility for advancement. I quickly abandoned my silly ideas of changing the world, bring justice to the people. Shouting the truth from the tops of buildings is for chumps.

Perhaps run them 1-8 days after the show airs in the land of origin.

This is based on the idea that a slice of money from advertisers gets to the content producers because they can reach their potential audience - and awareness means that people might buy their products.

Instead, with a subscription service, you get guaranteed money because the people watching are willing to pay for the service. So yeah, too bad for the advertisers (or not, because nobody here in the EU cares for US insurances or mortgages or other products that are very much region-locked by their nature). They're even paying when they're not watching - that's what a subscription is! Better, when they get access at exactly the same time as it's transmitted via air, there's no reason for them to look for torrents.

There's no reason whatsoever to delay the release of the streaming version, unless you really want to bleed money for no good reason and go against all principles of capitalism. Offer the goods to as many people possible. The only delay should be perhaps in the subtitles, but since torrents don't have those anyway, it doesn't matter.

What I want to see is Trusted Government, but apparently that's an NP-hard problem.

I move to the menu, click on it, click on the section I want and click on the application I want.

If you know what it's called you could type it before you've even moved the moved the mouse a few inches. If you use it often, put it in a place where you can directly see and activate it (desktop, quicklaunch) so you don't have to waste time searching through sections or following paths. You need a tree/directory structure mostly for when you only have a vague hunch of what you need, instead of something specific.

Typing is way more efficient; provided of course that you're not hunting and pecking. The problem with the MS command line was always that unless you defined a crapton of paths in some configuration file it couldn't ever know what you were talking about - you'd have to 1) explicitly navigate there and 2) know which executable you wanted to start.

Just time your actions on a daily basis; what do you start using the menu and how long does it take you every time to navigate to it? Then compare this with hitting the Windows key and hitting "exc" or "wor" or what other 3 letters your software of choice starts with; it's faster. Since MS also does its research on a grand scale by recording metrics of millions of users, I'm fairly certain they've got better than personal/anecdotal evidence ;)

Actually it's confusing the issue. Taxes are historically low, and the amount of wealth that is owned by the richest classes far far outstrips what they pay in taxes.

I am the ownership class.

People think that a troll on Slashdot can't own a yacht and several houses. Why should I care if anyone believes me when I have all this money?

I'm not fucked no matter what happens. I know what's going on because my friends and I are the people who make it happen. Smoke-filled rooms? No, just an assuming little office building which you'd never look at twice. But the money we funnel into our bank accounts is quite sufficient anyways. Thanks, taxpayer. I'm just the middleman.

You're useful. You're the classroom example. CLASS! This is a racist. Study carefully as he tries to tell us that black people enjoyed slavery.

I don't fucking care if some old people that I don't know live in stinking poverty. At least I will be able to get some cheap labor, even if it's creaky, when I'm spending my fortune.

I've lined my nest, now fuck the rest.

I give up trying to save the world. My fellow Americans obviously don't want what's due them, and they're too stupid to deserve it. I'm just going to join the dark side, vote for Rick Perry, and not bother to think of them any more.

Ron Paul is an old retard who was too stupid to practice medicine. He doesn't even have the sense to buy decent shoes.

But seriously, I just got told by another libertaritard that Ron Paul was NOT a Republican. Now you say he is. How about you eat a cock, and come back to me when you figure out what kind of asshole Ron Paul is? Fuck, no wonder that guy doesn't win shit except for his shitty seat in ignorant-as-fuck Texas.

I came here for the tech and Natalie Portman naked and petrified MEEPT!

I stayed for the fascists.

Typically I am one to overstay a welcome. I think I've overstayed the FUCK out of this one.

If copyright can be prolonged indefinitely or nudged every 20 years, there's far more incentive to kill off successful authors. After all, they only cost money after they've created a work that can be milked for the next 120 years.

Why'd you want to continue to pay for Amy Winehouse's drug habit if you can enjoy the royalties of her two albums for eternity minus a day? If they became public domain after her death, anyone would be able to download them without repercussions - making the intellectual property worthless at once.