How come the dumbest people always post anonymously? Is it because you are too dumb to figure out how to register?

Are you the same fools who start counting your floors at 0 instead of 1? (The first floor in America being the "ground floor" in Britain.)

When did they start describing buildings by weight? Because those are certainly some heavy buildings.

Fine, put Zelda in between. Mario Galaxy has quests, btw. And Diablo can be quite simple if you want it to be. Click to kill.

So, you're saying if we want to get in touch with the EVP's lackey, you'll send us that contact information?

That's not the point. The question is, are there "transition games" that would encourage people to move from line 3 to line 4, in your example? The fact that different people have interest in different types and complexity of games is a given. The article is hypothesizing that such games need to exist, that if only there were games that were slightly more complex/hardcore than Wii Sports Resort but less complex than Super Mario Galaxy, we would see the people currently playing the former eventually playing the latter.

From most casual to hardcore:

Farmville, Mafia Wars
Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled, Tetris
Wii Sports, Cooking Mama
Mario games, racing and sports games
Serious Sam, Diablo
Assassins Creed, Halo
GTA, Rainbow Six
Dragon Age, Total War series

Where's the gap?

You do realize that many thousands of healthy adults agree to allow their bodies to be used by science after they die, right? How is a to-be-discarded fertilized egg different from an actual living human in your morality?

Where can you even log in any more with an unencrypted connection?

You know, for a perfectionist, you sure did a lousy job understanding what the story was about before writing your little rant about how you couldn't cut it as a software developer.

To follow up my previous comment, an example of a program started with good intentions that has made things worse would be the DHS or any of its agencies (esp. TSA).

The Post Office is only bankrupt because of the internet. Medicare and Social Security are losing money because of improvements in life expectancy. The fact that government programs are not keeping up with technological advances is not a fault of the program per se, but rather of subsequent generations of legislators inaction in updating the program. Amtrak was created precisely because existing passenger rail programs were going bankrupt. Its intent all along has been socialized train travel. Plus, you'd be hard pressed to argue mail delivery is worse now than it was before the creation of the post office, or that retirement for Americans is worse now than it was before Social Security and Medicare.

I am dumbfounded by HP's decision-making here. "What we discovered is that people were not bothered by it [an advertisement]," Nigro said. "Part of it I think our belief is you're used to it. You're used to seeing things with ads."

That sounds like a ringing endorsement for the printer. "Buy our printer! It will make you feel all warm and cozy because it has ads, like everything else in your life!" Ugh. It's appalling.

Doctors are notoriously stubborn and arrogant about their abilities, and they refuse to believe that a significant share of medical practice can be routinized to be performed by much lower skilled and educated people. From simple hand washing to using checklists, doctors have steadfastly resisted any change that implies they could be doing their job better, or that someone with less training could do the same job.

Nobody is suggesting the smartphone perform open heart surgery, but if it can use image recognition on a rash to tell you to try calamine lotion before going to see a dermatologist, that can save everyone a lot of time and money. Or, to use a personal example, after I fell on my shoulder, it could guide me through a series of tests (of the type "does it hurt when you do X?") and suggest I may have an AC joint separation and I should see an orthopedist. In the last example, I was originally diagnosed over the phone (by a non-orthopedist doctor) after exactly that experience. The default choice in a case such as mine would be to go to the ER. That would have turned out to be an inefficient and expensive choice and wasted a lot of people's time.

Hey wait a minute. Who installed Microsoft software in the first place? Clearly it's the users and admins who put the systems at risk, not Microsoft!