Are you kidding? They would break the legal system! You're just trying to set up some sort of DoS attack on district courts, aren't you?

We are so fortunate to have Jack Thompson. Without his antics, people might start to take the "violence in media = real violence" statement as a logical thought, and may consider censorship.

Continue to fight for the right side (probably unintentionally) Mr. Thompson!

Now he tells me. I'm off to drop out of my graduate genetics program.

You must either be new here or a lot more mature than I am. Subtlety is sometimes lost on these people, and it's usually scary when that happens. Jonathan Swift would have probably shot himself had he visited these boards.

Seems to me the only time we resolve ethical concerns are when the ethical concerns become obsolete. People are still debating whether abortion is ethical. It comes down to a matter of beliefs. Does a human genetic code constitute an independant human? Your answer to that question, reguardless of how much you believe it, is not based on fact. Different people don't all share your beliefs and will have different answers. There is no resolving this ethics question. Well, there is one way, and that is to perform the science. If it turns out to be a scientific dead-end, then we'll have our answer: no it is not ethical because it's pointless.

Note that I'm not saying lets do it BECAUSE it might be a scientific dead end and then we can move on, that would be a terrible reason to do something. Just pointing out that waiting for the ethical question to be answered 100% is basically a sneaky way of saying "lets not do this ever because I am uncomfortable with it."

Funny, I found YOUR post useless...

I'm okay with that penalty: the wii doesn't have background downloading, which makes the wait much more annoying. Wait times on the 360 aren't much of an issue, since I can be playing another game as the file is downloading (I don't know about the PS3, I would guess it also has background downloading.)

Not to mention that factoring that out would be pointless: most of the stuff you can download for the wii is about that size, that's always going to be an issue for the wii.

That really started not making sense towards the end there. I think if you spent less time with the typical far right wing tactic of accusing your enemies of absurd motivations, and more on the matter at hand, you wouldn't sound so ridiculous.

Except that it appears each of the three consoles were tested from the same network, and repeated on different networks (unless I'm on crack again.)

The other differences are exactly what you would want to test. I don't care if the wii is actually blazing fast at downloading but nintendo's servers are extremely slow, to me that's summed up as "Dowloading is slow on the wii."

Note that I'm not certain I have servers straight from networks, and if I am in fact getting the two mixed up, I have a "I told you I was no expert" I'll use. And the aforementioned crack problem doesn't help. But the article does seem interesting to me.

With the 360 and I think the PS3, there is background downloading, so it's not much of an issue. The wii, which happens to be the slowest in most of the tests and also the slowest in my house, does not. Downloading something means you can't use the wii while you're waiting. You do get to watch mario run and pick up coins and hit coin boxes as a 3 stage status bar, but that's about it. Kind of annoying, and makes everything you download seem a lot slower. It is interesting that it's not all in my head.

You don't own any current consoles, of course YOU'RE going to find it useless!

I don't know much about networks, so if the following is wrong or just nonsense, ignore it.

Seems like that would answer which console itself downloaded the fastest, but that would be of purely academic value if the file types and servers themselves had a bigger and different effect. If the PS3 can download from a given server faster than the 360, that's nice, but if downloading something from XBLA is itself much faster than PSN, that really has no effect and doesn't matter to people like me. The test under discussion tells in the real world which console is faster at downloading, which is more interesting to me.

Once again, I don't know much about networks, so maybe that's nonsense, if so just disreguard.

Of course, he does account for that. He was following their discovery chronologically rather than a more straightforward story. First they downloaded the game and timed it, got some odd results, looked further, and realized the difference in sizes.

Such a discovery calls for some long division, which yielded the following results:

-Mega Man 9 download speed on PS3: .44 MB per second (1st place)
-Mega Man 9 download speed on Xbox 360: .26 MB per second (3rd place)
-Mega Man 9 download speed on Wii: .31 MB per second (2nd place)

It doesn't matter that the file sizes were different, that was accounted for.

Furthermore, all three systems appear to have been tested on each connection, not a PS3 on one connection, a 360 at another house, etc.

Lastly the blog calls for more results. The most valid criticism of the findings is not the methodology but the low numbers, and the author appears to acknowledge that and is trying to do something about that.

But by all means, heap abuse on him for daring to try to compare consoles quantitatively.

I think we can all agree to that.

The moving by hand bit is odd, but could just be a gimmie to simplify the design and also increase the odds of winning this competition. The coffee grounds for printing part is what's interesting, and on the extreme off-chance that it can actually be used for real printing, it won't be long before someone puts it into an automatic printer and sells it.

As far as unreadable and short lived text, the thing doesn't actually exist yet, but you're telling me it's completely impossible that it will ever work right? Did I miss something, the coffee ink doesn't have to move faster than the speed of light to be readable, does it? I'll agree it PROBABLY won't ever make good printing, but don't act like it's impossible, because you have as much proof of that as the designers do that it will work great: none.

I too had a chilling sense of proving my own point unintentionally. Weird huh? Wonder where that was coming from.

Oops, forgot to make a 1, 2, ??? profit joke.