Nice strawman. I'm curious as to why your first thought was Rape.

[John]

Both of these let you plug a real electric guitar in to your Xbox360 or PS3. Rocksmith also works on a Windows box and Rocksmith 2014 also works on a Mac platform.

BandFuse is TAB based where Rocksmith looks more like Guitar Hero (as I understand, I never played the plastic controller "guitar" games) with a note highway.

Rocksmith 2014 (newest) has 50+ songs available and 20 or 30 more DLC songs released since Oct 22nd 2013 when it was released. It's also capable of using any of the DLC and original content from Original Rocksmith ($9.99 transfer fee for the on disk content and if you're on a Windows or Mac platform, you must own the Original Rocksmith for access to the Original Rocksmith DLC).

For the $400 cost for a gTar you can get a real electric guitar that yes, you have to actually tune and start to play songs.

I did take lessons before the first Rocksmith came out so I have a year of some training first. I do like Rocksmith (I have a Windows and Mac system so don't have BandFuse) and have really enjoyed practice and playing the almost 1,000 arrangements available for the game.

[John]

In 2014 you can play Score Attack which has three difficulties, four if you count 'Master' which is no notes showing. I believe Learn a Song lets you set the difficulty and speed for the entire song although you need to reset it when you exit to a different song and come back.

[John]

The problem is what women think they want can be totally different than what they deep down want. Women can say one thing but after a while they'll realize it's not doing it for them and leave (hence the 70% of divorces being filed by women).

It gets worse. Guys are trying to mold themselves to be what women say they want only to discover later that what women really want isn't what guys are now.

Then the divorce lawyers cackle with glee.

[John]

What? I can play Ticket to Ride and Small World with someone else who has the game on their smartphone or tablet. And isn't Scrabble one of the first where you have a table board and smartphones as your tile holder? It's the game companies that put in that functionality. The platform is just capable of it.

[John]

Actually if you look at the statistics, when women enter a field, they tend to advocate for the job to become safer which decreases the injuries _everyone_ can get.

Think about something like firefighting (to just snag an example). Instead of one guy carrying another, there might be new tools or techniques to permit a safer carry for the injured. Less likely to cause a debilitating injury to a single guy. Something like that is investigated, designed, and created because women are part of the equation.

So perhaps there _should_ be more women encouraged to be deep sea fishermen or miners or firemen.

[John]

Wait, that doesn't make them a 'minority'. Oppressed perhaps but not a Minority.

[John]

Hey now, watch it. You'll wind up the ladies and you'll be sent to your "room".

IT Needs More Women!

[John]

I've put 125,000 miles on my Hayabusa. I've visited all the accessible states and been to all the accessible Canadian provinces and territories. While it's not really meant for endurance riding (mainly the lack of dealers with Sport-Touring type tires), it's actually quite an enjoyable experience. I had a Harley for a few years and found it just wasn't for me. In part because it was such a painful ride. The ergonomics of the Hayabusa beat the Harley hands down, for me of course. YMMV :)

[John]

Shoot, and an iPad plus two Linux systems at work and an old Windows laptop for console access to servers when needed.

[John]

No wife, kids are grown and gone.

Three phones (one older, screen broken one). 2 iPhones, one Android (work phone).

Two Macs (my 2004 Powerbook and works' MacBook Pro; hey, if I can claim the Android, I can claim the Macbook).

My Windows 7 PC with 12 VirtualBox systems installed (various Linux versions, Solaris, and various Windows versions).

My Ubuntu firewall.

And a Sun Enterprise 250 sitting over by the couch. I disposed of several old PCs and my ex took her Dell laptop with her when she bailed 2 years ago.

[John]

Personal opinion of course.

We have SPARC gear along with Solaris 10. When we wanted to upgrade the hardware from the T2000's, the cost for Oracle licenses went through the roof. So we stuck with T2000's (still have them). It kept us from purchasing new Sun hardware. No new hardware, no new business for Sun.

After much investigation, we went with Dell hardware and Redhat and have been spinning up Redhat VM's right and left. For the mission critical stuff we're using HP gear and HP-UX. We've been spinning up Informix, MySQL, and PostGreSQL in place of Oracle as well.

[John]

Hmm, I generally don't run AV software on my systems but I'm pretty sure MSE has been running for a while so I do, just not on purpose. I didn't before that since I first started mucking with computers in 1980 or so.

I've never had a hit from it though. Well, I take that back. I had some archival e-mails from way way back that I knew had viruses in them (the old 'I Love You' type email viruses). When MSE kicked off the first time, it scanned that directory and pinged on them. But nothing since that initial run and I knew they were there.

I do run malwarebytes from time to time with no hits.

But I also run noscript and abp on all my systems. Plus I don't click on links or open documents from folks I don't know, including the link in your signature.

[John]

MAC addresses, not IPs. They may actually be going to use IPv6. That's not part of the article.

[John]