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If you're open to building your own system but haven't done it before, Newegg's Customer Choice Awards are a great place to start: http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustVoteProductWinner.aspx They're a record of the most highly rated hardware each month, and, besides quality, provide a strong...

In 2009 or 2010 jailbreaking still required some manual fiddling, so you would've been correct just a few years ago. But we're long past that point. Today jailbreaking "just works" -- no skills required -- and is far less time-consuming than, to take your other example, scanning an entire book...

C++ and .NET aren't comparable. As in, it makes no sense to say you could do X in C++ or .NET. You can write for .NET in C++, Python, Ruby, etc. Most people use C# because it's a) very productive, b) has a rich set of abstractions (anonymous functions, tuples, etc.), and c) has excellent...

Eh, .NET is only unpopular among toy app builders/Web devs. It's actually surprisingly well-thought-of in the startup community at large, especially with recent additions to C# like lambdas and LINQ. Stack Overflow and the entire Stack Exchange network, for example, are built on .NET/C#. It's an...

I question your ability because I find your reviews to be consistently unhelpful. They do have lots of words, which for some people amounts to them being "thorough," but your habit of criticizing products for not conforming to some metric you just made up of what they should be doesn't cut it...

Update: Turns out the beta has been playable offline in pirated form since going live. I wasn't expecting it to happen that fast, though it also isn't fully functional just yet.

Based on ratings it'd be a waste of time to keep watching anyway. The show is headed straight to cancellation town.

This was actually the case for all Blizzard games prior to World of Warcraft, when online connectivity became mandatory. During the heyday of StarCraft it came out that only about 12% of the product keys that retailers sold ever logged into Battle.net. (This was significant because StarCraft...

How much of the game is handled server-side remains to be seen, but even World of Warcraft is widely pirated.

Warcraft 3 isn't limited to online play, so it's late 2004, not 2002. Anyway, all this means is that pirates will be able to play Diablo 3 offline while paying players will not.

He's just pointing out that a) you can't stop piracy, and b) attempts to do so necessarily inconvenience paying customers, often to the point that they stop paying. See the recent dustup (pun intended) over From Dust's DRM, for example.

From a software development perspective it actually is. The amount of difficulty WotC has had with the DDI is not indicative of how difficult the DDI should actually be :p. Yup, I was referring to the tools. It's really not as hard as all that, especially if the existing tools were designed...

By adding 3.5 in its entirety to the DDI.

Since nobody liked the idea of "Fallacy!"-free Friday I'll go ahead and point out that a) you're begging the question here, and b) the assumption that tabletop D&D is the trunk of the D&D tree is a genetic fallacy. Well, first, no, Warcraft was a hugely successful brand long before World of...

To put it in perspective, we know that Pathfinder sells more print RPG books than Warcraft, World of Darkness, Warhammer, etc. Is Pathfinder a stronger brand? No. It's not even in the same league. All the tabletop RPG books in the world could vanish tomorrow and D&D would still be an enormously...

BookScan's claims notwithstanding, we simply found that their numbers don't add up. It's hard to say exactly why. For reference, I worked at No Starch Press, a technical publisher distributed by O'Reilly Media, so we were similar to the big RPG publishers in that our titles were in all the major...

Having worked in publishing and used BookScan extensively, I find this claim hilarious. BookScan is next to useless, especially for niche titles like RPGs.

I'm not ripping the post apart, just noting that there's a really important nuance there. If A says "You aren't being logical" in response to B's argument, then what A is really saying is "Your argument isn't logical." That's just idiomatic English (with a dash of synecdoche), not an ad hominem...

That could be true for "You are illogical" (depending on context) but not "You are being illogical." The progressive aspect of the latter locates its meaning solely in the present. In other words, if B rejects A's argument on the grounds that A is illogical, that's an ad hominem, and probably...

Posts like this are why I'd actually support "Fallacy!"-free Friday. To wit: the vast majority of people who cry "fallacy" don't know what they're talking about. An ad hominem says, essentially, "your argument is wrong because you're the one who made it. Something about you invalidates the...