I don't think his whining is unethical at all... Win RT market penetration is already facing an uphill battle and, without developer support, it is inevitably going to fail. MS seems to have forgotten this (once again) and Rubicon is giving them the verbal kick in the pants they need to get their act together. It might sound like whining, but MS has so far given Win RT developers absolutely pathetic support.

We allow commercial exploitation of the Earth and we live here...

A single poor example is not indicative of the technology as a whole. Look at voice recognition on current Android or iPhones... compare that with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 years ago and it's stunning how far the tech has progressed.

Because for the last 20 years we've seen pretty amazing progress with speech recognition and interpretation technologies and there's no reason to think the next 20 years will be any different?

So English speakers should learn to speak another language so that they can learn what it's like to learn to speak another language... that's sound logic if I've ever heard it.

I'm just curious as to which of his many brilliant and famous feats of computer engineering or programming you are referring to as his "one item"?

Why are you replying to your own post with a counter argument? Whoops... I think you forgot to log in with your alt!

or, for that matter, the skulls in my safety deposit box...

You only purchase an additional controller once, so including it in the cost of the console version while not including it in the cost of the PC version is nonsense. Also, Lego Pirates is $20 on all 3 consoles and $30 on the PC http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Pirates-Caribbean-Pc/dp/B002I0JJMK.

The Xbox and PS often get bugfixes as well. For most multiplayer PC games, if you want to play with your daughter, you'll need to buy a second PC (and 2 copies of each game as well). Kinda makes that $59 you spent on a second controller look like chicken scratch...

it's not really fair to keep the old console hardware around and say that works, but not also keep the old computer around for those old games.

But that's the reality of the situation... far more people keep their old consoles to play old games than keep old computers to run old games.

Slashdot agrees with you? Was there a vote I wasn't aware of?

To try to directly try to compare the release of a MS service pack, which is nearly always little more than a conglomeration of bug, vulnerability, and driver updates and patches, to the periodic updates Apple releases for each version of OS X is being disingenuous. I'm frankly surprised that you even attempted it...

I don't know about Turning, but thats exactly what Edison did. He personally didn't invent most of the inventions he's credited with, but was the visionary and leader for a team of engineers that did the actual work.

This isn't a chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is when an image isn't focused correctly because different wavelengths (colors) of light refract differentially when entering a new medium (like how a prism separates white light into the full spectrum). When you have chromatic aberrations, objects in the image have a slightly out-of-focus color streaked look to them, like when an old projector TVs didn't have the RGB elements aligned.

This is a flare, which is caused by the scattering of bright light just outside of the frame as it hits the side of the lens.