Owning a Wii, there are a bunch of really fantastic games and a whole lot of dross (though this is true to an extent on all platforms the Wii seems to suffer more than most). Without reviews, there would be no way to sift through all the chaff and find the good titles. Though the fact that terrible software continues to sell by the bucket load on the Wii suggests that the average joe probably doesn't read reviews at all.

This works for me too and isn't particually difficult on Vista or Windows 7 thanks to user account control. I was going to pimp my site - http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/ as well, but this thread is so buried in comments it hardly seems worth it :)

I am astounded that somebody actually had to explain this on Slashdot and that the above comment by basementman was actually rated "Informative".

I remember at my university, going back to the 90's now, they announced a new "laptop area" in the library. I duly arrived with my PIII laptop, only to find nowhere to plug it in. "You can't charge your laptop here" said the librarian, "we don't allow anything to be plugged in that hasn't been PAT tested by a university technician". "Oh, and there's no network access because of viruses". "So basically, the laptop area is a table with a 'laptop area' sign above it then?" I said. "I suppose so, oh and please turn your laptops speaker off"

On another note, what about practical lessons? Expecting your students to have laptops is one thing, expecting them to buy licences for software like 3D Studio Max, for example, is another. Sure students will pirate, but can a university turn a blind eye if it's a requirement of the course, rather than just something the students trade with each other outside of the classroom?

All TC hunt seems to be doing is finding files with the .tc extension. That is something I can do in windows by opening the start menu and searching for ".tc"

The law is supposed to catch "scary terrorists"
Given that there are dozens of ways to side-step your ISP's E-mail, do they only plan on catching the sort of terrorist that is computer illiterate?

Only recently I went back to my copy of STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl only to find it was unplayable on my PC unless I downloaded a no-cd crack. I don't buy it when companies say "oh don't worry we'll make sure you can always play your game" since I've not had a satisfactory answer from THQ as to why my game won't run unless I use a legally dubious hacked version. It really puts me off buying PC games at all, and I know that I'm not the only one.