This. You literally just sent a man to jail and ruined his entire career because he hit the wrong button. In what universe is this considered okay?

Yes, but who is number 1?

Yes. No patents. The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods of human creativity and invention in recorded history, and it happened entirely without the creation of laws surrounding the restriction of ideas. There was innovation and art before there was ever the idea of "intellectual property". The system would evolve to be drastically different, no doubt, but it would continue to exist without IP. No, I don't have any hard evidence for this, because nobody in the modern world has tried getting rid of it yet. This is all anecdotal, but there is zero doubt in my mind that the human race as a whole would be better off if IP never existed.

Here in Toronto, you just described the TTC. I have a younger brother and a friend of my father-in-law in there who both said the same thing.

Rotten Tomatoes uses a different system though. In fact, I really like their system. They look at a review and decide ultimately whether the critic enjoyed the movie enough to recommend it or not. It's like Siskel & Ebert's thumbs up or down system; fresh or rotten. The only factor is whether the enjoyed the movie or not. There's none of this trying to take a letter grade and turn it into a number from 1-100 bullshit. The Rotten Tomatoes rating is simply a percentage of the number of critics who liked the film enough to recommend it out of the total number of reviews, which I find much more useful. It's still no substitute for the most reliable method, which somebody else above mentioned: find a reviewer whose taste agrees with you on past films/games/whatever and see what they say about new ones. Rotten Tomatoes takes less time though.

Ack, replying to this to fix a misclick mod. But you are absolutely correct. The medium of the message makes a big difference in what people will tolerate.

It took four years because the people who could actually do it weren't trying. Once Sony started being dicks about removing OtherOS, they dove in head first. It took about 12 months from that point, which is par for the course with the 360. And when it was finally cracked, it was cracked hard. They got the private key for signing executable code.

It's adherence to web standards does not make a (admittedly hyperbolic) statement about its relative popularity untrue.

Maybe, but Dance Central is easily the best thing on Kinect and got great professional reviews. Just Dance isn't half bad either, but inferior to Harmonix's offering IMO. I think it's a little unfair to say such reviewers just don't like these kinds of games. They may just not be very good.

We don't have any problem with the "true believers" either, until they start trying to teach religion as science and bury factual scientific evidence. That is when the shit hits the fan.

You're gay and you'd vote for a man who equated gay sex to dog and child fucking? Are you serious?

True, but I'm actually more interested in the supposed power savings. These days, I think reducing power consumption is a higher priority than increasing speed, or at least it should be.

Ack, replying to this because I selected the wrong mod option. But yes, this is exactly right.

True, I was referring more to the fact that the governments allowed it to expand to the point that it did. That was lucky, because they didn't realize what they were dealing with.

If I had mod points, I'd mod you to the moon. The Internet is as awesome as it is because we got lucky. By the time the governments and corporations realized what they had on their hands, it was too late to redo the whole thing.