Hopefully his next big thing is SimCity. We've needed a new incarnation of that game for quite some time now. SimCity 4 still forced cardinal directions on us.

I actually picked up one of those brain reader things. I got the OCZ NIA since it was on sale. It's pretty cool too, totally not worth the money, but I forgot to return it before my refund time was up. The only thing that it's better at than a mouse and keyboard is for fast reaction clicking. Though that's muscle control, the eeg sensor is only good for watching yourself wander randomly in a small circle.

I don't know. I'd actually like to see this go to trial. I want there to be a precedent set that this kind of bullshit is unwanted. If they have a jury trial I feel that at least ONE person will refuse to vote guilty and it'll be hung. Better yet they should get a jury of nothing but morons so the supreme court can throw it out.

It makes more sense if you merely think about the two of them as functions that take a string and put it on the screen. However the very concept of those dots requires an in-depth explanation of the paradigm of Object-Oriented-Programming whereas the cout is just a function. Which one is simpler? cout and the funky look really stupid and weird, but the concepts contained in the line are not complex in the least. However, teaching C requires a lot of glossing over and "black magic" explanations at the start as well. Arrays are necessary for even the simplest programs, yet to explain them requires an in-depth explanation of how memory itself works and pointers to addresses. Java abstracts the memory out of the question, which is both good and bad. Really they're both incredibly complex in even the simplest of situations, but students just need to understand that learning a language requires learning a plethora of ideas that are barely related to the writing itself. A monkey can write code, it's not hard. The hard part is figuring out the underlying algorithms and math.