MattPearce

Any plans for NZ? As you can see with the success of EFTPOS here, we have a history of adopting new payment technologies quickly. I personally have an idea that's just waiting for a proper mobile payment system.

It is possible to be reinstated, but very difficult - I signed up for a Play Developer account a year ago, and didn't end up using it at all. A few months later, I got an email saying my Play Developer and Wallet accounts were banned. I emailed their appeals system once and got an autoresponse saying it wouldn't be reviewed. I emailed again and got a personal response saying they couldn't tell me why they banned it for "security reasons". I pushed them, and they finally told me it was part of some sort of auto-ban on a Play Developer account that had also banned all other "associated" accounts. I only have one account. I asked them to investigate further, and got told it wouldn't be reviewed. I finally managed to contact someone at Google Support who helped put me through to someone on the Google Play team, who finally confirmed it was a bug in their system designed to automatically find associated accounts when banning a particular account. Someone else had been banned, and I was caught up in the sweep.

I finally got my Play Developer and Wallet accounts reinstated, and I promptly shut down my Play Developer account so that I wouldn't risk having my Wallet account accidentally banned again due to someone else's actions. Now I just develop for iOS.

The video suggests these cars are probably being built in Tesla's factory - the white-painted walls and red-painted machinery are pretty unique to Tesla. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqSDWoAhvLU#t=58

(Also note that "Rotary Lift", the brand seen at that point in the video, is the exclusive supplier of vehicle lifts to Tesla - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tesla-motors-chooses...)

I worked on a title for the 3DS. I don't have experience with the N64, so I can't speak for their policies around that time.

As a developer (and one who has worked with Nintendo as a third party), I have nothing but respect for the man.

You are right in comparing him to Jobs:

" In 1986, Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi noted that "Atari collapsed because they gave too much freedom to third-party developers and the market was swamped with rubbish games." In response, Nintendo limited the number of titles that third-party developers could release for their system each year, and promoted its "Seal of Quality", which it allowed to be used on games and peripherals by publishers that met Nintendo's quality standards." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...

I had LASIK just over 6 months ago, and I'm really happy with the results.

How much does it cost in the US? Down here in NZ, it cost me NZ$5750 (~US$4877) for intralase (laser-created flap) on both eyes.

I didn't have a lot of those follow up tests mentioned where they poke your eye. I had a follow up the day after, then a week after, then a month, then two months after. All they did at each appointment was get me to read from a chart and examined my eyes with some kind of digital microscope.

Just to 'ruin the fun' for you (and anyone else inspired by you), the leaves of tomatoes contain cyanide. Same with potato leaves.