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Return to the trade and barter system!

Why? Because I am Canadian!

Seriously, it's legal up here so there's no reason for an excuse. No DMCA, no individual lawsuits, although this may change if the current government has their way.

And if you play drums, it makes your forearms tired. Still not as much fun as Perfect Drug though.

Even at $12 per year, it still would be too much. I've lived just fine with my silver account for the past three years, and my PS3 lets me play online for free.

0$ is the only amount I'm willing to pay for a game service.

And you need an 8Mb/s connection for the 1080p service. This means that a large portion of consumers will not be able to have this service.

I'm sorry, i just built a HTPC for around $500 with more functionality. Why would anyone actually pay this much for a media server, when a low end PC could be built for less. The only reason why my HTPC cost more was because I wanted some additional features that drove the price up (4GB RAM, 2X1TB HDD)

OK, even when compared to other slasher flicks, this movie was pretty bad. However, the 3D effects were really well done. There were a few obvious shots where they were trying to showcase the tech, but even the regular scenes showed quite a bit of promise. The only problem that I could see is that the objects outside of the plane of focus were almost headache inducing. It was like an object being out of focus twice.

@Andir3.0

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We might spend $750,000+ on a DNA sequencer and gripe about it all the time, but the company is going to sell less than 1000 of these units in total...worldwide. The company would have to provide hardware and software support for two versions of the product, it simply doesn't make sense. The numbers (and demand) for a Mac variant simply isn't there.

@Andir3.0

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We might spend $750,000+ on a DNA sequencer and gripe about it all the time, but the company is going to sell

@Andir3.0

First to address your points

1 and 2. No issues here.

3. I've made major system modifications and never had to contact Microsoft, but this may be because I'm using an institutionally licenced copy of XP (and now Vista). I don't know if the hardware locks are disabled in this configuration.

4. I view it as market pressure. Is it worth the time and money to adapt a program for a Mac OS, when it represents only a fraction of the PC market? It all comes down to money.

On the specific topic of there being no Mac software, it's a bit more complicated than that. I'm in a very specalized field (Molecular Biology) and all the equipment is low volume, and in fact is normally sold with the computer as part of the package (Windows or rarely Linux). Part of the reason for this is that many of the devices need specalized boards, or hardware elements that are simply not supported by Apple. On the business side of things, there is the simple fact that the VAST majority of University computers are Windows based, and the cost to provide a Mac-based alternative is not financially viable. Keep in mind that these are high cost/low volume products here. We might spend $750,000+ on a DNA sequencer and gripe about it all the time, but the company is going to sell