This is very similar to what I've been seeing out of Blizzard, but the opposite approach (and I think Blizzard has this right). Instead of pushing the "Easy Button", how about making all the content easy and making hard modes that you can do for mad props/cool cut scenes/phat loot/self gratification.

Offtopic, but your sig is great. I never thought I'd agree with anything that Rush said. Like, ever. Who knew?

This post sounds like the rantings of someone who has not made it past the first boss of Ulduar.

The obviously should have tried this on the public test realm. Hope you like all the qqing about impossible to achieve achievements. Nubs. 5 digit uid indeed.

unemployment in missouri is capped at $250 per week. That's enough for your average teenager.

TopCod3r? You're here too?

I think this is the data set. I could be wrong though. The article (yeah yeah) says that

In our sorting experiments we have followed the rules of a standard terabyte (TB) sort benchmark.

Which lead me to this page that describes the data (and it's available for download).

I've taken two classes at a major university so that I can get my degree finally. In the most recent class, the teacher has been downright sexist. Crude jokes that come out badly because of his broken-ass english and a horrible sense of what's proper and what's not. I've only gone to class 4 times this semester... the first two classes, and the two subsequent tests. During each of the first two classes I saw a woman get up and leave the classroom after a horribly sexist joke. It may be that I recognize this because I've been in the workforce for several years and have gone through "sexual harassment training" or whatever, but I doubt it. This guy is creepy, and he's outright lewd.

So yeah, I can imagine that women don't want any part of the field if the people training the next generation of workers are this bad.