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[quote] fundamental of principles of economics [/quote] The fundamentals of the principles of economics is the study of people and how they react to a finite amount of resources. There is nothing "faulted" with that. However, the conclusions that are drawn from those studies and the fact that there is usually 1 sometimes 2 "schools" of thought on the matter can be questioned. Economist rarely agree on anything. Economics is a hotly debated topic but... not according to CNN, Fox N

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[quote who="FadedC" reply="69" id="2858102"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 68 You cannot talk about inflation and ignore how much things cost today. That's like saying you want to talk about water but not H20. Inflation is about costs. You cannot ignore costs and still talk about inflation. No, I would not agree with you. Your 1977 200 dollars would not give you more buying power when it comes to technology items then than you can get now. 200 dollars can

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[quote who="FadedC" reply="67" id="2858074"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 66 That is not what the CPI does. The CPI takes a basket of goods and compares what that basket of goods cost then to what they cost now. It is certainly about the goods and services. Inflation is not as simplified as CNN and Fox News tries to tell everyone it is.That basket of good is flawed because while a box of cereal is relatively the same over a decade, anything that deals wi

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[quote who="FadedC" reply="65" id="2858056"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 64 The Consumer Price Index does okay for determining inflation. But it is basic knowledge that that these basic goods type indicators don't do well in aaccounting for changes in technology. I'll spell it out for you; the prices of technology are not going up in inflation because the advances in technological products out pace inflation. It's all relative. Under no circumstances wou

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[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="63" id="2858028"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 61 Quoting FadedC, reply 60 Edit: Also as an interesting point of trivia: When the Atari 2600 come out in 1977 it cost about $200. That's the equivelent to about $700 by today's prices. While you have a valid point, it doesn't work in this situation. Technology becomes cheaper as time goes by, not more expensive. If you were to bui

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[quote who="FadedC" reply="60" id="2857977"] Edit: Also as an interesting point of trivia: When the Atari 2600 come out in 1977 it cost about $200. That's the equivelent to about $700 by today's prices. [/quote] While you have a valid point, it doesn't work in this situation. Technology becomes cheaper as time goes by, not more expensive. If you were to build a machine with the capabilities of an Atari 2600 today, it would not cost even close to 700 dollars. Those components

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Copyright laws have gone beyond protecting the works of original creators to allow them to financially benefit. Exactly how many consecutive notes can you use, in music, before your infringing on someone... you know notes that the creators waving their copyright flags now didn't even create. How much of our culture is some large corporation allowed to claim? Don't even get me started on trademarks where one company has managed to claim an entire fruit as theirs in every form, where Nintendo i

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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="50" id="2857430"] Quoting DraekAlmasy, reply 46 So is yours, in fact. Somebody who believes in "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay" would never approve of a scheme such as Copyright, which mandates monetary compensation for work done by your grandfather up to 70 years after he bit the dust and would, in fact, be actively campaigning against such laws rather than supporting them with their own money. As someone who does quit

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[quote who="FadedC" reply="113" id="2857331"] Quoting aeligos, reply 112 Empire: Total War seems enticing...but my max screen resolution is 1600x900. Is Dawn of Discovery any good? How about Supreme Commander? And when will Impulse place Object Desktop & GalCiv II on sale? I've been waiting and waiting and waiting...each night at midnight I check and check and check and yet nothing. -.- <

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[quote who="Kitkun" reply="41" id="2857125"] My hourly wage is $2.50 and its not even enough to cover my income taxes that are paid on my declared tips.Move to Southern Oregon. (Or was it Cali?) By law you get minimum wage, tips are on top of that. [/quote] That is Oregon in general, southern oregon didn't just break off from the larger state and create it's own min. wage laws. It's also not the only state that does this. Oregon's income tax is relatively hig

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[quote who="ZehDon" reply="35" id="2856969"] Quoting mentalinstra, reply 31 So the law is what decides right and wrong? That's laughable. The Laws decide what is enforceable, a person's morality decides what is right or wrong. Laws merely represent what the majority of society consider to be right or wrong. Attempting to take a stand against such things with the "my moral code holds me to higher restrictions than the codes of man" atttiu

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[quote who="Tiel424" reply="9" id="2856464"] Quite a heavy penalty... Am I the only person who's actually read an EULA? Apparently you never own any game, which is a huge surprise to me. [/quote] Pretty sure most EULA say they can blow up your house and take no responsibility for it, but if you try to cross a t they say you can't, they'll throw you in jail and take everything you own. Oh and no refunds.

