Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature?

Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by ttty on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:35AM (#8922571)

>How to get rid of homeless reproduces dozens of threads concerning "homelessness" that appeared in Electronic Arts' online forum between 2012 and 2013.

This is the $ 150 book?! with 438 pages?

This is easy money!

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Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by dagw on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:33AM (#8922761)

Hardly.

Would you know how to go about convincing a large number of people to buy 438 pages worth of forum posts for $150? If so, how much time and effort do you think it would take? What do you think your hourly wage would work out to be once you combine that time with the time taken to collect and the data and actually make the book.

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Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by teddyh on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:28AM (#8922747)

I wonder how they cleared all those copyrighted posts.

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Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by brazzy on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @09:13AM (#8923116)

I'll bet you five to one that the EA forum terms of use have users sign away the copyright on their posts. So they only had to get a license from EA.

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Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by neilcrj on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @08:30AM (#8922961)

If the author cleared them, then it explains the cover price.

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Re:Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? by tsotha on Thursday January 22, 2015 @03:09AM (#8928080)

Only if people actually buy it.

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