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[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="39" id="2856261"]Looks like a choice between Comodo and Windows then. Sounds silly, but I'm leaning towards Comodo because (as well as the good reviews), it feels more like there's something there protecting. [/quote] You'll have a lot more control with Comodo . It can get annoying because if even the slightest change happens to a program you've given permission to already, it will block it again and ask for permission again. The same

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[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="33" id="2856211"] Troll fail. [/quote] Your rant speaks for itself. Feel free to continue to abuse and overuse the word troll though to make yourself feel better. I already responded to your original request. Your elitist attitude doesn't change the recommendations being handed to you on a forum of all places.

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[quote who="Ozzy38" reply="31" id="2855980"] It's important not to confuse a 30-something developer (with a house) with a 20-year-old forum regular (with issues). [/quote] Sounds like you might be part of the problem you seem to hate so much.

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[quote who=" PoSmedley " reply="28" id="2855683"] Why wouldn't the game's developers help with that info? Doc, you must not play any games. As someone just into some games over the past year and a half, I have been severely frustrated by the lack of support from some of the developers. I ahve run across issues and found dozens of threads that cover these issues that the develepors will just let die with

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Tempted by SimCity 4, but it looks like the game has issues with Win 7 64.

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[quote who=" ne _ zavarj " reply="88" id="2854958"] Quoting aeligos, reply 87 Quoting acare84, reply 85If Stardock makes Elemental %50 on Impulse so I can buy it. I really want to buy Elemental but $49 is so much right now for me. Elemental, Limited Edition w/ box, is currently on sale on Impulse for 49.99. The regular game is still at 49.99. I bought it yesterday for $39.95 f

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[quote who="Ratatosk7" reply="82" id="2854747"]I have more hope for Elemental's future than Civ 5's. Like a fanboy I preordered Civ 5 and was not able to return it to get my money back. I'm stuck with both so I am now imagining it like a race to cope with my percieved $100 or so loss, which game will be my strategy replacement for Civ 4 first. Civ 5 team fired non-disclosure retired the civRevolutions guy they had lead the project after releasing this latest patc

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Tropico 3 is a pretty fun city-builder type game too, well worth 6 dollars.

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[quote who="Carewolf" reply="40" id="2852547"] Quoting Mtn_Man, reply 32 I disagree. Vanilla Civ 4 is one of the best strategy games ever made. The expansion packs simply take a great game and make it better. You seem to have the shades of history on. It took moret han 6 months before Civ 4 was even playable more than 2 hours at a time. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I had to quit the game every two hours and reload, because it was

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[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="23" id="2850698"]If they ever did a full GFX version of Dwarf Fortress, it would be preceded by such laws-of-physics-breaking hype that when it really was released, it would probably cause a world depression and world war. Fortunately, now living in a world with a DF version with graphics, everything would be awesome anyway. [/quote] I could be looking too much into what you are saying, but I really don't think the major problem with EWOM

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[quote who="Scritty" reply="15" id="2850564"]FFXIV gorgeous? I mean it's ok. But it's not gorgeous. It's designed to look good on the low res PS3. It won't be 1080 on there - 720 at best. It's not on a par with say Far Cry2 (more elements on screen, better viewing distance, better physics, more colour depth..I could go on) and FC2 is well over 2 years old. Blimey I've updated my GFX card twice since FC2 came out, and it looked good on my old 280GTX. (Have yet to try it o

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[quote who="Tridus" reply="7" id="2850326"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 6 Exactly, worst games and most disappointing are not the same. Expectations for Civ V and Elemental were very high, same with FFXIV and STO. There is always risk with hyping games all over the internet and then delvering what these companies actually delivered. FFXIV is also likely to win Gamespot's worst award. It's certainly running away with it in the PC area. That's quite

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[quote who="Fistalis" reply="5" id="2850214"]I can't speak for most of the games on toms list. However I do agree with his number 1. I don't agree with elemental being number 2 but thats probably because its hard to be disappointed when you come into a game with rather low expectations. Remember the list is of most disappointing games.. not "worst games" or w.e. So its even more subjective than a best or worst list. [/quote] Exactly, worst games and m